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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 1994
Filed:
Oct. 04, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Charles R Evans, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Barrett J Fuhrman, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jackie D Jones, Fairfield, OH (US);
Richard A Ridilla, Harrison, OH (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
416230 ; 416224 ; 4162 / ; 4162 / ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a composite airfoil particularly useful as a fan blade, having a high degree of twist, in a large high bypass ratio turbofan engine. The composite airfoil of the present invention has a progression of filament reinforced airfoil laminations of varying span, arranged in order by span, and interrupted by at least one filament reinforced airfoil lamination having a span out of height order to form what is called a confused or broken shear plane where radially outer tips of the laminations end.