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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2015
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Benjamin F. Hagan, Manchester, CT (US);
Ryan Alan Waite, Glastonbury, CT (US);
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A heat shield is provided for use in an inner cavity of a gas turbine engine component. The heat shield comprises a heat shield body comprising opposed side portions defining an inner channel. An inner section of a side portion of the opposed side portions is inwardly sloped such that a cross-section of the heat shield body is smaller in an inner body portion relative to a cross-section of an outer body portion thereof. An aperture is disposed through the side portion in a selected radial position. A vane assembly including the heat shield is also provided.