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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2024
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Mitchell Boyer, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Ming Xie, Dayton, OH (US);
Leslie L. Langenbrunner, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Douglas Lorrimer Armstrong, Needham, MA (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
A method of manufacturing a composite component having an outer shell, an inner hub, and a plurality of struts connecting the outer shell and the inner hub. An initial outer shell hoop preform is woven and includes a plurality of bifurcated strut portions on an exterior side of the initial outer shell hoop preform. The initial outer shell hoop preform is turned inside-out to form a woven outer shell hoop preform so that the bifurcated strut portions are arranged on the interior side to extend inward. The woven outer shell hoop preform is installed on a mold tooling structure, along with an inner hub preform, and the bifurcated strut portions are connected to inner hub pi-joint members of the inner hub preform. A matrix material is injected into the mold tooling structure and a curing process is applied to the mold tooling structure to obtain the composite component.