Robert Bland
29Patents
15h-index
32Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 8, 1975 → Oct 31, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6438961B2 | Swozzle based burner tube premixer including inlet air conditioner for low emissions combustion | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 154 | Expired |
| US6772583B2 | Can combustor for a gas turbine engine | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 91 | Expired |
| US8127558B2 | Gas turbine engine adapted for use in combination with an apparatus for separating a portion of oxygen from compressed air | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 73 | Active |
| US6494044B1 | Aerodynamic devices for enhancing sidepanel cooling on an impingement cooled transition duct and related method | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 55 | Expired |
| US7237389B2 | Attachment system for ceramic combustor liner | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 45 | Expired |
| US7096671B2 | Catalytic combustion system and method | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 37 | Expired |
| US6698207B1 | Flame-holding, single-mode nozzle assembly with tip cooling | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 33 | Expired |
| US7503177B2 | Combustion dynamics monitoring | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 33 | Active |
| US7631499B2 | Axially staged combustion system for a gas turbine engine | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 31 | Active |
| US7080514B2 | High frequency dynamics resonator assembly | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 29 | Expired |
| US7805922B2 | Fuel flow tuning for a stage of a gas turbine engine | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 24 | Active |
| US7762074B2 | Air flow conditioner for a combustor can of a gas turbine engine | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 22 | Active |
| US6786047B2 | Flashback resistant pre-mix burner for a gas turbine combustor | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 21 | Expired |
| US7080515B2 | Gas turbine can annular combustor | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 21 | Expired |
| US7584617B2 | Monitoring health of a combustion dynamics sensing system | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 15 | Active |
| US7690203B2 | Removable diffusion stage for gas turbine engine fuel nozzle assemblages | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 14 | Active |
| US7640725B2 | Pilot fuel flow tuning for gas turbine combustors | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 13 | Active |
| US4055791A | Self commutated SCR power supply | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US7827801B2 | Gas turbine engine transitions comprising closed cooled transition cooling channels | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 10 | Active |
| US7574865B2 | Combustor flow sleeve with optimized cooling and airflow distribution | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 10 | Expired |
| US7836677B2 | At least one combustion apparatus and duct structure for a gas turbine engine | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 10 | Active |
| US8146364B2 | Non-rectangular resonator devices providing enhanced liner cooling for combustion chamber | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 9 | Active |
| US7870739B2 | Gas turbine engine curved diffuser with partial impingement cooling apparatus for transitions | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 7 | Active |
| US8499564B2 | Pilot burner for gas turbine engine | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 2 | Active |
| US7926279B2 | Extended life fuel nozzle | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 1 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.