Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Shroud for splitter and rotor airfoils of a fan for a gas turbine engine
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Application No.: US16713469Application Date: 2019-12-13
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Publication No.: US11149552B2Publication Date: 2021-10-19
- Inventor: Anthony Louis DiPietro, Jr. , Tyler James Alexander , Joseph Capozzi , Aspi Rustom Wadia , Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, LLP
- Main IPC: F01D5/14
- IPC: F01D5/14 ; F01D9/04 ; F02K3/06 ; F04D29/32 ; F02C7/36

Abstract:
A fan for a gas turbine engine is provided. The fan includes a rotor including at least one rotor stage having a rotatable disk defining a flowpath surface and an array of rotor airfoils extending outward from the flowpath surface; an array of splitter airfoils extending outward from the flowpath surface, wherein the splitter airfoils and the rotor airfoils are disposed in a sequential arrangement; and a shroud extending between the rotor airfoils and the splitter airfoils.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210180458A1 SHROUD FOR SPLITTER AND ROTOR AIRFOILS OF A FAN FOR A GAS TURBINE ENGINE Public/Granted day:2021-06-17
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