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6960060 Dual coolant turbine blade  
A turbine blade includes a hollow airfoil joined to a dovetail and platform. The airfoil includes leading and trailing edge cooling circuits disposed between the opposite pressure and suction...
6957949 Internal cooling circuit for gas turbine bucket  
In a gas turbine bucket having a shank portion and an airfoil portion having leading and trailing edges and pressure and suction sides, an internal cooling circuit, the internal cooling circuit...
6955522 Method and apparatus for cooling an airfoil  
An improved cooling design and method for cooling airfoils within a gas turbine engine is provided which includes a plenum longitudinally located within the leading edge of the airfoils. Within the...
6955525 Cooling system for an outer wall of a turbine blade  
A turbine blade for a turbine engine having a cooling system in at least an outer wall. The cooling system in at least the outer wall formed from at least a first plurality of parallel cavities...
6951444 Turbine and a turbine vane for a turbine  
The invention relates to a stationary blade ( 12 ) for a gas turbine ( 1 ) with a hollow sectional element ( 22 ) which extends radially with respect to the rotor ( 3 ) and has a platform ( 23 ) at...
6945749 Turbine blade platform cooling system  
Aspects of the invention relate to a cooling system for a blade platform that can provide cooling to and reduce stress on the platform. Aspects of the invention relate to including one or more...
6945750 Turbine blade  
A turbine blade for a gas turbine has a hollow airfoil extending from a platform. There is a fillet between the airfoil and the platform, both on the pressure side and on the suction side of the...
6942450 Differential pressure sensing system for airfoils usable in turbine engines  
A detection system for identifying airfoils having a cooling systems with orifices that are plugged with contaminants or with showerheads having a portion burned off. The detection system measures...
6939102 Flow guide component with enhanced cooling  
A cooled fluid flow component for a combustion engine which directs cooling fluid through complementary guided-flow regions to ensure effective cooling of the component tip end, without producing...
6939107 Spanwisely variable density pedestal array  
A turbine engine component, such as a blade or vane, has a system for cooling a trailing edge portion thereof. The system includes a plurality of rows of pedestals which vary in density along a...
6932572 Film cooled article with improved temperature tolerance  
The invention is a film cooled article such as a turbine engine blade or vane, having a wall with a hot surface 26 to be film cooled. The hot surface 26 includes a depression 48 featuring a...
6932570 Methods and apparatus for extending gas turbine engine airfoils useful life  
A method enables a gas turbine engine blade to be manufactured to include an airfoil, a platform, a shank, and a dovetail. The platform extends between the airfoil and the shank, the shank extends...
6932571 Microcircuit cooling for a turbine blade tip  
An improved cooling design and method for cooling airfoils within a gas turbine engine is provided which includes an embedded microcircuit that traverses a tip between a suction sidewall and a...
6932577 Turbine blade airfoil having improved creep capability  
A turbine blade including an airfoil having a profile in accordance with Table 1 is disclosed. The turbine blade has a plurality of cooling passages extending radially outward through the airfoil....
6932573 Turbine blade having a vortex forming cooling system for a trailing edge  
A turbine blade for a turbine engine having one or more cavities in a trailing edge of the turbine blade for forming one or more vortices in inner aspects of the trailing edge. In at least one...
6929445 Split flow turbine nozzle  
A turbine nozzle includes a hollow vane having opposite pressure and suction sides extending in span between outer and inner bands. The vane includes a forward flow channel behind the leading edge,...
6926499 Thin-walled, lightweight cooled turbine blade  
A blade 10 is composed of a front blade portion 10 a , a rear blade portion 10 b and a middle blade portion 10 c . The belly side of the middle blade portion 10 c forms a recess towards the...
6923623 Perimeter-cooled turbine bucket airfoil cooling hole location, style and configuration  
A turbine stage one bucket has an airfoil having a plurality of cooling holes passing through the airfoil from 0% span to 100% span whereby cooling air exits the airfoil tip into the hot gas path....
6918742 Combustion turbine with airfoil having multi-section diffusion cooling holes and methods of making same  
A combustion turbine 20 includes a housing 22 and a plurality of airfoils 40 radially and rotatably positioned within the housing. At least one interior cooling passageway 50 extends within...
6916155 Cooling circuits for a gas turbine blade  
A gas turbine blade for an airplane engine, comprising in its central portion at least a first central cooling circuit comprising at least first and second cavities extending radially on the...
6910864 Turbine bucket airfoil cooling hole location, style and configuration  
First, second and third sets of cooling holes are provided in a turbine airfoil. The first set of holes adjacent a leading edge have turbulators commencing at a predetermined distance from the root...
6908657 Coated component with through-hole having improved surface finish  
A process of removing deposits from through-holes in a component, such as metallic bond coat and ceramic materials from cooling holes in an air-cooled gas turbine engine. The process is...
6896487 Microcircuit airfoil mainbody  
A cooling circuit disposed within a first wall portion and a second wall portion of a wall for use in a gas turbine engine is provided. The cooling circuit includes a plurality of inlet apertures...
6893209 Connecting system for a transition duct in a gas turbine  
A system for connecting a low-pressure jet to a transition duct in a gas turbine, in which the said low-pressure jets are arranged in sectors of two or three stator blades and are filled on to the...
6890154 Microcircuit cooling for a turbine blade  
A turbine blade is provided comprising an internal cavity into which cooling air is flowable, an external wall and a first, second and third cooling circuits embedded with the wall. The cooling...
6890153 Castellated turbine airfoil  
A turbine airfoil includes pressure and suction sidewalls joined together at opposite leading and trailing edges, and at a forward bridge spaced behind the leading edge to define a flow channel....
6887033 Cooling system for nozzle segment platform edges  
The cooling system for the nozzle edges includes a chamber containing a cooling medium. First and second elongated plenums are disposed along opposite side edges of each platform. Inlet passages...
6884029 Heat-tolerated vortex-disrupting fluid guide component  
A vortex-reducing fluid guide component is disclosed. The fluid guide component includes a base portion and an upstanding body portion. An internally-cooled blending element extends between the...
6884036 Complementary cooled turbine nozzle  
A turbine nozzle includes outer and inner bands integrally joined to a vane having a three-pass serpentine flow circuit between opposite pressure and suction sidewalls. The outer band includes an...
6874992 Gas turbine engine aerofoil  
An aerofoil blade or vane for a gas turbine engine comprises a body member having an inner end for mounting the blade on a shaft and an outer or tip end. A plurality of cooling passages are formed...
6874988 Gas turbine blade  
A gas turbine blade includes a combined convective cooling effected by a meandering cooling channel and an impact cooling channel and an impact cooling effected via an impact cooling insert. The...
6874987 Cooled turbine blade  
A gas turbine engine turbine blade ( 20 ) has cooling air holes ( 38 ) arranged in groups, the holes ( 38 ) in one group and which span that part of the leading edge ( 34 ) that spans the hottest...
6869270 Turbine blade cover cooling apparatus and method of fabrication  
A blade cover cooling apparatus comprises a blade cover top plate, comprising a plurality of upper ribs, a blade cover bottom plate, comprising a plurality of lower ribs. The blade cover top plate...
6869268 Combustion turbine with airfoil having enhanced leading edge diffusion holes and related methods  
A combustion turbine 20 includes a housing 22 and a plurality of airfoils 40 within the housing. Each airfoil 40 has a leading edge surface 42 and at least one interior cooling passageway...
6851924 Crack-resistance vane segment member  
A crack-resistant vane segment assembly member for an industrial turbine engine is disclosed. The vane segment includes at least one internally-cooled body portion and inner and outer shroud...
6840737 Gas turbine cooling system  
A stage of guide vanes ( 20 ) are cooled by compressor air delivered via piping ( 36,38 ) and by leakage air in the space volume ( 28 ) bounded by the combustion apparatus ( 14 ) and turbine...
6837687 Foil formed structure for turbine airfoil  
An airfoil body having a first wall including a plurality of ribs. An outer wall formed of a high temperature foil is attached to the ribs so as to form a plurality of channels. The first wall is...
6837676 Gas turbine  
A sealing air bypass flow path is provided in a gas turbine for supplying sealing air to a sealing air supply flow path by bypassing the flow path between each tangential on board injection (TOBI)...
6835046 Configuration of a coolable turbine blade  
A turbine blade through which cooling liquid flows, comprises several flow channels that are adjacently arranged in the flowing-off direction of the working fluid. The flow channels extend between...
6832889 Integrated bridge turbine blade  
A turbine blade includes a hollow airfoil integrally joined to a dovetail. The airfoil includes a perforate first bridge defining a flow channel behind the airfoil leading edge. A second bridge is...
6830431 High-temperature behavior of the trailing edge of a high pressure turbine blade  
A moving blade for a high pressure turbine of a turbomachine. The blade has at least one cooling circuit including at least one cavity extending radially between a tip and a root of the blade, at...
6830432 Cooling of combustion turbine airfoil fillets  
A turbine fluid guide member ( 10 ) including an airfoil portion ( 12 ), a platform portion ( 14 ) and fillet ( 16 ) joining the airfoil portion to the platform portion. Fillet cooling holes ( 18 a...
6824360 Turbulated cooling holes  
A component for use in a flow path of a gas turbine engine. The component includes a body having an exterior surface mountable in the gas turbine engine so the exterior surface is exposed to gases...
6817190 Blade cooling in a gas turbine engine  
A gas turbine engine rotor has a body and blades, which are attached to the rotor by a root portion, for receiving a hot fluid flow and a compressed fluid from a compressor. Each blade has a base...
6817833 Turbine blade of a gas turbine with at least one cooling excavation  
The invention relates to a turbine blade of a gas turbine with at least one cooling excavation 2 which connects an interior 3 and the surface 4 of the turbine blade 1, characterized in that...
6811378 Insulated cooling passageway for cooling a shroud of a turbine blade  
A turbine blade is disclosed having a tip shroud that includes internal passages through which cooling air is flowed to minimize creep. The cooling air is provided to the shroud through dedicated...
6808367 Cooling system for a turbine blade having a double outer wall  
A turbine blade for a turbine engine having a double wall having one or more cavities forming a cooling system. The cavity may include a plurality of pedestals and protrusions configured to create...
6805533 Tolerant internally-cooled fluid guide component  
A cooled fluid flow component for a combustion engine which employs internal impingement and exterior surface film cooling is disclosed. The fluid flow component has improved tolerance to assembly...
6805534 Curved bucket aft shank walls for stress reduction  
A turbine bucket comprising an airfoil portion and a shank portion with a substantially horizontal platform radially therebetween, the shank portion having a forward shank wall and an aft shank...
6790005 Compound tip notched blade  
A gas turbine engine blade includes pressure and suction sidewalls extending between leading and trailing edges and from root to tip. The pressure sidewall includes an inclined tip rib offset...