Engine component
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsMing Xie, Arthur W. Sibbach, Nicholas J. Kray
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Abstract
An engine component for a turbine engine. The engine component has a composite structure and a cover structure. The composite structure has a composite structure outer wall, a composite structure edge, and a channel. The channel is provided along the composite structure edge. The cover encases at least a portion of the composite structure outer wall. The cover has a main body and an extension.
Claims20
An engine component for a turbine engine, the engine component comprising:
- a composite structure having a composite structure outer wall, a composite structure edge, and a channel provided along the composite structure edge, the composite structure having a centerline extending from the composite structure edge;
- and
- a cover structure encasing at least a portion of the composite structure outer wall, the cover structure including a main body and an extension, the main body extending along at least a portion of the composite structure outer wall that is axially spaced from the composite structure edge, with respect to the centerline, the extension received within the channel;
- wherein at least a portion of the composite structure is located radially between opposite sides of the extension and the main body, with respect to the centerline.
An engine component for a turbine engine, the engine component comprising:
- a composite structure having a composite structure outer wall, a composite structure edge, and a channel provided along the composite structure edge, the composite structure having a centerline extending from the composite structure edge;
- and
- a cover structure encasing at least a portion of the composite structure outer wall, the cover structure including a main body and an extension, the main body extending along at least a portion of the composite structure outer wall that is axially spaced from the composite structure edge, with respect to the centerline, the extension received within the channel;
- wherein:
- the main body and the extension are integrally formed;
- the channel extends into the composite structure in a first direction, with respect to the centerline;
- and
- the extension has a cross-sectional area when viewed along a plane extending along the centerline and intersecting the cover structure, the cross-sectional area of the extension being non-constant in a second direction, transverse the first direction, within the channel.
An engine component for a turbine engine, the engine component comprising:
- a composite structure having a composite structure outer wall, a composite structure edge, and a channel provided along the composite structure edge, the composite structure having a centerline extending from the composite structure edge;
- and
- a cover structure encasing at least a portion of the composite structure outer wall, the cover structure including a main body and an extension, the main body extending along at least a portion of the composite structure outer wall, the extension received within the channel;
- wherein:
- the main body terminates at a main body distal end that is spaced a first centerline length axially from the composite structure edge in an axial direction, with respect to the centerline;
- and
- the extension terminates at an extension distal end that is spaced a second centerline length axially from the composite structure edge in the axial direction, with respect to the centerline, the second centerline length being less than or equal to the first centerline length.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.