With Passage In Blade, Vane, Shaft Or Rotary Distributor Communicating With Working Fluid Patents (Class 415/115)
  • Patent number: 11242759
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes: an airfoil body; a cooling passage extending along a blade height direction inside the airfoil body; and a plurality of turbulators disposed on an inner wall surface of the cooling passage and arranged along the cooling passage. The airfoil body has a first end portion and a second end portion which are opposite end portions in the blade height direction. A passage width of the cooling passage in a suction-pressure direction of the airfoil body at the second end portion is greater than a passage width of the cooling passage at the first end portion. A height of the plurality of turbulators increases from a first end portion side to a second end portion side in the blade height direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Wakazono, Keita Takamura, Satoshi Hada
  • Patent number: 11242760
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade is additively manufactured and includes an airfoil body with a radially extending chamber for receiving a coolant flow, a tip end at a radial outer end of the airfoil body, and a shank at a radial inner end of the airfoil body. The radially extending chamber extends at least partially into the shank to define a shank inner surface. An integral impingement cooling structure is within the radially extending chamber. The integral impingement cooling structure allows an exterior surface of a hollow body thereof to be uniformly spaced from the airfoil inner surface despite the curvature of the chamber. The turbine rotor blade has impingement cooling throughout the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Zachary John Snider, Brad Wilson VanTassel, Jeffrey Clarence Jones
  • Patent number: 11230935
    Abstract: One aspect the present subject matter is directed to a nozzle segment including a stator component having an airfoil. The airfoil includes a leading edge portion, a trailing edge portion, a pressure side wall and a suction side wall and a plurality of film holes in fluid communication with the radial cooling channel. A strut is disposed within the radial cooling channel and defines an inner radial cooling passage within the radial cooling channel. The strut defines a plurality of apertures that provide for fluid communication from the inner radial cooling passage to the radial cooling channel and the plurality of film holes provide for bore cooling of the airfoil of at least one of the pressure side wall or the suction side wall and provide for film cooling of the trailing edge portion of the airfoil between about fifty percent and one hundred percent of the chord length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Scott Huizenga, Darrell Glenn Senile, Robert Alan Frederick, Paul Joseph Kreitzer
  • Patent number: 11220916
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade is additively manufactured and includes an airfoil body with a radially extending chamber for receiving a coolant flow. A platform extends laterally outward relative to the airfoil body and terminates at at least one slash face. A cooling circuit is within the platform and is in fluid communication with a source of the coolant flow. Cooling passage(s) are in the platform and in fluid communication with the cooling circuit. The cooling passage(s) extend in a non-linear configuration from the cooling circuit to exit through the at least one slash face of the platform, providing improved cooling compared to linear cooling passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Zachary John Snider
  • Patent number: 11215073
    Abstract: A stator vane (3) for a turbine (50c) of a turbomachine (50), the stator vane having a stator vane airfoil (3c), an inner shroud (3a) and an outer shroud (3b), the inner shroud (3a) and the outer shroud (3b) bounding an annular space (2), in which working gas (51) is conveyed during operation, radially with respect to a longitudinal axis (52) of the turbomachine (50), and the stator vane airfoil (3c) having a stator vane airfoil channel (3d) extending through its interior between a radially inner inlet (6) and a radially outer outlet (7). A characteristic features is that the inlet (6) is disposed in such a manner that a gas (8) flowing through the stator vane airfoil channel (3d) during operation is at least partially formed of the working gas (51) conveyed in the annular space (2), and thus the working gas is redistributed from radially inward to radially outward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Hermann Klingels
  • Patent number: 11215080
    Abstract: A turbine shroud assembly for use with a gas turbine engine includes a turbine outer case, a blade track segment, and a carrier assembly. The carrier assembly includes a forward carrier segment and an aft carrier segment, and each of the forward carrier segment and aft carrier segment include integrated pins. The carrier assembly is configured to couple the blade track segment to the turbine outer case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Ted J. Freeman, Aaron D. Sippel
  • Patent number: 11208898
    Abstract: A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine. The turbine blade having a plurality of cooling holes defined therein, wherein the plurality of cooling holes are located in the turbine blade according to the coordinates of Table 1 and at least some of the plurality of cooling holes are located in an airfoil of the turbine blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alex J. Schneider, Parth Jariwala, Nicholas M. LoRicco, Ryan Lundgreen, David A. Niezelski, Jeffrey T. Morton
  • Patent number: 11208909
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a device for providing sealing between one rotor section and one stator section. The device includes a coating made of an abradable material attached to the stator section. The device further includes a lip on a portion of the rotor section. The lip is configured to form a seal with the abradable material. The gas turbine engine further includes passages for a gaseous fluid and means for blowing such gaseous fluid. The passages open into the rotor section provided with the lip, so that blown gaseous fluid can be present in a zone radially located between the coating and the lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Cyrille Telman, Gaël Frédéric Claude Cyrille Evain, Olivier Arnaud Fabien Lambert, Mathieu Charles Jean Verdiere
  • Patent number: 11203939
    Abstract: An airfoil includes an airfoil section and a platform from which the airfoil section extends. The platform defines a shelf that extends from the airfoil section to a platform edge. The shelf includes a plenum and a plurality of cooling orifices extend from the plenum toward the platform edge. Each of the cooling orifices has a first orifice end that opens to the plenum and a second, closed orifice end adjacent the platform edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley
  • Patent number: 11203937
    Abstract: A blade for a turbine blade includes a suction-side side wall and a pressure-side side wall that enclose a cavity at least partially in a manner which extends along a profile centre line from a common front edge to a common rear edge and in a span width direction from a root-side end to a tip-side end. A first perforated impingement cooling wall which is provided with openings for the impingement cooling of the front edge and at least one further perforated impingement cooling wall for the impingement cooling of a section of the suction-side and/or pressure-side side wall are provided in the interior along the span width. The impingement cooling openings of the first impingement cooling wall and the at least one second impingement cooling wall are connected in series in terms of flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Heinz-Jürgen Gross
  • Patent number: 11199099
    Abstract: An airfoil for a rotor blade in a gas turbine engine includes a first side wall and a second side wall joined to the first side wall at a leading edge and a trailing edge. The airfoil further includes a tip cap extending between the first and second side walls such that the tip cap and at least portions of the first and second side walls form a blade tip and an internal cooling system. The internal cooling system includes a leading edge cooling circuit, a central cooling circuit, and a trailing edge cooling circuit. Each of the internal passages within the leading edge cooling circuit, the central cooling circuit, and the trailing edge cooling circuit is bounded in the radial outward direction with a surface that has at least one escape hole or that is positively angled in the radial outward direction relative to a chordwise axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Daniel C. Crites, Michael Kahrs, Brandan Wakefield, Ardeshir Riahi
  • Patent number: 11199135
    Abstract: A turbine-cooling system of a gas turbine system includes a first intra-vane flow passage defined in a first stator vane so as to penetrate the first stator vane in a radial direction, a second intra-vane flow passage defined in a second stator vane so as to penetrate the second stator vane in the radial direction, an intra-rotation-shaft flow passage connecting the first intra-vane flow passage and the second intra-vane flow passage in a rotation shaft, an extra-turbine flow passage connecting the first intra-vane flow passage and the second intra-vane flow passage, a boost compressor configured to make cooling air flow sequentially through the first intra-vane flow passage, the intra-rotation-shaft flow passage, the second intra-vane flow passage, and the extra-turbine flow passage, and a cooling unit configured to cool the cooling air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Aoyama, Jo Masutani
  • Patent number: 11180998
    Abstract: An airfoil includes an airfoil section that has an airfoil wall that defines a leading end, a trailing end, and first and second sides that join the leading end and the trailing end. The first and second sides span in a longitudinal direction between first and second ends, and the airfoil wall circumscribes an internal core cavity. First and second platforms are attached, respectively, with the first and second ends. A cooling passage circuit extends at least in the first platform and the airfoil section. The cooling passage circuit includes a first plenum in the first platform adjacent at least the first side of the airfoil wall, a hybrid skin core passage embedded in the first side of the airfoil wall and that extends longitudinally, and a resupply passage that connects the first plenum with the hybrid skin core passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Allan N. Arisi, Dominic J. Mongillo, Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley
  • Patent number: 11174794
    Abstract: A vane includes a vane piece that defines a first vane platform, a second vane platform, and a hollow airfoil section that joins the first vane platform and the second vane platform. The first vane platform defines a collar that projects therefrom. A spar piece defines a spar platform and a spar that extends from the spar platform into the hollow airfoil section. A retainer plate is bonded to the spar platform. The retainer plate and the spar platform define a groove, and there is a seal trapped in the groove. The seal seals against the collar of the first vane platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Amy M. Sunnarborg
  • Patent number: 11174788
    Abstract: A core for use in cooling a component used in a rotary machine is provided. The core includes a passage including a divider separating a first inlet portion and a second inlet portion to define a split pass inlet, which is fluidly coupled to at least one first pass, at least one second pass, and at least one turn. The at least one first pass channels a flow of cooling fluid in a first direction from the split pass inlet. The at least one second pass channels the flow of cooling fluid in a second direction opposite the first direction. The at least one turn changes a direction of flow of the cooling fluid from the first direction to the second direction. The at least one first pass, the at least one second pass, and the at least one turn are arranged, such that the passage defines a serpentine passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Jacob Kittleson, Daniel R. Burnos
  • Patent number: 11174742
    Abstract: A turbine section for use in gas turbine engine includes a turbine case, turbine shroud rings, a turbine vane assembly, and a vane mount ring. The vane mount ring couples the turbine vane assembly to the turbine case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Whittle, Daniel K. Vetters
  • Patent number: 11168613
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a compressor; a combustor; a turbine configured to drive a rotational shaft of the compressor using combustion gas generated by the combustor; a cooling device configured to generate cooling air by bleeding compressed air from the compressor and cooling the compressed air, and to supply the cooling air to the turbine along the rotational shaft; a pressurizing device configured to increase pressure of the cooling air; a pressurizing device diffuser configured to provide a passage continuing in a turbine circumferential direction, on the outer side in the turbine radial direction to guide the cooling air having the increased pressure to the outer side of the pressurizing device; and a manifold disposed between the pressurizing device diffuser and a plurality of turbine vanes so that a ring-shaped passage communicates with the passage in the pressurizing device diffuser and a cooling passage provided inside each turbine vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Aoyama, Jo Masutani
  • Patent number: 11162432
    Abstract: A vane of a turbine system is provided. The vane includes: an internal cavity configured to receive a flow of cooling fluid; a variable thickness wall adjacent the internal cavity; and an impingement plate separating the variable thickness wall from the internal cavity, the impingement plate including a plurality of apertures for directing the cooling fluid into an impingement cavity and against the variable thickness wall, wherein the impingement plate is configured to follow a contour of the variable thickness wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Travis J Packer, Brad Wilson VanTassel, William Scott Zemitis
  • Patent number: 11156116
    Abstract: A turbine nozzle for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of nozzle segments that are configured to be assembled into a full ring such that each one of the plurality of nozzle segments is adjacent to another one of the plurality of nozzle segments. Each one of the plurality of nozzle segments includes an endwall segment and a nozzle vane. The turbine nozzle includes a feather seal interface defined by endwall segments of adjacent ones of the plurality of nozzle segments. The feather seal interface is defined along an area of reduced pressure drop through a pressure field defined between adjacent nozzle vanes of the plurality of nozzle segments to reduce leakage through the plurality of nozzle segments. The turbine nozzle includes a feather seal received within the feather seal interface that cooperates with the feather seal interface to reduce leakage through the plurality of nozzle segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Dosland Kamrath, Jason Smoke, Daniel C. Crites, Mark C. Morris
  • Patent number: 11156093
    Abstract: A fan assembly for a gas turbine engine is described which includes a fan and a leading edge assembly mounted to the fan. The leading edge assembly includes a plurality of leading edge extensions projecting from a central core and circumferentially spaced apart to align with leading edges of the fan blades. The leading edge extensions define cavities between the leading edges and the extensions. The cavities extend radially at least partially within the leading edge extensions, and receive heated pressurized air from the engine in operation. Elongated slots extend radially along a downstream edge of the leading edge extensions, and are defined axially between the downstream edge and the leading edges of the blades. The slots provide fluid flow communication between the cavities and at least pressure surfaces of the fan blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Ivan Sidorovich Paradiso, Daniel Alecu
  • Patent number: 11156226
    Abstract: An example centrifugal compressor includes a housing that defines an inlet chamber and includes first and second openings that define a recirculation passage in fluid communication with the inlet chamber. An impeller is disposed within the housing and is rotatable about a longitudinal axis to draw fluid into the inlet chamber. The first and second openings are at different axial locations along the longitudinal axis. A plurality of inlet guide vanes are rotatable and situated in the inlet chamber. The centrifugal compressor includes a ring and a controller for moving the ring along the longitudinal axis between a first position and a second position when rotating the inlet guide vanes. The ring obstructs at least one of the first and second openings more in the second position than in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vishnu M. Sishtla, William T. Cousins
  • Patent number: 11156363
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component assembly including: a first component having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; and a second component having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface of the second component, and a plurality of pin fins extending away from the second surface of the second component, the first surface of the first component and the second surface of the second component defining a cooling channel therebetween, wherein the plurality of pin fins extend into the cooling channel, wherein each of the plurality of pin fins have a pointed ellipse shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephen K. Kramer, Ryan Lundgreen, Robin Prenter
  • Patent number: 11149642
    Abstract: A cooling system configured to reduce a temperature within a gas turbine engine in a shutdown mode of operation includes a first gas turbine engine including a compressor having a bleed port. In a first operating mode of the gas turbine engine, the compressor bleed port is configured to channel a high pressure flow of air from the compressor. During a shutdown mode of operation, the compressor bleed port is configured to channel an external flow of cooling air into the compressor. The cooling system also includes a source of cooling air and a conduit coupled in flow communication between the compressor bleed port and the source of cooling air. The source of cooling air configured to deliver a flow of cooling air into the compressor through the compressor bleed port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ilhan Bayraktar, Tuba Bayraktar, Mohamed Elbibary
  • Patent number: 11148191
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a rotor and a vane spaced axially from the rotor, and a blade outer air seal spaced radially from the rotor. At least one of the rotor and the vane includes an airfoil section extending from a platform. At least one of the airfoil section, the platform and the blade outer air seal includes a first cavity extending in a first direction, the first cavity defining a reference plane along a parting line formed by a casting die, and a plurality of trip strips including a first set of trip strips distributed in the first direction along a surface of the first cavity and on a first side of the reference plane, each of the plurality of trip strips defining a respective groove axis extending longitudinally between a first end and an opposed, second end of a respective one the plurality of trip strips, and the groove axes being oriented with respect to a pull direction of the casting die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew S. Gleiner, Bret M. Teller, James T. Auxier
  • Patent number: 11149555
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for a turbine engine for can include an engine component. The engine component can include an interior cooling passage at least partially defining a cooling circuit for passing a flow of cooling fluid through the component. Film holes provide for exhausting a portion of the cooling fluid to an exterior of the component, to form a cooling film along an exterior hot surface of the engine component. A deflector can be position within the cooling passage upstream form the film hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Kirk D. Gallier
  • Patent number: 11149645
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a fan, a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section where the turbine section is downstream of the combustor section. A shaft connects the turbine section to the compressor section. A bore tube is disposed within the shaft downstream of the compressor section. The bore tube includes an inlet connected to an air source for passing cooling air in an upstream direction of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Gary D. Roberge
  • Patent number: 11149643
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine has a fan rotor delivering air into a bypass duct defined between an outer fan case and an outer interior housing. The fan rotor also delivers air into a compressor section, a combustor, a turbine section. A chamber is defined between the outer interior housing and an inner housing. The inner housing contains the compressor section, the combustor and the turbine section. A first conduit taps hot compressed air to be cooled and passes the air to at least one heat exchanger. The air is cooled in the heat exchanger and returned to a return conduit. The return conduit passes the cooled air to at least one of the turbine section and the compressor section. The heat exchanger has a core exhaust plane. The turbine section has at least a first and a downstream second rotor blade row, with the core exhaust plane located downstream of a center plane of the second blade row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick M. Schwarz, Nathan Snape
  • Patent number: 11149553
    Abstract: An airfoil assembly for use in a turbine of a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil that extends radially relative to an axis. The airfoil includes an inner surface that defines a cooling cavity that extends radially into the airfoil and an outer surface that defines a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure side, and a section side of the airfoil. The airfoil assembly further includes features for increasing the heat transfer coefficient of the airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventors: Michael J. Whittle, Ian M. Edmonds
  • Patent number: 11149567
    Abstract: An airfoil assembly includes a roller joint formed between a ceramic airfoil portion and a carrier allowing sliding (rolling) radial movement therebetween to accommodate thermal growth disparity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Whittle, Daniel Kent Vetters, Eric Koenig
  • Patent number: 11143106
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a propulsion system including a wall defining a combustion chamber inlet, a combustion chamber outlet, and a combustion chamber therebetween, a nozzle assembly disposed at the combustion chamber inlet, the nozzle assembly configured to provide a fuel/oxidizer mixture to the combustion chamber, a turbine nozzle coupled to the wall and positioned at the combustion chamber outlet, wherein the turbine nozzle defines a cooling circuit within the turbine nozzle, and a casing positioned radially adjacent to the wall, wherein a channel structure is positioned between the casing and the wall, the channel structure in fluid communication with the cooling circuit within the turbine nozzle, and wherein a flowpath is formed between the wall and the casing, the flowpath in fluid communication from the cooling circuit at the turbine nozzle to the nozzle assembly to provide a flow of oxidizer to the thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Joseph Zelina, Sibtosh Pal, Arthur Wesley Johnson, Clayton Stuart Cooper, Steven Clayton Vise
  • Patent number: 11143038
    Abstract: An airfoil for a gas turbine engine includes pressure and suction side walls joined to one another at leading and trailing edges. A stagnation line is located on the pressure side wall aft of the leading edge. A cooling passage is provided between the pressure and suction side walls. Forward-facing cooling holes are provided adjacent to the stagnation line on the pressure side wall and oriented toward the leading edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: San Quach, Matthew A. Devore
  • Patent number: 11136917
    Abstract: An airfoil, a turbine and a gas turbine having enhanced cooling performance are provided. The airfoil including a leading edge and a trailing edge may include: a first cooling passage connected to the leading edge; a second cooling passage connected to the trailing edge; a third cooling passage formed between the first cooling passage and the second cooling passage; a shock tube installed in the first cooling passage and configured to form an auxiliary cooling passage between the shock tube and the leading edge, and to include a plurality of dispersion hole in the shock tube; and a flow guide member installed on the shock tube and configured to guide a flow of air that is drawn from the third cooling passage into the first cooling passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventors: Ye Jee Kim, Vincent Galoul
  • Patent number: 11136892
    Abstract: A rotor blade for a gas turbine, includes a blade extending in a radial direction, with a blade body having a peripheral wall with pressure-side and suction-side wall sections, a plate-shaped crown base connected to the peripheral wall in the region of the blade tip, and a sweep edge extending along the peripheral wall, the peripheral wall and the crown base defining a cavity in the blade body, the sweep edge being aligned on the outer side with the peripheral wall and protruding radially over the crown base, and cooling channels are embodied in the blade body, extending from the cavity to cooling fluid outlets provided in the sweep edge. At least one recess being formed in the front surface of the sweep edge, into which at least some of the cooling channels flow such that the cooling fluid outlets are entirely arranged in a bottom region of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Gill, Christian Gindorf, Andreas Heselhaus, Robert Kunte, Marcel Schlösser, Andrew Carlson, Ross Peterson
  • Patent number: 11136890
    Abstract: The rotor blade includes a platform and a shank extending radially inward from the platform. The rotor blade further includes an airfoil extending radially outward from the platform. The airfoil includes a leading edge and a trailing edge. A cooling circuit is defined within the shank and the airfoil. The cooling circuit includes a plurality of pins. The plurality of pins includes a first pin group positioned radially inward of the platform and a second pin group positioned within the airfoil. The cooling circuit further includes a plurality of exit channels disposed along the trailing edge. The plurality of exit channels is downstream from the plurality of pins. The cooling circuit also includes at least one bypass conduit extending from an inlet disposed in the cooling circuit to an outlet positioned on the trailing platform face. The at least one bypass conduit is positioned radially inward of the platform surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jan Emeric Agudo, Martin James Jasper
  • Patent number: 11131212
    Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine includes a platform that has a gas path side and a non-gas path side. At least one airfoil extends from the gas path side of the platform. At least one airfoil includes a serpentine cavity and a serpentine turn extends from the non-gas path side of the platform. A cover plate is located adjacent the non-gas path side of the platform. The cover plate includes a first plurality of fluid openings that extend through the cover plate. At least one bulge at least partially defines a fluid passageway with the serpentine turn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon W. Spangler, Adam P. Generale, Ky H. Vu
  • Patent number: 11125116
    Abstract: A lifting jig can lift a rotor and a diaphragm of a steam turbine including a casing that covers the rotor that can be divided with a division surface and the diaphragm that can be divided into an upper half diaphragm and a lower half diaphragm with a division surface. A lifting jig has a diaphragm fixing unit that can be fixed to the upper half diaphragm, a first rotor supporting unit that is integrally formed with a diaphragm fixing unit and can support one end portion of the rotor in an axial direction, and a second rotor supporting unit that is integrally formed with the diaphragm fixing unit and can support the other end portion of the rotor in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Sasaki, Kyoichi Ikeno
  • Patent number: 11118467
    Abstract: A stationary component of a turbine section of a turbine engine system includes a hollow vane assembly with an interior rib separating a first interior compartment from a second interior compartment. The first and second interior compartments are configured to receive the cooling fluid. The cooling fluid is allowed to communicate between the first and second interior compartments. The stationary component also includes a diaphragm attached to the hollow vane assembly. The diaphragm is configured to receive the cooling fluid from the hollow vane assembly. The diaphragm includes a chamber and a tube extending through the chamber. The tube is configured to isolate the chamber from the cooling fluid while delivering the cooling fluid from the hollow vane assembly to the wheelspace area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jason A. Neville, Mitchell Merrill, Stephen Newman, Jaime Maldonado
  • Patent number: 11118457
    Abstract: A method of heating a fan blade of a gas turbine engine for anti-icing includes emitting jets of heated air from a radial fin disposed upstream from a radially inward portion of a fan blade airfoil, the jets of heated air being directed by outlet orifices in a downstream direction substantially parallel to a flow of incoming air over the fan blade airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Richard Ivakitch, David Menheere, Paul Stone
  • Patent number: 11111794
    Abstract: A seal assembly includes a first feather seal with a first cooling hole extending through the first feather seal. The seal assembly also includes a second feather seal adjacent to the first feather seal. The second feather seal includes a second cooling hole extending through the second feather seal. The first cooling hole is positioned over at least a portion of the second cooling hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Bitzko, Shawn M. McMahon, Alex J. Schneider
  • Patent number: 11111804
    Abstract: Integrally bladed rotors (IBRs) are described. The IBRs include a central hub, an outer rim defining an outer circumference of the central hub, the outer rim defining a plurality of platforms, a plurality of circumferentially distributed blades, wherein a blade extends from each of the plurality of platforms, a rotor slot arranged between two adjacent blades, wherein the rotor slot is defined by a cut within the outer rim, and a rotor slot insert installed within the rotor slot, the rotor slot insert sized and shaped to fit within the rotor slot and prevent air leakage from a first side of the central hub to a second side of the central hub through the rotor slot during operation of the integrally bladed rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Weston Behling, Jason Leroux, Robert B. Fuller, Steven D. Roberts
  • Patent number: 11111823
    Abstract: A turbine ring assembly includes adjacent ring sectors forming a turbine ring, each ring sector having a platform with an inner face defining the inner face of the turbine ring and an outer face from which an upstream lug and a downstream lug extend along the radial direction. Each ring sector includes a first groove present in the platform in the vicinity of the inner face of the platform, a second groove present in the platform in the vicinity of the outer face of the platform, an upstream groove extending into the upstream lug and a downstream groove extending into the downstream lug. A first sealing tab extends into the first groove. A second sealing tab extends into the second groove. An upstream sealing tab extends into the upstream groove. A downstream sealing tab extends into the downstream groove. The second sealing tab includes at least one opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Clément Jarrossay, Sébastien Serge Francis Congratel, Antoine Claude Michel Etienne Danis, Clément Jean Pierre Duffau, Lucien Henri Jacques Quennehen
  • Patent number: 11105212
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tangential on-board injector (TOBI) system that includes an annulus and a plurality of cooling airflow passages disposed about the annulus. Each cooling airflow passage of the plurality of cooling airflow passages includes an inlet opening having a polygonal inlet cross-section, the inlet opening having an inlet cross-sectional area. Each cooling airflow passage of the plurality of cooling airflow passages further includes an outlet opening having an outlet cross-section and an outlet cross-sectional area. The inlet cross-sectional area is greater in magnitude than the outlet cross-sectional area. Also disclosed are additive manufacturing methods for manufacturing the tangential on-board injector system and gas turbine engines that incorporate the tangential on-board injector system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Michael Ryan Wedig, Jeffrey D Harrison, Mark C Morris, Raymond Gage
  • Patent number: 11105215
    Abstract: A flow path component includes a base portion that extends between a first circumferential side and a second circumferential side. A first wall and a second wall extend radially outward from the base portion. The first wall is axially spaced from the second wall to form a passage between the first and second walls. A slot is formed in the first circumferential side. A notch in the base portion extends in a radial direction from the passage to the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Carson A. Roy Thill, Jaime A. Arbona, Justin K. Bleil, Danielle Mahoney, Andrew D. Keene
  • Patent number: 11098602
    Abstract: Disclosed is a turbine vane having a turbine vane airfoil extending from a platform to an end wall and having an airfoil-shaped cross section having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a pressure side and a suction side that extend from the leading edge to the trailing edge, wherein a plurality of cavities defined by a plurality of ribs extending from the pressure side to the suction side is formed in the turbine vane airfoil, at least one of the cavities is provided with a plurality of insert supports protruding inward from an inner surface of the turbine vane airfoil, and the insert supports are arranged in a circumferential direction of the cavity and arranged in a plurality of rows arranged in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Inventors: Hyuk Hee Lee, Sung Chul Jung
  • Patent number: 11098612
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a compressor, a combustor fluidly connected to the compressor via a core flowpath, and a turbine fluidly connected to the combustor via the core flowpath. The turbine includes at least one stage having a plurality of rotors and a plurality of vanes. An outer diameter of the core flowpath at at least one stage is at least partially defined by a set of circumferentially arranged blade outer air seals. Each blade outer air seal includes a platform. An internal cooling cavity is defined within the platform. At least one mateface of the platform includes a cooling trench, and a first set of cooling holes connecting the internal cavity to the cooling trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Winston Gregory Smiddy, San Quach, Matthew D. Parekh, Jeffrey T. Morton
  • Patent number: 11092025
    Abstract: A combustor assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a TOBI module that includes a TOBI housing. The TOBI housing has a slot. A vane includes a dovetail removably received within the slot. The TOBI housing includes an axially extending TOBI nozzle array. The TOBI housing includes a plenum. A cooling passage fluidly connects the plenum to the vane. The TOBI housing includes passages configured to provide cooling fluid to the vane. The TOBI housing includes a first passageway further connecting the TOBI nozzle to the plenum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Meggan Harris
  • Patent number: 11092028
    Abstract: This application provides controlled tip balance slits (200) for turbines. An example leakage flow control system (110) for a turbine may include a flow runner (150) with a tip shroud (152), a diaphragm or a guide blade (130), an extension ring (160) coupled to the diaphragm and positioned adjacent to the tip shroud (152), and a tip balance slit (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Brian Robert Haller, Adrian Clifford Lord, Philip David Hemsley
  • Patent number: 11085644
    Abstract: A cooling arrangement provides cooling around a dilution hole defined in a liner circumscribing a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine. The cooling arrangement comprises a hollow boss projecting from an outer surface of the liner about the dilution hole. The hollow boss defines an internal cavity extending circumferentially around the dilution hole. The internal cavity has an inlet in fluid flow communication with an air plenum surrounding the liner and an outlet in fluid flow communication with the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Michael Papple, Si-Man Amy Lao, Sri Sreekanth
  • Patent number: 11078801
    Abstract: A vane stage with a longitudinal axis designed to be fitted in a turbine engine compressor. The van stage has an annular row of mobile vanes arranged upstream from an annular row of stator vanes. The annular row of stator vanes has a radially internal annular platform bearing radial blades, an upstream annular portion of which is arranged upstream from the blades and is surrounded radially outwards by a downstream annular portion of an annular platform of the upstream row of mobile vanes. The upstream annular portion of the annular platform of the annular row of stator vanes has a radially external annular face from which fins extend, which are distributed around the longitudinal axis and extend radially outwards towards the downstream annular portion of the platform of the annular row of mobile vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Damien Bernard Emeric Guegan, Sébastien Claude Cochon, Pierre-Hugues Ambroise Maxime Victor Retiveau
  • Patent number: 11078802
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine assembly includes a first component, a second component, and a seal. The first component is spaced apart from the second component to form a gap between the first component and the second component. The seal is configured to block gases from flowing in the gap between the first component and the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Inventors: Anthony G. Razzell, Michael J. Whittle, Steven Hillier