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公开(公告)号:US11021998B2
公开(公告)日:2021-06-01
申请号:US16535231
申请日:2019-08-08
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger , Praveen Sharma , Bhujabal Prashant Mahadeo , Shivam Mittal
Abstract: A support assembly for a bearing of a gas turbine engine includes a shaft extending along an axial direction. The support assembly includes an outer race positioned radially exterior to the bearing such that the outer race supports the bearing. Additionally, the support assembly includes a shape memory alloy damper positioned radially exterior to the outer race and at least partially supporting the outer race. Moreover, the shape memory alloy damper includes a plurality of sleeves. One or more sleeves of the plurality of sleeves include a shape memory alloy material.
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公开(公告)号:US10968775B2
公开(公告)日:2021-04-06
申请号:US15823631
申请日:2017-11-28
Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Inventor: Shuvajyoti Ghosh , Ravindra Shankar Ganiger , Praveen Sharma , Ishita Sehgal , Prashant Bhujabal , Shivam Mittal
Abstract: A support system for a gas turbine engine is provided. The support system includes a load-bearing unit that includes a first flange, a support element supporting the load-bearing unit and having a second flange, a fastener connecting the first flange and the second flange, a first super-elastic shape memory alloy component in contact with the first flange, and a second super-elastic shape memory alloy component in contact with the second flange. The first and the second super-elastic shape memory alloy components are configured to deform when a load exerted by the fastener exceeds a threshold load value of the fastener.
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公开(公告)号:US10947993B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-16
申请号:US15822507
申请日:2017-11-27
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Kudum Shinde , Praveen Sharma , Shashank Suresh Puranik , Shivam Mittal , Charles Stanley Orkiszewski , Carl Lawrence MacMahon , Anthony Michael Metz , Brian Drummond
Abstract: Embodiments are generally provided of a gas turbine engine including a rotor assembly comprising a shaft extended along a longitudinal direction, in which a compressor rotor and a turbine rotor are each coupled to the shaft; a casing surrounding the rotor assembly, in which the casing defines a first opening radially outward of the compressor rotor, the turbine rotor, or both, and a second opening radially outward of the compressor rotor, the turbine rotor, or both; a first manifold assembly coupled to the casing at the first opening; a second manifold assembly coupled to the casing at the second opening, in which the first manifold, the casing, and the second manifold together define a thermal circuit in thermal communication with the rotor assembly; and a fluid flow device in fluid communication with the first manifold assembly, in which the fluid flow device provides a flow of fluid to the first manifold assembly and through the thermal circuit, and further wherein the flow of fluid egresses the thermal circuit at the second manifold assembly.
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公开(公告)号:US20210047940A1
公开(公告)日:2021-02-18
申请号:US17062876
申请日:2020-10-05
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger , Thomas Ory Moniz , Satish Kumar Yadav , Ambika Shivamurthy , Praveen Sharma , Bhujabal Prashant Mahadeo
Abstract: A support assembly for a bearing of a gas turbine engine including a spring finger ring positioned radially exterior to an outer race of the bearing. The spring finger ring includes an outer ring positioned radially exterior to the outer ring, an inner ring positioned radially interior to the outer ring, and a plurality of spring fingers extending between the inner and outer rings. One or more spring fingers configured as two-sided spring fingers including a first ligament coupled to the outer ring and extending at a first circumferential angle to a first radial bumper proximate to the inner ring and a second ligament coupled to the inner ring and extending at a different second circumferential angle to a second radial bumper proximate to the outer ring. The first and second radial bumpers define first and second radial gaps between the bumpers and the inner and outer rings, respectively.
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公开(公告)号:US20200378273A1
公开(公告)日:2020-12-03
申请号:US16424843
申请日:2019-05-29
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav , Nagamohan Govinahalli Prabhakar , Nicholas Joseph Kray , Shivam Mittal , Praveen Sharma , Bhujabal Prashant Mahadeo , Ravindra Shankar Ganiger
Abstract: A composite fan casing for a gas turbine engine defining a central axis is generally provided. The composite fan casing includes a core having a plurality of core layers of reinforcing fibers bonded together with a thermosetting polymeric resin and having an outer surface. The composite fan casing further includes at least one stiffener integrally coupled to an aft portion of the outer surface of the core relative to the central axis. Additionally, the at least one stiffener comprises an elastic material.
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公开(公告)号:US10794222B1
公开(公告)日:2020-10-06
申请号:US16540538
申请日:2019-08-14
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger , Thomas Ory Moniz , Satish Kumar Yadav , Ambika Shivamurthy , Praveen Sharma , Bhujabal Prashant Mahadeo
Abstract: A support assembly for a bearing of a gas turbine engine including a spring finger ring positioned radially exterior to an outer race of the bearing. The spring finger ring includes an outer ring positioned radially exterior to the outer ring, an inner ring positioned radially interior to the outer ring, and a plurality of spring fingers extending between the inner and outer rings. One or more spring fingers configured as two-sided spring fingers including a first ligament coupled to the outer ring and extending at a first circumferential angle to a first radial bumper proximate to the inner ring and a second ligament coupled to the inner ring and extending at a different second circumferential angle to a second radial bumper proximate to the outer ring. The first and second radial bumpers define first and second radial gaps between the bumpers and the inner and outer rings, respectively.
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公开(公告)号:US20190186368A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-20
申请号:US15845082
申请日:2017-12-18
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Praveen Sharma , Shuvajyoti Ghosh , Narayanan Payyoor , Tod Robert Steen , Carl Lawrence MacMahon
IPC: F02C7/26
CPC classification number: F02C7/26 , F02C7/06 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2260/85 , F05D2270/02 , F05D2270/114 , F05D2270/303 , F05D2270/304
Abstract: A method of starting a gas turbine engine is generally provided. The engine includes a rotor assembly including a compressor rotor and a turbine rotor each coupled to a shaft. The rotor assembly is coupled to a bearing assembly within a casing enabling rotation of the rotor assembly. The method includes determining, based on a lubricant parameter, a period of time within which a rotational speed of the rotor assembly is maintained within a bowed rotor mitigation speed range; rotating the rotor assembly for the period of time within the bowed rotor mitigation speed range; and accelerating the rotor assembly to the combustion speed to ignite a fuel-oxidizer mixture for combustion.
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公开(公告)号:US20190186289A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-20
申请号:US15842168
申请日:2017-12-14
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Milind Chandrakant Dhabade , Kudum Shinde , Thomas Edward Agin , Weize Kang , Praveen Sharma , Shivam Mittal
CPC classification number: F01D21/12 , F01D5/02 , F01D17/10 , F05D2260/4023
Abstract: A gas turbine engine including a first rotor assembly comprising a first drive shaft extended along a longitudinal direction; a housing coupled to the first rotor assembly to provide rotation of the first rotor assembly around an axial centerline; a first accessory assembly, wherein the first accessory assembly sends and/or extracts energy to and from the first rotor assembly; and a first clutch assembly disposed between the first rotor assembly and the first accessory assembly. The first clutch assembly engages and disengages the first rotor assembly to and from the first accessory assembly.
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公开(公告)号:US20190162203A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-30
申请号:US15822507
申请日:2017-11-27
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Kudum Shinde , Praveen Sharma , Shashank Suresh Puranik , Shivam Mittal , Charles Stanley Orkiszewski , Carl Lawrence MacMahon , Anthony Michael Metz , Brian Drummond
Abstract: Embodiments are generally provided of a gas turbine engine including a rotor assembly comprising a shaft extended along a longitudinal direction, in which a compressor rotor and a turbine rotor are each coupled to the shaft; a casing surrounding the rotor assembly, in which the casing defines a first opening radially outward of the compressor rotor, the turbine rotor, or both, and a second opening radially outward of the compressor rotor, the turbine rotor, or both; a first manifold assembly coupled to the casing at the first opening; a second manifold assembly coupled to the casing at the second opening, in which the first manifold, the casing, and the second manifold together define a thermal circuit in thermal communication with the rotor assembly; and a fluid flow device in fluid communication with the first manifold assembly, in which the fluid flow device provides a flow of fluid to the first manifold assembly and through the thermal circuit, and further wherein the flow of fluid egresses the thermal circuit at the second manifold assembly.
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公开(公告)号:US11828235B2
公开(公告)日:2023-11-28
申请号:US17473233
申请日:2021-09-13
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Peeyush Pankaj , Narayanan Payyoor , Shashank Suresh Puranik , Arvind Kumar Rao , Praveen Sharma , Chirayu Pradip Inamdar , Vidyashankar Ramasastry Buravalla , Sankarapandian Palaniappan , Sampath Karthikeyan
CPC classification number: F02C7/36 , F16H57/0006 , F16H57/02 , F05D2220/32 , F05D2260/40311 , F05D2260/96 , F16F2222/02 , F16F2224/0258 , F16H2057/02039 , F16H2057/085
Abstract: An epicyclic gearbox is configured to transfer rotational motion between a first rotating component and a second rotating component of the gas turbine engine. The gearbox includes a centrally located sun gear, two or more planet gears circumscribing the sun gear, and a ring gear circumscribing the plurality of planet gears. The gearbox is configured such that the sun gear is drivingly coupled to the first rotating component, such that rotation of the sun gear causes rotation of each planet gear, and such that the ring gear rotates relative to the plurality of planet gears. The gearbox includes one or more shape memory alloy dampers provided in association with the sun gear, the ring gear, and/or the plurality of planet gears. The shape memory alloy damper(s) is configured in order to reduce vibrations transferred through the epicyclic gearbox to the frame, the first rotating component, and/or the second rotating component.
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