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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026
Filed:
May. 10, 2024
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Inventors:
Jason Christopher Parsons, Summerville, SC (US);
James William Kaminski, Charleston, SC (US);
Jeffrey D. Crouch, Sammamish, WA (US);
Rocco Tomasso, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew David Clark, Mill Creek, WA (US);
Jeffrey Scott Harasha, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
THE BOEING COMPANY, Arlington, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64D 33/02 (2006.01); B64C 21/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64D 33/02 (2013.01); B64C 21/10 (2013.01); B64D 2033/0226 (2013.01); B64D 2033/024 (2013.01);
Abstract
A nacelle inlet that includes an inner flow surface and an outer flow surface. A turbulator surface is positioned along the inner flow surface and includes a roughened surface with the turbulator surface configured to transition laminar airflow along the inner flow surface upstream from the turbulator surface to turbulent airflow downstream from the turbulator surface.