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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2011
Gary Michael Itzel, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Dipankar Pal, Greenville, SC (US);
Gary Michael Itzel, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Dipankar Pal, Greenville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A hot gas path component is provided and includes a body having a surface and being formed to define a cavity, the cavity employing coolant flow through a pin-fin bank with coolant discharge through film-cooling holes defined on the surface, the pin-fin bank including first and second pluralities of pin-fins, the first plurality of pin-fins and the second plurality of pin-fins each being aligned with a determined flow streamline, and any two pin-fins of the first and second pluralities of pin-fins being separated from one another by a gap as a function of a film-cooling hole dimension.