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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022
Filed:
May. 22, 2019
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Kathleen Lombard Hendricks, Bedford, MA (US);
Richard Bryan Guiney, Maineville, OH (US);
Lenin Ramasamy Ramachandran, Arlington, MA (US);
Brian James Crockett, South Palmer, IN (US);
Anthony S. Urbanski, Terre Haute, IN (US);
Brenda Catherine Tenley, Hamilton, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method regarding forming a cooling hole in a component for a turbine engine, with the component held in a hole-forming machine with a laser carried on a multi-axis carriage and defining an optical path, the method comprising forming a set of cooling holes in the component with a laser mounted to the multi-axis carriage, estimating a total airflow through the set of cooling holes based on a set of data regarding the flow effectiveness of the set of cooling holes, and forming a second set of cooling holes with the laser.