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公开(公告)号:US20250052163A1
公开(公告)日:2025-02-13
申请号:US18232026
申请日:2023-08-09
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Trevor H. Wood , Kishore Ramakrishnan , Egbert Geertsema
Abstract: A turbofan engine and an outlet guide vane structure for the turbofan engine is provided. The outlet guide vane structure includes a non-uniform plurality of outlet guide vanes utilized in a bypass duct and between a radially inward wall and a radially outward wall. The non-uniform plurality of outlet guide vanes have varying chord lengths at the base of the outlet guide vanes along the radially inward wall. The non-uniform plurality of outlet guide vanes may include structural outlet guide vanes, non-structural outlet guide vanes, and cut-out outlet guide vanes. The non-uniform plurality of outlet guide vanes include at least one outlet guide vane integrated with a pylon and/or a bifurcation of the turbofan engine. The cut-out outlet guide vane may be integrated with the pylon and/or bifurcation. The cut-out may include a leading edge and a trailing edge disposed in front of a leading edge of the pylon.
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公开(公告)号:US20200049075A1
公开(公告)日:2020-02-13
申请号:US16059338
申请日:2018-08-09
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Egbert Geertsema
IPC: F02C7/24 , B33Y80/00 , F02K1/82 , G10K11/172
Abstract: An acoustic panel comprises a face sheet comprising a plurality of openings; a back sheet opposite to the face sheet; and an intermediate layer comprising a plurality of cells each comprising a cavity and a plurality of walls extending between the face sheet and the back sheet and surrounding the cavity. The plurality of walls can comprise at least one and possibly a plurality of slots for drainage. A method for making the acoustic panel is also described.
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公开(公告)号:US10174675B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-08
申请号:US14984767
申请日:2015-12-30
Applicant: General Electric Company , MRA SYSTEMS, INC.
Inventor: Michael Moses Martinez , Rudramuni Kariveerappa Majjigi , Steven Thomas Davies , Egbert Geertsema
IPC: F02C7/045 , B64D33/02 , F04D29/66 , G10K11/168 , G10K11/172
Abstract: A single degree of freedom (SDOF) acoustic liner includes a porous face sheet, a substantially imperforate back sheet generally parallel to and opposing said porous face sheet and defining a thickness therebetween, and an acoustic core layer of contiguous adjacent resonant cavities disposed between the porous face sheet and the imperforate back sheet. The acoustic core layer includes a first resonant cell having a first internal volume therein and a second resonant cell having a second internal volume therein different than the first internal volume. A cell partition wall extends between the porous face sheet and the imperforate back sheet, and separates and seals the first resonant cell from the second resonant cell. In a thickness direction, and perpendicular to a plane generally parallel with the porous face sheet and the substantially imperforate back sheet, the first internal volume overlaps the second internal volume over the cell partition wall.
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公开(公告)号:US12292017B1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-06
申请号:US18744069
申请日:2024-06-14
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Brandon Wayne Miller , Egbert Geertsema , Arthur W. Sibbach , Andrew Hudecki , Timothy Richard DePuy , John C. Schilling , Frank Worthoff , Tsuguji Nakano
Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprises a fan, a core turbine engine coupled to the fan, a fan case housing the fan and the core turbine engine, a plurality of outlet guide vanes extending between the core turbine engine and the fan case, and an acoustic spacing. The fan comprises a plurality of fan blades that define a fan diameter and a BEAL. The fan case comprises an inlet and an inlet length between the inlet and the fan. The acoustic spacing comprises a distance between the fan and the plurality of outlet guide vanes, and in combination with the BEAL determines an acoustic spacing ratio of the gas turbine engine.
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公开(公告)号:US12030652B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-09
申请号:US17835280
申请日:2022-06-08
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: Keith Edward James Blodgett , William J. Bowden , Egbert Geertsema
Abstract: An aircraft comprising a fuselage and an unducted turbine engine. The fuselage having a divot with an upstream edge and a downstream edge. The divot is defined by a straight reference line having a length (L) and a maximum depth (h) relative to the straight reference line. The unducted turbine engine having an engine core, a nacelle, and a set of blades. A first flow ratio (FR1) is equal to:
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L
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公开(公告)号:US20240151185A1
公开(公告)日:2024-05-09
申请号:US17979992
申请日:2022-11-03
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Brandon Wayne Miller , Egbert Geertsema , Arthur W. Sibbach , Andrew Hudecki , Timothy Richard DePuy , John C. Schilling , Frank Worthoff , Tsuguji Nakano
CPC classification number: F02C7/24 , F02C7/36 , F05D2260/96
Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprises a fan, a core turbine engine coupled to the fan, a fan case housing the fan and the core turbine engine, a plurality of outlet guide vanes extending between the core turbine engine and the fan case, and an acoustic spacing. The fan comprises a plurality of fan blades that define a fan diameter and a BEAL. The fan case comprises an inlet and an inlet length between the inlet and the fan. The acoustic spacing comprises a distance between the fan and the plurality of outlet guide vanes, and in combination with the BEAL determines an acoustic spacing ratio of the gas turbine engine.
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公开(公告)号:US20230399114A1
公开(公告)日:2023-12-14
申请号:US17835280
申请日:2022-06-08
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: Keith Edward James Blodgett , William J. Bowden , Egbert Geertsema
Abstract: An aircraft comprising a fuselage and an unducted turbine engine. The fuselage having a divot with an upstream edge and a downstream edge. The divot is defined by a straight reference line having a length (L) and a maximum depth (h) relative to the straight reference line. The unducted turbine engine having an engine core, a nacelle, and a set of blades. A first flow ratio (FR1) is equal to: h/L.
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公开(公告)号:US20230059995A1
公开(公告)日:2023-02-23
申请号:US17406930
申请日:2021-08-19
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: Egbert Geertsema , Nicholas J. Kray , Brandon W. Miller
Abstract: Acoustic turbofan airfoil apparatus are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a platform of a turbofan engine, the platform including perforations to receive acoustic waves, acoustic chambers protruding from a first side of the platform, the acoustic chambers aligned with the perforations in a radial direction defined by the turbofan engine, the acoustic chambers to attenuate the acoustic waves, and an airfoil protruding from a second side of the platform opposite the first side of the platform.
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公开(公告)号:US20200049074A1
公开(公告)日:2020-02-13
申请号:US16059326
申请日:2018-08-09
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Egbert Geertsema , Kirk Alan Rogers
IPC: F02C7/24 , B33Y80/00 , F02K1/82 , G10K11/172
Abstract: An acoustic panel comprises: a face sheet comprising a plurality of openings; a back sheet opposite to the face sheet; and an intermediate layer comprising a plurality of cells each comprising a cavity and a plurality of walls extending between the face sheet and the back sheet and surrounding the cavity, the plurality of walls comprising a plurality of drainage slots and a plurality of covers covering the plurality of drainage slots and openable for drainage. A method for making the acoustic panel is also described.
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