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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2024
Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., Longueuil, CA;
Guy Lefebvre, St-Bruno-de-Montarville, CA;
Remy Synnott, Longueuil, CA;
PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP., Longueuil, CA;
Abstract
An aircraft engine, has: a turbine including a turbine rotor rotatable about a central axis; a scroll case having an inlet connected to a source of combustion gases and an outlet fluidly connected to the turbine, and a conduit extending around the central axis from the inlet to the outlet; a bearing housing; a turbine support case secured to the bearing housing, the scroll case disposed axially between the turbine support case and the bearing housing, the turbine support case having spokes extending through the scroll case and radially supported by the bearing housing; and heat shields distributed around the central axis in circumferential alignment with the spokes and extending axially through the scroll case for thermally shielding the spokes, a heat shield of the heat shields disposed around a spoke of the spokes, the heat shield defining an air gap surrounding the spoke inside the scroll case.