Patents by Inventor Peter Frank Martinello

Peter Frank Martinello 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).

  • Gas turbine engine airfoil
    Patent number: 10329922
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of cooling a tip of an airfoil for a gas turbine engine, includes a rib circumscribing the tip to define a tip plenum. A tip baffle partially divides the tip plenum, being spaced from the rib by a baffle slot. The rib includes a tip slot in fluid communication with the baffle slot to provide a flow of cooling fluid along the tip of the airfoil for exhausting out the tip slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Peter Frank Martinello, Stephen Mark Molter, Brian David Keith
  • GAS TURBINE ENGINE AIRFOIL
    Publication number: 20170226868
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of cooling a tip of an airfoil for a gas turbine engine, includes a rib circumscribing the tip to define a tip plenum. A tip baffle partially divides the tip plenum, being spaced from the rib by a baffle slot. The rib includes a tip slot in fluid communication with the baffle slot to provide a flow of cooling fluid along the tip of the airfoil for exhausting out the tip slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Peter Frank Martinello, Stephen Mark Molter, Brian David Keith