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Patent No.:

US 10030538 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 05, 2015

Gas turbine engine with a vane having a cooling air turning nozzle

Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventors:

Wilhelm Ramon Hernandez, Portland, OR (US);

Daniel Edward Demers, Ipswich, MA (US);

Tyler Frederick Hooper, Amesbury, MA (US);

Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Milton Mills, NH (US);

Troy Todd Dennis, Peabody, MA (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorneys:

General Electric Company

William Andes

Primary Examiner:

Logan Kraft

Assistant Examiner:

Jason Fountain

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 5/14 (2006.01); F01D 25/12 (2006.01); F01D 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 25/12 (2013.01); F01D 9/041 (2013.01); F05D 2220/32 (2013.01); F05D 2240/125 (2013.01); F05D 2250/52 (2013.01); F05D 2250/71 (2013.01); F05D 2260/201 (2013.01); F05D 2260/22141 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus and method of cooling a hot portion of a gas turbine engine, such as a rotor disk, by having a vane assembly with a cooling air passage and a flow control insert located within the cooling air passage defining a conduit. A turning nozzle is mounted to the vane and has a turning passage with an inlet and an outlet, the turning nozzle is fluidly coupled to the flow control insert outlet.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Hernandez, Wilhelm. (2018). Gas turbine engine with a vane having a cooling air turning nozzle (U.S. Patent No. 10030538). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10030538

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