Patents by Inventor J. Edward Pope

J. Edward Pope 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).

  • Cooled gas turbine engine component
    Patent number: 9157328
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component is disclosed having a cooling fluid passageway that provides relatively cool fluid to a surface of the gas turbine engine component. The cooling fluid passageway can be shaped in cross section to reduce a stress present in the gas turbine engine component. One form of the shape is non-circular. The gas turbine engine component can be formed such that an overhanging material otherwise formed by the intersection of a cooling fluid passageway and a surface of the gas turbine engine component is absent. The gas turbine engine component can also have a depression formed near the surface of the gas turbine engine component such that the cooling fluid passageway exits into an upstream portion and a downstream portion of the depression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Edward Pope, Jeffery Forest Rhodes, Douglas J. Snyder
  • COOLED GAS TURBINE ENGINE COMPONENT
    Publication number: 20120237333
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component is disclosed having a cooling fluid passageway that provides relatively cool fluid to a surface of the gas turbine engine component. The cooling fluid passageway can be shaped in cross section to reduce a stress present in the gas turbine engine component. One form of the shape is non-circular. The gas turbine engine component can be formed such that an overhanging material otherwise formed by the intersection of a cooling fluid passageway and a surface of the gas turbine engine component is absent. The gas turbine engine component can also have a depression formed near the surface of the gas turbine engine component such that the cooling fluid passageway exits into an upstream portion and a downstream portion of the depression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: J. Edward Pope, Jeffery Forest Rhodes, Douglas J. Snyder