Patents by Inventor Tyler C. Gillen

Tyler C. Gillen 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: 10436040
    Abstract: An airfoil with dual wall cooling for a gas turbine engine comprises a spar having pressure and suction side walls that meet at leading and trailing edges of the airfoil, with a tip extending therebetween. An interior of the spar includes a coolant cavity, and each of the pressure and suction side walls includes an arrangement of pedestals on an outer surface thereof and a plurality of cooling holes in fluid communication with the coolant cavity. A pressure side coversheet overlies the pressure side wall and terminates in a radial direction short of the tip of the spar to form a shelf extending along a chordal direction. Flow channels between the pressure side wall and coversheet are configured to direct coolant from the cooling holes to radial flow outlets adjacent to the shelf. A suction side coversheet overlies the suction side wall, and a coolant circuit between the suction side wall and coversheet does not include radial coolant outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery F. Rhodes, Tyler C. Gillen, Christopher Nash, Brian Shoemaker, Brett J. Barker
  • Publication number: 20180202295
    Abstract: An airfoil with dual wall cooling for a gas turbine engine comprises a spar having pressure and suction side walls that meet at leading and trailing edges of the airfoil, with a tip extending therebetween. An interior of the spar includes a coolant cavity, and each of the pressure and suction side walls includes an arrangement of pedestals on an outer surface thereof and a plurality of cooling holes in fluid communication with the coolant cavity. A pressure side coversheet overlies the pressure side wall and terminates in a radial direction short of the tip of the spar to form a shelf extending along a chordal direction. Flow channels between the pressure side wall and coversheet are configured to direct coolant from the cooling holes to radial flow outlets adjacent to the shelf. A suction side coversheet overlies the suction side wall, and a coolant circuit between the suction side wall and coversheet does not include radial coolant outlets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffery F. Rhodes, Tyler C. Gillen, Christopher Nash, Brian Shoemaker, Brett J. Barker