Patents by Inventor Max E. RIFE

Max E. RIFE 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).

  • GAS TURBINE ENGINE COMPONENT
    Publication number: 20200024986
    Abstract: There is disclosed a component arranged to extend across a bypass duct (22) of a gas turbine engine (10), comprising: an outlet guide vane (24); and a structural support (26) arranged to structurally support a radially inner component of the gas turbine engine (10). The outlet guide vane (24) and the structural support (26) are contiguous at a merged portion (32) which is at a radially outer region of the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Luca DI MARE, Max E. RIFE, Fernando BARBAROSSA
  • Gas turbine engine
    Patent number: 10450879
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a circumferential row of vanes directly upstream of an asymmetric gas flow path. At a given spanwise position, a tangential and axial position of the outer guide vanes varies along the circumferential row of vanes. One or more of the vanes are leant such that the tangential and axial position of one or more vanes of the circumferential row of vanes varies in a spanwise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Luca Di Mare, Fernando Barbarossa, Max E. Rife
  • Gas turbine engine
    Patent number: 10380318
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a gas turbine engine including designing a row of vanes provided upstream of an asymmetric gas flow volume. The method includes two dimensionally optimizing camberline and stagger angle of each vane, including using orthogonal polynomials to modify the camberline and stagger angle of each vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Luca Di Mare, Max E. Rife, Fernando Barbarossa
  • GAS TURBINE ENGINE
    Publication number: 20170147741
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a gas turbine engine including designing a row of vanes provided upstream of an asymmetric gas flow volume. The method includes two dimensionally optimising camberline and stagger angle of each vane, including using orthogonal polynomials to modify the camberline and stagger angle of each vane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Luca DI MARE, Max E. RIFE, Fernando BARBAROSSA
  • GAS TURBINE ENGINE
    Publication number: 20170145840
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprising a circumferential row of vanes directly upstream of an asymmetric gas flow path. At a given spanwise position the tangential and axial position of the vanes varies along the row of vanes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Luca DI MARE, Fernando BARBAROSSA, Max E. RIFE