US Patent Application 17828112. AIRFOIL FOR A TURBOFAN ENGINE simplified abstract
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AIRFOIL FOR A TURBOFAN ENGINE
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Trevor Howard Wood of Clifton Park NY (US)
Kishore Ramakrishnan of Rexford NY (US)
AIRFOIL FOR A TURBOFAN ENGINE - A simplified explanation of the abstract
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 17828112 titled 'AIRFOIL FOR A TURBOFAN ENGINE
Simplified Explanation
The abstract describes a patent application for an airfoil design.
- The airfoil has a leading edge, a root end, a tip end, a leading edge end, and a trailing edge end.
- The airfoil includes a body that extends from the root end to the tip end and is made up of multiple cavity walls.
- These cavity walls create several cavities within the airfoil, each with an inlet located at the leading edge.
- The innovation of this design is the addition of a porous face sheet that is placed on at least one of the inlets of the cavities.
- The purpose of the porous face sheet is not explicitly stated in the abstract.
Original Abstract Submitted
An airfoil is provided defining a spanwise direction, a chordwise direction, a root end, a tip end, a leading edge end, and a trailing edge end. The airfoil includes: a leading edge extending from the leading edge end; a body extending along the spanwise direction between the root end and the tip end, the body including a plurality of cavity walls defining a plurality of cavities, each of the plurality of cavities having an inlet located at the leading edge; and a porous face sheet positioned on at least one inlet of the plurality of cavities.
