IP Library Granted Patent US 10,006,367
Granted Patent B2
US 10,006,367 · App. 14/216,014 · Granted Jun 26, 2018

Self-opening cooling passages for a gas turbine engine

Inventors: Dmitriy A. Romanov (Wells, ME); Mark F. Zelesky (Bolton, CT)
Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
F02C7/18F01D11/122F05D2240/11F05D2260/20Y02T50/676
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Patent No.
US 10,006,367
App. No.
14/216,014
Granted
Jun 26, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A turbine component for a gas turbine engine includes a multiple of self-opening cooling passages each of which defines a self-opening cooling passage axis that extends through a gas path surface.

Claims (18)

1. A turbine component for a gas turbine engine comprising:

a gas path surface carried by the turbine component; and

a self-opening cooling passage defined by said turbine component and communicating through said gas path surface when at least partially opened, said self-opening cooling passage having a constant cross-sectional area through the turbine component between an inlet of the self-cooling passage and an exit of the self-cooling passage,

wherein said self-opening cooling passage is defined by a slot with a metal alloy sheet to enclose the slot,

wherein said metal alloy sheet defines a barrier that burns away in response to a predetermined temperature to open said self-opening cooling passage to film cool the gas path surface local to the exit.

2. The component as recited in claim 1 , wherein said metal alloy sheet defines a barrier that burns away in response to a heat streak to open said self-opening cooling passage.

3. The component as recited in claim 1 , wherein said self-opening cooling passage is a non-through passage.

4. The component as recited in claim 3 , wherein the non-through passage is displaced from a gas path surface by a predefined thickness of material that burns away in response to a predetermined temperature to open said self-opening cooling passage.

5. The component as recited in claim 3 , wherein said non-through passage is displaced from a gas path surface by a predefined thickness of material that burns away in response to a heat streak to open a respective self-opening cooling passage.

6. The component as recited in claim 1 , wherein the turbine component is a blade outer air seal.

7. The component as recited in claim 1 , wherein the turbine component is an inner vane support.

8. The component as recited in claim 1 , wherein the turbine component is an outer vane support.

9. A turbine component for a gas turbine engine comprising:

a multiple of self-opening cooling passages each of which defines a self-opening cooling passage axis that extends through a gas path surface, wherein at least one of said self-opening cooling passages has a constant cross-sectional area through the turbine component between an inlet of the self-cooling passage and an exit of the self-cooling passage,

wherein said at least one of said self-opening cooling passages is defined by a slot with a metal alloy sheet to enclose the slot,

wherein said metal alloy sheet defines a barrier that burns away in response to a predetermined temperature to open said at least one of said self-opening cooling passages to film cool the gas path surface local to the exit.

10. The component as recited in claim 9 , wherein each of said multiple of self-opening cooling passages includes a barrier that burns away in response to a hot streak.

11. The component as recited in claim 9 , wherein the turbine component is a blade outer air seal.

Assignments (4)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 27, 2023
From: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: RTX CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 064714/0001 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE AND REMOVE PATENT APPLICATION NUMBER 11886281 AND ADD PATENT APPLICATION NUMBER 14846874. TO CORRECT THE RECEIVING PARTY ADDRESS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 054062 FRAME: 0001. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Recorded Mar 4, 2021
From: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 055659/0001 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 4, 2020
From: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 054062/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 9, 2018
From: ROMANOV, DMITRIY; ZELESKY, MARK F.
To: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 044878/0399 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61793221 · Mar 15, 2013
Related Publication 20160160760A1 · Jun 9, 2016
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