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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2015
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Gabriel L. Suciu, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Michael E. McCune, Colchester, CT (US);
Jesse M. Chandler, South Windsor, CT (US);
Alan H. Epstein, Lexington, MA (US);
Steven M. O'Flarity, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Christopher J. Hanlon, Sturbridge, MA (US);
William F. Schneider, Cromwell, CT (US);
Joseph B. Staubach, Colchester, CT (US);
James A. Kenyon, Glastonbury, CT (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A gas generator has at least one compressor rotor, at least one gas generator turbine rotor and a combustion section. A fan drive turbine is positioned downstream of a path of the products of combustion having passed over the at least one gas generator turbine rotor. The fan drive turbine drives a shaft and the shaft engages gears to drive at least three fan rotors.