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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
May. 07, 2007
William Abdel-messeh, Middletown, CT (US);
Andrew J. Lutz, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Douglas E. Duke, Hebron, CT (US);
Jose A. Lopes, Ellington, CT (US);
Aaron T. Frost, San Antonio, TX (US);
Kevin J. Pallos, South Glastonbury, CT (US);
Kenneth J. Sawyer, East Hartford, CT (US);
Eric Herbst, Tolland, CT (US);
Michael D. Greenberg, Bloomfield, CT (US);
Ricardo Trindade, Coventry, CT (US);
William Abdel-Messeh, Middletown, CT (US);
Andrew J. Lutz, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Douglas E. Duke, Hebron, CT (US);
Jose A. Lopes, Ellington, CT (US);
Aaron T. Frost, San Antonio, TX (US);
Kevin J. Pallos, South Glastonbury, CT (US);
Kenneth J. Sawyer, East Hartford, CT (US);
Eric Herbst, Tolland, CT (US);
Michael D. Greenberg, Bloomfield, CT (US);
Ricardo Trindade, Coventry, CT (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Abstract
The ends of cooling air passages in turbine blades and/or vanes of a gas turbine engine are provided with turbulation promoters to enhance the cooling of such structures as inner and outer shrouds and the like to accommodate thermal loads thereon.