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公开(公告)号：US12110827B1
公开(公告)日：2024-10-08
申请号：US18311660
申请日：2023-05-03
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor： Jeffrey D. Rambo , Scott G. Edens , Michael Joseph Murray
CPC classification number: F02C7/236 , F02C7/32 , F05D2220/323 , F05D2270/07
Abstract: A turbo engine for an aircraft includes a gas turbine engine having a combustion section and a fuel system to provide pressurized fuel to the combustion section. The fuel system includes a fuel tank and a boost pump and a main pump driven by an accessory gearbox that is powered by a shaft of the turbo engine. The boost pump and the main pump are arranged in series. The fuel system also includes an auxiliary pump and a controller to operate the fuel system in (1) a first mode in which the boost pump and the main pump produce pressurized fuel for the turbo engine and the auxiliary pump is deactivated, and (2) a second mode in which the auxiliary pump is activated and produces the pressurized fuel for the turbo engine while bypassing the boost pump and the main pump.
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公开(公告)号：US12209533B2
公开(公告)日：2025-01-28
申请号：US18176246
申请日：2023-02-28
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor： Rodrigo Rodriguez Erdmenger , David Raju Yamarthi , Maysaa Rizk , David Justin Brady , Adam Joseph Wangler , Ismail Hakki Sezal , Michael Joseph Murray
Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to power thermal management systems with heat of a working fluid therein. Example thermal management system include: a thermal transport bus loop fluidly coupled to at least one heat source exchanger and at least one heat sink exchanger; a turbomachine including a turbine and a compressor, the turbine and compressor rotatably interlocked via a shaft, the compressor coupled to the thermal transport bus loop, the turbine including an inlet and an outlet, the inlet connected to a first point of the thermal transport bus loop via a first flowline, the outlet connected to a second point of the thermal transport bus loop via a second flowline; and a control valve coupled to the first flowline, the control valve to adjust a mass flowrate of the heat exchange fluid in the first flowline based on a speed of the shaft.
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公开(公告)号：US12146441B1
公开(公告)日：2024-11-19
申请号：US18456391
申请日：2023-08-25
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor： Paul Mathew , Ravindra Shankar Ganiger , David Raju Yamarthi , Rachamadugu Sivaprasad , Michael Joseph Murray , Hiranya Kumar Nath
Abstract: Methods and apparatus to maintain a state of a fluid in a system are disclosed. An example system includes a pump including a primary inlet, a primary outlet, and a secondary inlet, at least one injector including a first inlet, a second inlet, and at least one outlet, a third conduit coupled to a first conduit upstream of the primary inlet and coupled to the at least one injector at the first inlet to deliver the fluid, a fourth conduit coupled to a second conduit downstream of the primary outlet and coupled to the at least one injector at the second inlet to deliver the fluid, and a fifth conduit coupled to the at least one injector at the at least one outlet to receive the fluid and coupled to the pump at the secondary inlet.
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公开(公告)号：US20230305584A1
公开(公告)日：2023-09-28
申请号：US17702563
申请日：2022-03-23
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor： Biao Fang , David Justin Brady , John C. Glessner , Brandon W. Miller , Stephanie Glynn Cotten , William Dwight Gerstler , Daniel A. Niergarth , Michael Joseph Murray
CPC classification number: G05D7/0635 , F16K11/0712 , F16K31/406
Abstract: Example split valves for regulating a first flowrate and a second flowrate of a fluid within a closed loop systems are disclosed herein. An example split valve includes an electrohydraulic servo valve coupled to a first piston via a first hydraulic flowline and a second hydraulic flowline, the first piston to include a piston shaft, a first head, and a second head; one or more bellows fixed to at least one of the first head or the second head, the one or more bellows to hermetically seal the fluid from a hydraulic fluid; and a control system connected to the electrohydraulic servo valve, the control system to adjust the first flowrate and the second flowrate of the fluid through a first fluid chamber, the first piston to be located in the first fluid chamber.
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5.发明公开公开(公告)号：US20240209778A1
公开(公告)日：2024-06-27
申请号：US18167723
申请日：2023-02-10
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor： Mohan Kannaiah Raju , Kudum Shinde , Ravindra Shankar Ganiger , Narendra Hardikar , Michael Joseph Murray
CPC classification number: F02C7/06 , F01D25/20 , F02C9/00 , F05D2220/323 , F05D2260/205
Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus are disclosed to provide a pressurized fluid to components of a fluid pump. An example flow control system to provide a pressurized lubricant to a secondary flow network disposed within a fluid pump includes sensors to measure parameters of a fluid corresponding to fluid flow; a recirculation loop fluidly coupled to a secondary inlet of the pump, the recirculation loop to provide a first flowpath, wherein the secondary inlet is an inlet to the secondary flow network; a bypass circuit fluidly coupled to the secondary inlet to provide a second flowpath; and a controller to direct the fluid flow to the first flowpath or the second flowpath based on sensor data from the sensor, the sensor data indicative of a state of the fluid.
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公开(公告)号：US20240174375A1
公开(公告)日：2024-05-30
申请号：US18316450
申请日：2023-05-12
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor： Michael Joseph Murray , Victor Moreno Patan , Brandon W. Miller
Abstract: An aircraft fuel system includes a first fuel storage tank arranged to store a first fuel, a second fuel storage tank arranged to store a reduced oxygen fuel, and a fuel tank inerting system arranged to provide a reduced oxygen gas through a fuel contained within the second fuel storage tank to generate the reduced oxygen fuel within the second fuel storage tank. The fuel tank inerting system may include a fuel tank sparging system to inject the reduced oxygen gas directly into the fuel contained within the second fuel storage tank to generate the reduced oxygen fuel.
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公开(公告)号：US20240084741A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-14
申请号：US18308435
申请日：2023-04-27
Applicant: General Electric Company , GE Avio S.r.l.
Inventor： Michael Joseph Murray , Mirko Gernone
Abstract: Flow-metering fuel systems and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a pipe defining a flow path for fuel, the pipe fluidly coupled to a combustor, a first portion of the pipe having a first cross-sectional area, a second portion of the pipe having a second cross-sectional area smaller than the first cross-sectional area, the second portion downstream of the first portion, and an actuator to adjust a flow rate of the fuel in the pipe based on a first pressure of the fuel in the first portion of the pipe, a second pressure of the fuel in the second portion of the pipe, and a temperature of the fuel.
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公开(公告)号：US20250067217A1
公开(公告)日：2025-02-27
申请号：US18455316
申请日：2023-08-24
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor： David Justin Brady , Victor Moreno Patan , Michael Joseph Murray , William James Mailander
Abstract: A turbo engine for an aircraft includes a gas turbine engine having a fuel system to provide fuel to a combustion section. The fuel system includes a variable displacement pump driven by an accessory gearbox that is powered by a shaft of the gas turbine engine. The variable displacement pump has an inlet side and an outlet side. The variable displacement pump includes an actuator configured to adjust a discharge flow rate of the variable displacement pump. The fuel system also includes a fuel metering valve configured to receive pressurized fuel from the variable displacement pump and control a flow rate of the pressurized fuel to the combustion section. The fuel system further includes a bypass valve fluidly coupling the outlet side and the inlet side of the variable displacement pump to direct an excess portion of the pressurized fuel at the outlet side back to the inlet side.
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公开(公告)号：US12234778B2
公开(公告)日：2025-02-25
申请号：US18308435
申请日：2023-04-27
Applicant: General Electric Company , GE Avio S.r.l.
Inventor： Michael Joseph Murray , Mirko Gernone
Abstract: Flow-metering fuel systems and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a pipe defining a flow path for fuel, the pipe fluidly coupled to a combustor, a first portion of the pipe having a first cross-sectional area, a second portion of the pipe having a second cross-sectional area smaller than the first cross-sectional area, the second portion downstream of the first portion, and an actuator to adjust a flow rate of the fuel in the pipe based on a first pressure of the fuel in the first portion of the pipe, a second pressure of the fuel in the second portion of the pipe, and a temperature of the fuel.
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公开(公告)号：US20240393811A1
公开(公告)日：2024-11-28
申请号：US18793538
申请日：2024-08-02
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor： Biao Fang , David Justin Brady , John C. Glessner , Brandon W. Miller , Stephanie Glynn Cotten , William Dwight Gerstler , Daniel A. Niergarth , Michael Joseph Murray
Abstract: Example split valves for regulating a first flowrate and a second flowrate of a fluid within a closed loop systems are disclosed herein. An example split valve includes an electrohydraulic servo valve coupled to a first piston via a first hydraulic flowline and a second hydraulic flowline, the first piston to include a piston shaft, a first head, and a second head, the first hydraulic flowline to output a first pressure of a hydraulic fluid, the second hydraulic flowline to output a second pressure of the hydraulic fluid, a bellows fixed to at least one of the first head or the second head, the bellows to hermetically seal the fluid from the hydraulic fluid, and a control system connected to the electrohydraulic servo valve, the control system to adjust the first flowrate and the second flowrate of the fluid through a first fluid chamber.
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