Patents by Inventor Tyler G. Vincent

Tyler G. Vincent 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: 12286898
    Abstract: A layout for asymmetric trip strips including a flow passage having a lower wall and an upper wall opposite the lower wall, each of the lower wall and the upper wall including an inner surface, the flow passage having a passage inlet and a length L and a diameter d; multiple skewed trip strips extending from at least one inner surface of the lower wall or the upper wall; and at least one periodic reflection of the skewed trip strips along the flow passage downstream of the passage inlet at a frequency with a length-to-diameter ratio of L/d?20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Tyler G. Vincent, Joshua William Owen Richards
  • Patent number: 12234744
    Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine includes a matrix composite component having a radially outer end and a radially inner end. The ceramic matrix component having an internal chamber defined by an inner surface. A spar is received within the internal cavity, and spaced from an inner surface of the matrix component defining a chamber with the inner surface. Flow guides are formed on one of an outer surface of the spar and the inner surface of the matrix component. The flow guides direct airflow towards a portion of the inner surface. An air inlet chamber is formed at one radial end of the spar and an air outlet chamber formed at an opposed radial end of the spar. The air inlet chamber is defined such that air will flow into the internal chamber, outwardly of the spar, and inwardly of the inner surface of the matrix component. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Howard J. Liles, Tyler G. Vincent
  • Publication number: 20250020080
    Abstract: A turbine engine including one or more conduits is disclosed herein. At least one conduit of the turbine engine includes a first end coupled to the turbine engine, a second end, and a body extending from the first end to the second end, the body including an interior surface and an exterior surface, wherein at least one of the interior surface or the exterior surface includes a protrusion configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: ORIN G. AVIDANE, Tyler G. VINCENT, SUBHADEEP GAN, JORN A. GLAHN
  • Publication number: 20250003704
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided that includes a heat exchanger core, an inlet manifold, and a turbulence generating structure. The inlet manifold is in fluid communication with the heat exchanger core. The inlet manifold has a fluid inlet and outlet. The turbulence generating structure is disposed adjacent to the fluid inlet, and a separation distance from the fluid outlet. The heat exchanger is configured with a fluid flow path through which a fluid flow enters the heat exchanger through the fluid inlet, encounters the turbulence generating structure and passes through the fluid outlet, and into the heat exchanger core. The turbulence generating structure is configured to produce turbulence in the fluid flow. The separation distance is long enough such that the fluid flow entering the heat exchanger core is substantially free of the turbulence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Joshua RICHARDS, Tyler G. VINCENT
  • Publication number: 20240353186
    Abstract: A heat exchanger can comprise: a housing; a heat transfer region disposed within the housing; and an inlet manifold or an inlet conduit defined at least partially by an interior surface extending axially from a first end of the heat exchanger to an inlet defined by the heat transfer region, the inlet manifold or the inlet conduit comprising a protrusion configuration disposed in the interior surface. The heat exchanger can further comprise an outlet manifold or an outlet conduit including a protrusion configuration disposed on an interior surface of the outlet manifold or outlet conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: ORIN G. AVIDANE, TYLER G. VINCENT, SUBHADEEP GAN
  • Publication number: 20240352860
    Abstract: A layout for asymmetric trip strips including a flow passage having a lower wall and an upper wall opposite the lower wall, each of the lower wall and the upper wall including an inner surface, the flow passage having a passage inlet and a length L and a diameter d; multiple skewed trip strips extending from at least one inner surface of the lower wall or the upper wall; and at least one periodic reflection of the skewed trip strips along the flow passage downstream of the passage inlet at a frequency with a length-to-diameter ratio of L/d?20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Tyler G. Vincent, Joshua William Owen Richards
  • Patent number: 12098643
    Abstract: A flow path component assembly includes a flow path component that has a plurality of segments that extend circumferentially about an axis. At least one of the segments have a first radial side and a second radial side and extend from a first circumferential side to a second circumferential side. A mateface seal is arranged on the first radial side near the first circumferential side. The mateface seal has a v-shaped groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tyler G. Vincent, Daniel Carlson
  • Patent number: 12071381
    Abstract: A method includes forming a ceramic matrix composite component by infiltrating an array of ceramic-based fibers with a ceramic-based matrix; forming a plurality of cooling holes in the ceramic matrix composite component; applying a slurry of particles in a carrier fluid to the ceramic matrix composite component such that the slurry passes through the cooling holes and wicks into the ceramic matrix composite material; and processing the ceramic matrix composite component to remove the carrier fluid, thereby leaving a filler at a wall surface of the plurality of cooling holes. A component is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Wesley Jackson, Mary Colby, Tyler G. Vincent
  • Patent number: 12044143
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component includes a supply cavity and a manifold cavity that shares a common divider wall with the supply cavity. The common divider wall includes inlet metering holes that connect the supply cavity and the manifold cavity. An exterior wall has an exterior surface and an opposed interior surface that bounds portions of the supply cavity and of the manifold cavity. Outlet cooling holes extend through the exterior wall and connect the manifold cavity with the exterior surface. The number of the inlet metering holes is equal to or less than the number of the outlet cooling holes, and at least one of the inlet holes is coaxial with at least one of the outlet holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Howard J. Liles, Tyler G. Vincent, Bryan H. Farrar
  • Patent number: 12044130
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a ceramic wall for bounding an engine core gas path. The ceramic wall has a ceramic wall first side that faces the engine core gas path and a ceramic wall second side that faces away from the engine core gas path. There is a metallic wall adjacent the ceramic wall second side. The metallic wall has a metallic wall first side that faces the ceramic wall and a metallic wall second side that faces away from the ceramic wall. The metallic wall and the ceramic wall are spaced apart such that there is a channel there between. There is a seal on the ceramic wall second side, and the metallic wall has at least one cooling hole adjacent the seal for emitting cooling air to cool the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: San Quach, Robert A. White, III, Tyler G. Vincent
  • Publication number: 20230407753
    Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine includes a matrix composite component having a radially outer end and a radially inner end. The ceramic matrix component having an internal chamber defined by an inner surface. A spar is received within the internal cavity, and spaced from an inner surface of the matrix component defining a chamber with the inner surface. Flow guides are formed on one of an outer surface of the spar and the inner surface of the matrix component. The flow guides direct airflow towards a portion of the inner surface. An air inlet chamber is formed at one radial end of the spar and an air outlet chamber formed at an opposed radial end of the spar. The air inlet chamber is defined such that air will flow into the internal chamber, outwardly of the spar, and inwardly of the inner surface of the matrix component. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Howard J. Liles, Tyler G. Vincent
  • Patent number: 11781440
    Abstract: A flow path component includes a platform that extends between a first side and a second side. A slot is in the first side. The slot divides the platform into a first portion and a second portion at the first side. There is a groove along the first side in the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tyler G. Vincent, Daniel Carlson
  • Publication number: 20230192563
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a ceramic matrix composite comprising a preform comprising a plurality of plies; a ceramic matrix encompassing the plies and distributed through the plies; and thermally conducting particles distributed through the ceramic matrix. Disclosed herein is a method comprising distributing thermally conducting particles between plies in a preform; infiltrating chemical vapors of a ceramic precursor into the plies; and reacting the ceramic precursor to form a matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Kathryn S. Read, Tyler G. Vincent, Richard Wesley Jackson, III
  • Publication number: 20230193764
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component includes a supply cavity and a manifold cavity that shares a common divider wall with the supply cavity. The common divider wall includes inlet metering holes that connect the supply cavity and the manifold cavity. An exterior wall has an exterior surface and an opposed interior surface that bounds portions of the supply cavity and of the manifold cavity. Outlet cooling holes extend through the exterior wall and connect the manifold cavity with the exterior surface. The number of the inlet metering holes is equal to or less than the number of the outlet cooling holes, and at least one of the inlet holes is coaxial with at least one of the outlet holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Howard J. Liles, Tyler G. Vincent, Bryan H. Farrar
  • Publication number: 20230174433
    Abstract: A method includes forming a ceramic matrix composite component by infiltrating an array of ceramic-based fibers with a ceramic-based matrix; forming a plurality of cooling holes in the ceramic matrix composite component; applying a slurry of particles in a carrier fluid to the ceramic matrix composite component such that the slurry passes through the cooling holes and wicks into the ceramic matrix composite material; and processing the ceramic matrix composite component to remove the carrier fluid, thereby leaving a filler at a wall surface of the plurality of cooling holes. A component is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Richard Wesley Jackson, Mary Colby, Tyler G. Vincent
  • Patent number: 11608748
    Abstract: A method of forming a ceramic matrix composite component having an internal cooling circuit includes wrapping at least a first sheet around a first mandrel, wrapping at least a second sheet around a second mandrel, creating a first plurality of holes in the first sheet corresponding to a plurality of openings in the first mandrel, creating a second plurality of holes in the second sheet corresponding to a plurality of openings in the second mandrel, aligning the first mandrel and the second mandrel such that the first plurality of holes face and are aligned with the second plurality of holes, wrapping at least a third sheet around both the first mandrel and second mandrel to form a preform, the preform comprising each of the first sheet, the second sheet, and the third sheet, and densifying the preform. The first sheet, second sheet, and third sheet are formed from a ceramic fiber material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Howard J. Liles, Tyler G. Vincent
  • Publication number: 20230057881
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a ceramic wall for bounding an engine core gas path. The ceramic wall has a ceramic wall first side that faces the engine core gas path and a ceramic wall second side that faces away from the engine core gas path. There is a metallic wall adjacent the ceramic wall second side. The metallic wall has a metallic wall first side that faces the ceramic wall and a metallic wall second side that faces away from the ceramic wall. The metallic wall and the ceramic wall are spaced apart such that there is a channel there between. There is a seal on the ceramic wall second side, and the metallic wall has at least one cooling hole adjacent the seal for emitting cooling air to cool the seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: San Quach, Robert A. White, III, Tyler G. Vincent
  • Patent number: 11555451
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine article includes a ceramic body that defines a flange, first and second cooling passages partitioned from each other by the flange, a through-hole in the rib that connects the first and second cooling passages, a thermal insulation bushing that lines the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tyler G. Vincent, Howard J. Liles
  • Publication number: 20220389822
    Abstract: A method of forming a ceramic matrix composite component having an internal cooling circuit includes wrapping at least a first sheet around a first mandrel, wrapping at least a second sheet around a second mandrel, creating a first plurality of holes in the first sheet corresponding to a plurality of openings in the first mandrel, creating a second plurality of holes in the second sheet corresponding to a plurality of openings in the second mandrel, aligning the first mandrel and the second mandrel such that the first plurality of holes face and are aligned with the second plurality of holes, wrapping at least a third sheet around both the first mandrel and second mandrel to form a preform, the preform comprising each of the first sheet, the second sheet, and the third sheet, and densifying the preform. The first sheet, second sheet, and third sheet are formed from a ceramic fiber material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Howard J. Liles, Tyler G. Vincent
  • Patent number: 11518421
    Abstract: A railcar airbrake system for attachment to or integration into machinery, such as a wheel loader preferably includes a rail car coupler, a glad hand air hose, a compressor, an air storage tank and a sliding base frame. The sliding base frame preferably includes a plurality of top and bottom supports, a base support plate, top and bottom cross members, a coupler slide device and two vertical support posts. The railcar coupler and the glad hand air hose are retained in the coupler slide device. The plurality of supports, the cross members, plate and posts are used to create a structure, which incorporates the slide base frame. The air storage tank and the compressor are secured to the base support plate. The compressor supplies compressed air to the air storage tank. The air storage tank supplies compressed air to the glad hand air hose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: S.A.S. of Luxemburg, LLC
    Inventors: Mark J. Kirsten, Tyler G. Vincent, Colten D. Jensen