Patent classifications
F05D2250/294
HEAT SHIELD WITH AXIAL RETENTION LOCK
A heat shield assembly for an engine case of a gas turbine engine may include a heat shield and a support lock. The heat shield may have an annular shape and a groove formed circumferentially along an inner surface of the heat shield. The support lock may have a tab extending radially outward from a distal surface of the support lock. The groove in the heat shield may be configured to retain the tab of the support lock.
FAN MOTOR
This fan motor includes a motor, an impeller arranged to rotate together with a rotating portion of the motor, a housing arranged to house the motor and the impeller therein, and a lead wire connected to the motor and arranged to extend outwardly of the housing. The housing includes a tubular portion, a bottom plate portion fixed below the motor, and a support portion arranged to extend from at least a portion of the tubular portion toward the bottom plate portion, and joined to at least a portion of the bottom plate portion. The support portion includes a groove portion recessed upward. The tubular portion includes a cut portion defined at a portion thereof continuous with the groove portion. The lead wire is drawn out of the housing through the groove portion and the cut portion. At least one of the groove portion and the cut portion has a thermosetting resin arranged therein.
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OIL DAMPING WITH TEXTURED DAMPER SURFACES
A damper system may include an inner damper having a first annular geometry and a textured surface. An outer damper may also have an annular geometry and be disposed about the inner damper. The outer damper may have a textured surface. The textured surfaces of the inner damper and outer damper may define a cavity that is configured to contain a viscous fluid.
Seal assembly with baffle for gas turbine engine
A seal assembly for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a seal that has an elongated seal body having a seal face that bounds a gas path and an opposed impingement face. The seal body defines an internal cavity extending in a circumferential direction between opposed mate faces and extending in a radial direction between walls of the seal body defining the seal and impingement faces. A baffle divides the internal cavity into at least a first region and a second region. The first region has a first section extending transversely from a second section. The first section has a component in the radial direction, and the second section has a component in an axial direction such that the second region is defined between the baffle and the walls of the seal body defining the seal face. A method of sealing is also disclosed.
TURBINE ROTOR BLADE
A turbine rotor blade for a thermal continuous flow machine, wherein a transition region and an aerodynamically shaped turbine blade connected to same, follows a blade foot for securing the turbine rotor blade to a rotor along a notional blade longitudinal axis of the turbine rotor blade from bottom to top. The blade foot has two flat end surfaces facing one another, two contoured side surfaces facing one another and joining the two end surfaces to one another, in which side surface at least one respective carrying edge is formed by creating dovetail- or fir tree-like end surface contour. The carrying edges become free edges or extend into the transition region via concave rounded portions. A channel bordering one of the two end sides is arranged in at least one concave rounded portion, the extension of which channel along the side surface is less than that of the carrying edge.
Riblets For A Flowpath Surface Of A Turbomachine
A component stage for a turbomachine includes a component section. The component section includes a flowpath surface at least partially exposed to a core air flowpath defined by the turbomachine, when the component stage is installed in the turbomachine. The component further includes a plurality of sequentially arranged riblets on the flowpath surface, the plurality of sequentially arranged riblets customized for an anticipated location of the flowpath surface within the turbomachine by defining one or both of a non-uniform geometry or a non-uniform spacing.
Centrifugal pump
An impeller includes a disk-shaped hub and a plurality of vanes provided radially on the surface of the hub. The plurality of vanes are formed in a whirling pattern about the center of rotation of the impeller, and each of the vanes has an outer peripheral surface facing the inner peripheral surface of the volute. A rotational-direction rear end portion of the outer peripheral surface of each of the vanes has a recessed step surface formed thereon. The rotational-direction rear end of the recessed step surface of each of the vanes is formed to define an edge shape with respect to a rotational-direction rear end surface of the vane.
TURBINE ABRADABLE LAYER WITH COMPOUND ANGLE, ASYMMETRIC SURFACE AREA RIDGE AND GROOVE PATTERN
Turbine and compressor casing/housing abradable component embodiments for turbine engines, have abradable surfaces with asymmetric forward and aft ridge surface area density. The forward ridges have greater surface area density than the aft ridges to compensate for greater ridge erosion in the forward zone during engine operation and reduce blade tip wear in the aft zone. Some abradable component embodiments increase forward zone ridge surface area density by incorporating wider ridges than those in the aft zone.
Vane for gas turbine engine
A vane configured to be disposed in a gas path defined in part by an inner surface of a case of a gas turbine engine is provided. The vane comprises a vane body configured to extend through an aperture in the case and a vane head disposed at an end of the vane body. The vane head has an abutting surface configured to contact an outer surface of the case when the vane body extends through the aperture, and a groove configured to receive a sealing member. The groove opens to the abutting surface and is outwardly open relative to an inner region surrounded by the groove. The groove has an inner seating surface that hinders movement of the sealing member toward the abutting surface and can facilitate installation of the vane in the engine.
Methods and system for fluidic sealing in gas turbine engines
A sealing system for a rotatable element defining an axis of rotation includes a rotor blade including a shank and an angel wing extending axially from the shank. The sealing system also includes a stator vane positioned axially adjacent the rotor blade. The stator vane includes a platform extending in an axial direction over the angel wing such that a clearance gap is defined therebetween. The sealing system also includes a sealing mechanism including a portion of the platform and a portion of the angel wing. The sealing mechanism includes at least one obliquely oriented surface such that the clearance gap defines a converging nozzle.