Diffuser and associated compressor section of aircraft engine

    公开(公告)号:US12012972B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-18

    申请号:US17872242

    申请日:2022-07-25

    CPC classification number: F04D29/444 F02C6/08 F04D17/10 F04D29/284 F04D29/682

    Abstract: The compressor section can have a centrifugal impeller operable to rotate around an axis, the centrifugal impeller having blades, a compressor inlet oriented towards the front and axially relative the axis, a compressor outlet oriented radially outwardly relative the axis, a diffuser having a diffusion flow path, a diffuser inlet in fluid flow communication with the compressor outlet, a diffusion flow path between a rear wall and a front wall; a collector extending circumferentially around the axis, having a collector inlet in fluid communication with the diffuser outlet, and a collector outlet; and hollow structural members protruding rearwardly from the rear wall, the hollow structural members being circumferentially interspaced from one another, each hollow structural member having a length extending radially along the rear wall and having an internal conduit extending radially inwardly along the length.

    Turbine shroud segments with angular locating feature

    公开(公告)号:US11959389B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-16

    申请号:US17345017

    申请日:2021-06-11

    CPC classification number: F01D25/24 F05D2220/32

    Abstract: A turbine shroud segment has a shroud body including a platform having forward and aft hooks extending from a radially outer surface of the platform for engagement with a shroud support structure of a turbine support case. A pin receiving hole is defined in the shroud body. An anti-rotation pin is engaged in the pin receiving hole. The anti-rotation pin projects outwardly from the pin receiving hole for engagement with a corresponding anti-rotation abutment on the shroud support structure.

    Strut reinforcing structure for a turbine exhaust case

    公开(公告)号:US11629615B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-18

    申请号:US17331743

    申请日:2021-05-27

    Inventor: Guy Lefebvre

    Abstract: A turbine exhaust case (TEC) has an outer case and an inner case structurally interconnected by a plurality of circumferentially spaced-apart struts. At least one of the struts has an airfoil body with a hollow core. The airfoil body has opposed pressure and suction sides extending chordwise from a leading edge to a trailing edge and spanwise from a radially inner end to a radially outer end. The radially inner end of the strut has a strut wall extension that extends through the inner case to a location radially inward of the inner case relative to the central axis.

    Gas turbine engine exhaust mixer
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10760527B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-01

    申请号:US15019341

    申请日:2016-02-09

    Abstract: An exhaust mixer for a gas turbine engine includes an annular wall having upstream end adapted to be fastened to an engine case and a downstream end forming a plurality of inner and outer mixer lobes. A support member interconnects at least a number of the inner lobes, and includes a circumferentially extending stiffener ring located radially inwardly from the inner lobes and a series of circumferentially spaced apart mixer struts radially extending from the inner lobes to the stiffener ring. The mixer struts have a radial length at least equal to a width of a main gas path defined between the inner lobes and the exhaust cone such that the mixer struts extend entirely through the main gas path. The stiffener ring being fixed solely to the mixer struts such as to float with respect to the exhaust cone and permit relative movement therebetween.

    Spoke mounting arrangement
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10443449B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-15

    申请号:US15206579

    申请日:2016-07-11

    Abstract: A mid-turbine frame of a gas turbine engine has a structural ring assembly comprising an outer ring, an inner ring having a plurality of threaded bosses extending from a radially outer surface thereof, and a corresponding number of structural spokes interconnecting the inner ring to the outer ring. Each spoke has a radially inner threaded end threadably engaged in an associated one of the threaded bosses on the inner ring.

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