US 12,234,742 B2
Partition damper seal configurations for segmented internal cooling hardware
Ashish Sharma, Garching (DE); Tomasz Edward Berdowski, Warsaw (PL); Maciej Czerwiński, Warsaw (PL); Katarzyna Anna Mikolajczyk, Warsaw (PL); Raymond Floyd Martell, Evendale, OH (US); and Tomasz Jan Bulsiewicz, Warsaw (PL)
Assigned to General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US); and General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH, Frankfurt (DE)
Filed by General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US); and General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH, Frankfurt (DE)
Filed on Feb. 19, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/581,225.
Application 18/581,225 is a continuation of application No. 17/553,513, filed on Dec. 16, 2021, granted, now 11,905,842.
Prior Publication US 2024/0191638 A1, Jun. 13, 2024
Int. Cl. F01D 25/26 (2006.01); F01D 5/14 (2006.01); F01D 5/16 (2006.01); F01D 5/18 (2006.01); F01D 5/26 (2006.01); F01D 9/04 (2006.01); F01D 9/06 (2006.01); F01D 11/00 (2006.01); F01D 25/04 (2006.01); F01D 25/12 (2006.01); F01D 25/14 (2006.01); F01D 25/24 (2006.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01)
CPC F01D 25/26 (2013.01) [F01D 11/00 (2013.01); F01D 25/04 (2013.01); F01D 25/12 (2013.01); F01D 25/14 (2013.01); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12); F05D 2240/126 (2013.01); F05D 2240/14 (2013.01); F05D 2240/55 (2013.01); F05D 2250/182 (2013.01); F05D 2260/20 (2013.01); F05D 2260/96 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An airfoil, comprising:
an outer wall having a first rib spaced apart from a second rib on a surface of the outer wall; and
an inner wall surrounded by the outer wall, the inner wall having a third rib protruding from the inner wall towards the surface of the outer wall, an end of the third rib detachably coupled to a portion of the surface of the outer wall, the portion of the surface positioned between the first rib and the second rib, and contacting sides of (i) the third rib and (ii) the first rib or the second rib defining a seal of a flow passage between the inner and outer walls.