ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,629, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).
"CMC component with cover plate" was invented by Winston Smiddy (South Windsor, Conn.), Peter Wilkins (Manchester, Conn.), Alex J. Schneider (Manchester, Conn.) and Paul M. Lutjen (Kennebunkport, Maine).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes methods and devices for directing/controlling cooling air flow for cooling CMC components. A cover plate is positioned within a cooling cavity in the CMC component wherein the cover plate is angled to vary the depth of the cooling cavity between the cover plate and a bottom wall of the cavity. The angled coolin...