Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Internally-damped airfoil and method therefor
- Patent Title (中): 内阻尼翼型及其方法
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Application No.: US12394260Application Date: 2009-02-27
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Publication No.: US08172541B2Publication Date: 2012-05-08
- Inventor: Ronald Ralph Cairo
- Applicant: Ronald Ralph Cairo
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agent Ernest G. Cusick; Gary M. Hartman; Domenica N. S. Hartman
- Main IPC: B64C11/04
- IPC: B64C11/04 ; B64C11/16 ; B64C27/46 ; F03B3/12 ; F03B7/00 ; F04D29/34 ; F04D29/38 ; B63H1/26 ; B63H7/02 ; F01D5/14 ; F03D11/02

Abstract:
An airfoil component and method for producing the component. The component has root and airfoil portions, the latter having an airfoil tip and oppositely-disposed concave and convex surfaces that converge at leading and trailing edges of the airfoil portion. The airfoil portion has at least one stiffener between first and second walls thereof that define the concave and convex surfaces, respectively. The stiffener defines multiple internal cavities within the airfoil portion that extend in the span-wise direction of the airfoil portion. A polymeric material fills at least one of the internal cavities and is bonded to the airfoil portion only at an extremity of the internal cavity nearer the root portion, and not to the stiffener or to the first and second walls of the airfoil portion, to define an internal damping member that provides a vibratory damping effect to the airfoil portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100221113A1 INTERNALLY-DAMPED AIRFOIL AND METHOD THEREFOR Public/Granted day:2010-09-02
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