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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2018
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Nicholas Joseph Kray, Mason, OH (US);
Andreas Mastorakis, St. Corona, CA (US);
Manoj Kumar Jain, Bangalore, IN;
Nagamohan Govinahalli Prabhakar, Bangalore, IN;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A platform for use between adjacent propulsion rotor airfoils joined to a rotor disk to provide an inner flowpath boundary includes: an axially extending I-beam supporting a radially outer skin having a flowpath surface; the I-beam including an inner I-flange disposed at an inner edge of an axially extending I-web, and an outer I-flange disposed at an outer edge of the I-web; the I-beam including a laterally-extending forward end flange at a forward end of the I-web, and a laterally-extending aft end flange at an aft end of the I-web; and the radially outer skin disposed on top of and joined to the radially outer I-flange such that the forward end flange and the aft end flange abut the outer skin.