General Electric Company

Michael J Steckler

Barton H Snow

David M Leighton

Wayne Ray Grady

Nathaniel Patrick Brown

Glenn Knight

A method for repairing a turbine nozzle having at least one vane disposed between an inner and an outer band. Embodiments of the method can comprise separating the inner band from the outer band and securing a replacement part to the inner band. In one embodiment, the methods accommodate replacement parts that include vanes with a base feature that comprises a non-airfoil shape and that integrates cooling features useful for operation of the turbine nozzle.

Method of repairing a turbine nozzle segment in a turbine engine

A method of controlling a system is adapted to control flow to throat nozzle and vectoring nozzle actuators. The method comprises the steps of summing a plurality of signals representative of flow to the vectoring nozzle actuators with a signal representative of flow to the throat nozzle actuators to generate a total hydraulic flow signal. The total flow signal is then compared to a signal representative of total pump output to generate a reserve signal. Finally, a scaled rate limit signal is generated from the reserve signal and multiplied by predetermined ratio signals such that the ratio signals are limited by the difference between pump output and pump demand.

Control system for a jet engine hydraulic system

Hydraulic control system for a jet engine nozzle

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Michael J Steckler