B64D33/10

Heat exchanger

A turbofan gas turbine engine includes, in axial flow sequence, a heat exchanger module, a fan assembly, a compressor module, a turbine module, and an exhaust module. The fan assembly includes a plurality of fan blades defining a fan diameter. The heat exchanger module is in fluid communication with the fan assembly by an inlet duct, and the heat exchanger module including a plurality of heat transfer elements for transfer of heat from a first fluid contained within the heat transfer elements to an airflow passing over a surface of the heat transfer elements prior to entry of the airflow into an inlet to the fan assembly. Each heat transfer element may be individually and independently fluidly isolated from the remaining heat transfer elements.

Heat exchanger

A heat exchanger for a gas turbine engine comprising a compressor, a combustor and a turbine. The heat exchanger comprising alternating hot and cold channels. Compressed air from the compressor flows through the cold channels and exhaust gas from the turbine flows through the hot channels. Each cold channel comprises first and second opposing surfaces conveying compressed air along a first path. Each cold channel comprises rows of vortex generators and pin fins extending from the first or second surfaces along the first path. The rows extend substantially perpendicular to the first path. Each hot channel is defined by a first and second opposing surfaces conveying exhaust gas along a second path substantially perpendicular to the first path. Each hot channel comprises rows of vortex generators and pin fins extending from the first or second surfaces along the second path. The rows extend substantially perpendicularly to the second path.

MIXER AND MOBILE BODY
20230203975 · 2023-06-29 ·

A mixer is mounted in an aircraft. A rear end part of a cylindrical portion of the mixer is divided by a guide vane into a plurality of divided tubular portions. In the plurality of divided tubular portions, a notch nozzle is formed on an outer wall of the cylindrical portion. A plurality of guide holes are formed to extend from the outer wall of the cylindrical portion to a rear end surface of the guide vane.

MIXER AND MOBILE BODY
20230203975 · 2023-06-29 ·

A mixer is mounted in an aircraft. A rear end part of a cylindrical portion of the mixer is divided by a guide vane into a plurality of divided tubular portions. In the plurality of divided tubular portions, a notch nozzle is formed on an outer wall of the cylindrical portion. A plurality of guide holes are formed to extend from the outer wall of the cylindrical portion to a rear end surface of the guide vane.

AIRCRAFT HAVING A SINGLE FLUID INLET APERTURE

An aircraft includes a machine body that encloses a turbofan gas turbine engine and a plurality of ancillary systems. The turbofan gas turbine engine includes, in axial flow sequence, a first heat exchanger module, a fan assembly, a compressor module, a combustor module, a turbine module, and an exhaust module. The aircraft includes a second heat exchanger module. The machine body comprises a single fluid inlet aperture, with the fluid inlet aperture being configured to allow a fluid cooling flow to enter the machine body and to pass through the first heat exchanger module. When a temperature of the fluid cooling flow is less than a temperature of a fluid to be cooled, the fluid to be cooled is directed to the first heat exchanger module, and when a temperature of the fluid cooling flow is greater than a temperature of the fluid to be cooled, the fluid to be cooled is directed to the second heat exchanger module and cooled using a fuel supply for the gas turbine engine.

AIRCRAFT HAVING A SINGLE FLUID INLET APERTURE

An aircraft includes a machine body that encloses a turbofan gas turbine engine and a plurality of ancillary systems. The turbofan gas turbine engine includes, in axial flow sequence, a first heat exchanger module, a fan assembly, a compressor module, a combustor module, a turbine module, and an exhaust module. The aircraft includes a second heat exchanger module. The machine body comprises a single fluid inlet aperture, with the fluid inlet aperture being configured to allow a fluid cooling flow to enter the machine body and to pass through the first heat exchanger module. When a temperature of the fluid cooling flow is less than a temperature of a fluid to be cooled, the fluid to be cooled is directed to the first heat exchanger module, and when a temperature of the fluid cooling flow is greater than a temperature of the fluid to be cooled, the fluid to be cooled is directed to the second heat exchanger module and cooled using a fuel supply for the gas turbine engine.

AIRFLOW GUIDE STRUCTURE AND AIRCRAFT
20230192311 · 2023-06-22 ·

The aircraft includes a fuselage, a front wing and a rear wing provided to extend laterally from the fuselage for generating lift during cruise, a boom extending in a front-back direction supported by these wings to be spaced apart from the fuselage, a VTOL rotor supported on the boom and having one or more blades for generating thrust in a vertical direction during take-off and landing, a cooling system for cooling the VTOL rotor by using a radiator arranged within the boom, and an airflow guide structure provided in a part of the boom for guiding airflow generated by rotation of the blades to the radiator, and having an inlet provided on a side that faces toward a rotational direction of the blades relative to a rotational axis of the VTOL rotor, of a surface of the boom positioned below a plane of rotation of the blades.

AIRFLOW GUIDE STRUCTURE AND AIRCRAFT
20230192311 · 2023-06-22 ·

The aircraft includes a fuselage, a front wing and a rear wing provided to extend laterally from the fuselage for generating lift during cruise, a boom extending in a front-back direction supported by these wings to be spaced apart from the fuselage, a VTOL rotor supported on the boom and having one or more blades for generating thrust in a vertical direction during take-off and landing, a cooling system for cooling the VTOL rotor by using a radiator arranged within the boom, and an airflow guide structure provided in a part of the boom for guiding airflow generated by rotation of the blades to the radiator, and having an inlet provided on a side that faces toward a rotational direction of the blades relative to a rotational axis of the VTOL rotor, of a surface of the boom positioned below a plane of rotation of the blades.

AIRCRAFT
20230192285 · 2023-06-22 ·

The aircraft includes a fuselage, a front wing and a rear wing provided to extend laterally from the fuselage for generating lift during cruise, a boom 18 supported by the front wing and the rear wing to be spaced apart from the fuselage, and at least one VTOL rotor that is supported on the boom, and having one or more blades for generating thrust in a vertical direction during take-off and landing, wherein the boom has a shape in a top view in which a barrel forms a curvature in a direction away from the fuselage with respect to a front end and a rear end while extending in a front-back direction, and has a cross section in a front view in which an upper side forms a round curvature, the boom being tapered from an upper side from a lower side, and the lower side is substantially flat.

COOLING SYSTEM AND AIRCRAFT
20230192289 · 2023-06-22 ·

An aircraft comprises a fuselage, a front wing and a rear wing that extends laterally from the fuselage for generating lift during cruise, a boom extending in a front-back direction supported by these wings to be spaced apart from the fuselage, at least one VTOL rotor supported on the boom and having one or more blades for generating thrust in a vertical direction during take-off and landing, and a cooling system within the boom including two radiators stored between an inlet and an outlet provided on the boom, to cool an element with a low control temperature and an element with a high control temperature, for example, a motor and an inverter, respectively, among electric elements of the at least one VTOL rotor by using a first radiator that is positioned on the inlet side and a radiator that is positioned on the outlet side among the two radiators.