Aircraft gas turbine engine with improved response to rotor unbalance

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11352958
APP PUB NO 20210381441A1
SERIAL NO

17331989

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An aircraft gas turbine engine includes a fan system having a reverse traveling wave first flap mode, Fan RTW, and including a fan upstream of the engine core; a fan shaft; and a front engine structure to support the shaft and having a front engine structure nodding mode FSN including two modes at similar, but unequal, natural frequencies in orthogonal directions; and a gearbox. The engine includes a gearbox, and a gearbox output shaft to couple output of the gearbox to the fan shaft. An LP rotor system including the fan system and the gearbox output shaft has a first reverse whirl rotor dynamic mode, Rotor RW. A frequency margin of:

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ROLLS-ROYCE PLCKINGS PLACE 90 YORK WAY LONDON N19FX

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hughes, Geoffrey Bristol, GB 6 2
Silvester, Matthew Derby, GB 5 0

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