Method and system for open rotor engine fuselage protection

US9725155B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Brandon Wayne Miller · Monroe, US
• Ian Francis Prentice · Cincinnati, US
• Trevor Wayne Goerig · Cincinnati, US
• Trevor Howard Wood · Clifton Park, US
• Kishore Ramakrishnan · Niskayuna, US
• Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow · Montgomery, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 30, 2015
• Grant date: Aug 8, 2017
• Expiry date: Apr 30, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T50/60
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An aircraft and method of operating the aircraft are provided. The aircraft includes a fuselage including a nose, a tail, and a hollow, elongate body extending therebetween, a wing extending laterally away from the fuselage, the wing including a leading edge in a direction of motion of the aircraft during normal flight and a trailing edge on an opposing edge of the wing, and an engine configured to drive a bladed rotatable member, the engine coupled to at least one of the wing and the fuselage. The aircraft further includes at least one of a forward chine member and an aft chine member extending from the fuselage at a point forward of the engine aftward to a point aft of the bladed rotatable member.