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Inducer assembly for a turbine engine

US11541340B2 · kind B2 · utility

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20Claims

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Assignee

General Electric Company · US

Inventors

Timothy Deryck Stone · Kyles, US
Gregory Michael Laskowski · Saratoga Springs, US
Robert Proctor · Indianapolis, US
Curtis Walton Stover · Mason, US
Robert Francis Manning · Newburyport, US
Victor Hugo Silva Correia · Cincinnati, US
Jared Peter Buhler · Tewksbury, US
Robert Carl Murray · Orlando, US
Corey Bourassa · Mechanicville, US
Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr. · Loveland, US
Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff · Loveland, US

Key dates

Filing date	May 20, 2021
Grant date	Jan 3, 2023
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 20, 2041

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02T50/60
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A turbine engine having an inducer assembly. The inducer assembly includes a centrifugal separator fluidly coupled to an inducer with an inducer inlet and an inducer outlet. The centrifugal separator includes a body, an angular velocity increaser to form a concentrated-particle stream and a reduced-particle stream, a flow splitter, and an exit conduit fluidly coupled to the body to receive the reduced-particle stream and define a separator outlet.

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