Patents Examined by Stephanie Cheng
  • Patent number: 10190438
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Stephen Langford, Fabien Lescher
  • Patent number: 10190774
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Joshua Tyler Mook, Jason Joseph Bellardi, Ting-Yu Tu
  • Patent number: 10184426
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Rohr, Inc.
    Inventor: Johann S. Schrell
  • Patent number: 10174676
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Hashimoto, Takuro Kameda
  • Patent number: 10151485
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Nicolas Lunel, Denis Jean Maurice Sandelis
  • Patent number: 10151486
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Jonathan P. Sandoval
  • Patent number: 10125721
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Olivier Kerbler, Olivier Gilo, Patrick Gonidec
  • Patent number: 10125993
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Beck, Stefan Dederichs, Olga Deiss, Berthold Köstlin
  • Patent number: 10094565
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Tanaka, Satoshi Takiguchi, Keijiro Saito, Shinji Akamatsu
  • Patent number: 10088161
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Drake, Stanislav Kostka, Jr., Frank J. Cunha
  • Patent number: 10077714
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce plc
    Inventors: Randall D. Siders, Peter J. Schnoebelen, Brandon P. Williams, Neal Thomson, Philip E. O. Buelow, David H. Bretz
  • Patent number: 10071812
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Maria Natal, Arnaud Ple
  • Patent number: 10066507
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Francis Parnin
  • Patent number: 10066509
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Pamela Dominique Danièle Reichert, Alain Marc Lucien Bromann, Kamel Benderradji, Alexandre Pierre François Leon
  • Patent number: 10054049
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Alexandre Gérard François Couilleaux, Romain Jean-Claude Ferrier, Nicolas Joseph Sirvin
  • Patent number: 10041679
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: DELAVAN INC
    Inventor: Lev A. Prociw
  • Patent number: 10012388
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rajarshi Saha, Sudhakar Todeti
  • Patent number: 9995175
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas Lee Becker, Brandon Wayne Miller, Daniel Alan Niergarth, Bugra Han Ertas
  • Patent number: 9964069
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gary D. Roberge
  • Patent number: 9958152
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stephen A. Ramier, Vinayak V. Barve, Richard L. Thackway, Charalambos Polyzopoulos, Khalil Farid Abou-Jaoude