Patents Examined by Stephanie Cheng
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Patent number: 10190438Abstract: A turbine engine includes a compressor, a combustion chamber, first and second turbines downstream from the combustion chamber, a first rotary shaft constrained to rotate at least with the compressor and the first turbine, a second rotary shaft constrained to rotate with the second turbine, the second rotary shaft nevertheless being free to rotate relative to the first rotary shaft, and a regulator for controlling the feed of fuel to the combustion chamber. The regulator cuts off the feed of fuel to the combustion chamber if the speed of rotation of the second rotary shaft exceeds a maximum threshold that varies as a function of at least one indicative physical parameter associated with mechanical power being extracted from the combustion gas by the second turbine. A method of regulating the turbine engine is also presented.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2014Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINESInventors: Stephen Langford, Fabien Lescher
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Patent number: 10190774Abstract: A fuel nozzle apparatus for a gas turbine engine includes: a fuel discharge element having a discharge orifice communicating with a fuel supply connection; a static supporting structure; and a cantilevered flexible support structure interconnecting the supporting structure and the fuel discharge element, the flexible support structure having a first end connected to the static supporting structure, and a second end connected to the fuel discharge element.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Joshua Tyler Mook, Jason Joseph Bellardi, Ting-Yu Tu
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Patent number: 10184426Abstract: An assembly is provided for an aircraft propulsion system. This assembly includes a thrust reverser cascade, a fan ramp fairing and a blocker door. The thrust reverser cascade extends along an axial centerline from a forward cascade end to an aft cascade end. The fan ramp fairing is disposed at the forward cascade end. The fan ramp fairing is configured with a fairing surface that provides a forward boundary for bypass air flowing into the thrust reverser cascade during a first mode of operation. The blocker door is configured to completely axially overlap the fairing surface during a second mode of operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Rohr, Inc.Inventor: Johann S. Schrell
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Patent number: 10174676Abstract: In a rotary machine, a method of assembling a rotary machine, and a method of performing maintenance of a rotary machine, a combustor casing as an outer casing configured from upper and lower casings defining a half split shape, an intermediate shaft cover as an inner casing configured from upper and lower casings defining a half split shape and supporting a combustor in the combustor casing, and a pressing support mechanism configured to press and support a portion to be fit of the combustor casing and a fitting portion of the intermediate shaft cover in an axial direction of a rotor are included.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Shinya Hashimoto, Takuro Kameda
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Patent number: 10151485Abstract: A turbine engine having an annular combustion chamber formed by two coaxial annular shrouds, an inner shroud and an outer shroud relative to the axis of the turbine engine, which shrouds are arranged one inside the other and are connected together at their upstream ends by an annular chamber end wall that is fastened to an outer casing surrounding the outer annular shroud, the downstream ends of the inner and outer annular shrouds being connected to flanges fastened to an inner casing and to the outer casing, respectively. The upstream end of at least one of the inner and outer shrouds is centered by bearing radially against the annular chamber end wall and co-operates therewith in leaktight axial sliding.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Romain Nicolas Lunel, Denis Jean Maurice Sandelis
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Patent number: 10151486Abstract: A combustor wall assembly has a heat shield and a supporting shell with a cooling cavity defined therebetween. A grommet generally includes a wall defining a dilution hole isolated from the cooling cavity, and a flange projecting radially outward from the wall and into the cooling cavity. The flange is space from the heat shield and a cooling channel is defined between the wall and the heat shield that communicates with the cavity for cooling the wall proximate to a combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventor: Jonathan P. Sandoval
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Patent number: 10125721Abstract: The present disclosure provides a turbojet engine nacelle having a downstream section including a cowl which is ended with a hinged flap constituting a nozzle. In particular, the hinged flap is hingedly and translatably hinged to the cowl.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: AIRCELLEInventors: Olivier Kerbler, Olivier Gilo, Patrick Gonidec
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Patent number: 10125993Abstract: A burner having a plurality of pre-mixing chambers each having a fuel nozzle for two fuels, the fuel nozzle has a fuel lance extending in a flow direction, in which fuel lance first outlet openings for a first fuel are introduced. The fuel lance is surrounded by an outer pipe having at least one second outlet opening for a second fuel, the first outlet openings oriented radially and the second outlet opening oriented axially, a flow cross-section is formed between the fuel lance and the inside of the pre-mixing chamber and vortex generators are arranged on the fuel lance. At least one vortex generator is arranged upstream of the first outlet openings and downstream of the second outlet opening. The distance of the first outlet openings from an end of the pre-mixing chamber is at least three times as large as a cross-section of the pre-mixing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christian Beck, Stefan Dederichs, Olga Deiss, Berthold Köstlin
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Patent number: 10094565Abstract: A gas turbine combustor and a gas turbine include a pilot burner, a plurality of main burners, and a flame stabilizer. A first air ejection portion is adapted to eject first air toward a tip end portion side between the main burners and the flame stabilizer, a second air ejection portion is adapted to circulate second air toward a tip end portion side outside the flame stabilizer and eject the second air toward a radially outward direction, and a change member is adapted to change an ejecting direction of the second air ejected through the second air ejection portion to an axial center direction of the flame stabilizer.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Tanaka, Satoshi Takiguchi, Keijiro Saito, Shinji Akamatsu
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Patent number: 10088161Abstract: A liner panel for use in a gas turbine engine. The liner panel has a hot side and a cold side. The liner panel includes a rail extending from the cold side and a multiple of studs extending from the cold side. At least one of the multiple of studs extends from, in part, the rail.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Christopher Drake, Stanislav Kostka, Jr., Frank J. Cunha
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Patent number: 10077714Abstract: A fuel injector for a lean direct injection fuel nozzle has a pilot air swirler which sits radially outboard of a pilot fuel swirler radially outer wall. The air swirler is bounded on its radially outer side by joined wall portions. One wall portion extends axially and another wall portion converges radially. On the radially inwardly facing surface, the wall portions meet to provide a continuing wall surface of the air swirler which transitions from axial extension to radial convergence over a smooth radius. The curvature of this surface broadly mirrors the radially outwardly facing profile of the pilot fuel swirler radially outer wall. The axially extending wall portion is extended axially to form a first part of a join interface. The radially converging portion is extended in a radial direction to provide a second part of the join interface.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Rolls-Royce plcInventors: Randall D. Siders, Peter J. Schnoebelen, Brandon P. Williams, Neal Thomson, Philip E. O. Buelow, David H. Bretz
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Patent number: 10071812Abstract: A device for suspending a casing of a turbine engine to the structure of an aircraft is provided. The device includes a suspension ring including a plurality of attachment surfaces positioned so as to protrude on the circumference of the suspension ring and having attachment holes for attachment to the structure; a circumferential flange including a plurality of holes for attaching the suspension ring to the casing; and one or several hanging surfaces for hanging at least one piece of equipment, positioned so as to protrude on the circumference of the suspension ring, and having holes for hanging the piece of equipment to the ring.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2014Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Maria Natal, Arnaud Ple
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Patent number: 10066507Abstract: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This turbine engine assembly includes a turbine engine component and a lubrication system. The lubrication system directs lubricant through the turbine engine component. The lubrication system includes a wash flow filter.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventor: Francis Parnin
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Patent number: 10066509Abstract: The invention primarily relates to a turbomachine part (10) comprising a first upstream casing (2) and a second downstream casing (3), assembled to one another using at least one flange (6) formed by an upstream flange part (4) of the first upstream casing (2) and a downstream flange part (5) of the second downstream casing (3), the first upstream casing (2) and the second downstream casing (3) together at least partially delimiting the contour of an enclosure (30) in which at least one fluid (C) to be evacuated is contained, characterized in that it comprises a drainage device (1) comprising at least one drainage orifice (7a, 7b) formed on the flange (6) connecting the first upstream casing (2) and second downstream casing (3), in particular on the upstream flange part (4) of the flange (6), allowing the discharge of said at least one fluid (C) outside the enclosure (30).Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Pamela Dominique Danièle Reichert, Alain Marc Lucien Bromann, Kamel Benderradji, Alexandre Pierre François Leon
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Patent number: 10054049Abstract: An air guidance device for a turbomachine includes an air supply channel of a turbomachine engine. The supply channel has an upstream section and a downstream section connected together by a diverting section, the upstream section and the diverting section being connected together via an internal elbow and an external elbow. At the internal elbow, the internal surface has a groove extending longitudinally in the longitudinal direction of the supply channel and the longitudinal edges of which are widened in the direction of the downstream end of the upstream section of the supply channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Alexandre Gérard François Couilleaux, Romain Jean-Claude Ferrier, Nicolas Joseph Sirvin
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Patent number: 10041679Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes an inner combustor wall and an outer combustor wall radially outboard of the inner combustor wall. The inner and outer combustor walls define a combustion space therebetween with an upstream inlet and a downstream outlet. A combustor dome connects between inner and outer combustor walls at the upstream inlet of the combustion space. The combustor dome includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart nozzles and a plurality of tiles mounted to the combustor dome to fluidly separate a downstream side of the combustor dome from an upstream side of the combustor dome.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: DELAVAN INCInventor: Lev A. Prociw
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Patent number: 10012388Abstract: A fuel supply system includes a first fuel supply line coupled in flow communication with a first fuel nozzle and configured to channel a first fuel flow to the first nozzle. A second fuel supply line coupled in flow communication with a second fuel nozzle and configured to channel a second fuel flow to the second nozzle. A water supply line coupled in flow communication with a water injection nozzle and configured to channel a water flow to the water injection nozzle. An atomizing fluid supply circuit coupled in flow communication with the first and second fuel supply lines. The atomizing fluid supply circuit configured to channel an atomizing fluid flow to an atomizing nozzle and into atomizing contact with the water flow. The atomizing fluid includes a portion of at least one of the first fuel flow and the second fuel flow.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Rajarshi Saha, Sudhakar Todeti
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Patent number: 9995175Abstract: A bearing assembly for a turbine engine includes a first gas bearing configured to receive a load from a rotating shaft of the turbine engine, a transmission disk configured to receive the load from the first gas bearing, and a damping member coupled to a casing of a combustor section of the turbine engine. The transmission disk includes a gas delivery disk, which includes an axial opening configured to facilitate an axial flow through the gas delivery disk and a duct configured to facilitate a radial flow through the gas delivery disk to form the first gas bearing. The damping member is configured to receive the load from the transmission disk.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Thomas Lee Becker, Brandon Wayne Miller, Daniel Alan Niergarth, Bugra Han Ertas
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Patent number: 9964069Abstract: An exhaust nozzle for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a duct having a first surface and a second surface extending about a duct axis to define an exhaust flow path, and at least one effector positioned along the first surface. The at least one effector is pivotable about an effector axis to vary a throat area of the exhaust flow path. The at least one effector tapers along the effector axis. A method of exhaust control for a gas turbine engine is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: Gary D. Roberge
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Patent number: 9958152Abstract: A nozzle cap (82) is disposed at a downstream end of the nozzle. The nozzle cap includes a bore arranged to accommodate a downstream portion of a fluid-injecting lance that extends along a longitudinal axis (18) of the nozzle. The downstream portion of the fluid-injecting lance includes a centrally-located atomizer (80) to form a first atomized ejection cone. An array of atomizers (84) is disposed in the nozzle cap. The array of atomizers is circumferentially disposed about the longitudinal axis of the lance. The array of atomizers may be positioned radially outwardly relative to the centrally-located atomizer to form an array of respective second atomized ejection cones.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Stephen A. Ramier, Vinayak V. Barve, Richard L. Thackway, Charalambos Polyzopoulos, Khalil Farid Abou-Jaoude