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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2005
Ching-pang Lee, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Wenfeng LU, Mason, OH (US);
Douglas Marti Fortuna, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jakub Roniewicz, Warsaw, PL;
Robert Andrzej Gniazdowski, Warsaw, PL;
Ching-Pang Lee, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Wenfeng Lu, Mason, OH (US);
Douglas Marti Fortuna, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jakub Roniewicz, Warsaw, PL;
Robert Andrzej Gniazdowski, Warsaw, PL;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method facilitates the assembly of a gas turbine engine. The method comprises providing a turbine nozzle including an inner band, an outer band, and at least one vane extending between the inner and outer bands, wherein the vane includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall connected together at a leading edge and a trailing edge and coupling the turbine nozzle to a combustor that includes a plurality of circumferentially-spaced cooling openings that are oriented with respect to the turbine nozzle such that cooling air discharged therefrom during engine operation is biased towards the vane leading edge.