Patents by Inventor Timothy Deryck STONE
Timothy Deryck STONE 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: 11918943Abstract: A turbine engine having a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section, and a rotatable drive shaft that couples a portion of the turbine section and a portion of the compressor section. A bypass conduit couples the compressor section to the turbine section while bypassing at least the combustion section. At least one particle separator is located in the turbine engine having a separator inlet that receives a bypass stream, a separator outlet that receives a reduced-particle stream flows, and a particle outlet that receives a concentrated-particle stream comprising separated particles. A conduit, fluidly coupled to the particle outlet, extends through an interior of at least one stationary vane.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Timothy Deryck Stone, Gregory Michael Laskowski, Robert Proctor, Curtis Stover, Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Jared Peter Buhler, Robert Carl Murray, Corey Bourassa, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff
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Publication number: 20230226476Abstract: A turbine engine having a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section, and a rotatable drive shaft that couples a portion of the turbine section and a portion of the compressor section. A bypass conduit couples the compressor section to the turbine section while bypassing at least the combustion section. At least one particle separator is located in the turbine engine having a separator inlet that receives a bypass stream, a separator outlet that receives a reduced-particle stream flows, and a particle outlet that receives a concentrated-particle stream comprising separated particles. A conduit, fluidly coupled to the particle outlet, extends through an interior of at least one stationary vane.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Timothy Deryck STONE, Gregory Michael LASKOWSKI, Robert PROCTOR, Curtis STOVER, Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva CORREIA, Jared Peter BUHLER, Robert Carl MURRAY, Corey BOURASSA, Byron Andrew PRITCHARD, JR., Jonathan Russell RATZLAFF
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Patent number: 11541340Abstract: A turbine engine having an inducer assembly. The inducer assembly includes a centrifugal separator fluidly coupled to an inducer with an inducer inlet and an inducer outlet. The centrifugal separator includes a body, an angular velocity increaser to form a concentrated-particle stream and a reduced-particle stream, a flow splitter, and an exit conduit fluidly coupled to the body to receive the reduced-particle stream and define a separator outlet.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Timothy Deryck Stone, Gregory Michael Laskowski, Robert Proctor, Curtis Stover, Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Jared Peter Buhler, Robert Carl Murray, Corey Bourassa, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff
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Publication number: 20210275951Abstract: A turbine engine having an inducer assembly. The inducer assembly includes a centrifugal separator fluidly coupled to an inducer with an inducer inlet and an inducer outlet. The centrifugal separator includes a body, an angular velocity increaser to form a concentrated-particle stream and a reduced-particle stream, a flow splitter, and an exit conduit fluidly coupled to the body to receive the reduced-particle stream and define a separator outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Timothy Deryck STONE, Gregory Michael LASKOWSKI, Robert PROCTOR, Curtis STOVER, Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva CORREIA, Jared Peter BUHLER, Robert Carl MURRAY, Corey BOURASSA, Byron Andrew PRITCHARD, JR., Jonathan Russell RATZLAFF
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Patent number: 11033845Abstract: A turbine engine having a bypass fluid conduit coupled to the turbine section includes at least one particle separator located within the bypass fluid conduit to separate particles from a bypass fluid stream prior to the bypass stream reaching the turbine section for cooling. A centrifugal separator for removing particles from a fluid stream includes an angular velocity increaser, a particle outlet, an angular velocity decreaser downstream of the angular velocity increaser, and a bend provided between the angular velocity increaser and the angular velocity decreaser.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Timothy Deryck Stone, Gregory Michael Laskowski, Robert Proctor, Curtis Stover, Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Jared Peter Buhler, Robert Carl Murray, Corey Bourassa, Jr., Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff
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Patent number: 10975731Abstract: A centrifugal separator for removing particles from a fluid stream includes an angular velocity increaser configured to increase the angular velocity of a fluid stream, a flow splitter configured to split the fluid stream to form a concentrated-particle stream and a reduced-particle stream, and an exit conduit configured to receive the reduced-particle stream. An inducer assembly for a turbine engine includes an inducer with a flow passage having an inducer inlet and an inducer outlet in fluid communication with a turbine section of the engine, and a particle separator, which includes a particle concentrator that receives a compressed stream from a compressor section of the engine and a flow splitter. A turbine engine includes a cooling air flow circuit which supplies a fluid stream to a turbine section of the engine for cooling, a particle separator located within the cooling air flow circuit, and an inducer forming a portion of the cooling air flow circuit in fluid communication with the particle separator.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Francis Manning, Timothy Deryck Stone, Jared Peter Buhler, Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Gregory Michael Laskowski, Robert Carl Murray, Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff, Robert Proctor, John Howard Starkweather, Curtis Walton Stover
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Patent number: 10352177Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine having a perimeter wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side, a radially extending rib located within the interior and spaced from the leading edge to define a radially extending leading edge chamber, and at least one impingement opening in the rib defining a flow path aligned with the leading edge.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ronald Scott Bunker, Robert David Briggs, Timothy Deryck Stone
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Publication number: 20180274370Abstract: An engine component for a gas turbine engine includes a film-cooled wall having a hot surface facing hot combustion gas and a cooling surface facing a cooling fluid flow. The wall includes one or more film holes that have an outlet provided on the hot surface and a contoured inlet provided on the cooling surface. A contoured portion in the cooling surface encompasses the inlets for two or more film holes in the wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2015Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Ronald Scott BUNKER, Timothy Deryck STONE
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Patent number: 9957816Abstract: An engine component with particulate mitigation features is provided. The engine component comprises an internal engine component surface having a cooling flow path on one side thereof and a second component adjacent to the first component. The second component, for example an insert, may have a plurality of openings forming an array wherein the openings extend through the second component at a non-orthogonal angle to the surface of the second component.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ronald Scott Bunker, Jason Randolph Allen, Ryan Nicholas Porter, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Christopher Joseph Greenwell, Timothy Deryck Stone, Andrew Stephen Pritchard
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Patent number: 9850762Abstract: A dust mitigation system for airfoils includes a plurality of contoured tip turns which curve about at least two axes. This inhibits recirculation areas common within airfoils and further inhibits dust build up within the cooling flow path of the airfoil.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Stephen Mark Molter, Timothy Deryck Stone
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Publication number: 20170234146Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine having a perimeter wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side, a radially extending rib located within the interior and spaced from the leading edge to define a radially extending leading edge chamber, and at least one impingement opening in the rib defining a flow path aligned with the leading edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2016Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: Ronald Scott Bunker, Robert David Briggs, Timothy Deryck Stone
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Publication number: 20170114720Abstract: A turbine engine having a bypass fluid conduit coupled to the turbine section includes at least one particle separator located within the bypass fluid conduit to separate particles from a bypass fluid stream prior to the bypass stream reaching the turbine section for cooling. A centrifugal separator for removing particles from a fluid stream includes an angular velocity increaser, a particle outlet, an angular velocity decreaser downstream of the angular velocity increaser, and a bend provided between the angular velocity increaser and the angular velocity decreaser.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2015Publication date: April 27, 2017Inventors: Timothy Deryck STONE, Gregory Michael LASKOWSKI, Robert PROCTOR, Curtis STOVER, Robert Francis Manning, Victor Hugo Silva CORREIA, Jared Peter BUHLER, Robert Carl MURRAY, Corey BOURASSA, Jr., Byron Andrew PRITCHARD, Jonathan Russell RATZLAFF
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Publication number: 20170101896Abstract: A centrifugal separator for removing particles from a fluid stream includes an angular velocity increaser configured to increase the angular velocity of a fluid stream, a flow splitter configured to split the fluid stream to form a concentrated-particle stream and a reduced-particle stream, and an exit conduit configured to receive the reduced-particle stream. An inducer assembly for a turbine engine includes an inducer with a flow passage having an inducer inlet and an inducer outlet in fluid communication with a turbine section of the engine, and a particle separator, which includes a particle concentrator that receives a compressed stream from a compressor section of the engine and a flow splitter. A turbine engine includes a cooling air flow circuit which supplies a fluid stream to a turbine section of the engine for cooling, a particle separator located within the cooling air flow circuit, and an inducer forming a portion of the cooling air flow circuit in fluid communication with the particle separator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2015Publication date: April 13, 2017Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Robert Francis MANNING, Timothy Deryck STONE, Jared Peter BUHLER, Victor Hugo Silva CORREIA, Gregory Michael LASKOWSKI, Robert Carl MURRAY, Jonathan Russell RATZLAFF, Robert PROCTOR, John Howard STARKWEATHER, Curtis Walton STOVER
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Publication number: 20170101894Abstract: An engine component assembly is provided for impingement cooling including discrete cooling features. An insert is located opposite and adjacent to a cooled surface of the engine component and includes a plurality of angled impingement air holes. A cooling fluid flow path is flowing on one side the cooled surface of the engine component and adjacent to the insert and passes through the angled cooling holes of the insert in order to cool the cooled surface of the engine component. Additionally, a plurality of discrete cooling features may be located along the cooled surface of the engine component opposite the plurality of cooling holes in the insert.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2015Publication date: April 13, 2017Inventors: Phebe Helena PREETHI, William Thomas BENNETT, John Howard STARKWEATHER, Timothy Deryck STONE
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Publication number: 20150345397Abstract: An engine component with particulate mitigation features is provided. The engine component comprises an internal engine component surface having a cooling flow path on one side thereof and a second component adjacent to the first component. The second component, for example an insert, may have a plurality of openings forming an array wherein the openings extend through the second component at a non-orthogonal angle to the surface of the second component.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Ronald Scott BUNKER, Jason Randolph ALLEN, Ryan Nicholas PORTER, Byron Andrew PRITCHARD, Christopher Joseph GREENWELL, Timothy Deryck STONE, Andrew Stephen Pritchard