Patents by Inventor Nurhak Erbas-Sen

Nurhak Erbas-Sen 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: 9217568
    Abstract: A shell for a combustor liner includes a cold side, a hot side, a row of cooling holes and a jet wall. The jet wall projects from the hot side for creating a wall shear jet of increased velocity cooling flow in a tangential direction away from the row of cooling holes and along an adjacent heat shield cold side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Frank J. Cunha, Nurhak Erbas-Sen
  • Publication number: 20150362192
    Abstract: A liner assembly for a combustor of a gas turbine engine according to one disclosed non-limiting embodiment of the present disclosure includes a support shell with a convex profile which faces the heat shield. A further embodiment of the foregoing embodiment of the present disclosure is where the convex profile is defined by a hyperbolic cosine function. A further embodiment of any of the foregoing embodiments of the present disclosure is where the convex profile provides an approximate 4.5 inlet-to-exit area ratio. A further embodiment of any of the foregoing embodiments, of the present disclosure wherein the convex profile provides a flow acceleration toward approximately 0.5 Mach towards an end of a convergent section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frank J. Cunha, Nurhak Erbas-Sen
  • Patent number: 9206984
    Abstract: A heat shield is disclosed. The heat shield may comprise a body having a back surface and an opposite front surface, wherein an opening in the body communicates through the front and back surfaces. The heat shield may further comprise at least one radial rail disposed on the back surface and extending radially outward from the opening for directing cooling air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nurhak Erbas-Sen, Frank J. Cunha
  • Patent number: 9194585
    Abstract: A combustor liner which reduces cooling flow to a combustion chamber and augments pressure drop split between impingement holes and effusion holes is disclosed. The combustor liner may further include accelerating channels, trip strips, pedestals, and cone-shaped effusion holes to provide further cooling of the liner. The combustor liner may reduce NOx production and the temperature of the combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Frank J. Cunha, Timothy S. Snyder, Nurhak Erbas-Sen, Alexander W. Williams, Nicholas Mule, James P. Bangerter
  • Patent number: 9052111
    Abstract: A turbine engine combustor wall includes support shell and a heat shield. The support shell includes shell quench apertures, first impingement apertures, and second impingement apertures. The combustor heat shield includes shield quench apertures fluidly coupled with the shell quench apertures, first effusion apertures fluidly coupled with the first impingement apertures, and second effusion apertures fluidly coupled with the second impingement apertures. The shield quench apertures and the first effusion apertures are configured in a first axial region of the heat shield, and the second effusion apertures are configured in a second axial region of the heat shield located axially between the first axial region and a downstream end of the heat shield. A density of the first effusion apertures in the first axial region is greater than a density of the second effusion apertures in the second axial region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Nurhak Erbas-Sen, James B. Hoke, Albert K. Cheung, Robert M. Sonntag, Timothy S. Snyder
  • Publication number: 20140338336
    Abstract: A combustor section for a gas turbine engine includes a combustor vane which extends at least partially into a combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Frank J. Cunha, Nurhak Erbas-Sen
  • Publication number: 20140137559
    Abstract: A combustor section for a gas turbine engine includes a combustor vane which extends at least partially into a combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Frank J. Cunha, Nurhak Erbas-Sen
  • Publication number: 20140096528
    Abstract: A combustor liner which reduces cooling flow to a combustion chamber and augments pressure drop split between impingement holes and effusion holes is disclosed. The combustor liner may further include accelerating channels, trip strips, pedestals, and cone-shaped effusion holes to provide further cooling of the liner. The combustor liner may reduce NOx production and the temperature of the combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Frank J. Cunha, Timothy S. Snyder, Nurhak Erbas-Sen, Alexander W. Williams, Nicholas Mule, James P. Bangerter
  • Publication number: 20140090402
    Abstract: A heat shield is disclosed. The heat shield may comprise a body having a back surface and an opposite front surface, wherein an opening in the body communicates through the front and back surfaces. The heat shield may further comprise at least one radial rail disposed on the back surface and extending radially outward from the opening for directing cooling air flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nurhak Erbas-Sen, Frank J. Cunha
  • Publication number: 20140083100
    Abstract: A swirler assembly for a gas turbine engine includes an outer annular injector which at least partially surrounds an inner injector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frank J. Cunha, Nurhak Erbas-Sen
  • Publication number: 20130340437
    Abstract: A turbine engine combustor wall includes support shell and a heat shield. The support shell includes shell quench apertures, first impingement apertures, and second impingement apertures. The combustor heat shield includes shield quench apertures fluidly coupled with the shell quench apertures, first effusion apertures fluidly coupled with the first impingement apertures, and second effusion apertures fluidly coupled with the second impingement apertures. The shield quench apertures and the first effusion apertures are configured in a first axial region of the heat shield, and the second effusion apertures are configured in a second axial region of the heat shield located axially between the first axial region and a downstream end of the heat shield. A density of the first effusion apertures in the first axial region is greater than a density of the second effusion apertures in the second axial region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nurhak Erbas-Sen, James B. Hoke, Albert K. Cheung, Robert M. Sonntag, Timothy S. Snyder
  • Publication number: 20130327049
    Abstract: A combustor liner is arcuate in shape and defines an axis and a circumferential direction. The combustor liner includes a first row of dilution openings and a second row of dilution openings. The first row runs in the circumferential direction. The second row runs parallel to the first row and is axially spaced from the first row. Each dilution opening of the second row overlaps in an axial direction a portion of each of two adjacent dilution openings of the first row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frank J. Cunha, Nurhak Erbas-Sen
  • Publication number: 20130327057
    Abstract: A heat shield for a combustor liner includes first linear film cooling slots through the heat shield and second linear film cooling slots through the heat shield. The first linear film cooling slots are run in a row and each of the first linear film cooling slots is angled from the row in a first direction. The second linear film cooling slots also run in the row and each of the second linear film cooling slots is angled from the row in a second direction opposite the first direction. The second linear film cooling slots alternate with the first linear film cooling slots in the row. The first and second linear film cooling slots are connected to form a single, multi-cornered film cooling slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frank J. Cunha, Nurhak Erbas-Sen
  • Publication number: 20130327048
    Abstract: A combustor liner includes a heat shield, a shell, a series of trip strips, and a series of projecting walls. The heat shield has a shield cold side. The shell is attached to the heat shield and includes a shell hot side facing the shield cold side, a shell cold side facing away from the shield cold side, and a row of cooling holes. The trip strips run parallel to each other and all project from the shield cold side the same distance. Each projecting wall runs parallel to, and opposite of, a corresponding trip strip and projects from the shell hot side such that the distance to which each projecting wall projects is greater for projecting walls farther from the row of cooling holes, creating successive gaps between the projecting walls and corresponding trip strips that decrease from the row of cooling holes to create a convergent channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frank J. Cunha, Nurhak Erbas-Sen
  • Publication number: 20130327056
    Abstract: A shell for a combustor liner includes a cold side, a hot side, a row of cooling holes and a jet wall. The jet wall projects from the hot side for creating a wall shear jet of increased velocity cooling flow in a tangential direction away from the row of cooling holes and along an adjacent heat shield cold side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frank J. Cunha, Nurhak Erbas-Sen