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Inducer assembly for a turbine engine

US11918943B2 · kind B2 · utility

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121References

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	Nov 23, 2022
Grant date	Mar 5, 2024
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 23, 2042

Classification

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

Abstract

A turbine engine having a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section, and a rotatable drive shaft that couples a portion of the turbine section and a portion of the compressor section. A bypass conduit couples the compressor section to the turbine section while bypassing at least the combustion section. At least one particle separator is located in the turbine engine having a separator inlet that receives a bypass stream, a separator outlet that receives a reduced-particle stream flows, and a particle outlet that receives a concentrated-particle stream comprising separated particles. A conduit, fluidly coupled to the particle outlet, extends through an interior of at least one stationary vane.

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