Delavan Inc.

Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation

Collins Engine Nozzles, Inc.

Raytheon Technologies Corporation

Thomas J Ocken

Joseph Samo

Jacob Greenfield

Lukas Shea

Jerry Logsdon

Jason Allen Ryon

Sergey Mironets

William Louis Wentland

Robert Bianco

Ahmet T Becene

Andrew W Solomon

Lev Alexander Prociw

Evan J Butcher

Gabriel Ruiz

Matthew Donovan

Andy W Tibbs

John Sypek

Eric W Karlen

Murtuza Lokhandwalla

Gregory A Zink

Kiley James Versluys

Jordan Christopher Pugliese

Andrew M Caldecutt

Nathan Devore

Mark J Kelly

Joel A Mohnacky

Twelves Jr Wendell V

A method of manufacturing a last chance screen for an aircraft engine includes forming an array of holes through a metal sheet with a wire electrode using electrical discharge machining. The array of holes comprises a plurality of holes. Each hole of the plurality of holes comprises a first end and a second end and is surrounded by a wall section such that the last chance screen is defined by the plurality of holes and the plurality of wall sections. The first and second end of each hole are widened by either applying a flow of an abrasive flow medium to the array of holes in two directions or using a conical sinker electrode on either side of the metal sheet. Shaping the first and second end of each hole results in an airfoil-shaped cross-section of each wall section.

Airfoil last chance screen utilizing EDM and AFM

A heat exchanger manifold configured to receive or discharge a first fluid includes a primary fluid channel and a plurality of secondary fluid channels. The primary fluid channel includes a fluid port and a first branched region distal to the fluid port. The plurality of secondary fluid channels are fluidly connected to the primary fluid channel at the first branched region. Each of the plurality of secondary fluid channels includes a first end and a second end opposite the first end. Each of the plurality of secondary fluid channels extends radially from the first branched region at the first end and has an equal length from a center of the first branched region to the second end.

Heat exchanger with radially converging manifold

An electrostatic discharge machining fixture includes a fixture body, two or more electrically conductive face contacts seated in the fixture body, and two or more electrically resistive point contacts seated in the fixture body. The electrically conductive face contacts and the electrically resistive point contacts define a 3-2-1 alignment system to locate an additively manufactured article relative to the fixture body during an electrostatic discharge machining operation. Electrostatic discharge machining arrangements and methods of supporting additively manufactured workpieces during electrostatic discharge machining operations are also described.

Method of supporting a workpiece

A method of additive manufacturing includes supplying additive manufacturing powder to a build area of an additive manufacturing machine. The method includes fusing a portion of the powder to form a part, and removing a non-fused portion of the powder from the build area into a removable vessel for storing non-fused powder after building a part. The method can include supplying additive manufacturing powder to a build area, fusing a portion of the powder, and removing a non-fused portion of the powder all on a single discrete lot of additive manufacturing powder without mixing lots.

Discrete lot powder management for additive manufacturing

An assembly for a turbomachine can include a fuel nozzle and a combustion liner. The fuel nozzle and the combustion liner can be attached to each using a plurality of clip joints such that the combustion liner is longitudinally fixed relative to the fuel nozzle but such that the combustion liner can radially move relative to the fuel nozzle.

Combustion liners and attachments for attaching to nozzles

An impeller includes a housing having a fluid inlet cavity defining a rotational axis. A plurality of vane are inlets arranged along an inner surface of the fluid inlet cavity and a plurality of vane outlets are circumferentially arranged along a rim of the housing. Each of the vane outlets is fluidly connected to a corresponding vane inlet by a corresponding internal channel situated internal to the housing. Each of the channels maintains a triangular cross-section from the vane inlet to the vane outlet.

Impeller

An impeller includes a body with an interior channel extending through the body along a centerline axis of the impeller. A plurality of blades is connected to the body on a forward end of the impeller centerline axis. The plurality of blades surrounds the interior channel and is fluidly connected to an array of inlets. An array of pentagonal channels extends through the body and radially outward in a spiral pattern. Each pentagonal channel is fluidly connected to a corresponding vane inlet and a corresponding pentagonal-shaped outlet. Each channel maintains a pentagonal cross-section shape from the inlet to the outlet. Each downward-sloping face of the cross section is more than 35 degrees from a horizontal plane perpendicular to the centerline axis of the impeller.

Impeller design and manufacturing method with pentagonal channel geometry

A system can include a torsion applicator (e.g., a torsion motor and shaft) configured to apply a torque to a test article that is additively built on and attached to a build plate. The system can include at least one twist sensor and at least one torque sensor. A method for determining quality of an additively manufactured article or batch thereof can include torsion testing at least one additively manufactured test article that is built on and attached to a build plate while the at least one test article is still attached to the build plate.

Torsion testing machine and methods for additive builds

Fixtures for additively manufactured workpieces

A method of computed tomography includes illuminating an object with a cone of illumination, wherein the object is between a source of the cone of illumination and a two-dimensional photo-detector array. The method includes shielding the photodetector array from the collimator shield that includes a slit defined therethrough and moving the slit of the collimator shield across the photodetector array in a direction perpendicular to the slit to expose the photodetector array to the cone of illumination through the slit as the slit scans across the photodetector array to acquire a two-dimensional image of the object. The method includes rotating the object to a new rotational position and repeating movement of the slit to expose the photodetector and rotating the object along the axis until the object has been imaged from multiple rotational positions to form a three-dimensional model of the object.

Reducing scatter for computed tomography

In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a fuel injector can include an annular body defining a gas fuel inlet therein, and a structure extending radially outward from the annular body and configured to extend into an air circuit. The structure can include a gas channel defined within the structure at least partially along a radial length of the structure. The gas channel is in fluid communication with the gas fuel inlet where the structure meets the annular body. The structure also includes a slot opening defined at least partially along a radial length of the structure and configured to fluidically connect the gas channel and the air circuit to all gas fuel to effuse into the air circuit.

Fuel injectors including gas fuel injection

A system for removing powder from an additively manufactured article includes a powder removal mechanism. The powder removal mechanism can include a build plate holder configured to hold a build plate at a distal end thereof. The powder removal mechanism can also include a first actuator that is configured to angle the build plate holder relative to gravity and a second actuator that is configured to rotate the build plate holder about a central axis of the build plate holder.

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Des Moines, IA, United States of America

Thomas J Ocken