Patents by Inventor Joseph Steven Bubnick

Joseph Steven Bubnick 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).

  • Hot streak alignment for gas turbine durability
    Patent number: 9581085
    Abstract: Embodiments of hot streak alignment for gas turbine durability include structures and methods to align hot streaks with the leading edges of aligned first stage nozzle vanes in order to improve mixing of the hot streaks with cooling air at a stator nozzle of a first stage turbine and reduce usage of cooling air at first stage non-aligned stator nozzle vanes disposed adjacent to the aligned stator vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Bartz, Joseph Steven Bubnick, Scott Matthew Bush, Kevin Robert Feldmann, Robert Alan Frederick, Craig William Higgins
  • Durable turbine vane
    Patent number: 9506351
    Abstract: A durable nozzle vane includes a leading edge where hot combustion gas impinges on the vane, a pressure side extending from the leading edge to a trailing edge and a suction side extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge, a blunt region along the suction side between the leading edge and a high curvature region, the blunt region having small curvature in the length between the leading edge and the high curvature region allowing for at least two rows of cooling apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Joseph Steven Bubnick, Robert Joseph Bartz, Daniel Edward Demers, Robert Alan Frederick, Todd Stephen Heffron, Sean Michael Molleson
  • Biformal platform turbine blade
    Patent number: 8439643
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil and integral platform. The platform is biformally contoured in elevation to include bilaterally disposed elevated ridges and depressed troughs on opposite sides of the airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Craig Miller Kuhne, Joseph Steven Bubnick, Alisha Vachhani Kalb
  • Recovery tip turbine blade
    Patent number: 8186965
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil having first and second tip ribs extending along the opposite pressure and suction sides thereof. A tip baffle bifurcates the airfoil tip into two pockets, with a first pocket being laterally open at its aft end to recover leakage flow, and a second pocket being laterally closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Craig Miller Kuhne, Joseph Steven Bubnick, Alisha Vachhani
  • BIFORMAL PLATFORM TURBINE BLADE
    Publication number: 20110044818
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil and integral platform. The platform is biformally contoured in elevation to include bilaterally disposed elevated ridges and depressed troughs on opposite sides of the airfoil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventors: Craig Miller Kuhne, Joseph Steven Bubnick, Alisha Vachhani Kalb
  • RECOVERY TIP TURBINE BLADE
    Publication number: 20100303625
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil having first and second tip ribs extending along the opposite pressure and suction sides thereof. A tip baffle bifurcates the airfoil tip into two pockets, with a first pocket being laterally open at its aft end to recover leakage flow, and a second pocket being laterally closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Craig Miller Kuhne, Joseph Steven Bubnick, Alisha Vachhani