Gary Michael Itzel
88Patents
14h-index
103Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: May 31, 1990 → Dec 11, 2020
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6398489B1 | Airfoil shape for a turbine nozzle | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 123 | Expired |
| US5197852A | Nozzle band overhang cooling | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 58 | Expired |
| US6499950B2 | Cooling circuit for a gas turbine bucket and tip shroud | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 36 | Expired |
| US7147439B2 | Apparatus and methods for cooling turbine bucket platforms | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 34 | Expired |
| US7309212B2 | Gas turbine bucket with cooled platform leading edge and method of cooling platform leading edge | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 30 | Expired |
| US8651805B2 | Hot gas path component cooling system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Active |
| US6506013B1 | Film cooling for a closed loop cooled airfoil | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 29 | Expired |
| US6435814B1 | Film cooling air pocket in a closed loop cooled airfoil | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 27 | Expired |
| US7163376B2 | Controlled leakage pin and vibration damper for active cooling and purge of bucket slash faces | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 22 | Expired |
| US6416275B1 | Recessed impingement insert metering plate for gas turbine nozzles | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 20 | Expired |
| US6543993B2 | Apparatus and methods for localized cooling of gas turbine nozzle walls | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 19 | Expired |
| US8157504B2 | Rotor blades for turbine engines | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 19 | Active |
| US6468031B1 | Nozzle cavity impingement/area reduction insert | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 17 | Expired |
| US8434999B2 | Bimetallic spline seal | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 14 | Active |
| US8523527B2 | Apparatus for cooling a platform of a turbine component | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 14 | Active |
| US6589010B2 | Method for controlling coolant flow in airfoil, flow control structure and airfoil incorporating the same | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 14 | Expired |
| US9970302B2 | Hot gas path component trailing edge having near wall cooling features | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 14 | Active |
| US7121796B2 | Nozzle-cooling insert assembly with cast-in rib sections | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Expired |
| US7086829B2 | Film cooling for the trailing edge of a steam cooled nozzle | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 13 | Expired |
| US6742984B1 | Divided insert for steam cooled nozzles and method for supporting and separating divided insert | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Expired |
| US8083475B2 | Turbine bucket angel wing compression seal | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 13 | Active |
| US7367123B2 | Coated bucket damper pin and related method | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 12 | Expired |
| US6637753B2 | Supplemental seal for the chordal hinge seals in a gas turbine | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 11 | Expired |
| US7066716B2 | Cooling system for the trailing edges of turbine bucket airfoils | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 10 | Expired |
| US8376706B2 | Turbine airfoil concave cooling passage using dual-swirl flow mechanism and method | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 10 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.