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US 2003/0113205 A1Published application
Air intake system of a propeller-turbine engine
AssigneeRolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
InventorsDimitrie Negulescu, Christian Mundt
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Abstract
An air intake system of a propeller-turbine engine with a propeller gearbox 1 in inline arrangement, includes one or more intake units 3 arranged essentially below a nacelle fairing 2 of the propeller-turbine engine with each intake unit 3 being related to a elbow diffuser 19, a shock diffuser 4, and a rotationally symmetric attenuation chamber 5 into which the respective shock diffuser 4 issues and which is connected to the compressor inlet 6 of the propeller-turbine engine.
Claims20
An air intake system of a propeller-turbine engine having a propeller gearbox in in-line arrangement, comprising:
- at least one intake unit arranged essentially below a nacelle fairing of the propeller-turbine engine,
- a diffuser flowingly connected to each intake unit, and
- a rotationally symmetric attenuation chamber into which each respective diffuser issues and which is flowingly connected to a compressor inlet of the propeller-turbine engine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.