General Electric Company

Zachary Daniel Webster

Gregory Terrence Garay

Daniel Endecott Osgood

Kirk Douglas Gallier

Tingfan Pang

Steven Robert Brassfield

Kevin Robert Feldmann

Aaron Ezekiel Smith

Ryan Christopher Jones

Daniel Lee Durstock

Jonathan Michael Rausch

Helen Ogbazion Gabregiorgish

Andrew David Perry

Douglas Ray Smith

Ronald Scott Bunker

Xi Yang

Ricardo Caraballo

Fernando Reiter

Nicholas William Rathay

Robert David Briggs

Craig Alan Gonyou

Curtis Walton Stover

Jason Randolph Allen

Robert Frederick Bergholz

Matthew Thomas Beyer

William Charles Herman

Marie Myers

Kurt Thomas Whittington

Kelli Marie Fishback

Nicholas Charles Gentilli

Thomas P Warburg

Zachary R Noeth

An airfoil assembly for a turbine engine which generates a hot fluid flow and provides a cooling fluid flow. The airfoil assembly includes a platform with radially spaced upper and lower walls, the platform extending between a platform leading edge and a platform trailing edge to define an axial direction and extending between a pair of slash faces, an airfoil having an airfoil wall extending radially between a root and a tip to define a span length, the platform wall extending from the airfoil wall proximate the root. A fillet extends between the heated surface and the airfoil wall and defines at least a portion of the root. The airfoil assembly further includes a set of film holes.

Airfoil assembly with platform film holes

A blade for a turbine engine with a wall separating a cooling fluid flow and a hot gas fluid flow and having a heated surface along which the hot gas fluid flow flows and a cooled surface facing the cooling fluid flow. A plurality of cooling holes each having a passage extending between an inlet at the cooled surface and an outlet at the heated surface. The outlet extending between an upstream end and a downstream end with respect to the hot gas fluid flow to define a distance, the passage defining a centerline forming a first angle (θ) with the heated surface.

Turbine engine with a blade

A turbine engine includes an engine core extending along an engine centerline and includes a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement. One or more blades in the compressor or turbine sections has an internal cooling conduit with at least one of a bend or a terminal end. A plurality of cooling holes are provided in the blade, with each hole having an inlet fluidly coupled to the cooling conduit and an outlet opening onto an exterior of the blade.

A gas turbine engine having a blade assembly with a platform, an airfoil, and a shank. The airfoil has a plurality of cooling conduits, and the shank has a plurality of inlet passages to provide cooling fluid to the cooling conduits in the airfoil. The cooling fluid is vented through a plurality of cooling holes along the trailing edge of the airfoil. The blade assembly has specific geometries that improve durability.

Turbine engine with a blade assembly having cooling conduits

A component for a turbine engine includes a body with an exterior surface abutting a combustion flowpath for a combustion gas flow through the turbine engine, a cooling passage defined within the body, and a trench on the exterior surface. The trench includes a plurality of outlets, and a plurality of cooling holes extending from the cooling passage to the corresponding plurality of outlets.

Turbomachine cooling trench

A component for a turbine engine comprises a wall having a first wall surface and a second wall surface; and a cooling hole comprising a connecting passage extending between an inlet at the first wall surface and an outlet located at the second wall surface. The connecting passage includes: a metering section extending from the inlet toward the outlet and defining a centerline, and a diffusing section at the outlet defining first and second side walls, a first junction between the first side wall and the metering section and a second junction between the second side wall the metering section, the first side wall extending between the first junction and the outlet, and the second side wall extending between the second junction and the outlet. A metering section distance is measured between the centerline and a metering section wall of the metering section.

Component for a turbine engine with a cooling hole

A casting core used in the manufacture of a cast engine component for a turbine engine, the cast engine component having a first area, a second area, a fluid passage wall separating the first area and the second area, and a connecting fluid passage extending through the fluid passage wall and interconnecting the first area and the second area. The connecting fluid passage having a turn with a radius (R). The casting core having a first core and a second core. The first core and the second core being defined by a set of geometric characteristics having a first minimum equivalent diameter (D1) of the first core and a second minimum equivalent diameter (D2) of the second core. A first flexible geometry factor (FGF1) being equal to:

Casting core for a cast engine component

An apparatus and method for an engine component for a turbine engine. The engine component having an outer wall defining an interior and extending between a root and a tip to define a radial direction, a tip wall spanning the first side and second sides to close the interior at the tip. A tip rail extending from the tip wall and having an inner tip rail surface, an outer tip rail surface extending from at least one of the first or the second side, and radially terminating in an upper tip rail surface connecting the inner tip rail surface and the outer tip rail surface. A tip rim formed in at least one of the outer surface or the inner tip rail surface and spaced from the upper tip rail surface in the radial direction, and multiple cooling passages formed in the outer wall and fluidly coupling the at least one cooling conduit to the tip rim at corresponding passage outlets.

Component with cooling passage for a turbine engine

An apparatus and method relating to a cooling hole of a component of a turbine engine. The cooling hole can extend from an inlet to an outlet to define a connecting passage. The cooling hole can contain a diffusing section. The diffusing section can be defined by an interior surface having variable geometries.

A turbine engine includes an engine core extending along an engine centerline and includes a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement. A temperature sensor is provided within the engine and configured to detect a gas temperature within the engine core. A set of blades is circumferentially arranged in the turbine section. A blade in the set of blades includes an outer wall bounding an interior, a cooling conduit within the interior, and a plurality of film holes fluidly coupled to the cooling conduit.

An airfoil for a turbine engine includes an outer wall bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side, the outer wall extending axially between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction, and also extending radially between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. At least one cooling conduit can be formed in the interior of the airfoil, and a tip rail can project from the tip in the span-wise direction.

Airfoil tip rail and method of cooling

A component for a gas turbine engine. The component includes a body. The body has an exterior surface abutting a flowpath for the flow of a hot combustion gas through the gas turbine engine. Further, the body defines a cooling passageway within the body to supply cool air to the component. The component includes a leading face and a trailing face defining a trench therebetween on the exterior surface. The body defines a plurality of cooling holes extending between the cooling passageway and a plurality of outlets defined in the trench such that the trench is fluidly coupled to the cooling passageway. Additionally, the leading face and trailing face are each tangent to at least one of the plurality of outlets. The trench directs the cool air along a contour of the component.

An airfoil for a turbine engine, comprising an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction, outlets on the exterior surface, and a cooling air supply conduit within the interior and having a supply passage.

Turbine engine airfoil

A component, such as for a turbine engine, can include an airfoil with an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. The component can also include at least one cooling passage within the interior.

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Zachary Daniel Webster