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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Leslie Louis Langenbrunner, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Ian Francis Prentice, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Rosa Lee Nemec, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Adam Max Aresty, West Chester, OH (US);
Ming Xie, Beavercreek, OH (US);
Andrew McGee, Oxford, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Composite airfoil singlet, includes airfoil extending from base to tip of airfoil, integrally formed with no more than one outer platform at tip and/or no more than one inner platform at base. Parallel composite plies or woven fibers extend through airfoil and through outer and/or inner platforms. Outer and/or inner curved sections extend between outer and/or inner platforms and airfoil respectively. Assembly includes circular row of the composite airfoil singlets depending radially inwardly from and mounted to an outer shroud or casing. Outer and/or inner fasteners may secure outer and inner platforms to outer shroud or casing and an inner shroud respectively and include shanks extending substantially perpendicularly from outer and inner fastening plates though platform holes in outer and inner platforms and through outer and inner holes in outer shroud or casing and inner shroud respectively. Nuts are screwed on threaded ends of shanks.