Patents by Inventor Bruce Ernest Mills

Bruce Ernest Mills has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Multihole patch for combustor liner of a gas turbine engine
    Patent number: 7086232
    Abstract: A liner for a combustor of a gas turbine engine, including a shell having a first end adjacent to an upstream end of the combustor and a second end adjacent to a downstream end of the combustor, wherein at least one discrete region is subject to distress from impingement of hot gases, a plurality of cooling slots formed in the shell through which air flows for providing a cooling film along a hot side of the shell, and a group of cooling holes formed in the shell in the discrete region to augment the cooling film and provide convective bore cooling to the discrete region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: George Eric Moertle, Bruce Ernest Mills, James Patrick Holmes, David Albin Lind, Tariz Kay Harris
  • Multihole patch for combustor liner of a gas turbine engine
    Publication number: 20030200752
    Abstract: A liner for a combustor of a gas turbine engine, including a shell having a first end adjacent to an upstream end of the combustor and a second end adjacent to a downstream end of the combustor, wherein at least one discrete region is subject to distress from impingement of hot gases, a plurality of cooling slots formed in the shell through which air flows for providing a cooling film along a hot side of the shell, and a group of cooling holes formed in the shell in the discrete region to augment the cooling film and provide convective bore cooling to the discrete region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: George Eric Moertle, Bruce Ernest Mills, James Patrick Holmes, David Albin Lind, Tariq Kay Harris
  • Fuel supply system for a gas turbine engine
    Patent number: 4062183
    Abstract: In order to improve the start-up of a gas turbine engine, a control system is provided which fills part of the fuel manifold with compressed air during start-up so as to prevent fuel flowing to all the burners and thereby to improve the performance of the remaining burners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1977
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Limited
    Inventors: David Omri Davies, Bruce Ernest Mills