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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2021
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Brendan Michael Freely, Loveland, OH (US);
Kurt David Murrow, Springboro, OH (US);
Michael James McMahon, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02C 6/20 (2006.01); B64C 11/30 (2006.01); F01D 5/12 (2006.01); F02C 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 11/305 (2013.01); F01D 5/12 (2013.01); F02C 6/20 (2013.01); F02C 9/00 (2013.01); F05D 2220/323 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of operating an aircraft engine coupled to a wing of an aircraft including: setting a pitch of a plurality of rotor blades of a rotor assembly of the aircraft engine at non-uniform pitch angles along a circumferential direction of the aircraft engine such that the plurality of rotor blades define a first pitch at a first position and a second pitch at a second position, wherein the second position is 180 degrees offset from the first position, and wherein the first pitch is different from the second pitch.