General Electric Company

Michael Alan Meade

Ronald Scott Bunker

Robert Proctor

Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni

Byron Andrew Pritchard

Robert David Briggs

Gulcharan Singh Brainch

Curtis Walton Stover

Satoshi Atsuchi

Jonathan Michael Rausch

Gas turbine engine components are provided which utilize an insert to provide cooling air along a cooled surface of an engine component. The insert provides cooling holes or apertures which face the cool side surface of the engine component and direct cooling air onto that cool side surface. The apertures may be formed in arrays and directed at an oblique or a non-orthogonal angle to the surface of the insert and may be at an angle to the surface of the engine component being cooled. An engine component assembly is provided with counterflow impingement cooling, comprising an engine component cooling surface having a cooling fluid flow path on one side and a second component adjacent to the first component. The second component may have a plurality of openings forming an array wherein the openings extend through the second component at a non-orthogonal angle to the surface of the second component.

Engine components with impingement cooling features

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West Chester, OH, United States of America

Michael Alan Meade