Patents by Inventor Farzad Ashrafi

Farzad Ashrafi 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: 11603766
    Abstract: A stator of a turbine section, has: vanes distributed around a central axis, a vane of the vanes extending along a spanwise axis and defining an internal passage; an insert received within the internal passage, the insert defining a cavity for receiving cooling air and defining impingement cooling apertures facing an inner face of the vane; a splitter plate secured within the cavity and being transverse to the spanwise axis, the splitter plate having a base secured to the insert and a tip protruding from the base; and a flow passage defined between the tip and the insert, the flow passage fluidly connecting a first section of the cavity to a second section of the cavity, the tip of the splitter plate secured to the insert at at least one location along a perimeter of the tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Christophe Tremblay, Patricia Phutthavong, Farzad Ashrafi
  • Patent number: 11536141
    Abstract: A turbine vane for a gas turbine engine has an airfoil including leading and trailing edges joined by spaced-apart pressure and suction sides to provide an external airfoil surface. The surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil defined by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Table 1, the Cartesian coordinates provided by an axial coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, a circumferential coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, and a span location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Mohammed Ennacer, Panagiota Tsifourdaris, Remo Marini, Niloofar Moradi, Daniel Lecuyer, Patricia Phutthavong, Farzad Ashrafi