Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Flow path assembly with airfoils inserted through flow path boundary
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Application No.: US15440218Application Date: 2017-02-23
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Publication No.: US10378373B2Publication Date: 2019-08-13
- Inventor: Brandon ALlanson Reynolds , Jonathan David Baldiga , Darrell Glenn Senile , Daniel Patrick Kerns , Michael Ray Tuertscher
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: Dority & Manning P.A.
- Main IPC: F01D9/04
- IPC: F01D9/04 ; F02C3/14 ; F01D5/14 ; F01D5/28 ; F23R3/00 ; F23R3/60 ; F01D5/30

Abstract:
Flow path assemblies of gas turbine engines are provided. For example, a flow path assembly comprises an inner wall and a unitary outer wall that includes a combustor portion extending through a combustion section of the gas turbine engine and a turbine portion extending through at least a first turbine stage of a turbine section of the gas turbine engine. The combustor portion and the turbine portion are integrally formed as a single unitary structure. The flow path assembly further comprises a plurality of nozzle airfoils, each nozzle airfoil having an inner end radially opposite an outer end. The inner wall or the unitary outer wall defines a plurality of openings therethrough, and each opening is configured for receipt of one of the plurality of nozzle airfoils. Methods of assembling flow path assemblies also are provided.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180238181A1 Flow Path Assembly with Airfoils Inserted Through Flow Path Boundary Public/Granted day:2018-08-23
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