US 12,422,140 B2
Combustor deflector assembly
Vijayaraj Sukumar, Bengaluru (IN); Perumallu Vukanti, Bengaluru (IN); Pradeep Naik, Bengaluru (IN); Ajoy Patra, Bengaluru (IN); Karthikeyan Sampath, Bengaluru (IN); Rimple Rangrej, Bengaluru (IN); Hiranya Nath, Bengaluru (IN); Krishnendu Chakraborty, Bengaluru (IN); Narasimhan S. Sahana, Bengaluru (IN); Saket Singh, Bengaluru (IN); and Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Bengaluru (IN)
Assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Evendale, OH (US)
Filed by General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US)
Filed on Mar. 7, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/598,467.
Application 18/598,467 is a continuation of application No. 17/812,897, filed on Jul. 15, 2022, granted, now 11,927,349.
Claims priority of application No. 202211020649 (IN), filed on Apr. 6, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0247802 A1, Jul. 25, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. F23R 3/00 (2006.01); F23R 3/60 (2006.01); F23R 3/04 (2006.01); F23R 3/10 (2006.01)
CPC F23R 3/002 (2013.01) [F23R 3/60 (2013.01); F23R 3/04 (2013.01); F23R 3/10 (2013.01); F23R 2900/00017 (2013.01); F23R 2900/03045 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A deflector assembly for a combustor defining an operational fluid flow, the deflector assembly comprising:
an upstream surface and a downstream surface opposite the upstream surface in an axial direction of the combustor;
one or more fastening mechanisms each extending through the deflector assembly; and
one or more cooling holes extending through the deflector assembly from the upstream surface to the downstream surface, the one or more cooling holes located about the one or more fastening mechanisms and angled radially with respect to the one or more fastening mechanisms to operably direct cooling air radially about the one or more fastening mechanisms at the downstream surface, the one or more cooling holes including a first cooling hole positioned on a first radial side of the one or more fastening mechanisms and a second cooling hole positioned on a second radial side equidistant from the one or more fastening mechanisms and opposite the first radial side, the first cooling hole operably directing the cooling air with a first radial vector in a first radial direction towards the one or more fastening mechanisms and the second cooling hole operably directing the cooling air with a second radial vector in a second radial direction towards the one or more fastening mechanisms.