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US 12,571,403 · App. 18/793,217 · Granted Mar 10, 2026

Non-linear impeller backsweep

Inventors: Jason Nichols (Mississauga, CA); Hien Duong (Mississauga, CA)
Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
F04D29/284F04D17/10F04D29/441
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Patent No.
US 12,571,403
App. No.
18/793,217
Granted
Mar 10, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A centrifugal compressor of an aircraft gas turbine engine includes an impeller having a hub, vanes and a shroud surrounding the hub and the vanes to form a flow path from an inducer portion at an upstream side of the impeller to an exducer portion at an impeller exit. Each vane includes, at the impeller exit, a trailing edge and the trailing edge of one or more vanes. The vanes include a hub-side trailing edge portion proximate to the hub and exhibiting backsweep of a first degree, and a shroud-side trailing edge portion proximate to the shroud and exhibiting backsweep of a second degree.

Claims (16)

1 . A centrifugal compressor of an aircraft gas turbine engine, the centrifugal compressor comprising:

an impeller comprising a hub, vanes and a shroud surrounding the hub and the vanes to form a flow path from an inducer portion at an upstream side of the impeller to an exducer portion at an impeller exit,

each vane comprising, at the impeller exit, a trailing edge and the trailing edge of one or more vanes comprising:

a hub-side trailing edge portion proximate to the hub and exhibiting backsweep of a first degree; and

a shroud-side trailing edge portion proximate to the shroud and exhibiting backsweep of a second degree,

wherein a magnitude of the backsweep of the second degree is less than a magnitude of the backsweep of the first degree, and

wherein a change of the backsweep of the second degree exhibited by the shroud-side trailing edge portion to the backsweep of the first degree exhibited by the hub-side trailing edge portion is distributed linearly.

2 . A centrifugal compressor of an aircraft gas turbine engine, the centrifugal compressor comprising:

an impeller comprising a hub, main and splitter vanes and a shroud surrounding the hub and the main and splitter vanes to form a flow path from an inducer portion at an upstream side of the impeller to an exducer portion at an impeller exit,

the main vanes extending from the inducer portion to the exducer portion,

the splitter vanes being interleaved with the main vanes and extending to the exducer portion from an impeller mid-point, and

each main vane comprising, at the impeller exit, a trailing edge and the trailing edge of one or more main vanes comprising:

a hub-side trailing edge portion proximate to the hub and exhibiting backsweep of a first degree; and

a shroud-side trailing edge portion proximate to the shroud and exhibiting backsweep of a second degree,

wherein a magnitude of the backsweep of the second degree is less than a magnitude of the backsweep of the first degree,

wherein a change of the backsweep of the second degree exhibited by the shroud-side trailing edge portion to the backsweep of the first degree exhibited by the hub-side trailing edge portion is distributed linearly.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 2, 2024
From: NICHOLS, JASON; DUONG, HIEN
To: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
Reel/Frame 068166/0713 →
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20260036134A1 · Feb 5, 2026
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