Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation

United Technologies Corporation

Kevin K Taft

Timothy M Hollman

Jang Y Jo

Anthony C Jones

Gordon F Jewess

Bo Zheng

Olivier Jacques Lamicq

John Chen Chiang Ho

A compressor impeller includes a hub, main blades and splitter blades. The main blades are equally spaced around the circumference of the hub. Each splitter blade is equally spaced between two adjacent main blades. Each main blade and splitter blade has suction and pressure surfaces formed in substantial compliance with normalized Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z set forth in Tables 1-4. When connected by smooth, continuing arcs, the normalized Cartesian coordinates form complete main blade and splitter blade shapes that are substantially matched by the main blade and splitter blade shapes of the compressor impeller.

Centrifugal compressor impeller

A wedge-type diffuser includes a diffuser floor and a plurality of wedge-shaped vanes. The wedge-shaped vanes extend from the diffuser floor and have a top surface, a leading edge and a trailing edge. Each of the wedge-shaped vanes has a slot extending from the trailing edge toward the leading edge.

Low mass diffuser vane

A compressor shroud for containing fragments of a compressor impeller and a turbine wheel within a gas turbine engine. The compressor shroud includes a compressor containment section, a turbine containment section, and a containment continuity section. The containment continuity section connects the compressor containment section and the turbine containment section to form a one-piece part.

One-piece compressor and turbine containment system

A speed sensor assembly comprises: a driveshaft with a driveshaft axis, a sensing portion of the driveshaft having an axial bore along the driveshaft axis and multiple axial slots radially spaced around the sensing portion that penetrate through the driveshaft into the axial bore; and at least one electromagnetic sensor with a magnetic circuit proximate the sensing portion of the driveshaft; wherein rotation of the driveshaft causes the slots in the sensing portion to sequentially pass through the magnetic circuit of the electromagnetic sensor, thereby causing a change in the reluctance of its magnetic circuit that induces the electromagnetic sensor to generate an output signal that is representative of the rotational speed of the driveshaft.

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Kevin K Taft