Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Airfoil with cast features and method of manufacture
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Application No.: US15194855Application Date: 2016-06-28
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Publication No.: US10605091B2Publication Date: 2020-03-31
- Inventor: Gregory Terrence Garay , Douglas Ray Smith , Aaron Ezekiel Smith , Zachary Daniel Webster
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: McGarry Bair PC
- Main IPC: F01D5/18
- IPC: F01D5/18 ; B22C9/00 ; B22C13/08
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for forming a film hole in an outer wall of an airfoil. The film hole includes a blind opening adjacent the interior of the airfoil and a hole adjacent the exterior of the airfoil. The blind opening fluidly couples to the hole to form the film hole for providing a volume of fluid as a surface cooling film along the exterior of the outer wall.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170370229A1 AIRFOIL WITH CAST FEATURES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE Public/Granted day:2017-12-28
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