Porous Patents (Class 60/754)
  • Patent number: 11788726
    Abstract: A combustor for a turbomachine engine includes a combustion chamber, a liner forming a boundary of the combustion chamber, and multiple dilution holes through the liner to permit airflow into the combustion chamber. The dilution holes include converging dilution holes and diverging dilution holes, the converging dilution holes having a converging cross-sectional profile and the diverging dilution holes having a diverging cross-sectional profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Rimple Rangrej, Saket Singh, Pradeep Naik, Ajoy Patra
  • Patent number: 11774102
    Abstract: An assembly for a turbomachine can include a fuel nozzle and a combustion liner. The fuel nozzle and the combustion liner can be attached to each using a plurality of clip joints such that the combustion liner is longitudinally fixed relative to the fuel nozzle but such that the combustion liner can radially move relative to the fuel nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Collins Engine Nozzles, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Greenfield, Thomas J. Ocken, Jason A. Ryon
  • Patent number: 11754286
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for an engine includes inner and outer combustion chamber walls bounding a combustion space. Three mixing air holes with respective central points at corner points of a virtual first or second triangle are arranged on mutually opposite first and second wall segments of the inner and outer walls. The second triangle of the second wall segment of the outer wall is oriented rotated by 180° with respect to the first triangle of the first wall segment of the inner wall, and the mixing air holes arranged in rows on the first and second wall segments are arranged with respect to one another so the mixing air holes of the first and second wall segments that are arranged at the corner points of the first and second triangles do not lie opposite a mixing air hole of the second or first wall segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Max Staufer
  • Patent number: 11725587
    Abstract: An ignition and combustion assist system and method comprising a plasma igniter and electronic driver unit for use with gas turbine engines operating under low air densities, reduced voltage conditions and overall pressure ratios of 3:1 to 7:1. The plasma igniter has an inner chamber housing a centrally positioned and electrically isolated electrode attached to an electrical lead, driver unit, and AC or DC power supply. The electrode features a corner positioned near an outlet end of the igniter, where a plasma arc ignites a fuel-air mixture creating a flame extending into a primary burn region of a combustor of the gas turbine. The driver unit is in two embodiments and configured with low-cost microsecond voltage wave time periods or energy-efficient nano-second pulses. The method uses the plasma igniter and the electronic driver units described herein separately with other components or together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventors: Mark Harris, Patrick Bailey, David Monk, Felipe Gomez del Campo, Drew Weibel, Ford McClure
  • Patent number: 11506385
    Abstract: An aircraft component is used for an aircraft gas-turbine engine. The aircraft component includes an annular part, a flange, and a boss. The annular part has an outer circumferential surface. The flange is formed at one end portion of the annular part in an axial direction. The boss projects from the outer circumferential surface of the annular part to the radial direction. On a section cut along an axial direction of the annular part, the outer circumferential surface of the annular part between the flange and the boss has a taper part that is formed into a tapered shape in which plate thickness becomes thicker from the flange toward the boss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Onishi, Yasuyuki Uetsuki, Tadayuki Hanada, Yohei Fujimoto, Takafumi Ota
  • Patent number: 11480337
    Abstract: A system includes a combustor. The combustor has a combustor wall with a combustor dome at an upstream end of the combustor wall, and an outlet at a downstream end of the combustor wall opposite the upstream end. The combustor wall includes an inner wall portion and an outer wall portion defining an interior of the combustor therebetween. Each of the inner wall portion and outer wall portion extends from the combustor dome to the downstream end of the combustor wall. The combustor wall includes an air cooling passage embedded inside at least one of the inner wall portion and the outer wall portion. The air cooling passage extends from the upstream end of the combustor wall to the downstream end of the combustor wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Collins Engine Nozzles, Inc.
    Inventors: Lev A. Prociw, Jason Ryon
  • Patent number: 11441779
    Abstract: The provision of air passage holes through a wall of a gas turbomachine combustion chamber. Multi-perforations are virtually positioned and distributed, even in a first safety zone without air passage openings. Multi-perforations with a virtual inlet or outlet in this first security zone are virtually removed. According to certain criteria, at least some of said removed multi-perforations are then virtually reintegrated, and, from then on a perimeter passing through the virtual inlets and outlets of all the multi-perforations present is defined, in the direction of a primary or dilution hole to be installed, a modified safety zone is defined, then, respecting around said hole and with the freedom to reposition it within this limit, the shape of this hole is redefined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: François Pierre Ribassin, Patrice André Commaret, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Christophe Pieussergues
  • Patent number: 11402096
    Abstract: A combustor dome may be formed by way of additive layer manufacturing. The combustor dome may further include a raised outer surface and a recessed outer surface on a hot side of the combustor dome. The recessed outer surfaces may be closer to the cold side than the raised outer surfaces. The combustor dome may include a shadow surface defined between the raised outer surface and recessed outer surface. The shadow surface may define a corresponding cooling outlet in fluid communication with an internal cooling channel defined inside of the combustor dome. The cooling outlet may release air from the internal cooling channel to the hot axial side of the combustor dome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: ROLLS-ROYCE CORPORATION, ROLLS-ROYCE NORTH AMERICAN TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Sauer, Lewis Dailey, Keith McCormick, Duane Smith, Christopher D. DeBruhl
  • Patent number: 11339970
    Abstract: A lean burn combustor includes a plurality of lean burn fuel injectors, each including a fuel feed arm and a lean burn fuel injector head with a lean burn fuel injector head tip, wherein the lean burn fuel injector head tip has a lean burn fuel injector head tip diameter, the lean burn fuel injector head including a pilot fuel injector and a main fuel injector, the main fuel injector being arranged coaxially and radially outwards of the pilot fuel injector; and a combustor chamber extending along an axial direction for a length and including a radially inner annular wall, a radially outer annular wall, and a meter panel defining the size and shape of the combustor chamber, wherein the combustor chamber includes primary and secondary combustion zones. A ratio of the combustor chamber length to the lean burn fuel injector head tip diameter is less than 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC, ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Luca Tentorio, Imon-Kalyan Bagchi
  • Patent number: 11286791
    Abstract: An engine component includes a body having an internal surface and an external surface, the internal surface at least partially defining an internal cooling circuit. The component further includes a plurality of cooling holes formed in the body and extending between the internal cooling circuit and the external surface of the body. The plurality of cooling holes includes a first cooling hole with a metering portion and a diffuser portion extending from the metering portion to the external surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Daniel C. Crites, Mark C. Morris, David R. Waldman, Ardeshir Riahi
  • Patent number: 11280493
    Abstract: A fuel spray nozzle including a primary atomizer to discharge a flow of swirled atomised fuel along and around a fuel spray nozzle axis. The primary atomiser includes outer air swirler disposed radially outwardly of a fuel pre-filmer channel. A secondary atomiser disposed around the primary atomiser includes secondary inner air swirler to swirl flow along an inner air channel. The secondary inner air swirler disposed radially inwardly of a secondary fuel pre-filmer channel of the secondary atomiser. A primary outer air channel defined between the primary outer swirler and the secondary inner swirler. The secondary inner air swirler include splitter wall to separate swirling flow in the secondary inner channel from the primary flow of atomised fuel. The secondary inner air swirler includes primary cap wall integral with and extending radially inwardly from the splitter wall to direct flow from the primary outer channel inwardly towards the fuel spray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignees: ROLLS-ROYCE plc, ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Luca Tentorio, Juan Carlos Roman Casado, Giacomo Di Chiaro, Jonathan Knapton, Filippo Zambon, Radu Irimia, Imon-Kalyan Bagchi, James Robins, Tomasz Stankowski
  • Patent number: 11204164
    Abstract: A system effective for dual utilization of cooling fluid in a gas turbine engine is provided. A cooling annulus is subject to a hot-temperature combustion flow received from a combustor basket and includes a liner including a feed channel to receive cooling fluid. A feed manifold is in fluid communication with feed channel to feed cooling fluid to a plurality of conduits in fluid communication with a plurality of exit orifices that is in fluid communication with a plurality of resonators. A distributor manifold includes a plurality of manifold sectors in fluid communication with a plurality of conduits arranged to convey cooling fluid. Some of the plurality of resonators operates with different amounts of cooling fluid. A group of the plurality of exit orifices is configured to supply an amount of cooling fluid appropriate for a resonator in fluid communication with the group of the plurality of exit orifices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Domenico Gambacorta, Wojciech Dyszkiewicz, Daniel Cassar, Clifford E. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11199326
    Abstract: A liner assembly for use in a combustor of a gas turbine engine is disclosed. In various embodiments, the liner assembly includes a panel defining a left side and a right side and a hot side and a cold side, the panel having a dilution hole and a plurality of effusion holes extending between the hot side and the cold side. In various embodiments, the plurality of effusion holes includes a first subgrouping of effusion holes disposed downstream of the dilution hole and aligned in a generally left to right orientation toward a dividing line extending downstream of the dilution hole and a second subgrouping of effusion holes disposed downstream of the dilution hole and aligned in a generally right to left orientation toward the dividing line extending downstream of the dilution hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Jason M. Gringhaus, James B. Hoke, Fumitaka Ichihashi
  • Patent number: 11149554
    Abstract: A structure for improving performance of cooling a blade of a gas turbine is provided in which interaction vortexes are generated between working fluid flowing along a surface of the blade and cooling fluid discharged onto the surface from an internal flow passage of the blade. The blade includes a surface structure formed by a gas hole having an outlet communicating with the surface of the blade to discharge the cooling fluid; and a vortex relief generator disposed so as to protrude from an inner periphery of the outlet and configured to generate counter vortexes having directionality opposite to the interaction vortexes so that the interaction vortexes are relieved by collision with the counter vortexes. The vortex relief generator includes a pair of opposing fins disposed in a path of the cooling fluid, each of which has a first surface to change a flow direction of the cooling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventor: Gyeong Mo Nam
  • Patent number: 11112114
    Abstract: Combustor panels of gas turbine engines and gas turbine engines are described. The combustor panels include a hot side configured to be exposed to combustion within a gas turbine engine, a cold side opposite the hot side of the combustor panel, the cold side configured to receive cooling flow thereon, and a peak-valley gridded pattern formed on the cold side, the peak-valley gridded pattern comprising a plurality of recessed cells arranged in a grid pattern, with each recessed cell having a peak, angled sidewalls, and an effusion hole located at a bottom of the angled sidewalls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas Pritchard, Stephen K. Kramer
  • Patent number: 11073284
    Abstract: A combustor wall assembly has a heat shield and a supporting shell with a cooling cavity defined therebetween. A grommet generally includes a wall defining a dilution hole isolated from the cooling cavity, and a flange projecting radially outward from the wall and into the cooling cavity. The flange is space from the heat shield and a cooling channel is defined between the wall and the heat shield that communicates with the cavity for cooling the wall proximate to a combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Jonathan P. Sandoval
  • Patent number: 11073072
    Abstract: The proposed solution relates to a combustion chamber assembly of an engine (T), in which an overrun of a spark plug is defined with a specific outer cone and a specific inner cone, and mixing air holes of a first arrangement and of at least one second arrangement that lie at least partially in a partial region of the overrun of the spark plug, said overrun being defined by the outer cone and the inner cone and extending downstream of the spark plug as far as an inner apex point (Si) of the inner cone, are formed with a flow cross section which is different from a flow cross section which the mixing air holes adjoining in the circumferential direction (U) of the respective arrangement have.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Miklos Gerendas
  • Patent number: 11009230
    Abstract: A heat shield panel for a gas turbine engine combustor is disclosed. The heat shield panel includes a hot side defining a first surface having an outer perimeter, a cold side defining a second surface spaced from the first surface, a rail member disposed on the cold side proximate a first portion of the outer perimeter, the rail member having an outer wall and an inner wall, an undercut portion within the second surface proximate the inner wall of the rail member and an orifice extending through the rail member, from the inner wall to the outer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Steven D Porter, Jon E Sobanski
  • Patent number: 10927762
    Abstract: A cooled gas turbine engine component comprises a wall which has a plurality of effusion cooling apertures extending there-through from a first surface to a second surface. The apertures are arranged at an angle to the second surface and each aperture has an inlet in the first surface and an outlet in the second surface. Each aperture has a metering portion and a diffusing portion arranged in flow series and each metering portion is elongate and the width is greater than the length of the metering portion. Each diffusing portion increases in dimension in the length from the metering portion to the outlet. Each outlet has a rectangular shape in the second surface of the wall. Each inlet has an elongate shape in the first surface of the wall and the inlet in the wall is arranged substantially diagonally with respect to the outlet in the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Stephen Charles Harding, Nicholas Alexander Worth
  • Patent number: 10928067
    Abstract: There is disclosed a double skin combustor for a gas turbine engine. The combustor has a radially inner liner and a radially outer liner defining therebetween an annular combustion chamber. The radially inner liner and the radially outer liners both have a hot skin and a cold skin defining a cooling cavity therebetween. The cold skin has a plurality of segments joined to one another by sliding joints. The cooling cavity between the hot skin and the cold skin may be compartmentalized into individual cavities between the sliding joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Robert Sze, Sri Sreekanth, Honza Stastny, Jeffrey Verhiel
  • Patent number: 10823411
    Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a support shell; a first liner panel mounted to the support shell via a multiple of studs, the first liner panel including a first rail that extends from a cold side of the first liner panel; a second liner panel mounted to the support shell via a multiple of studs, the second liner panel including a second rail that extends from a cold side of the second liner panel adjacent to the first rail to form an interface passage; and at least one heat transfer feature within the interface passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: San Quach, Jeffrey T. Morton, Matthew D. Parekh
  • Patent number: 10774656
    Abstract: An airport having an exterior wall including a plurality of spaced layers for improved cooling and lifetime is disclosed. The airfoil and exterior wall are made by additive manufacturing. The exterior wall includes an exterior layer, an intermediate layer, and an interior layer each separated from adjacent layers by a plurality of standoff members; a plurality of first cooling chambers between the exterior and intermediate layers, the chambers partitioned by a first partitioning wall; a plurality of second cooling chambers between in the intermediate and interior layers, the chambers partitioned by a second partitioning wall; a thermal barrier coating on the exterior layer; a plurality of impingement openings in the intermediate layer and a second plurality of impingement openings in the interior layer; and a plurality of cooling passages in the exterior layer. The exterior layer may also include plateaus on an exterior face through which the cooling passages extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gary Michael Itzel, Jeffrey Clarence Jones, James William Vehr
  • Patent number: 10712006
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustion chamber includes first admixing air holes having first inner and outer center points, and second admixing air holes having second inner and outer center points. The first and second inner center points respectively lie on a side of the first and second admixing air holes oriented towards the combustion chamber. The first and second outer center points lie on a side of the first and second admixing air holes facing away from the combustion chamber. An equation L=D2/D1*(D2?D1)/C2 is fulfilled, with L being a distance between the first and second inner center points and/or the first and second outer center points; D1 and D2 being flow diameters of the first and second admixing air holes respectively at an entry and/or exit side to the combustion chamber and C being an average flow rate coefficient of the first and second admixing holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Carsten Clemen, Torsten Voigt, Thomas Doerr
  • Patent number: 10697636
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. A combustor wall of the turbine engine assembly includes a shell and a heat shield. The combustor wall defines a quench aperture through the shell and the heat shield. The heat shield defines an effusion outlet a distance from the quench aperture equal to between about twenty-five times and about seventy-five times a width of the effusion outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Frank J. Cunha, Stanislav Kostka, Jr., Randal G. McKinney
  • Patent number: 10634351
    Abstract: A heat shield for a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes an outer edge surface with an outlet of an edge cooling passage, the edge cooling passage oriented to direct cooling air generally upstream relative to a combustion gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: James P. Bangerter, Robert Sze
  • Patent number: 10598382
    Abstract: A liner associated with an engine of an aircraft is described. The liner includes a panel and an array of projections configured to enhance a cooling of the panel and distributed on at least part of a first side of the panel that corresponds to a cold side of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: John S. Tu, James B. Hoke, Monica Pacheco-Tougas, Alexander W. Williams
  • Patent number: 10533750
    Abstract: A cross-flame duct for connecting adjacent combustors together in a gas turbine to guard against flameout conditions within the combustors, whereby the cross-flame duct includes first and second ducts forming a slip joint to prevent stress from developing within the cross-flame duct is disclosed. The cross-flame duct remains flexible during turbine operation due to the slip joint, thereby preventing damaging thermal and mechanical stresses from developing within the cross-flame duct and enhancing the useful life of the cross-flame duct and associated components. The first and second ducts include cooling chambers positioned between outer sleeves and inner housings and maintained with one or more standoffs to reduce thermal stress and gradients or prevent material loss due to overheating or burning. The cooling chambers are supplied with cooling fluids via one or more fluid ports extending through the outer sleeves enabling air to flow through the cooling chambers and into the combustors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Daniel W. Garan, Richard L. Thackway, David P. Holzapfel, Stephen A. Ramier, Charalambos Polyzopoulos, Kevin J. Spence, Joseph Scott Markovitz
  • Patent number: 10502423
    Abstract: An exemplary sequential combustor arrangement includes a first burner, a first combustion chamber, a mixer for admixing a dilution gas to the hot gases leaving the first combustion chamber during operation, a second burner, and a second combustion chamber arranged sequentially in a fluid flow connection. The mixer includes at least three groups of injection tubes pointing inwards from the side walls of the mixer for admixing the dilution gas to cool the hot flue gases leaving the first combustion chamber. The first injection tubes of the first group have a first protrusion depth, the second injection tubes of the second group have a protrusion depth, and the third injection tubes of the third group have a third protrusion depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Xianfeng Gao, Luis Tay Wo Chong Hilares
  • Patent number: 10330204
    Abstract: A burner seal of a gas turbine with a substantially tubular base body, which has a ring-shaped inlet lip on the inflow side and a funnel at its outflow side, wherein an inner diameter of the inflow side is embodied to be larger than an inner diameter of a sealing surface that is arranged axially in front of the funnel, wherein cooling channels are formed in the base body distributed about the circumference, wherein the cooling channels are formed respectively in the base body in the area of the sealing surface and of the funnel, and respectively open into an end area of the funnel in an exit hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Carsten Clemen
  • Patent number: 10260748
    Abstract: A method of tailoring a combustor flow for a gas turbine engine includes controlling an airflow into a swirler to be generally uniform and controlling an airflow into a quench zone to provide a desired pattern factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy S. Snyder, Randal G. McKinney, James B. Hoke
  • Patent number: 10215410
    Abstract: A combustor for a turbine engine is provided that includes a combustor wall. The combustor wall includes a shell and heat shield, which is attached to the shell. One or more cooling cavities are defined between the shell and the heat shield, and fluidly couple a plurality of apertures defined in the shell with a plurality of apertures defined in the heat shield. The apertures in the heat shield include a first aperture and a second aperture. An angle of incidence between the first aperture and a surface of the heat shield is different than an angle of incidence between the second aperture and the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis M. Moura, Monica Pacheco-Tougas, Jonathan J. Eastwood, Lee E. Bouldin
  • Patent number: 9970660
    Abstract: There is disclosed a liner element in the form of an impingement/effusion tile for a gas turbine combustor having a structural wall. The liner element has a unitary construction defining a cooling side and combustion side, and a plurality of effusion holes extending between a cooling side surface of the element and a combustion side surface of the element. The liner element is configured to be affixed to the structural wall of a combustor with its cooling side surface spaced from the structural wall to define a chamber between the cooling side surface and the structural wall, and the liner element further includes integrally formed and internally threaded protuberances on its cooling side, the protuberances being arranged to engage the structural wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Paul I Chandler, Anthony Pidcock
  • Patent number: 9897320
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine combustor is provided. An inner liner has an upstream end and a downstream end and extends in an axial direction between the upstream and downstream ends. A dual wall outer liner has a hot wall, a cold wall at least partially surrounding the hot wall, an upstream end, and a downstream end. The outer liner extends in the axial direction between the upstream and downstream ends. A dome assembly is coupled between the upstream ends of the inner and outer liners to define a combustion chamber between the inner liner and the hot wall of the outer liner. Effusion cooling holes are disposed in the hot wall, including a first row disposed at a tangential angle of between about 70° and about 90° and a second row disposed at a tangential angle of between about 0° and about 20°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Bronson, Frank Joseph Zupanc, Paul Yankowich, Nagaraja Rudrapatna
  • Patent number: 9810430
    Abstract: A conjoined grommet assembly for a combustor wall assembly of a gas turbine engine has a first grommet defining at least in-part a first dilution hole, and a second grommet defining at least in-part a second dilution hole. The first and second dilution holes are spaced closely together such that the first grommet is in contact with the second grommet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan P. Sandoval, Randolph J. Smith
  • Patent number: 9506652
    Abstract: A combustion chamber, for example for a turbine engine, presenting an inner annular wall, an outer annular wall, and a pierced annular chamber end wall extending around an axis, the chamber end wall including at least one opening receiving a fuel injector, the opening being substantially centered on a circular line defining a first chamber end wall portion extending radially between the circular line and the inner annular wall, and a second chamber end wall portion extending radially between the circular line and the outer annular wall. First and second channels are inclined relative to a normal vector normal to the chamber end wall while extending tangentially, the first channels arranged to provide a flow of air in a first rotary direction, the second channels arranged to provide a flow of air in a second rotary direction opposite to the first rotary direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: TURBOMECA
    Inventors: Bernard Joseph Jean-Pierre Carrere, Jean-Marc Dubourdieu-Rayrot, Lorenzo Huacan Hernandez, Robert Serrot-Gracie
  • Patent number: 9416728
    Abstract: A combustor apparatus is provided, comprising a mixing arrangement for mixing a carbonaceous fuel with enriched oxygen and a working fluid to form a fuel mixture. A combustion chamber is at least partially defined by a transpiration member. The transpiration member is at least partially surrounded by a pressure containment member. The combustion chamber has opposed inlet and outlet portions. The inlet portion of the combustion chamber is configured to receive the fuel mixture for the fuel mixture to be combusted at a combustion temperature. The combustion chamber is further configured to direct the resulting combustion product toward the outlet portion. The transpiration member directs a transpiration substance therethrough toward the combustion chamber for buffering interaction between the combustion product and the transpiration member. Associated systems, apparatuses, and methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignees: 8 Rivers Capital, LLC, Palmer Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Miles R. Palmer, Rodney John Allam, Glenn William Brown, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9377198
    Abstract: A heat shield includes a panel having a forward face and an aft face, a circumferential outer side and a circumferential inner side such that the panel subtends a predetermined arc, and a first radially extending side and a second radially extending side each extending from the circumferential outer side to the circumferential inner side. The panel defines an opening extending between the forward face and the aft face, a lip projecting from the forward face and extending around the opening, a rail projecting from the forward face and extending around the lip to define a cavity region between the lip and the rail, and a plurality of holes in the cavity region. Each of the plurality of holes extends from the forward face to the aft face. A region of the panel extending from the lip to the circumferential outer side is free of any aft-projecting features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Jeffery Eastwood, Joey Wong, Robert M. Sonntag, Albert K. Cheung, Timothy S. Snyder
  • Patent number: 9341118
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component is disclosed having a construction that permits a working fluid to flow from one side of the component to the other. In one embodiment the construction includes multiple layers, and in one particular embodiment the construction includes three layers. One or more layers can have different properties. Additionally, one or more layers of the construction can include a cellular structure. In one embodiment the component is a gas turbine engine combustor liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Philip M. Bastnagel, Edward Claude Rice
  • Patent number: 9303872
    Abstract: A fuel injector is provided and includes a member defining a flowpath through which a first fluid flows, the flowpath having a cross-section with transverse elongate and short axes, a head defining a plenum storing a supply of a second fluid and a system fluidly coupled to the flowpath and the plenum to inject the second fluid from the plenum and into the flowpath at first and second locations along the elongate axis. The injected second fluid is formed into jets at the first and second locations, the first fluid entrains the jets such that the injected second fluid flows through the flowpath and mixes with the first fluid, and the short axis has a sufficient dimension such that the jets remain spaced from a sidewall of the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Mark Allan Hadley, Jun Cai, Lucas John Stoia, Geoffrey David Myers, Jayaprakash Natarajan
  • Patent number: 9249977
    Abstract: A combustor includes a combustion chamber and an acoustic liner, wherein through-holes through are formed in a wall of the combustion chamber, a plurality of rows of the through-holes is arranged in a lengthwise direction of the combustor, the through-holes of a first through-hole row are shifted with respect to the through-holes of a second through-hole row so that centers of the through-holes of the first and second through-hole rows adjacent each other are staggered in the circumferential direction, cooling grooves are formed so as to avoid the through-holes inside that is sandwiched between the outer peripheral surface and the inner peripheral surface of the combustion chamber, and the cooling grooves include transverse cooling grooves extending in the circumferential direction between rows of the through-holes, and longitudinal cooling grooves extending in the lengthwise direction between the through-holes and connecting the transverse cooling grooves adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Kimura, Satoshi Takiguchi, Keisuke Matsuyama, Satoshi Mizukami, Shinji Akamatsu, Kenji Sato, Hikaru Katano, Shigemi Mandai
  • Patent number: 9174309
    Abstract: A turbine component and a process of fabricating a component are disclosed. The process includes excavating a base metal of the component to form a fill region and filling the fill region with a filler metal. The filler metal has a filler metal elongation that is at least 25% greater than a base metal elongation of the base metal. The filler includes, by weight, between about 4% and about 7% iron, between about 14% and about 17% chromium, between about 15% and about 17% molybdenum, between about 3% and about 5% tungsten, up to about 0.02% carbon, up to about 1% manganese, up to about 2.5% cobalt, and a balance of nickel and/or the filler metal elongation is greater than about 35% in/in per two inches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric Eicher McConnell, Stephen Gerard Pope, Bill Damon Johnston, John Gregory Obeirne
  • Patent number: 9038395
    Abstract: A combustor for a turbine engine is provided. The combustor includes a first liner and a second liner forming a combustion chamber with the first liner, the combustion chamber configured to receive an air-fuel mixture for combustion therein. The first liner defining an air admission hole for directing a first jet of pressurized air into the combustion chamber, and the air admission hole may have a non-circular shape. The combustor further includes an insert positioned within the air admission hole to guide the first jet through the air admission hole and into the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Nagaraja S. Rudrapatna, Philip Smalley, Lowell Frye, William Landram
  • Publication number: 20150128602
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a combustion chamber heat-shielding element of a gas-turbine, having a bolt for mounting the combustion chamber heat-shielding element on a combustion chamber wall or a combustion chamber head, where the combustion chamber heat-shielding element is designed substantially plate-like and where on one side at least one bolt, which is designed as a separate component, is anchored on it by means of a bonded connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventor: Carsten CLEMEN
  • Publication number: 20150121885
    Abstract: There is provided a gas turbine combustor that achieves improved product reliability and a reduced increase in pressure loss through improvements made on a cooling characteristic and structural intensity. A gas turbine combustor structure includes a plurality of circularity recesses 20 formed on a side of an annular passage 11 on a partial area of a combustion liner 8 that requires cooling. The circularity recesses 20 each have a rectangular surface 25 forming a convex at a right angle with respect to a flowing direction of combustion air 2. The circularity recesses 20 is a rectangular triangle having an oblique surface 26 facing upstream of the flowing direction of the combustion air 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Osami YOKOTA, Masataka HIDAKA, Shohei NUMATA, Tetsuma TATSUMI
  • Patent number: 9010123
    Abstract: A combustor for a turbine engine is provided. The combustor includes a first liner having a first hot side and a first cold side; a second liner having a second hot side and a second cold side, the second hot side and the first hot side forming a combustion chamber therebetween, the combustion chamber configured to receive an air-fuel mixture for combustion therein; and an insert including a body portion extending through the first liner, a shoulder circumscribing the body portion and abutting the first hot side, and an inlet portion coupled to the body portion and abutting the first cold side such that the inlet portion and the shoulder capture the second liner therebetween to retain the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Nagaraja S. Rudrapatna, Daniel Ludwig, Art Payne, Philip Smalley, Richard Bishop
  • Patent number: 9010124
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine combustion chamber includes a first wall and a second wall. The second wall is arranged within and spaced from the first wall to define a cavity between the first wall and the second wall. The first wall has a plurality of impingement apertures extending there-through and the second wall has a plurality of effusion apertures extending there-through. The impingement apertures have a first diameter, a first pitch, and a first area. The effusion apertures have a second diameter, a second pitch, and a second area. The ratio of the first diameter to the second diameter is at least 3, the ratio of the first pitch to the second pitch is at least 4 and the ratio of the first area to the second area is at least 9. This arrangement increases the cooling performance of the effusion apertures in the second wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Paul I. Chandler, Anthony Pidcock
  • Patent number: 9010122
    Abstract: A turbine engine assembly includes a combustor and a stator vane arrangement having a plurality of stator vanes. The combustor includes a combustor wall that extends axially from a combustor bulkhead to a distal combustor wall end, which is located adjacent to the stator vane arrangement. The combustor wall includes a support shell with a plurality of impingement apertures, and a heat shield with a plurality of effusion apertures. The combustor wall end includes a plurality of circumferentially extending film cooled regions. At least one of the film cooled regions is circumferentially aligned with one of the stator vanes and includes a cooling aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: James P. Bangerter, Dennis J. Duhamel, Robert M. Sonntag, Reza Rezvani
  • Patent number: 9010127
    Abstract: A transition piece aft frame assembly is provided, and includes a transition piece aft frame and a heat shield. The transition piece aft frame has an aft face. At least a portion of the aft face is exposed to an exhaust gas stream. The heat shield is connected to the transition piece aft frame. The heat shield is oriented to generally deflect the exhaust gas stream away from the aft face of the transition piece aft frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher Paul Willis, William Lawrence Byrne, David William Cihlar, Donald Timothy Lemon, Patrick Benedict Melton
  • Publication number: 20150101335
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustion chamber with an inner housing and an outer housing the inner housing having an inner wall element with a first hole arrangement and a second hole arrangement is provided. The inner wall element envelopes a burner volume. The first hole arrangement has first holes arranged in a first areal density, the second hole arrangement has second holes arranged in a second areal density. The outer housing has an outer wall element with a further first hole arrangement and a further second hole arrangement. The outer wall element of the outer housing envelops the inner wall element of the inner housing so that a gap in between is formed. The further first hole arrangement has further first holes arranged in a further first areal density, the further second hole arrangement has further second holes arranged in a further second areal density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Charith Jayatunga
  • Patent number: 9003800
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor is provided with a combustor basket where combustion gas flows, the combustion gas being produced by combustion of fuel injected from a nozzle, and a first resonance device and a second resonance device mounted on an outer surface of the combustor basket. The second resonance device is disposed on a downstream side from the first resonance device in a flow of the combustion gas and damps combustion oscillation of a frequency higher than the first resonance device. The first and second resonance devices are acoustic liners each having a housing mounted to the outer surface of the combustor basket. A resonance space surrounded by the housing and the outer surface of the combustor basket communicates with an interior space of the combustor basket via a plurality of acoustic holes formed in the combustor basket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Akamatsu, Hiroaki Kishida, Kenji Sato, Kentaro Tokuyama, Keisuke Matsuyama, Takayoshi Takashima