Patent 7308794 was granted and assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada on December, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An improved gas turbine engine combustor with a liner and a dome connected to the liner trough small radius transition portions only, the dome having a plurality of fuel nozzles mounted therein and an interior directly exposed to a combustion region of the combustor, the dome including a plurality of effusion cooling holes provided non-perpendicularly to an entry surface of the holes, the dome being substantially planar.