Patents Examined by Elton Wong
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Patent number: 9920690Abstract: An air supply device for an aircraft engine turbine, in which device the air is conveyed to at least one aircraft engine turbine after being conveyed through at least one connecting sleeve from a low pressure distributor to a space defined by at least one upstream side and one downstream side, the upstream side having at least one opening and each pierced opening receiving one end of one of the connecting sleeves, wherein the upstream side and the downstream side are secured by at least one fastener. A retaining plate is used for each fastener in order to position a securing element of the fastener, the retaining plate having a supporting surface that blocks each connecting sleeve axially in one direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2013Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Arthur Lou Nicolas Cohin, Audrey Charrie, Jean-Luc Soupizon
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Patent number: 9920633Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil that has a first end. A first platform is located at the first end of the airfoil. A compound fillet includes a first fillet portion tangent to the first platform and an airfoil offset. A second fillet portion is tangent to a surface of the airfoil and the first fillet portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Russell J. Bergman, Jess J. Parkin
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Patent number: 9909455Abstract: An intermediate casing comprising an inner annular hub, an outer annular barrel and an annular part for separating flows situated between the hub and the outer barrel. A primary stream is delimited between the hub and the separation part. A secondary stream is delimited between the separation part and the outer barrel. At least one hollow arm extends radially from the hub to the outer barrel, passing through the primary and secondary streams. A transmission shaft extends radially in the hollow arm. The hollow arm comprises a hydraulic-fluid outlet situated downstream of the transmission shaft. The arm further comprises a bypass channel or pocket able to bypass the transmission shaft.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SneemaInventors: Jerome Etienne Robert Cameau, Laurent Donatien Behaghel, Kévin Michel Robert Contal, Sébastien Nicolas Juigne
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Patent number: 9909503Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a core engine, a fan coupled to be driven by the core engine, a first case structure around the core engine and a second case structure around the fan. The first case structure and the second case structure define a bypass passage there between. A vane structure includes an airfoil extending radially between the first case structure and the second case structure. A seal is configured to control leakage between the bypass passage and a core engine.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Keith T. Salamon, Matthew A. Turner, Christopher M. Quinn
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Patent number: 9909423Abstract: The invention relates to a drum rotor wheel for a fan having bulges to accommodate balancing weights. A drum rotor wheel according to the invention has several blades that are curved forward. The blades have a leading edge and a trailing edge. A top disc and a bottom disc are provided on the drum rotor wheel. At least one blade of the drum rotor wheel has a bulge on its leading edge. This bulge minimizes the area of flow separation, as a result of which the magnitude of the flow separation is likewise minimized. In other words, due to the bulge, the efficiency of the drum rotor wheel is increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: EMB-PAPST MULFINGEN GMBH & CO., KGInventors: Markus Hoff, Katrin Bohl, Reinhard Strohmeier
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Patent number: 9896956Abstract: A support assembly for a gas turbine engine includes at least one inner support that extends about a circumferential axis and defines a cavity for receiving a control ring. At least one cover plate is attached to at least one inner support to enclose the cavity. At least one of the inner support and the cover plate includes a rail and the other of the inner support and the cover plate includes a groove for engaging the rail.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Decari S. Jenkins, Steven J. Bauer
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Patent number: 9896972Abstract: The invention relates to an external composite housing for a compressor of an axial turbomachine, the housing having a generally circular wall with a matrix and fiber reinforcement. The housing includes a circular wall with an internal surface having a continuous curve around the circumference of the wall. The wall includes flat facets that are flush with the internal curved surface of the wall. The facets are arranged in annular rows to receive annular rows of stator vanes. The facets are flat disks against which the vanes bear to optimize the orientation of the vanes, while reducing the concentrations of mechanical stresses at the platform/wall interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Safran Aero Boosters SAInventors: Kris Hoes, Angela Durie, Alain Derclaye
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Patent number: 9879560Abstract: A strut-flap vane system for a turbomachine includes a vane strut comprising an airfoil portion and a strut mount extending in a radially outward direction from the airfoil portion. The strut mount forms a hollow semi-cylinder and includes threading on an outer diameter thereof. The system includes an aft mount portion or portions defining a hollow semi-cylinder configured to form a strut cylinder with the strut mount such that the aft mount portion can be disposed in contact with the strut mount to form the strut cylinder. The strut cylinder defines a cylinder opening and the aft mount portion includes threading on an outer diameter thereof that aligns with the threading of the strut mount to allow a strut spanner nut to mesh with both the strut mount and the mount portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2015Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Enzo Dibenedetto, Matthew E. Bintz
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Patent number: 9869195Abstract: A support assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a control ring that extends about a circumferential axis. A plurality of first supports has a cavity that receives the control ring. A plurality of cover plates are attached to the first plurality of supports and enclose the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew S. Miller, Peter Balawajder
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Patent number: 9869183Abstract: A rotor for a gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a rotor disk rotatable about an axis and a gas path wall coupled to and radially outward of the rotor disk. The gas path wall bounds a radially inward portion of a gas path. A plurality of rotor spokes are radially intermediate the rotor disk and the gas path wall. The plurality of rotor spokes is circumferentially spaced to define a plurality of cooling channels intermediate the rotor disk and the gas path wall. A thermal barrier coating is disposed on a surface of at least one of the plurality of cooling channels. A method of cooling a rotor assembly is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Gabriel L. Suciu, Brian D. Merry, James D. Hill, Wesley K. Lord
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Patent number: 9850768Abstract: In a turbine wheel, each of seal plates is formed from an elastic plate member whose radially intermediate portion is curved projecting toward one axial end surfaces of turbine blades and a turbine disk. The seal plate includes: an assembly recessed portion recessed in a direction getting closer to the one axial end surfaces, near a radially outer end of the plate; and a disassembly protrusion projecting in a direction getting away from the one axial end surfaces, near a radially inner end of the plate. When the recessed portion is pressed for attaching the plate, a tip end of the recessed portion comes into contact with the one axial end surface of each turbine blade or the disk. The plate is accordingly inhibited from being excessively deformed. Thus, the plate is blocked from being plastically deformed, and is precluded from coming off the wheel.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Koji Taima
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Patent number: 9845693Abstract: A surface structure having an overlapping herringbone filmhole pattern is disclosed. For instance, the surface structure may have filmholes arranged in filmrows, each filmrow divided into groups of filmholes. A first group may be oriented to direct cooling air generally outward over a surface of the surface structure and a second group may be oriented to direct cooling air generally inward over a surface of the surface structure. Between the first group and the second group of filmholes in each filmrow, a transition region exists. A transition region filmrow group may be disposed within the transition region and may be collinear with or staggered relative to the first group and/or the second group. In this manner, the transition region filmrow group enhances the effectiveness of the cooling proximate to the transition region.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: Brandon W. Spangler
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Patent number: 9845686Abstract: An airfoil having an overlapping herringbone filmhole pattern is disclosed. For instance, the airfoil may have filmholes arranged in filmrows, each filmrow divided into groups of filmholes. A first group may be oriented to direct cooling air generally radially outward over a surface of the airfoil and a second group may be oriented to direct cooling air generally radially inward over a surface of the airfoil. Between the first group and the second group of filmholes in each filmrow, a transition region exists. A transition region filmrow group may be disposed within the transition region and may be co-linear with or staggered relative to the first group and/or the second group. In this manner, the transition region filmrow group enhances the effectiveness of the cooling proximate to the transition region.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventor: Brandon W. Spangler
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Patent number: 9816385Abstract: A control device of the pitch of blades of a rotor of a propeller is provided. The control device includes: a radial shaft; a pivot connected to the blade, the rotation of the radial shaft driving the rotation of the pivot for the modification of the pitch of the blade; an insert fixed rigidly to the pivot so as to block their relative displacement, the radial shaft being configured to drive in rotation the insert; at least one peg passing through the insert and the pivot for transmission of the rotation of the insert to the pivot; and a heat insulation element arranged between the insert and the pivot, whereof the thermal conductivity is less than the thermal conductivity of the pivot and of the radial shaft.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Sebastien Emile Philippe Tajan, Christophe Paul Jacquemard, Sarah Chartier
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Patent number: 9810238Abstract: A turbine assembly includes a turbine housing and a turbine wheel disposed within the turbine housing. The turbine wheel includes a rotational axis and a plurality of blades. The turbine assembly includes a turbine shroud disposed between the turbine housing and the turbine wheel along a radial direction. The turbine shroud is separate from the turbine housing. The turbine shroud includes an annular portion extending generally in an axial direction with respect to the rotational axis and a plate portion intersecting the annular portion to form a convex curved surface. At least a portion of the blades is disposed in at least a portion of the annular portion. Each blade includes a leading edge and a tip portion. Each leading edge is angled with respect to the rotational axis, and each tip portion forms a concave portion that curves around the curved surface of the turbine shroud.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Richard E. Annati, Jeffrey W. McCormack, Matthew J. Frick
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Patent number: 9797410Abstract: The adjustable wall mounted fan is a device comprising a frame, a mounting plate, a detent, and a positioning device. The frame, mounting plate, and a fan are mounted on the wall. The positioning device raises and lowers the fan vertically and the detent is used to hold the fan is position. The adjustable wall mounted fan is used to improve ventilation in a room.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Inventor: Lawrence Tucker
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Patent number: 9790951Abstract: A shaftless fan includes a fan stator, a vane rotor and a rolling bearing. The rolling bearing is installed between the fan stator and the vane rotor and includes an inner ring, an outer ring, and a plurality of rolling elements rollably installed between the inner and outer rings, and the inner and outer rings of the rolling bearing are rotated in opposite direction with respect to each other, so that the vane rotor can be rotated on the fan stator to connect the fan stator with the vane rotor through the rolling bearing, so as to achieve the shaftless effect.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: COOLER MASTER (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Fu-Lung Lin, Hui-Hai Yang, Tong-Xian Chen
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Patent number: 9771856Abstract: A centrifugal compressor having a casing that houses an impeller allowing rotation about a rotational axis C, a gas channel, a treatment hollow part provided inside the casing, a first channel open to the gas channel on the downstream side of the blade leading edge of the impeller, a second channel open to the gas channel at the upstream side of the blade leading edge, a guide vane that imparts a swirl component in an opposite rotational direction of the impeller to gas discharged from the second channel, a constricting part that constricts the gas channel, and a rectifying part that rectifies gas in a direction that minimizes the swirl component about the rotational axis C and also increases the component in the direction of the rotational axis C.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hidefumi Nakao
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Patent number: 9752593Abstract: A fan casing for fitment around an array of radially extending fan blades of a gas turbine engine. The fan casing includes an annular casing element; and an annular fan track liner positioned radially inward of the annular casing element. The fan track liner includes an abradable layer and an abrasive layer, the abrasive layer being positioned radially inward of the abradable layer and proximal, in use, to the fan blades.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventor: Adam M Bagnall