公开(公告)号：US10385709B2

公开(公告)日：2019-08-20

申请号：US15440258

申请日：2017-02-23

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Brandon Allanson Reynolds ,  Jonathan David Baldiga ,  Darrell Glenn Senile ,  Daniel Patrick Kerns ,  Michael Ray Tuertscher ,  Aaron Michael Dziech ,  Brett Joseph Geiser

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.