19014361. CONTROLLING EXCITATION LOADS ASSOCIATED WITH OPEN ROTOR AERONAUTICAL ENGINES (General Electric Company)
CONTROLLING EXCITATION LOADS ASSOCIATED WITH OPEN ROTOR AERONAUTICAL ENGINES
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Stefan Joseph Cafaro of Chapel Hill NC US
Inenhe Mohammed Khalid of West Chester OH US
James Ryan Reepmeyer of Montgomery OH US
Daniel Edward Mollmann of Cincinnati OH US
Arjan Johannes Hegeman of Cincinnati OH US
CONTROLLING EXCITATION LOADS ASSOCIATED WITH OPEN ROTOR AERONAUTICAL ENGINES
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 19014361 titled 'CONTROLLING EXCITATION LOADS ASSOCIATED WITH OPEN ROTOR AERONAUTICAL ENGINES
Original Abstract Submitted
A method of controlling an aeronautical gas turbine engine may be performed with an electronic controller. The method may include determining an airfoil pitch control command for at least one of a plurality of airfoils of the aeronautical gas turbine engine based at least in part on an excitation load acting upon the aeronautical gas turbine engine, and outputting the airfoil pitch control command to one or more actuators actuatable to change a pitch angle of the at least one of the plurality of airfoils. The airfoil pitch control command may be configured to augment and/or compensate for the excitation load acting upon the aeronautical gas turbine engine. The method may be embodied by a non-transitory computer-readable medium that includes computer-executable instructions, which when executed by a processor associated with the electronic controller, cause the electronic controller to perform the method.
- General Electric Company
- Stefan Joseph Cafaro of Chapel Hill NC US
- Inenhe Mohammed Khalid of West Chester OH US
- James Ryan Reepmeyer of Montgomery OH US
- Amit Zutshi of Mason OH US
- Daniel Edward Mollmann of Cincinnati OH US
- Arjan Johannes Hegeman of Cincinnati OH US
- Rafal Sarba of Warsaw PL
- F01D17/16
- F01D7/00
- CPC F01D17/162