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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2013
Rolls-royce North American Technologies, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Rolls-royce Corporation, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Jack K. Moody, Avon, IN (US);
Richard C. Uskert, Timonium, MD (US);
Adam L. Chamberlain, Mooresville, IN (US);
David J. Thomas, Brownsburg, IN (US);
Rolls-Royce Corporation, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc., Indianpolis, IN (US);
Abstract
One aspect of the present application provides an apparatus comprising a shape operable as a gas turbine engine component, an internal cavity within the shape including a radius, a trench on an external surface of the shape including a rear face tangential to an arc centered on the radius of the internal cavity, and a cooling hole extending from the internal cavity and exiting to the trench through the rear face of the trench wherein a cooling fluid introduced to the internal cavity flows through the cooling hole and into the trench during operation of the gas turbine engine component.