- Patent Title: Turbine engine and containment assembly for use in a turbine engine
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Application No.: US15486946Application Date: 2017-04-13
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Publication No.: US10662813B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Thomas Chadwick Waldman , James Edward Thompson , Douglas Ward , Nicholas Joseph Kray , Scott Roger Finn , Apostolos Pavlos Karafillis
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schectady
- Agency: Dority & Manning, P.A.
- Main IPC: F01D25/24
- IPC: F01D25/24 ; F01D21/04 ; F04D29/02 ; F04D29/52

Abstract:
A turbine engine that includes an engine casing including a shell and an angel wing member. The angel wing member includes a base defined at the shell and a tip positioned distal from the base. The turbine engine also includes a backsheet extending over the angel wing member such that an angled region is defined in the backsheet at an interface with the tip. The tip has a predetermined contour capable of mitigating stress concentrations in the angled region induced from said tip.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180298782A1 TURBINE ENGINE AND CONTAINMENT ASSEMBLY FOR USE IN A TURBINE ENGINE Public/Granted day:2018-10-18
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