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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark Eugene Noe, Morrow, OH (US);
Toby George Darkins, Jr., Loveland, OH (US);
Roger Lee Doughty, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 9/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 9/06 ;
Abstract
A turbine nozzle baffle includes a plurality of apertures inclined through a shell for discharging a coolant tangentially therefrom. The baffle is disposed inside a nozzle vane and the tangentially discharged coolant flows generally parallel along the inner surface of the vane for convection cooling thereof.