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Compressor apparatus with bleed slot and supplemental flange
8 Aug 23
An example compressor bleed slot apparatus includes an annular compressor casing, a blade row mounted for rotation about a centerline axis inside the compressor casing, a bleed slot passing through the forward section of the compressor casing, wherein the bleed slot is bounded by inboard and outboard walls defined within the compressor casing, the bleed slot extending along a slot axis, at least a portion of the bleed slot lying within an axial extent of the blade row, an array of struts interconnecting the inboard and outboard walls, and an annular supplemental flange extending radially outward from the forward section of the compressor casing, wherein at least a portion of the supplemental flange is axially positioned within an axial extent of the bleed slot, wherein the supplemental flange includes a necked-down portion adjacent the forward section of the compressor casing, the necked-down portion positioned axially between an inlet of the bleed slot and an outlet of the bleed slot.
Steven Mitchell Taylor, Vishnu Das K, Manish Singhal, Atanu Saha, Michael Anthony Thomas
Filed: 1 Mar 21
Utility
Skirted leaf seal apparatus
8 Aug 23
In some embodiments, apparatuses are provided herein useful to sealing a gap between a movable flap and a stationary structure, such as a gap between a gas turbine engine nozzle flap and a corresponding sidewall.
James Shealy, Donald M. Corsmeier
Filed: 21 Jun 21
Utility
Method of joining wind turbine rotor blade segments via structural members
8 Aug 23
A method for joining rotor blade segments of a rotor blade includes forming a female structural member having a receipt portion with a cavity and a structural portion.
Peter Anthony Broome
Filed: 3 Aug 18
Utility
Wind turbine blade provided with surface mounted device
8 Aug 23
A wind turbine blade (10, 610) for a rotor of a wind turbine (2) having a substantially horizontal rotor shaft is described.
Kristian Lehmann Madsen, Jesper Høeg, Casper Kildegaard, Steven Hauge Pedersen
Filed: 12 Apr 22
Utility
Components having composite laminate with co-cured chopped fibers
8 Aug 23
Composite components, such as gas turbine engine airfoils, and methods of forming composite components are provided.
Abhijit Roy, Nicholas Joseph Kray
Filed: 7 Apr 22
Utility
Gas turbine engines including embedded electrical machines and associated cooling systems
8 Aug 23
A method of removing heat from an electrical machine located in a gas turbine engine at least partially inward of a core airflow path in a radial direction, the electrical machine comprising an outer electrical machine stator and an inner electrical machine rotor is provided.
Adam Tomasz Paziński, Tomasz Jan Bulsiewicz, Bartlomiej Drozd, Miroslaw Czarnik, Mohamed Osama, John R. Yagielski
Filed: 8 Feb 21
Utility
Method for handling a simultaneous failure of all channels of a multi-channel engine controller for a gas turbine engine
8 Aug 23
A method for handling a simultaneous failure of all channels of a multi-channel engine controller configured to control operation of a gas turbine engine is provided.
David Leo Hart, Adam Joseph Reese, Jeffrey Scott Gilton
Filed: 30 Mar 20
Utility
Switching valve
8 Aug 23
Stéphane Pierre Brehaut, Guillaume De Preville, Timothy Stott
Filed: 24 Sep 21
Utility
Stationary isolated rod couplings for use in a nuclear reactor control rod drive
8 Aug 23
Control rod drives include linearly-moveable control elements inside an isolation barrier.
Kenneth A. Morgan, David L. Major, Randy M. Brown
Filed: 30 Nov 20
Utility
Fetal ultrasound monitoring method and system
8 Aug 23
A method of fetal ultrasound monitoring includes detecting contact of a first ultrasound transducer to a mother's abdomen based on input from a contact sensor in the first ultrasound transducer.
Kiran Kumar Bogineni, Ravi Jaiswal, Shruti Gadgil, Jay Mehta
Filed: 22 Jan 18
Utility
Methods and systems for an acoustic attenuating material
8 Aug 23
Various methods and systems are provided for fabricating a backing material for an acoustic probe.
Reinhold Bruestle
Filed: 30 Nov 18
Utility
Additive manufacturing method for making holes bounded by thin walls in turbine components
1 Aug 23
A method of forming a passage in a turbine component includes: using an additive manufacturing process to form a first support structure on a first surface of the turbine component; forming a second support structure on a second surface of the turbine component, the second support structure being spaced apart from the first support structure; and forming a passage in the turbine component between the first and second support structures.
Ronald Scott Bunker
Filed: 24 Oct 19
Utility
Turbine blade tip shroud with protrusion under wing
1 Aug 23
A tip shroud includes a pair of opposed, axially extending wings configured to couple to an airfoil at a radially outer end thereof.
Derek Kanoa Tan, William Scott Zemitis, Richard Ryan Pilson, Felipe Roman-Morales, Brian Stephen Gray
Filed: 21 Feb 22
Utility
Additive heat exchanger and method of forming
1 Aug 23
An electroformed heat exchanger suitable for use between rotating blades and seals in a stationary casing of a turbine engine.
Gurudatta Srinivasa Murthy Sirigere, Gordon Tajiri, Dattu Guru Venkata Jonnalagadda, Rajapriyan Rajendran, Udaya Bhaskar Pamidimarri
Filed: 30 Jun 21
Utility
Premixer for a combustor
1 Aug 23
A premixer for a combustor includes: a centerbody having a hollow interior cavity; a swirler assembly radially outward of the centerbody; a peripheral wall disposed radially outward of the centerbody and the swirler assembly such that a mixing duct is defined between the peripheral wall and the centerbody, downstream from the swirler assembly; an annular splitter radially inward of the swirler assembly and radially outward of the centerbody such that a radial gap is defined between the splitter and an outer surface of the centerbody, wherein the splitter includes a trailing edge which extends axially aft of the swirler assembly; a fuel gallery disposed inside the interior cavity of the centerbody; and at least one fuel injector extending outward from the fuel gallery and passing through an injector port communicating with the outer surface of the splitter.
Ranjeet Kumar Mishra, Jayanth Sekar, Pradeep Naik, Gregory A. Boardman, Randall C. Boehm
Filed: 8 Jan 20
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Clearance design process and strategy with CCA-ACC optimization for EGT and performance improvement
1 Aug 23
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to illustrate a clearance design process and strategy with CCA-ACC optimization for exhaust gas temperature (EGT) and performance improvement.
Taehong Kim, Marcia Boyle Johnson, Daniel E. Reisenauer
Filed: 18 Jan 21
Utility
Flapping hinge for a fan blade
1 Aug 23
An engine defining a longitudinal axis includes: a turbomachine; a fan drivingly coupled with the turbomachine, the fan being a forward thrust fan and having: a hub; a plurality of fan blades, the plurality of fan blades comprising a first fan blade; and a flapping hinge integrated into the first fan blade or coupled to the fan blade, at least a portion of the first fan blade moveable about the flapping hinge to define a variable angle with the longitudinal axis.
Gregory L. Detweiler
Filed: 17 Mar 22
Utility
Overall engine efficiency rating for turbomachine engines
1 Aug 23
A turbomachine engine can include a fan assembly, a vane assembly, a core engine, a gearbox, and an overall engine efficiency rating.
Andrea Piazza, Jeffrey D. Clements
Filed: 2 Sep 22
Utility
Method and associated device for rapid detection of target biomolecules with enhanced sensitivity
1 Aug 23
A rapid detection method of a target biomolecule comprising an antigenic moiety is provided.
Matthew Jeremiah Misner, Gregory Andrew Grossmann, Cathryn Ellen Olsen, John Richard Nelson, Brian Christopher Bales, David Roger Moore, Paul Michael Smigelski, Jr.
Filed: 5 Nov 20
Utility
Method for distortion prediction and compensation for sintering of binder jet printed parts
1 Aug 23
According to some embodiments, system and methods are provided comprising receiving, via a communication interface of a distortion and correction module comprising a processor, a defined geometry for one or more parts, wherein the parts are manufactured with an additive manufacturing machine; discretizing the defined geometry into a mesh including a plurality of nodes; predicting a distortion of a position of each node of the plurality of nodes; determining whether the predicted distortion position exceeds a pre-set tolerance; determining an adjusted pre-distortion position for each node of the plurality of nodes when the predicted distortion position exceeds the pre-set tolerance; predicting a distortion of the adjusted determined pre-distortion position for each node of the plurality of nodes; determining whether the distortion of the determined adjusted pre-distortion position exceeds the pre-set tolerance; and printing the part when one of the predicted distortion position and the predicted adjusted pre-distortion position is below the pre-set tolerance.
Ananda Barua
Filed: 16 Aug 19