Patents by Inventor Michael G. McCaffrey

Michael G. McCaffrey 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: 11021971
    Abstract: A blade for a gas turbine engine includes a fiber reinforced ceramic matrix composite structure that provides an airfoil with an exposed exterior airfoil surface and a refractory structure that provides at least an outer portion of a root secured relative to the airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John E. Holowczak, Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Publication number: 20210148233
    Abstract: An airfoil includes an airfoil section that has a ceramic airfoil wall that defines a suction side and a pressure side. There is an interior cavity in the airfoil section. A rib spans across the interior cavity and connects the suction side and the pressure side. The rib has a thermal conductance element that is configured to conduct heat away from the suction side and the pressure side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Bryan P. Dube, Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Publication number: 20210148289
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a main compressor section with a downstream most location. A turbine section has a high pressure turbine. A tap line is connected to tap air from a location upstream of the downstream most location in the main compressor section. The tapped air is connected to a heat exchanger and then to a cooling compressor. The cooling compressor compresses air downstream of the heat exchanger, and is connected to deliver air into the high pressure turbine. A bypass valve is positioned downstream of the main compressor section, and upstream of the heat exchanger. The bypass valve selectively delivers air directly to the cooling compressor without passing through the heat exchanger under certain conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Brian D. Merry, Gabriel L. Suciu, Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Patent number: 11008979
    Abstract: A passive centrifugal valve for a gas turbine engine. The passive centrifugal valve includes an inner section with a flow control inlet orifice, a cantilevered valve adjacent to the flow control inlet orifice, and an outer section with a seal land geometry that operates to at least partially support the cantilevered valve in response to a first centrifugal force that deflects the cantilevered valve away from the flow control inlet orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Michael G. McCaffrey, Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley
  • Patent number: 11002195
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a main compressor section with a downstream most location. A turbine section has a high pressure turbine. A tap line is connected to tap air from a location upstream of the downstream most location in the main compressor section. The tapped air is connected to a heat exchanger and then to a cooling compressor. The cooling compressor compresses air downstream of the heat exchanger, and is connected to deliver air into the high pressure turbine. A bypass valve is positioned downstream of the main compressor section, and upstream of the heat exchanger. The bypass valve selectively delivers air directly to the cooling compressor without passing through the heat exchanger under certain conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Brian D. Merry, Gabriel L. Suciu, Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Publication number: 20210115804
    Abstract: A vane includes a ceramic vane piece that defines first and second vane platforms and a hollow airfoil section that joins the first and second vane platforms. A structural platform adjacent the first platform defines a radial seal slot. A seal has a radial leg and an axial leg. The radial leg extends in the radial seal slot and the axial leg extends in an interface between the structural platform and the first vane platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Bryan P. Dube, Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Publication number: 20210102468
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a composite rotor blade includes manufacturing an oversized root region of a root region of a composite rotor blade; fixturing the CMC blade into a machining fixture at a primary Y and Z axis datum located at an attachment fillet radii of the root region; machining V-notches into the oversized root region to form a Y? and Z? axis datum of a sacrificial datum system in relation to the primary Y and Z axis datum; applying an oversized coating layer over the attachment fillet radii of the root region; fixturing the CMC blade into a machining fixture at the Y? and Z? axis datum of the sacrificial datum system; machining the oversized coating layer to a machined coating layer forming a Y? and Z? axis datum with respect to the Y? and Z? axis datum of the sacrificial datum system; fixturing the CMC blade into a machining fixture at the Y? and Z? axis datum; and machining off the sacrificial datum system removing the V-notches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Michael G. McCaffrey, Karl A. Mentz, Christopher King, Stephen D. Doll, Aurelia Ledbetter
  • Patent number: 10969103
    Abstract: One exemplary embodiment of this disclosure relates to a gas turbine engine including a plate, a frame attached to the plate, and a panel. The panel is supported by the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hoyt Y. Chang, Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Patent number: 10968782
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine, having an engine central longitudinal axis, includes at least one of a vane support, a vane stage, a blade outer air seal support, and a blade outer air seal. At least one of the vane support, the vane stage, the blade outer air seal support, and the blade outer air seal is rotatable about the engine central longitudinal axis. The gas turbine engine may further include a drive system configured to rotate at least one of the vane support, the vane stage, the blade outer air seal support, and the blade outer air seal about the engine central longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon W. Spangler, Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Patent number: 10941673
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hydrostatic advanced low leakage seal configured to be disposed between relatively rotatable components is provided. The method includes manufacturing a plurality of separate, independent components of the seal. The method also includes assembling the plurality of separate, independent components to form the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael G. McCaffrey, Scott D. Virkler
  • Patent number: 10934941
    Abstract: An interface for a gas turbine engine. The interface includes a full-hoop vane ring around the engine axis, the full-hoop vane ring comprises a forward vane rail with a vane ring forward contact surface and a vane ring anti-rotation tab, the vane ring anti-rotation tab engaged with the anti-rotation case slot; and a multiple of BOAS segments around the engine axis, each of the multiple of BOAS segments comprise a BOAS aft engagement feature and a BOAS aft contact surface, the BOAS aft engagement feature engaged with the engine case and the anti-rotation case slot, the BOAS aft contact surface abuts the vane ring forward contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Publication number: 20210047936
    Abstract: A flow path component assembly includes a carrier that has at least one radially extending tab. A flow path component has a base portion and a first wall that extends radially from the base portion. The first wall has an aperture. A pin extends through a hole in the radially extending tab and the aperture. The pin has an ellipsoid portion between a first end and a second end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventor: Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Patent number: 10920611
    Abstract: An on-board injector that delivers discharge air toward a turbine rotor of a gas turbine engine includes a second wall spaced form a first wall to define an annular inlet about an engine longitudinal axis and a multiple of airfoil shapes between the first wall and the second wall to segregate discharge air from the annular inlet, and a multiple of bypass apertures each along a radial axis transverse to the engine longitudinal axis through each of the multiple of airfoil shapes and the respective first wall, the second wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Patent number: 10920618
    Abstract: An interface assembly for a gas turbine engine. The interface a full-hoop vane ring around the engine axis, the full-hoop vane ring comprises an aft vane rail with a vane ring contact surface, the aft vane rail engaged with the anti-rotation case slot at a vane ring anti-rotation tab; and a multiple of BOAS segments around the engine axis, each of the multiple of BOAS segments comprise a BOAS forward engagement feature and a BOAS contact surface, the BOAS forward engagement feature engaged with the outer case, the BOAS contact surface abuts the vane ring contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Publication number: 20210025285
    Abstract: A blade outer air seal (BOAS) includes a tube of a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) material. A preform within the shell defines a mount for the BOAS. The preform is of a CMC material. A gas turbine engine and a method of forming a blade outer air seal (BOAS) are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventor: Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Publication number: 20200392856
    Abstract: A rotor disk assembly for a gas turbine engine. A multiple of blade attachments each received within a slot in a rotor disk. The rotor blade attachment manufactured of a metal alloy and a rotor blade retained between each two of the multiple of blade attachments, the rotor blade manufactured of non-metal alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Publication number: 20200378343
    Abstract: A passive centrifugal valve for a gas turbine engine. The passive centrifugal valve includes an inner section with a flow control inlet orifice, a cantilevered valve adjacent to the flow control inlet orifice, and an outer section with a seal land geometry that operates to at least partially support the cantilevered valve in response to a first centrifugal force that deflects the cantilevered valve away from the flow control inlet orifice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Michael G. McCaffrey, Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley
  • Publication number: 20200362726
    Abstract: An on-board injector that delivers discharge air toward a turbine rotor of a gas turbine engine includes a second wall spaced form a first wall to define an annular inlet about an engine longitudinal axis and a multiple of airfoil shapes between the first wall and the second wall to segregate discharge air from the annular inlet, and a multiple of bypass apertures each along a radial axis transverse to the engine longitudinal axis through each of the multiple of airfoil shapes and the respective first wall, the second wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Publication number: 20200355084
    Abstract: A rotor disk assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a rotor disk with a multiple of blade slots, the rotor disk defined about an axis; a sleeve received within each of the multiple of blade slots; and a ceramic matrix composite rotor blade received within each of the multiple of sleeves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Michael G. McCaffrey
  • Patent number: 10830145
    Abstract: A method of modulating cooling of gas turbine engine components includes the steps of identifying an input indicative of a usage rate for at least a first gas turbine engine component of a plurality of gas turbine engine components. A cooling system is operated for at least the first gas turbine engine component. The cooling system is moved between a higher cooling potential mode and a lower cooling potential mode based on the identified rate. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick M. Schwarz, Michael G. McCaffrey