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公开(公告)号:US20240288002A1
公开(公告)日:2024-08-29
申请号:US18656067
申请日:2024-05-06
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Jixian Yao , Trevor Howard Wood , Kishore Ramakrishnan , William Joseph Solomon , Giridhar Jothiprasad , Nicholas Joseph Kray
CPC classification number: F04D29/384 , F04D19/002
Abstract: A turbomachine includes an annular casing and a fan disposed inside the annular casing and mounted for rotation about an axial centerline. The annular casing is formed at least partially of a composite material. The fan includes fan blades that extend radially outwardly toward the annular casing. The fan has an average chord fan width according to a first performance factor. The fan has a quantity of fan blades according to a second performance factor.
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公开(公告)号:US20240117768A1
公开(公告)日:2024-04-11
申请号:US17958549
申请日:2022-10-03
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Trevor Howard Wood , Ramakrishna Venkata Mallina , Giridhar Jothiprasad , Kishore Ramakrishnan , Thomas Malkus
CPC classification number: F02C7/24 , F01D11/08 , F02C3/06 , F05D2240/14 , F05D2250/184 , F05D2260/96
Abstract: A rotary component for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of rotor blades operably coupled to a rotating shaft extending along the central axis and an outer casing arranged exterior to the plurality of rotor blades in a radial direction of the gas turbine engine. The outer casing defines a gap between a blade tip of each of the plurality of rotor blades and the outer casing. The outer casing includes a plurality of features formed into an interior surface thereof. Each of the plurality of features includes one or more design parameters that are perturbed about a mean design parameter for stall performance so as to provide a circumferential variation in wake strengths associated with the plurality of rotor blades, thereby reducing operational noise of the gas turbine engine.
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公开(公告)号:US20230383675A1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-30
申请号:US17828112
申请日:2022-05-31
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Trevor Howard Wood , Kishore Ramakrishnan
CPC classification number: F01D5/18 , F01D9/041 , F05D2240/121 , F05D2260/961 , F05D2250/184
Abstract: An airfoil is provided defining a spanwise direction, a chordwise direction, a root end, a tip end, a leading edge end, and a trailing edge end. The airfoil includes: a leading edge extending from the leading edge end; a body extending along the spanwise direction between the root end and the tip end, the body including a plurality of cavity walls defining a plurality of cavities, each of the plurality of cavities having an inlet located at the leading edge; and a porous face sheet positioned on at least one inlet of the plurality of cavities.
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公开(公告)号:US20230340927A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-26
申请号:US18299102
申请日:2023-04-12
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Trevor Howard Wood , Thomas Malkus , Kishore Ramakrishnan
IPC: F02K1/66
CPC classification number: F02K1/66
Abstract: A turbofan engine may include a variable pitch fan rotatable about an axis and operable in a forward thrust mode by generating flow opposite a direction of travel and in a reverse thrust mode by generating flow in the direction of travel. In reverse thrust mode, a nacelle assembly defines an intermediate opening disposed aft of the variable pitch fan. A flow guide assembly is configured to guide a first fluid flow opposite the direction of travel within a bypass passage from a forward opening to an aft opening of the nacelle assembly in forward thrust mode, and to redirect a second fluid flow from outside the bypass passage opposite the direction of travel to inside the bypass passage in the direction of travel through the intermediate opening in reverse thrust mode. One or more flow channels are defined for generating at least one fluidic injection pressurized by a core.
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公开(公告)号:US20230249810A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-10
申请号:US18169757
申请日:2023-02-15
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Kishore Ramakrishnan , Valeria Andreoli , Daniel L. Tweedt
IPC: B64C27/473 , B64C27/467
CPC classification number: B64C27/473 , B64C27/467
Abstract: A blade for an open rotor includes a pressure side and a suction side, the pressure side and the suction side intersecting at a leading edge and a trailing edge, wherein for at least 30% of a span of the blade, the meanline of the airfoil section is shaped such that a relative curvature parameter is greater than 1.2 in a first region, less than 0.75 in a second region, and greater than 0.9 in a third region, wherein the relative curvature parameter of a region is defined by Δζn/Δζtot/Δ(x/c)n wherein ζ corresponds to the inverse tangent of the slope of a meanline curve, subscript n indicates the region, and x/c is a chordwise location normalized by the chord and wherein the first region comprises at least x/c=0.0 to 0.15 and the third region comprises at least x/c=0.80 to 1.0.
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公开(公告)号:US11685120B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-27
申请号:US17528734
申请日:2021-11-17
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Christian Thomas Wakelam , Rene du Cauze de Nazelle , Mohammed Mounir Shalaby , Kishore Ramakrishnan , Jens Stammberger
IPC: B29C64/371 , B29C64/153 , B29C64/245 , B05B7/08 , B05B12/00 , B05B12/08 , B22F12/70 , B22F12/90 , B22F10/322 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y40/00 , B22F10/28 , B22F10/77 , B22F12/43
CPC classification number: B29C64/371 , B05B7/08 , B05B12/006 , B05B12/087 , B22F10/322 , B22F12/70 , B22F12/90 , B29C64/153 , B29C64/245 , B22F10/28 , B22F10/77 , B22F12/43 , B22F2201/11 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y30/00 , B33Y40/00
Abstract: An additive manufacturing (AM) system includes a housing defining a chamber, a build platform disposed in the chamber at a first elevation, and a lower gas inlet disposed at a second elevation and configured to supply a lower gas flow. The AM system includes a contoured surface extending between the lower gas inlet and the build platform to direct the lower gas flow from the second elevation at the lower gas inlet to the first elevation at the build platform, where the contoured surface discharges the lower gas flow in a direction substantially parallel to the build platform. The AM system also includes one or more gas delivery devices coupled to the lower gas inlet to regulate one or more flow characteristics of the lower gas flow, and a gas outlet configured to discharge the lower gas flow.
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公开(公告)号:US11518499B2
公开(公告)日:2022-12-06
申请号:US16987934
申请日:2020-08-07
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Kishore Ramakrishnan , Trevor Howard Wood
Abstract: An aircraft defines a longitudinal direction and includes a fuselage extending between a forward end and an aft end along the longitudinal direction of the aircraft. An aft engine is mounted to the aft end of the fuselage. The aft engine further includes a nacelle including a forward section. An airflow duct extends at least partially through the nacelle of the aft engine and defines an outlet on the forward section of the nacelle for providing an airflow to the forward section of the nacelle.
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公开(公告)号:US20210147065A1
公开(公告)日:2021-05-20
申请号:US17108431
申请日:2020-12-01
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: Trevor Howard Wood , Kishore Ramakrishnan , Davide Giacché , Angela Knepper , Nicholas Bown , Rathakrishnan Bhaskaran
Abstract: An aircraft assembly includes an engine, and intake, and a propeller assembly. The engine is mounted to at least one of a wing or fuselage of an aircraft. The intake is configured to provide air to the engine. The intake includes a body having an engine inlet through which air enters the intake. The propeller assembly includes propeller blades coupled to and driven by the engine. The propeller assembly is spaced an axial distance from the inlet opening of the intake wherein air passing by the propeller blades enters the intake. The propeller assembly has a propeller configuration that is at least one of sized or shaped to optimize performance of the propeller assembly based on an interaction between the propeller assembly and the intake.
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公开(公告)号:US20200010174A1
公开(公告)日:2020-01-09
申请号:US16550868
申请日:2019-08-26
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: Trevor Howard Wood , Kishore Ramakrishnan
IPC: B64C11/18
Abstract: In some embodiments, an airfoil comprises a proximal end; a distal end opposite said proximal end; a distal portion extending adjacent said distal end; an edge extending between said proximal end and said distal end; and a surface extending between said proximal end and said distal end, said edge and said surface defining a sweep and a cahedral through said distal portion, wherein the distal portion extends over an acoustically active portion of the airfoil.
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公开(公告)号:US20180208297A1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-26
申请号:US15411228
申请日:2017-01-20
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Kishore Ramakrishnan , Trevor Howard Wood
CPC classification number: B64C21/06 , B64C7/02 , B64C2230/04 , B64C2230/06 , B64C2230/20 , B64D27/14 , B64D27/20 , B64D27/24 , B64D29/04 , B64D33/02 , B64D2033/0226 , Y02T50/166
Abstract: An aircraft is provided including a fuselage extending between a forward end and an aft end. An aft engine is mounted to the fuselage at the aft end of the fuselage. The aft engine includes a nacelle having a forward section. An airflow duct is also provided extending at least partially through the nacelle and including an opening on the forward section of the nacelle. The opening is configured for providing an airflow to, or receiving an airflow from, the forward section of the nacelle to increase an amount of, e.g., boundary layer airflow received within the aft engine during operation of the aircraft, to guide the flow of boundary layer airflow into the engine more smoothly, or to reduce a distortion on the engine.
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