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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2000
Andreas Straub, Grover Beach, CA (US);
Miklos Petervary, Culver City, CA (US);
William Hood, Palmdale, CA (US);
The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A composite rotor is provided having a main body portion and a plurality of circumferentially spaced blades extending radially from the body portion. The rotor also includes a plurality of recessed radial splines in the body portion thereof. The splines are adapted for engaging a coupler, such as a gearwheel, and transmitting torque thereto. The amount of shear area provided by the recessed splines for transmitting torque from the rotor to the coupler is significantly increased over conventional designs because the shear area includes not only area in the inter-laminar plane, but also in the cross-laminar plane.