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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2000
Barry Lynn Allmon, Maineville, OH (US);
Christopher Charles Glynn, Hamilton, OH (US);
Kenneth Lee Fisher, Lockland, OH (US);
Daniel Edward Mollmann, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Bala Corattiyil, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Randy Marinus Vondrell, Sharonville, OH (US);
Morris Green Penn, West Chester, OH (US);
Michael Joseph Gambone, Mason, OH (US);
Jan Christopher Schilling, Middletown, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A rotor assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a bearing assembly that reduces dynamic loads to a support frame and static bending to the rotor assembly during periods of rotor unbalance. The rotor assembly includes a rotor shaft coupled to a fan and supported longitudinally with a plurality of bearing assemblies on a support frame. A number two bearing assembly includes a paired race, a rolling element, and a mounting race. The mounting race includes a spherical face and is secured to the bearing assembly with a retainer that plastically fails at a pre-determined moment load.