Inventor · Schenectady, NY, US

Gary Michael Itzel

88Patents
14h-index
103Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: May 31, 1990 → Dec 11, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.