Patents by Inventor Ronald Eugene McRae
Ronald Eugene McRae 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).
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Patent number: 8206101Abstract: A turbine nozzle includes a hollow vane mounted between inner and outer bands. The inner band includes a mounting flange between forward and aft lips. An aft pocket is found in the inner band between the flange and aft lip. And, an impingement bore extends through the flange into the windward half of the pocket and is directed aft toward the opposite leeward half of the pocket for co-rotation with purge flow during operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2008Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: John Creighton Schilling, Robert David Briggs, Ronald Eugene McRae, Jr.
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Publication number: 20090311090Abstract: A turbine nozzle includes a hollow vane mounted between inner and outer bands. The inner band includes a mounting flange between forward and aft lips. An aft pocket is found in the inner band between the flange and aft lip. And, an impingement bore extends through the flange into the windward half of the pocket and is directed aft toward the opposite leeward half of the pocket for co-rotation with purge flow during operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2008Publication date: December 17, 2009Inventors: John Creighton Schilling, Robert David Briggs, Ronald Eugene McRae, JR.
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Patent number: 7497663Abstract: An airfoil for a rotor blade including an uncoated profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z to facilitate balancing performance and durability of the rotor blade and to facilitate improving an operating efficiency of a high-pressure turbine is provided. The profile is carried only to four decimal places, wherein Y represents a distance from a platform on which the airfoil is mounted, and X and Z are coordinates defining the profile at each distance Y from the platform.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2006Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ronald Eugene McRae, Jr., Brian David Keith, Andrew Edward Obermeyer, Leslie Eugene Leeke
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Publication number: 20080101959Abstract: An airfoil for a rotor blade including an uncoated profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z to facilitate balancing performance and durability of the rotor blade and to facilitate improving an operating efficiency of a high-pressure turbine is provided. The profile is carried only to four decimal places, wherein Y represents a distance from a platform on which the airfoil is mounted, and X and Z are coordinates defining the profile at each distance Y from the platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2006Publication date: May 1, 2008Inventors: Ronald Eugene McRae, Brian David Keith, Andrew Edward Obermeyer, Leslie Eugene Leeke
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Patent number: 7008185Abstract: A turbine nozzle bifurcated impingement baffle includes axially forward and aft chambers with a gap therebetween, impingement holes through forward and aft baffle walls of the forward and aft chambers respectively, and a plenum chamber in fluid flow communication with the forward and aft chambers. An exemplary embodiment of the bifurcated impingement baffle further includes a single cooling air inlet to the plenum chamber enclosed within a plenum chamber enclosure the plenum chamber. A sealing plate is mounted between and sealed to the plenum chamber enclosure and the forward and aft chambers. The sealing plate has forward and aft inlet apertures disposed between the plenum chamber and the forward and aft chambers respectively. Forward and aft end plates cap radially inner ends of the forward and aft chambers. An outlet aperture in the forward end plate has an interstage seal cavity feed tube disposed therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jonathan Jordan Peterman, Andrew Charles Powis, Ronald Eugene McRae, Jr., Jonathan Philip Clarke, Robert Alan Frederick, Edward Eugene Gibler, Brian David Keith
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Patent number: 6969233Abstract: A turbine nozzle segment includes a single hollow airfoil extending radially between radially outer and inner band segments. The airfoil has an airfoil wall with pressure and suction sides extending axially between leading and trailing edges of the airfoil. The airfoil wall surrounds a bifurcated cavity and a bifurcating rib extends through the bifurcated cavity and between the pressure and suction sides of the airfoil wall dividing the bifurcated cavity into forward and aft cavities. A stiffening rib extends radially outwardly from and along a radially outer surface of the outer band segment and axially and circumferentially from a pressure side forward corner of the outer band segment to the bifurcating rib. The outer and inner band segments, the bifurcating rib, and the stiffening rib are integral and made from a unitary one-piece casting.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Andrew Charles Powis, Ronald Eugene McRae, Jr., Jonathan Philip Clarke, Jonathan Jordan Peterman, Robert Alan Frederick, Edward Eugene Gibler, Brian David Keith
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Patent number: 6932568Abstract: A turbine nozzle segment includes at least one hollow airfoil extending radially between radially outer and inner band segments, a clockwise open hook on a clockwise end at an aft end of the outer band segment, and counter-clockwise open hook on a counter-clockwise end at the aft end of the outer band segments. An exemplary embodiment of the turbine nozzle segment includes a load stop extending radially outwardly from the outer band segment. At least one aftwardly facing load face is at the aft end of the nozzle segment at the outer band segment. The clockwise open hook is C-shaped and the counter-clockwise open hook is a shiplap hook. Another embodiment of the turbine nozzle segment has only one hollow airfoil with an airfoil wall surrounding a bifurcated cavity divided into forward and aft cavities by a bifurcating rib extending between pressure and suction sides of the airfoil wall.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: August 23, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Andrew Charles Powis, Ronald Eugene McRae, Jr., Jonathan Philip Clarke, Jonathan Jordan Peterman, Robert Alan Frederick, Edward Eugene Gibler, Brian David Keith
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Patent number: 6923616Abstract: A method facilitates fabricating a rotor assembly for a gas turbine engine. The method comprises providing a plurality of rotor blades that each include an airfoil, a dovetail, a shank, and a platform, wherein the platform extends between the shank and the airfoil, and wherein the dovetail extends outwardly from the shank, and forming a cooling circuit within a portion of the shank to supply cooling air to the rotor blade for supplying cooling air to the rotor blade for impingement cooling a portion of the rotor blade and for supplying cooling air to the rotor blade for purging a cavity defined downstream from the rotor blade.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2003Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ronald Eugene McRae, Jr., Sean Robert Keith, Gulcharan Singh Brainch
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Publication number: 20040170499Abstract: A turbine nozzle segment includes a single hollow airfoil extending radially between radially outer and inner band segments. The airfoil has an airfoil wall with pressure and suction sides extending axially between leading and trailing edges of the airfoil. The airfoil wall surrounds a bifurcated cavity and a bifurcating rib extends through the bifurcated cavity and between the pressure and suction sides of the airfoil wall dividing the bifurcated cavity into forward and aft cavities. A stiffening rib extends radially outwardly from and along a radially outer surface of the outer band segment and axially and circumferentially from a pressure side forward corner of the outer band segment to the bifurcating rib. The outer and inner band segments, the bifurcating rib, and the stiffening rib are integral and made from a unitary one-piece casting.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2003Publication date: September 2, 2004Inventors: Andrew Charles Powis, Ronald Eugene McRae, Jonathan Philip Clarke, Jonathan Jordan Peterman, Robert Alan Frederick, Edward Eugene Gibler, Brian David Keith
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Publication number: 20040170496Abstract: A turbine nozzle segment includes at least one hollow airfoil extending radially between radially outer and inner band segments, a clockwise open hook on a clockwise end at an aft end of the outer band segment, and counter-clockwise open hook on a counter-clockwise end at the aft end of the outer band segments. An exemplary embodiment of the turbine nozzle segment includes a load stop extending radially outwardly from the outer band segment. At least one aftwardly facing load face is at the aft end of the nozzle segment at the outer band segment. The clockwise open hook is C-shaped and the counter-clockwise open hook is a shiplap hook. Another embodiment of the turbine nozzle segment has only one hollow airfoil with an airfoil wall surrounding a bifurcated cavity divided into forward and aft cavities by a bifurcating rib extending between pressure and suction sides of the airfoil wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2003Publication date: September 2, 2004Inventors: Andrew Charles Powis, Ronald Eugene McRae, Jonathan Philip Clarke, Jonathan Jordan Peterman, Robert Alan Frederick, Edward Eugene Gibler, Brian David Keith
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Publication number: 20040170498Abstract: A turbine nozzle bifurcated impingement baffle includes axially forward and aft chambers with a gap therebetween, impingement holes through forward and aft baffle walls of the forward and aft chambers respectively, and a plenum chamber in fluid flow communication with the forward and aft chambers. An exemplary embodiment of the bifurcated impingement baffle further includes a single cooling air inlet to the plenum chamber enclosed within a plenum chamber enclosure the plenum chamber. A sealing plate is mounted between and sealed to the plenum chamber enclosure and the forward and aft chambers. The sealing plate has forward and aft inlet apertures disposed between the plenum chamber and the forward and aft chambers respectively. Forward and aft end plates cap radially inner ends of the forward and aft chambers. An outlet aperture in the forward end plate has an interstage seal cavity feed tube disposed therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2003Publication date: September 2, 2004Inventors: Jonathan Jordan Peterman, Andrew Charles Powis, Ronald Eugene McRae, Jonathan Philip Clarke, Robert Alan Frederick, Edward Eugene Gibler, Brian David Keith
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Patent number: 6551062Abstract: A hollow cooled turbine airfoil is provided having pressure and suction side walls and a plurality of trailing edge cooling passages that feed cooling air bleed slots at the trailing edge. The suction side wall has a selectively reduced thickness, which allows shortened trailing edge slots, improving trailing edge cooling.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2001Date of Patent: April 22, 2003Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Leslie Eugene Leeke, Sean Robert Keith, Ronald Eugene McRae, Jr., Richard William Albrecht, Jr., David Alan Frey
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Publication number: 20030044275Abstract: A hollow cooled turbine airfoil is provided having pressure and suction side walls and a plurality of trailing edge cooling passages that feed cooling air bleed slots at the trailing edge. The suction side wall has a selectively reduced thickness, which allows shortened trailing edge slots, improving trailing edge cooling.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2001Publication date: March 6, 2003Inventors: Leslie Eugene Leeke, Sean Robert Keith, Ronald Eugene McRae, Richard William Albrecht, David Alan Frey
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Publication number: 20030044279Abstract: A hollow cooled turbine airfoil is provided having pressure and suction side walls and a plurality of trailing edge cooling passages that feed cooling air bleed slots at the trailing edge. The suction side wall has a selectively reduced thickness, which allows shortened trailing edge slots, improving trailing edge cooling.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2002Publication date: March 6, 2003Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Leslie Eugene Leeke, Sean Robert Keith, Ronald Eugene McRae, Richard William Albrecht, David Alan Frey