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公开(公告)号:US11125154B2
公开(公告)日:2021-09-21
申请号:US16674368
申请日:2019-11-05
Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
Inventor: Jason Nichols , Ignatius Theratil , Mohammadreza Amiralaei
Abstract: The centrifugal impeller can have a hub and a plurality of blades, each of the blades having a span extending from the hub to a tip edge, camber lines extending from an inlet edge to an outlet edge between two opposite faces, including a tip camber line extending along the tip edge and a 50% span camber line extending at 50% of the span, a thickness extending between opposite faces of each blade, the tip edge having, at a location corresponding to 5% of the tip camber line, less than 15% of the maximum thickness, each of the blades having, along the 50% span camber line, a thickness reaching at least 58% of the maximum thickness and then reducing by at least 5% of the maximum thickness within 10% of the length of the 50% span camber line.
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公开(公告)号:US10670041B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-02
申请号:US15436091
申请日:2017-02-17
Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
Inventor: Ignatius Theratil , Krishna Prasad Balike , Aldo Abate , Sean Kelly , Peter Townsend , Ronald Dutton , Anthony Brown , Paul Stone , Myron Klein , Milica Kojovic , Robert Venditti
Abstract: A compressor rotor, such as a fan, for a gas turbine engine is described which includes alternating at least first and second blade types. The leading edge of the second blade types includes a leading edge tip cutback extending to the blade tip thereof. The leading edge tip cutback of the second blade type defines a chord length at the blade tip of the second blade types that is less than that of the first blades types. The first and second blade types generate different shock patterns when the fan or compressor rotor operates in supersonic flow regimes.
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公开(公告)号:US10408231B2
公开(公告)日:2019-09-10
申请号:US15703472
申请日:2017-09-13
Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
Inventor: Thomas Veitch , Farid Abrari , Ernest Adique , Daniel Fudge , Kari Heikurinen , Paul Stone , Ignatius Theratil , Peter Townsend , Tibor Urac
Abstract: A rotor for a gas turbine engine comprises a rotor having a hub and blades around the hub, and extending from the hub to tips. The tips include first and second tip portions between their respective tip leading edge and tip trailing edge. Tips are spaced from a rotational axis of the rotor by spans. A mean span of a first tip portion of a first blade is greater than a mean span of a corresponding first tip portion of a second blade. A mean span of a second tip portion the first blade is less than a mean span of a corresponding second tip portion of the second blade.
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公开(公告)号:US11274556B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-15
申请号:US16674264
申请日:2019-11-05
Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
Inventor: Maksim Pankratov , Ignatius Theratil , Tony Chang , Nicola Houle , Vincent Savaria , Daniel Coutu
IPC: F01D5/10
Abstract: The stiffness of a rotor part is varied over its circumference to allow damper rings to effectively work in high speed applications. Circumferentially spaced-apart pockets may be defined in the rotor to create discontinuous strain to increase the force required to lock the damper ring in the groove above the centrifugal force of the ring when the rotor is rotating.
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公开(公告)号:US11035385B2
公开(公告)日:2021-06-15
申请号:US16591876
申请日:2019-10-03
Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
Inventor: Ignatius Theratil , Krishna Balike
Abstract: A rotor for a gas turbine is disclosed which includes alternating first and second set of rotor blades, the first set of rotor blades having a baseline profile and the second set of rotor blades having a profile with a cutback relative to the baseline profile, the cutback defining a removed portion of the baseline profile surrounding a maximum deflection point of a selected natural vibration mode. The cutback may be a leading edge cutback at a span position located a distance away from the hub between 20% and 50% of the total span length. The selected natural vibration mode may be a natural vibration mode higher than the 1st natural vibration mode, more specifically may be the 5t″ natural vibration mode.
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公开(公告)号:US10458436B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-29
申请号:US15465792
申请日:2017-03-22
Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
Inventor: Ignatius Theratil , Krishna Balike
Abstract: A rotor for a gas turbine is disclosed which includes alternating first and second set of rotor blades, the first set of rotor blades having a baseline profile and the second set of rotor blades having a profile with a cutback relative to the baseline profile, the cutback removing a portion of the baseline profile surrounding a maximum deflection point of a selected natural vibration mode. The cutback may be a leading edge cutback at a span position located a distance away from the hub between 50% and 90% of the total span length. The selected natural vibration mode may be a natural vibration mode higher than the 1st natural vibration mode, more specifically may be the 4th natural vibration mode.
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公开(公告)号:US11353038B2
公开(公告)日:2022-06-07
申请号:US16861835
申请日:2020-04-29
Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
Inventor: Ignatius Theratil , Krishna Prasad Balike , Aldo Abate , Sean Kelly , Peter Townsend , Ronald Dutton , Anthony Brown , Paul Stone , Myron Klein , Milica Kojovic , Robert Venditti
Abstract: The gas turbine compressor for an aircraft gas turbine engine includes a compressor rotor having a plurality of compressor blades circumferentially distributed around a hub. Each of the compressor blades has an airfoil extending radially outward from the hub to a blade tip. A circumferential row of the compressor blades includes two or more different blade types, at least one modified blade of the two or more different blade types having means for generating different shock patterns between adjacent ones of the two or more different blade types when the gas turbine compressor operates in supersonic flow regimes. The means for generating different shock patterns on the modified blade aerodynamically mistune the two or more different blade types.
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公开(公告)号:US11156294B2
公开(公告)日:2021-10-26
申请号:US16204367
申请日:2018-11-29
Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
Inventor: Ignatius Theratil , Aldo Abate
Abstract: There is disclosed a controlled gap seal for a gas turbine engine including a ring configured to be in a sealing engagement with a housing and a runner configured for rotation relative to the ring about the central axis. The runner has a runner face facing a ring face of the ring. The ring face is spaced apart from the runner face by a gap. A plurality of surface discontinuities are circumferentially distributed around the central axis on the runner face and/or the ring face. The plurality of surface discontinuities are spaced relative to one another such that a first set of adjacent surface discontinuities are circumferentially spaced from each other at a different distance than a second set of adjacent surface discontinuities. A method of using the controlled gap seal is disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US10968774B2
公开(公告)日:2021-04-06
申请号:US16196464
申请日:2018-11-20
Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
Inventor: Ignatius Theratil , Aldo Abate , Nicola Houle
Abstract: There is disclosed an assembly for a gas turbine engine that includes a bearing housing circumferentially extending around a central axis thereof and delimiting a bearing cavity for receiving a bearing therein. A controlled gap seal is secured to the bearing housing, the controlled gap seal including a ring and a runner, the runner rotatable relative to the ring about the central axis, the runner spaced apart from the ring by a gap. The gap defines a fluid passage between the bearing cavity and an environment outside the bearing cavity. At least one baffle is secured to a surface of the bearing housing oriented toward the bearing cavity. The at least one baffle is a fin protruding from the surface and extending into the bearing cavity. The at least one baffle disrupts a cylindricality of the surface. A method of operating the bearing assembly is also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US20170175776A1
公开(公告)日:2017-06-22
申请号:US14976701
申请日:2015-12-21
Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
Inventor: Ignatius Theratil , Krishna Prasad Balike , Richard Ivakitch , Sean Michael Kelly , Peter Townsend , Ronald Dutton , Paul Stone , Robert Venditti , Daniel Fudge , Milica Kojovic , Aldo Abate
CPC classification number: F04D29/666 , F01D5/141 , F01D5/16 , F01D5/28 , F04D29/324 , F04D29/384
Abstract: A compressor rotor for a gas turbine engine is described which includes sets of blades having different airfoil thickness distributions, each including a frequency modifier forming a thickness differential relative to a baseline blade thickness. The frequency modifiers provide different natural vibration frequencies for each of the blades, and facilitate modifying natural vibration frequency separation between adjacent blades of the compressor rotor.
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