With Diversely Oriented Inlet Or Additional Inlet For Diverse Fluid (e.g., Heating, Cooling Or Mixed Working Fluid, Etc.) Patents (Class 415/116)
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Patent number: 12188362Abstract: An aircraft engine nacelle in which the inner fixed structure has a heat exchanger which is filled with a two-phase heat transfer fluid and which comprises a tube forming a loop with front, rear, lower and upper strands, and also a first complementary strand between the central zones of the front strand and of the upper strand, a second complementary strand between the central zones of the front strand and of the lower strand, a third complementary strand between the central zones of the rear strand and of the upper strand, and a fourth complementary strand between the central zones of the rear strand and of the lower strand.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventor: Christian Flemin
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Patent number: 12188373Abstract: A platform for a stator vane assembly includes a main body that extends between a forward end and an aft end. The platform further includes an opening that is defined within the main body. The opening is configured to receive an airfoil segment of the stator vane assembly. A forward portion of the main body extends between the forward end and the opening. An aft portion of the main body extends between the opening and the aft end. A cooling circuit is defined within the platform. The cooling circuit includes a first plenum defined in the forward portion, and at least one re-use plenum defined in the aft portion and separated from the first plenum. The cooling circuit further includes a connecting channel that fluidly couples the first plenum and the at least one re-use plenum.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLCInventors: Richard Martin DiCintio, Brad Wilson VanTassel, Benjamin Paul Lacy
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Ultrasonic spray apparatus that blocks air contact to prevent changes in properties of ionized water
Patent number: 12128434Abstract: An ultrasonic spray apparatus is configured to minimize contact between bubbles, which are generated due to ultrasonic excitation, and ionized water when the bubbles are discharged. The ultrasonic spray apparatus is configured so that a discharge pipe is installed to start from a bottom or a side surface of an accommodation space storing ionized water and protrude above the ionized water filled in the accommodation space. The bubbles are able to be discharged into the accommodation space through the discharge pipe. Changes in properties of the ionized water may be prevented. The properties of the ionized water may be utilized as they are. The discharge of the bubbles is possible even when anyone of the branched portions is blocked, and interference with a flow of the bubbles is prevented in advance even when water drops or the like generated inside the accommodation space block any one of the branched portions.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Inventors: Sung Ho Lee, Young Ho Lee -
Patent number: 12129802Abstract: An assembly is provided for an aircraft propulsion system. This assembly includes a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section and a flowpath extending sequentially through the compressor section, the combustor section and the turbine section. The assembly also includes a turbine rotor, a propulsor rotor and an auxiliary turbine. The turbine rotor is within the turbine section. The turbine rotor is configured to rotatably drive the propulsor rotor. The auxiliary turbine includes an auxiliary turbine rotor. The auxiliary turbine rotor is configured to rotatably drive the propulsor rotor with the turbine rotor. The auxiliary turbine is configured to receive bleed gas from the flowpath.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: RTX CORPORATIONInventor: Paul R. Hanrahan
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Patent number: 12091982Abstract: A turbine component includes a first structure exposed to a hot gas path and a second structure integral with the first structure but isolated from the hot gas path. A first fluid passage in the first structure delivers a thermal transfer fluid, e.g., air, through the first structure to cool the first structure. A second fluid passage is defined within the second structure and is in fluid communication with the first fluid passage. After heat transfer in the first structure, the thermal transfer fluid is hotter than a temperature of the second structure and thus increases the temperature of the second structure. The heat transfer to the second structure reduces a temperature difference between the first structure and the second structure that would, without heating, cause thermal stress between the structures. The heating of the second structure reduces the need for early maintenance and lengthens the lifespan of the component.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLCInventors: Brandon Lee Cox, Brad Wilson VanTassel, Benjamin Paul Lacy
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Patent number: 12078102Abstract: A gas turbine engine assembly including a tap that is at a location up stream of the combustor section for drawing a bleed airflow. An exhaust heat exchanger is configured to transfer thermal energy from the exhaust gas flow into the bleed airflow and communicate the heated bleed airflow into the turbine section where it is expanded to drive the turbine section.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: RTX CORPORATIONInventors: Stephen H. Taylor, Alan Retersdorf, Oliver V. Atassi, Nathan A. Snape
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Patent number: 12012864Abstract: Disclosed is an aero-engine turbine assembly, including a turbine assembly body and a cooling component. The turbine assembly body is provided with an internal flow passage, and the turbine assembly body includes a turbine rotor disk, a blade end wall and a turbine rotor blade, which are successively fixedly connected with each other. The internal flow passage passes through the turbine rotor disk, the blade end wall and the turbine motor blade, and the internal flow passage is provided with an inlet and an outlet. The cooling component is fixed on the turbine rotor disk, and the cooling component includes an electromagnetic pump system, an expansion joint and a radiator, which are successively communicated with each other. The electromagnetic pump system is communicated with the inlet, to inject liquid metal to into the internal flow passage.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Xiang Luo, Zhe Zhang, Dongdong Liu, Zeyu Wu
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Patent number: 11873729Abstract: A turbofan engine has a primary duct, in which there flows a primary flow at a primary pressure and a secondary duct, which radially surrounds the primary duct and in which there flows a secondary flow at a secondary pressure. The primary duct includes at least one compressor configured to compress the primary flow, a turbine driving the compressor in rotation and a combustion chamber designed to receive, at an inlet, the primary air flow compressed by the compressor. The turbomachine further includes a cooling circuit extending between the compressor and the turbine. The cooling circuit has an air flow rate regulating device arranged upstream of the turbine and having at least one valve that is configured to move between an open position and a closed position, located between the compressor and the combustion chamber in the primary duct and the pressure (PS) in the secondary duct.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Arnaud Nicolas Negri, Thaïs Savanah Liliane Marie Smeets, Didier Jean-Louis Yvon, Frédéric François Jean-Yves Patard
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Patent number: 11821326Abstract: A turbine containment system is provided. The turbine containment system includes a first containment member surrounding a portion of a turbine including a plurality of rotor disks and rotor blades; and a second containment member in communication with the first containment member, wherein the first containment member and the second containment member together contain each of the rotor disks and the rotor blades therein.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Veeraraju Vanapalli, Bhaskar Nanda Mondal, Apostolos Pavlos Karafillis, Kenneth E. Seitzer
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Patent number: 11788425Abstract: A gas turbine engine including: a first turbine rotor assembly including a plurality of first turbine rotor blades extended within a gas flowpath; and a casing surrounding the first turbine rotor assembly, wherein the casing comprises an outer casing wall extended around the first turbine rotor assembly; a plurality of vanes extended from the outer casing wall and within the gas flowpath at a location aft of the first turbine rotor assembly; and a thermal control ring positioned outward along a radial direction from the outer casing wall, and wherein the thermal control ring comprises a body and a plurality of pins, and wherein the plurality of pins extend between the outer casing wall and the body.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignees: General Electric Company, General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH, General Electric Company Polska Sp. z o.o.Inventors: Ashish Sharma, Piotr Jerzy Kulinski, Adam Tomasz Pazinski, Tomasz Jan Bulsiewicz, Scott Alan Schimmels
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Patent number: 11773779Abstract: An air inlet into a nacelle of an aircraft turbojet engine having a de-icing device and extends along an axis X, an air stream flowing in the air inlet from upstream to downstream, the inlet comprising an inner wall and an outer wall which are connected by a leading edge, the inner wall having a plurality of air delivery lines, each air delivery line having a plurality of through-holes designed to blow elementary streams from the hot air source in order to de-ice said inner wall, the air delivery lines being parallel to one another in a cylindrical projection plane, each air delivery line having a depth P3 defined along the axis X as well as a length L3 defined along the axis Y in the cylindrical projection plane, two adjacent air delivery lines being spaced apart by a distance D3, each position along the axis Y with no more than one through-hole, the ratio of the distances L3/D3 being between 0.8 and 1.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLESInventor: Hervé Léopold Hurlin
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Patent number: 11773742Abstract: A gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure include a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section. The combustor has a radially outer surface that defines a diffuser chamber radially outwardly of the combustor. The turbine section has a high pressure turbine first stage blade that has an outer tip, and a blade outer air seal positioned radially outwardly of the outer tip. A tap for tapping air has been compressed by the compressor and is passed through a heat exchanger. The air downstream of the heat exchanger passes through at least one pipe and into a manifold radially outward of the blade outer air seal, and then passes across the blade outer air seal to cool the blade outer air seal.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: RTX CORPORATIONInventors: Jonathan Ortiz, Raymond Surace, Renee J. Jurek, Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley
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Patent number: 11753958Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for cooling, using air jets, an external casing of a turbomachine, comprising a housing for supplying air to cooling tubes of said casing, the housing being provided with an attachment device on the external casing. According to the invention, said attachment device comprises two upstream ball joint retention devices which each connect the housing to the external casing.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Simon Nicolas Morliere, Stéphane Pierre Guillaume Blanchard, Nicolas Jean-Marc Marcel Beauquin
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Patent number: 11746663Abstract: A high-temperature component according to an embodiment is a high-temperature component which requires cooling by a cooling medium, and includes: a plurality of cooling passages through which the cooling medium is able to flow; a header portion to which downstream ends of the plurality of first cooling passages are connected; and at least one outlet passage for discharging the cooling medium flowing into the header portion to outside of the header portion. A roughness of an inner wall surface of the at least one outlet passage is not greater than a roughness of an inner wall surface of the plurality of first cooling passages in a region where a flow-passage cross-sectional area of the outlet passage is the smallest.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.Inventors: Shuji Tanigawa, Koichiro Iida, Ryuta Ito, Taro Tokutake, Yoshinori Wakita
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Patent number: 11674401Abstract: A seal for a gas turbine engine includes a full hoop outer ring, a shoe coupled to the full hoop outer ring via an inner beam and an outer beam, and a wave spring in contact with at least one of the inner beam or the outer beam.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Ross Wilson, John R. Farris, Michael G. McCaffrey, Theodore W. Hall, John J. Korzendorfer, Elizabeth F. Vinson, Jeffrey Michael Jacques, John E. Paul, Edwin Otero, Alan W. Stoner
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Patent number: 11624292Abstract: A blade outer air seal assembly includes a support structure and a blade outer air seal having a plurality of segments extending circumferentially about an axis and mounted to the support structure. At least two segments have a base portion extending from a first circumferential side to a second circumferential side, a first protrusion extending from the first circumferential side and having a first slot, and a second protrusion extending from the second circumferential side and having a second slot. A feather seal is arranged in the first slot and the second slot between the at least two segments such that the feather seal is pivotable between first and second positions in response to relative movement between the first and second protrusions.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas E. Clark, William M. Barker
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Patent number: 11614037Abstract: A method and system for bleed flow power generation is provided. The engine includes a core flowpath formed by a compressor section, a heat addition system, and an expansion section in serial flow arrangement. A bleed circuit is extended from the core flowpath to extract a portion of compressed fluid from the core flowpath. The method and system include bleeding compressed fluid through a bleed circuit extended in fluid communication from the core flowpath of the engine; flowing the compressed fluid through the bleed circuit to a turbine rotor positioned at the bleed circuit; extracting, via the turbine rotor, energy from the flow of compressed fluid across the turbine rotor; and receiving energy at an electric machine operably coupled to the turbine rotor.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Jeffrey Douglas Rambo
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Patent number: 11591966Abstract: Features and methods for modulating a flow of cooling fluid to gas turbine engine components are provided. In one embodiment, an airfoil is provided having a flow modulation insert for modulating a flow of cooling fluid received in a cavity of a body of the airfoil. In another embodiment, a shroud is provided comprising a cooling channel for a flow of cooling fluid and an insert that varies in position to modulate the flow of cooling fluid through the cooling channel. In yet another embodiment, a method for operating a gas turbine engine having a cooling circuit for cooling one or more components of the gas turbine engine comprises increasing power provided to the engine and decreasing power provided to the engine to modulate a position of a flow modulation insert located in the cooling circuit and thereby modulate the flow of cooling fluid through the cooling circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Charles Groves, II, Kirk Douglas Gallier, Charles William Craig, III
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Patent number: 11591916Abstract: A turbine rotor includes a base and a plurality of blades. The base and the blades curve such that radially outward portions of the base and the blades extend in a direction with a greater component in a radial direction than in an axial direction. Radially central portions of the base and the blade extend in a direction with the two components being closer. Radially inner sections of the base and the blades extend in a direction with a greater component in the axial direction than in a radial direction. There is a cooling channel arrangement in the turbine rotor. The cooling channel arrangement includes impingement cooling for a nose and serpentine passages for cooling sections of the platform circumferentially intermediate the blades, and distinct serpentine passages for cooling the plurality of blades. A turbomachine and method are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Zhongtao Dai, Ram Ranjan, Robert H. Dold
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Patent number: 11555405Abstract: A device for holding (101) at least one cooling tube (120) of a turbomachine casing (10) cooling system (100), the holding device including a fixing frame (104), a holding member (160) being configured to hold two cooling tubes (120), and a connection assembly (140) between the holding member (160) and a fixing frame (104), extending on either side of the frame, the connection assembly (160) comprising a connection part (150) extending through an opening (108) of the fixing frame from an outer portion (141) to the inner portion (142) of the connection assembly, the inner portion (142) being disposed between two cooling tubes (120) and secured to the holding member (160) while the outer portion (141) comprises a resilient return member (170) urged in compression towards the fixing frame by the connection part (150).Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Simon Nicolas Morliere, Nicolas Jean-Marc Marcel Beauquin, Stéphane Pierre Guillaume Blanchard, Gaëlle Inès Méganne Moreaux
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Patent number: 11542833Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Arnaud Lasantha Genilier, François Pierre Michel Comte, Fabien Stéphane Garnier, Vincent François Georges Millier
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Patent number: 11512611Abstract: A turbomachinery stator apparatus includes: a compressor casing including a casing wall defining an arcuate flowpath surface and an opposed backside surface, the flowpath surface defining at least two spaced-apart rotor lands; and a stator vane row of stator vanes disposed inside the compressor casing; wherein the casing wall includes at least one hollow structure; and wherein the casing wall is a single monolithic whole, wherein the stator vanes are integrally formed as part of the monolithic whole.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Steven Mitchell Taylor
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Patent number: 11415007Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a shroud ring, a vane ring, and a secondary flow assembly. The shroud ring extends around an associated turbine wheel and includes a carrier segment and a blade track segment comprising ceramic matrix composite materials. The blade track segment and the carrier segment defining a shroud cavity radially therebetween. The vane ring includes a heat shield comprising ceramic matrix composite materials that forms an outer platform, an inner platform, and an airfoil defining a heat shield cavity radially through the heat shield. The secondary flow assembly includes a recirculating flow circuit having a discharge tube and a vane pressurizing tube; and the secondary flow assembly is configured to cool the blade track segment. The flow circuit is further configured to pressurize the heat shield cavity thereby providing a seal against the gases from the primary gas path entering the heat shield cavity.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Inventors: Michael J. Whittle, Keith Sadler, Matthew D. Thomason, Andrew Holt
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Patent number: 11391177Abstract: A turbocharger includes a turbine housing configured to house a turbine rotor provided on one side of a rotor shaft; and a bearing housing configured to house a bearing that rotatably supports the rotor shaft, in which at least one cooling water flow path through which cooling water flows is formed in at least one of the turbine housing and the bearing housing, and the at least one cooling water flow path is formed such that a plurality of flow path cross sections are present in, of a cross-section including an axis of the rotor shaft, a half cross-section divided by the axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yutaka Fujita, Tadashi Kanzaka
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Patent number: 11391289Abstract: Centrifugal compressors can incorporate a side stream flow of intermediate pressure vapor between stages of that compressor. The side stream flow can be controlled by a side stream injection port controlled by a capacity control valve that has a curved surface facing a flow of refrigerant from the first stage to the second stage. The capacity control valve can allow or obstruct flow through the side stream injection port. The capacity control valve can extend and retract in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of flow from the first stage impeller to the second stage impeller. The side stream injection port and the capacity control valve can be ring-shaped. The side stream injection port and the capacity control valve can allow at least some of the side stream to be introduced on a side of the capacity control valve opposite the curved surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Rick T. James, Yuanjie Wu, Christopher Glen Thilges, Mark W. Harrison, Jon Christopher Johnson
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Patent number: 11377960Abstract: A low-pressure compressor for an axial-flow turbomachine, such as a jet engine, includes an annular row of vanes and a between-vanes passage with a connecting surface that links the pressure surface of a first vane to the suction surface of a second vane of the row. The connecting surface includes a main protuberance which includes a first elevation and a second elevation that are spaced apart from one another.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS SAInventor: Stéphane Hiernaux
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Patent number: 11357127Abstract: A plenum for processing one or more byproducts output from a generator, and systems and methods thereof, can have the plenum in the form of a hollow elongate rectangular box having a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The plenum can have a frame and a sidewall fixed to the frame, and can be adapted to be oriented vertically when operatively coupled to receive the one or more byproducts from the generator. The sidewall can include an opening adapted to receive heated air from the generator as one of the byproducts from the generator.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Praveen Venugopal, Timothy D. Collins, Andrew Philip McKeown, Nicholas Murray, Joseph W. Brunton, Karl A. Hagen, Damian Grant
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Patent number: 11346245Abstract: A steam-turbine unit has a steam turbine and an option for cooling the steam turbine by forced cooling, wherein cooling air is drawn through the steam turbine via a suction device and a drainage line of the live-steam valve is used as the access option.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Edwin Gobrecht, Stefan Riemann, Gerta Zimmer
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Patent number: 11346248Abstract: A nozzle segment for a gas turbine engine comprises an outer band having a cooling air inlet, an inner band having a first cooling air outlet, and a nozzle airfoil comprising a cooling flow passage arranged to receive the cooling air as a cooling air stream. A first channel and a second channel are arranged within the cooling flow passage. A deflector is arranged to divide the cooling air stream into a first cooling air stream in the first channel and a second cooling air stream in the second channel, respectively. The deflector deflects the first cooling air stream obliquely to a suction sidewall in the first channel, wherein the first channel is configured to transport the first cooling air stream along the first channel in a swirly flow.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: General Electric Company Polska Sp. Z o.o.Inventors: Tomasz Bulsiewics, Leszek Marek Rzeszutek, Maciej Michal Stańczyk, Dariusz Olczak, Jaroslaw Stec
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Patent number: 11333171Abstract: High performance wedge diffusers utilized within compression systems, such as centrifugal and mixed-flow compression systems employed within gas turbine engines, are provided. In embodiments, the wedge diffuser includes a diffuser flowbody and tapered diffuser vanes, which are contained in the diffuser flowbody and which partition or separate diffuser flow passages or channels extending through the flowbody. The diffuser flow channels include, in turn, flow channel inlets formed in an inner peripheral portion of the diffuser flowbody, flow channel outlets formed in an outer peripheral portion of the diffuser flowbody, and flow channel throats fluidly coupled between the flow channel inlets and the flow channel outlets. The diffuser vanes include a first plurality of vane sidewalls, which transition from linear sidewall geometries to non-linear sidewall geometries at locations between the flow channel inlets and the flow channel outlets.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Shakeel Nasir, Nick Nolcheff, Cristopher Frost
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Patent number: 11286934Abstract: A vacuum pump system is provided that includes a main vacuum pump that is connected to a chamber that is to be evacuated. An auxiliary pump is connected to an outlet of the main vacuum pump. Furthermore, a sealing gas supply device is connected to the main vacuum pump. The sealing gas supply device is switched on and off with the aid of a control device as a function of a predetermined control variable. Additionally, a method for controlling the vacuum pump system.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2017Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Leybold GmbHInventors: Max Pelikan, Raffaello Ghislotti, Dirk Schiller, Daniel Reinhard
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Patent number: 11286802Abstract: A turbine shroud segment of a gas turbine engine includes a carrier segment, a blade track segment, and a plurality of seals arranged between the carrier segment and the blade track segment. The plurality of seals are arranged between the carrier segment and the blade track segment to block gases from passing between the carrier segment and the blade track segment.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce High Temperature Composites Inc.Inventors: Daniel K. Vetters, Aaron D. Sippel, Jeffrey M. Crutchfield, Jeffrey A. Walston
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Patent number: 11274605Abstract: A method for shimming a thrust bearing for an accessory power take off shaft to obtain optimal meshing of bevel gears within the internal gearbox (IGB) without disassembly of the IGB is enabled by relocating the thrust bearing from the engine sump. The accessory gearbox (AGB) is driven from a power off-take from the turbine spool via the IGB. The radial position of the power take-off bevel gear is established by a radial position of the thrust bearing attached to the exterior of the casing via a housing. Candidate shims are selected from a set each having different thicknesses, the shims are formed of two halves and placed between the housing and the engine casing to adjust the radial position of the thrust bearing and consequently the power take-off bevel gear, without requiring the disassembly of the IGB.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE CORPORATIONInventors: Timothy David Sheridan, Joseph Swift, Daniel Feinstein, Caleb Camara
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Patent number: 11268404Abstract: A hot section of a gas turbine engine includes a stator housing wall and an at least one insulating standoff attached to the stator housing wall, extending radially away from the stator housing wall. The hot section includes an accessory module attached to an opposite end of the at least one insulating standoff away from the stator housing wall.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: David W. Morganson, Lawrence A. Binek
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Patent number: 11242764Abstract: A seal assembly for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a seal that has an elongated seal body having a seal face that bounds a gas path and an opposed impingement face. The seal body defines an internal cavity extending in a circumferential direction between opposed mate faces and extending in a radial direction between walls of the seal body defining the seal and impingement faces. A baffle divides the internal cavity into at least a first region and a second region. The first region has a first section extending transversely from a second section. The first section has a component in the radial direction, and the second section has a component in an axial direction such that the second region is defined between the baffle and the walls of the seal body defining the seal face. A method of sealing is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Winston Gregory Smiddy, Dominic J. Mongillo
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Patent number: 11236768Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system that utilizes an insulated separation wall that separates the hot, humid EGR gas duct from the cool, dry inlet air duct in the upstream proximity of the compressor inlet of the associated turbocharger compressor. This insulated separation wall inhibits the condensation of water droplets and the formation of ice particles near the mixing point of the EGR gases and inlet air in the upstream proximity of the compressor inlet, such that the turbocharger compressor wheel, blades, and other components are not subsequently damaged by the condensed water droplets or formed ice particles. The added insulation in this cold sink area essentially thermally isolates the hot, humid EGR gas flow from the cool, dry inlet air flow until the actual mixing point of the flows.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Volvo Car CorporationInventor: Ola Rolandson
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Patent number: 11221014Abstract: An impeller and a centrifugal fan having the impeller are provided. The impeller rotates about a central axis, and includes: a cup portion, provided with a bottom portion and a cylindrical portion; a base portion, extending from a radially outermost end of the cup portion toward a radially outer side; a plurality of vanes, located on the radially outer side of the cup portion; and a ring portion, connected with end portions of the vanes on the radially outer side. The impeller further includes a plurality of rib portions, formed on a surface of a side opposite to another side of the base portion where the vanes are provided. Each of the rib portions is disposed axially opposite to at least a portion of a corresponding one of the vanes, and the rib portion and the vane is separated by the base portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Qiang Ma, Toshifumi Fukui, Fengwen Yang
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Patent number: 11220928Abstract: An assembly adapted for use in a gas turbine engine includes a carrier and a blade track segment. The carrier extends at least partway about an axis. The blade track segment is supported by the carrier radially relative to the axis to define a portion of a gas path of the assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Rolls-Royce CorporationInventors: Alexandra Baucco, Aaron D. Sippel, Ted J. Freeman
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Patent number: 11215074Abstract: A flow regulating system for increasing a flow of cooling fluid supplied to a cooling system of a component of a gas turbine system is provided. The flow regulating system includes: a pneumatic circuit embedded within a section of the component, the pneumatic circuit including a set of interconnected pneumatic passages; and a pressure-actuated switch fluidly coupled to the pneumatic circuit. The pressure-actuated switch is activated in response to a formation of a breach in the section of the component and an exposure of at least one of the pneumatic passages of the pneumatic circuit embedded in the section of the component. The activation of the pressure-actuated switch increases the flow of cooling fluid supplied to the cooling system of the component.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Zachary John Snider, Matthew Troy Hafner, Lyndsay Marie Kibler
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Patent number: 11215118Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system including a turbojet and heat exchanger system including a heat exchanger. A supply connection and evacuation connection are forward, and aft are a transfer connection and a scoop connection, a supply pipe connected to the supply connection, and which bleeds hot air from the compression stages. A transfer pipe connected to the transfer connection transfers hot air to an air management system. A scoop connected to a scoop connection bleeds cold air from a fan duct and an evacuation pipe, including an inlet connected to the evacuation connection and an outlet, which emerges on the outside, where hot air through the heat exchanger from the supply pipe to the transfer pipe passes along a first transfer direction and cold air passes through the heat exchanger from each scoop to the inlet along a second transfer direction parallel to the first transfer direction in the opposite direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignees: Airbus (S.A.S.), Airbus Operations (S.A.S.), Airbus Operations, S.L.Inventors: Bruno Medda, Thomas Stevens, Julien Cayssials, Adeline Soulie, Didier Poirier, Pierre-Alain Pinault, Esteban Martino González, Juan Tomas Prieto Padilla, Diego Barron Vega
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Patent number: 11215061Abstract: Disclosed is a blade, having: a blade root; a blade body that extends radially from the blade root to a blade tip, the blade body having a pressure side and a suction side each extending from a leading edge of the blade body to a trailing edge of the blade body; a squealer pocket located in the blade tip; and a first wearable tip-rub-portion located radially above the squealer pocket, and extending between the pressure side and the suction side, the first wearable tip-rub-portion terminating at a first wearable tip-rub-portion distal end.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Anton G. Banks, Lane Mikal Thornton
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Patent number: 11208896Abstract: An assembly adapted for use in a gas turbine engine includes a carrier and a blade track segment. The carrier extends at least partway about an axis. The blade track segment is supported by the carrier radially relative to the axis to define a portion of a gas path of the assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Rolls-Royce CorporationInventors: Alexandra Baucco, Aaron D. Sippel, Ted J. Freeman
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Patent number: 11209017Abstract: A system includes an inlet duct disposed about an inlet axis, wherein the inlet duct is configured to direct an airflow along the inlet axis to a compressor inlet. The inlet includes an inlet heating system and a heating portion having a longitudinal axis that is substantially perpendicular to the inlet axis. The inlet heating system includes a first conduit substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis that is configured to distribute a heated fluid directly to the airflow via a first set of openings of a first end zone of the first conduit and a second set of openings of a second zone of the first conduit. The first end zone is configured to receive the heated fluid from a heating source, the second zone is coupled to the first end zone, and the second zone is configured to receive the heated fluid from the first end zone.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Alan Eskandar, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin, Hua Zhang, Christopher Conrad Frese
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Patent number: 11187244Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a reflux device blade and a compressor. The reflux device blade includes a blade main body, a hollow cavity is formed in the blade main body, and an air supplement hole is formed in the blade main body. When the hollow reflux device blade is adopted, the supplemental air entering the hollow cavity of the reflux device blade through an air supplement channel forms jet flow on a suction surface of the reflux device blade to blow off a low-speed low-energy area formed on the suction surface, so as to reduce the airflow mixing loss, prevent the intake distortion of a second-stage impeller, and improve the operation range of the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignees: Gree Electric Appliances (Wuhan) Co., Ltd., Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of ZhuhaiInventors: Zengyue Liu, Ruixing Zhong, Nan Jiang, Caiyun Jiang, Yuhui Chen, Yi Zhou, Liandong Lei, Xinwang Ouyang
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Patent number: 11149588Abstract: An exhaust chamber of a steam turbine includes a casing, an inner flow guide portion disposed in the casing so as to define an outer boundary of a diffuser passage communicating with an outlet of a last stage blade in the steam turbine, and an outer flow guide portion disposed on an outer peripheral side of the inner flow guide portion in the casing. The exhaust chamber has an exhaust chamber outlet on a lower side thereof. The outer flow guide portion is disposed at least around an upper half region of the inner flow guide portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yoshihiro Kuwamura
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Patent number: 11111811Abstract: A stator vane for a gas turbine engine section includes a stator vane having an airfoil extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge. The airfoil has a suction side and a pressure side. There is at least one piezoelectric actuator for changing a shape of at least one of the leading edge and the trailing edge. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Michael M. Joly, Zaffir A. Chaudhry, Simon W. Evans, Gorazd Medic, Dilip Prasad
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Patent number: 11098613Abstract: A retention device for at least one cooling tube of a cooling system of a turbomachine casing, the casing extending around an axial direction of the turbomachine, the retention device includes a fixing plate suited to being made integral with the casing and a retention element for the cooling tube. The retention device includes an adjustment system configured to adjust the relative position of the retention element with respect to the fixing plate and to absorb a relative movement between the retention element and the fixing plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Didier Noël Durand, Nicolas Delaporte, Anthony Pierre Beguin
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Patent number: 11092014Abstract: A blade track system includes a blade track configured to be positioned around a plurality of blades of a gas turbine engine. The blade track includes: a full-hoop body, an inlet port, and an exit port. The full-hoop body includes an outer surface and an inner surface. The inner surface defines an internal cooling channel extending within the full-hoop body. The inlet port and the exit port are each integrated with the full-hoop body and in fluid communication with the internal cooling channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Rolls-Royce CorporationInventors: Corina Moga, Tony Lambert, Shaling Starr
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Patent number: 11085641Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a first liner having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a wall having a thickness defined between the first surface and the second surface. The first liner defines a plurality of effusion cooling holes, and at least one of the effusion cooling holes includes an inlet section spaced apart from the first surface, and a converging section downstream of the inlet section. The inlet section and the converging section are each defined so as to be outside of the thickness. The at least one of the effusion cooling holes includes a metering section downstream of the converging section and a portion of the metering section is defined within the thickness. The at least one of the effusion cooling holes includes an outlet section downstream of the metering section. The outlet section is proximate to the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Rodolphe Dudebout, Nagaraja S. Rudrapatna, Atul Verma, David Chou, Christopher Zollars
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Patent number: 11021986Abstract: A seal assembly for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a seal that has a sealing portion that extends circumferentially between first and second mate faces and an engagement portion along the first mate face. A support has an interface portion that extends from a mounting portion. The interface portion abuts the engagement portion to limit relative movement, and the mounting portion defines an aperture that receives a fastener to mechanically attach the mounting portion to an engine static structure. A portion of the fastener is circumferentially aligned with the first mate face. The fastener defines a first cooling passage that delivers cooling flow at a location adjacent to the first mate face.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Winston Gregory Smiddy, Paul M. Lutjen