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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2019
Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., Longueuil, CA;
Jason Nichols, Mississauga, CA;
Ignatius Theratil, Mississauga, CA;
Mohammadreza Amiralaei, Vaughan, CA;
PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP., Longueuil, CA;
Abstract
The centrifugal impeller can have a hub and a plurality of blades, each of the blades having a span extending from the hub to a tip edge, camber lines extending from an inlet edge to an outlet edge between two opposite faces, including a tip camber line extending along the tip edge and a 50% span camber line extending at 50% of the span, a thickness extending between opposite faces of each blade, the tip edge having, at a location corresponding to 5% of the tip camber line, less than 15% of the maximum thickness, each of the blades having, along the 50% span camber line, a thickness reaching at least 58% of the maximum thickness and then reducing by at least 5% of the maximum thickness within 10% of the length of the 50% span camber line.