Patents Assigned to Pratt & Whitney Canada Ccorp.
  • Sheet metal turbine or compressor static shroud
    Patent number: 6918743
    Abstract: A static shroud for ducting an axial gas flow past an array of blades rotating about an axis, made of a sheet of metal bent to form a contiguous shroud body having a substantially uniform sheet thickness and a uniform axial profile, initiating with an upstream flange flowing into a tip clearance portion and terminating in a downstream flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Ccorp.
    Inventors: Eugene Gekht, Franco Di Paola