Inventor · Greenville, SC, US

Edward D. Benjamin

12Patents
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14Co-inventors
61Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 12, 2003 → Jan 2, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6779980B1 Airfoil shape for a turbine bucket Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 73 Expired
US6722851B1 Internal core profile for a turbine bucket Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Expired
US7568882B2 Impingement cooled bucket shroud, turbine rotor incorporating the same, and cooling method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Active
US7147440B2 Methods and apparatus for cooling gas turbine engine rotor assemblies Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 23 Expired
US7600972B2 Methods and apparatus for cooling gas turbine engine rotor assemblies Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Expired
US7837445B2 Airfoil shape for a turbine nozzle Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Active
US8231329B2 Turbine blade cooling with a hollow airfoil configured to minimize a distance between a pin array section and the trailing edge of the air foil Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Active
US8070427B2 Gas turbines having flexible chordal hinge seals Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 13 Active
US8070431B2 Fully contained retention pin for a turbine nozzle Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US8096757B2 Methods and apparatus for reducing nozzle stress Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US7850425B2 Outer sidewall retention scheme for a singlet first stage nozzle Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 3 Active
US8057169B2 Airfoil core shape for a turbine nozzle Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 3 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.