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Granted Patent B2
US 10,352,191 · App. 14/775,885 · Granted Jul 16, 2019

Gas turbine engine with air-oil cooler oil tank

Inventor: Richard A. Weiner (Farmington, CT)
Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
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Patent No.
US 10,352,191
App. No.
14/775,885
Granted
Jul 16, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A thermal management system according to one disclosed non-limiting embodiment of the present disclosure includes an at least partially annular oil tank; and a fan airflow diverter upstream of the cooling fins.

Claims (16)

1. An air-oil cooler oil tank system comprising:

a bypass duct;

a cooler duct comprising a cooler duct outlet;

an annular oil tank adjacent the cooler duct;

a fan airflow diverter at an end of the cooler duct and upstream of said annular oil tank;

a bleed compartment which contains said fan airflow diverter and said annular oil tank;

the cooler duct configured to receive air through the fan airflow diverter from the bypass duct and direct the received air axially along the annular oil tank through the cooler duct outlet and back into the bypass duct; and

a bleed duct comprising a bleed duct outlet, the bleed duct configured to direct bleed air through the bleed duct outlet into the bypass duct, and the bleed duct outlet adjacent to and downstream of the cooler duct outlet.

2. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein said annular oil tank is in fluid communication with a geared architecture.

3. The system as recited in claim 1 , further comprising an array of cooling fins defined about an outer diameter of said annular oil tank, said fan airflow diverter in communication with said array of cooling fins.

4. The system as recited in claim 3 , wherein said array of cooling fins include a shroud that is flush along a fan bypass flowpath.

5. The system as recited in claim 3 , wherein said array of cooling fins include a shroud that is flush with a core nacelle.

6. The system as recited in claim 3 , wherein said array of cooling fins are downstream of a Fan Exit Guide Vane array.

7. The system as recited in claim 3 , wherein said array of cooling fins are defined about an outer periphery of said annular oil tank.

8. The system as recited in claim 1 , further comprising a shield radially inboard of said annular oil tank.

9. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein said annular oil tank is manufactured of a multiple of arcuate segments.

Assignments (4)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 27, 2023
From: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: RTX CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 064714/0001 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE AND REMOVE PATENT APPLICATION NUMBER 11886281 AND ADD PATENT APPLICATION NUMBER 14846874. TO CORRECT THE RECEIVING PARTY ADDRESS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 054062 FRAME: 0001. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Recorded Mar 4, 2021
From: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 055659/0001 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 4, 2020
From: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 054062/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 14, 2015
From: WEINER, RICHARD A.
To: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 036555/0457 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61787070 · Mar 15, 2013
Related Publication 20160024964A1 · Jan 28, 2016
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