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Systems and methods for preventing fuel leakage in a gas turbine engine
17 Oct 23
Systems and methods for preventing fuel leakage in a gas turbine engine are provided.
Richard Allen Ellsworth, Frederick Ehrwulf van Alen, Thomas Vander Ng
Filed: 18 Jan 22
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Gas turbine engine fuel control system and method
17 Oct 23
In a fuel control system (10) for a gas turbine engine (1) having a gas generator (4) and a turbine (6) driven by the gas generator (4): a main fuel regulator (12) determines a demand (Wfdem) of fuel flow (Wf) to be introduced in the gas turbine engine (1), based on an input request (PLA); and a first limiter stage (14), operatively coupled to the main fuel regulator (12), causes an adjustment of the fuel flow (Wf) based on engine safety operating limits.
Stefano Ettorre, Pierpaolo Forte, Giuseppe Donini
Filed: 21 Mar 22
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Systems and methods for attachment of materials having different thermal expansion coefficients
17 Oct 23
Systems and methods for attaching a protective liner to a an aircraft engine component having a different coefficient of thermal expansion in comparison to the protective liner include a mounting member configured to be mounted to the aircraft engine component and an attachment member configured to be attached to the protective liner.
Nicholas Direnzi, John Philip McKay, Apostolos Karafillis, David L. Dawson, Rosa Nemec
Filed: 13 Jul 22
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Trapped vortex combustor for a gas turbine engine with a driver airflow channel
17 Oct 23
A trapped vortex combustor for use in a gas turbine engine includes an outer vortex chamber wall and a dome attached to, or formed integrally with, the outer vortex chamber wall.
Beverly Stephenson Duncan, Steven Joseph Lohmueller, Eric John Stevens
Filed: 6 Dec 21
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Varying dilution hole design for combustor liners
17 Oct 23
A combustor for a turbomachine engine includes a combustion chamber, a liner forming a boundary of the combustion chamber, and multiple dilution holes through the liner to permit airflow into the combustion chamber.
Rimple Rangrej, Saket Singh, Pradeep Naik, Ajoy Patra
Filed: 3 Mar 22
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Bleed flow assembly for a gas turbine engine
17 Oct 23
A gas turbine engine comprises a turbomachine defining a core flow therethrough during operation.
Brandon Wayne Miller, Patrick Michael Marrinan, Arthur William Sibbach, Scott Alan Schimmels, Scott David Hunter
Filed: 19 Jan 22
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Thermal management system for a gas turbine engine
17 Oct 23
A thermal management system for a gas turbine engine includes a heat exchanger including first and second sides, with the first side in contact with flow path air flowing through a flow path of the engine.
Steven Douglas Johnson, Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff
Filed: 16 Nov 20
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Turbofan blade blocking apparatus
17 Oct 23
Turbofan blade blocking apparatus are disclosed.
Nicholas J. Kray, Brandon W. Miller, Egbert Geertsema
Filed: 4 Oct 21
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Acoustic damper for combustor
17 Oct 23
A combustor liner has an outer liner and an inner liner that define a combustion chamber therebetween, the combustion chamber having a dilution zone.
Hiranya Nath, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Michael A. Benjamin
Filed: 2 Sep 22
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Gas turbine engine with clearance control system
17 Oct 23
A gas turbine engine including: a first turbine rotor assembly including a plurality of first turbine rotor blades extended within a gas flowpath; and a casing surrounding the first turbine rotor assembly, wherein the casing comprises an outer casing wall extended around the first turbine rotor assembly; a plurality of vanes extended from the outer casing wall and within the gas flowpath at a location aft of the first turbine rotor assembly; and a thermal control ring positioned outward along a radial direction from the outer casing wall, and wherein the thermal control ring comprises a body and a plurality of pins, and wherein the plurality of pins extend between the outer casing wall and the body.
Ashish Sharma, Piotr Jerzy Kulinski, Adam Tomasz Pazinski, Tomasz Jan Bulsiewicz, Scott Alan Schimmels
Filed: 23 Dec 21
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Clearance control for engine performance retention
17 Oct 23
Clearance control schemes for controlling a clearance defined between a first component and a second component of a gas turbine engine are provided.
Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr., Eric Richard Westervelt
Filed: 4 Mar 22
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Pericritical fluid systems for turbine engines
17 Oct 23
A pericritical fluid system for a thermal management system associated with a turbine engine may include one or more sensors configured to generate sensor outputs corresponding to one or more phase properties of a pericritical fluid flowing through a cooling circuit of the thermal management system, and a controller configured to generate control commands configured to control one or more controllable components of the thermal management system based at least in part on the sensor outputs.
Arthur William Sibbach
Filed: 7 Mar 22
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Cable guiding assemblies and methods for wind turbines
17 Oct 23
The present disclosure relates to cable guiding assemblies for wind turbine power cables.
Joel Maignan, Sébastien Digard Brou De Cuissart, Alan Pfeiffer, Patrice Denis
Filed: 9 Mar 22
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Tube coupling
17 Oct 23
A tube coupling for coupling a first tube and a second tube includes an inner shroud located circumferentially around a first tube distal end at an inner shroud distal end, the inner shroud distal end having one or more radial teeth, an outer shroud having a first outer shroud distal end and a second outer shroud distal end, the first outer shroud distal end located circumferentially around a second tube distal end and the second outer shroud distal end located circumferentially around the inner shroud distal end, and a band configured to elastically compress the first outer shroud distal end onto the inner shroud distal end.
Naleen Kumar Verma, Omkar Topkar, Dharmaraj Pachaiappan
Filed: 17 Sep 21
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Crimp pin electrical connector
17 Oct 23
A crimp pin electrical connector comprising a shell defining an interior with a first and a second opening, a flange circumscribing the shell, an insert located within the interior and extending through the first opening.
Brian Matthew Maupin, John S Mears
Filed: 26 Jun 20
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Method and system for electrically insulating portions of an electric machine
17 Oct 23
An electric winding assembly comprising a conductor core which includes at least a first end and a distal second end, an insulation layer overlying the conductor core, and a conductive shield layer overlying the insulation layer.
Wei Zhang, Lili Zhang, John Russell Yagielski, Karim Younsi, Peter Francis Finigan, Jason Rueda, Konrad Roman Weeber
Filed: 2 Jul 20
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Electric machine having an electrically insulative manifold
17 Oct 23
An electric machine having an electrically insulative manifold is disclosed.
Brendan Michael Freely, Mohamed Osama, Fabian Isaza, Pablo Gabriel Piazza Galarza, Paul Robert Gemin, John Russell Yagielski, Mark Dame, Wei Zhang, Karim Younsi
Filed: 31 Aug 20
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Systems and methods for creating surrogate models
17 Oct 23
A system for creating surrogate models is provided.
James Albert Tallman, Eric James Tucker, Vincent Michael Russo, Andrew Louis Gallo, Jr., Richard Brownell Arthur, Jeffrey Michael Iannotti, Peter Matthew Schmid, Adam Franklin Stevenson, David Charles Harry Ward, Douglas Evan King
Filed: 19 May 20
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Systems and methods for controlling an industrial asset in the presence of a cyber-attack
17 Oct 23
Systems and methods are provided for the control of an industrial asset, such as a power generating asset.
Fernando Javier D'Amato, Mustafa Tekin Dokucu, Hema Kumari Achanta, III, Kalpesh Singal, Masoud Abbaszadeh, Yuh-Shyang Wang, Karla Kvaternik, Souransu Nandi, Georgios Boutselis
Filed: 14 Apr 21
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System and method for class specific deep learning
17 Oct 23
A method for controlling a physical process includes receiving an input dataset corresponding to the physical process.
Arathi Sreekumari, Radhika Madhavan, Suresh Emmanuel Joel, Hariharan Ravishankar
Filed: 14 Jul 22