ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,542, issued on April 8.
"Combustor liner with shield holes" was invented by Anquan Wang (Mason, Ohio) and Eric John Ruggiero (West Chester, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method of reducing film cooling scrubbing in a combustor are provided. The apparatus includes a combustor liner that includes a field of a plurality of sparsely-spaced film holes that extend through the combustor liner wherein the field includes a boundary. The combustor liner also includes a patch of relatively more densely-spaced shield holes that extend through the combustor liner at specific predetermined locations within the bound...