Patents Examined by John S Hunter, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11698005
    Abstract: Flow diverters for installation in mid-turbine frame systems at a conduit outlet of gas turbine engines are described. The flow diverters include a diverter body having a connector portion defining a diverter inlet, a diverter extension at least partially defining a diverter outlet, and a curved portion arranged between the connector portion and the diverter extension, the curved portion configured to change a direction of flow from a first direction to a second direction that is about 90° from the first direction as the flow passes from the diverter inlet to the diverter outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John S. Tu, Robert Newman, Paul K. Sanchez, Jeffrey J. Lienau, John T. Ols, Prabaharan Manoharan, Venu Sambarapu, Rajendra Prasad Uppara Allabanda
  • Patent number: 11692551
    Abstract: A mixed-flow impeller for an electric submersible pump can include a lower end and an upper end; a hub that includes a through bore that defines an axis; blades that extend at least in part radially outward from the hub where each of the blades includes a leading edge and a trailing edge; an upper balance ring that includes a radially inward facing balance chamber surface and a radially outward facing diffuser clearance surface; and an upper guard ring disposed radially outwardly from the upper balance ring where the upper guard ring includes an axially facing diffuser clearance surface that is disposed axially between the trailing edges of the blades and the upper end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kean Wee Cheah, David Milton Eslinger
  • Patent number: 11692485
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine having a fluid transfer connection is provided. The gas turbine engine includes a first component configured to channel a flow of air from a portion of the gas turbine engine; a second component configured to receive the flow of air from the first component, wherein the first component and the second component are movable relative to one another; a sleeve portion disposed between the first component and the second component; and a spoolie device disposed within the sleeve portion, the spoolie device having elliptical shaped opposing ends, wherein the spoolie device bridges the first component and the second component to channel the flow of air from the first component to the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAI, ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Benjamin Johannes Seppala, Kenneth Jay Moore, Thomas Ryan Wallace
  • Patent number: 11668202
    Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil, including therein a first cavity and a second cavity, and an outer spindle extending from the airfoil, the outer spindle including a first channel in fluid communication with the first cavity and a second channel in fluid communication with the second cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Corey D. Anderson
  • Patent number: 11668197
    Abstract: An airfoiled component comprises: a root section, an airfoil section, a damper pocket enclosed within a portion of the airfoil section, and a damper. The airfoil section includes a suction sidewall and a pressure sidewall each extending chordwise between a leading edge and a trailing edge, and extending spanwise between the root section and an airfoil tip. The damper includes a fixed end unified with a damper mounting surface, and a free end extending into the damper pocket from the damper mounting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Ken F. Blaney, Richard K. Hayford
  • Patent number: 11635002
    Abstract: A steam turbine includes a rotor, a casing, a partition plate, and a center guide pin. The center guide pin has a positioning portion. In a state of being attached to a pin attachment portion formed in one of the casing and the partition plate, the positioning portion is disposed in a groove portion formed in the other of the casing and the partition plate. The positioning portion includes a plurality of abutment portions capable of abutting on an inner side surface of the groove portion, around a pin axis. The plurality of abutment portions is formed to have different horizontal distances from the pin axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsumi Terada, Hiroaki Irikawa, Yuichi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11635081
    Abstract: A ceiling fan or similar air-moving device can include a motor for rotating one or more blades to drive a volume of air about a space. The blade can include a body having an outer surface with a flat top surface and a flat bottom surface, and a side edge. A chamfered transition can extend between one of the flat top surface or the flat bottom surface, and the side edge. The chamfered transition can include multiple chamfered edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
    Inventors: Bobby Neal Norwood, Charles William Botkin
  • Patent number: 11598313
    Abstract: A wind turbine control method involves calculating a value indicative of a misalignment ? of the wind turbine on a basis of at least one signal indicative of wind direction. A determination is made as to whether the value indicative of the misalignment ? of the wind turbine is above a first predefined misalignment threshold value. A value of a blade pitch angle ? is adapted. At least one of the blades of the wind turbine is rotated about its longitudinal axis on the basis of the adapted value of the blade pitch angle ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NORDEX ENERGY SPAIN, S.A.
    Inventors: Jose Luis Laborda Rubio, Alberto Garcia Barace, Teresa Arlaban Gabeiras, Jose Luis Aristegui Lantero, Alejandro Gonzalez Murua, Jose Miguel Garcia Sayes, Miguel Nunez Polo
  • Patent number: 11585274
    Abstract: A turbofan engine includes an outer bypass duct and a gas turbine engine having an outer casing. The gas turbine engine is disposed in the outer bypass duct such that a bypass airflow passage is formed between the outer casing of the gas turbine engine and the outer bypass duct. The turbofan engine includes a turbine rear frame link assembly including a set of links coupled between the outer bypass duct and the outer casing to support the gas turbine engine relative to the outer bypass duct. The links are arranged around the gas turbine engine on a plane that is perpendicular to a centerline axis of the turbofan engine. None of the links extends through the bypass airflow passage at a position that intersects a radius extending in a vertically downward direction from the centerline axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William C. Anderson, Thomas E. Agin, Michael William Murrish, Timothy McCann, Caitlin Ford
  • Patent number: 11585241
    Abstract: An assembly for a turbomachine turbine includes at least one ring sector made of CMC material and a support casing including an upstream flange and a downstream flange between which each ring sector is disposed, each ring sector including a base that has a radially external face from which radially extend two lugs, the lugs of each ring sector being retained between the two flanges of the support casing by axial pins each engaged in one of the flanges of the ring support casing and in the lug of the ring sector facing said flange, the assembly further including, for each ring sector, at least one radial retaining pin screwed into the support casing and coming to radially bear against a lug of the at least one ring sector to retain it in position, and anti-rotation system for rotationally locking the radial retaining pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Antoine Claude Michel Etienne Danis, Clément Jarrossay, Lucien Henri Jacques Quennehen, Nicolas Paul Tableau, Hubert Jean-Yves Illand
  • 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: 11542833
    Abstract: A device (26) for cooling an annular outer turbine casing (17) includes at least one circumferentially extending tube (27) having an air inlet intended for conveying cooling air, the tube having a radially inner wall provided with cooling air discharge openings and a radially outer wall arranged radially opposite each other, an air inlet manifold (28), the inlet of the tube opening into the manifold, the tube (27) including at least one intermediate wall extending over a circumferential portion of the tube from the air inlet, the intermediate wall being located radially between the radially inner wall and the radially outer wall, the radially inner wall and the intermediate wall forming a first air conveying duct, the radially outer wall and the intermediate wall forming a second air conveying duct extending circumferentially beyond the first air conveying duct, relative to the air inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Arnaud Lasantha Genilier, François Pierre Michel Comte, Fabien Stéphane Garnier, Vincent François Georges Millier
  • Patent number: 11530680
    Abstract: Methods for installing a wind turbine blade on a wind turbine hub include hoisting the wind turbine blade towards the wind turbine hub; bringing the wind turbine blade and the wind turbine hub into contact through an adaptable resilient body such that the adaptable resilient body is compressed between the wind turbine blade and the wind turbine hub; reducing a dimension of the adaptable resilient body such that the wind turbine blade approaches the wind turbine hub; and mounting the wind turbine blade to the wind turbine hub. Also, assemblies for assisting in mounting the wind turbine blade to the wind turbine hub and adapted wind turbine hubs are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L.
    Inventor: Vincent Cazenave
  • Patent number: 11525408
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine for an aircraft configured with an engine core that has a turbine, a compressor, and a core shaft connecting the turbine to the compressor. A fan located upstream of the engine core, that has a plurality of fan blades. A gearbox arranged to receive an input from the core shaft and to output to the fan so as to drive the fan at a lower rotational speed than the core shaft. The gearbox being an epicyclic gearbox having a sun gear, a plurality of planet gears, a ring gear, and a planet carrier on which the planet gears are mounted. The gearbox having an overall gear mesh stiffness, and wherein the overall gear mesh stiffness of the gearbox is greater than or equal to 1.05×109 N/m and less than or equal to 8.0×109 N/m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: Mark Spruce
  • Patent number: 11525371
    Abstract: Cooling a torque probe involves an elongated sleeve extending along a sleeve axis between a first sleeve end and a second sleeve end. The sleeve is mountable about the torque probe to define a flow passage between an inner surface of the sleeve and an outer surface of the torque probe. The flow passage is in fluid communication with a flow passage inlet of the sleeve and with a flow passage outlet of the sleeve spaced apart along the sleeve axis from the flow passage inlet. A cooling airflow is configured to flow into the flow passage via the flow passage inlet, through the flow passage along the outer surface of the torque probe to cool the torque probe, and out of the flow passage via the flow passage outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Hervé Turcotte, Gabriel Naccache, Adam Logan
  • Patent number: 11506185
    Abstract: A main bearing unit for supporting the rotor shaft of a wind turbine, including a rolling bearing having an inner ring, an outer ring and a rolling element arrangement received between the outer and inner ring and a coupling arrangement which is designed to couple the rotor shaft to an output shaft of the wind turbine at least indirectly and so as to transmit torque. The rotor shaft is coupled to one of the outer and inner ring so as to transmit torque. The coupling arrangement is coupled so as to transmit torque to the one of the outer and inner ring as the rotor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: IMO HOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Hubertus Frank, Erich Russ
  • Patent number: 11498669
    Abstract: An extension assembly for a rotor system for rotating a plurality of rotor blades about a rotor axis with a central rotor hub that defines the rotor axis includes a beam assembly and a first bearing assembly. The beam assembly is configured to attach to the central rotor hub and is positioned at least partially within a corresponding one of the plurality of rotor blades. The first bearing assembly is configured to be fastened to the beam assembly and to at least one of a leading edge or a trailing edge of the corresponding one of the plurality of rotor blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: David H. Hunter, David N. Schmaling
  • Patent number: 11499482
    Abstract: A planetary gear train speed reduction gear planetary carrier (130) assembly and an elastically deformable annular member (160), for a turbine engine, in particular for an aircraft. The planetary carrier (130) has a general annular shape about an axis X. The annular member (160) extends about the axis X, and is fixed to the planetary carrier and configured to be fixed to a stator element (162) of the turbine engine ensuring a flexible connection between the planetary carrier and the stator element. The planetary carrier carries a series of protruding teeth (180) extending substantially radially outwards with respect to the axis X. Each of these teeth has first opposite side faces (180a, 180b) extending into planes passing through the axis X capable of engaging by abutment in the circumferential direction with the stator element. A vibration absorption system is inserted between the first faces and the stator element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Adrien Louis Simon, Simon Loic Clement Lefebvre
  • Patent number: 11486269
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a core housing that includes an inlet case and an intermediate case that respectively provide an inlet case flow path and an intermediate case flow path. A first shaft supports a low pressure compressor section that is arranged axially between the inlet case flow path and the intermediate case flow path. A first bearing supports the first shaft relative to the inlet case. A second bearing supports a second shaft relative to the intermediate case. A low pressure compressor hub is mounted to the first shaft. The low pressure compressor hub extends to the low pressure compressor section between the first bearing and the second bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian D. Merry, Gabriel L. Suciu, Todd A. Davis, Gregory E. Reinhardt, Enzo DiBenedetto
  • Patent number: 11480191
    Abstract: A fan includes a motor, a rotatable hub coupled to the motor, and at least one fan blade. The at least one fan blade includes a first end coupled to the rotatable hub, a second end, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a passage extending from the first end to the second end, and a winglet attached to the second end. At least one flexible strap extends through the passage of the at least one fan blade. The flexible strap is coupled at a first end to the rotatable hub and coupled at a second end to the winglet, such as to an inner portion thereof within the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: DELTA T, LLC
    Inventors: Jason H. Fizer, Michael S. Fay, Matthew Mattingly, Richard W. Fizer