Patents by Inventor James Robert MCLEAVY HILL

James Robert MCLEAVY HILL has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20180094605
    Abstract: A turbofan engine for a civil supersonic aircraft, including: an engine intake; a multi-stage fan that is arranged behind the engine intake; a core engine that comprises a compressor, a combustion chamber and a turbine; a primary flow channel that leads through the core engine; a secondary flow channel that leads past the core engine; an adjustable converging-diverging thrust nozzle that forms a nozzle throat area and a nozzle outlet area, wherein at least the nozzle throat area is adjustable; and a thrust reverser that is integrated in the adjustable converging-diverging thrust nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Knut ROSENAU, James Robert MCLEAVY HILL
  • Publication number: 20180094582
    Abstract: A turbofan engine for a civil supersonic aircraft, including: a multi-stage fan, wherein each stage of the multi-stage fan has a fan rotor with rotor blades and a fan stator with stator blades; an inlet flow channel that leads through the fan rotor of the first stage of the multi-stage fan; a primary flow channel that leads through a core engine of the turbofan engine; and a secondary flow channel that leads past the core engine. The inlet flow channel divides into the primary flow channel and the secondary flow channel. It is provided that the fan rotors of all stages of the fan are arranged in the inlet flow channel before it is divided into the primary flow channel and the secondary flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Knut ROSENAU, James Robert MCLEAVY HILL, Marco ROSE