F02C 3/14
Gas-turbine plants characterised by the use of combustion products as the working
Official title: characterised by the arrangement of the combustion chamber in the plant (combustion chambers per se F23R; F02C3/205 takes precedence)
F02C3/14 (Gas-turbine plants characterised by the use of combustion products as the working) appears on 661 US grants and 767 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F02C- Granted patents
- 661
- Published applications
- 767
- Assignees
- 182
- Inventors
- 1,232
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 3 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 0 |
| 2002 | 7 | 6 |
| 2003 | 8 | 7 |
| 2004 | 6 | 18 |
| 2005 | 8 | 10 |
| 2006 | 7 | 12 |
| 2007 | 2 | 16 |
| 2008 | 6 | 23 |
| 2009 | 10 | 26 |
| 2010 | 15 | 29 |
| 2011 | 21 | 21 |
| 2012 | 15 | 30 |
| 2013 | 25 | 33 |
| 2014 | 25 | 36 |
| 2015 | 24 | 57 |
| 2016 | 30 | 58 |
| 2017 | 25 | 55 |
| 2018 | 45 | 63 |
| 2019 | 57 | 35 |
| 2020 | 41 | 57 |
| 2021 | 43 | 40 |
| 2022 | 39 | 22 |
| 2023 | 38 | 29 |
| 2024 | 34 | 28 |
| 2025 | 31 | 39 |
| 2026 | 25 | 17 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Rotating detonation engine for power generation29 Sep 2026US 12,747,691 B2Venus Aerospace Corp.
- Open rotor aircraft propulsion system with anti-icing system22 Sep 2026US 12,741,744 B2Rtx Corporation
- Reverse flow gas turbine engine having electric machine8 Sep 2026US 12,729,643 B2General Electric Company
- Combustor for a gas turbine engine having a looped feature25 Aug 2026US 12,716,590 B2General Electric Company
- Engine component test system with cryogenic cooling system11 Aug 2026US 12,704,437 B2Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
- Turbofan engine converted from producing thrust power to producing shaft power and corresponding method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298135 A1TJet Holdings Inc.
- Method of operating a rotating detonation combustor6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227070 A1General Electric Company
- Dual bypass turbofan gas turbine engine2 Jul 2026US 2026/0185478 A1Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
- Reverse flow gas turbine engine having electric machine2 Jul 2026US 2026/0185479 A1General Electric Company
- Flameholder for a reheat assembly25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177244 A1ROLLS-ROYCE plc
Most cited
By later US patents
- Nested core gas turbine engine195US 7,219,490 B2D-Star Engineering · 2007
- System, method and apparatus for lean combustion with plasma from an electrical arc107US 8,074,439 B2Foret Plasma Labs, LLC · 2011
- Turbine containing system and an injector therefor101US 6,868,676 B1General Electric Company · 2005
- Reverse-flow gas turbine combustion system85US 7,966,822 B2General Electric Company · 2011
- Combustor of gas turbine and combustion control method for gas turbine77US 7,673,454 B2Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. · 2010