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  • Patent number: 10480335
    Abstract: A compressor turbine includes a vane having an airfoil with a profile substantially in accordance with at least an intermediate portion of the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table 2. The X and Y values are distances, which when smoothly connected by an appropriate continuing curve, define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z. The profile sections at each distance Z are joined smoothly to one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventor: Constantinos Ravanis
  • Patent number: 6406260
    Abstract: A cooled airfoil has an internal cooling passage in which a plurality of trip strips are arranged to effect variable coolant flow and heat transfer coefficient distribution so as to advantageously minimize the amount of coolant flow required to adequately cool the airfoil structure. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by varying the dimensions of the trip strips along a transversal axis relative to the cooling passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Ricardo Trindade, Michael Papple, William Abdel-Messeh, Ian Tibbott
  • Patent number: 5711650
    Abstract: A cooling system for airfoil vanes in a turbine of a gas turbine engine wherein the airfoil platforms have openings downstream of the insert tube for passing spent platform impingement coolant air into the airfoil cavity downstream of the insert tube to increase the pressure in the aft zone of the airfoil to improve the temperature gradient across the span of the airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Tibbott, William Abdel-Messeh, Michael Papple
  • Patent number: 5779437
    Abstract: A cooling structure for the leading edge area of an airfoil having a plurality of passages wherein each passage has a radial component and a downstream component relative to the leading edge axis, and the outlet of each passage has a diffuser area formed by conical machining, wherein the diffuser area is recessed in the wall portion downstream of the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Inc.
    Inventors: William Abdel-Messeh, Ian Tibbott, Subhash Arora
  • Patent number: 8511969
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine has a mid turbine frame disposed between turbine rotor assemblies. The mid turbine frame includes hollow airfoils radially extending through an annular gas path duct. The airfoils each include a double-walled leading edge structure to define a front chamber separated from a rear chamber defined in the remaining space within the airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Eric Durocher, Nicolas Grivas
  • Patent number: 8371127
    Abstract: A mid turbine frame is disposed between high and low pressure turbine assemblies. A cooling air system defined in the mid turbine frame of a gas turbine engine includes internal cavities for containing pressurized cooling air to cool the inter-turbine duct and the hollow struts, and discharges the used cooling air to further cool respective high and low pressure turbine assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Eric Durocher, Pierre-Yves Legare
  • Patent number: 7374395
    Abstract: A turbine shroud assembly is configured to adequately adjust a distribution of cooling air flow such that air leakage between radial shroud legs of adjacent shroud segments is minimized, while permitting cooling air to leak between platforms of adjacent shroud segments in order to cool sides of the platforms thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Eric Durocher, Martin Clermont
  • Patent number: 10487661
    Abstract: A power turbine includes a first stage vane having an airfoil with a cold un-coated nominal profile substantially in accordance with at least an intermediate portion of the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table 2. The X and Y values are distances, which when smoothly connected by an appropriate continuing curve, define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z. The profile sections at each distance Z are joined smoothly to one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Krishan Mohan, Panagiota Tsifourdaris
  • Patent number: 10914193
    Abstract: A mid-turbine frame module comprises an outer structural ring, an inner structural ring and a plurality of circumferentially spaced-apart spokes structurally interconnecting the inner structural ring to the outer structural ring. The spokes are used as air feed pipe to provide cooling to different engine systems, such as an oil scupper line and a disc cavity of an adjacent turbine disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Guy Lefebvre, Remy Synnott
  • Patent number: 8453463
    Abstract: An anti-vortex device for use in a compressor rotor assembly of a gas turbine engine is described. Spaced-apart radial passageways extend from an axially extending passage provided in a central area of the device to an outer peripheral rim surface thereof. The radial passageways channel air from the primary gaspath about the rotor assembly to the axially extending passage where the air is directed into a central axial passage of the rotor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Daljit Singh Grewal, Alessandro Ciampa, Jean-Francois Caron
  • Patent number: 8944750
    Abstract: A turbine vane for a gas turbine engine with an airfoil portion including a perimeter wall having first, second, and third sets of cooling holes defined therethrough, including the holes numbered HA-1 to HA-13, HB-1 to HB-13 and PA-1 to PA-9, respectively, and located such that a central axis thereof extends through the respective point 1 and point 2 having a nominal location in accordance with the X, Y, Z Cartesian coordinate values set forth in Table 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Marc Tardif, Sri Sreekanth, Stephen Conway
  • Patent number: 10920612
    Abstract: A mid-turbine frame module comprises an outer structural ring, an inner structural ring and a plurality of circumferentially spaced-apart spokes structurally interconnecting the inner structural ring to the outer structural ring. At least one of the tubular spokes accommodates a service line. The remaining spokes with no service line have an internal architecture which mimics an air cooling scheme of the at least one spoke housing a service line in order to provide temperature uniformity across all spokes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Guy Lefebvre, Remy Synnott, John Pietrobon
  • Patent number: 10329915
    Abstract: A power turbine includes a first stage blade having an airfoil with a cold un-coated nominal profile substantially in accordance with at least an intermediate portion of the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table 2. The X and Y values are distances, which when smoothly connected by an appropriate continuing curve, define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z. The profile sections at each distance Z are joined smoothly to one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Krishan Mohan, Panagiota Tsifourdaris, Lorenzo Sanzari, Igal Acher Abenhaim, Anthony Pham
  • Patent number: 8784051
    Abstract: The strut is for use in a gas turbine engine has body, typically having an airfoil shape, having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The leading edge has at least one gas inlet in direct fluid communication with at least one outlet located in the trailing edge through which gas may be redirected from the leading edge to the trailing edge through the strut for injection back into a wake region downstream of the strut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Remo Marini, Edward Vlasic, Jonathon Peter Findlay
  • Patent number: 11598265
    Abstract: The gas turbine engine includes a casing assembly located proximate a turbine section of the gas turbine engine, and a tangential on-board injector (TOBI) having a body defining a plurality of air passages extending in a radial direction, the plurality of air passages circumferentially distributed and directing cooling air toward a turbine rotor of the turbine section of the gas turbine engine. An interference fit is provided between a face of the body and a face of a member of the casing assembly, the interference fit defining a fastener-free engagement between the bearing housing and the TOBI to prevent relative movement between the member of the casing and the TOBI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Christophe Tremblay, Franco Di Paola, Olivier Nadeau
  • Patent number: 8182204
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine is provided having an annular duct having an inner duct wall and an outer duct wall. At least one strut extends between the inner duct wall and the outer duct wall. The strut has an aerodynamic shape. At least one vane located circumferentially adjacent the strut and axially behind a leading edge of the strut, and an aerodynamic deflector located circumferentially between each strut and each vane. The aerodynamic deflector may positioned axially upstream of a flow separation point which would otherwise be caused by the strut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Eric Durocher, Mohamad Sleiman, Panagiota Tsifourdaris
  • Patent number: 7097418
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine vane assembly provides double impingement cooling of a vane platform. An impingement structure disposed adjacent the vane platform defines at least first and second plenums in fluid flow communication, respectively defined in part by the vane platform. The vane platform has first and second surfaces defined within the first and second plenums, and which are cooled by successive impingement of secondary cooling air flow through the impingement structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Ricardo Trindade, Dan Que Pham, Larry Lebel
  • Patent number: 11959389
    Abstract: A turbine shroud segment has a shroud body including a platform having forward and aft hooks extending from a radially outer surface of the platform for engagement with a shroud support structure of a turbine support case. A pin receiving hole is defined in the shroud body. An anti-rotation pin is engaged in the pin receiving hole. The anti-rotation pin projects outwardly from the pin receiving hole for engagement with a corresponding anti-rotation abutment on the shroud support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Jocelyn Bisson, Guy Lefebvre
  • Patent number: 8092153
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine has a plurality of radial struts in a bypass duct. At least one strut has a scoop incorporated with the fairing of the strut and in communication with an air passage of an engine secondary air system. The scoop faces a bypass air flow to scoop a portion of the bypass air flow using available dynamic pressure in the bypass duct. Scooped air may be provided, for example, to an active tip clearance control apparatus in a long duct turbofan engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Steven Strecker, Hong-Wei Hui
  • Patent number: 11085644
    Abstract: A cooling arrangement provides cooling around a dilution hole defined in a liner circumscribing a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine. The cooling arrangement comprises a hollow boss projecting from an outer surface of the liner about the dilution hole. The hollow boss defines an internal cavity extending circumferentially around the dilution hole. The internal cavity has an inlet in fluid flow communication with an air plenum surrounding the liner and an outlet in fluid flow communication with the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Michael Papple, Si-Man Amy Lao, Sri Sreekanth