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Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 29, 2012
Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventors:

Philip Howard Stoughton, Cincinnati, OH (US);

Benjamin Allen Dietsch, Dayton, OH (US);

Anthony John Durchholz, Loveland, OH (US);

Michael Charles Eckert, West Chester, OH (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F03B 1/02 (2006.01); F04D 29/66 (2006.01); F04D 29/32 (2006.01); F01D 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F04D 29/668 (2013.01); F04D 29/321 (2013.01); F04D 29/329 (2013.01); F01D 5/10 (2013.01); F05D 2260/96 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49327 (2015.01);
Abstract

Dampers for fan spinners of aircraft engines are disclosed. An example fan module for a gas turbine engine may include a fan disk; fan blades mounted to the fan disk and extending radially therefrom; a fan spinner operatively coupled to the fan disk at an axially upstream position; and/or one or more elastic vibration dampers operatively interposing the fan spinner and the fan disk. The elastic vibration dampers may be disposed circumferentially around an interface between the fan spinner and the fan disk and may be compressed axially and/or radially.


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