Inventor · Stuart, FL, US

George Liang

379Patents
39h-index
39Co-inventors
90Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 26, 1981 → Oct 23, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.