Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fuel injector with interweaved pilot and mains passages
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Application No.: US15923570Application Date: 2018-03-16
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Publication No.: US10753614B2Publication Date: 2020-08-25
- Inventor: Ian M Garry , Mark Glover , Richard Mellor , Frederic Witham
- Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
- Applicant Address: GB London
- Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
- Current Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
- Current Assignee Address: GB London
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@6a7f4ae3
- Main IPC: F23R3/28
- IPC: F23R3/28 ; F23R3/34 ; F02C7/22 ; F02C7/228 ; F23R3/36

Abstract:
A fuel injector provided for gas turbine engine has a nozzle including pilot fuel and mains fuel discharge orifice's for respectively spraying pilot and mains fuel flows into a combustor of the engine. The injector further has a feed arm extending to the nozzle for feeding fuel to the pilot and mains discharge orifices from pilot and mains supplies respectively. The nozzle and the feed arm contain one or more pilot passages for flow of the pilot fuel flow from the pilot supply to the pilot discharge orifice and one or more mains passages for flow of the mains fuel flow from the mains supply to the mains discharge orifice. The nozzle and the feed arm contain a plurality of the pilot passages and/or a plurality of the mains passages. The pilot and the mains passages intertwine repeatedly, and are both smoothly curved as they intertwine around each other.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180283693A1 FUEL INJECTOR Public/Granted day:2018-10-04
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