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公开(公告)号:US10393137B2
公开(公告)日:2019-08-27
申请号:US15043036
申请日:2016-02-12
Applicant: General Electric Company
Abstract: The variable pitch propeller assembly includes a hub. The variable pitch propeller assembly also includes a plurality of propeller blade assemblies spaced circumferentially about the hub. Each of the plurality of propeller blade assemblies configured to rotate a respective propeller blade. The variable pitch propeller assembly also includes a hydraulic fluid port assembly integrally formed and including at least three hydraulic fluid ports configured to receive respective flows of hydraulic fluid from a stationary hydraulic fluid transfer sleeve. The variable pitch propeller assembly also includes a pitch actuator assembly coupled in flow communication with at least three hydraulic fluid ports through respective hydraulic fluid transfer tubes. The pitch actuator coupled to the plurality of propeller blade assemblies to selectively control a pitch of the propeller blades. The pitch actuator assembly includes a travel stop configured to limit a rotation of at least one of the pitch actuator assemblies.
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公开(公告)号:US20190153953A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-23
申请号:US15819443
申请日:2017-11-21
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Daniel Alan Niergarth , Adon Delgado, JR. , Brandon Wayne Miller , Hendrik Pieter Jacobus de Bock
Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine and a thermal management system. The thermal management system includes a heat source heat exchanger configured to collect heat from the turbomachine during operation; a heat sink heat exchanger; and a thermal transport bus having a heat exchange fluid configured to flow therethrough at a pressure within an operational pressure range. The thermal management system defines an operational temperature range for the heat exchange fluid, the operational temperature range having a lower temperature limit less than about zero degrees Fahrenheit at a pressure within the operational pressure range and an upper temperature limit of at least about 1000 degrees Fahrenheit at a pressure within the operational pressure range.
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公开(公告)号:US10274071B2
公开(公告)日:2019-04-30
申请号:US15008922
申请日:2016-01-28
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Daniel Alan Niergarth , Brandon Wayne Miller , Bugra Han Ertas , Donald Albert Bradley , Joseph Robert Dickman
Abstract: An epicyclic gearing arrangement includes a planet gear rotatable on a planet bearing that is mounted via a support pin to a carrier of the epicyclic gearing arrangement. A spring film damper is disposed between the outer surface of the bearing's outer ring and the opposing inner surface of the planet gear and includes an annular gap. The support pin and/or outer ring include oil feed holes that open into the respective annular gap(s).
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公开(公告)号:US10252810B2
公开(公告)日:2019-04-09
申请号:US15132304
申请日:2016-04-19
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Daniel Alan Niergarth , Randy M. Vondrell , Brandon Wayne Miller , Patrick Michael Marrinan
Abstract: A propulsion system for an aircraft is provided having a propulsion engine configured to be mounted to the aircraft. The propulsion engine includes an electric machine defining an electric machine tip speed during operation. The propulsion system additionally includes a fan rotatable about a central axis of the electric propulsion engine with the electric machine. The fan defines a fan pressure ratio, RFP, and includes a plurality of fan blades, each fan blade defining a fan blade tip speed. The electric propulsion engine defines a ratio of the fan blade tip speed to electric machine tip speed that is within twenty percent of the equation, 1.01×RFP−0.311, such that the propulsion engine may operate at a desired efficiency.
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公开(公告)号:US20190085714A1
公开(公告)日:2019-03-21
申请号:US15709535
申请日:2017-09-20
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Darek Tomasz Zatorski , Gert Johannes van der Merwe , Brandon Wayne Miller , Daniel Alan Niergarth
Abstract: A turbomachine includes a turbine section including a turbine. The turbine includes a first plurality of turbine rotor blades and a second plurality of turbine rotor blades, the first plurality of turbine rotor blades and second plurality of turbine rotor blades alternatingly spaced along the axial direction. The turbomachine also includes a gearbox. The first plurality of turbine rotor blades and the second plurality of turbine rotor blades are each coupled to one of a ring gear, a planet gear, or a sun gear of the gearbox such that the first plurality of turbine rotor blades is rotatable with the second plurality of turbine rotor blades through the gearbox. The turbomachine also includes an electric machine assembly including a rotor coupled to one of the ring gear, the planet gear, or the sun gear of the gearbox such that the rotor rotates relative to a stator during operation.
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公开(公告)号:US10100653B2
公开(公告)日:2018-10-16
申请号:US14878008
申请日:2015-10-08
Applicant: General Electric Company
IPC: F01D5/32 , F01D7/00 , F04D29/32 , F04D29/64 , F01D5/02 , F01D5/12 , F01D5/30 , F02C3/04 , B64C11/32
Abstract: A variable pitch fan for a gas turbine engine includes a fan blade defining a pitch axis and attached at a radially inner end to a trunnion mechanism. The variable pitch fan also includes a disk having a disk segment with the trunnion mechanism extending at least partially through the disk segment. A key is positioned at least partially in a key slot defined in a base of the trunnion mechanism, and further positioned adjacent to a support member of the disk segment. The key defines a first contact line between the key and the key slot and a second contact line between the key and the support member. The first and second contact lines respectively define a first contact reference line in a second contact reference line. The first and second contact reference lines define an angle with the pitch axis of the fan blade greater than zero degrees and less than ninety degrees.
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公开(公告)号:US10077674B2
公开(公告)日:2018-09-18
申请号:US14747132
申请日:2015-06-23
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Brandon Wayne Miller , Ian Francis Prentice , Daniel Alan Niergarth
Abstract: A fan for a gas turbine engine is provided. The fan includes a plurality of fan blades, a disk, and a trunnion mechanism for attaching the fan blades to the disk. The disk can be formed of a plurality of individual disk segments, with the trunnion mechanism attaching one of the plurality of fan blades to a respective disk segment. A retention member is also provided. The retention member includes a means for catching a portion of the trunnion mechanism should a primary attachment system of the trunnion mechanism fail.
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公开(公告)号:US20180087396A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-29
申请号:US15278482
申请日:2016-09-28
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Gert Johannes van der Merwe , Daniel Alan Niergarth , Peter David Toot
CPC classification number: F01D15/10 , F01D5/06 , F01D15/12 , F01D25/16 , F01D25/28 , F02C3/113 , F02C7/36 , F04D19/02 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2260/4023 , F05D2260/40311 , F16D41/069 , F16H1/28 , Y02T50/671
Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section and a turbine section. A first spool is rotatable with a first turbine of the turbine section and a first compressor of the compressor section. Additionally, a second spool is rotatable with a second turbine of the turbine section and a second compressor of the compressor section. An electric machine is positioned at least partially inward of the core air flowpath of the gas turbine engine along a radial direction of the gas turbine engine. Additionally, the exemplary gas turbine engine includes a gear assembly mechanically coupled to both the first spool and the second spool, such that the first and second spools may each drive the electric machine.
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公开(公告)号:US20180051701A1
公开(公告)日:2018-02-22
申请号:US15242827
申请日:2016-08-22
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Thomas Kupiszewski , Brandon Wayne Miller , Daniel Alan Niergarth , Randy M. Vondrell , Paul Robert Gemin
IPC: F04D25/06 , F02C3/04 , F01D5/02 , F01D5/10 , F02C7/36 , F01D25/24 , B64D27/18 , B64D27/10 , F04D19/00
CPC classification number: F04D25/06 , B64D27/02 , B64D27/24 , B64D2027/026 , F01D5/02 , F01D5/10 , F01D25/24 , F02C3/04 , F02C6/00 , F02C7/32 , F02C7/36 , F04D19/002 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2220/76 , F05D2220/766 , F05D2240/24 , F05D2260/40311 , F05D2260/96 , H02K5/15 , H02K5/1732 , H02K7/083 , H02K7/116 , H02K7/1823 , Y02T50/672 , Y02T50/673
Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section and a turbine section together defining a core air flowpath. The rotary component is rotatable with the compressor section and the turbine section. The gas turbine engine additionally includes an electric machine rotatable with the rotary component and positioned coaxially with the rotary component at least partially inward of the core air flowpath. The electric machine is flexibly mounted to a static frame member, or flexibly coupled to the rotary component, or both, such that the electric machine is mechanically isolated or insulated from various internal and external forces on the gas turbine engine.
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公开(公告)号:US20180003080A1
公开(公告)日:2018-01-04
申请号:US15197451
申请日:2016-06-29
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Thomas Lee Becker , Brandon Wayne Miller , Daniel Alan Niergarth , Bugra Han Ertas
CPC classification number: F01D25/164 , F01D9/023 , F01D25/22 , F02C7/06 , F02C9/18 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2240/50 , F05D2240/53 , F05D2240/54 , F16C32/0603 , F16C32/0614 , F16C2360/23 , F23R3/283
Abstract: A bearing assembly for a turbine engine includes a first gas bearing configured to receive a load from a rotating shaft of the turbine engine, a transmission disk configured to receive the load from the first gas bearing, and a damping member coupled to a casing of a combustor section of the turbine engine. The transmission disk includes a gas delivery disk, which includes an axial opening configured to facilitate an axial flow through the gas delivery disk and a duct configured to facilitate a radial flow through the gas delivery disk to form the first gas bearing. The damping member is configured to receive the load from the transmission disk.
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