Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and features for positioning a flow path assembly within a gas turbine engine
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Application No.: US15440258Application Date: 2017-02-23
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Publication No.: US10385709B2Publication Date: 2019-08-20
- Inventor: Brandon Allanson Reynolds , Jonathan David Baldiga , Darrell Glenn Senile , Daniel Patrick Kerns , Michael Ray Tuertscher , Aaron Michael Dziech , Brett Joseph Geiser
- 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 ; F23R3/16 ; F23R3/14 ; F23R3/60 ; F01D11/00 ; F01D5/28 ; F01D9/02 ; F23R3/34 ; F01D25/24

Abstract:
Flow path assemblies having features for positioning the assemblies within a gas turbine engine are provided. For example, a flow path assembly comprises an inner wall and a unitary outer wall that includes an integral combustion portion and turbine portion, the combustor portion extending through a combustion section of the gas turbine engine and the turbine portion extending through at least a first turbine stage of a turbine section of the gas turbine engine. The flow path assembly further comprises at least two positioning members for radially centering the flow path assembly within the gas turbine engine. The positioning members extend to the flow path assembly from one or more structures external to the flow path assembly, constrain the flow path assembly tangentially, and allow radial and axial movement of the flow path assembly. Other embodiments for positioning flow path assemblies also are provided.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180238184A1 Methods and Features for Positioning a Flow Path Assembly within a Gas Turbine Engine Public/Granted day:2018-08-23
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