Patents Examined by David P. Olynick
  • Patent number: 11421603
    Abstract: Turbojet engine includes a fan, a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine configured to rotatably drive the fan via a first reduction gear and the compressor via a second reduction gear, in which an outlet of the first reduction gear is rotatably coupled to an inlet of the second reduction gear by a reduction shaft, the reduction shaft being supported by a bearing arranged between the first reduction gear and the second reduction gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nathalie Nowakowski, Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Kévin Morgane Lemarchand, Nicolas Jérôme Jean Tantot, Jonathan Evert Vlastuin, Henri Yesilcimen
  • Patent number: 11421560
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods store energy by liquefying a gas such as air, for example, and then recover the energy by regasifying the liquid and combusting or otherwise reacting the gas with a fuel to drive a heat engine. The process of liquefying the gas may be powered with electric power from the grid, for example, and the heat engine may be used to generate electricity. Hence, in effect these apparatus, systems, and methods may provide for storing electric power from the grid and then subsequently delivering it back to the grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Inventor: William M. Conlon
  • Patent number: 11401865
    Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of systems and methods for the removal of a direct drive unit (DDU) housed in an enclosure, such as a direct drive turbine (DDT) connected to a gearbox for driving a driveshaft connected to a pump for use in hydraulic fracturing operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Joseph Foster, Nicholas Tew
  • Patent number: 11397006
    Abstract: Provided is a combustor used in a gas turbine and configured to mix and burn fuel gas, water vapor, and air. The combustor includes: a fuel injection device including a fuel injection portion which directly injects the fuel gas into a combustion chamber, and a water vapor injection portion provided in at least one of a position radially outward of the fuel injection portion and a position radially inward of the fuel injection portion; and an air supply chamber which is provided in at least one of a position radially outward of the water vapor injection portion provided radially outward of the fuel injection portion and a position radially inward of the water vapor injection portion provided radially inward of the fuel injection portion, and which supplies air to be mixed with water vapor injected from the water vapor injection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKT KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunio Okada, Atsushi Horikawa
  • Patent number: 11384695
    Abstract: An assembly includes: a fan drive reducing gear of an aircraft turbine engine, and a lubrication system including: a housing enclosing the reducing gear; a device for spraying lubricant onto the reducing gear; a lubricant supply pipe intended to convey the lubricant towards the spraying device; a lubricant recovery pipe communicating with a bottom of the housing; a controlled valve equipping the recovery pipe; and a lubricant overflow discharge pipe connected to an overflow outlet of the bottom of the housing situated above a horizontal level of a bottom point of a gearing of the reducing gear, and to the recovery pipe, downstream from the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Jean-Baptiste Etienne Bernard Lepretre
  • Patent number: 11378006
    Abstract: A device for temporarily increasing power in order to increase the power from at least one first turbine engine and from at least one second turbine engine, the device including a tank of coolant liquid, a first injection circuit connected to the tank and leading to at least one injection nozzle configured to be installed upstream from the first turbine engine, a second injection circuit connected to the tank and leading to at least one injection nozzle configured to be installed upstream from the second turbine engine, each of the first and second injection circuits including at least one first valve and at least one second valve arranged upstream from said at least one first valve, and a bridge pipe connecting together the first injection circuit and the second injection circuit upstream from their respective first valves and downstream from their respective second valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Frédéric Pousse, Lionel Napias, Laurent Minel, Bertrand Moine
  • Patent number: 11371706
    Abstract: The premixed pilot nozzle includes axially elongated tubes defined within a plenum between an outer shroud and a first shroud disposed radially inward of the outer shroud. The tubes extend between tube inlets defined through a forward face and tube outlets defined through an aft face. A second shroud is disposed radially inward of the first shroud, thereby defining a fuel plenum between the first shroud and the second shroud, and the fuel plenum is in communication with a gaseous fuel supply. A fuel injection port, which is positioned between the tube inlet and the tube outlet of each tube, is in fluid communication with the fuel plenum. An air supply configured to fluidly communicate with the tube inlet of each tube. The second shroud defines a second plenum therein, the second plenum being coupled to a source of a non-combustible fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Harper, Neal William Grooms, Yon Han Chong, Benjamin Robert Ryan
  • Patent number: 11359540
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel gas turbine system having applications, for example, in thermal power generation in an environmentally friendly manner. The multiloop gas turbine system may have multiple functional units each comprising a compressor, a regenerator, a combustion unit, and a turbine. Typically, exhaust flow of a turbine of a preceding loop may be routed to the combustion unit of the next loop, allowing mixing of exhaust flow with hot compressed air of the next loop, and the expanded exhaust from the turbine of the ultimate loop is fed back into the regenerators of each loop to recover exhaust heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Nostrum Energy PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Shrikrishna Kashinath Sane
  • Patent number: 11346280
    Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of systems and methods for the removal of a direct drive unit (DDU) housed in an enclosure, such as a direct drive turbine (DDT) connected to a gearbox for driving a driveshaft connected to a pump for use in hydraulic fracturing operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Joseph Foster, Nicholas Tew
  • Patent number: 11346229
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine 10 is provided in which a fan having fan blades 139 in which the camber distribution relative to covered passage of the fan 13 allows the gas turbine engine to operate with improved efficiency when compared with conventional engines, whilst retaining an acceptable flutter margin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce plc
    Inventors: Benedict Phelps, Stephane M M Baralon, Mark J. Wilson
  • Patent number: 11319878
    Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of systems and methods for the removal of a direct drive unit (DDU) housed in an enclosure, such as a direct drive turbine (DDT) connected to a gearbox for driving a driveshaft connected to a pump for use in hydraulic fracturing operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Joseph Foster, Nicholas Tew
  • Patent number: 11313440
    Abstract: A star-configuration epicyclic gearbox is shown. It comprises a sun gear (112) for connection with a first shaft (112), a plurality of planet gears (113) intermeshed with the sun gear and located in a static carrier (114), and a ring gear (115) for connection with a second shaft (116) and which is intermeshed with the plurality of planet gears. It further comprises one or more electric machines (117) drivingly connected with a respective one of the plurality of planet gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Giles E Harvey
  • Patent number: 11287133
    Abstract: A combustion system and a method of combustion for a gas turbine engine includes a combustor liner defining a combustion chamber. A plurality of fuel nozzle sets extend into, and supply fuel flow to, the combustion chamber. A pilot fuel nozzle injects a first fuel spray in a tangential direction relative to the combustion liner and toward the upstream end of the combustion chamber. A main fuel nozzle injects a second fuel spray toward the exit end of the combustion chamber. At ignition conditions, a majority of the fuel flow is injected through the pilot fuel nozzles, and at high power conditions a majority of the fuel flow is injected through the main fuel nozzles. At high power conditions, a fuel rich mixture is supplied to the combustion chamber, and a row of quench jets are configured to supply air to the combustion chamber, providing rich-quench-lean combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Rodolphe Dudebout, Sunil James
  • Patent number: 11280270
    Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine system includes a combustor casing having an interior-establishing wall, and a chamber extending to the interior-establishing wall. In addition, the combustor includes an igniter assembly disposed within the chamber such that a tip of the igniter assembly is positioned radially outwardly from the interior-establishing wall. The igniter assembly includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an insulator. In addition, the first electrode, the second electrode, and the insulator form a cavity, the second electrode forms an outlet passage extending from the cavity, a maximum cross-sectional area of the cavity is greater than a minimum cross-sectional area of the outlet passage, and the first electrode and the second electrode are configured to ionize gas within the cavity in response to an electrical current applied to the first electrode or to the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Badri Narayan Ramamurthi, Svetlana Selezneva, Mohamed Rahmane, Andrey Meshkov, Karim Younsi, Mark Wayne McWaters, Philip Nose Alberti
  • Patent number: 11268698
    Abstract: A combustor includes an inner liner forming a combustion chamber; an outer liner surrounding the inner liner to form a cooling passage in which compressed air flows; and a plurality of cooling guides installed around an inner circumferential surface of the outer liner to surround the combustion chamber, each of the cooling guides protruding from the inner circumferential surface to create an impinging jet from the compressed air flowing in the cooling passage. The plurality of cooling guides surrounding the combustion chamber are installed at regular intervals in a flow direction of the compressed air, and are arranged in staggered axial rows. Each cooling guide includes an air guiding surface facing the flow of the compressed air to guide the compressed air toward the inner liner. Accordingly, liner cooling efficiency can be enhanced by more effectively guiding the impinging jet toward the inner liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventor: Donggon Lee
  • Patent number: 11268696
    Abstract: A combustor for use in a gas turbine engine comprising: an outward shell; an inward shell located radially inward of the outward shell, the inward shell and the outward shell defining a combustion chamber therebetween; an aft outward panel located proximate the outward shell, the aft outward panel extending from an aft end of the combustion chamber to an outward panel joint; an aft inward panel located proximate the inward shell, the aft inward panel extending from the aft end of the combustion chamber to an inward panel joint; and a forward panel located proximate a forward end of the combustion chamber, the forward panel comprising: an outward wall located proximate the outward shell; an inward wall located proximate the inward shell; and a forward wall located proximate the forward end of the combustion chamber, the forward wall extending from the inward wall to the outward wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gary J. Dillard, Assaf Farah
  • Patent number: 11268438
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for a combustor, the combustor including combustor liner having a plurality of dilution openings. The combustor receives a flow of fuel that is ignited and mixed with dilution air to form a flow of combustion gases. The flow of combustion gases travels through the combustor to a turbine section of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Steven Clayton Vise, Allen Michael Danis, Jayanth Sekar, Pradeep Naik, Perumallu Vukanti, Arthur Wesley Johnson, Clayton Stuart Cooper, Karthikeyan Sampath
  • Patent number: 11261800
    Abstract: An aspect includes a system for a gas turbine engine. The system includes one or more bleeds of the gas turbine engine and a control system configured to check one or more activation conditions of a dirt rejection mode in the gas turbine engine. A bleed control schedule of the gas turbine engine is adjusted to extend a time to hold the one or more bleeds of the gas turbine engine partially open at a power setting above a threshold based on the one or more activation conditions. One or more deactivation conditions of the dirt rejection mode in the gas turbine engine are checked. The dirt rejection mode is deactivated to fully close the one or more bleeds based on the one or more deactivation conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hanlon, James F. Krenzer, Becky E. Rose, Mark F. Zelesky
  • Patent number: 11248562
    Abstract: A jet engine has an inlet 11 configured to introduce air, and a combustor 12 having a fuel injection port 30a that injects a fuel, and configured to combust the fuel injected from the fuel injection port 30a by using the air. The combustor 12 has a separation section 14 defining the air passage FA through which the air flows, between a rear end 15 of the inlet and the fuel injection port 30a. A plurality of turbulent flow generating sections (20;25) are arranged in the separation section 14 to makes the air flow turbulent. Each of the plurality of turbulent flow generating sections (20;25) contains a member (21;22;25B) which can restrain the turbulence of the air flow by moving or disappearing. It can be prevented that a high-pressure region reaches the inlet so that the thrust of the jet engine is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mariko Hirokane, Keisuke Ando, Yoshihiko Ueno
  • Patent number: 11181272
    Abstract: A fuel spray nozzle, for atomising liquid fuel in gas, including: an gas passage; a liquid fuel passage; a swirler provided in the gas passage and including vanes such that, when gas passes through the gas passage, the swirler produces a jet flow of gas from between adjacent vanes and a turbulent flow of gas in the wake of each vane; a prefilming surface for receiving liquid fuel from the liquid fuel passage, and gas from the gas passage, wherein the prefilming surface includes areas that receive jet flow of gas from the gas passage, in use; wherein the fuel spray nozzle is configured to direct the liquid fuel passing through the liquid fuel passage to the areas on the prefilming surface that receive a jet flow of gas from the gas passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Luca Tentorio, Carl L Muldal, Hua Wei Huang, Evangelos Bacharoudis, Juan Carlos Roman Casado