Abstract:
High flame stability and good starting qualities are obtained in a relatively smoke free hot gas generator including a housing (10) having an interior combustion chamber (12) with a diverging interior wall (20) that is generally a surface of revolution. An axially directed opening (18) is centered in the wall (20) and an outer, oxidant inlet (48), (52) is provided and includes swirler vanes (50) for introducing into the chamber (12) at the interior wall (20) a swirling, hollow body of oxidant such that centrifugal force will create a diverging hollow body of swirling oxidant on the interior wall (20). A central fuel inlet (52), (58) is located within the opening (18) and within the oxidant inlet (48), (52) and is generally concentric therewith. The fuel inlet (52), (58) includes swirler vanes (50) for introducing a hollow cone-like body of atomized fuel into the chamber (12).
Abstract:
Prior types of neutral point clamped PWM inverters pulses in a PWM waveform having reference points which are evenly spaced. Such a control technique, however, accomplishes a significant reduction in output harmonics only for relatively low inverter output magnitudes. In order to overcome this problem, a control for a PWM inverter defines a series of reference points (alpha) spaced in time in accordance with an inverse trigonometric function of the number of pulses (9) to be produced in a portion (180 DEG ) of the inverter output wherein each reference point is associated with a pulse to be produced in the PWM waveform and determines rising (R1, R2...) and falling (F1, F2...) edges of each pulse of the AC output relative to the reference point associated with such pulse in dependence upon an output parameter of the inverter. Switch control signals are developed for each switch from the defined rising and falling edges. The control of the present invention accomplishes a significant reduction in the harmonics produced by the inverter at higher inverter output magnitudes.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing hermetically sealed circuit assemblies (10) having circuit elements (74, 76, 78 and 80) to be compression bonded, a hermetically sealed circuit assembly having circuit elements to be compression bonded and a stack containing at least one hermetically sealed circuit assembly having circuit elements which are compression bonded is disclosed. Uniform thickness of individual hermetically sealed circuit assemblies measured across columns (22-30) is insured by positioning deformable spacers (124-132) in the columns containing the circuit elements to be compression bonded, and deforming the deformable spacers. Therafter a compressive force is applied to a stack of one or more circuits through the columns which contain the circuit elements to be compression bonded. The individual hermetically sealed circuit assemblies have circular corrugations (32-40) in a flat surface (14) and circular corrugations (114-122) in a lid (20) which are disposed within the columns containing the individually circuit elements to be compression bonded.
Abstract:
Carbon buildup in a turbine engine including a compressor (16) coupled to a turbine wheel (22) mounted for rotation about an axis and having a nozzle (24) disposed to direct gas at the turbine wheel (22) to drive the same, an annular combustor (26) disposed about the axis and in fluid communication with the nozzle (24) and having a radially inner wall (32), a radially outer wall (34) and a generally radially extending wall (46), a plurality of fuel injectors (48), a compressed air plenum (42), (44), (45) surrounding the combustor (26), a plurality of circumferentially spaced apertures (66) in the radial wall (34) and a cooling strip (68) for directing air passing through the apertures (66) along the radial wall (39) is reduced by locating the apertures (66) closely adjacent the radially outer part of the radial wall (39) and locating the cooling strips (68) to direct air passing through the apertures (66) inwardly as at (72) along the radial wall (39).
Abstract:
High temperature deterioration of an injector for a gas turbine including a compressor and a turbine wheel is avoided through the use of swirler blades (60) that form a forced vortex adjacent the ends (52, 58) of fuel and oxidant injection tubes to prevent separation of the mixed stream, thereby eliminating backflows or eddies of burning fuel.
Abstract:
An electrically compensated constant speed drive (10) which is speed limited so that power flow through the speed compensation link is unidirectional includes a permanent magnet generator (pmG) which is interconnected with a permanent magnet motor (pmm) by a power converter (30). The permanent magnet generator (pmG) and the permanent magnet motor (pmm) are controlled by first and second independent control loops. The power converter (30) includes an AC/DC converter (54) coupled to electrical power windings of the permanent magnet generator (pmG), a filter (58) coupled to the output of the AC/DC converter (54) and an inverter (56) coupled between the filter (58) and electrical power windings of the permanent magnet motor (pmm). The permanent magnet generator (pmG), AC/DC converter (54), filter (58) and the first control loop together develop a voltage on a DC bus. The voltage on the DC bus, which is coupled to the inverter (56) is sufficient to operate the permanent motor (pmm) with the required speed and torque, and thus the second control loop need not implement a voltage control scheme, such as a PWM control.
Abstract:
A voltage fault detector (10) for producing a trip signal causing switching from a first AC voltage source (12) to a second AC voltage source (14) is disclosed. A plurality of comparators (18, 20, 22) monitor a signal which is proportional to the magnitude of the voltage of a first AC voltage source (12) to determine if sample values fall within predetermined ranges. A counter (30) counts the number of sample falling outside the predetermined range to generate the trip signal when the count reaches a predetermined limit. The counter (30) is augmented for each sample which is outside the predetermined range and decremented for each sample which is within the predetermined range. A plurality of latches (24, 26, 28) are respectively coupled to a different one of the comparators for applying the output level signal from one of the comparators to the counter at predetermined times under the control of clock signal pulse trains generated by a combinational logic circuit (32) which are respectively applied to a different one of the plurality of latches. The voltage fault detector (10) may be used to monitor the condition of one or more phases of a backup voltage source.
Abstract:
Electrically compensated constant speed drives have been proposed in which permanent magnet machines used in the speed compensation link of the drive have been employed to start a prime mover connected to the drive. However, these machines operate over widely varying speed ranges when in the starting mode, as opposed to the normal generating mode. This in turn leads to an increase in the size and weight of the drive. In order to overcome this problem, an electrically compensated constant speed drive includes controllable gear boxes (27, 35) in the speed compensation link of the drive which permit the overall speed ranges of the permanent magnet machines (PMM1, PMM2) to be controlled, thus leading to a desirable decrease in size and weight of the machines.
Abstract:
The use of a single main centrifugal fuel pump for supplying fuel to an aircraft gas turbine engine has advantages over other known systems however a problem has existed in that the centrifugal pump, when driven in a fixed ratio to the engine speed, cannot deliver fuel at adequate pressure under engine starting conditions. The disclosed fuel supply system using a main centrifugal pump (10) overcomes this shortcoming by having a turbine-driven start pump (30) added to the fuel supply system with both the turbine (32) and the start pump receiving fuel pumped by the main centrifugal pump and the turbine utilizing the high flow, low pressure fuel to drive the start pump which increases the pressure of the fuel to a value adequate for engine starting. The start pump delivers fuel until such time as the centrifugal fuel pump has reached a speed to provide the fuel to the engine at the required pressure, at which time the turbine is no longer driven and the output of the start pump goes to zero.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a centrifugally activated switch (40) for mounting a rotor (29) and which provides an alternate current path for the induced current. The switch comprises a housing (42), a shaft (44) rotatable with the housing, an axially stationary contactor (64) rotatably carried by the housing, an axially movable contactor (62) slidably carried by the shaft housing, the axially movable contactor axially movable between first and second positions along the shaft, one of the positions being in non-sliding contact with the stationary contactor and the other of the positions being in non-contact with the stationary contactor, first arrangement (60, 61, 68) for axially biasing the movable contactor towards one of the positions and second arrangement (44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 55, 70, 72) for axially biasing the movable contactor towards the other of the positions in response to rotation of the housing.