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US 11,028,782 B2Granted
Pressure relief arrangement for a gas turbine engine
AssigneeROLLS-ROYCE plc
InventorsSimon M. Ruston, Rong Yang, Matthew Fox, Aniket Anand Kulkarni
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Abstract
A pressure relief arrangement for a gas turbine engine comprises a hinged door and a mount. A plastically deformable member is provided between and coupled to the hinged door and the mount. The deformable member is configured to deform between a non-deformed state when the door is in a closed position and an elongated deformed state when the door is in an open position.
Claims16
A gas turbine engine comprising
- a pressure relief arrangement pressure relief arrangement including
- a hinged door;
- a mount;
- and
- a plastically deformable member provided between and coupled to the hinged door and the mount, the deformable member being configured to deform between a non-deformed state when the door is in a closed position and an elongated deformed state when the door is in an open position, wherein the plastically deformable member is coupled to the hinged door via an articulated link.
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A gas turbine engine comprising
- a pressure relief arrangement pressure relief arrangement including
- a hinged door;
- a mount;
- and
- a plastically deformable member provided between and coupled to the hinged door and the mount, the deformable member being configured to deform between a non-deformed state when the door is in a closed position and an elongated deformed state when the door is in an open position, wherein the plastically deformable member is made from a plurality of stacked elements, each stacked element extending fully between the opposite ends of the plastically deformable member.
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A gas turbine engine comprising
- a pressure relief arrangement pressure relief arrangement including
- a hinged door;
- a mount;
- and
- a plastically deformable member provided between and coupled to the hinged door and the mount, wherein the plastically deformable member comprises one or more bends that deviate from a linear path between opposite ends of the plastically deformable member, the plastically deformable member being configured to deform between a non-deformed state in which the plastically deformable member has a first length measured between the opposite ends of the plastically deformable member in a direction of the linear path when the door is in a closed position and an elongated deformed state in which the one or more bends straighten out and cause the plastically deformable member to plastically deformed and have a second length measured between the opposite ends of the plastically deformable member in the direction of the linear path when the door is in an open position, the second length being greater than the first length.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.