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Fuel injector for a turbine engine

US4862693A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 10, 1987
Grant dateSep 5, 1989
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Expiry dateDec 10, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF02C7/222
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Manifold head effects at low fuel flows in a fuel injected air breathing turbine are minimized by utilizing fuel injectors having fuel injecting tubes 66 with open ends 70 for fuel injection and provided with elongated capillary tubes 99 upstream thereof and connected to receive fuel from a fuel manifold 48.

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