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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2020
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
David A. Niezelski, Manchester, CT (US);
Timothy J. Jennings, West Hartford, CT (US);
Bret M. Teller, Meriden, CT (US);
John McBrien, Nashua, NH (US);
Thomas N. Slavens, Norman, OK (US);
RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
Airfoils for gas turbine engines are described. The airfoils include an airfoil body extending between a platform and a tip, the airfoil body having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure side, and a suction side, a serpentine cavity formed within the airfoil body and having an up-pass serpentine cavity, a down-pass serpentine cavity, and a trailing edge cavity, and a dead-end tip flag cavity extending in a direction between the leading edge and the trailing edge, the dead-end tip flag cavity arrange between the serpentine cavity and the tip, wherein the dead-end tip flag cavity ends at a dead-end wall located at a position between the leading edge and the trailing edge of the airfoil body.