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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:US11753939B2
公开(公告)日:2023-09-12
申请号:US16280531
申请日:2019-02-20
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Alan Roy Stuart , Tsuguji Nakano , Thomas Ory Moniz , Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow , Richard Schmidt
IPC: F01D5/06
CPC classification number: F01D5/06 , F05D2220/32
Abstract: A gas turbine engine is provided including a turbine section including a turbine having a plurality of first speed turbine rotor blades; a compressor section including a compressor having a plurality of first speed compressor rotor blades and a plurality of second speed compressor rotor blades; a gearbox; and a first spool rotatable by the plurality of first speed turbine rotor blades, the first spool coupled to the plurality of first speed compressor rotor blades for driving the plurality of first speed compressor rotor blades in a first direction and to the plurality of second speed compressor rotor blades across the gearbox for driving the plurality of second speed compressor rotor blades in a second direction, opposite the first direction.
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公开(公告)号:US20230279779A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-07
申请号:US17686843
申请日:2022-03-04
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Tsuguji Nakano , Darek Zatorski , Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow
CPC classification number: F01D9/041 , F01D25/28 , F05D2240/126 , F05D2240/129
Abstract: There is provided apparatuses and methods for a gas turbine engine. The embodiments include a core section with a flow path. The flow path includes a stator vane array having outlet vanes. Each outlet vane has a trailing edge. A strut has a leading edge that is upstream of the trailing edges. Alternatively, the flow path includes a stator vane array having inlet vanes. Each inlet vane has a leading edge. The strut has a trailing edge that is downstream of the leading edges. There also is increased spacing between adjacent vanes and rotor blades.
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公开(公告)号:US11655768B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-23
申请号:US17384999
申请日:2021-07-26
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Arthur William Sibbach , Brandon Wayne Miller , Christopher James Kroger , Jeffrey Donald Clements , Sean Christopher Binion , Tsuguji Nakano
CPC classification number: F02C7/36 , F02K3/06 , F05D2220/36 , F05D2260/40311 , F05D2260/606
Abstract: A turbofan engine is provided. The turbofan engine includes a fan comprising a plurality of rotatable fan blades, each fan blade defining a fan tip speed; a turbomachine operably coupled to the fan for driving the fan, the turbomachine comprising a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow order and together defining a core air flowpath; and a gear box, wherein the turbomachine is operably coupled to the fan through the gear box, wherein a gear ratio of the gear box is greater than or equal to 1.2 and less than or equal to 3.0; wherein during operation of the turbofan engine at a rated speed the fan tip speed is greater than or equal to 1000 feet per second. In exemplary embodiments, during operation of the turbofan engine at the rated speed the fan pressure ratio is less than or equal to about 1.5.
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公开(公告)号:US20220268209A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-25
申请号:US17181773
申请日:2021-02-22
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Vinod Shashikant Chaudhari , Bhaskar Nanda Mondal , Tsuguji Nakano , David W. Crall
Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for compact compressors are disclosed including a gas turbine engine defining an axial direction and a radial direction, the gas turbine engine including an axial flow compressor and a radial flow compressor, wherein the axial flow compressor is located axially forward of the radial flow compressor, a blade assembly including a splitter shroud to divide incoming air into axial air flow for the axial flow compressor and radial air flow for the radial flow compressor, the blade assembly rotating relative to the axial flow compressor and counter-rotating relative to the radial flow compressor, and wherein the blade assembly is located axially aft of the radial flow compressor.
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公开(公告)号:US10794396B2
公开(公告)日:2020-10-06
申请号:US15625251
申请日:2017-06-16
Applicant: General Electric Company
Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine and a fan rotatable by the turbomachine. The fan includes a plurality of fan blades. The gas turbine engine also includes an outer nacelle surrounding the plurality of fan blades and including an inner wall, the inner wall of the outer nacelle including a plurality of pre-swirl contours positioned forward of the fan blades of the fan along an axial direction and extending inwardly along a radial direction.
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公开(公告)号:US20180363677A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-20
申请号:US15625186
申请日:2017-06-16
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Christopher James Kroger , Brandon Wayne Miller , Trevor Wayne Goerig , David William Crall , Tsuguji Nakano , Jeffrey Donald Clements , Bhaskar Nanda Mondal
Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine and a fan rotatable by the turbomachine. The fan includes a plurality of fan blades. The gas turbine engine also includes an outer nacelle surrounding the plurality of fan blades and a plurality of part-span inlet guide vanes cantilevered from the outer nacelle at a location forward of the plurality of fan blades along the axial direction. Each of the plurality of inlet guide vanes defines an inner end along the radial direction and it is unconnected with an adjacent part-span inlet guide vane at the inner end.
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公开(公告)号:US20180363675A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-20
申请号:US15625251
申请日:2017-06-16
Applicant: General Electric Company
Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine and a fan rotatable by the turbomachine. The fan includes a plurality of fan blades. The gas turbine engine also includes an outer nacelle surrounding the plurality of fan blades and including an inner wall, the inner wall of the outer nacelle including a plurality of pre-swirl contours positioned forward of the fan blades of the fan along an axial direction and extending inwardly along a radial direction.
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公开(公告)号:US20250075623A1
公开(公告)日:2025-03-06
申请号:US18242079
申请日:2023-09-05
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Tsuguji Nakano , Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow
Abstract: A rotor blade comprises an elongated body that has a pressure side and a suction side. The pressure side and suction side intersect at a leading edge and a trailing edge. The elongated body extends outward from a rotor hub. A span is described by a first straight line distance extending outward from the rotor hub along the elongated body. A chord of the elongated body is defined by a second straight-line distance extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge. At least one passageway extends through the elongated body between the pressure side and the suction side allowing a corrective flow of air to move from the pressure side to the suction side. The corrective flow of air interacts with and energizes low momentum airflow occurring along the suction side.
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公开(公告)号:US12012898B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-18
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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