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US 11,162,427 B2Granted
Thermal blanket for gas turbine engine
AssigneePratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
InventorRam Kulathu
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Abstract
The thermal blanket can be used for shielding an engine component. The thermal blanket has a window providing visual access to the engine component. The thermal blanket can have a non-transparent portion having an opening extending across the thickness of the non-transparent portion, the opening delimited by an internal edge of the non-transparent portion, and a transparent portion of transparent material in the opening, the transparent portion secured to the internal edge of the non-transparent portion.
Claims12
An aircraft engine comprising:
- a thermal blanket extending over an engine component, the thermal blanket having a non-transparent portion having a thickness, and an opening extending across the thickness, the opening delimited by an internal edge of the non-transparent portion, and a transparent portion composed of transparent material in the opening, the transparent portion secured to the internal edge of the non-transparent portion, and the transparent portion located for allowing visual access to the engine component across the thermal blanket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.