Sensor packaging for turbine engine

US8998568B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Kurt Kramer Schleif · Dearborn, US
• Gregory Quentin Brown · Simpsonville, US
• Philip Michael Caruso · Selkirk, US
• Fernando Jorge Casanova · Simpsonville, US
• Seung Woo Choi · Suwon-si, KR
• Josef Scott Cummins · Simpsonville, US
• Matthew Ryan Ferslew · Greenville, US
• Andrew Clifford Hart · Mauldin, US
• Robert D. Jones · Pearland, US
• Jong Youn Pak · Oakland Charter Township, US
• Francesco Soranna · Fort Mill, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 21, 2010
• Grant date: Apr 7, 2015
• Expiry date: Jan 9, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F05D2270/301
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A turbine is provided and includes a rotor, which is rotatable about a centerline thereof, a sensor to measure a condition at a point of measurement interest defined on the rotor at a radial distance from the centerline, a communication system by which condition measurements are transmittable from the sensor to a non-rotating recording system and a probe holder to secure the sensor and a portion of the communication system on the rotor proximate to the point of measurement interest.