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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 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; a scroll case connected to a source of combustion gases and to the turbine, and a conduit extending around a central axis; a bearing housing including a support flange; a turbine support case secured to the bearing housing, the turbine support case having spokes extending through the scroll case and radially supported by the bearing housing, a spoke of the spokes having a distal end secured to the support flange via one or more fasteners; and ribs secured to the support flange and distributed around the central axis, a rib of the ribs circumferentially and axially overlapping the distal end of the spoke, the rib having a rib face in radially opposed facing relationship to a spoke face of the spoke, a projection of the rib face in a circumferential direction relative to the central axis intersecting the spoke face.