United Technologies Corporation

Merritt B Andrews

Edward A Rothman

A centrifugal pump for pumping fuel to a gas turbine engine is equipped with a start injector and a run injector. The pump has a single fuel output nozzle from which fuel goes to the engine. It also has several other nozzles from which fuel goes to the start injector. The flow through the injector draws fuel from the engine fuel supply and raises the pressure on a pump inlet, thereby raising the pressure in the pump outlet nozzle. The run injector receives bypass fuel flow from the engine and uses it to draw in engine fuel which is supplied together with the bypass fuel to a pump inlet nozzle. The run injector increases the fuel pressure in that inlet. The start injector operates during starting and the run injector is inoperative at that time. When the engine speed reaches a minimum level for sustained engine operation, the start injector is inoperative and the run injector is operating.

Centrifugal fuel pump with automatically switched jet injection

A structural composite panel comprises a pair of filament-reinforced composite facing sheets and a ruffled, corrugated core secured between the facing sheets. The core has corrugations each with an axis having periodic oscillations in plane of the core and with the axis generally normal to filament direction.

Composite structure

Wind turbine blade pitch control system including hydraulic actuators which pivotally drive the blades about the longitudinal axis thereof to adjust the blade pitch. The actuators are supplied with hydraulic fluid from independent sources thereof for normal blade pitch adjustment and feathering. Means are provided which, during feathering, isolate the pressurization and drain of the actuators from certain system components, whereby such pressurization and drain are not hampered by any malfunction of such components.

Wind turbine blade pitch control system

Blade pitch actuation system wherein the blades are hydraulically maintained in phase with one another. The system comprises hydraulic actuators each adapted to drive a single blade in a pitch change mode of operation. Fluid flow to the actuators is controlled by a blade actuator control valve in fluid communication with the actuators and an hydraulic fluid source and drain. An input member of the control valve is provided with passages which provide selected communication between the hydraulic fluid source and drain and passages in cooperating control valve feedback members each operated by, and in fluid communication with one of the blade actuators. The input and feedback members are positionable along one another such that selective positioning of the input member causes simultaneous selected pressurization and draining of the blade actuators through the feedback members thereby effecting a desired, phased blade pitch setting. The phased movement of the blades to such setting causes a corresponding movement of the feedback members nulling the actuator control valve and preventing deviation in blade pitch from the desired setting.

Blade pitch actuation system

A wind turbine blade in the form of a semi-spar in which the outer portion of the finished blade shape is the filament wound spar itself and the remainder of the blade incorporates a trailing edge portion, increasing in dimension toward the blade base, this part of the blade being filament wound around the spar.

Semi-spar wound blade

A wind turbine rotor in which the hub supports several bases spaced from each other around the hub, with all said bases mounted for turning movement about axes radial to the axis of the rotor, and with each base supporting a plurality of thin elongated vanes, each being airfoil shape in section with the several vanes on each base having the chords of their airfoils substantially parallel to one another. The vanes are mounted on the base in spaced relation to one another and substantially radial to the axis of the rotor and are interconnected at or near their outer ends.

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Westfield, MA, United States of America

Merritt B Andrews