Patents by Inventor Thomas B. Fortin

Thomas B. Fortin 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: 6973419
    Abstract: A method and system for designing an impingement film floatwall panel system for a combustion chamber for a gas turbine engine comprising the steps of creating an impingement film floatwall panel knowledge base of information. The knowledge base has a plurality of design rule signals with respect to a corresponding plurality of parameter signals of associated elements of impingement film floatwall panels for a combustion chamber, wherein the knowledge base comprises at least one data value signal for each one of the plurality of design rule signals. The steps also include entering a desired data value signal for a selected one of the plurality of parameter signals of an associated element of the impingement film floatwall panels and comparing the entered desired data value signal for the selected one of the plurality of parameters with the corresponding at least one data value signal in the knowledge base for the corresponding one of the plurality of design rule signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas B. Fortin, Gregory E. Chetta, David W. Leung, Duncan C. Meyers, Keith C. Belson, John V. Diaz, Thomas E. Holladay, Scott A. Ladd, Randall G. McKinney, Sergio Rinella, Andreas Sadil, George F. Titterton, III
  • Patent number: 6715293
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a scram jet engine for use with a hypersonic vehicle. The scram jet engine has an upper boundary wall, a lower boundary wall, and a plurality of side walls defining an inner air flowpath. The walls are formed by a plurality of tubular heat exchanger panels. Each of the heat exchanger panels comprises a plurality of structural panels, each having a plurality of cooling passages, joined together. In the scram jet engine of the present invention, fuel may be used as a coolant and supplied to the cooling passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Mark A. Sillence, Daniel P. Guinan, Dennis J. Nemecek, Costante Salvador, Henry K. Webster, Thomas B. Fortin, Sergio Rinella, Revi K. Nigam
  • Publication number: 20030182928
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a scram jet engine for use with a hypersonic vehicle. The scram jet engine has an upper boundary wall, a lower boundary wall, and a plurality of side walls defining an inner air flowpath. The walls are formed by a plurality of tubular heat exchanger panels. Each of the heat exchanger panels comprises a plurality of structural panels, each having a plurality of cooling passages, joined together. In the scram jet engine of the present invention, fuel may be used as a coolant and supplied to the cooling passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventors: Mark A. Sillence, Daniel P. Guinan, Dennis J. Nemecek, Costante Salvador, Henry K. Webster, Thomas B. Fortin, Sergio Rinella, Ravi K. Nigam