Abstract:
A simple, substantially fail-safe jet engine bleed used for aircraft accessories is designed to have a small bleed port area for high power operating conditions of the engine and a larger bleed port area for lesser power operating conditions. The variable port can be made to vary its size in response to the power lever position, engine rpm, compressor bleed temperature or an engine pressure ratio.
Abstract:
A compact electrochemical cell comprising a pair of opposed electrodes; an electrolyte matrix containing an aqueous, ionconductive electrolyte between the opposed electrodes; and an electrolyte reservoir positioned behind and partially defined by at least one of said electrodes. The electrode partly defining the reservoir has a continuous hydrophobic surface and select hydrophilic areas substantially uniformly distributed within the boundaries of the electrode surface. The electrolyte volume of the cell is controlled by electrolyte movement between the electrolyte matrix of the cell and the reservoir through the select hydrophilic areas of the electrode, thereby stabilizing the electrochemical performance of the cell.
Abstract:
The pitch change signal from a fixed to a rotating propeller, fan or the like is effectuated through a differential gear train where the improvement consists of eliminating half of the gear train by employing the driving gearbox if suitably available.
Abstract:
A method for producing a boron filament with a relatively thick, uniform coating of boron by passing a moving, resistively heated carbon substrate through a reactor in the presence of a boron halide admixed with hydrogen includes the step of first putting a coating of titanium carbide on the carbon substrate.
Abstract:
The fuel flow in a gas turbine engine which is started by an auxiliary compressed air supply or cartridge is initially scheduled as a function of engine speed at all ambient conditions, resulting in an initially grossly over-rich fuel-air mixture and burning downstream beyond the combustor. The temperature in the tailpipe is sensed, and control of the engine fuel flow is automatically switched from the starting control schedule to an acceleration and speed control schedule when either the tailpipe temperature is decreasing at a rate greater than a reference value, or when the tailpipe temperature increases to a preselected value selected as a function of compressor inlet pressure and engine speed. Engine tailpipe temperature is sensed by a thermocouple having its cold junction located at the engine compressor inlet so that the tailpipe measurement reflects only the heat added to the exhaust gas by combustion.
Abstract:
A fiber-reinforced metallic tape, and composites including a plurality of stacked and bonded tapes, characterized by inclusion of a layer which prevents contact of liquid metal with the reinforcing fibers during low pressure brazing.
Abstract:
A process for fixturing a workpiece includes disposing a liquid organic resin workholding material within a workholder around the workpiece and quenching the assembly at between 40*F and 73*F to solidify the workholding material. The cold quench within this particular temperature range gives improved holding strength and reduces shrinkage of the organic workholding material. In one embodiment ceramic stones are heated and disposed within the workholder to heat the workholder and the workpiece prior to pouring the workholding material into the workholder. The stones further increase the holding strength of the workholding material and reduce shrinkage even more.
Abstract:
A centrifugal compressor is shown with an inlet directing a fluid thereto and a diffuser into which the compressor directs its output. A group or array of circumferential grooves are located in the surface of a stationary shroud which covers the blades of the compressor.
Abstract:
A method of coating a gas turbine engine alloy substrate comprising depositing a rare earth and aluminum-containing alloy initial layer to a thickness sufficient to produce and maintain an adherent irregular aluminum oxide, mechanically working the surface of the initial layer to induce irregularity and angular topography in the aluminum oxide to be produced, oxidizing the initial layer to produce a sufficiently thick and irregular aluminum oxide layer to establish mechanical adherence of a noble metal layer and prevent alloying between the initial layer and the noble metal layer, depositing a noble metal layer on the oxidized layer to a thickness of approximately 0.1-0.2 mils and oxidatively treating the coated substrate to cause additional growth of the oxide layer to metallurgically insulate the noble metal layer from the substrate and the initial metal layer.
Abstract:
In the processes for forming protective coatings on metal substrates, particularly the nickel-base and cobalt-base superalloys, by deposition in vacuum, an inert gas leak adjacent the substrate is utilized to randomize the coating vapor cloud and cause non line-of-sight deposition.