In An Axial Direction Patents (Class 60/757)
  • Patent number: 12234986
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a nested combustor liner includes manufacturing a nested combustor liner into a green state including a plurality of annular interior walls radially adjacent to one another and circumferentially surrounding an exhaust duct aperture and a plurality of annular exterior walls radially adjacent to one another and radially spaced apart from and circumferentially surrounding the plurality of annular interior walls and an ignitor wall attached to a first annular interior wall at a first interior end, extending radially toward and attached to a first annular exterior wall at a first exterior end. The method includes assembling the plurality of annular interior walls and the plurality of annular exterior walls, forming an assembled combustor liner. The method includes densifying the assembled combustor liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Binek, Jesse R. Boyer
  • Patent number: 12228286
    Abstract: A combustion section of a turbine engine having a primary combustion chamber and a secondary combustion chamber. The primary combustion chamber is defined, at least in part, by a combustor liner and a dome wall. A primary fuel nozzle having an outlet is located at the dome wall, wherein the outlet of the primary fuel nozzle is fluidly coupled with the primary combustion chamber. At least one opening located in an outer liner axially aft of the dome wall fluidly couples the secondary combustion chamber and the primary combustion chamber. A set of secondary fuel nozzles are fluidly coupled with the secondary combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pradeep Naik, Hiranya Kumar Nath, Perumallu Vukanti, Clayton S. Cooper, Steven C. Vise, Michael A. Benjamin, R Narasimha Chiranthan
  • Patent number: 12228076
    Abstract: A combustor panel is disclosed herein. The combustor panel includes a top side, a bottom side opposite the top side, a feature coupled to the top side and extending orthogonally away from the top side, the feature defining a first space on the bottom side beneath the feature, a first plurality of cooling holes extending in a first direction from the top side to the bottom side, a second plurality of cooling holes extending in a second direction from the top side to the bottom side, the second direction being rotated about 1° to about 60° counter-clockwise from the first direction, and a third plurality of cooling holes extending in a third direction from the top side to the bottom side, the third direction being about rotated 1° to about 60° clockwise from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy S Snyder, Roger O. Coffey, Lourdes M. Tafur Bermudez, Ryan Kimball Lundgreen, Dibesh D. Joshi
  • Patent number: 12163660
    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: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Rimple Rangrej, Saket Singh, Pradeep Naik, Ajoy Patra
  • Patent number: 12146660
    Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine, the gas turbine engine defining a longitudinal centerline extending in a longitudinal direction, a radial direction extending orthogonally outward from the longitudinal centerline, and a circumferential direction extending concentrically around the longitudinal centerline, the combustor including: a liner at least partially defining a combustion chamber, the liner further defining a gap; and an intermediate member disposed at least partially within the gap of the liner and in fluid communication with the combustion chamber, wherein the intermediate member is retained at a relatively fixed position with respect to the liner by a support extending between the intermediate member and a case of the gas turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Hiranya Kumar Nath, Daniel J. Kirtley, Shai Birmaher, Veeraraju Vanapalli, Karthikeyan Sampath, Deepak Ghiya, Perumallu Vukanti, Rajendra Mahadeorao Wankhade, Pradeep Naik
  • Patent number: 12085283
    Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine, the gas turbine engine defining a longitudinal centerline extending in a longitudinal direction, a radial direction extending orthogonally outward from the longitudinal centerline, and a circumferential direction extending concentrically around the longitudinal centerline, the combustor including: a forward liner segment; and an aft liner segment disposed downstream from the forward liner segment relative to a direction of flow through the combustor, the forward and aft liner segments at least partially defining a combustion chamber, wherein the forward and aft liner segments are coupled together at a moveable interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Hiranya Kumar Nath, Daniel J. Kirtley, Shai Birmaher, Veeraraju Vanapalli, Karthikeyan Sampath, Deepak Ghiya, Perumallu Vukanti, Rajendra Mahadeorao Wankhade, Pradeep Naik, Rimple Rakeshkumar Rangrej, Saket Singh
  • Patent number: 12085279
    Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a combustor liner with a wall defining a combustion chamber. The wall has an inner surface facing the combustion chamber and an outer surface across the wall from the inner surface. Fins are disposed on the outer surface. The wall defines air admission holes that extend through the wall from the outer surface to the inner surface. The wall also defines film cooling holes that extend through the wall from the outer surface to the inner surface. The fins are disposed in areas of the outer surface between the film cooling holes and the air admission holes to cool areas that would otherwise result in hot spots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Jon Anderson, Nagaraja Rudrapatna, Carlos Vallellanes, Atul Verma
  • Patent number: 12078351
    Abstract: A double wall for an aircraft gas turbine combustion chamber comprising an internal wall which is configured to be in contact with the combustion reaction, and an external wall which is at a distance from the internal wall, comprising a plurality of openings so as to allow the circulation of cooling air streams, outside the external wall, which cool the internal wall. The internal wall being free of perforations to prevent any circulation of a cooling air stream towards the centre of the combustion chamber. The the internal wall comprises a plurality of members projecting towards the external wall, each projecting member comprising a foot portion and a cylindrical head portion with a circular cross-section, the head portion extending into an opening with a circular cross-section so as to define a calibrated cross-sectional area between the projecting member and the opening, through which area a cooling air stream can flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Thomas Sébastien Alexandre Gresy, Jean-Paul Didier Autret, Nicolas Roland Guy Savary
  • Patent number: 12055299
    Abstract: A combustor includes: a combustion cylinder; and a combustion-chamber forming member disposed so as to be at least partially inserted into the combustion cylinder and forming a combustion chamber with the combustion cylinder. A radial-direction gap for introducing film air is formed between the combustion cylinder and the combustion-chamber forming member. A gas turbine includes a combustor; a compressor for generating compressed air; and a turbine configured to be rotary driven by combustion gas from the combustor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Fujita, Hikaru Kurosaki, Yuta Ishii
  • Patent number: 12055293
    Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine has a combustor liner including an upstream liner portion, and a downstream liner portion. The upstream liner portion includes an outer shell and a heat shield panel, with a baffle cavity therebetween. The outer shell includes an outer shell cooling opening for providing a flow of compressed air to the baffle cavity, and the heat shield panel includes a heat shield panel cooling opening at a downstream end of the heat shield panel. A fence is arranged at a downstream side of the heat shield panel cooling opening and extends beyond a hot side surface of the heat shield panel into a combustion chamber. The heat shield panel cooling opening provides a flow of the compressed air therethrough from the baffle cavity for cooling of the heat shield panel and for providing at least partial dilution of combustion gases within the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Perumallu Vukanti, Karthikeyan Sampath, Pradeep Naik, Ranganatha Narasimha Chiranthan, Rimple Rangrej, Hiranya Nath, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger
  • Patent number: 12025023
    Abstract: One or more cooling systems for ventilating a turbine and rotary shaft of a gas turbine system is provided. The gas turbine system includes a gas turbine engine and a turbine exhaust collector in separate enclosures. A first cooling system includes an educator that sucks exhaust gas through a diffuser and directs it out of the turbine exhaust collector enclosure based on suction pressure created from the high velocity of exhaust gas. A second cooling system include struts that enable the exhaust gas to flow from the diffusers to a ventilation flow stack. A third cooling system includes exhaust gas sucked from an opening to a top duct based on suction pressure created from the rotation of the rotary shaft disposed about a coupling. A guideway associated with the third cooling system also directs the exhaust gas to flow to the top duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Ravinder Yerram, Balakrishnan Ponnuraj, Vineet Sethi, Jose Emmanuel Guillen, Tho Vankhanh Nguyen, Douglas Alan Jones, Abhinash Reddy Konatham
  • Patent number: 12018840
    Abstract: A combustor arrangement includes a fuel injector, and a seal arranged around the fuel injector and having an upstream end and a downstream end. The seal includes an annular body at least partially abutting the fuel injector. The annular body includes an inner surface facing the fuel injector and an outer surface radially spaced apart from the inner surface relative to the central axis. The annular body further includes a plurality of slots disposed on the inner surface and circumferentially spaced apart from each other relative to the central axis. Each slot axially extends at least partially from the downstream end to the upstream end. Each slot is disposed in fluid contact with the fuel injector. The seal also includes a flange radially extending from the outer surface of the annular body at the upstream end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventors: Damian Martin, James E Clissold
  • Patent number: 11994294
    Abstract: A combustor includes a skeleton mesh structure having a plurality of structural elements configured to mesh together to form the skeleton mesh structure, each of the plurality of structural elements including a frame and, a plurality of louvers connected to the frame. The combustor also includes an inner liner mounted to the skeleton mesh structure to define a combustion chamber. The inner liner includes a plurality of inner planks mounted to the skeleton mesh structure, each of the plurality of inner planks being mounted to a corresponding one of the plurality of structural elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Hiranya Nath, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Sripathi Mohan
  • Patent number: 11971171
    Abstract: A pilot cone for use in a burner arrangement having a pilot burner includes a casing which widens downstream along a burner axis and has a plurality of cooling air passages passing through it; an inner wall which extends upstream starting from the upstream end of the casing; an annular gap which runs along the inner wall on the radially outer side; and a plurality of cooling air openings which establish a connection between the annular gap and the cooling air passages. Another wall extends upstream at a distance from the inner wall starting from the casing and delimits the annular gap on the radially outer side, the inner wall having a plurality of holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Beck, Jürgen Meisl, Stefan Reich, Sabrina Isolde Siebelist, Christopher Grandt, Benjamin Witzel
  • Patent number: 11940150
    Abstract: A combustion chamber assembly includes a through hole on the combustion chamber wall bounded on an outer side of the wall by a hole edge and a combustion chamber shingle having a collar bounding a mixing air hole on the outer side of the wall and protruding with a first collar portion beyond the hole edge on the outer side of the wall. A cooling air opening is formed on an inner circumferential surface of a duct portion of the mixing air hole adjoining the first collar portion and extending in the direction of a combustion space, the cooling air opening leading into a cooling air duct which extends through the duct portion and via which cooling air is guided out of the mixing air hole in a direction of a hot side of the shingle facing the combustion space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG, ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventors: Matthew Thomson, Romek Ott, Igor Sikorski, Sabina Heyen
  • Patent number: 11939889
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an engine component having a cooling duct arrangement which has a plurality of cooling ducts, each having an inflow opening, the inflow openings being arranged according to a predefined pattern in an inflow surface of the engine component, and each cooling duct opening into a recess in a wall of the engine component, along which wall a cooling film is to be formed. According to the invention, the pattern is formed in at least one subregion of defined size of the inflow surface, from a plurality of identical isosceles triangles, which are defined by a minimum spacing (k) and by a mean diameter (a) of the inflow openings correlating to the minimum spacing (k). This procedure reduces the complexity of the design process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Kay Heinze, Michael Ebel
  • Patent number: 11933221
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine including a core having a compressor section fluidly connected to a combustor via a primary flowpath and a turbine section connected to the combustor via the core flow path. An assembly is disposed within the gas turbine engine and includes a first part connected to a second part via a radial stack joint. The first part includes a radially inward facing surface contacting a corresponding radially outward facing surface of the second part. A fastener protrudes through the first part and the second part and is configured to maintain the relative positions of the first part and the second part. A channel is disposed on at least one of the radially inward facing surfaces and is positioned between the fastener and a circumferential edge of the first part. The channel is connected to at least one cooling air source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: RTX Corporation
    Inventors: Corey D. Anderson, Edward Boucher, Rebecca R. Dunnigan, Nicholas Broulidakis, Matthew Murakami, Daniel R. Brandt, Konrad Kuc, Victoria M. Imlach, Sushruth G. Kamath, Manuel A. Casares Rivas, Eric G. Leamon, Adam Castles, Edmond Cheung, Kyra A. Thole-Wilson, Javier Nebero Johnson
  • Patent number: 11920486
    Abstract: A high-temperature component according to an embodiment is a high-temperature component which requires to be cooled by a cooling medium, and includes: a plurality of cooling passages through which the cooling medium is able to flow; and a first partition wall disposed inside each of the cooling passages to partition the cooling passage into a plurality of first branch flow passages. The first partition wall includes an oblique portion formed such that, in an upstream side region of the first partition wall, a flow-passage cross-sectional area of the cooling passage as seen in an extension direction of the cooling passage gradually decreases from an upstream side toward a downstream side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichiro Iida, Yoshinori Wakita, Taro Tokutake, Shuji Tanigawa, Ryuta Ito
  • Patent number: 11879359
    Abstract: Provided is a transition piece including a first flow path group formed by arraying a plurality of in-wall flow paths that extend inside a plate material forming the transition piece and a second flow path group that is positioned on a side closer to a combustor liner than the first flow path group is. Each in-wall flow path in the first flow path group and the second flow path group has an inlet that is located at one end section in a flow direction of a combustion gas and that faces a compressed air main flow path, and an outlet that is located at the other end section in the flow direction of the combustion gas and that faces a combustion gas flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nagahashi, Yoshitaka Terada, Shohei Numata
  • Patent number: 11859824
    Abstract: A combustor including a skeleton structure. The combustor further includes at least one liner operably coupled to the skeleton structure to at least partially define a combustion chamber, and a plurality of first planks mounted to a first side of the at least one liner and a plurality of second planks mounted to a second side of the at least one liner. The combustor also includes at least one dilution hole structure provided with a portion of the skeleton structure, and including at least one dilution hole configured to allow fluid to pass therethrough into the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Hiranya Nath
  • Patent number: 11846420
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for a turbomachine including an annular casing delimiting an inner volume of the combustion chamber and provided with a chimney extending to the outside of the inner volume and delimiting a passage for a penetrating part, and a bushing mounted floating on the chimney, further includes: a main air collection chamber open to the upstream arranged facing the downstream portion of the chimney; and a through-opening of the annular casing, connecting the inner volume to the main air collection chamber. The air collected by the main air collection chamber is injected into the inner volume via the through-opening and can cool an annular casing zone downstream of the chimney.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Julien Marc Matthieu Leparoux, Christophe Pieussergues
  • Patent number: 11795876
    Abstract: An outlet seal connects a combustor that combusts a fuel to generate combustion gas and a shroud for a stator. The outlet seal has a gas path surface, a first connection section, and a second connection section. The shape of the gas path surface in a cross section perpendicular to an axis is an arc centered on the axis. The first connection section is formed at a first side in an axial direction and is connected to the combustor. The second connection section is formed at a second side in the axial direction and is connected to the shroud. The gas path surface has an inclined surface that is inclined with respect to the axis in a cross section including the axis, such that the flow-path area of a combustion-gas flow path is reduced toward the second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Kiyoshi Fujimoto, Norihiko Motoyama, Akihiro Murakami
  • Patent number: 11719162
    Abstract: An embodiment of a torch igniter for a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a combustion chamber oriented about an axis, a cap defining the axially upstream end of the combustion chamber and situated on the axis, a tip defining the axially downstream end of the combustion chamber, an igniter wall extending from the cap to the tip and defining a radial extent of the combustion chamber, a structural wall coaxial with and surrounding the igniter wall, an outlet passage defined by the igniter wall within the tip, wherein the outlet passage fluidly connects the combustion chamber to the combustor of the gas turbine engine, and a cooling system. The cooling system has an air inlet, a cooling channel, and an aperture. The cooling channel forms a flow path having a first axial section, a second axial section, a radially inward section, and a radially outward section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Delavan, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Ryon, Lev Alexander Prociw
  • Patent number: 11525401
    Abstract: An impingement baffle for directing a cooling fluid onto a target surface includes a baffle body having a first end opposite a second end, and a first side opposite a second side. The second side is spaced a distance apart from the target surface, with the distance varying from the first end to the second end. The baffle body defines impingement holes that extend through the baffle body from the first side to the second side. The impingement holes are spaced apart along the baffle body to receive the cooling fluid. The impingement baffle includes tubular extensions coupled to the second side. Each tubular extension is in fluid communication with a respective one of the impingement holes to direct the cooling fluid onto the target surface. Each tubular extension extends for a length from the second side, and the length of each tubular extension is based on the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Mark Morris, Blake Petersen, Jason Smoke
  • Patent number: 11486301
    Abstract: To suppress separation of air flows in air holes that are positioned in the outermost circumferential row in an air hole plate, but are far from a turn guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Miura, Shohei Uramoto, Tomoya Murota, Yuki Kamikawa, Shingo Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11486578
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a gas turbine engine. This assembly includes a multi-walled structure including a cold wall, a hot wall and a cooling cavity vertically between the cold wall and the hot wall. The cold wall includes a plurality of cold wall apertures fluidly coupled with the cooling cavity. The cold wall apertures are configured to subject the cold wall to a cold wall pressure drop vertically across the cold wall. The hot wall includes a plurality of hot wall apertures fluid coupled with the cooling cavity. The hot wall apertures are configured to subject the hot wall to a hot wall pressure drop vertically across the hot wall that is greater than or equal to the cold wall pressure drop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Zhongtao Dai, Won-Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 11408302
    Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine includes an outer surface bounding a hot gas path of the gas turbine engine, and a cooling passage configured to deliver a cooling airflow therethrough. The cooling passage includes a passage wall located opposite the outer surface to define a component thickness and a plurality of protrusions located along the passage wall. Each protrusion has a protrusion height extending from the passage wall and a protrusion streamwise width extending along the passage wall in a flow direction of the cooling airflow through the cooling passage. One or more cooling holes extend from the passage wall to the outer surface. A cooling hole inlet of a cooling hole is located at the passage wall, in a protrusion wake region downstream of a protrusion of the plurality of protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Carey Clum, Dominic J. Mongillo, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11320146
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This turbine engine assembly includes a combustor wall including a shell and a heat shield. The combustor wall defines first and second cavities between the shell and the heat shield. The heat shield defines a first outlet and an elongated second outlet. The first outlet is fluidly coupled with the first cavity. The second outlet is fluidly coupled with the second cavity. The combustor wall defines one of the cavities with a tapered geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Frank J. Cunha, Stanislav Kostka, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11306659
    Abstract: An effusion cooling hole for a component associated with a gas turbine engine extends along a longitudinal axis. The effusion cooling hole includes an inlet section spaced apart from a first surface of the component. The inlet section includes a face orientated transverse to the first surface and defines an inlet through the face that has a first diameter. The effusion cooling hole includes an outlet at a second surface of the component and downstream from the inlet section. The effusion cooling hole includes a diverging section downstream from the inlet section and upstream from the outlet. The diverging section is defined substantially external to a thickness of the component, and the effusion cooling hole transitions from the first diameter to a second diameter at the diverging section. The effusion cooling hole includes an intermediate section that fluidly connects the diverging section to the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Rodolphe Dudebout, Nagaraja Rudrapatna
  • Patent number: 11268696
    Abstract: A combustor for use in a gas turbine engine comprising: an outward shell; an inward shell located radially inward of the outward shell, the inward shell and the outward shell defining a combustion chamber therebetween; an aft outward panel located proximate the outward shell, the aft outward panel extending from an aft end of the combustion chamber to an outward panel joint; an aft inward panel located proximate the inward shell, the aft inward panel extending from the aft end of the combustion chamber to an inward panel joint; and a forward panel located proximate a forward end of the combustion chamber, the forward panel comprising: an outward wall located proximate the outward shell; an inward wall located proximate the inward shell; and a forward wall located proximate the forward end of the combustion chamber, the forward wall extending from the inward wall to the outward wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gary J. Dillard, Assaf Farah
  • Patent number: 11261794
    Abstract: An acoustic device includes: a perforated plate that has a plurality of holes penetrating in a plate thickness direction of the perforated plate and in which a main flow is to flow on a first side of the perforated plate in the plate thickness direction; and a housing that is on a second side of the perforated plate in the plate thickness direction and partitions a space between the housing and the perforated plate, wherein a part of each of the plurality of holes on the first side in the thickness direction is inclined to at least one of the first side and a second side of a flow direction of the main flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Matsuyama, Shinji Akamatsu, Taiki Kinoshita, Kenta Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11255547
    Abstract: A combustor liner panel attachment assembly includes a liner extending from a first end to a second end, and circumferentially to partially define a combustion zone. The assembly also includes a spring element located adjacent to a portion of the liner and operatively coupled to a stationary structure, the spring element having a recessed segment. The assembly further includes a protrusion feature extending radially outwardly from the liner, the protrusion feature disposed within the recessed segment of the spring element to axially retain the liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kevin W. White, Stephen K. Kramer
  • Patent number: 11199329
    Abstract: A combustor liner panel attachment assembly includes a liner extending from a first end to a second end, and circumferentially to partially define a combustion zone. The assembly also includes a spring element located adjacent to a portion of the liner and operatively coupled to a stationary structure, the spring element having a recessed segment. The assembly further includes a protrusion feature extending radially outwardly from the liner, the protrusion feature disposed within the recessed segment of the spring element to axially retain the liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kevin W. White, Stephen K. Kramer
  • Patent number: 11193672
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This turbine engine assembly includes a combustor wall. The combustor wall includes a shell, a heat shield and an annular body. The annular body extends through the combustor wall and at least partially defines a quench aperture along a centerline through the combustor wall. The shell defines a first cooling aperture radially outwards of the annular body relative to the centerline and is configured to direct air to impinge against a portion of the annular body between the heat shield and the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Frank J. Cunha, Stanislav Kostka, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11022068
    Abstract: A monolithic heater body may include a combustor body, a hot-side heat exchanger body, and an eductor body. The combustor body may define a combustion chamber and a conditioning conduit circumferentially surrounding the combustion chamber. The conditioning conduit may fluidly communicate with the combustion chamber at a distal portion of the combustion chamber. The hot-side heat exchanger body may define a hot-side heat exchanger that includes a heating fluid pathway fluidly communicating with a proximal portion of the combustion chamber. The eductor body may define an eduction pathway fluidly communicating with a downstream portion of the heating fluid pathway and a proximal portion of the conditioning conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Joshua Tyler Mook, Kevin Michael VandeVoorde, Aigbedion Akwara, Michael Robert Notarnicola, Jason Joseph Bellardi, Mohammed El Hacin Sennoun, Mohamed Osama, Zachary William Nagel
  • Patent number: 11022313
    Abstract: A rich-quench-lean combustor assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a liner extending between a forward end and an aft end. The liner includes a plurality of quench air jets positioned between the forward end and the aft end. The combustor assembly additionally includes a dome attached to or formed integrally with the liner, the dome and the liner together defining at least in part a combustion chamber. A fuel nozzle is attached to the dome, the fuel nozzle configured as a premix fuel nozzle for providing a substantially homogenous mixture of fuel and air to the combustion chamber, the mixture of fuel and air having an equivalence ratio of at least 1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gregory Allen Boardman, Pradeep Naik, Allen Michael Danis
  • Patent number: 11022308
    Abstract: A combustor for a turbine engine includes a first liner and a second liner forming a combustion chamber with the first liner. The combustion chamber is configured to receive an air-fuel mixture for combustion therein. The first liner is a first double wall liner with a first wall forming a portion of the combustion chamber and a second wall extending around at least a portion of the first wall to form a liner cavity with the first wall. The first wall defines a first wall orifice and the second wall defines a second wall orifice. The combustor further includes a first insert mounted on the second wall within the second wall orifice and extending through the first wall orifice. The first insert is configured to direct a first air jet through the second wall, through the first wall, and into the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Nagaraja S. Rudrapatna, Ian Critchley, Jeffrey Spencer, Philip Smalley
  • Patent number: 11022307
    Abstract: A heat shield panel for use in a gas turbine engine combustor is disclosed. In various embodiments, the heat shield panel includes a hot side, a cold side spaced from the hot side, a rail member disposed on the cold side proximate an outer perimeter, the rail member having an outer wall and an inner wall and an orifice extending through the rail member, from the inner wall to the outer wall, the orifice having an entrance portion having an entrance opening positioned on the inner wall and extending at least to an intermediate portion of the rail member and an exit portion having an exit opening positioned on the outer wall and extending at least to the intermediate portion of the rail member, the entrance portion of the orifice being angled relative to the exit portion of the orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jon E Sobanski, Steven D Porter
  • Patent number: 10995956
    Abstract: A combustor (3) includes: a fuel nozzle configured to inject fuel; a tubular body (24) having a tubular shape in which a combustion region through which combustion gas flows is formed inside, and in which a plurality of slits (50) are formed extending in the circumferential direction at intervals in the circumferential direction; and throttle pieces (60) which are fitted into the slits (50), project radially inward from the inner circumferential side of the tubular body (24), and have a throttle face that extends along the flow direction of the combustion gas as it extends from the radially outer side inward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Shuhei Kajimura, Kenji Miyamoto, Taiki Kinoshita, Kotaro Miyauchi
  • Patent number: 10995635
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component assembly is provided. The gas turbine engine comprises: a first component having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a second component having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface of the first component and the second surface of the second component defining cooling channel therebetween in fluid communication with the cooling hole for cooling the second surface of the second component; and a particulate mitigation device extending from the first surface of the second component a selected distance wherein the particulate mitigation device has an opening therethrough in fluid connection with the cooling channel, and wherein the selected distance is selected to reduce the amount of particulate entering the cooling channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Scott H. Lamson
  • Patent number: 10961910
    Abstract: In a combustion cylinder, an outer-side region of a cooling part on an outer side with regard to a reference line orthogonal to a radial direction and an axial direction of a gas turbine and passing through a center of a combustor basket, and an inner-side region of the cooling part on an inner side with regard to the reference line are set. A connection angle at an intersection between an extension line of an outer surface of the combustor basket along the axial direction and an inner surface of a combustor transition piece is set. First regions are set at positions near the reference line, and second regions, with a larger connection angle than the first regions, are set at positions farther from the reference line than the first regions. The second regions are set to have a higher flow rate of a cooling medium than the first regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Kentaro Tokuyama
  • Patent number: 10941943
    Abstract: An assembly for a turbomachine combustion chamber, including a boss for turbomachine combustion chamber, including a tubular body configured to be inserted in a receiving orifice formed in an annular wall of a flame tube and to accommodate a shank of a connecting pin for connecting the flame tube to an external casing, a first end of the boss including an annular flange configured to prevent radial translational movement of the boss in a first direction, and a second end of the boss being configured to be crimped to the wall of the flame tube so as to prevent radial translational movement of the boss in a second direction, and an annular element configured to fit coaxially with the receiving orifice and in radial contact with the annular wall of the flame tube on the one hand and with the annular flange of the boss on the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Ludovic Andre Joel Naudot, Philippe Olharan, Jean Menet-Haure
  • Patent number: 10837646
    Abstract: A combustion chamber shingle arrangement of a gas turbine, including a combustion chamber shingle, at least one threaded bolt configured for attaching the combustion chamber shingle, and a base body connecting the threaded bolt to the combustion chamber shingle, wherein the base body comprises a platform and a connection area that connects the platform to the combustion chamber shingle, wherein the threaded bolt is arranged at the platform, and wherein a hollow space is embodied between the platform and the combustion chamber shingle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Carsten Clemen, Michael Ebel, Kay Heinze, Stefan Penz
  • Patent number: 10823414
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component assembly including: a first component having a first surface and second surface opposite the first surface, the first component includes a cooling hole extending from second surface to first surface; a second component having a first surface and second surface, the first surface of first component and second surface of second component defining a cooling channel therebetween in fluid communication with the cooling hole for cooling second surface of second component; and an aperture extension feature in the second component and extending into cooling channel, the aperture extension feature includes a passageway fluidly connecting cooling channel to an area located proximate to the first surface of second component, the aperture extension feature includes a face and inlet located in the first face to fluidly connect passageway to cooling channel, the first face being oriented between 0° and 120° relative to second surface of second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Scott H. Lamson
  • Patent number: 10815789
    Abstract: An apparatus for an impingement hole for an engine component of a gas turbine engine includes an impingement baffle. The impingement baffle is spaced from an impingement surface and includes a plurality of impingement holes for providing an impingement flow to the impingement surface. The impingement holes can have an angled upstream edge such that an inlet has a greater cross-sectional area than an outlet. The walls of the impingement holes can have a hood to provide a higher shear flow content to minimize dust accumulation on the impingement surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ronald Scott Bunker, Jason Randolph Allen
  • Patent number: 10808930
    Abstract: A combustor shell is provided. The combustor shell may include a first aperture at least partially defined by an inner wall of the combustor shell and passing from a diffuser-facing side of the combustor shell to a combustor-facing side of the combustor shell. The combustor shell may include a spacer comprising a first segment coupled to a first flange, wherein the first flange is disposed on the diffuser-facing side of the combustor shell, wherein an outer wall of the spacer is coupled with at least a portion of an inner wall of the combustor shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Kevin W. Schlichting
  • Patent number: 10794595
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This turbine engine assembly includes a combustor wall with a shell and a heat shield. The combustor wall defines a quench aperture therethrough. The combustor wall also defines a cavity between the shell and the heat shield. The shell defines a first aperture through which air is directed into the cavity. The heat shield includes a rail that at least partially defines a second aperture configured to direct at least some of the air within the cavity out of the combustor wall and towards the quench aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Randal G. McKinney, Frank J. Cunha, Stanislav Kostka, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10782024
    Abstract: A combustion duct assembly for a gas turbine includes a liner, an annular spring seal and a transition piece. The annular spring seal is outwardly convex and coupled to an outer face of the downstream side of the liner. The transition piece has includes an inner wall and an outer wall that surrounds the inner wall. The convex part of annular spring seal is operable to elastically engage the inner wall of the transition piece. An end portion of the downstream side of the annular spring seal is fixed to the line. The annular spring seal includes a plurality of through holes formed in an upstream side of a point where the annular spring seal comes into contact with the inner wall. The liner includes a plurality of vent holes formed in an inner area surrounded by the spring seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Doosan Heavy Industries Construction Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Heon Seop Jin
  • Patent number: 10767490
    Abstract: Components for gas turbine engines and methods of making the same, the components including a component body having an external side wall and an internal side wall and defining at least a first cooling cavity and a second cooling cavity between the external side wall and the internal side wall, at least one segmented rib extending within the component body and separating the first cooling cavity from the second cooling cavity, wherein the first and second cooling cavities, the at least one segmented rib comprising at least two rib segments separated by a segment gap, and a discharge hole formed in the external side wall fluidly connected the segment gap to an exterior surface of the component body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Carey Clum, Dominic J. Mongillo, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10670270
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustion chamber with an inner combustion chamber wall and an outer combustion chamber wall, which form an annular combustor, is provided. Mixing air holes are formed in the inner combustion chamber wall and the outer combustion chamber wall in a circumferentially distributed manner. The respective combustion chamber wall is bulged in the area of the mixing air holes towards the interior space of the combustion chamber wall and the mixing air hole is arranged inside the bulge. The mixing air hole is formed at an inflow surface of the bulge with respect to the through-flow direction of the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Carsten Clemen