WebCPC CPC COOPERATIVE PATENT CLASSIFICATION

F02K JET-PROPULSION PLANTS (arrangement or mounting of jet-propulsion plants in land vehicles or vehicles in general B60K; arrangement or mounting of jet-propulsion plants in waterborne vessels B63H; controlling aircraft attitude, flight direction or altitude by jet reaction B64C; arrangement or mounting of jet-propulsion plants in aircraft B64D; plants characterised by the power of the working fluid being divided between jet-propulsion and another form of propulsion, e.g. propeller, F02B, C; features of jet-propulsion plants common to gas-turbine plants, air intakes or fuel supply control of air-breathing jet-propulsion plants F02C)

  NOTE - In this subclass, the following expression is used with the meaning indicated:
  - "jet-propulsion plants" means plants using combustion to produce a fluid stream from which a propulsive thrust on the plant is obtained on the reaction principle.

  Attention is drawn to the notes preceding class F01.

F02K 1/00 Plants characterised by the form or arrangement of the jet pipe or nozzle; Jet pipes or nozzles peculiar thereto (rocket nozzles F02K 9/97)

F02K 1/002 ・{with means to modify the direction of thrust vector (F02K 1/54 takes precedence; thrust vectoring of rockets F02K 9/80; aerodynamic vectoring surfaces B64C)}

F02K 1/004 ・・{by using one or more swivable nozzles rotating about their own axis}

F02K 1/006 ・・{within one plane only}

F02K 1/008 ・・{in any rearward direction}

F02K 1/04 ・Mounting of an exhaust cone in the jet pipe

F02K 1/06 ・Varying effective area of jet pipe or nozzle (F02K 1/30 takes precedence)

F02K 1/08 ・・by axially moving or transversely deforming an internal member, e.g. the exhaust cone

F02K 1/085 ・・・{by transversely deforming an internal member}

F02K 1/09 ・・by axially moving an external member, e.g. a shroud (F02K 1/12 takes precedence)

F02K 1/10 ・・by distorting the jet pipe or nozzle

F02K 1/11 ・・by means of pivoted eyelids

F02K 1/12 ・・by means of pivoted flaps

F02K 1/1207 ・・・{of one series of flaps hinged at their upstream ends on a fixed structure (F02K 1/1215 to F02K 1/1276 take precedence)}

F02K 1/1215 ・・・{of two series of flaps, the upstream series having its flaps hinged at their upstream ends on a fixed structure, and the downstream series having its flaps hinged at their downstream ends on a fixed structure}

F02K 1/1223 ・・・{of two series of flaps, the upstream series having its flaps hinged at their upstream ends on a fixed structure and the downstream series having its flaps hinged at their upstream ends on the downstream ends of the flaps of the upstream series}

F02K 1/123 ・・・{of two series of flaps, both having their flaps hinged at their upstream ends on a fixed structure}

F02K 1/1238 ・・・{of two series of flaps, the upstream series having its flaps hinged at their upstream ends on a fixed structure and the downstream series having its flaps hinged at their upstream ends on a substantially axially movable structure}

F02K 1/1246 ・・・{of two series of flaps, the upstream series having its flaps hinged at their upstream ends on a fixed structure and the downstream series having its flaps hinged at their downstream ends on a substantially axially movable structure}

F02K 1/1253 ・・・{of one series of flaps hinged at their upstream ends on a fixed structure and of a substantially axially movable external member}

F02K 1/1261 ・・・{of one series of flaps hinged at their upstream ends on a substantially axially movable structure}

F02K 1/1269 ・・・{of three series of flaps, the upstream series having its flaps hinged at their upstream ends on a fixed structure and the internal downstream series having its flaps hinged at their downstream ends on the downstream ends of the flaps of the external downstream series hinged on a fixed structure at their upstream ends}

F02K 1/1276 ・・・{of three series of flaps, the upstream series having its flaps hinged at their upstream ends on a substantially axially movable structure and the downstream or external series having its flaps hinged at their upstream ends on a fixed structure}

F02K 1/1284 ・・・{of three series of flaps, the upstream series having its flaps hinged at their upstream ends on a fixed structure and the internal downstream series having its flaps hinged at their downstream ends on the downstream ends of the flaps of the external downstream series hinged at their upstream ends on a substantially axially movable structure}

F02K 1/1292 ・・・{of three series of flaps, the upstream series having its flaps hinged at their upstream ends on a fixed structure, the internal downstream series having its flaps hinged at their upstream ends on the downstream ends of the flaps of the upstream series and at their downstream ends on the downstream ends of the flaps of the external downstream series hinged at their upstream ends on a substantially axially movable structure}

F02K 1/15 ・・Control or regulation

F02K 1/16 ・・・conjointly with another control

F02K 1/165 ・・・・{with air intake control}

F02K 1/17 ・・・・with control of fuel supply

F02K 1/18 ・・・automatic

F02K 1/28 ・using fluid jets to influence the jet flow

F02K 1/30 ・・for varying effective area of jet pipe or nozzle

F02K 1/32 ・・for reversing thrust

F02K 1/34 ・・for attenuating noise

F02K 1/36 ・having an ejector

F02K 1/38 ・Introducing air inside the jet (F02K 1/28 takes precedence)

F02K 1/383 ・・{with retractable elements}

F02K 1/386 ・・{mixing devices in the jet pipe e.g. for mixing primary and secondary flow}

F02K 1/40 ・Nozzles having means for dividing the jet into a plurality of partial jets or having an elongated cross-section outlet

F02K 1/42 ・・the means being movable into an inoperative position

F02K 1/44 ・Nozzles having means, e.g. a shield, reducing sound radiation in a specified direction (F02K 1/40 takes precedence)

F02K 1/46 ・Nozzles having means for adding air to the jet or for augmenting the mixing region between the jet and the ambient air, e.g. for silencing (F02K 1/28, F02K 1/36, F02K 1/38 take precedence)

F02K 1/48 ・・Corrugated nozzles

F02K 1/50 ・・Deflecting outwardly a portion of the jet by retractable scoop-like baffles

F02K 1/52 ・Nozzles specially constructed for positioning adjacent to another nozzle or to a fixed member, e.g. fairing

F02K 1/54 ・Nozzles having means for reversing jet thrust (F02K 1/32 takes precedence)

F02K 1/56 ・・Reversing jet main flow

F02K 1/563 ・・・{in specified direction, e.g. to obviate its reinjection}

F02K 1/566 ・・・{by blocking the rearward discharge by means of a translatable member}

F02K 1/58 ・・・Reversers mounted on the inner cone or the nozzle housing {or the fuselage}

F02K 1/60 ・・・by blocking the rearward discharge by means of pivoted eyelids or clamshells, e.g. target-type reversers

F02K 1/605 ・・・・{the aft end of the engine cowling being movable to uncover openings for the reversed flow}

F02K 1/62 ・・・by blocking the rearward discharge by means of flaps

F02K 1/625 ・・・・{the aft end of the engine cowling being movable to uncover openings for the reversed flow}

F02K 1/64 ・・Reversing fan flow

F02K 1/645 ・・・{using inflatable diaphragms}

F02K 1/66 ・・・using reversing fan blades

F02K 1/68 ・・・Reversers mounted on the engine housing downstream of the fan exhaust section

F02K 1/70 ・・・using thrust reverser flaps or doors mounted on the fan housing

F02K 1/72 ・・・・the aft end of the fan housing being movable to uncover openings in the fan housing for the reversed flow

F02K 1/74 ・・Reversing at least one flow in relation to at least one other flow in a plural- flow engine

F02K 1/76 ・・Control or regulation of thrust reversers

F02K 1/763 ・・・{with actuating systems or actuating devices; Arrangement of actuators for thrust reversers}

F02K 1/766 ・・・{with blocking systems or locking devices; Arrangement of locking devices for thrust reversers}

F02K 1/78 ・Other construction of jet pipes

F02K 1/80 ・・Couplings or connections

F02K 1/805 ・・・{Sealing devices therefor, e.g. for movable parts of jet pipes or nozzle flaps}

F02K 1/82 ・・Jet pipe walls, e.g. liners

F02K 1/822 ・・・{Heat insulating structures or liners, cooling arrangements, e.g. post combustion liners; Infra-red radiation suppressors}

F02K 1/825 ・・・・{Infra-red radiation suppressors}

F02K 1/827 ・・・{Sound absorbing structures or liners (noise attenuators in general G10K 11/00; noise suppression in air intakes F02C 7/045)}

F02K 3/00 Plants including a gas turbine driving a compressor or a ducted fan

F02K 3/02 ・in which part of the working fluid by-passes the turbine and combustion chamber

F02K 3/025 ・・{the by-pass flow being at least partly used to create an independent thrust component}

F02K 3/04 ・・the plant including ducted fans, i.e. fans with high volume, low pressure outputs, for augmenting the jet thrust, e.g. of double-flow type

F02K 3/06 ・・・with front fan

F02K 3/062 ・・・with aft fan

F02K 3/065 ・・・with front and aft fans

F02K 3/068 ・・・being characterised by a short axial length relative to the diameter

F02K 3/072 ・・・with counter-rotating {fan} rotors {(turbomachines with counter-rotating rotors F01D 1/24; gas turbines having counter-rotating rotors F02C 3/067; axial flow pumps for elastic fluids with counter-rotating parts F04D 19/024)}

F02K 3/075 ・・・controlling flow ratio between flows

F02K 3/077 ・・・the plant being of the multiple flow type, i.e. having three or more flows

F02K 3/08 ・with supplementary heating of the working fluid (after-burners, combustion chambers F23R); Control thereof (control of fuel supply therefor F02C 9/26)

F02K 3/10 ・・by after-burners (F02K 3/105 takes precedence)

F02K 3/105 ・・Heating the by-pass flow

F02K 3/11 ・・・by means of burners or combustion chambers

F02K 3/115 ・・・by means of indirect heat exchange

F02K 3/12 ・characterised by having more than one gas turbine

F02K 5/00 Plants including an engine, other than a gas turbine, driving a compressor or a ducted fan

F02K 5/02 ・the engine being of the reciprocating-piston type

F02K 5/023 ・・{the compressor being of the reciprocating-piston type (F02K 5/026 takes precedence)}

F02K 5/026 ・・{free-piston engines}

F02K 7/00 Plants in which the working fluid is used in a jet only, i.e. the plants not having a turbine or other engine driving a compressor or a ducted fan; Control thereof (rocket-engine plants F02K 9/00)

F02K 7/005 ・{the engine comprising a rotor rotating under the actions of jets issuing from this rotor (in general F01D 1/32; the working fluid being a combustion product F02C 3/165)}

F02K 7/02 ・the jet being intermittent, i.e. pulse-jet

F02K 7/04 ・・with resonant combustion chambers

F02K 7/06 ・・with combustion chambers having valves

F02K 7/067 ・・・having aerodynamic valves

F02K 7/075 ・・with multiple pulse-jet engines

F02K 7/08 ・the jet being continuous

F02K 7/10 ・characterised by having ram-action compression, i.e. aero-thermo-dynamic-ducts or ram-jet engines

F02K 7/105 ・・{using a solid fuel}

F02K 7/12 ・・Injection-induction jet engines

F02K 7/14 ・・with external combustion, e.g. scram-jet engines

F02K 7/16 ・・Composite ram-jet/turbo-jet engines

F02K 7/18 ・・Composite ram-jet/rocket engines

F02K 7/20 ・・Composite ram-jet/pulse-jet engines

F02K 9/00 Rocket- engine plants, i.e. plants carrying both fuel and oxidant therefor; Control thereof (chemical composition of propellants C06B, C06D){launching apparatus for rockets F41F 3/04; explosive charges, ammunition F42B}

F02K 9/08 ・using solid propellants (F02K 9/72 takes precedence; using semi-solid or pulverulent propellants F02K 9/70){cartridges for producing gas under pressure F42B 3/04}

F02K 9/10 ・・Shape or structure of solid propellant charges

F02K 9/12 ・・・made of two or more portions burning at different rates {or having different characteristics}

F02K 9/14 ・・・made from sheet-like materials, e.g. of carpet-roll type, of layered structure

F02K 9/16 ・・・of honeycomb structure

F02K 9/18 ・・・of the internal-burning type having a star or like shaped internal cavity

F02K 9/20 ・・・of the external-burning type

F02K 9/22 ・・・of the front-burning type

F02K 9/24 ・・Charging rocket engines with solid propellants; Methods or apparatus specially adapted for working solid propellant charges

F02K 9/26 ・・Burning control {(F02K 9/10, F02K 9/34, F02K 9/86, F02K 9/92 and F02K 9/94TAKE precedence)}

F02K 9/28 ・・having two or more propellant charges with the propulsion gases exhausting through a common nozzle

F02K 9/30 ・・with the propulsion gases exhausting through a plurality of nozzles

F02K 9/32 ・・Constructional parts; Details (shape or structure of solid propellant charges F02K 9/10; starting or ignition means or arrangements F02K 9/95; rocket nozzles F02K 9/97)

F02K 9/34 ・・・Casings; Combustion chambers; Liners thereof

F02K 9/343 ・・・・{Joints, connections, seals therefor}

F02K 9/346 ・・・・{Liners, e.g. inhibitors}

F02K 9/36 ・・・Propellant charge supports

F02K 9/38 ・・・Safety devices, e.g. to prevent accidental ignition

F02K 9/40 ・・・Cooling arrangements {for nozzles F02K 9/972}

F02K 9/42 ・using liquid or gaseous propellants (F02K 9/72 takes precedence)

F02K 9/425 ・・{propellants (C06B, C06D, take precedence)}

F02K 9/44 ・・Feeding propellants

F02K 9/46 ・・・using pumps (pumps per se F04){control of propellant feed pumps F02K 9/563}

F02K 9/48 ・・・・driven by a gas turbine fed by propellant combustion gases {or fed by vaporized propellants or other gases}

F02K 9/50 ・・・using pressurised fluid to pressurise the propellants

F02K 9/52 ・・・Injectors (in general B05B)

F02K 9/54 ・・・Leakage detectors; Purging systems; Filtration systems (filters per se B01D)

F02K 9/56 ・・・Control

F02K 9/563 ・・・・{of propellant feed pumps}

F02K 9/566 ・・・・{elements and safety devices e.g. pressure relief valves}

F02K 9/58 ・・・・Propellant feed valves (valves in general F16K)

F02K 9/60 ・・Constructional parts; Details (starting or ignition means or arrangements F02K 9/95; rocket nozzles F02K 9/97)

F02K 9/605 ・・・{Reservoirs}

F02K 9/62 ・・・Combustion or thrust chambers

F02K 9/64 ・・・・having cooling arrangements

F02K 9/66 ・・・・of the rotary type

F02K 9/68 ・・・Decomposition chambers

F02K 9/70 ・using semi- solid or pulverulent propellants

F02K 9/72 ・using liquid and solid propellants, i.e. hybrid rocket-engine plants

F02K 9/74 ・combined with another jet-propulsion plant

F02K 9/76 ・・with another rocket-engine plant; Multistage rocket-engine plants

F02K 9/763 ・・・{with solid propellant}

F02K 9/766 ・・・{with liquid propellant}

F02K 9/78 ・・with an air-breathing jet-propulsion plant (with a ram-jet engine F02K 7/18)

F02K 9/80 ・characterised by thrust or thrust vector control (F02K 9/26, F02K 9/56, F02K 9/94 take precedence)

F02K 9/805 ・・{servo-mechanisms or control devices therefor}

F02K 9/82 ・・by injection of a secondary fluid into the rocket exhaust gases

F02K 9/84 ・・using movable nozzles

F02K 9/86 ・・using nozzle throats of adjustable cross- section {F02K 9/978 takes precedence}

F02K 9/88 ・・using auxiliary rocket nozzles

F02K 9/90 ・・using deflectors (F02K 9/82 takes precedence)

F02K 9/92 ・・incorporating means for reversing or terminating thrust

F02K 9/94 ・Re-ignitable or restartable rocket- engine plants; Intermittently operated rocket-engine plants

F02K 9/95 ・characterised by starting or ignition means or arrangements (safety devices F02K 9/38)

F02K 9/96 ・characterised by specially adapted arrangements for testing or measuring

F02K 9/97 ・Rocket nozzles (thrust or thrust vector control F02K 9/80)

F02K 9/972 ・・{Fluid cooling arrangements for nozzles (F02K 9/64 takes precedence)}

F02K 9/974 ・・{Nozzle- linings; Ablative coatings}

F02K 9/976 ・・{Deployable nozzles}

F02K 9/978 ・・{Closures for nozzles; Nozzles comprising ejectable or discardable elements}

F02K 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

--- Edited by Muguruma Professional Engineer Office(C), 2013 ---