AIRFOIL COOLING CIRCUIT

Organization Name

raytheon technologies corporation

Inventor(s)

Dana K. Bondarevsky of Sturbridge MA (US)

Dominic J. Mongillo, Jr. of West Hartford CT (US)

Christopher Paul Perron of Tolland CT (US)

Yuta Yoshimura of Meriden CT (US)

David D. Chapdelaine of Ellington CT (US)

AIRFOIL COOLING CIRCUIT

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240410283 titled 'AIRFOIL COOLING CIRCUIT

Original Abstract Submitted

an airfoil for a gas turbine engine includes a first wall disposed in an interior cavity, the first wall extending in the spanwise direction from a base region to a tip wall and adjoining a pressure side wall and a suction side wall to form a first cooling channel; a second wall disposed in the interior cavity and extending in a chordwise direction from the first wall toward a trailing edge, the second wall adjoining the pressure side wall and the suction side wall to form a second cooling channel; a first hole through the first wall, the first hole connecting the first cooling channel to the second cooling channel; and a second hole though the second wall connecting the second cooling channel to a third cooling channel.