Patents by Inventor Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster 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).

  • Patent number: 10830053
    Abstract: An apparatus and method regarding an airfoil for a turbine engine, the airfoil comprising an outer wall defining an interior bound by a pressure side and a suction side extending axially between a leading edge and a trailing edge defining a chord-wise direction and extending radially between a root and a tip defining a span-wise direction, at least one cooling passage extending radially within the interior and defining a primary cooling airflow, and at least one cooling hole having an inlet in communication with the cooling passage and an outlet in communication with the exterior of the outer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gregory Terrence Garay, Zachary Daniel Webster, Kirk D. Gallier
  • Publication number: 20200347735
    Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine, comprising an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction, outlets on the exterior surface, and a cooling air supply conduit within the interior and having a supply passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Steven Robert Brassfield, Gregory Terrence Garay, Tingfan Pang, Daniel Endecott Osgood
  • Publication number: 20200332659
    Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine can include an outer wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. A plurality of outlets and a plurality of scalloped portions can extend proximate the trailing edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Tingfan Pang, Helen Ogbazion Gabregiorgish, Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Steven Robert Brassfield, Daniel Endecott Osgood
  • Patent number: 10767492
    Abstract: A component, such as for a turbine engine, can include an airfoil with an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. The component can also include at least one cooling passage within the interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Steven Robert Brassfield, Gregory Terrence Garay, Tingfan Pang, Daniel Endecott Osgood
  • Patent number: 10760431
    Abstract: An apparatus and method relating to a cooling hole of a component of a turbine engine. The cooling hole can extend from an inlet to an outlet to define a connecting passage. The cooling hole can contain a diffusing section. The diffusing section can be defined by an interior surface having variable geometries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Aaron Ezekiel Smith, Kirk D. Gallier
  • Publication number: 20200190997
    Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine includes an outer wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side, the outer wall extending axially between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction, and also extending radially between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. At least one cooling conduit can be formed in the interior of the airfoil, and a tip rail can project from the tip in the span-wise direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Steven Robert Brassfield, Gregory Terrence Garay, Tingfan Pang
  • Publication number: 20200190988
    Abstract: Aspects generally relate to a method of forming a plexus within an additively-manufactured component. The method includes forming a fluid passage in the plexus by serially forming layers of material along a build direction to form a column defining the fluid passage along a first direction within an interior of a turbine engine component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Tingfan Pang, Kirk D. Gallier
  • Publication number: 20200190987
    Abstract: A component, such as for a turbine engine, can include an airfoil with an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. The component can also include at least one cooling passage within the interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Steven Robert Brassfield, Gregory Terrence Garay, Tingfan Pang, Daniel Endecott Osgood
  • Publication number: 20200191000
    Abstract: A component, such as for a turbine engine, can include an airfoil with an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. The component can also include at least one cooling passage within the interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Tingfan Pang, Helen Ogbazion Gabregiorgish, Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Steven Robert Brassfield, Daniel Endecott Osgood
  • Publication number: 20200190996
    Abstract: A turbine engine airfoil and method of cooling includes an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. The airfoil can also include at least one cooling conduit and an impingement zone located within the at least one cooling conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, Zachary Daniel Webster
  • Publication number: 20200157947
    Abstract: A cast component having reduced cross flow linking cavities and method of casting may include a body. The body may define a plurality of internal flow channels. The plurality of internal flow channels may include a first internal flow channel and a second internal flow channel. The cast component may also include a plurality of linking cavities obstructing unintended fluid communication between the first internal flow channel and the second internal flow channel through the plurality of linking cavities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, Tingfan Pang, Gregory Terrence Garay, Zachary Daniel Webster, Ryan Christopher Jones
  • Publication number: 20200156145
    Abstract: A leachable casting core and method of manufacture may include a plurality of legs configured to establish a plurality of internal flow channels of a cast component. Tie bars, with a first tie bar end and a second tie bar end opposite thereof, may couple to at least two of the plurality of legs. At least one of the tie bars may be oriented to form a linking cavity within the cast component between the internal flow channels. The linking cavity may serve as an obstruction to fluid communication through the linking cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, Tingfan Pang, Gregory Terrence Garay, Zachary Daniel Webster, Ryan Christopher Jones
  • Patent number: 10648342
    Abstract: An apparatus and method an airfoil for a turbine engine, the airfoil comprising an outer wall defining an interior bound by a pressure side and a suction side extending axially between a leading edge and a trailing edge defining a chord-wise direction and extending radially between a root and a tip defining a span-wise direction. The airfoil further includes at least one cooling hole including a diffusing section and fluidly coupling an exterior of the engine component to an exterior of the engine component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Aaron Ezekiel Smith, Steven Robert Brassfield
  • Publication number: 20200141247
    Abstract: An apparatus and method relating to a film hole of a predetermined inner dimension in a component of a turbine engine that generates a hot combustion gas flow, and provides a cooling fluid flow, where a wall separates the hot combustion gas flow from the cooling fluid flow and defines a hot surface along which the hot combustion gas flows in a hot flow path and a cooled surface facing the cooling fluid flow including forming the hole in the component and applying a coating to the component such that the coating fills in portions of the film hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventor: Zachary Daniel Webster
  • Publication number: 20200109636
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming a film hole in an outer wall of an airfoil. The film hole includes a blind opening adjacent the interior of the airfoil and a hole adjacent the exterior of the airfoil. The blind opening fluidly couples to the hole to form the film hole for providing a volume of fluid as a surface cooling film along the exterior of the outer wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Gregory Terrence Garay, Douglas Ray Smith, Aaron Ezekiel Smith, Zachary Daniel Webster
  • Patent number: 10605091
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming a film hole in an outer wall of an airfoil. The film hole includes a blind opening adjacent the interior of the airfoil and a hole adjacent the exterior of the airfoil. The blind opening fluidly couples to the hole to form the film hole for providing a volume of fluid as a surface cooling film along the exterior of the outer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gregory Terrence Garay, Douglas Ray Smith, Aaron Ezekiel Smith, Zachary Daniel Webster
  • Publication number: 20200072059
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for cooling a component for a turbine engine which generates a hot gas flow and provides a cooling fluid flow, the component comprising a body having an outer surface, at least a portion of which is exposed to the hot gas flow to define a hot surface, a cooling cavity located within the body and fluidly coupled to the cooling fluid flow and a pin located within the cooling cavity and defining a cooling hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Xi Yang, Tingfan Pang, Steven Robert Brassfield
  • Patent number: 10563519
    Abstract: An apparatus and method an engine component for a turbine engine comprising an outer wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and an opposing suction side, with both sides extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction, and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction, at least one cooling passage located within the interior, at least one cooling hole having an inlet fluidly coupled to the cooling passage and an outlet located along the outer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Kevin Robert Feldmann, Steven Robert Brassfield
  • Publication number: 20200040753
    Abstract: A turbomachinery sealing apparatus including a first turbomachinery component having a first end face, and a seal extending away from the first end face, the seal being connected to a wall of the component by a tab extending between the wall and the seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Ryan Christopher Jones, Daniel Endecott Osgood, Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory T. Garay, Tingfan Pang
  • Publication number: 20200040743
    Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine. The component includes a body. The body has an exterior surface abutting a flowpath for the flow of a hot combustion gas through the gas turbine engine. Further, the body defines a cooling passageway within the body to supply cool air to the component. The component includes a leading face and a trailing face defining a trench therebetween on the exterior surface. The body defines a plurality of cooling holes extending between the cooling passageway and a plurality of outlets defined in the trench such that the trench is fluidly coupled to the cooling passageway. Additionally, the leading face and trailing face are each tangent to at least one of the plurality of outlets. The trench directs the cool air along a contour of the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, Zachary Daniel Webster, Gregory Terrence Garay, Kevin Robert Feldmann