Patents Examined by Stefan Ibroni
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Patent number: 9557060Abstract: A heat shield for a combustor of a gas turbine engine has a heat shield adapted to be mounted to a combustor wall with a back face of the heat shield in spaced-apart facing relationship with an inner surface of the combustor wall to define an air space. Concentric rails extend from the back face of the heat shield across the air space surrounding a nozzle opening in the heat shield. Effusion holes are provided between the concentric rails and extend between the back and front faces. Fins may be placed between the effusion holes.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Michael Papple, Robert Sze
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Patent number: 9546619Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft gas turbine thrust-reversing device with an engine having an engine cowling whose rear area can be moved in the axial direction of the engine from a closed forward-thrust position into a rearward moved thrust-reversing position in which a free, substantially annular space to a front and fixed area of the engine cowling is present, where on the engine cowling guide rails are arranged, inside which mounting elements can be moved by means of rolling or sliding elements, with which mounting elements the rear area of the engine cowling is mounted, characterized in that the guide rails have an oval and C-shaped cross-section, provided on a longitudinal side with a slot-like opening, and are mounted using mounting projections arranged centrally and opposite to one another and designed in one piece with the C-shaped cross-section.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2015Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignees: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG, PREMIUM AEROTEC GMBHInventors: Predrag Todorovic, Sergiu Irimie
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Patent number: 9540962Abstract: An air cooled heat exchanger, such as a combustion turbine intercooler or rotor cooler or an air cooled condenser, utilizes a pressurized gas fluid entraining misting device that evaporatively cools conduits carrying the cooled fluid medium. Evaporative cooling liquid is entrained in the pressurized gas where it is atomized for evaporative cooling of the heat exchanger conduits. In some exemplary embodiments of the invention the misting device is a jet pump or ejector that entrains a supply of non-pressurized cooling liquid. In other exemplary embodiments of the invention the misting device is a misting emitter that entrains a supply of pressurized cooling liquid.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.Inventors: James H. Sharp, Monica B. Hansel, Michael Scheurlen, Joshua A. Bernstein
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Patent number: 9534539Abstract: A device for a turbomachine chamber injector, including a conduit having at least a first opening, and a second opening (4), a blocking system for blocking the conduit, making it possible to regulate the passage of fluids into the conduit, the blocking system being configured to allow fuel to flow from the first opening to the second opening only from a first pressure of the fuel, for the passage of a supply of fuel, and allow air to flow from the second opening to the first opening only from a second pressure of the air, for the passage of purge air, the second pressure being greater than the first pressure.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: TURBOMECAInventor: Bernard Joseph Jean Pierre Carrere
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Patent number: 9528444Abstract: A system includes a multi-tube fuel nozzle. The multi-tube fuel nozzle includes an end cover, a first plate, and multiple tubes. The multiple tubes are disposed and supported in a floating arrangement between the end cover and the first plate. Each tube includes a forward end adjacent the end cover and an aft end adjacent the first plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: James Harold Westmoreland, Gregory Allen Boardman, Patrick Benedict Melton
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Patent number: 9518741Abstract: A fuel control module including a gas vent manifold is disclosed. The gas vent manifold includes a first gas vent portion including a first gas vent connection and a second gas vent portion including a second gas vent connection. The gas vent manifold also includes a condensation portion extending between the first gas vent portion and the second gas vent portion. The gas vent manifold further includes a condensation drain port fluidly connected to the condensation portion. The gas vent manifold also includes a plurality of connection ports. Each connection port is configured to fluidly couple the gas vent manifold to a vent line of one or more pneumatic valves.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2013Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Solar Turbines IncorporatedInventors: Darren Matthew Stratton, Behnood Miri
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Patent number: 9506653Abstract: A combustion chamber of a gas turbine, including an external combustion chamber wall as well as an internal combustion chamber wall, wherein the internal combustion chamber wall, at its frontal end area as it appears with respect to the flow direction of the combustion chamber, is supported in a longitudinally slidable manner inside a groove of a base plate that is arranged in the area of a combustion chamber head, and is fixedly attached at the external combustion chamber wall at its back end area.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KGInventors: Miklós Gerendás, Carsten Clemen, Thomas Doerr
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Patent number: 9506359Abstract: The present application provides a combustion system for use with a cooling flow. The combustion system may include a head end, an aft end, a transition nozzle extending from the head end to the aft end, and an impingement sleeve surrounding the transition nozzle. The impingement sleeve may define a first cavity in communication with the head end for a first portion of the cooling flow and a second cavity in communication with the aft end for a second portion of the cooling flow. The transition nozzle may include a number of cooling holes thereon in communication with the second portion of the cooling flow.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2012Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Won-Wook Kim, Kevin Weston McMahan, Jaime Javier Maldonado
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Patent number: 9494321Abstract: A wake reducing structure includes a combustor liner having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface defining a combustor chamber. Also included is an airflow path located along the outer surface of the combustor liner. Further included is a wake generating component disposed in the airflow path and proximate the combustor liner, wherein the wake generating component generates a wake region located downstream of the wake generating component. Yet further included is a wake generating component boss operatively coupled to the combustor liner and disposed within a combustor liner aperture. Also included is a cooling channel extending through the wake generating component boss, the cooling channel having an air inlet on an upstream region of the wake generating component boss and an air outlet on a downstream region of the wake generating component boss, the cooling channel configured to supply air to the wake region.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Patrick Benedict Melton, Richard Martin DiCintio
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Patent number: 9482154Abstract: An exhaust gas collector for use in a duct of an exhaust gas aftertreatment system includes generally T-shaped tubular sample members having closed upstream ends, downstream ends and spaced apart exhaust collection holes. The downstream ends of the tubular members are fluidly coupled at a common collection location in the center of the duct. The tubular members are positioned in the duct with the exhaust collection holes at locations distributed across a cross sectional area of a duct to collect exhaust samples from across the cross sectional area of the duct. All exhaust gas samples collected by the exhaust gas collector are collected by one of the sample members having a downstream end coupled to the common collection location. A non-sample collecting accumulator tube is fluidly coupled to the common collection location of the tubular sample members. A sensor senses the mixed exhaust gas in the accumulator tube.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignees: Cummins Cal Pacific, LLC, Cummins PowerGen IP, Inc.Inventors: Herman Van Niekerk, Claude M. Johnson
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Patent number: 9482433Abstract: A gas turbine combustor assembly has a fuel/air mixer assembly with a plurality of fuel/air mixer elements. Each fuel/air mixer element defines an air flow passage therethrough. A fuel injector is coupled to the fuel/air mixer assembly. The fuel injector has a tip portion with a plurality of fuel outlets arranged to direct fuel into the air flow passages of the air/fuel mixer elements. Each of the fuel/air mixer elements has at least one outlet arranged to supply fuel to the element.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Woodward, Inc.Inventor: Fei Philip Lee
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Patent number: 9482180Abstract: A method and apparatus comprising a sleeve, at least one linear electric motor connected to the sleeve, and a controller. The sleeve is configured to move between a first position and a second position. The sleeve exposes a cascade when in the second position. The at least one linear electric motor is configured to move the sleeve between the first position and the second position. The controller is configured to control operation of the at least one linear electric motor to move the sleeve between the first position and the second position.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Eric D. Bol
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Patent number: 9435219Abstract: A gas turbomachine inlet system includes a duct member having an inlet portion fluidically coupled to an outlet portion through an intermediate portion. The inlet portion, outlet portion, and intermediate portion define a fluid flow zone. A throttling system is arranged in the duct member at one of the inlet portion, outlet portion and intermediate portion. The throttling system is configured and disposed to selectively establish a pressure drop through the fluid flow zone. A method of controlling inlet pressure drop through an inlet system for a gas turbomachine is also described herein.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2012Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Michael Corey Mullen, Rex Allen Morgan
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Patent number: 9435259Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a heat exchanger, a diffuser case, a passageway and a nozzle assembly. The heat exchanger exchanges heat with a bleed airflow to provide a conditioned airflow. The diffuser case includes a plenum that receives the conditioned airflow. The passageway is fluidly connected between the heat exchanger and the diffuser case, and the conditioned airflow is communicated through the passageway and into the plenum. The nozzle assembly is in fluid communication with the plenum of the diffuser case to receive the conditioned airflow from the plenum.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2012Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Gabriel L. Suciu, Ioannis Alvanos
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Patent number: 9429323Abstract: A system and method for improving the cooling to a portion of a combustion liner of a gas turbine combustor is disclosed. The combustion liner is cooled by supplying air through a plurality of cooling holes arranged in axially spaced rows in an upper and lower portion of the liner. The cooling holes are spaced accordingly so as to direct additional cooling flow to an area of the combustion liner not receiving sufficient flow due to maldistributions of air from the compressor discharge.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: General Electric Technology GMBHInventors: Brian Richardson, Khalid Oumejjoud, John Cutright, Nikki McMullen, Peter John Stuttaford, Richard Parker, Sumit Soni
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Patent number: 9416973Abstract: A micromixer assembly for a turbine system includes a plurality of pipes each having an inlet for receiving an airflow from an annulus defined by an inwardly disposed liner and an outwardly disposed sleeve, each of the plurality of pipes also including an outlet for dispersing an air-fuel mixture into a combustor chamber. Also included is a first portion of each of the plurality of pipes. Further included is a second portion of each of the plurality of pipes, the second portion comprising the inlet for receiving the airflow. Yet further included is at least one fuel receiving path in communication with at least one of the first portion and the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Patrick Benedict Melton, Gregory Allen Boardman
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Patent number: 9410501Abstract: A translating sleeve actuation system is provided. The translating sleeve actuation system may be configured with one or more screws coupled to one or more motors configured to drive the screws. The screws may be disposed in channels defined in the track beams. The translating sleeve actuation system may also comprise one or more shuttles configured to translate forward and aft along the screw in the track beam channels.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: ROHR, INC.Inventor: Michael Aten
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Patent number: 9410502Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a self-mounted cascade for a thrust reverser of an airplane jet engine nacelle. The cascade includes an upstream portion and an opposite downstream portion, along with respective connection means so that two adjacent cascades are directly connected to one another only in the respective downstream portions by downstream connection means thereof. The downstream portion corresponds to an area extending from a downstream side edge over a length less than or equal to N times the length of the last cavity located along said downstream side edge, where N is less than 3. The present disclosure is of use in the field of airplane jet engine nacelles.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: AIRCELLEInventor: Guy Bernard Vauchel
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Patent number: 9410481Abstract: A method of power production using a high pressure/low pressure ratio Brayton Power cycle with predominantly N2 mixed with CO2 and H2O combustion products as the working fluid is provided. The high pressure can be in the range 80 bar to 500 bar. The pressure ratio can be in the range 1.5 to 10. The natural gas fuel can be burned in a first high pressure combustor with a near stoichiometric quantity of pressurized preheated air and the net combustion gas can be mixed with a heated high pressure recycle N2+CO2+H2O stream which moderates the mixed gas temperature to the value required for the maximum inlet temperature to a first power turbine producing shaft power.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2011Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: 8 Rivers Capital, LLCInventors: Miles Palmer, Rodney John Allam, Jeremy Eron Fetvedt
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Patent number: 9399951Abstract: Louver systems for gas turbine bleed air systems are disclosed. An example louver system may include a bleed system discharge opening arranged to vent bleed air from a bleed flow conduit and a plurality of pivotable louvers disposed proximate the discharge opening, the pivotable louvers being pivotable between a shut position and an open position. In the shut position, individual louvers may at least partially obstruct the discharge opening. In the open position, individual louvers may at least partially control a direction of flow of the bleed air exiting the discharge opening.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2012Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christina Granger Morrissey Haugen, Bradley Willis Fintel, Brian Richard Green, Kevin Samuel Klasing