US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 22 for "Fan assemblies with fan disk inserts and methods of assembling the same" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,171, issued on July 22, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Fan assemblies with fan disk inserts and methods of assembling the same" was invented by Vaishnav Raghuvaran (Bangalore, India), Bhaskar Nanda Mondal (Bangalore, India) and Gary W. Bryant (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan assembly for an engine includes a fan disk, fan disk inserts, and fan blades. The fan disk includes disk posts extending in a radial direction from a central region of the fan disk. The disk posts include disk post pressure surfaces that define a first array of dovetail recesses. The fan disk inserts are retained withi...