Inventor

LILES HOWARD J

US48 patents

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LILES HOWARD J

RAYTHEON TECH CORP

Airfoil with flange formed of wishbone-shaped fiber layer structure

Preform crossovers for composite airfoils

Contour weaving to form airfoil

Spar with embedded plenum passage

Vane arc segment with seal

Vane with pin mount and anti-rotation baffle

CMC vane mate face flanges with through-ply seal slots

Vane arc segment with conformal thermal insulation blanket

Seal slot with coating

Bifurcating layup for airfoil rib, methods of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same

Turbine section with ceramic support rings and ceramic vane arc segments

CMC vane with flange having sloped radial face

CMC laminate airfoil with ply drops

Airfoil vane multiplet with interleaved fiber plies

Tangentially bowed airfoil

Ceramic article with thermal insulation bushing

Methods for complex geometry mandrel removal of ceramic matrix composite components

Vane with pin mount and anti-rotation

Vane with pin mount and anti-rotation

Turbine engine with TOBI supporting vanes

Removable layer to adjust mount structure of a turbine vane for re-stagger

Seal assembly with seal arc segment

Cooling arrangement including overlapping diffusers

Gas turbine engine component with manifold cavity and metering inlet orifices

Vane arc segment with radially projecting flanges

RTX CORP

Internally cooled brush seal backing plate and method

Turbine section with ceramic support rings and ceramic vane arc segments

Self-metering impingement plate

Self-metering impingement plate

Ceramic matrix composite surface roughness

Insertion of ceramic members for gas path endwall contouring

Radial seal between CMC vane and vane support

Localized thickening ply reinforcement within ceramic matrix composite airfoil cavity

Tilted CMC vane arc segment

CMC component with cooling cavity

Gapped attachment for ceramic matrix composite vane and method

Flow guides for internal cooling of a CMC airfoil

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP

Continuation of a shear tube through a vane platform for structural support

Frustic load transmission feature for composite structures

Vane arc segment load path

Vane retention feature

Method of forming cooling channels in a ceramic matrix composite component

Vane support system

CMC vane mate face flange

Vane support system with seal

Airfoil with metallic shield

Platform seal

LILES HOWARD J

Sit-to-stand and walking assistive mobility aid