Pratt-whitney Canada Corp

Nicholas Grivas

Michael Leslie Clyde Papple

Toufik Djeridane

Benoit Douville

Jean Chamoun

An apparatus for retaining blade to a rotor disc of turbine engines includes a positioning member integrally for stopping the root of the blade when sliding into an attachment slot of the rotor disc, and a locking apparatus for retaining the root of the blade in the attachment slots.

Turbine blade retaining apparatus

An internally cooled turbine blade including at least one deflector extending into an air cavity generally from a first wall towards a second wall for diverting cooling air away from the first wall and generally towards the second wall to thereby improve cooling flow distribution among a plurality of cooling path inlets.

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Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada

Nicholas Grivas