REVERSE FLOW GAS TURBINE ENGINE HAVING ELECTRIC MACHINE

    公开(公告)号:US20250101918A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-27

    申请号:US18973680

    申请日:2024-12-09

    Abstract: An aircraft engine assembly includes a gas turbine engine having an intake channel configured to receive an incoming flow of air and thereby form an intake flow of air, the intake channel configured to turn the received incoming flow of air from an incoming flow direction to a first axial direction of the gas turbine engine, the incoming flow direction reverse of the first axial direction, and an electric machine coupled with the low pressure shaft and located at the aft end of the gas turbine engine proximate the intake channel, the electric machine in heat exchange communication with the intake flow of air such that the electric machine transfers heat to the incoming flow of air within the intake channel when the electric machine is operated.

    GAS TURBINE ENGINE DEFINING A ROTOR CAVITY

    公开(公告)号:US20240418096A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-19

    申请号:US18357410

    申请日:2023-07-24

    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section comprising a compressor, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order and defining a working gas flowpath, the compressor comprising an aft-most compressor stage; a spool drivingly coupled to the compressor; a stage of stator vanes located downstream of the aft-most compressor stage; and a stator case, the spool and the stator case together defining a rotor cavity in fluid communication with the working gas flowpath, the stage of stator vanes including a first stator vane defining a fluid passage, and the stator case defining a plenum and a supplemental airflow passage, the plenum in fluid communication with the fluid passage in the first stator vane, the supplemental airflow passage in fluid communication with the plenum and the rotor cavity for proving an airflow to the rotor cavity

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