Patents Examined by Igor Kershteyn
  • Patent number: 11585230
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly for a turbomachine, comprising a stator (1) and a rotor (2) rotatable relative to the stator (1) about an axis, the rotor (2) comprising blades each ×comprising a vane (3) connected to a radially inner platform (5), a block of abradable material (6) extending radially inwardly from the radially inner platform (5) the stator (1) having a shroud comprising an annular area (9), at least one lug (12) extending radially outwardly from said annular area (9), the radially outer end of the lug (12) cooperating with the block of abradable material (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Alexis Hector Ulysse George, Christophe Scholtes, Antoine Robert Alain Brunet
  • Patent number: 11578600
    Abstract: A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine has an airfoil including leading and trailing edges joined by spaced-apart pressure and suction sides to provide an exterior airfoil surface extending from a platform in a spanwise direction to a tip. The external airfoil surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil described by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Table 1, the Cartesian coordinates provided by an axial coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, a circumferential coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, and a span location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Marc Tardif, Francois Roy, Jonathan Dorai, Mohammed Ennacer, Benjamin Luymes
  • Patent number: 11580633
    Abstract: A control device controls sectors for the assembly of turbine stators of a turbine. Each turbine stator is formed of an assembly of sectors juxtaposed to one another, and each sector has a reference. The control device includes an automated system for identifying the sector with means for reading the sector reference, a database of the references of the sectors that form the turbine stators of the turbine, and means for associating the read reference of the sector with a determined turbine stator of the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Enguerrand Frédéric De Agostini, Carlos Alves De Matos, Florian Chauvel, Baptiste Eparvier, Mathias Gagliardo, Abner Wysidi
  • Patent number: 11577066
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid pump device, in particular for the medical application, with a compressible pump housing and rotor, as well as with an actuation means which runs in the sleeve and on whose end the fluid pump is arranged. In order to utilize all possibilities of a space-saving arrangement of the respective pump housing of the rotor, which is compressible per se, and as the case may be, a bearing arrangement, the mentioned elements are displaceable to one another in the axial direction compared to an operation position. In particular these elements may be end-configured by way of an axial movement of the drive shaft after the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: ECP ENTWICKLUNDGESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventor: Reiner Liebing
  • Patent number: 11578616
    Abstract: The gas turbine engine assembly can include a first component having a male fit perimeter, a second component having a female fit perimeter forming an interference fit with the male fit perimeter, one of the first component and the second component having a pulling lip spanning transversally and further spanning peripherally, and a structure holding the pulling lip transversally offset from the interference fit, the structure having a bending portion extending at least partially transversally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Dmitrii Fokin, Audrey Brouillet
  • Patent number: 11578603
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes: a platform; an airfoil portion extending from the platform in a blade height direction and having a pressure surface and a suction surface extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge; a blade root portion positioned opposite to the airfoil portion across the platform in the blade height direction and having a bearing surface; and a shank positioned between the platform and the blade root portion. The shank has a cross-section which is perpendicular to the blade height direction of the airfoil portion, and in which a line segment connecting a widthwise center position of a leading-edge-side end portion of the shank and a widthwise center position of a trailing-edge-side end portion of the shank is sloped to a center line between a pressure-surface-side contour of the blade root portion and a suction-surface-side contour of the blade root portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshio Fukui, Masamitsu Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 11578733
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a centrifugal compressor and a diffuser; the diffuser includes a pressure drive mechanism, a first diffuser part, a second diffuser part and a movable diffuser part movable diffuser part being connected with the pressure drive mechanism and movably arranged on one of the first diffuser part and the second diffuser part; moreover, the movable diffuser part gets close to or leaves away from the other one of the first diffuser part and the second diffuser parts under the action of a pressure medium in the pressure drive mechanism so as to adjust a width of a pressure diffusion flow channel and prevent adverse phenomena such as gas flow stall and surging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai
    Inventors: Hua Liu, Zhiping Zhang, Jian Chen
  • Patent number: 11578617
    Abstract: A nacelle for a gas turbine engine includes a leading edge at an upstream side of the nacelle. The nacelle further includes a trailing edge at a downstream side of the nacelle. The nacelle further includes an outer surface disposed between the leading edge and the trailing edge. The nacelle further includes a concave section continuous with the outer surface and disposed proximal to the trailing edge. The concave section includes an upstream end and a downstream end spaced apart from the upstream end. The concave section is curved radially inwards relative to the outer surface between the upstream end and the downstream end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Rolls Royce PLC
    Inventors: Fernando L Tejero Embuena, David G Macmanus, Christopher Tj Sheaf
  • Patent number: 11572792
    Abstract: The present invention provides an airfoil 110 with the squealer tip cooling system 50 for a turbine blade 100 at the blade tip 113, wherein the squealer tip cooling system 50 comprises a cooling passage 170 arranged within a squealer tip 117, wherein the cooling passage 170 at least partly extends toward a terminal end 74 of the squealer tip 117, and a pocket 172 at a lateral surface 75, 76 of the squealer tip 117, open externally and extending inwardly at least partly across the cooling passage 170. The pocket 172 intersects the cooling passage 170 and the pocket 172 comprises an impingement surface 70 facing the cooling passage 170, on which a cooling medium expelled through the cooling passage 170 impinges before being discharged externally through the pocket 172.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Herbert Brandl, Joerg Krueckels, Ulrich Rathmann, Willy H Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11572188
    Abstract: A nacelle for an aircraft engine comprising a first fan cowl and a second fan cowl, each fan cowl comprising a hinged end and a closing end, each fan cowl being mobile between a closed operating position and an open maintenance position, the first fan cowl having a larger angular coverage than the second fan cowl, the first fan cowl comprising an upper part connected to a lower part by an intermediate hinge so as to allow the lower part to fold towards the upper part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Ophélie Schmitter, Hazem Kioua, Romain Gardel, Damien Lemoine
  • Patent number: 11572860
    Abstract: A wind power plant includes a shrouded wind turbine having an annular shroud which defines a longitudinal axis and which is rotationally symmetrical thereto. A radially inner upper side of the shroud forms a flow channel for the wind, wherein a propeller which can rotate about the longitudinal axis and is intended for driving an electrical generator is rotatably mounted in the flow channel. A support, which defines a support longitudinal direction, has arranged thereon an annular shroud bearing element on which the shroud, and hence the wind turbine, can be mounted in different pivoting positions about a pivot axis, which extends transversely with respect to the support longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: FLOWGEN DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT AG
    Inventor: Dirk Küster
  • Patent number: 11572803
    Abstract: A turbine airfoil includes a body including a wall defining pressure and suction sides, and a leading edge extending between the pressure and suction sides. A cooling circuit inside the wall of the body includes at least one of: a) a suction side to pressure side cooling sub-circuit including a first cooling passage(s) extending from the suction side to the pressure side around the leading edge to a first plenum, and a plurality of first film cooling holes communicating with the first plenum and extending through the wall on the pressure side; and b) a pressure side to suction side cooling sub-circuit including second cooling passage(s) extending from the pressure side to the suction side around the leading edge to a second plenum, and a plurality of second film cooling holes communicating with the second plenum and extending through the wall on the suction side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Paul Lacy, Ibrahim Sezer, Brad Wilson VanTassel
  • Patent number: 11566533
    Abstract: An electrical machine includes a stator assembly coupled to an engine stator component of a propulsion engine. The stator assembly includes a stator support assembly fixedly attached to the engine stator component and a stator disposed on the stator support structure. An electrical machine shaft is coupled to an end of a shaft of the propulsion engine via an intermediate shaft member extending axially between the end of the shaft and the electrical machine shaft. A bearing support frame extends from the propulsion engine, the bearing support frame defining a bearing cavity in conjunction with the electrical machine shaft. Electrical machine bearings radially extend from the bearing support frame to rotatably contact the electrical machine shaft. A rotor attached to a rotor support structure attached to the electrical machine shaft. The rotor rotates in conjunction with the electrical machine shaft to exchange energy with the shaft of the propulsion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: General Electric Company, General Electric Company Polska sp. z o.o., General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Miroslaw Czarnik, Adam Tomasz Pazinski, Bartłomiej Drozd, Darek Zatorski, Maciej Krzysztof Grunwald, Mohamed Osama, John R. Yagielski
  • Patent number: 11566331
    Abstract: A method for forming a coating system on a component includes depositing a reactive layer with predetermined CMAS reaction kinetics on at least a portion of a thermal barrier coating. The method also includes activating the reactive layer with a scanning laser. A component, such as a gas turbine engine component, includes a substrate, a thermal barrier coating and a reactive layer. The thermal barrier coating is deposited on at least a portion of the substrate. The reactive layer is deposited on at least a portion of the thermal barrier coating. The reactive layer has predetermined CMAS reaction kinetics activated by laser scanning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masamichi Hongoh
  • Patent number: 11560797
    Abstract: A turbine stage includes an array of airfoils spaced apart circumferentially to define a flow passage therebetween for channeling a working medium. The airfoils extend radially outward from an inner endwall located at a hub side thereof. The inner endwall is inclined at an angle to an engine axis such that the flow passage is divergent from an upstream side to a downstream side. The inner endwall is non-axisymmetric about the engine axis, having a mid-passage bulge located between circumferentially adjacent first and second airfoils. The bulge has a peak at a position between 20-60% CaxID and at a position between 30-70% pitchID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ross Gustafson, Li Shing Wong, Farzad Taremi
  • Patent number: 11560804
    Abstract: Methods for forming protective coatings on aerospace components are provided. In one or more embodiments, the method includes exposing an aerospace component to a first precursor and a first reactant to form a first deposited layer on a surface of the aerospace component by a first deposition process (e.g., CVD or ALD), and exposing the aerospace component to a second precursor and a second reactant to form a second deposited layer on the first deposited layer by a second deposition process. The first deposited layer and the second deposited layer have different compositions from each other. The method also includes repeating the first deposition process and the second deposition process to form a nanolaminate film stack having from 2 pairs to about 1,000 pairs of the first deposited layer and the second deposited layer consecutively deposited on each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Yuriy Melnik, Sukti Chatterjee, Kaushal Gangakhedkar, Jonathan Frankel, Lance A. Scudder, Pravin K. Narwankar, David Alexander Britz, Thomas Knisley, Mark Saly, David Thompson
  • Patent number: 11555420
    Abstract: A gear reduction reduces a speed of a fan rotor relative to a speed of a fan drive turbine. A fan case surrounds the fan rotor. A core engine has a compressor section and includes a low pressure compressor. The fan rotor delivers air into a bypass duct defined between the fan case and the core engine. A rigid connection between the fan case and the core engine includes a plurality of aft connecting members rigidly connected to the fan case, and to the core engine. A plurality of fan exit guide vanes are rigidly connected to the fan case, with the fan exit guide vanes including structural fan exit guide vanes which are rigidly connected to the core engine, and non-structural fan exit guide vanes, and the non-structural fan exit guide vanes being provided with an acoustic feature to reduce noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony R. Bifulco, David A. Topol
  • Patent number: 11555406
    Abstract: A turbine engine blade having an aerodynamic surface extending a first direction between a leading edge and a trailing edge and in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, between a root of the blade and a tip of the blade, the aerodynamic surface being made of a fiber-reinforced organic matrix composite material, and a metallic structural reinforcement bonded by an adhesive joint to the leading edge whose shape it follows and which has over its entire height a substantially V-shaped section with a base extended by two lateral flanks having a thinned profile at free ends directed toward the trailing edge, the adhesive joint being locally supplemented below the free ends of the lateral flanks by an elastomeric polymer introduced in the form of solid particles into the adhesive joint and adhered to the aerodynamic surface and/or the free ends of the lateral flanks during a polymerization phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Vincent Joudon, Franck Bernard Léon Varin
  • Patent number: 11555416
    Abstract: A rotor stack for a gas turbine engine includes a first rotor disk with a first rotor spacer arm, the first rotor spacer arm having a first flange with an outboard flange surface and an inboard flange surface, a first hole along an axis through the first flange, the first hole having a counterbore in the outboard flange surface; a second rotor disk with a web having a second hole along the axis; a third rotor disk with a third rotor spacer arm, the third rotor spacer arm having a third flange with an outboard flange surface and an inboard flange surface, a third hole along the axis through the third flange, the third hole having a counterbore in the inboard flange surface; and a bushing with a tubular body and a flange that extends therefrom, the tubular body comprising at least one axial groove along an outer diameter thereof, the bushing extends through the first hole, the second hole and partially into the counterbore in the inboard flange surface of the third hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: William S. Pratt, Matthew E. Bintz, Weston Behling, Kevin N. McCusker, Erica J. Harvie
  • Patent number: 11549516
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sealing system for a pump configured to pressurize a volatile liquid, such as liquid ammonia. The sealing system (2) includes a stuffing box (35) forming a barrier chamber (30) and a pump-side seal chamber (43), a mechanical seal (20) arranged in the barrier chamber (30), and a barrier-gas supply system (32) for supplying a barrier gas into the barrier chamber (30). The barrier gas has a pressure higher than a pressure of the volatile liquid in the pump-side seal chamber (43). The pump-side seal chamber (43) is located between an impeller (7) of the pump (1) and the mechanical seal (20). The barrier-gas supply system (32) includes a pressure control valve (50) configured to maintain a constant difference between pressure in the barrier chamber (30) and pressure in the pump-side seal chamber (43).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuji Kasatani, Shuichiro Honda