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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2020
Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Paul R. Adams, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Shankar S. Magge, South Windsor, CT (US);
Joseph B. Staubach, Colchester, CT (US);
Wesley K. Lord, South Glastonbury, CT (US);
Frederick M. Schwarz, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Gabriel L. Suciu, Glastonbury, CT (US);
RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A turbofan engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a fan including a circumferential array of fan blades, a low pressure compressor section including a low pressure compressor section inlet with a low pressure compressor section inlet annulus area, and a fan duct annulus area outboard of the low pressure compressor section inlet, and a fan drive turbine section. The fan drive turbine section includes a maximum gas path radius and the fan blades include a maximum radius, and a ratio of the maximum gas path radius to the maximum radius of the fan blades is equal to or greater than 0.35, and is less than 0.55.