ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,368, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Turbine blade double tip flag cooling system" was invented by Benjamin Kamrath (Mesa, Ariz.), Daniel Crites (Phoenix), Ardeshir Riahi (Phoenix), Spencer Sperling (Phoenix) and Mark Morris (Phoenix).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems provide enhanced cooling of tip regions of turbine blades. A cooling system includes a turbine blade with a root, a base, a tip, a leading edge, a trailing edge, an outer structure that includes a pressure side wall, a suction side wall and a tip cap at its tip. A core in the blade defines a leading channel that ej...