US Patent Issued to Pratt & Whitney Canada on July 7 for "Combustor liner v-band with directed air flow" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,579, issued on July 7, was assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Combustor liner v-band with directed air flow" was invented by Jacob Weber (Toronto), Safouane Tebib (Etobicoke, Canada), Mohammad Mortada Ahmed (Kitchener, Canada) and Jeffrey Verhiel (Mono, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustion liner v-band includes a louver segment having an arcuate member, an array of scoops, and outlet openings. The arcuate member includes an interior wall and side walls extending partially circumferentially about a centerline axis of the combustor to bound a channel that is open at a radial outer boundary of th...