Invention Application
- Patent Title: MIDSHAFT RATING FOR TURBOMACHINE ENGINES
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Application No.: US18058036Application Date: 2022-11-22
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Publication No.: US20230136238A1Publication Date: 2023-05-04
- Inventor: Narayanan Payyoor , Bhaskar Nanda Mondal
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Main IPC: F16C3/02
- IPC: F16C3/02 ; F02C7/06

Abstract:
A turbomachine engine including an engine core including a high-pressure compressor, which has an exit stage having an exit stage diameter (DCORE), a high-pressure turbine, and a combustion chamber in flow communication with the high-pressure compressor and the high-pressure turbine, a power turbine in flow communication with the high-pressure turbine, and a low-pressure shaft coupled to the power turbine and characterized by a midshaft rating (MSR) between two hundred (ft/sec)1/2 and three hundred (ft/sec)1/2. The low-pressure shaft has a redline speed between fifty and two hundred fifty feet per second (ft/sec). The turbomachine engine is configured to operate up to the redline speed without passing through a critical speed associated with a first-order bending mode of the low-pressure shaft. The low-pressure shaft has a length (LMSR) defined by an engine core length (LCORE) given by: LCORE=[m(20+m)*n(10+n)](1/100)*DCORE+CIS.
Public/Granted literature
- US12071978B2 Midshaft rating for turbomachine engines Public/Granted day:2024-08-27
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