General Electric Company

General Electric Technology Gmbh

Bradley Thomas Richards

Gary Michael Itzel

Curtis Alan Johnson

Andrew Philip Shapiro

Victor John Morgan

Jacob John Kittleson

James Albert Tallman

A component includes an outer wall that includes an exterior surface, and at least one plenum defined interiorly to the outer wall and configured to receive a cooling fluid therein. The component also includes a coating system disposed on the exterior surface. The coating system has a thickness. The component further includes a plurality of adaptive cooling openings defined in the outer wall. Each of the adaptive cooling openings extends from a first end inflow communication with the at least one plenum, outward through the exterior surface and to a second end covered underneath at least a portion of the thickness of the coating system.

Coated components having adaptive cooling openings and methods of making the same

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Carmel, IN, United States of America

Bradley Thomas Richards