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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2019
Rolls-royce Deutschland Ltd & CO KG, Blankenfelde-Mahlow, DE;
Predrag Todorovic, Berlin, DE;
Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG, Blankenfelde-Mahlow, DE;
Abstract
The invention regards an asymmetric submerged air intake in a surface of a structure, wherein the air intake includes a submerged ramp extending from the surface. The ramp has a front end, a rear end, a ramp floor and two ramp side walls. The ramp floor is inclined with respect to the surface. At the rear end an entrance to an internal duct of the structure is provided. It is provided that one of the ramp side walls is a straight wall extending straight in the longitudinal direction of the ramp and that the other of the ramp side walls is a curved wall that diverges from the straight wall along the length of the ramp.