| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7607890 |
Robust microcircuits for turbine airfoils |
October 27, 2009 |
| A cooling microcircuit for use in a turbine engine component, such as a turbine blade, having an airfoil portion is provided. The cooling microcircuit has at least one inlet slot for introducing a flow of coolant into the cooling microcircuit, a plurality of fluid exit slots for dist |
| 7581928 |
Serpentine microcircuits for hot gas migration |
September 1, 2009 |
| A turbine engine component, such as a turbine blade, has an airfoil portion with a pressure side and a suction side. The turbine engine component also has a first cooling circuit within the pressure side for cooling the pressure side of the airfoil portion and a second cooling circui |
| 7581927 |
Serpentine microcircuit cooling with pressure side features |
September 1, 2009 |
| In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a turbine engine component having an airfoil portion with a pressure side and a suction side, a first microcircuit embedded in a wall forming the pressure side, an internal cavity containing a supply of cooling fluid, the fi |
| 7553131 |
Integrated platform, tip, and main body microcircuits for turbine blades |
June 30, 2009 |
| A turbine engine component has an airfoil portion with a pressure side and a suction side. The turbine engine component further has a first cooling microcircuit for cooling the suction side of the airfoil portion. The first cooling microcircuit is embedded within a first wall forming the |
| 7513744 |
Microcircuit cooling and tip blowing |
April 7, 2009 |
| A turbine engine component has an airfoil portion having a pressure side, a suction side, a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a tip. The component further has a first cooling microcircuit embedded in a pressure side wall, a second cooling microcircuit embedded in a suction side wall, an |
| 7413403 |
Turbine blade tip cooling |
August 19, 2008 |
| A turbine engine blade has an attachment root, a platform outboard of the attachment root, and an airfoil extending from the platform. The airfoil has pressure and suction sides extending between leading and trailing edges. An internal cooling passageway network includes at least one inl |
