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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2020
Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Nigel David Sawyers-Abbott, South Glastonbury, CT (US);
Anthony R. Bifulco, Ellington, CT (US);
Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A passive transpirational flow acoustic liner assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a guide vane assembly and a conduit configured to deliver airflow received from the guide vane. The guide vane assembly includes an airfoil having a transpirational flow acoustic liner. The acoustic liner includes a face sheet defining a portion of an outer surface of the airfoil and having a plurality of first apertures, a segmented member coupled to the face sheet and having a plurality of chambers in fluid communication with the outer surface via the plurality of first apertures, a backing sheet having a plurality of apertures and being coupled to the segmented member such that the segmented member is positioned between the face sheet and the backing sheet, and a plenum coupled to the backing sheet opposite the segmented member and fluidly connected to the conduit.