BEARING AREA HEATING FIXTURE AND METHOD
    2.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240328330A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-03

    申请号:US18441012

    申请日:2024-02-14

    发明人: Colin Ramey

    IPC分类号: F01D25/28 F28C3/00

    摘要: A fixture for use in heating an article, which article has two open ends and portions that define an interior space. The fixture includes a first component and a second component. The first component includes a first cover for covering one open end of an article. The second component includes a second cover for covering another open end of the article. At least one of the first and second components includes a mechanism for joining the first and second components together around the article in a spaced apart relationship. At least one of the components includes a port for transferring heat into the interior space of the article. A method of using the fixture for heating a portion of a turbine engine in order to service the same is also provided.

    Method of determining location and orientation of an internal core cavity

    公开(公告)号:US12098650B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-24

    申请号:US18237918

    申请日:2023-08-25

    申请人: RTX Corporation

    IPC分类号: F01D25/28 B23P15/02

    摘要: A process of determining a location of a core cavity in a cast part including determining a nominal location of the cavity within the part; determining a nominal location of at least one locator hole in at least one external surface of the part; determining an actual location of the at least one locator hole in the at least one external surface of the part; comparing the nominal location of the at least one locator hole in the at least one external surface of the part to the actual location of the at least one locator hole in the at least one external surface of the part; and determining an actual location of the core cavity within the part.

    Alignment of Rotational Shafts
    7.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240230322A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-11

    申请号:US18270784

    申请日:2019-10-20

    发明人: Deron Jozokos

    IPC分类号: G01B11/27 F01D25/28 G01B5/25

    摘要: For alignment of rotational shafts, two devices for attachment to circular faces of two shaft segments. Each of the two devices has a laser photoelectric device for ascertaining a dimension of displacement of the two shafts from a desired axis of rotation relative to each other. Each of the two devices having a base surface with two linear contact edges designed to engage with a circumferential surface of a shaft and to ensure alignment between the device and an axis of rotation of the shaft to within a tolerance compatible with alignment tolerances of the shaft. Each of the two linear contact edges includes at least two terminal end regions and a center region together defining a line contact at linear intersection of two surfaces meeting at a non-zero angle linear contact edges designed to affix and release from the shaft surface, and to ensure parallel alignment between the device and an axis of rotation of the shaft to a precision allowing measurements to within tolerances required by machinery driven by the shaft. The base surface of at least one of the devices has been modified from its commercially-delivered condition to provide raised rails designed to improve tactile feedback of to a user of the alignment between the base and an axis of rotation of the shaft, and has affixed thereto two rails designed to improve tactile feedback of to a user of the alignment between the base and an axis of rotation of the shaft. Each base has a magnet and a switch to vary magnetic flux for affixation and release from the shaft surface. Each device has brackets designed to securely and reproducibly position laser photoelectric devices relative to the base and axis of rotation of the shaft. The attaching includes a human placing at least one of the devices slightly askew relative to the axis of rotation of the shaft, and the human gently twisting the device to allow the liner contact edges to seat on the circumferential surface of the shaft, to provide tactile feedback to the human to confirm parallel alignment between the at least one device's laser photoelectronic device and the axis of rotation of the shaft.

    OUTLET GUIDE VANE ASSEMBLY FOR A TURBOFAN ENGINE

    公开(公告)号:US20240209746A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-27

    申请号:US18086112

    申请日:2022-12-21

    IPC分类号: F01D9/04 F01D25/28

    摘要: A turbofan engine defining a circumferential direction is provided. The turbofan engine includes: a turbomachine, the turbomachine defining a pylon attachment location along the circumferential direction; an unducted rotor assembly drivingly coupled to the turbomachine, the unducted rotor assembly including a plurality of unducted rotor blades; and a plurality of outlet guide vanes positioned downstream of the plurality of unducted rotor blades, the plurality of outlet guide vanes including NOGV number of outlet guide vanes, the plurality of outlet guide vanes including a first outlet guide vane and a second outlet guide vane adjacent the first outlet guide vane, the first and second outlet guide vanes defining a gap spacing greater than 360 degrees divided by NOGV, and the pylon attachment location positioned outside of between the first and second outlet guide vanes along the circumferential direction.

    Simultaneously disassembling rotor blades from a gas turbine engine rotor disk

    公开(公告)号:US12000301B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-04

    申请号:US17891784

    申请日:2022-08-19

    IPC分类号: F01D25/28

    CPC分类号: F01D25/285 F05D2230/70

    摘要: A method is provided for disassembling a rotor of a gas turbine engine. During this method, the rotor is provided which includes a rotor disk and a plurality of rotor blades arranged circumferentially about an axis. The rotor blades include a plurality of airfoils and a plurality of attachments that mount the rotor blades to the rotor disk. Each of the rotor blades includes a respective one of the airfoils and a respective one of the attachments. A press is arranged against the rotor. The press axially engages each of the rotor blades. The press moves axially along the axis to simultaneously push the rotor blades and remove the attachments from a plurality of slots in the rotor disk.