Patents Examined by Christopher Verdier
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Patent number: 11428112Abstract: A propulsion system including a casing surrounding a fan rotor assembly is provided. An example casing includes an outer layer material, an inner layer material including first openings extended partially through the inner layer material along a radial direction of a first side of the inner layer material, and second openings extended partially through the inner layer material along the radial direction of a second side of the inner layer material opposite the first side, and a spring member coupled to the outer layer material and the inner layer material.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Nicholas Joseph Kray, Nitesh Jain, Manoj Kumar Jain
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Patent number: 11421557Abstract: Turbomachines and methods for coupling first and second turbomachine components are provided. The components include castellated flange arrangements that provide an improved retention method for retaining the components that is far superior in than bolts and nuts, especially for massive unbalance loading.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Shawn Alstad, Laurence D. N. Liston
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Patent number: 11415017Abstract: A sealing assembly for sealing a gap between a first component and a second component is provided. The sealing assembly includes a sealing body disposed between the first component and the second component and a pressing member disposed between the sealing body and the second component, configured to press the sealing body toward the first component, and configured to extend and compress in a circumferential direction of the first component.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Inventor: Eui Jun Ju
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Patent number: 11414998Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil portion having a hollow portion extending along the blade height direction and film cooling holes arranged along the blade height direction, and an insert disposed in the hollow portion along the blade height direction and having impingement cooling holes. The insert includes a first high-density opening region having a higher density of the impingement cooling holes than in other surface regions of the insert. The geometric center of the first high-density opening region is positioned on the suction side of the airfoil portion in the leading-edge-to-trailing-edge direction and on the outer side of the midpoint of the airfoil portion in the blade height direction. The film cooling holes includes upstream film cooling holes disposed in the suction surface of the airfoil portion at a position corresponding to the first high-density opening region or at a position closer to a leading edge than the position.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Fujii, Hidemichi Koyabu, Shunsuke Torii, Satoshi Hada
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Patent number: 11407494Abstract: A method of controlling a propeller assembly, having a blade, piston end cap, and piston, with a pitch control unit, having a transfer bearing and a blade angle unit, the method comprising: axially moving a transfer tube relative to and circumscribing the transfer bearing, and sensing an axial movement of the transfer tube with the blade angle unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LimitedInventor: Christopher Roy Carrington
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Patent number: 11409344Abstract: A head-mounted heat dissipation device includes a fan assembly and a wearing assembly. The wearing assembly is connected to the fan assembly to fix the fan assembly onto a head of a user. The fan assembly includes a casing and fans arranged in the casing. Air inlets and air outlets are defined in the casing. The air outlets are located on an inner side of the bottom surface of the casing, so that the air from the air outlets can be blown to the user's face. In addition, air guide strips are arranged side by side on a side of the air outlet within the casing for concealing the operation of the fans.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignees: Guangzhou Tuowan Digital Technology Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Three Point One Design Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yanming Chen, Jiangtao Wu, Weicheng Zhuo, Canjie Lu
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Patent number: 11401815Abstract: A bladed rotor system for a turbomachine includes a circumferential row of blades mounted on a rotor disc, and includes a plurality of under-platform dampers. Each damper is located between adjacent blade platforms. The plurality of dampers includes a first set of dampers and a second set of dampers. The dampers of the first set are distinguished from the dampers of the second set by a cross-sectional material distribution in the damper that is unique to the respective set. Dampers of the first set and the second set are positioned alternately in a periodic fashion in a circumferential direction, to provide a frequency mistuning to stabilize flutter of the blades.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Yuekun Zhou
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Patent number: 11396888Abstract: A guide vane within an annular inlet duct of a gas-turbine engine provides for generating swirl within an annular inlet duct so as to provide for reducing the rate of deceleration of the inlet air flow within the annular inlet duct while providing for diffusion of the meridional component of velocity thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: WILLIAMS INTERNATIONAL CO., L.L.C.Inventors: Dean S. Musgrave, Nicklos J. Plehn, II
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Patent number: 11391170Abstract: A turbine of a turbo engine including a casing and a turbine nozzle stage, the turbine nozzle stage including an outer metal shroud secured to the casing, an inner metal shroud, and a plurality of ring sectors made of ceramic-matrix composite material forming a crown extending between the outer metal shroud and the inner metal shroud and having an internal shroud and an external shroud, each ring sector having an internal platform forming a portion of the internal shroud, an external platform forming a portion of the external shroud, and at least one blade extending between the external platform and the internal platform and secured thereto. Each sector is fixed to the outer metal shroud using at least one assembly including a screw and a nut, the screw passing through the outer platform of the sector and the outer metal shroud.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Lucien Henri Jacques Quennehen, Antoine Claude Michel Etienne Danis, Clément Jean Pierre Duffau, Clément Jarrossay, Nicolas Paul Tableau
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Patent number: 11384644Abstract: A structure for cooling a turbine airfoil includes: a cooling passage formed between a first airfoil wall curved as to be concave relative to a high-temperature gas passage and a second airfoil wall curved so as to be convex relative to the high-temperature gas passage; lattice structure bodies each formed by stacking a plurality of ribs in a lattice pattern; a partition body provided between the adjacent lattice structure bodies; a cooling medium discharge port for discharging a cooling medium within the cooling passage to the outside; and an exposed wall portion formed as a portion of the second airfoil wall extending beyond the cooling medium discharge port to the outside. At outlet portions of the lattice structure bodies adjacent to each other across the partition body, adjacent first rib sets and second rib sets are inclined in opposite directions relative to the partition body, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoko Tsuru, Katsuhiko Ishida
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Patent number: 11384764Abstract: A containment shell for a magnetic pump, the shell comprising: a body section having a continuous side wall defining a chamber, and an end wall closing the chamber at one end, the chamber being open at the other end, wherein the body section and the end wall are integrally formed from a matrix material in which chopped carbon fibre material is distributed.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: HMD Seal/Less Pumps LimitedInventor: Martin Stuart
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Patent number: 11377965Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine includes, among other things, an airfoil that extends between a leading edge and a trailing edge and a cooling circuit disposed inside of the airfoil. The cooling circuit includes at least one core cavity that extends inside of the airfoil, a baffle received within the at least one core cavity, a plurality of pedestals positioned adjacent to the at least one core cavity and a first plurality of axial ribs positioned between the plurality of pedestals and the trailing edge of the airfoil.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Shawn J. Gregg, Dominic J. Mongillo, Michael Leslie Clyde Papple, Russell J. Bergman, Mohammed Ennacer
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Patent number: 11377956Abstract: A flow inducer assembly and a method for cooling turbine blades of a gas turbine engine are presented. The gas turbine engine includes a rotor disk having circumferentially distributed disk grooves and turbine blades. Each turbine blade includes a blade root inserted into blade mounting section of the disk groove. Seal plates are attached to an aft side circumference of the rotor disk. The flow inducer assembly is integrated to each seal plate at a side facing away from the rotor disk. The flow inducer assembly is configured to function as a paddle due to rotation of the rotor disk and the seal plate therewith during operation of the gas turbine engine to drive ambient air as a cooling fluid into the disk cavity and enter inside of the turbine blade from the blade root for cooling the turbine blade.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Peter Schröder, Christopher W. Ross, Santiago R. Salazar, Patrick M. Pilapil, Roger Matthews, Kevin Kampka, Joana Verheyen, Ching-Pang Lee, Javan Albright, James McCoy, Sin Chien Siw, Kok-Mun Tham
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Patent number: 11371438Abstract: A cooled machine component having a body with at least one integrated cooling channel having a lattice structure for guiding a cooling fluid through an interior, the lattice structure arranged as a void space penetrated by a plurality of hollow or solid struts. The lattice structure has an inlet for providing the cooling fluid to be guided through the void space of the lattice structure, and has an outlet for receiving the cooling fluid, the outlet being fluidically connected to a hollow interior of at least one of the plurality of hollow struts. At least a subset of the hollow struts provides a fluidic connection for cooling fluid from the outlet to a plurality of further downstream discharge ports. Walls of the body surrounding each of the plurality of further downstream discharge ports are physically connected to corresponding jackets of the at least one of the plurality of hollow struts.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Jan-Erik Lundgren, Erik Munktell
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Patent number: 11371375Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a shaft and a heatshield that circumscribes the shaft. The heatshield defines a cylindrical body that has radially inner and outer sides and extends between first and second axial ends. The heatshield is exclusively supported on the shaft at the first and second axial ends. The heatshield includes at least one seal member on the radially outer side. A damper member is disposed at the radially inner side of the heatshield for attenuating vibration of the heatshield.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Joshua G. LaPera, Julian Partyka, Timothy J. Harding
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Patent number: 11371363Abstract: A tip shroud may include a pair of opposed, axially extending wings configured to couple to an airfoil at a radially outer end thereof. The tip shroud also includes a tip rail extending radially from the pair of opposed, axially extending wings. Tip shroud surface profiles may be of the downstream and/or upstream side of the tip rail, a leading and/or trailing Z-notch of the tip shroud, and/or upstream and/or downstream radially outer surfaces of a wing. The surface profiles may have a nominal profile in accordance with at least part of Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, Z and perhaps thickness, set forth in a respective table.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Michael James Gutta, William Scott Zemitis
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Patent number: 11365643Abstract: A sealing flange sector for a turbomachine rotor disc includes a radially outer part which is configured to bear at least partly against blades of the turbomachine rotor disc to ensure sealing between the blades and a radially inner part configured to bear on an annular strip mounted on a face of the turbomachine rotor disc, the radially inner part having a first groove disposed radially outwardly of a second groove. The first groove includes at least one foolproofing element.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Pierre-Alain Francis Claude Sebrecht, Nishanth Thomas Rajaratnam
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Patent number: 11365716Abstract: This application provides a control method and device for avoiding run-away, and a wind turbine. The method may include: determining whether a brake system of the wind turbine has failed; if the brake system has failed, calculating an initial crosswind position based on a current wind direction angle, and enabling a yaw system of the wind turbine to perform a crosswind operation based on the initial crosswind position; performing a long-period and short-period filter processing on wind direction data acquired during a crosswind process to obtain an average and instantaneous wind direction angle respectively; determining whether a wind direction has a sudden change based on the average and instantaneous wind direction angle; and if the wind direction has a sudden change, calculating a new crosswind position based on the average wind direction angle, and enabling the yaw system to perform a crosswind operation based on the new crosswind position.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: BEIJING GOLDWIND SCIENCE & CREATION WINDPOWER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Changliang Sun
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Patent number: 11359496Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine, comprising: first and second walls; a coolant channel defined by the space between the first and second walls; and a first rib extending between the first and second walls to the end of the coolant channel in a coolant flow direction, such that the coolant channel is bifurcated in the coolant flow direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLCInventor: Adrian L. Harding
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Patent number: 11359636Abstract: A vacuum pump comprises: a rotor; a stator; a rolling bearing configured to support a rotor shaft provided at the rotor; and a vibration sensor configured to detect vibration of the rolling bearing.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Shimadzu CorporationInventors: Toshifumi Hashimoto, Nobuhiko Moriyama