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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182228 | Turbine blade having midspan shroud with recessed wear pad and methods for manufacture A durable blade, a method of manufacturing it and a method of repairing blades are described and claimed. Durable blade includes an airfoil having a pressure side and a suction side, a midspan shroud located on the airfoil, at least one recess on the midspan shroud ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8173206 | Methods for repairing barrier coatings Methods for repairing barrier coatings involving providing a component having a barrier coating including at least one damaged portion, removing the damaged portion of the barrier coating leaving a void, applying a replacement tape cast barrier coating to the void o... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172522 | Method and system for supporting stator components A method and system of supporting removable static components in a turbine engine stator assembly is described. The method comprises the steps of engaging a stator hanger located at a first location on a first static component with a post located on a first static s... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8166748 | Gas turbine engine booster having rotatable radially inwardly extending blades and non-rotatable vanes A gas turbine engine booster includes one or more rotatable booster stages having booster blades extending radially inwardly from a rotatable drum and one or more non-rotatable vane stages having booster vanes extending radially outwardly from a non-rotatable shell.... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8162603 | Vane frame for a turbomachine and method of minimizing weight thereof A vane frame for a turbomachine and a method for minimizing the weight of a vane frame. The vane frame includes an inner shroud made up of a plurality of inner shroud segments, an outer shroud circumscribing the inner shroud and made up of a plurality of outer shrou... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156745 | Exhaust nozzle seal with segmented basesheet An aircraft gas turbine engine exhaust nozzle basesheet includes longitudinally extending plurality of basesheet segments. Each of the basesheet segments includes a panel body between segment leading and trailing edges and slidable sealing joints with slidingly un-r... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8147178 | Centrifugal compressor forward thrust and turbine cooling apparatus A gas turbine engine centrifugal compressor axial forward thrust apparatus bleeds impeller tip aft bleed flow from between an annular centrifugal compressor impeller of a high pressure rotor and a diffuser directly downstream of the impeller. The apparatus then uses... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8128775 | Process and apparatus for producing composite structures A process and apparatus for producing perforated composite structures, such as acoustic skins suitable for aircraft engine nacelle and duct components. The process includes placing a mat member, a non-impregnated fabric member, and a resin film on a tool surface so ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126628 | Aircraft gas turbine engine blade tip clearance control A method and system adjusts blade tip clearance between rotating aircraft gas turbine engine blade tips and a surrounding shroud in anticipation of and before an engine command that changes an engine rotational speed. The method may include determining when to begin... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124245 | Blaze cladding for direct metal laser sintered materials A direct metal laser sintered material including a substrate formed from a laser sintering process, the substrate having at least one surface, and a cladding material brazed onto at least a portion of the surface. ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123872 | Carburization process for stabilizing nickel-based superalloys A process by which a nickel-based superalloy substrate prone to deleterious reactions with an aluminum-rich coating can be stabilized by carburization. The process generally entails processing the surface of the substrate to be substantially free of oxides, heating ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123471 | Variable stator vane contoured button A variable stator vane airfoil is mounted on a button centered about a rotational axis and includes circular leading and trailing edges circumscribed about the rotational axis at a button radius. Contoured pressure and suction sides extend from the circular leading ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122722 | Exhaust nozzle seal with segmented basesheet disposed between side rails An aircraft engine exhaust nozzle basesheet includes longitudinally extending plurality of basesheet segments having panel bodies between segment leading and trailing edges and slidable sealing joints with slidingly un-restrained center surfaces between adjacent seg... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8118561 | Erosion- and impact-resistant coatings Erosion- and impact-resistant ceramic coatings suitable for protecting surfaces subjected to collisions with particles, including nominally round particles that typically inflict impact damage and more aggressive irregular-shaped particles that typically inflict ero... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8096755 | Crowned rails for supporting arcuate components A flange for supporting arcuate shrouds and shroud hangers comprising at least one arcuate rail, each arcuate rail having an inner radius, a first taper location, a first taper region, a second taper location, a second taper region, wherein the thickness of at least... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8087884 | Advanced booster stator vane A stator vane includes leading and trailing edges extending longitudinally between a root and a tip, the trailing edge having an exit swirl angle distribution such that the exit swirl angle has a maximum value at an intermediate radius location. ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8087880 | Active clearance control for a centrifugal compressor Apparatus and method of operating a centrifugal compressor and active control system includes a centrifugal compressor with compressor blades mounted on an impeller, an annular cavity bounded in part by a shroud adjacent to the blades, and an active control system f... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8087249 | Turbine cooling air from a centrifugal compressor A gas turbine engine turbine cooling system includes an impeller and a diffuser directly downstream of the impeller, a bleed for bleeding clean cooling air from downstream of the diffuser, and one or more channels in fluid communication with the bleed. Each of the c... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8084094 | Process of applying a coating system A coating process for an article having a substrate formed of a metal alloy that is prone to the formation of a secondary reaction zone (SRZ). The coating process forms a coating system that includes an aluminum-containing overlay coating and a stabilizing layer bet... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082728 | System and method of continuous detonation in a gas turbine engine A continuous detonation system, including: a rotatable member including a forward end, an aft end, a circumferential wall and a longitudinal centerline axis extending therethrough; an outer circumferential wall, wherein the rotatable member is positioned therein so ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8063528 | Counter-rotatable generator A counter-rotatable generator includes a generator stator concentric with concentric counter-rotatable radially inner pole and outer magnet rotors. The magnet rotor encircles the pole rotor and the pole rotor encircles the generator stator. A rotor air gap is dispos... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8051709 | Method and apparatus for pre-spinning rotor forgings A method and system for relieving forging induced residual stresses in a rotor forging balances a pre-spin machine with the forging mounted thereon at a first rotational speed and then pre-spins the forging with it mounted on the machine at a substantially greater s... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8038894 | Method of selectively stripping an engine-run ceramic coating A process for selectively stripping a coating from a component of a turbomachine, and particularly a coating having a ceramic matrix that contains metallic particles dispersed therein that render the coating more difficult to remove from the component after the comp... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8020367 | Nozzle with yaw vectoring vane An exhaust vane disposed in a divergent section of an aircraft gas turbine engine exhaust nozzle is sideways pivotable about a vane pivot axis. The nozzle vane pivot axis may be centrally located at an unvectored nozzle throat. Transversely spaced apart upper and lo... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018225 | System and method for sensing the periodic position of an object A system and method for sensing the periodic position of one or more objects, such as rotating blades of a turbine. The system includes a passive eddy current sensing unit having one or more magnets and first and second cores around which first and second coils are ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8017195 | Method for vibrational damping of gas turbine engine airfoils A coating system and coating method for damping vibration in an airfoil of a rotating component of a turbomachine. The coating system includes a metallic coating on a surface of the airfoil, and a ceramic coating overlying the metallic coating. The metallic coating ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8017188 | Methods of making articles having toughened and untoughened regions Methods of making an article having at least one toughened region and at least one untoughened region involving providing a material, applying a toughening agent to a portion of the material, shaping the material to produce a preform, applying an untoughened resin t... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8011877 | Fiber composite reinforced aircraft gas turbine engine drums with radially inwardly extending blades A gas turbine engine assembly having one or more blade rows with blades extending radially inwardly from a rotatable drum, one or more composite fiber material rings disposed circumferentially around the rotatable drum, and the composite fiber material rings includi... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011188 | Augmentor with trapped vortex cavity pilot A gas turbine engine augmentor includes an annular trapped vortex cavity pilot having a cavity forward wall, a cavity radially outer wall, and a cavity aft wall, an annular cavity therebetween, and cavity fuel injector tubes operably disposed through the outer wall ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8001761 | Method and apparatus for actively controlling fuel flow to a mixer assembly of a gas turbine engine combustor An apparatus for actively controlling fuel flow from a fuel pump to a mixer assembly of a gas turbine engine combustor, where the mixer assembly includes a pilot mixer and a main mixer. The pilot mixer further includes an annular pilot housing having a hollow interi... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7993425 | Free vortex air-oil separator The present invention provides a free vortex air-oil separator that may be used in systems for separating oil from air oil mixtures. The free vortex air-oil separator comprises a free vortex chamber having a first chamber wall, a second chamber wall located axially ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987385 | Method for high integrity and high availability computer processing A method of providing high integrity checking for an N-lane computer processing module (Module), N being an integer greater than equal to two. The method comprises the steps of: detecting, by a data Output Management unit (OM), when any of the N processing lanes sen... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984892 | Low friction butterfly ring A butterfly valve for controlling the flow of fluid within a bore, including a butterfly and at least one ring extending at least one of substantially and completely around a perimeter of the butterfly and adapted to develop an expansion force in the radial directio... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7948229 | High temperature electronics for passive eddy current sensors A system and method for sensing the periodic proximity of one or more objects, such as the rotating blades of a gas turbine. The system includes a passive eddy current sensing unit having first and second magnets and first and second coil-wound cores coupled to gene... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7942641 | Varying fluence as a function of thickness during laser shock peening A method for simultaneously laser shock peening opposite laser shock peening surfaces on opposite sides of an article, such as a gas turbine engine airfoil, with varying thickness using oppositely aimed laser beams and varying surface fluence of the laser beams over... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7927656 | Method and apparatus for controlling diffusion coating of internal passages A method and apparatus for controlling the thickness of a coating deposited on internal passages of a component. The coating is a diffusion coating, preferably a diffusion aluminide coating, deposited by a vapor phase process that entails placing a component within ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7910173 | Thermal barrier coating and process therefor A thermal barrier coating and deposition process for a component intended for use in a hostile thermal environment, such as the turbine, combustor and augmentor components of a gas turbine engine. The TBC has a first coating portion on at least a first surface porti... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7905972 | Methods for making substantially cylindrical articles and fan casings Methods for making articles having a substantially cylindrical body including providing a substantially cylindrical tool, providing at least one ply of a material, the material being a weave fabric, a non-crimp fabric, or a combination thereof, wrapping the at least... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7905084 | Rotary pressure rise combustor for a gas turbine engine A gas generator for providing continuous pressure rise combustion, including: a rotatable member including a forward end, an aft end, a circumferential wall and a longitudinal centerline axis extending therethrough; an outer circumferential wall, wherein the rotatab... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7891938 | Multi sensor clearance probe A multi sensor clearance probe with at least longitudinally and transversely spaced apart first and second sensors operable to measure first and second distances respectively between the sensors and a longitudinally spaced apart rotating rotor. The sensors being ope... | 02/22/2011 |
