Patents by Inventor Thomas N. Slavens

Thomas N. Slavens 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).

  • Publication number: 20240093870
    Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment, a combustor liner includes a first portion extending in a substantially axial direction and a second portion that extending in the substantially axial direction. A step connects the first portion and the second portion. The step is arranged at an angle to the second portion that is less than 90°. The step has a step height defined as a distance between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion, second portion, and step are formed as a unitary ceramic component. A slot extends through the step, and a ratio of a height of the slot to a height of the step is greater than 0.66.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: San Quach, Thomas N. Slavens
  • Patent number: 11867402
    Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment, a combustor liner includes a first portion extending in a substantially axial direction and a second portion that extending in the substantially axial direction. A step connects the first portion and the second portion. The step is arranged at an angle to the second portion that is less than 90°. The step has a step height defined as a distance between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion, second portion, and step are formed as a unitary ceramic component. A slot extends through the step, and a ratio of a height of the slot to a height of the step is greater than 0.66.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: San Quach, Thomas N. Slavens
  • Patent number: 11591914
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine assembly according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an endwall having a first material composition, an airfoil extending in a radial direction from the endwall, and a cupped contour of a second material composition that is formed on the endwall to define a cooling chamber, the first material composition different than the second material composition. A method of forming an endwall is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dipanjan Saha, Brooks E. Snyder, Thomas N. Slavens
  • Publication number: 20220299206
    Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment, a combustor liner includes a first portion extending in a substantially axial direction and a second portion that extending in the substantially axial direction. A step connects the first portion and the second portion. The step is arranged at an angle to the second portion that is less than 90°. The step has a step height defined as a distance between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion, second portion, and step are formed as a unitary ceramic component. A slot extends through the step, and a ratio of a height of the slot to a height of the step is greater than 0.66.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: San Quach, Thomas N. Slavens
  • Patent number: 11306600
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine including a compressor section, a combustor section fluidly connected to the compressor section, a turbine section fluidly connected to the combustor section, and a plurality of gas path components exposed to a primary fluid flowpath through the compressor section, the combustor section and the turbine section. At least one of the gas path components includes an exterior facing surface, a lattice structure extending outward from the exterior facing surface, the lattice structure being integral to the exterior facing surface, and a thermal barrier coating adhered to at least a portion of the exterior facing surface and the lattice structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Mosheshe Camara-Khary Blake, Thomas N. Slavens, John R. Farris
  • Patent number: 11168571
    Abstract: Airfoils for gas turbine engines are described. The airfoils include an airfoil body extending between a platform and a tip, the airfoil body having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure side, and a suction side, a serpentine cavity formed within the airfoil body and having an up-pass serpentine cavity, a down-pass serpentine cavity, and a trailing edge cavity, and a dead-end tip flag cavity extending in a direction between the leading edge and the trailing edge, the dead-end tip flag cavity arrange between the serpentine cavity and the tip, wherein the dead-end tip flag cavity ends at a dead-end wall located at a position between the leading edge and the trailing edge of the airfoil body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David A. Niezelski, Timothy J. Jennings, Bret M. Teller, John McBrien, Thomas N. Slavens
  • Patent number: 11143034
    Abstract: One exemplary embodiment of this disclosure relates to a gas turbine engine, including a component having a first portion formed using one of a casting and a forging process, and a second portion formed using an additive manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas N. Slavens, Mark F. Zelesky
  • Patent number: 11059093
    Abstract: A core for use in casting an internal cooling circuit within a gas turbine engine component includes a base core portion and an additive core portion additively manufactured to the base core portion. A method of manufacturing a core for use in casting an internal cooling circuit within a gas turbine engine component including additively manufacturing an additive core portion to a base core portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas N. Slavens, James Tilsley Auxier
  • Patent number: 11022039
    Abstract: A method for applying a coating to a substrate having a plurality of holes. The method comprises: applying a braze material to a substrate having a plurality of holes; heating the substrate to melt the braze material to form a melt; cooling the substrate to solidify the melt to form plugs in the respective holes; applying a coating to the substrate; and further heating the substrate to melt the plugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin L. Zacchera, Thomas N. Slavens
  • Patent number: 10982552
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component includes a wall that provides an exterior surface and an interior flow path surface. The wall has a wall thickness. A protrusion is arranged on the wall that extends a height beyond the wall thickness and provides a portion of the interior flow path surface. A film cooling hole that has an inlet is provided on the protrusion and extends to an exit on the exterior surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sasha M. Moore, Clifford J. Musto, Timothy J. Jennings, Thomas N. Slavens, San Quach, Nicholas M LoRicco, John McBrien, Carey Clum, Christopher Whitfield
  • Patent number: 10960460
    Abstract: A mold for manufacturing a casted workpiece is, at least in-part, manufactured utilizing an additive manufacturing process. The mold may have a core having non-line-of-sight features that are additively manufactured and in contact with an outer shell of a wax mold and/or an outer shell of a casting mold of the mold. The outer shell of either the wax or casting molds may also be additively manufactured, and the shell of the casting mold may be additively manufactured as one unitary piece to the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Brooks E. Snyder, Thomas N. Slavens, Mark F. Zelesky, James T. Auxier
  • Patent number: 10954800
    Abstract: One exemplary embodiment of this disclosure relates to a method of forming an engine component. The method includes forming an engine component having an internal passageway, the internal passageway formed with an initial dimension. The method further includes establishing a flow of machining fluid within the internal passageway, the machining fluid changing the initial dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sasha M. Moore, Thomas N. Slavens, Nicholas M. Loricco, Timothy J. Jennings
  • Publication number: 20210079797
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine including a compressor section, a combustor section fluidly connected to the compressor section, a turbine section fluidly connected to the combustor section, and a plurality of gas path components exposed to a primary fluid flowpath through the compressor section, the combustor section and the turbine section. At least one of the gas path components includes an exterior facing surface, a lattice structure extending outward from the exterior facing surface, the lattice structure being integral to the exterior facing surface, and a thermal barrier coating adhered to at least a portion of the exterior facing surface and the lattice structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Mosheshe Camara-Khary Blake, Thomas N. Slavens, John R. Farris
  • Patent number: 10935240
    Abstract: A heat shield for use in a combustor of a gas turbine engine including a plurality of standoff pins that extend from a cold side, the plurality of standoff pins at least partially surround an attachment stud, the cold side including at least one film cooling hole adjacent to the plurality of standoff pins and the attachment stud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Hoyt Y Chang, Brooks E Snyder, Thomas N Slavens
  • Patent number: 10844730
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, a blade includes an attachment region, an airfoil extending from the attachment region, and a blade cooling arrangement. The blade cooling arrangement includes at least a first feed passage disposed through the attachment region, which is connected to a first cooling passage disposed in the airfoil. A passively actuated first coolant valve is disposed in or proximate the first feed passage. A plurality of such blades can be disposed in a turbine section of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Lane Thornton, Thomas N. Slavens
  • Patent number: 10830096
    Abstract: A pivoting turbine vane has an airfoil, an inner bearing race and an outer bearing race, with the inner and outer bearing races on a pivot axis of the pivoting turbine vane. There are cooling air passages through at least one of the inner and outer bearing races to provide cooling air from a remote facing face of at least one of the inner and outer bearing races to an airfoil facing face of at least one of the inner and outer bearing races. A turbine section is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas N. Slavens, Steven Bruce Gautschi
  • Publication number: 20200256196
    Abstract: Airfoils for gas turbine engines are described. The airfoils include an airfoil body extending between a platform and a tip, the airfoil body having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure side, and a suction side, a serpentine cavity formed within the airfoil body and having an up-pass serpentine cavity, a down-pass serpentine cavity, and a trailing edge cavity, and a dead-end tip flag cavity extending in a direction between the leading edge and the trailing edge, the dead-end tip flag cavity arrange between the serpentine cavity and the tip, wherein the dead-end tip flag cavity ends at a dead-end wall located at a position between the leading edge and the trailing edge of the airfoil body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: David A. Niezelski, Timothy J. Jennings, Bret M. Teller, John McBrien, Thomas N. Slavens
  • Patent number: 10731482
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine including a compressor section, a combustor section fluidly connected to the compressor section, a turbine section fluidly connected to the combustor section, and a plurality of gas path components exposed to a primary fluid flowpath through the compressor section, the combustor section and the turbine section. At least one of the gas path components includes an exterior facing surface, a lattice structure extending outward from the exterior facing surface, the lattice structure being integral to the exterior facing surface, and a thermal barrier coating adhered to at least a portion of the exterior facing surface and the lattice structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Mosheshe Camara-Khary Blake, Thomas N. Slavens, John R. Farris
  • Patent number: 10683768
    Abstract: A seal for sealing a space defined by first and second components, the seal including at least one first seal and at least one second seal wherein at least a portion of the at least one first seal is disposed in the at least one second seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brooks E. Snyder, Thomas N. Slavens
  • Patent number: 10662781
    Abstract: A component according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things a wall and a vascular engineered lattice structure formed inside of the wall. The vascular engineered lattice structure defines a hollow vascular structure configured to communicate a fluid through the vascular engineered lattice structure. The vascular engineered lattice structure has at least one inlet hole and at least one outlet hole that communicates the fluid into and out of the hollow vascular structure. A method for producing a component is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dominic J. Mongillo, Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley, Mark F. Zelesky, Joel H. Wagner, Thomas N. Slavens