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公开(公告)号:US12044147B1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-23
申请号:US18176241
申请日:2023-02-28
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav , Nitesh Jain , Nicholas J. Kray , Nuthi Srinivas
IPC: F01D5/28
CPC classification number: F01D5/288 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2240/303 , F05D2300/611
Abstract: Examples disclosed herein include a fan blade of a gas turbine engine. The disclosed fan blade includes a main body having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The fan blade includes a leading edge guard covering the leading edge and a leading section of the main body adjacent to the leading edge. The leading edge guard includes a plurality of leading edge guard segments consecutively arranged in a spanwise direction along the leading edge of the fan blade. Each of the plurality of leading edge guard segments are oriented at an angle relative to a root of the fan blade. Each of the plurality of leading edge guard segments includes a nose portion coupled to the leading edge and a wing portion coupled to opposing sides of the leading section of the main body.
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公开(公告)号:US20240076059A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-07
申请号:US18152906
申请日:2023-01-11
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Kirti Petkar , Sesha Subramanian , Nicholas J. Kray
CPC classification number: B64F1/36 , B08B7/026 , B08B13/00 , G06T7/0002 , G06T2207/10048
Abstract: A ducted fan engine is deiced using a ground support deicing apparatus having a support structure, a plurality of sonic wave transmitters, an imaging device, and a controller that controls the sonic wave transmitters to emit sonic waves at varying frequencies. A deicing program causes the controller to control (a) providing imaging signals to obtain image data from imaging sensors, (b) receiving image data provided by each of the imaging sensors, and generates images of at least one component part of the engine, (c) detecting a presence or an absence of ice on the at least one component part of the engine, and (d) controlling the plurality of sonic wave transmitters to emit sonic waves in a given frequency range so as to remove the ice from the component part of the engine.
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公开(公告)号:US11913355B2
公开(公告)日:2024-02-27
申请号:US17947589
申请日:2022-09-19
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Nicholas J. Kray , Nitesh Jain , Gary W. Bryant
Abstract: Part-span shrouds for pitch controlled aircrafts are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a first portion extending from a first airfoil, the first portion including a first surface, the first surface being convex, a second portion extending from a second airfoil towards the first airfoil, the second portion including a second surface the first airfoil circumferentially adjacent to the second airfoil, the second surface being concave, and an interface formed by the first surface and the second surface, the interface reacting circumferential loads between the first airfoil and the second airfoil.
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公开(公告)号:US11873738B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-16
申请号:US17561422
申请日:2021-12-23
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Kishore Ramakrishnan , Li Zheng , Nicholas J. Kray , Trevor H. Wood , Bugra H. Ertas
CPC classification number: F01D9/041 , F01D9/042 , F01D25/24 , F05D2230/23 , F05D2240/121 , F05D2240/122 , F05D2240/14 , F05D2260/36
Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to implement an integrated stator-fan frame assembly. An integrated fan exit stator-fan frame strut assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a fan exit stator portion having an airfoil including a leading edge and a trailing edge, and a fan frame strut portion including a leading edge and a trailing edge, the leading edge of the fan frame strut portion aerodynamically integrated with the trailing edge of the fan exit stator portion.
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公开(公告)号:US11692462B1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-04
申请号:US17805526
申请日:2022-06-06
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Nicholas J. Kray , Weizeng Kong , Anthony J. Maurer
CPC classification number: F01D25/32 , F01D5/145 , F05D2260/607
Abstract: A blade for an engine includes an airfoil body having a pressure side and a suction side, a base, and a rib located on the pressure side of the airfoil body. The rib includes a radially outer surface inclined radially outwardly with respect to the pressure side of the airfoil body and a scoop formed by the radially outer surface. The radially outer surface is inclined radially outward with respect to a normal axis to the pressure side of the airfoil body. The rib is angled at a positive angle with respect to the platform. An engine for and a method of directing ingestion material in an engine may employ the rib.
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公开(公告)号:US20230203957A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-29
申请号:US17561422
申请日:2021-12-23
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Kishore Ramakrishnan , Li Zheng , Nicholas J. Kray , Trevor H. Wood , Bugra H. Ertas
CPC classification number: F01D9/041 , F01D25/24 , F01D9/042 , F05D2230/23 , F05D2240/121 , F05D2240/122 , F05D2260/36 , F05D2240/14
Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to implement an integrated stator-fan frame assembly. An integrated fan exit stator-fan frame strut assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a fan exit stator portion having an airfoil including a leading edge and a trailing edge, and a fan frame strut portion including a leading edge and a trailing edge, the leading edge of the fan frame strut portion aerodynamically integrated with the trailing edge of the fan exit stator portion.
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公开(公告)号:US20230160312A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-25
申请号:US17535291
申请日:2021-11-24
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Li Zheng , Scott Roger Finn , Nicholas J. Kray , Trevor H. Wood , Kishore Ramakrishnan
CPC classification number: F01D5/3007 , F01D5/282 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2240/30 , F05D2230/60
Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to implement a low radius ratio fan blade for a gas turbine engine. A fan blade for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil including a leading edge and a trailing edge extending between a root and a tip of the airfoil, a distance between the leading edge and the trailing edge defining a flow path length, a leading edge hub point defined by a radially innermost point of the leading edge, and an axial dovetail including a pair of opposed pressure faces, an axial length of the axial dovetail less than the flow path length, a top edge of the axial dovetail separating the pressure faces from the airfoil, the top edge of the axial dovetail radially outward of the leading edge hub point.
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公开(公告)号:US11970957B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-30
申请号:US17406930
申请日:2021-08-19
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: Egbert Geertsema , Nicholas J. Kray , Brandon W. Miller
CPC classification number: F01D9/02 , F01D25/04 , F05D2220/323 , F05D2230/13 , F05D2230/30 , F05D2240/12
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:US20240044253A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-08
申请号:US17817511
申请日:2022-08-04
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Nicholas J. Kray , David W. Crall , Anthony L. DiPietro
CPC classification number: F01D5/146 , F02K3/06 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2240/30
Abstract: A fan for a turbine engine having a core air flowpath and a bypass air flowpath. The fan includes a disk, a plurality of fan blades, and a plurality of splitter blades. The disk rotates about a centerline axis. The plurality of fan blades are coupled to the disk. The plurality of splitter blades are coupled to the disk and positioned between the plurality of fan blades. The plurality of splitter blades are axially aligned on the disk at a splitter blade axial distance from an annular inlet of the core air flowpath such that the plurality of splitter blades direct debris that passes through the fan into the bypass air flowpath.
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公开(公告)号:US20230399123A1
公开(公告)日:2023-12-14
申请号:US17806222
申请日:2022-06-09
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Kirti Petkar , Sesha Subramanian , Nicholas J. Kray
CPC classification number: B64D45/00 , B64D47/02 , G02B30/56 , B64D2045/0095
Abstract: In one aspect, a device for preventing bird strikes to an engine. The device includes a projector mounted on a component of the engine. The projector is positioned to project an image outside of the engine. In another aspect, an engine for an aircraft. The engine includes an engine component and a projector mounted on the engine component. The projector is positioned to project an image outside of the engine.
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