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公开(公告)号:US12221905B1
公开(公告)日:2025-02-11
申请号:US18366256
申请日:2023-08-07
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Arthur W. Sibbach , Robert R. Rachedi , Brandon W. Miller , Jeffrey D. Rambo , Daniel A. Niergarth
Abstract: A turbine engine for an aircraft. The turbine engine includes a fan, a combustor in a core air flowpath that generates combustion gases, a core shaft, a turbine that receives the combustion gases to rotate the turbine, and a steam system. The steam system extracts water from the combustion gases, vaporizes the water to generate steam, and injects the steam into the core air flowpath. The steam system includes one or more water storage devices that store the water therein. The one or more water storage devices include a first state in which the one or more water storage devices increase or maintain a level of the water as the water flows through the one or more water storage devices, and a second state in which the one or more water storage devices decrease the level of the water in the one or more water storage devices.
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公开(公告)号:US20250035013A1
公开(公告)日:2025-01-30
申请号:US18537494
申请日:2023-12-12
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Brandon W. Miller , Arthur W. Sibbach , Andrew Hudecki
IPC: F01D25/20
Abstract: A method of operating a lubrication system for a turbine engine having a fan and one or more rotating components. The lubrication system includes a primary lubrication system and an auxiliary lubrication system. The method includes supplying lubricant to the one or more rotating components from the primary lubrication system during a normal operation of the turbine engine, determining whether at least one of a fuel pressure is less than a fuel pressure threshold or a hydraulic pressure is less than a hydraulic pressure threshold, and activating the auxiliary lubrication system to supply the lubricant to the one or more rotating components from the auxiliary lubrication system when the fuel pressure is less than the fuel pressure threshold or the hydraulic pressure is less than the hydraulic pressure threshold.
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公开(公告)号:US20250020070A1
公开(公告)日:2025-01-16
申请号:US18517878
申请日:2023-11-22
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Arthur W. Sibbach , Brandon W. Miller , Andrew Hudecki , Randy M. Vondrell , Jeffrey D. Rambo
Abstract: A lubrication system for a turbine engine. The turbine engine includes a fan having a fan shaft and one or more rotating components. The lubrication system includes one or more tanks that stores lubricant therein, a primary lubrication system, and an auxiliary lubrication system. The primary lubrication system supplies the lubricant from the one or more tanks to the one or more rotating components during normal operation of the turbine engine. The auxiliary lubrication system includes an auxiliary pump that is coupled to the fan shaft. The auxiliary lubrication system supplies the lubricant from the one or more tanks to the one or more rotating components based on a pressure of the lubricant in the primary lubrication system. Rotation of the fan shaft causes the auxiliary pump to pump the lubricant to the one or more rotating components.
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公开(公告)号:US20240218835A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-04
申请号:US18150063
申请日:2023-01-04
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Brandon W. Miller , John C. Schilling
CPC classification number: F02C7/32 , F01D9/041 , F05D2220/36 , F05D2250/38 , F05D2260/4031
Abstract: Outlet guide vanes for a gas turbine engine are disclosed. An example apparatus includes fan blades surrounded by a fan case, outlet guide vanes positioned downstream from the fan blades, the outlet guide vanes having a first sloping angle in a direction of rotation of the fan blades and a second sloping angle in a direction of air flow through the fan case, and an accessory drive gearbox positioned at least partially on the fan case, the accessory drive gearbox positioned downstream from the outlet guide vanes, the accessory drive gearbox supported by the outlet guide vanes.
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公开(公告)号:US20240117769A1
公开(公告)日:2024-04-11
申请号:US18481597
申请日:2023-10-05
Applicant: General Electric Company , GE Avio S.r.l.
Inventor: Narayanan Payyoor , Weize Kang , Brandon W. Miller , Bugra H. Ertas , Andrea Piazza
CPC classification number: F02C7/36 , F02C7/06 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2240/50 , F05D2240/60 , F05D2260/40
Abstract: A turbomachine engine includes a fan section having a fan shaft, and a core engine having one or more compressor sections, one or more turbine sections that includes a power turbine, and a combustion chamber in flow communication with the compressor sections and turbine sections. The turbomachine engine includes a low-speed shaft coupled to the power turbine and having a midshaft that extends from a forward bearing to an aft bearing. The low-speed shaft is characterized by a midshaft rating (MSR) between two hundred (ft/sec)1/2 and three hundred (ft/sec)1/2. The low-speed shaft has a redline speed between fifty and two hundred fifty feet per second (ft/sec). The turbomachine engine includes a gearbox assembly that couples the fan shaft to the low-speed shaft and characterized by a gearbox assembly mode less than 95% of a midshaft mode of the midshaft or greater than 105% of the midshaft mode.
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公开(公告)号:US20230358247A1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-09
申请号:US17840406
申请日:2022-06-14
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: David Raju Yamarthi , Ravindra Shankar Ganiger , Adam Joseph Wangler , Mohan Kannaiah Raju , Prachi Anand Tappu , Santosh Kumar Pattnaik , Shishir Paresh Shah , Brandon W. Miller , Daniel A. Niergarth , Kevin Edward Hinderliter
IPC: F04D29/06 , F04D13/06 , F04D29/046 , F04D1/00
CPC classification number: F04D29/046 , F04D1/00 , F04D13/06 , F04D29/061
Abstract: A pump system to pressurize a fluid within a closed loop transport bus is disclosed herein. The example of the pump system disclosed herein includes a pump, including an impeller, to increase kinetic energy of a fluid flowing through the impeller; an electric motor, including a rotor shaft connected to the impeller, to provide torque to the rotor shaft; a first bearing to support the rotor shaft at a first operational speed range, the first bearing coupled to an inner race; a second bearing to support the rotor shaft at a second operational speed range, the rotor shaft coupled to an outer race; and one or more sprag elements configured to: engage the inner race with the outer race at the first operational speed range; and disengage the inner race from the outer race at the second operational speed range.
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公开(公告)号:US11788549B2
公开(公告)日:2023-10-17
申请号:US17493600
申请日:2021-10-04
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: Nicholas J. Kray , Brandon W. Miller , Egbert Geertsema
CPC classification number: F04D29/522 , F04D19/002
Abstract: Turbofan blade blocking apparatus are disclosed. An example turbofan engine includes a containment casing, a fan, at least one of a trench filler or an abradable layer at least partially aligned with the fan in an axial direction defined by the turbofan engine, at least one of the trench filler or the abradable layer fixed to an inner radial surface of the containment casing, and a metal blocker coupled to the containment casing forward of the fan, an aft end of the metal blocker interfacing with at least one of the trench filler or the abradable layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20230212987A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-06
申请号:US18058034
申请日:2022-11-22
Applicant: General Electric Company , GE Avio S.r.l.
Inventor: Narayanan Payyoor , Weize Kang , Brandon W. Miller , Bugra Ertas , Andrea Piazza
CPC classification number: F02C7/36 , F02C7/06 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2240/50 , F05D2240/60 , F05D2260/40
Abstract: A turbomachine engine includes a fan section having a fan shaft, and a core engine having one or more compressor sections, one or more turbine sections that includes a power turbine, and a combustion chamber in flow communication with the compressor sections and turbine sections. The turbomachine engine includes a low-speed shaft coupled to the power turbine and having a midshaft that extends from a forward bearing to an aft bearing. The low-speed shaft is characterized by a midshaft rating (MSR) between two hundred (ft/sec)½ and three hundred (ft/sec)½. The low-speed shaft has a redline speed between fifty and two hundred fifty feet per second (ft/sec). The turbomachine engine includes a gearbox assembly that couples the fan shaft to the low-speed shaft and characterized by a gearbox assembly mode less than 95% of a midshaft mode of the midshaft or greater than 105% of the midshaft mode.
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公开(公告)号:US11668241B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-06
申请号:US17350932
申请日:2021-06-17
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Brandon W. Miller , Robert Jon McQuiston , Stefan Joseph Cafaro , Eric Richard Westervelt , Michael A. Benjamin , Joel M. Haynes , Hejie Li
CPC classification number: F02C7/22 , F02C7/224 , F02C9/28 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2240/35 , F05D2260/20
Abstract: A gas turbine engine fuel supply system can include a fuel delivery system, a thermal management system, a fuel manifold, and one or more sensors that identify one or more fuel parameters. A fuel control system adjusts parameters of the fuel based on data received from the sensors.
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公开(公告)号:US20220403784A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-22
申请号:US17351023
申请日:2021-06-17
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Brandon W. Miller , Robert Jon McQuiston , Stefan Joseph Cafaro , Eric Richard Westervelt , Michael A. Benjamin , Joel M. Haynes , Hejie Li
Abstract: A gas turbine engine fuel supply system can include a fuel delivery system, a thermal management system, a fuel manifold, and one or more sensors that identify one or more fuel parameters. A fuel control system adjusts parameters of the fuel based on data received from the sensors.
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