Patents Assigned to MRA Systems, LLC
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Patent number: 12134480Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system includes an engine assembly including a fan that moves air, and a cowl that surrounds at least a portion of the engine assembly when the cowl is in a closed position. The cowl includes an outer surface arranged away from the engine assembly that provides an aerodynamic surface. The aircraft propulsion system also includes a cowl mechanism connected to the cowl and configured to guide the cowl along a movement path from the closed position to an open position. In the open position, an entirety of the cowl is arranged farther away from a horizontal plane passing through a rotating axis of the fan than in the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: MRA SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Daniel Sosnosky, Thomas Weir, Robert Klingele
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Patent number: 11915679Abstract: An acoustic liner is provided. The acoustic liner includes a face sheet, a back sheet spaced from the face sheet, and a core layer defining a cellular structure disposed between the face sheet and the back sheet. The core layer includes a plurality of first resonant cells coupled to the back sheet. Each of the first resonant cells includes a first cell wall coupled to the back sheet along a first cell wall base edge, the first cell wall extending from the back sheet toward the face sheet, the first cell wall further coupled to the face sheet along a first cell wall top edge, wherein the first cell wall of each of the first resonant cells comprises a surface extension that extends from a surface of the first cell wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: General Electric Company, MRA Systems, LLCInventors: Wendy Wenling Lin, Michael Moses Martinez, Rudramuni Kariveerappa Majjigi, David Patrick Calder, Aaron Goldsholl
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Patent number: 11434819Abstract: An acoustic liner may include an acoustic core having an array of resonant cells, and an acoustic screen disposed across the array of resonant cells. The resonant cells include a plurality of cell walls and a resonant space defined by the plurality of cell walls. The acoustic core may include a folded acoustic core. Additionally, or in the alternative, at least some of the resonant cells may include an oblique polyhedral cellular structure and/or a multitude of sound-attenuating protuberances. The acoustic screen may include a reticulate membrane and a support lattice.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignees: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, MRA SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Shanmugam Murugappan, Michael Moses Martinez, Egbert Geertsema, Rudramuni Kariveerappa Majjigi, Richard David Cedar, Wendy Wenling Lin, Robert William Davidoff, David Patrick Calder, Graham Frank Howarth
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Patent number: 11378037Abstract: An apparatus and method of operating a translating cowl for a turbine engine. The translating cowl is moveable between a first position and a second position. The translating cowl includes a fixed cascade element located within and a blocker door that is operably coupled to die translating cowl. Hie blocker door is movable between a stowed position and a deployed position.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: MRA SYSTEMS, LLCInventor: Qiming Song
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Publication number: 20220177148Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system includes an engine assembly including a fan that moves air, and a cowl that surrounds at least a portion of the engine assembly when the cowl is in a closed position. The cowl includes an outer surface arranged away from the engine assembly that provides an aerodynamic surface. The aircraft propulsion system also includes a cowl mechanism connected to the cowl and configured to guide the cowl along a movement path from the closed position to an open position. In the open position, an entirety of the cowl is arranged farther away from a horizontal plane passing through a rotating axis of the fan than in the closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: MRA SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Daniel SOSNOSKY, Thomas WEIR, Robert KLINGELE
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Patent number: 11227576Abstract: An acoustic liner and a method of attenuating noise are provided. The acoustic liner includes a face sheet, a back sheet spaced from the face sheet, and a core layer extending between the face sheet and the back sheet. The core layer includes a plurality of resonant cells, each resonant cell including at least one cell wall coupled to the back sheet along a cell wall base edge. The at least one cell wall extends from the back sheet at an angle toward the face sheet. The at least one cell wall further coupled to the face sheet along a cell wall top edge. The resonant cell is formed in a predetermined shape and contains a volume in a space defined by the at least one cell wall, the back sheet, and the face sheet. The cell wall base edge length is greater than the cell wall top edge length.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignees: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, MRA SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Wendy Wenling Lin, Michael Moses Martinez, Rudramuni Kariveerappa Majjigi, David Patrick Calder, Aaron Goldsholl
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Patent number: 11149686Abstract: A thrust reverser assembly for a gas turbine engine including a core engine, a nacelle surrounding at least a portion of the core engine defining a bypass duct between the nacelle and the core engine where an outer door movable between a stowed position and a deployed position extends outwards from the nacelle and a blocker door movable between a stowed position and a deployed position extends into an airflow conduit defined by the bypass duct to deflect air outwards.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: MRA SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: David Patrick Calder, Graham Frank Howarth, Andrew Michael Roach, Timothy Robert Beasman
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Patent number: 11060331Abstract: A latch assembly for a door is provided. The latch assembly includes a latch keep carried by one of the door and the surrounding structure and having a strike seat in which a strike may be removably received, a latch carried by the other of the door and the surrounding structure and having a catch configured to engage the strike, and a cable having a first portion secured to the other of the door and the surrounding structure and a second portion carrying the strike.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: MRA SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Yantao Liang, Quan Zhou
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Patent number: 10971128Abstract: An acoustic liner (20) with perforation (30) and method of constructing (100) an acoustic liner including forming perforations in the facing sheet by grit blasting (104) the facing sheet and mounting (106) the facing sheet to one side of a support layer having a set of partitioned cavities wherein the facing sheet closes an open face of the cavities except for the perforations to form a set of acoustic resonator cells.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: MRA SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Andrew Michael Roach, Graham Frank Howarth, Steven Thomas Davies, Richard David Cedar, Michael Moses Martinez, Timothy Richard Depuy
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Patent number: 10961913Abstract: An acoustic liner for a turbine engine, the acoustic liner includes a support layer that includes a set of partitioned cavities with open faces, a facing sheet operably coupled to the support layer such that the facing sheet overlies and closes the open faces, a set of perforations located in the facing sheet and in fluid communication with a corresponding one of the cavities to form a set of acoustic resonators, and at least a subset of the perforations have an axially-oriented, relative to the axial flow path, inlet.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2015Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: MRA SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Graham Frank Howarth, Andrew Michael Roach, Steven Thomas Davies, Richard David Cedar, Michael Moses Martinez, Timothy Richard DePuy
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Patent number: 10837368Abstract: An acoustic liner can comprise a support layer including a set of partitioned cavities defining a set of cells with open faces, as well as a first and second facing sheet operably coupled to the support layer that overlie and close the open faces. A set of aerogel fillings can be provided within at least some of the set of cells.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: MRA SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Graham Frank Howarth, David Patrick Calder, Andrew Michael Roach
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Patent number: 10634060Abstract: A method and apparatus for a gas turbine engine including a core engine a nacelle surrounding at least a portion of the core engine and defining an interior with an opening. An access door for the opening to provide selective access to the opening where the access door provides pressure relief for the interior.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: MRA SYSTEMS, LLCInventor: Qiming Song
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Patent number: 10578055Abstract: A thrust reverser assembly for a turbine engine can include a core engine surrounded by a nacelle. A bypass duct can be formed in the space between the core engine and the nacelle. A blocker door can be movable to a deployed position extending into the bypass duct. A stop can be provided on the core engine to abut and support force applied to the deployed blocker door. The stop can have an airfoil shape.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: MRA Systems, LLCInventors: David Patrick Calder, Keith E J Blodgett, Graham Frank Howarth, Andrew Michael Roach
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Patent number: 10570853Abstract: A thrust reverser assembly for a gas turbine engine including a core engine, a nacelle surrounding at least a portion of the core engine to define a bypass duct between the nacelle and the core engine, including a translating cowl moveable between a first position and a second position, a blocker door movable between a stowed position and a deployed position. The thrust reverser assembly includes multiple actuator assemblies to both translate the cowl and deploy the blocker door.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: MRA Systems, LLCInventor: Cezary Chmielewski
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Patent number: 10563578Abstract: An acoustic liner for a turbine engine, the acoustic liner includes a support layer that includes a set of partitioned cavities with open faces, a perforated sheet that includes a set of perforations with corresponding inlets, the perforated sheet supported by the support layer such that perforations are in overlying relationship with the open faces to form paired perforations and cavities that define acoustic resonator cells, and a coating applied to the perforated sheet.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: MRA Systems, LLCInventors: Andrew Michael Roach, Richard David Cedar, Steven Thomas Davies, Timothy Richard Depuy, Graham Frank Howarth, Michael Moses Martinez
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Patent number: 10563615Abstract: A gas turbine engine and thrust reverser assembly having a set of outer doors movable between a stowed position and a deployed position, where the set of outer doors extends outwards from the nacelle and a set of blocker doors movable between a stowed position and an deployed position, where the set of blocker door extends into an air flow conduit defined by the bypass duct to deflect air outwards.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: MRA SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Graham Frank Howarth, Andrew Michael Roach, Timothy Robert Beasman
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Patent number: 10550797Abstract: A turbine engine having an engine core, an inner cowl radially surrounding the engine core, an outer cowl radially surrounding the inner cowl and spaced from the inner cowl to form an annular passage between the inner and outer cowls that defines a nozzle, at least one control surface provided on the inner cowl and movable between a retracted position, where the nozzle has a first cross-sectional area, and an extended position where the nozzle has a second cross-sectional area that is less than the first cross-sectional area and an actuator operably coupled to the control surface and configured to move the control surface to control the cross-sectional area of the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2015Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: MRA Systems, LLCInventors: Graham Frank Howarth, David Patrick Calder
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Patent number: 10337408Abstract: A thermal insulation blanket assembly having a thermal insulation blanket including an aerogel insulation material having a first surface and a second surface that is oppositely-disposed from the first surface, a backing covering the second surface of the aerogel insulation material, and a skin layer covering the first surface of the aerogel insulation material.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: MRA Systems, LLCInventors: Andrew Michael Roach, David Patrick Calder, Graham Frank Howarth
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Patent number: 10332501Abstract: An acoustic liner and a method of attenuating noise are provided. The acoustic liner includes a face sheet, a back sheet spaced from the face sheet, and a core layer extending between the face sheet and the back sheet. The core layer includes a plurality of resonant cells, each resonant cell including at least one cell wall coupled to the back sheet along a cell wall base edge. The at least one cell wall extends from the back sheet at an angle toward the face sheet. The at least one cell wall further coupled to the face sheet along a cell wall top edge. The resonant cell is formed in a predetermined shape and contains a volume in a space defined by the at least one cell wall, the back sheet, and the face sheet. The cell wall base edge length is greater than the cell wall top edge length.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignees: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, MRA SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Wendy Wenling Lin, Michael Moses Martinez, Rudramuni Kariveerappa Majjigi, David Patrick Calder, Aaron Goldsholl
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Patent number: 10266273Abstract: An aircraft engine pylon having an upper fitting, an upper panel located below the upper fitting, a shear pin at least partially coupling the upper fitting and the upper panel, and tension fasteners at least partially coupling the upper fitting and the upper panel with the shear pin defining a shear force load path and the tension fasteners defining tension force load paths.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2013Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: MRA Systems, LLCInventors: Yanxiang Kang, Mingchao Yuan, Xueliang Fang