Wireless power transmission apparatus with multiple primary coils and adjacent coil muting
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11909226
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for a wireless power transmission apparatus that supports charging of one or more wireless power receiving apparatuses. The wireless power transmission apparatus may include multiple primary coils organized in groups (referred to as zones). Each zone may have a local controller for managing operation of one primary coil in the zone at a time. A master controller may…
Devices, systems, and methods for providing on-demand engine software using a distributed ledger
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11907695
Devices, systems, and methods for providing software to aircraft using a distributed ledger are disclosed. A software delivery system includes aircraft having an engine control system configured to verify and install software utilized by components of the aircraft, an electronic distribution system coupled to the aircraft, an edge manager coupled to the electronic distribution system, and computing devices acting as nodes in a distributed ledger base maintaining a distributed ledger. The…
Systems, and methods for diagnosing an additive manufacturing device using a physics assisted machine learning model
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11906955
A system for diagnosing an additive manufacturing device is provided. The system includes a first module configured to: obtain one or more parameters for a digital twin of a component of the additive manufacturing device based on raw data from the component of the additive manufacturing device; and generate physics features for the digital twin of the component of the additive manufacturing device based on the one or more parameters and one or more transfer functions, a second module…
Differential gearbox assembly for a turbine engine
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11905890
A differential gearbox assembly for a turbine engine having a fan shaft and a drive shaft. The differential gearbox assembly includes an epicyclic gear assembly coupling the fan shaft to the drive shaft. The epicyclic gear assembly includes a sun gear, a planet gear constrained by a planet carrier, and a ring gear. The sun gear is coupled to the drive shaft and the planet carrier is coupled to the fan shaft. The sun gear, the planet gear, and the ring gear all rotate about the drive…
Combustor with a variable volume primary zone combustion chamber
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11898755
A combustor for a gas turbine has a combustor liner including an outer liner and an inner liner, a combustion chamber being defined between the outer liner and the inner liner. The combustion chamber includes a primary combustion zone at an upstream end of the combustion chamber. The combustor also includes an outer liner expanded primary volume portion, and a secondary outer liner portion. One of the outer liner expanded primary volume portion and the secondary outer liner portion is…
Method for thermal management for an aircraft propulsion system using a flow of compressed fluid extracted from a compressor section
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11897624
A method and structure for thermal management for a vehicle is provided. The method includes extracting a flow of compressed fluid from a compressor section of a propulsion system in which the flow of compressed fluid includes a pressure parameter, and generating an output torque via expanding at least a portion of the flow of compressed fluid across a turbine operably connected to a driveshaft. The turbine is positioned downstream of the compressor section and upstream of a cooling…
Electrical machines for integration into a propulsion engine
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11901799
An electrical machine includes a stator assembly coupled to an engine stator component of a propulsion engine. The stator assembly includes a stator support assembly fixedly attached to the engine stator component and a stator disposed on a supporting surface of the stator support structure. The electrical machine also includes a rotor assembly including a rotor support structure connected to a shaft of the propulsion engine and a rotor attached to the rotor support structure such that…
Loading sharing across multiple power supplies
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11901758
A power system (150) operable to implement a power balancing control scheme is provided. In one aspect, a power system (150) includes multiple independent power supplies (182A, 182B) with independent batteries (172A, 172B) feeding onto a common power bus (180). The power supplies (182A, 182B) regulate the voltage on the common power bus (180) at the same time. The power balancing control scheme, when implemented, causes the load on the common power bus (180) to be shared among the…
System and method for reducing instability in reactive power command of an inverter-based resource
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11901735
A method for controlling a power system having at least one inverter-based resource connected to an electrical grid includes monitoring, via at least one controller of the at least one inverter-based resource, one or more command signals issued by a system-level controller. The method also includes determining, via the at least one controller of the at least one inverter-based resource, whether the one or more command signals issued by the system-level controller includes oscillatory…
Rotating detonation propulsion system
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11898757
A propulsion system includes at least one rotating detonation actuator comprising: a flow path extending from an inlet end to an outlet end; an inner wall defining a radially inner boundary of the flow path; an outer wall defining a radially outer boundary of the flow path; and at least one aircraft wing. The rotating detonation actuator is disposed in the aircraft wing. At least one rotating detonation wave travels through the flow path from the inlet end to the outlet end.
Configuring a simulator for robotic machine learning
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11897134
Provided are systems and methods for configuring a robotic simulator that is used to train a robot via machine learning. In one example, a method may include storing a domain description which comprises information about an operating environment of a robot, generating, via an automated planner, a plurality configuration files for a robotic simulator based on the domain description, where each configuration file comprises different configurations of a simulation environment for training a…
Thermo-acoustic damper in a combustor liner
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11898752
A hollow plank of a combustor liner defining a combustion chamber including an inner wall having a plurality of inner openings and one or more inner holes, an outer wall having one or more outer openings and a plurality of outer holes, a plurality of lateral walls coupled to the inner wall and the outer wall to define a cavity, and a partition wall connected to the plurality of lateral walls and dividing the cavity into a first sub-cavity and a second sub-cavity. The one or more outer…
System for spacing and fastening tubular structures
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11898682
A tube spacing and fastening system for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of tubular structures, a wear sleeve, a spacer element, and a fastening element. The plurality of tubular structures provides a fluid flow to a component of the gas turbine engine. The wear sleeve is located around each of the plurality of tubular structures. The spacer element receives the plurality of tubular structures. The fastening element extends around the wear sleeves and is configured to secure the…
Aircraft and direct drive engine under wing installation
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11898518
The present disclosure is directed to a gas turbine engine defining a radial direction, a longitudinal direction, and a circumferential direction, an upstream end and a downstream end along the longitudinal direction, and an axial centerline extended along the longitudinal direction. The gas turbine engine includes a fan assembly including a plurality of fan blades rotatably coupled to a fan rotor in which the fan blades define a maximum fan diameter and a fan pressure ratio. The gas…
Slotted ceramic coatings for improved CMAS resistance and methods of forming the same
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11898497
A coated component for a gas turbine engine is provided. The coated component includes a substrate having a surface and a ceramic coating. The ceramic coating includes one or more linear slots and one or more non-linear slots. The one or more non-linear slots intersect the one or more linear slots. The plurality of linear slots and the plurality of non-linear slots form segments of ceramic coating material.
Hydrogen fuel system for a gas turbine engine
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11898495
A fuel system for a gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine including an exhaust assembly. The exhaust assembly including a tail cone and defining a radial direction, a circumferential direction, an axial direction, a working gas flow path, and an outer bypass flow path, the fuel system including: a hydrogen fuel tank for holding a hydrogen fuel; a heat exchanger configured to be coupled to or integrated into the tail cone of the exhaust assembly, the heat exchanger…
Fluid exchange apparatuses and methods of exchanging fluids between streams
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11898492
Provided are fluid exchange apparatuses and methods of exchanging fluids between streams. Exemplary fluid exchange apparatus includes a first interleaved pathway with a plurality of first passages, and a second interleaved pathway with a plurality of second passages, in which the plurality of first passages and the plurality of second passages interleave with one another. Exemplary methods include directing a first fluid through a first interleaved pathway of a fluid exchange apparatus…
Airfoil for a gas turbine engine
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11898464
In one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure an airfoil is provided. The airfoil defines a spanwise direction, a root end, and a tip end. The airfoil includes: a body defining a pressure side and a suction side and extending along the spanwise direction between the root end and the tip end, the body formed of a composite material; and a spar enclosed in the body of the airfoil extending along the spanwise direction, the spar comprising a plurality of spar segments arranged in an…
Turbine engine with a blade
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11898460
A turbine engine includes an engine core extending along an engine centerline and includes a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement. A temperature sensor is provided within the engine and configured to detect a gas temperature within the engine core. A set of blades is circumferentially arranged in the turbine section. A blade in the set of blades includes an outer wall bounding an interior, a cooling conduit within the interior, and a plurality…
Method for thermal management for an aircraft propulsion system using a flow of compressed fluid extracted from a compressor section
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11897624
A method and structure for thermal management for a vehicle is provided. The method includes extracting a flow of compressed fluid from a compressor section of a propulsion system in which the flow of compressed fluid includes a pressure parameter, and generating an output torque via expanding at least a portion of the flow of compressed fluid across a turbine operably connected to a driveshaft. The turbine is positioned downstream of the compressor section and upstream of a cooling…
