Patents by Inventor San Quach

San Quach 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: 10533453
    Abstract: One exemplary embodiment of this disclosure relates to a gas turbine engine including a component. The component includes a platform having a mateface on a circumferential side thereof. The platform including a core passageway configured to communicate fluid to the mateface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew Andrew Hough, Jeffrey S. Beattie, Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley, San Quach
  • Patent number: 10502065
    Abstract: A component according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an airfoil that includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall joined together at a leading edge and a trailing edge and extending from a base to a tip. A plenum is defined inside the airfoil. A first cooling cavity merges into the plenum and a second cooling cavity merges into the plenum. A rib extends from at least one of the first sidewall and the second sidewall at least partially into the plenum to separate the first cooling cavity from the second cooling cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: San Quach, Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley, Matthew A. Devore
  • Publication number: 20190368359
    Abstract: A turbine airfoil for a gas turbine engine according to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure includes among other possible things, a tip portion including a pocket portion that transitions into a shelf portion and a plurality of cooling holes for communicating cooling airflow to at least one of the pocket portion and the shelf portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: San Quach, Tania Bhatia Kashyap, David Dwyer Whittle, Jonathan A. Gomez-Leon
  • Publication number: 20190368735
    Abstract: A deflector panel for a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes an outer radial edge, an inner radial edge, and two circumferential edges extending between the outer radial edge and the inner radial edge. Each circumferential edge including a panel scallop at least partially defining a deflector opening receptive of a fuel nozzle of the combustor. A combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a combustor shell at least partially defining a combustion zone therein, and a deflector assembly operably connected to the combustor shell. The deflector assembly includes a plurality of circumferentially abutted deflector panels. Each deflector panel includes an outer radial edge, an inner radial edge, and two circumferential edges extending between the outer radial edge and the inner radial edge. Each circumferential edge includes a panel scallop at least partially defining a deflector opening. A fuel nozzle extends through the deflector opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Kristy Rose Riley, John R. Battye, Joanne V. Rampersad, San Quach
  • Patent number: 10480788
    Abstract: A combustor panel of a combustor may include a combustion facing surface, a cooling surface opposite the combustion facing surface, and heat transfer pins extending from the cooling surface. A grouping of the heat transfer pins may include a metallic coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: San Quach, John S. Tu, Robert M. Sonntag, Robert Selinsky, Jr., John J. Rup, Jr., Anthony Van
  • Patent number: 10473331
    Abstract: A combustor of a gas turbine engine may include a combustor shell, a first combustor panel coupled to the combustor shell, and a second combustor panel coupled to the combustor shell. The first combustor panel may have a first endrail and the second combustor panel may have a second endrail. An annular cooling cavity may be defined between the combustor shell and the first and second combustor panels and a channel may be defined between the first endrail and the second endrail, wherein direct line-of-sight through the channel from the annular cooling cavity to a combustor chamber is obstructed. Said differently, the interface between the adjacent endrails may be non-linear, in a direction from the annular cooling cavity to the combustor chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: San Quach, Jeffrey T. Morton, Matthew D. Parekh
  • Patent number: 10400609
    Abstract: An airfoil includes leading and trailing edges; first and second sides extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge, each side having an exterior surface; a core passage located between the first and second sides and the leading and trailing edges; and a wall structure located between the core passage and the exterior surface of the first side. The wall structure includes a plurality of cooling fluid inlets communicating with the core passage for receiving cooling fluid from the core passage, a plurality of cooling fluid outlets on the exterior surface of the first side for expelling cooling fluid and forming a cooling film along the exterior surface of the first side, and a plurality of cooling passages communicating with the plurality of cooling fluid inlets and the plurality of cooling fluid outlets. At least a portion of one cooling passage extends between adjacent cooling fluid outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Eric A. Hudson, Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley, San Quach, Matthew A. Devore
  • Patent number: 10386067
    Abstract: A wall panel assembly includes a first liner panel and a coating. The first liner panel has an inner first liner panel surface and a first liner panel outer surface each axially extending between a first liner panel first end and a first liner panel second end. The coating is disposed on at least one of the first liner panel inner surface and the first liner panel outer surface. The coating has an overall thickness that varies axially between the first liner panel first end and the first liner panel second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: San Quach, Scott A. Elliott, Robert M. Sonntag, John S. Tu, Anthony Van, Joseph J. Sedor, Robert Selinsky, Jr., John J. Rup, Jr., Neil B. Ridgeway, Gerard V. Cadieux, Jeffrey Leon, Monica Pacheco-Tougas, Lisa A. Jenkins, Lisa Tse, Andrew Cervoni, Frank J. Trzcinski
  • Patent number: 10385699
    Abstract: An airfoil for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil including spaced apart pressure and suction side walls joined at leading and trailing edges to provide an exterior airfoil surface that extends in a radial direction from a platform to a tip. A cavity is provided between the pressure and suction side walls near the trailing edge. The cavity includes an interior region bounded by first and second exit regions arranged at angle relative to one another. The first and second exit regions are respectively in low and high pressure regions relative to one another. First and second pedestal groups respectively are arranged at the first and second exit regions. The second pedestal group has first and second pedestals each terminating in an end. The ends of the second pedestals extend beyond the ends of first pedestals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: San Quach, Ryan Alan Waite, Christopher King, Steven Bruce Gautschi
  • Patent number: 10370980
    Abstract: A lost core mold component comprises a first leg and a second leg with a plurality of crossover members connecting the first and second legs. The plurality of crossover members includes outermost crossover members spaced from each other. Adjacent ends of each of the first and second legs, and second crossover members are spaced closer to each other than are the outermost crossover members. Central crossover members extend between the first and second leg and between the second crossover members. The outermost crossover members extend for a first cross-sectional area. The second crossover members extend for a second cross-sectional area and the central crossover members extend for a third cross-sectional area. The first cross-sectional area is greater than the second cross-sectional area. The second cross-sectional area is greater than the third cross-sectional area. A gas turbine engine and component are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Taffet, Brandon S. Donnell, Daniel C. Nadeau, Russell Deibel, San Quach
  • Patent number: 10370976
    Abstract: An airfoil according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an internal wall and an external wall. The external wall defines pressure and suction sides between a leading edge and a trailing edge, and the airfoil section defines a mean camber line that extends between the leading and trailing edges to bisect a thickness of the airfoil section. A first cavity and a second cavity are separated by the internal wall. The second cavity is bounded by the external wall at the leading edge. At least one crossover passage within the internal wall connects the first cavity to the second cavity. The crossover passage defines a passage axis. The passage axis defines a passage angle with respect to the mean camber line such that the passage axis extends transversely from the mean camber line to intersect a surface of the second cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: San Quach, Alberto A. Mateo, Jeffrey T. Morton, Jason Shenny, Gregory Anselmi
  • Publication number: 20190211689
    Abstract: An airfoil for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an airfoil section that has an internal wall and an external wall. The external wall defines pressure and suction sides that extends in a chordwise direction between a leading edge and a trailing edge, a first impingement cavity and a second impingement cavity bounded by the external wall at a leading edge region that defines the leading edge, a first feeding cavity separated from the first impingement cavity and from the second impingement cavity by the internal wall, and a first crossover passage within the internal wall that connects the first impingement cavity and the first feeding cavity. The first crossover passage defines a first passage axis that intersects a surface of the first impingement cavity. A second crossover passage within the internal wall connects to the second impingement cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Jason Shenny, Jeffrey T. Morton, Alberto A. Mateo, San Quach, Gregory Anselmi
  • Patent number: 10344607
    Abstract: A component of a gas turbine engine is provided. The component may include an external surface with a skin cavity adjacent the external surface. The skin cavity may be defined by a hot-side surface and a cool-side surface with the hot-side surface between the cool-side surface and the external surface. A flat portion may be disposed on the hot-side surface and may, for example, define a wall-thickness check region. A protrusion may be disposed on the cool-side surface opposite the flat portion on the hot-side surface. The hot-side surface and the cool-side surface may tend to increase a heat transfer coefficient along the flat portion of the hot-side surface, which may also define a wall thickness check region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Morton, San Quach
  • Patent number: 10329916
    Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine includes a trailing edge tip corner that at least partially defines a trailing edge cavity and a multiple of corner features within the trailing edge cavity, the multiple of corner features splayed along the trailing edge tip corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: San Quach, Tracy A Propheter-Hinckley, Dominic J Mongillo, Jr., Steven Bruce Gautschi
  • Patent number: 10301947
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a component for a gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes forming the component with a first manufacturing technique to include a first cavity and a second cavity, and a microcircuit in fluid communication with the first cavity, the component including an outer wall and a ribbed portion or a bulged portion extending from the outer wall. The exemplary method includes forming a plunged hole with a second manufacturing technique different from the first manufacturing technique to intersect at least a portion of the microcircuit and extend into the ribbed portion or the bulged portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley, Steven Bruce Gautschi, San Quach
  • Publication number: 20190128187
    Abstract: Combustor panels including panel bodies with first and second sides, a pin array extending from the first side, wherein each pin extends a first height, has a pin diameter, and is separated from adjacent pins by a pin array separation distance. A structural protrusion extends from the first side. No pins of the pin array are located within a flashing distance that is equal to a protrusion separation distance plus half of the pin diameter, wherein a location of the pin is measured from a center point of the pin to a closest point on the exterior surface of the structural protrusion. At least one pin array extension is integrally formed with the structural protrusion, the pin array extension extending along the first side to a position that replaces a pin of the pin array that would be within the flashing distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Jason Shenny, John J. Rup, JR., Robert M. Sonntag, James B. Hoke, San Quach, Richard G. Ullrich
  • Publication number: 20190101022
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a case for a gas turbine engine, the case including a case wall and a boss that extends from the case wall, the boss including a distal top contoured surface with a through hole fotmed there in, the distal top contoured surface having a non-uniform radial wall thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: San Quach, Jeffrey C. Strausbaugh, Fabian D. Betancourt, Joseph J. Sedor, Jonathan A. Scott, Major D. Jones
  • Patent number: 10247099
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component comprises a first side wall, and a second side wall spaced apart from the first side wall. At least one internal cooling channel is formed between the first and second side walls. At least one pedestal is positioned within the at least one cooling channel and has a body extending from a first end connected to the first side wall to a second end connected to the second side wall. The body includes at least one protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: San Quach, Thomas N. Slavens
  • Patent number: 10247011
    Abstract: A cooling circuit for a gas turbine engine comprises a gas turbine engine component having a body with at least one internal cavity defined by a cavity wall. A plurality of cooling holes formed within the cavity wall, wherein each cooling hole is defined by a length extending from a cooling hole inlet to a cooling hole outlet, and wherein the cooling holes are positioned relative to each other such that a minimum allowable ligament distance is maintained between adjacent cooling holes along the entire length of each cooling hole. A gas turbine engine and a method of forming a cooling circuit for a gas turbine engine are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: San Quach, Christopher King, Thomas N. Slavens
  • Publication number: 20190078445
    Abstract: An airfoil includes an airfoil body having a pressure side and a suction side that each radially extend between a first radial boundary end and a second radial boundary end and each axially extend between a leading edge and a trailing edge. The airfoil body defines a plurality of first skin core passages disposed proximate the suction side and radially extend from the first radial boundary end towards the second radial boundary end, and a plurality of second skin core passages that radially extend toward the second radial boundary end and circumferentially extend towards the suction side proximate the second radial boundary end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: San Quach, Jeffrey T. Morton