George Liang
379Patents
39h-index
39Co-inventors
90Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 26, 1981 → Oct 23, 2018
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7997868B1 | Film cooling hole for turbine airfoil | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 305 | Active |
| US8057181B1 | Multiple expansion film cooling hole for turbine airfoil | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 79 | Active |
| US4601638A | Airfoil trailing edge cooling arrangement | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 71 | Expired |
| US4407632A | Airfoil pedestaled trailing edge region cooling configuration | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 65 | Expired |
| US7963745B1 | Composite turbine blade | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 64 | Active |
| US8057183B1 | Light weight and highly cooled turbine blade | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 62 | Active |
| US8038399B1 | Turbine rim cavity sealing | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 57 | Active |
| US7665962B1 | Segmented ring for an industrial gas turbine | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 57 | Active |
| US6602052B2 | Airfoil tip squealer cooling construction | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 57 | Expired |
| US8245519B1 | Laser shaped film cooling hole | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 57 | Active |
| US8864469B1 | Turbine rotor blade with super cooling | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 55 | Active |
| US6981846B2 | Vortex cooling of turbine blades | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 53 | Expired |
| US7625180B1 | Turbine blade with near-wall multi-metering and diffusion cooling circuit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 52 | Active |
| US5975851A | Turbine blade with trailing edge root section cooling | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 51 | Expired |
| US7597533B1 | BOAS with multi-metering diffusion cooling | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 51 | Active |
| US6139269A | Turbine blade with multi-pass cooling and cooling air addition | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 51 | Expired |
| US8197211B1 | Composite air cooled turbine rotor blade | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 49 | Active |
| US7520725B1 | Turbine airfoil with near-wall leading edge multi-holes cooling | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 49 | Active |
| US7303376B2 | Turbine airfoil with outer wall cooling system and inner mid-chord hot gas receiving cavity | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 48 | Expired |
| US8366392B1 | Composite air cooled turbine rotor blade | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 48 | Active |
| US7862299B1 | Two piece hollow turbine blade with serpentine cooling circuits | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 47 | Active |
| US7887294B1 | Turbine airfoil with continuous curved diffusion film holes | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 46 | Active |
| US7527474B1 | Turbine airfoil with mini-serpentine cooling passages | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 46 | Active |
| US6916150B2 | Cooling system for a tip of a turbine blade | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 46 | Expired |
| US7922451B1 | Turbine blade with blade tip cooling passages | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 45 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.