Patents by Inventor Christopher Corcoran

Christopher Corcoran 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).

  • Publication number: 20170268365
    Abstract: A seal arc segment includes a body including a radially inner surface and a radially outer surface. The radially inner surface and the radially outer surface are located between a first circumferential end and a second circumferential end. A recessed portion defines a cavity in the radially outer surface. A notch is located in an edge of the recessed portion adjacent the first circumferential end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher Corcoran, Michael G. McCaffrey, Benjamin F. Hagan
  • Publication number: 20170268369
    Abstract: A seal assembly includes a seal arc segment that defines radially inner and outer sides with the radially outer side including radially-extending sidewalls. A radially inner surface joins the radially-extending sidewalls. The radially-extending sidewalls and the radially inner surface define a pocket. A rail shield has radially-extending walls lines the radially-extending sidewalls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Michael G. McCaffrey, Benjamin F. Hagan, David Richard Griffin, Peter Balawajder, Christopher Corcoran
  • Publication number: 20170089206
    Abstract: An airfoil for use in a gas turbine engine is provided. The airfoil having: a pressure surface and a suction surface each extending axially from a leading edge to a trailing edge of the airfoil, at least one of the pressure surface, the suction surface, the leading edge and the trailing edge terminating at an edge of a tip section of the airfoil; a plurality of internal cooling channels located within the airfoil; and at least one cooling hole in fluid communication with at least one of the plurality of internal cooling channels, wherein the at least one cooling hole is aligned with an opening or diffuser that extends directly from the at least one cooling hole and wherein the opening or diffuser is formed in and extends through the edge of the tip section of the airfoil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: San Quach, Steven Bruce Gautschi, Matthew A. Devore, Scott D. Lewis, Matthew S. Gleiner, Christopher King, Christopher Corcoran, David Donald Chapdelaine
  • Publication number: 20170002663
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine airfoil includes a body that provides an exterior airfoil surface that extends in a radial direction to a tip. The exterior surface has a leading edge in a forward direction and a trailing edge in an aft direction. The tip includes a squealer pocket that has a recess surface. A cooling passage is arranged in the body. Each of the cooling holes extends from an inlet at the cooling passage to an outlet at the recessed surface. The inlet and outlet are arranged at an angle in an angular direction relative to the recessed surface. The angular direction is toward at least one of the forward and aft directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: San Quach, Scott D. Lewis, Steven Bruce Gautschi, Christopher King, Christopher Corcoran, David Donald Chapdelaine
  • Publication number: 20160376892
    Abstract: An assembly for a gas turbine that engine includes a fan section. A turbine section is configured to drive the fan section. The turbine section includes a rotor hub with a rotor lug. A heat shield engages the rotor lug. The heat shield and the rotor lug define a cooling passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel A. Snyder, Christopher Corcoran
  • Publication number: 20160376903
    Abstract: A sealing structure for a gas turbine engine includes a rotor that has a rim with slots and a cooling passage. The rotor is rotatable about an axis. First and second blades are arranged in the slots and respectively including first and second shelves facing one another within a pocket that is in fluid communication with the cooling passage. The first and second shelves form an opening. A reversible seal is arranged within the pocket and has a body that is configured for operative association with the first and second blades in any of four orientations to seal the opening in a first condition. The seal includes first and second protrusions respectively extending from first and second faces opposing one another. The first protrusions supported on the rim in a first condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Christopher Corcoran, Daniel A. Snyder
  • Publication number: 20160348510
    Abstract: A rotor disk is provided. The rotor disk may comprise a disk lug and a trench. The disk lug may be fixed to a distal surface of the rotor disk. The trench may be disposed on a surface of the disk lug. The trench may extend radially inwards from a distal surface of the disk lug. The trench may be configured to at least partially define a flow path by which cooling air may reach a distal surface of the disk lug in order to provide disk lug cooling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: David Richard Griffin, Zachary Mott, Christopher Corcoran, Ross Wilson, Jason D. Himes
  • Publication number: 20160333701
    Abstract: An airfoil having one-sided pedestals is disclosed. The airfoil may define various cavities, such as an inflow feed cavity, an impingement cavity, and an outflow cavity. The various cavities may be connected by crossover sections such as an inflow crossover section and an outflow crossover section. Cooling air may be conducted into the inflow feed cavity, out of the inflow feed cavity through an inflow crossover section into an impingement cavity, and through an impingement cavity. The cooling air may be conducted out of the impingement cavity and into an outflow cavity through an outflow crossover section. Various cavities may include one-wall pedestals. One-wall pedestals may be structures extending from a wall of a cavity into the void of the cavity, whereupon cooling air may impinge, effectuating convective cooling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Scott D. Lewis, Christopher Corcoran
  • Publication number: 20160290142
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component comprises a blade having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The blade is mounted to a disc and configured for rotation about an axis. A platform supports the blade, and has a fore edge portion at the leading edge and an aft edge portion at the trailing edge. At least one of the fore edge portion and aft edge portion includes a mouth portion defined by an inner wing and an outer wing spaced radially outward of the inner wing. At least one coverplate is retained against the disc by the inner wing. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Matthew Andrew HOUGH, Christopher CORCORAN, Jeffrey S. BEATTIE
  • Publication number: 20160222809
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a turbine section. The turbine section includes a disk that is rotatable about an axis. A plurality of turbine blades are mounted around a periphery of the disk, and a plurality of seals are arranged between the turbine blades and the periphery of the disk. Each of the seals includes, with respect to the axis, a radially outer surface and a radially inner surface. The radially inner surface includes a plurality of protrusions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Matthew Andrew Hough, Christopher Corcoran, Jeffrey S. Beattie
  • Publication number: 20160222787
    Abstract: An assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a disk, a cover plate providing a cavity at a first axial side of the disk, a passageway including an inlet provided by a notch in at least one of the disk and the cover plate in fluid communication with the cavity, and the passageway extending from the inlet to an exit provided at a second axial side of the disk opposite the first axial side, the exit in fluid communication with the inlet, and the passageway configured to provide fluid flow from the cavity to the exit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Beattie, Jason D. Himes, Matthew Andrew Hough, Christopher Corcoran
  • Publication number: 20160160657
    Abstract: An airfoil according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an airfoil section having an external wall and an internal wall. The internal wall defines a first reference plane extending in a spanwise direction and through a thickness of the internal wall. A first cavity and a second cavity are separated by the internal wall. A plurality of crossover passages within the internal wall connects the first cavity to the second cavity. Each of the plurality of crossover passages defines a passage axis. The plurality of crossover passages are distributed in the spanwise direction and arranged such that the passage axis of each of the plurality of cooling passages intersects a surface of the second cavity. The plurality of crossover passages include a first set of crossover passages and a second set of crossover passages positioned on opposite sides of the first reference plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Scott D. Lewis, Yafet Girma, Christopher Corcoran
  • Publication number: 20160130977
    Abstract: A segmented sideplate for use in a gas turbine engine is described. The segmented sideplate includes a first plate having a first circumferential edge configured to interface with a complementary circumferential edge. The segmented sideplate also includes a second plate having a second circumferential edge configured to interface with the first circumferential edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: DANIEL A. SNYDER, CHRISTOPHER CORCORAN
  • Patent number: 9338280
    Abstract: A system and method for managing an endpoint repository of a communication platform that includes managing a set of telephone endpoints that can be in an allocated state or an unallocated state; classifying endpoints of the set of telephone endpoints with a set of classifiers; evaluating endpoint inventory across a set of endpoint classification groupings and detecting at least one classification grouping that, based in part on the allocated and unallocated state of corresponding endpoints, satisfies an inventory update condition; generating an endpoint transfer request that specifies the endpoint classifiers of the classification grouping; and selectively adding endpoints from the inventory source to the endpoint repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Twilio, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy S. Milliron, Adam Ballai, Christopher Corcoran
  • Patent number: 9284845
    Abstract: An airfoil comprises pressure and suction surfaces extending from a root section to a tip section of the airfoil. The airfoil also comprises a leading edge and trailing edge defining a chord length therebetween. A tip shelf is formed along the tip section between the pressure surface and a tip shelf wall, the tip shelf wall being spaced between the pressure surface and the suction surface. A squealer pocket is formed along the tip section between the tip shelf wall and a squealer tip wall extending from the suction surface. The tip shelf extends from within 10% of the cord length measured from the leading edge to within 10% of the chord length measured from the trailing edge. The squealer pocket extends from within 10% of the chord length measured from the leading edge to terminate less than 85% of the chord length measured from the trailing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Scott D. Lewis, Dominic J. Mongillo, Jr., Steven Bruce Gautschi, Christopher Corcoran
  • Publication number: 20160061048
    Abstract: A turbine engine assembly arranged relative to an axis includes a rotor blade and a feather seal with an L-shaped geometry. The rotor blade includes an airfoil and a base. The airfoil extends axially between an upstream leading edge and a downstream trailing edge, and radially out from the base. The base includes a neck and a pocket. The neck extends axially to a downstream surface. The pocket extends laterally into the neck. The feather seal extends laterally into the pocket, and includes a down stream leg that extends substantially along the downstream surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Christopher Corcoran, Anthony P. Cherolis
  • Publication number: 20160024936
    Abstract: A rotor blade comprises a root section, an airfoil section, a leading edge cooling cavity, an intermediate cooling cavity, and a trailing edge cooling cavity. The leading edge, intermediate, and trailing edge cooling cavities each extend spanwise through the airfoil section from a coolant inlet passage in the root section, and each terminate proximate the airfoil tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Christopher Corcoran, Jamie G. Ghigliotty, Rafael A. Perez, Edward F. Pietraszkiewicz
  • Patent number: 9243504
    Abstract: A damper pin for coupling platforms of adjacent turbine blades includes a first flat longitudinal end region, a second flat longitudinal end region and a reduced cross sectional area. The reduced cross sectional area is separated from the first flat longitudinal end region by a first main body region and the reduced cross sectional area is separated from the second flat longitudinal end region by a second main body region. The cross sectional area of the reduced cross sectional area is less than the cross sectional area of each of the first and second main body regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Seth J. Thomen, Christopher Corcoran
  • Publication number: 20160017720
    Abstract: An airfoil structure for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil which includes a leading edge and a trailing edge. A platform is located adjacent a first end of the airfoil and includes a core passage that extends through the platform, a mate-face for engaging an adjacent airfoil structure and a set of impingement cooling holes in communication with the core passage that extend through the mate-face adjacent the trialing edge of the airfoil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Scott D. Lewis, Christopher Corcoran
  • Publication number: 20160003055
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component includes first and second walls spaced apart from one another to provide a cooling passage. First and second trip strips are respectively provided on the first and second walls and arranged to face one another. The first and second trip strips are arranged in an interleaved fashion with respect to one another in a direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Jaime G. Ghigliotty, Edward F. Pietraszkiewicz, Dominic J. Mongillo, JR., Christopher Corcoran