F02C 5/02
Gas-turbine plants characterised by the working fluid being generated by intermittent combustion
Official title: characterised by the arrangement of the combustion chamber in the chamber in the plant (combustion chambers per se F23R)
F02C5/02 (Gas-turbine plants characterised by the working fluid being generated by intermittent combustion) appears on 138 US grants and 177 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F02C- Granted patents
- 138
- Published applications
- 177
- Assignees
- 49
- Inventors
- 243
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 4 | 13 |
| 2005 | 5 | 5 |
| 2006 | 6 | 4 |
| 2007 | 1 | 5 |
| 2008 | 2 | 5 |
| 2009 | 2 | 8 |
| 2010 | 4 | 10 |
| 2011 | 3 | 3 |
| 2012 | 4 | 6 |
| 2013 | 5 | 7 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4 |
| 2015 | 6 | 7 |
| 2016 | 1 | 10 |
| 2017 | 6 | 4 |
| 2018 | 5 | 22 |
| 2019 | 11 | 9 |
| 2020 | 5 | 13 |
| 2021 | 7 | 9 |
| 2022 | 6 | 10 |
| 2023 | 10 | 4 |
| 2024 | 10 | 10 |
| 2025 | 10 | 4 |
| 2026 | 2 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Combustion mode switching engine6 Oct 2026US 12,753,730 B2PD AeroSpace, LTD.
- Rotating detonation-enabled augmentor systems17 Feb 2026US 12,553,612 B2General Electric Company
- Method of operating a rotating detonation combustor18 Nov 2025US 12,474,056 B1General Electric Company
- Rotating internal combustion engine26 Aug 2025US 12,398,670 B2Green Engine, LLC
- Turbine apparatus29 Jul 2025US 12,372,027 B1
- Method of operating a rotating detonation combustor6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227070 A1General Electric Company
- Chamber for rotating detonation engine and wall obstacles for same7 May 2026US 2026/0126176 A1Rtx Corporation
- Rotating internal combustion engine16 Apr 2026US 2026/0104006 A1Green Engine, LLC
- System and method having isothermal combustion along set of turbine blades via varying fluid injection along set of turbine vanes18 Sep 2025US 2025/0290633 A1GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC
- Combustion mode switching engine12 Jun 2025US 2025/0188893 A1PD AeroSpace, LTD.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Rotary detonation engine47US 4,741,154 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy · 1988
- Pulse detonation electrical power generation apparatus with water injection45US 6,062,018 AAdroit Systems, Inc. · 2000
- Combustion ignition40US 7,047,724 B2United Technologies Corporation · 2006
- Constant volume combustion turbine with plurality flow turbine wheels33US 5,960,625 A1999
- Internal combustion engine33US 6,810,678 B12004