Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Turbine airfoil with passive morphing structure
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Application No.: US16226703Application Date: 2018-12-20
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Publication No.: US11225871B2Publication Date: 2022-01-18
- Inventor: Nicholas Joseph Kray , Narendra Digamber Joshi , Samar Jyoti Kalita , Paul Gerard Marsland , Wayne Allen Spence
- 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: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC
- Main IPC: F01D5/14
- IPC: F01D5/14 ; F01D11/18 ; B22F5/04 ; B22F7/06 ; B33Y80/00 ; B33Y10/00 ; B22F10/20 ; F01D5/28 ; F01D9/04 ; F04D29/32 ; F04D29/54

Abstract:
A turbine engine airfoil apparatus, including an airfoil defined by a plurality of airfoil sections arrayed along a stacking axis that extends between a root and a tip, wherein at least two of the airfoil sections spaced apart from each other have differing airfoil section thermal expansion properties.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200024956A1 TURBINE AIRFOIL WITH PASSIVE MORPHING STRUCTURE Public/Granted day:2020-01-23
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