COMPRESSOR TURBINE WHEEL
    72.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220034227A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-03

    申请号:US16983695

    申请日:2020-08-03

    Abstract: A turbine wheel for a gas turbine engine including a compressor impeller and a radial inflow turbine integral to or attached to the compressor impeller is provided. A compressor turbine wheel including features to increase surface area of a surface of the compressor impeller and/or the radial inflow turbine and/or a passage to flow air between the compressor impeller and the radial inflow turbine is further provided. Methods for cooling radial inflow turbines integral to compressor impellers are further provided.

    Hybrid propulsion systems
    74.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11225881B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-18

    申请号:US16184725

    申请日:2018-11-08

    Abstract: An example hybrid aircraft propulsion system includes one or more parallel propulsion units, each of the parallel propulsion units comprising: a first propulsor; a gas turbine engine configured to drive the first propulsor; and an electrical machine selectively configurable to: generate, for output via one or more electrical busses, electrical energy using mechanical energy derived from the first propulsor or the gas turbine engine; and drive the first propulsor using electrical energy received via the one or more electrical busses; and one or more series propulsion units, each of the series propulsion units comprising: a second propulsor; and an electrical machine selectively configurable to: generate, for output via the one or more electrical busses, electrical energy using mechanical energy derived from the second propulsor or the gas turbine engine; and drive the second propulsor using electrical energy received from one or more electrical busses.

    Thermal management system for tightly controlling temperature of a thermal load

    公开(公告)号:US11212948B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-28

    申请号:US17196700

    申请日:2021-03-09

    Abstract: A thermal management system for tightly controlling temperature of a thermal load (e.g., onboard an aircraft) includes: a pressurized tank for storing an expendable coolant; a control valve downstream of the pressurized tank for controlling a flow rate of the expendable coolant; a heat exchanger downstream of the control valve for transferring heat from a thermal load to the expendable coolant at a predetermined temperature; a back pressure regulator (BPR) downstream of the heat exchanger, the BPR having a set point controlled to maintain the expendable coolant at the predetermined temperature in the heat exchanger; optionally, a sensor or orifice downstream of the heat exchanger for determining vapor quality at an exit of the heat exchanger; and a system exit downstream of the BPR for removing some or all of the expendable coolant from the thermal management system after transferring heat from the thermal load to the expendable coolant.

    Thermal management system to cool transient heat loads with low power consumption

    公开(公告)号:US11162388B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-02

    申请号:US16991611

    申请日:2020-08-12

    Abstract: Thermal management systems for cooling high-power, low-duty-cycle thermal loads that include at least three thermally coupled, closed subsystems are provided. Thermal management systems provided herein include a main thermal energy storage loop including a cold-temperature tank and a warm-temperature tank. Thermal management systems provided herein also include a multi-stage compression system or a cascaded architecture of a low-temperature vapor compression system and a high-temperature vapor compression system. Methods of transferring heat from one or more thermal loads to an ambient environment are also provided.

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