Patents Examined by Arun Goyal
  • Patent number: 10273904
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fairing (37) for a mixer (28) of a nozzle (26) of a dual-flow turbomachine (20), said mixer being of an overall annular shape and extending along a longitudinal axis (24) of the turbomachine, said mixer comprising an upstream part (29) provided with a flange (31) extending radially toward the outside of the mixer, intended to be fastened to an exhaust casing (21) of the turbomachine, and a downstream part (33) forming a flow mixing area, the fairing (37) being of an overall annular shape and configured to extend around the upstream part (29) of the mixer (28) and to be attached to the flange (31) of said upstream part (29), the fairing being without means for fastening to the downstream part (33) of the mixer (28), in such a way as to connect the fairing (37) to the mixer (28) at a distance from the flow mixing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Benoit Argemiro Matthieu Debray, Mario Cesar De Sousa, Gregory Ghosarossian-Prillieux, Frederic Noel
  • Patent number: 10260752
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes a plurality of transition ducts disposed in a generally annular array. Each of the plurality of transition ducts includes an inlet, an outlet, and a passage defining an interior and extending between the inlet and the outlet and defining a longitudinal axis, a radial axis, and a tangential axis. The outlet of each of the plurality of transition ducts is offset from the inlet along the longitudinal axis and the tangential axis. The turbomachine includes a support ring assembly downstream of the plurality of transition ducts along a hot gas path, and a plurality of mechanical fasteners connecting at least one transition duct of the plurality of transition ducts to the support ring assembly. The turbomachine includes a late injection assembly providing fluid communication for an injection fluid to flow into the interior downstream of the inlet of at least one transition duct of the plurality of transition ducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey Scott LeBegue, Kevin Weston McMahan, James Scott Flanagan
  • Patent number: 10260424
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes a plurality of transition ducts disposed in a generally annular array. Each transition duct includes an inlet, an outlet, and a passage defining an interior and extending between the inlet and the outlet and defining a longitudinal axis, a radial axis, and a tangential axis. The outlet of each transition duct is offset from the inlet along the longitudinal axis and the tangential axis. Each transition duct further includes an upstream portion and a downstream portion. The turbomachine further includes a late injection assembly disposed between the upstream portion and the downstream portion of a transition duct and which provides fluid communication for an injection fluid to flow into the interior downstream of the inlet of the transition duct. The late injection assembly includes a late injection ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Scott Flanagan, Kevin Weston McMahan, Jeffrey Scott LeBegue
  • Patent number: 10253691
    Abstract: A device for protecting aircraft equipment against contact by a foreign object including an interference arrangement disposed in an air inlet upstream from the aircraft equipment where the interference arrangement is configured to physically obstruct passage of the foreign object within the air inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: C SERIES AIRCRAFT LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
    Inventors: Sigit Afrianto, Jean Brousseau
  • Patent number: 10215095
    Abstract: A gas turbine system (1A) includes a gas turbine unit (2) and a cooling fluid generator (5). The gas turbine unit (2) includes a first compressor (21) and a first expansion turbine (23) coupled to each other by a first shaft (22), a combustor (26), and a fuel tank (30). A fuel held in the fuel tank (30) circulates through a fuel circulation passage (31). A working fluid that has a pressure increased by the first compressor (1) is extracted from the gas turbine unit (2). The cooling fluid generator (5) includes a cooler (55) for cooling, with the fuel flowing through the fuel circulation passage (31), the working fluid that has been extracted from the gas turbine unit (2), and a second expansion turbine (53) for expanding the working fluid that has flowed out of the cooler (55).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Taguchi, Fumitoshi Nishiwaki, Kou Komori, Tomoichiro Tamura, Subaru Matsumoto
  • 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: 10190776
    Abstract: A fuel injector system with a fuel feed arm extending inwardly from an outer casing of combustion equipment of a gas turbine engine to a flame tube of the equipment, which ends in an injection nozzle which penetrates a head of the tube to deliver fuel. The system has a swirler arranged coaxially with the nozzle at the head of the tube, including one or more circuits which produce flows of swirling air around the fuel. A seal ring seals the nozzle to the swirler, the nozzle being removably inserted into the ring. The ring has a flange portion, and the swirler has a pair of spaced retention grooves at a front face thereof. Opposite edges of the flange portion slidingly locate in the grooves so it sealingly engages to the front face. The swirler has a spring mechanism which retains the flange portion in the grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Alan Geary, Keith Bell
  • 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: 10184403
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle for a gas turbine engine. The nozzle has a body and a center axis. The body has an inner circumferential surface circumscribing a central passageway which is coaxial with the center axis. The nozzle also has air passages which extend predominantly radially inward through the body. The air passage outlets of each air passage are circumferentially spaced apart from one another along the inner circumferential surface. Each air passage conveys air through the body toward the nozzle center axis and into the central passageway. The nozzle also has fuel passages which extend through the body. Each fuel passage is disposed within the body between adjacent circumferentially spaced apart air passages and is transverse to the direction of extension of its neighboring air passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Kian McCaldon, Oleg Morenko
  • Patent number: 10184358
    Abstract: A retractable exhaust liner segment according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, at least one liner segment extending between a forward end and an aft end. The forward end of the at least one liner segment is configured to overlap an aft end of an engine structure and the aft end of the at least one liner segment is configured to overlap a forward end of an exhaust liner when in an assembled position. The at least one liner is configured such that a gap exists between the at least one liner segment and one of the engine structure and the exhaust liner when the at least one liner segment is moved along an axis in a first direction to a disassembled position. The gap closes as the at least one liner segment is moved along the axis in a second, different direction to the assembled position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Dale William Petty
  • Patent number: 10167738
    Abstract: A turbine engine case spacer includes an air seal and a flange. The air seal is snap fit to the flange, and each flange includes at least two distinct material layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Richard K. Hayford, Paul M. Lutjen
  • Patent number: 10167781
    Abstract: An igniter assembly for a combustion system of a gas turbine engine is provided. The igniter assembly includes an igniter plug having a tip which, in use, is located at an aperture in a wall of a flame-tube of the combustion system such that the tip can provide an electrical discharge to ignite an air-fuel mixture within the flame-tube. The igniter assembly further includes a substantially annular igniter boss which locates on the wall of the flame-tube at the aperture to encircle the tip. The igniter boss has a slot formed therein at one side of the tip. An entrance of the slot receives air from outside the flame-tube and an exit of the slot delivers the air as a sheet-shaped flow over the tip. The slot is tapered such that the thickness of the slot narrows from its entrance to its exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: Ian James Toon
  • Patent number: 10156362
    Abstract: A fuel supply system includes a fuel reformer in contact with at least one of a combustion chamber or a wall of the combustion chamber. The fuel reformer includes a reformer chamber wall enclosing a fuel reformer chamber, and a reforming catalyst support sheet in the fuel reformer chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10156191
    Abstract: A stroke transmitter is presented. The stroke transmitter includes a conduit for providing a passage to a fluid, an actuating unit for increasing pressure in an hydraulic fluid, a valve unit configured to operate depending on the pressure of the hydraulic fluid, the valve unit arranged inside the conduit to regulate a flow of the fluid, and a pipe connecting the actuating unit and the valve unit for communicating the pressure of the hydraulic fluid between the actuating unit and the valve unit. The actuating unit is arranged outside the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Georg Bachmaier, Michael Höge, Joachim Nordin
  • Patent number: 10156192
    Abstract: The present application provides a multiple fuel delivery system for use with a gas turbine engine. The multiple fuel delivery system may include a first fuel tank with a first fuel therein, a second fuel tank with a second fuel therein, a mixing chamber, and a flow divider downstream of the mixing chamber. The first fuel tank may be in communication with the mixing chamber via a first fuel pump and the second fuel tank may be in communication with the mixing chamber via a second fuel pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Alston Ilford Scipio, Paul Robert Fernandez, Thomas John Freeman, Sanji Ekanayake
  • Patent number: 10141617
    Abstract: A power plant system is provided having a high temperature battery, supplied with fluid via at least one supply line, for storing and releasing electrical energy, a gas turbine for generating electrical energy, and a heat exchanger which is designed to extract thermal energy from the exhaust stream of the gas turbine and transfer said thermal energy to the fluid, which fluid can be supplied after heat transfer to the high temperature battery via the at least one supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marc Hanebuth, Sylvio Kosse, Uwe Lenk
  • Patent number: 10125690
    Abstract: A start-up system including a control system controlling a partial opening of an air intake valve of a start-up turbine during a first phase of the start-up. The start-up turbine is capable of turning a rotor of the turbomachine for the purpose of the start-up, so as to prevent the rotor from encountering critical frequencies of the turbomachine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L., GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Patrick Zaccaria, Philippe Chareyre, Pio Fernandez-Lopez, Carlos Casado-Montero, Amid Ansari, Thomas Earl Gillingham, Robert Charles Hon, Daniel Roy Kiracofe, Kenneth Kirchmayer, Michael Scott McCambridge, Tod Robert Steen
  • Patent number: 10113485
    Abstract: A device for the extraction of bleed air from flowing air at or in an aircraft engine is provided. The device includes a means for specific adjustment of an inlet cross section of an opening at or in the area of a wall of the aircraft engine and a flow guide means for a boundary layer flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Sascha Burghardt, Volker Guemmer
  • Patent number: 10107120
    Abstract: A mid-turbine frame (MTF) for a gas turbine engine includes an inner manifold directing air to a turbine rotor of the gas turbine engine. The MTF includes an outer MTF case and an inner MTF case. The inner manifold of the MTF is located in the inner case of the MTF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Paul K. Sanchez, John S. Tu, Kalpendu J. Parekh, William A. Daniels
  • Patent number: 10107193
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprises a fan at an axially outer location, the fan rotating about an axis of rotation, delivering air into an outer bypass duct, a radially middle duct, and a radially inner core duct. Air from the inner core duct is directed into a compressor, and then flows axially in a direction back toward the fan through a combustor section, and across a core turbine section, and is then directed into the middle duct. A gear reduction drives the fan from a fan drive turbine section. A method of operating a gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Bernard Kupratis, Francis R. Moon