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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2018
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Jonathan Gilson, West Hartford, CT (US);
Bruce L. Morin, Longmeadow, MA (US);
Ramons A. Reba, South Windsor, CT (US);
David A. Topol, West Hartford, CT (US);
Wesley K. Lord, South Glastonbury, CT (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A fan section for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a fan rotor having fan blades, and a plurality of fan exit guide vanes positioned downstream of the fan rotor. The fan rotor is configured to be driven through a gear reduction. A ratio of a number of fan exit guide vanes to a number of fan blades is defined. The fan exit guide vanes are provided with optimized sweep and optimized lean.