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US 12,535,035 B2Granted
Multi-ring spacer for gas turbine engine rotor stack assembly
AssigneeRtx Corporation
InventorsNicholas Waters Oren, Steven D. Porter
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Abstract
A multi-ring spacer includes a first ring having a first clocking position, a second ring coaxial with the first ring, and having a second clocking position. A total kink angle of the multi ring spacer is dependent on an angular deviation of the second ring's clocking position relative to the first ring's clocking position.
Claims6
A gas turbine engine comprising:
- a compressor section and a turbine section, with at least one of said compressor section and said turbine section having a rotor with a rotor arm extending from a rotor body, and a rotor assembly arm together forming a portion of a rotor stack assembly;
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- a multi-ring spacer positioned between facing surfaces on said rotor assembly arm and said rotor arm, with the multi-ring spacer having a first ring having a first clocking position, a first kink angle, and a first axial end surface having the first kink angle defined relative to a first axis defined by the first ring, a second ring having a second clocking position, a second kink angle, and a second axial end surface having the second kink angle defined relative to a second axis defined by the second ring, wherein a total kink angle of the multi-ring spacer is dependent on an angular deviation of the second clocking position relative to the first clocking position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.