Patents Assigned to Allison Advanced Development Company, Inc.
  • Patent number: 7278830
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine blade comprises a housing, a composite core located within the housing, and a gas damper located within the housing for damping vibration of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Allison Advanced Development Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel K. Vetters
  • Patent number: 5609471
    Abstract: A lightweight high temperature multiproperty rotor disk and method of manufacture for use in a gas turbine engine. The rotor disk of a nickel super alloy and having a plurality of lightweight high temperature single crystal blade attachment lugs bonded thereto. The single crystal high temperature rotor blade attachment lugs being cast in a substantially rectangular shape and bonded to the circumference of the disk. A method of manufacturing the rotor includes positioning the plurality of single crystal attachment lugs on a positioning ring that has locating nests formed thereon. Subsequently, the rotor disk is placed within the bonding ring and a restraining ring is placed around the entire subassembly. Upon subjecting the assembly to high temperature the rotor disk, having a coefficient of thermal expansion greater than the coefficient of thermal expansion of the restraining member, forces the components into a mating relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Assignees: Allison Advanced Development Company, Inc., Allison Engine Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Christine M. Frasier, James C. Muskat, Charles J. Teague