With Disparate Fluid Mingling Patents (Class 181/220)
  • Patent number: 12258875
    Abstract: An airfoil is provided defining a spanwise direction, a chordwise direction, a root end, a tip end, a leading edge end, and a trailing edge end. The airfoil includes: a leading edge extending from the leading edge end; a body extending along the spanwise direction between the root end and the tip end, the body including a plurality of cavity walls defining a plurality of cavities, each of the plurality of cavities having an inlet located at the leading edge; and a porous face sheet positioned on at least one inlet of the plurality of cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Trevor Howard Wood, Kishore Ramakrishnan
  • Patent number: 12214893
    Abstract: An air inlet for an aircraft propulsion unit having a movable upstream portion, a stationary downstream portion and at least one member for longitudinally translating the movable upstream portion between a retracted position in which the movable upstream portion is adjacent to the stationary downstream portion, and an extended position in which the movable upstream portion is separated from the stationary downstream portion, the moving member having at least one guiding bar connected to the movable upstream portion and a drive bar having a plurality of teeth, the stationary downstream portion having, for each moving member, a gear wheel configured to co-operate with the teeth in order to form a rack-and-pinion connection and at least one guiding member of the guiding bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Hazem Kioua, Thomas Marlay, Damien Lemoine, Ophélie Schmitter
  • Patent number: 11965425
    Abstract: An airfoil is provided defining a spanwise direction, a chordwise direction, a root end, a tip end, a leading edge end, and a trailing edge end. The airfoil includes: a leading edge extending from the leading edge end; a body extending along the spanwise direction between the root end and the tip end, the body including a plurality of cavity walls defining a plurality of cavities, each of the plurality of cavities having an inlet located at the leading edge; and a porous face sheet positioned on at least one inlet of the plurality of cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Trevor Howard Wood, Kishore Ramakrishnan
  • Patent number: 11885232
    Abstract: A gas turbine system includes: a compressor configured to compress external air to generate compressed air; a combustor configured to burn the compressed air together with fuel to generate a combustion gas; a turbine configured to be driven by the combustion gas; an exhaust unit configured to guide the combustion gas, which has passed through the turbine, to outside; a shell having a cylindrical shape and extending along an axis line about which the turbine is configured to rotate and being arranged so as to cover the compressor, the combustor, the turbine, and the exhaust unit; and an exit unit configured to guide the combustion gas, which has passed through the turbine, to a discharge port in the surface of the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Nakatani, Yuki Morisaki, Yasuhiro Saiki
  • Patent number: 11859545
    Abstract: An assembly for an aircraft includes a variable area inlet for an aircraft propulsion system. The variable area inlet extends along a longitudinal centerline. The variable area inlet includes an inlet structure, an inlet door, an inner inlet passage, and an outer inlet passage. The inlet door is configured to axially translate from a closed position to an open position along the longitudinal centerline. The inlet door is configured to close the outer inlet passage when the inlet door is in the closed position. The inlet door is configured to open the outer inlet passage when the inlet door is in the open position. The inner inlet passage extends into the variable area inlet from a leading edge of the inlet structure. The outer inlet passage extends through the inlet structure to the inner inlet passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Rohr, Inc.
    Inventors: Imad D. Ghandour, Jihad I. Ramlaoui, Timothy Gormley
  • Patent number: 11827340
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle includes a fuselage body and a lift mechanism. The lift mechanism includes a rotor blade assembly and a rotary driving member and defines an axis of rotation. The lift being mechanism is coupled to the fuselage body. The rotary driving member is configured to controllably rotate the rotor blade assembly about the axis of rotation. The rotor blade assembly includes at least one rotor blade. The at least one rotor blade including a vortex generator defined along an upper surface of the rotor blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventor: Liqiang Guo
  • Patent number: 11780566
    Abstract: A flow body for an aircraft includes a skin having a first flow surface, having a flow influencing section with at least one first layer, at least one separator layer, at least one third layer, and at least one base layer. The first layer includes lithiated carbon fibers embedded into a matrix to form a negative electrode. The third layer includes carbon fibers with an electrode active material coating to form a positive electrode. The separator layer includes a non-conductive material for electrically isolating the first layer and the third layer from each other. The flow influencing section is configured for selectively raising a region of the arrangement of first layer, separator layer and third layer from the base layer upon application of a voltage between the first and third layers to form a bump on the flow body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Linde, Wolfgang Machunze
  • Patent number: 11686246
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system includes an engine. The propulsion system further includes an inlet having a forward cowl lip and an aft cowl lip. The forward cowl lip moves between retracted and deployed positions. The forward cowl lip is adjacent to the aft cowl lip when retracted. The forward cowl lip is spaced apart from the aft cowl lip when deployed. The forward cowl lip has a smaller radius of curvature than the aft cowl lip. The propulsion system further includes a controller coupled with the engine and inlet. The controller restricts the maximum thrust commanded position of the engine when the aircraft is on the ground and moving below a predetermined speed. The controller lifts the restriction when the aircraft is moving at at least the predetermined speed. The controller controls the inlet to deploy the cowl lip when the aircraft is on the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Inventors: Shawn Bennett, Joe Gavin, Nicholas Powell, Donald Freund, Derek Muzychka, John Louis
  • Patent number: 11643190
    Abstract: A vortex generator apparatus for an aircraft includes a surface section having a receiving recess, a vortex generator having a first edge, an opposite second edge and a vortex generator surface component extending from the first edge to the second edge, wherein the first edge is fixedly arranged in or adjacent to the receiving recess. The vortex generator surface component includes at least one electroactive polymer assembly, wherein the at least one electroactive polymer is switchable into an extended state by applying an electrical voltage and into a neutral state by removing the electrical voltage. The electroactive polymer assembly and the vortex generator surface component are configured to retract the vortex generator surface component completely into the receiving recess in the neutral state of the electroactive polymer assembly and to extend the vortex generator surface component from the receiving recess in the extended state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Linde, Matthias Hegenbart, Hermann Benthien
  • Patent number: 11639203
    Abstract: An airflow adjusting apparatus to be installed in a vehicle includes two or more outward airflow generators and a controller. The outward airflow generators are disposed side by side in a vehicle front-rear direction in vicinity of an outer edge in a vehicle widthwise direction on an upper surface of a vehicle body on a front side of a windshield. The outward airflow generators are each configured to form an outward airflow with respect to the vehicle body. The outward airflow flows in a direction that is toward an outer side in the vehicle widthwise direction and toward a rear side of the vehicle. The controller is configured to control the outward airflow generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto Watanabe, Yusaku Dogahira
  • Patent number: 11591948
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vibrating plate for ground compaction, comprising a drive motor, an exciter unit which is driven by the drive motor and by means of which a base plate can be set in vibration, an adjustably mounted hood, which can be adjusted between an operating position at least partially covering the drive motor and a maintenance position at least partially exposing the drive motor, an exhaust air guiding device leading from the drive motor to an exhaust air opening in the hood for the cooling air of the drive motor, the exhaust air guiding device being formed in two parts and comprising an exhaust air adapter on the drive motor side and an exhaust air guide on the hood side, the exhaust air adapter and the exhaust air guide together forming a continuous exhaust air path from the drive motor to the exhaust air opening in the hood when the hood is in the operating position, the exhaust air adapter being attached to the drive motor, and the exhaust air guide being attached to the hood such that it
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: BOMAG GMBH
    Inventors: Niels Laugwitz, Josef Becker
  • Patent number: 11591101
    Abstract: A diffuser may comprise an inlet and an outlet. The inlet may comprise an arcuate shape. The outlet may comprise an annular shape. The diffuser may transition from the arcuate shape at the inlet to the annular shape at the outlet. The diffuser may comprise a radially inner wall and a radially outer wall disposed opposite the radially inner wall. The radially inner wall and the radially outer wall may partially define a duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Britton Greene, Stuart S. Ochs
  • Patent number: 11441482
    Abstract: A translating inlet assembly may comprise a first inlet portion and a second portion configured to translate relative to the first portion. A track may be located in the first portion. A rail may be coupled to the second portion and configured to translate along the track. The rail and the track may form a load bearing component configured to transfer inertial loads experienced by the second portion. A first actuator may be operationally coupled to the rail and configured to drive the rail along the track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Rohr, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony Lacko
  • Patent number: 11365704
    Abstract: An exemplary engine noise reduction system, can be provided, which can include a noise reduction fluid source, and a microjet(s) placed at an axial location downstream from a nozzle exit of an engine and configured to asymmetrically inject a noise reduction fluid from the noise reduction fluid source into a jet flow of the engine. The engine can be a jet engine. The microjet(s) can include four microjets, which can be about 90 degrees apart in a plane at the axial location. The four microjets can be asymmetric microjets. The microjet(s) can be configured to inject the noise reduction fluid in a direction that is normal with respect to the jet flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY IN ABU DHABI CORPORTION
    Inventors: Sunil Kumar, Pankaj H. Rajput
  • Patent number: 11346352
    Abstract: The embodiments relates to garden blower, including: an enclosure, including a main body part located on back end and a blowing pipe located on front end and extending axially, the enclosure disposed with an air inlet and an air outlet communicated with external environment; a power device, connected to the enclosure; a fan component, driven by the power device and generating airflows; the fan component includes at least two-level fans, further includes a first-level fan and a second-level fan axially disposed front and back, the garden blower includes a first air inlet passage allowing entrance of the airflows generated by the first-level fan and a second air inlet passage allowing entrance of the airflows generated by the second-level fan, and the airflows entering the first air inlet passage and the airflows entering the second air inlet passage are converged into the blowing pipe and are blown to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: POSITEC POWER TOOLS (SUZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhengwei Liu, Shiping Jiao, Jiabo Liu, Xuefeng Yu, Ka Tat Kelvin Wong, Xiahong Zha, Fengli Zhao
  • Patent number: 11085331
    Abstract: A forced air convection apparatus and method for cooling turbomachines is provided. The forced air convection apparatus for cooling a turbomachine, the apparatus comprising: a duct assembly having one or more outlets which are removably joinable to one or more corresponding air intakes of the turbomachine, and further having one or more inlets which are removably joinable to one or more corresponding exhausts of the turbomachine to enable closed loop recirculatory airflow through the turbomachine and the duct assembly and back to the turbomachine; and an air handling system having a blower arranged to blow air from the one or more inlets of the duct assembly to the one or more outlets of the duct assembly, and further having a heat exchanger configured to cool the air flowing through the duct assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: Michael Lariccia
  • Patent number: 10920985
    Abstract: A fuel lance is disclosed for injecting a gaseous and/or liquid fuel mixed with air into an axial hot gas flow flowing through a sequential combustor of a gas turbine, the fuel lance having at least one finger extending in a longitudinal direction into the axial hot gas flow of the gas turbine essentially perpendicular to the hot gas flow. The finger is configured as a streamlined body which has a streamlined cross-sectional profile. The body has two lateral surfaces essentially parallel to the axial hot gas flow. The body includes an enclosing outer wall having a longitudinally extending air plenum for the distributed introduction of air into the at least one finger. The air plenum is provided with a plurality of distributed impingement cooling holes, such that air exiting through the impingement cooling holes impinges on the inner side of the leading edge region of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Xianfeng Gao, Urs Benz, Andre Theuer, Michael Düsing
  • Patent number: 10655855
    Abstract: A wall assembly for a combustor of a gas turbine engine is provided. The wall assembly includes a support shell with a contoured region to define at least one convergent passage between the support shell and a multiple of liner panels. A method of cooling a wall assembly for a combustor of a gas turbine engine is also provided. This method includes a step of directing cooling air into at least one convergent passage between the support shell and a multiple of liner panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: James P. Bangerter, Kevin J. Low, Russell B. Hanson, Nurhak Erbas-Sen, Frank J. Cunha
  • Patent number: 10611461
    Abstract: A flap of an aircraft includes a flap body that is provided deployably with respect to a main wing, an inclined portion that protrudes from an upper surface of a tip part on at least an outboard side in a span direction of the flap body and is inclined with respect to an aircraft axis direction, and a protruding portion that smoothly protrudes from a lower surface of the tip part on at least the outboard side. A rear end of the inclined portion is located closer to a side end edge of the tip part in the span direction of the flap body than a virtual line that passes through a front end of the inclined portion and is parallel to the aircraft axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Kensuke Hayashi, Mitsuhiro Murayama, Kazuomi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10562606
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to reducing noise resulting from a wing tip vortex of a wing such as a flap. A flap of an aircraft includes a flap main body provided to a parent wing in a deployable manner, and a vortex generation portion including a protruding member, the protruding member being provided to protrude from an upper surface at least at an end of the flap main body on an outboard side in a span direction and forming a predetermined angle to an axial direction of the aircraft. A rear end of the protruding member is located on the side adjacent to a side-end edge at the end of the flap main body in the span direction relative to a virtual line passing through a front end of the protruding member and being parallel to the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Murayama, Kazuomi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10473120
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a centrifugal blower assembly that includes a centrifugal fan and a scroll casing housing the centrifugal fan. The scroll casing includes a scroll starting position, a scroll ending position and an air passage extending between the scroll starting and ending positions. The scroll ending position is downstream from the scroll starting position relative to airflow through the scroll casing. The centrifugal blower assembly further includes an air outlet extending from the scroll ending position and a plurality of resonators mounted on an exterior surface of the air outlet. Each of the plurality of tuned resonators has respective cavities in fluid communication with inside of the air outlet. Each of the cavities has respective different volumes, heights, widths, and/or lengths from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Prakash Thawani, Steve Sinadinos
  • Patent number: 10458655
    Abstract: A system includes a fuel nozzle including a first wall disposed about a central axis, a second wall disposed about the first wall, and a plurality of lobes disposed between the first and second walls, wherein the plurality of lobes is spaced about the central axis to define a plurality of flow passages, and the plurality of flow passages is configured to output a plurality of flows into a flame region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gregory Allen Boardman, Gerardo Antonio Salazar Lois, Jeffrey Michael Martini, Rajesh Sharma, Rishikesh Prakash Karande
  • Patent number: 10443544
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a shaft comprising a first compressor, a fan assembly, and a power circuit that provides power to the shaft in a closed-loop system. An inner housing houses at least a portion of the shaft, the first compressor for compressing a core stream of air, and a combustor. A baffle encloses a portion of the inner housing and forms a first air passageway therebetween. A nacelle encloses a portion of the baffle and forms a second air passageway therebetween. A heat exchanger is positioned in the second air passageway that rejects heat from the power circuit into a heat rejection stream of air passing through the second air passageway. Air is accelerated as streams in parallel and via the fan assembly as the core stream into the inner housing, as a bypass flow stream of air through the first volume, and as the heat rejection stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Igor Vaisman, Thomas E. Bastnagel
  • Patent number: 10400710
    Abstract: A third stream duct producing a third air stream at reduced pressure that is exhausted through a separate nozzle that is concentric with the main or primary engine nozzle. The third stream exhaust air from the separate concentric nozzle is exhausted to a location at which pressure is ambient or sub-ambient. The location at which the third stream air is exhausted contributes to the thrust of the aircraft. The airstream from the third air duct is exhausted through an exhaust nozzle of the third duct that is positioned at the interface between the aft of the airframe and the leading edge of the engine outer flaps. This location is a low pressure region that has a recirculation zone. The exhaust of third stream air to this low pressure region substantially reduces or eliminates this recirculation zone and associated boat tail drag, thereby improving the efficiency of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: David Lynn Dawson, Erin Lee Lariviere, Brian Joseph Petersen, Robert Jerome Ellerhorst
  • Patent number: 10316757
    Abstract: A propulsion system according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a geared architecture configured to drive a fan section including a fan, and a turbine configured to drive the geared architecture. The turbine has an exit point, and a diameter (Dt) defined as the radially outer diameter of a last blade airfoil stage in the turbine at the exit point. A nacelle at least partially surrounds a core engine housing. The fan configured to deliver air into a bypass duct is defined between the nacelle and the core engine housing. A core engine exhaust nozzle is downstream of the exit point, with a downstream most point of the core engine exhaust nozzle being defined at a distance (Lc or Ln) from the exit point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick M. Schwarz, Robert E. Malecki
  • Patent number: 10252792
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide systems and methods for noise reduction for lift-augmentation wing-sections (e.g., flaps, slats, elevons, etc.) by the use of flow disruption devices placed upstream of vortex generation locations. The flow disruption devices may reduce the noise radiating from side edges of lift-augmentation control wing sections. An embodiment flow disruption device may include a body configured to protrude into a flow over a vehicle's surface, wherein the body is coupled to the vehicle upstream of a side edge of a structure of the vehicle such that a wake produced by the body introduces unsteadiness and a flow velocity deficit in a vortex formation region of the side edge of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA
    Inventors: Florence V. Hutcheson, Thomas F. Brooks
  • Patent number: 10167726
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, at least one cooling passage. The at least one cooling passage includes a first wall and a second wall bounding the at least one cooling passage, the first wall having a plurality of first surface features and the second wall having a plurality of second surface features. The plurality of first surface features and the plurality of second surface features are arranged such that a width of the cooling passage varies along a length of the cooling passage defined by the plurality of first surface features and the plurality of second surface features. The plurality of first surface features has a first profile, and the plurality of second surface features has a second, different profile. A casting core for forming cooling passages in an aircraft component is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew A. Devore, Matthew S. Gleiner, Douglas C. Jenne
  • Patent number: 10086926
    Abstract: A vortex generating apparatus includes: a member to contact with a flow of a fluid to form a stagnation point and a first and a second separation points on a periphery of a cross section of the member parallel to the flow; a disturbance applying unit to apply a disturbance to an upstream side of the first separation point to cause part of a boundary layer of the flow to adhere; and a controller to temporally control the application of the disturbance to change an adhesion distance from the stagnation point to the first separation point so as to generate a dynamic stall vortex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Motofumi Tanaka, Toshiki Osako, Kazunori Shioda, Hisashi Matsuda, Tatsuro Uchida, Naohiko Shimura
  • Patent number: 10082043
    Abstract: A multi-lobe exhaust mixer has an annular body composed of a plurality of circumferentially adjacent lobe segments. The lobe segments may be made of a ceramic matrix composite material to reduce the weight of the mixer and ensure proper behavior when exposed to high thermal gradients. Each lobe segment may have partial lobes at circumferentially opposed ends thereof and at least one complete lobe therebetween. The partial lobes of the circumferentially adjacent lobe segments combining to conjointly form complete lobes at the junction between the circumferentially adjacent lobe segments. The partial lobes may be nested into each other to dampen vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Guy Lefebvre, Rene Paquet
  • Patent number: 10081397
    Abstract: A road haulage trailer (810) has tail deflectors (896) for directing air flow to a region (829) behind the trailer during forward movement of the trailer. The tail deflectors (896) protrude from the sides (822) of the trailer and extend beyond the rear end (825) of the trailer. The deflectors (896) define a guide surface that is angled or curved towards a region (829) behind the rear end (825) of the trailer (810) and is a continuation of the side (22) of the trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Inventor: Andy Bacon
  • Patent number: 10071798
    Abstract: A novel passive control technique for laminar flow over air transportation vehicles and space reentry vehicles flying at high supersonic and hypersonic speeds is disclosed. The control of laminar flow can be achieved by applying an array of surface roughness elements in the region before the laminar-turbulent transition. For example, an array of two-dimensional rings, stripes, or closely packed three-dimensional isolated roughness elements may be used to stabilize the instability waves and delay transition. The roughness elements may have a height between 40% and 60% of the local boundary-layer thickness. The exact location, height, and spacing of surface roughness elements may be determined by a numerical simulation strategy based on the most unstable second mode, e.g. using known eN transition prediction method, experimental measurement, or any other suitable technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Xiaolin Zhong, Kahei Danny Fong, Xiaowen Wang
  • Patent number: 9995245
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a mixer for a gas turbine engine is provided. The method includes forming a forward end and an aft end of the mixer, and forming an annularly undulating contour that defines a plurality of core immersion lobes and a plurality of bypass immersion lobes between the forward end and the aft end. The plurality of bypass immersion lobes includes a first bypass immersion lobe and a second bypass immersion lobe. The first bypass immersion lobe has a first crown contour line extending from the forward end to the aft end of the mixer, and the second bypass immersion lobe has a second crown contour line extending from the forward end to the aft end of the mixer. The first crown contour line is different than the second crown contour line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mustafa Dindar, Vaughn Ray Kunze
  • Patent number: 9970386
    Abstract: An exhaust nozzle for a turbine engine includes multiple daisy style corrugations arranged circumferentially about the exhaust nozzle. Each of the daisy style corrugations has a radially inner base portion and multiple lobes protruding radially outward from the base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Lubomir A. Ribarov, James S. Elder
  • Patent number: 9868509
    Abstract: A combination comprises an aircraft wing trailing edge section and an adjustment body. The adjustment body comprises a tapered cross section in a local chord axis direction of the wing trailing edge section, a lower adjustment body surface connected to a top surface of the aircraft wing trailing edge section and a back-end surface having a height. The adjustment body is positioned such that the back-end surface is flush with the trailing edge of the aircraft wing trailing edge section. Attaching the adjustment body onto a top surface of the wing trailing edge section leads to compensation of an offset rolling moment due to unavoidable structural shape deviations of the aircraft and eliminates additional structural reinforcement requirements on the trailing edge compared to edge wedges mounted on the bottom surface of trailing edges. The trailing edge section may comprise a flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignees: Airbus Operations GmbH, AIRBUS SAS
    Inventors: Adrian Eberle, Tobias Nüssle, Jean Bardou
  • Patent number: 9771868
    Abstract: An aircraft engine sound attenuation apparatus includes a perforated face member, a backing member, a plurality of connecting members coupling the perforated face member to the backing member to form a plurality of channels spanning from the perforated face member to the backing member, and a bulk absorber disposed in each of the plurality of channels, wherein the plurality of channels are connected to an interior portion of an aircraft engine nacelle component so that the plurality of channels are oriented in a direction substantially normal to a direction of fluid flow pressure drop passing through the aircraft engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Eric H. Nesbitt, Justin H. Lan, Thonse R. S. Bhat, Charles W. Rust
  • Patent number: 9765793
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan impeller includes a front endring, a rear endring, and a plurality of blades coupled between the front and the rear endrings. At least one blade of the plurality of blades includes a blade span extending between the front endring and the rear endring, a leading edge, and a trailing edge. The at least one blade further includes a first elliptical cross-sectional profile extending between the leading and the trailing edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.
    Inventors: Rachele B. Cocks, Rafal Pawel Rohoza
  • Patent number: 9758254
    Abstract: A jet noise suppressor including a nozzle having a front end and an opposed rear end, spokes extending radially inward from the nozzle, the spokes defining vents, and a center-body connected to the spokes and in fluid communication with the vents, the center-body being positioned centrally within the nozzle and including a closed front end and an open rear end, wherein the front end of the nozzle entrains a first ambient airflow passing through the nozzle and exiting the rear end of the nozzle proximate a periphery of the nozzle, and wherein the vents entrain a second ambient airflow passing through the center-body and exiting the rear end of the nozzle proximate a center of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Matthew D. Moore, Kelly L. Boren, Hao Shen, Chester P. Nelson
  • Patent number: 9745919
    Abstract: An ejector/mixer for a gas turbine engine includes an annular wall having upstream end adapted to be fastened to an engine case and a downstream end forming a plurality of lobes. A support member interconnects the lobes, and includes an annular blade located radially inwardly of the bight of the lobes. The lobes extend radially inwardly downstream relative to the annular wall and the support member includes an annular blade and has spaced apart joint surfaces spaced apart to coincide with the joint surfaces of a respective lobes. The spaced-apart joint surfaces of the support member being profiled to mate with the corresponding joint surface of the lobes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Franco Di Paola, Guy Lefebvre, Patrick L'Esperance, Gabriel Emard-Parent
  • Patent number: 9718099
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vibration damper (1) configured to be provided on a low frequency sound generator, which comprises a feeder unit (2) with a positive feedback system regulated by a reciprocating spring loaded piston (3) and a resonator tube (4). The vibration damper (1) may be positioned outside the resonator tube (4). The vibration damper (1) comprises a first flange (5) connected to the resonator tube (4), a number of springs (6), a second flange (7) and a number of weights (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Inventors: Martin Ellebro, Mats Olsson
  • Patent number: 9586672
    Abstract: A high-lift device of a flight vehicle includes: a flap main body provided at a trailing edge portion of a main wing of the flight vehicle so as to be extracted from and be retracted in the trailing edge portion and extending in a wing span direction of the main wing; and a vortex suppressing portion provided at a tip end portion of the flap main body in a wing span direction of the flap main body and configured to suppress a vortex rolling up from a lower surface of a tip end portion of the flap main body to an upper surface of the tip end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignees: THE SOCIETY OF JAPANESE AEROSPACE COMPANIES, KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhide Isotani, Kenji Hayama
  • Patent number: 9581048
    Abstract: A panel attachment system includes a panel, a casing, and a plurality of hangers that enable the panel to be secured in a pre-determined position relative to the casing. Each of the hangers is formed as an elongate strip having a single corrugation, with each hanger having a center portion, a first end portion, and an opposite second end portion. The plurality of hangers are positioned in length-wise alignment, with the first end portion of each hanger being attached to the second end portion of an adjoining hanger. The attached first and second end portions are secured to the casing, and the center portion of each hanger is secured to the panel to thereby secure the panel in a pre-determined position relative to the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: Paul Robert Hayton
  • Patent number: 9494084
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a fan section with twenty (20) or less fan blades and a fan pressure ratio less than about 1.45.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory A. Kohlenberg, Sean P. Zamora, Frederick M. Schwarz
  • Patent number: 9162234
    Abstract: A method of cleaning a filter element includes directing a jet of pressurized gas from a nozzle onto a filter element, with the jet having a non-round cross-sectional shape that is a same general cross-sectional shape as the opening in a tube sheet holding the filter element. The nozzle has a channel for the pressurized gas that is obstruction-free.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas D. Raether
  • Patent number: 8997454
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention is a technique to suppress noise in a jet engine. A substantially annular fan nozzle of a separate-flow turbofan engine includes a flow boundary surface and an outlet to discharge fan air into atmosphere. At least one vane extends substantially radially from the flow boundary surface to vector at least a portion of the fan air toward a direction where noise suppression is desired. The-vane is situated in proximity of the outlet and has a span substantially greater than a thickness of a local boundary layer of the fan air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventor: Dimitri Papamoschou
  • Patent number: 8984890
    Abstract: A mixer for mixing flows in a turbofan engine is provided. The mixer includes a plurality of chevron lobes, each of the plurality of lobes comprising a crown, a keel, a first trailing edge, a second trailing edge, and a first transverse edge extending between first trailing edge and second trailing edge, said mixer configured to receive two separate incoming exhaust flows and mix the two flows into at least one rotational exhaust flow that is ejected out at least one of said first trailing edge and said second trailing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mustafa Dindar, Vaughn Kunze
  • Patent number: 8904795
    Abstract: A noise reducing device in a jet engine that has a cylindrical casing, a cylindrical partition wall that is inserted in the casing while protruding partially from a trailing edge of the casing, and a compressor that compresses air that is taken into the cylindrical partition wall, with the inside of the cylindrical partition wall serving as a duct in which a core stream of high-speed air flows, and the space between the cylindrical partition wall and the casing serving as a duct in which a bypass stream of low-speed air flows, and being connected with a wing of an airplane by a pylon that has a projection portion that extends beyond the casing to the downstream of the core stream and the bypass stream, the noise reducing device includes a nozzle, disposed at the pylon on the downstream of the core stream, that injects a fluid toward a noise generation source that is produced from the mutual approach of an ambient air stream that is produced outside of the bypass stream and the core stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Oishi, Yoshinori Oba
  • Patent number: 8887489
    Abstract: According to the invention, the shape of each of said chevrons is defined: by two lateral sides (21, 22) having front ends (21A, 22A) that are connected to said nozzle (4, 10) and that, when moving away from the latter, converge towards each other without joining so that the rear ends (21R, 22R) of said lateral walls (21, 22) are spaced from each other; and by a curvilinear transverse line (23.1) connecting the rear ends (21R, 22R) of said lateral walls (21, 22) by forming two rounded side protrusions (24.1, 25.1) separated by an intermediate rounded recess (26.1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Amadou André Sylla, Jérôme Huber, Olivier Pelagatti, Damien Prat, Klaus Debatin
  • Patent number: 8813907
    Abstract: A noise reduction system with a chamber includes a chamber (17) which is provided at a portion of a supply path connecting a flow path in an upstream side of a combustor in a jet engine to a plurality of microjet nozzles which is provided at an exhaust side peripheral edge of a main nozzle of the jet engine, wherein the supply path is configured to supply part of compressed air from the flow path into the chamber (17), and the chamber (17) is configured to inject the compressed air through the plurality of the microjet nozzles (63) to a jet flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomi Tanaka, Shinya Kusuda, Tsutomu Oishi, Yoshinori Oba
  • Patent number: 8813504
    Abstract: A protocol for assembling a fuel shut off pin valve assembly for a gas turbine engine. The protocol outlines a specific sequence of events in order to ensure failsafe incorporation of a fuel shut off valve assembly within the low pressure turbine area and specifically within the engine casing of the gas turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
    Inventors: Guy Lefebvre, Claude Giardetti
  • Patent number: 8757319
    Abstract: A turbojet engine nacelle includes at least one nacelle element having a wall delimiting a main flow channel. The flow channel has a variable flow passage section. The cross-sectional area of at least one first area of the channel is greater than that of at least one second area of the channel. The turbojet engine nacelle further includes at least one secondary flow conduit establishing a fluidic connection between the first area and the second area of the channel and is arranged parallel to the channel. The wall of the nacelle element is at least partly covered by an acoustic damping panel extending in said areas of the channel. The conduit passes through the acoustic damping panel in order to establish the secondary flow via the acoustic damping panel. The present invention can be used in the avionics field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Aircelle
    Inventors: Xavier Bouteiller, Laurent Albert Blin