Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Gas turbine engine fan blade, design, and fabrication
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Application No.: US15650107Application Date: 2017-07-14
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Publication No.: US10808545B2Publication Date: 2020-10-20
- Inventor: Tahany Ibrahim El-Wardany , Matthew E. Lynch , Om P. Sharma , Catalin G. Fotache
- Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CT Farmington
- Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Farmington
- Agency: Kinney & Lange, P.A.
- Main IPC: F01D5/18
- IPC: F01D5/18 ; F01D5/14 ; F04D29/38 ; B22F3/11 ; F04D29/02 ; F04D29/32

Abstract:
An embodiment of a fan blade includes an interior region between a metallic pressure sidewall and a metallic suction sidewall. Each sidewall extends in span from a base to a tip, and extends in chord from a leading edge to a trailing edge. The interior region of the fan blade includes a first fully dense metallic portion and a first porous metallic portion. The first fully dense metallic portion has a volume occupying at least 10% of a total volume of the interior region, and substantially no porosity. The first porous metallic portion is integrally joined to the fully dense metallic portion, and is selected from a structured lattice, an unstructured foam, and combinations thereof.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190017388A1 GAS TURBINE ENGINE FAN BLADE, DESIGN, AND FABRICATION Public/Granted day:2019-01-17
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