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公开(公告)号:US12264590B2
公开(公告)日:2025-04-01
申请号:US18366800
申请日:2023-08-08
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav , Nicholas Joseph Kray , Nitesh Jain
Abstract: A fan assembly for an engine has a fan blade, a disk having a disk segment, a trunnion mechanism having a trunnion extending at least partially through the disk segment, and first and second attachment systems. The trunnion has a platform and a shaft. The fan blade is adjacent to the platform of the trunnion. The trunnion is attached to the disk segment using the first attachment system along a preload path. The first and second attachment systems further include first and second retention features, respectively, separate from the preload path. During normal operation of the fan assembly, the first attachment system retains the trunnion within the disk along a first load path. Upon a failure in the trunnion, the first and second retention features together retain the trunnion within the disk segment along a second load path, the first load path being different than the second load path.
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公开(公告)号:US20250052172A1
公开(公告)日:2025-02-13
申请号:US18366800
申请日:2023-08-08
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav , Nicholas Joseph Kray , Nitesh Jain
Abstract: A fan assembly for an engine has a fan blade, a disk having a disk segment, a trunnion mechanism having a trunnion extending at least partially through the disk segment, and first and second attachment systems. The trunnion has a platform and a shaft. The fan blade is adjacent to the platform of the trunnion. The trunnion is attached to the disk segment using the first attachment system along a preload path. The first and second attachment systems further include first and second retention features, respectively, separate from the preload path. During normal operation of the fan assembly, the first attachment system retains the trunnion within the disk along a first load path. Upon a failure in the trunnion, the first and second retention features together retain the trunnion within the disk segment along a second load path, the first load path being different than the second load path.
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公开(公告)号:US11982205B1
公开(公告)日:2024-05-14
申请号:US18171490
申请日:2023-02-20
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: Nitesh Jain , Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav , Balaraju Suresh , Nicholas Joseph Kray
CPC classification number: F01D5/147 , F01D5/282 , F01D9/02 , F01D9/04 , F01D9/041 , F01D9/042 , F01D25/243 , F01D25/246 , F05D2220/323 , F05D2300/603
Abstract: An airfoil for a turbine engine having a spar assembly. The spar assembly including a composite spar, a metallic hub, and a composite body. The metallic hub can receive a portion of the composite spar at an interior surface to define an overlapping region. The composite body is located at the overlapping region.
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公开(公告)号:US11821319B2
公开(公告)日:2023-11-21
申请号:US17490401
申请日:2021-09-30
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav , Nitesh Jain , Nicholas Joseph Kray
CPC classification number: F01D5/148 , F03G7/0614 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2230/31 , F05D2240/307
Abstract: An airfoil including a plurality of composite plies extending from a leading edge to a trailing edge and between a tip and a root. The airfoil further includes a frangible airfoil portion at the tip extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge and extending between the tip and a frangible line along a span. The frangible airfoil portion including a plurality of composite plies and one or more shape memory alloy inserts disposed between the plurality of composite plies. A gas turbine engine including a frangible airfoil and methods for forming a frangible airfoil are also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US20230008935A1
公开(公告)日:2023-01-12
申请号:US17408986
申请日:2021-08-23
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav , Nitesh Jain , Nicholas Joseph Kray , Ravindra Shankar Ganiger , Praveen Sharma
Abstract: An airfoil arrangement for a gas turbine engine may include a clearance device using a shape memory alloy movable to provide clearance between an airfoil and one or more other components of the gas turbine engine. The clearance device may be formed as part of a fan blade. The arrangement may be configured to reduce overall weight and dimensions of the gas turbine engine.
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公开(公告)号:US20230003132A1
公开(公告)日:2023-01-05
申请号:US17366525
申请日:2021-07-02
Applicant: General Electric Company
Abstract: An airfoil including a plurality of composite plies extending from a leading edge to a trailing edge and between a tip and a root. The airfoil further includes a frangible airfoil portion at the tip extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge and extending between the tip and a frangible line along a span including a first plurality of composite plies. The frangible airfoil portion includes a first plurality of composite plies including fibers having a first fiber modulus. The airfoil further includes a residual airfoil portion extending from the frangible line to the root along the span including a second plurality of composite plies. The second plurality of composite plies including one or more plies having a second fiber modulus. The second fiber modulus is greater than the first fiber modulus. Further, the residual airfoil portion meets the frangible airfoil portion at the frangible line.
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公开(公告)号:US20250153854A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-15
申请号:US18441853
申请日:2024-02-14
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Abhishek Goverdhan , Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav , Andrew Bryan Cannella , Richa Awasthi , Rangasai M C , Pamela M. Boehm , Narayanan P , Saswati Roy
Abstract: Active control apparatus of gas turbine engine mounts are disclosed. An example apparatus for mounting a casing of an unducted gas turbine engine to a pylon, the apparatus includes a mount system; a plurality of sensors to measure at least one parameter indicating propeller whirl stability; and a controller to tune a stiffness of the mount system depending on a function of the at least one parameter measured by the plurality of sensors, the controller to tune the stiffness of the mount system by signaling an actuator, the mount system including: a first linkage; a second linkage; a first pin; a second pin; an interface to engage with the first and second linkages, the interface to at least one of rotate or slide; and the actuator to cause the interface to engage with the first and second linkages based on the signaling from the controller.
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公开(公告)号:US20250137378A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-01
申请号:US18496060
申请日:2023-10-27
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: Nitesh Jain , Nicholas Joseph Kray , Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav
Abstract: A composite airfoil assembly for a turbine engine. The composite airfoil assembly includes a woven core having a core exterior. The woven core includes a first region, a second region, and a transition region. A skin is applied to at least a portion of the woven core at the core exterior.
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公开(公告)号:US12044147B1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-23
申请号:US18176241
申请日:2023-02-28
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav , Nitesh Jain , Nicholas J. Kray , Nuthi Srinivas
IPC: F01D5/28
CPC classification number: F01D5/288 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2240/303 , F05D2300/611
Abstract: Examples disclosed herein include a fan blade of a gas turbine engine. The disclosed fan blade includes a main body having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The fan blade includes a leading edge guard covering the leading edge and a leading section of the main body adjacent to the leading edge. The leading edge guard includes a plurality of leading edge guard segments consecutively arranged in a spanwise direction along the leading edge of the fan blade. Each of the plurality of leading edge guard segments are oriented at an angle relative to a root of the fan blade. Each of the plurality of leading edge guard segments includes a nose portion coupled to the leading edge and a wing portion coupled to opposing sides of the leading section of the main body.
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公开(公告)号:US20240229656A9
公开(公告)日:2024-07-11
申请号:US17970687
申请日:2022-10-21
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav , Nicholas Joseph Kray , Nicholas M. Daggett , Nitesh Jain , Matthew Mark Weaver , Srinivas Addagatla
IPC: F01D7/00
CPC classification number: F01D7/00 , F05D2220/323 , F05D2240/30
Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine comprising a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order. A fan defining a fan axis and comprising a plurality of fan blades is rotatable about the fan axis. A pitch change mechanism is operable with the plurality of fan blades to control a pitch of the plurality of fan blades. A counterweight is connected to each respective fan blade. A spring mechanism is operably associated with each fan blade of the plurality of fan blades to create a spring twisting moment on the respective fan blade that is counter to a centrifugal twisting moment of the respective fan blade.
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