Rtx Corporation

Vestas Wind Systems A/s

Jia Liang Ang

Chee Kang Lim

Pedro C Diaz Buxo

Chye Leng Lim

Wen Rong Cheong

Jiawei Edwin Sum

Weicheng Abram Li

An automated assembly system for two or more rotary components of a gas turbine engine includes a stacking station at which the two or more rotary components are stacked along a stacking axis and a press system selectably movable between a retracted position spaced apart from the stacking axis and a press position at the stacking axis. The press system is configured to exert a downward force on the two or more rotary components at the stacking station to engage a first rotary component of the two or more rotary components to a second rotary component of the two or more rotary components. A robot is configured to sequentially stack the two or more rotary components along the stacking axis.

Automated high pressure compressor rotor assembly

A cooling device for a rotor assembly of a gas turbine engine includes an airflow nozzle configured to be installed at a cooling location of the rotor assembly. The airflow nozzle extends entirely around a circumference of the rotor assembly and includes a plurality of airflow inlets and a nozzle outlet to direct an airflow toward the cooling location. An airflow source is operably connected to the plurality of airflow inlets.

Cooling device for rotor assembly

The application relates to a wind turbine component having an optical fiber sensor arranged to detect wind speed over the surface of the component. In one embodiment, the optical fiber sensor has a light loss portion that allows some of the light transmitted through the optical fiber to escape. The amount that the optical fiber bends in the air flow across the surface causes the effective surface area of the light loss portion to increase or decrease. With increased or decreased surface area of the light loss portion, more or less light is lost from the fiber. The intensity of the light transmitted in the fiber can therefore be used as a measure of the amount of bending, and therefore as a measure of the air flow's speed. In other embodiments, the optical fiber includes optical gratings, such as Fiber Bragg Gratings.

Wind turbine component having an optical fibre wind sensor

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Jia Liang Ang