Abstract: A gas turbine engine having an improved air delivery system that includes features for pressurizing and/or cooling various components of the engine while minimizing the impact to the cycle efficiency of the engine, reducing the weight of the engine, and reducing the specific fuel consumption of the engine is provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 8, 2018
Date of Patent:
November 15, 2022
Assignees:
General Electric Company, GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY POLSKA SP. ZO.O
Inventors:
Kenneth Arthur Gould, Abdus Shamim, Jaroslaw Henryk Dekowski, Piotr Sebastian Hance, Przemyslaw Slawomir Tkaczyk, Marcin Pawel Faber, Adam Krysztopa, Piotr Lech Bar, Krzysztof Chelstowski, Craig Alan Gonyou, Robert John Parks
Abstract: An apparatus and method for a bearing assembly including a frame, an inner race circumscribing a shaft for a turbine engine, a bearing movable about the inner ring, an outer race circumscribing the at least one rolling element, a spring assembly comprising an inner ring circumscribing the at least one cage, and an outer ring mounted to the frame, and a set of circumferentially arranged spring fingers extending between the inner ring and the outer ring.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 27, 2018
Date of Patent:
February 18, 2020
Assignee:
General Electric Company Polska sp. zo.o
Abstract: An inlet frame and a method of additively manufacturing the same are provided. The inlet frame includes a forward annular body spaced apart from a rear annular body to define an inlet passageway in fluid communication with a compressor inlet. The inlet frame may define integral wash manifolds and discharge ports for directing a flow of wash fluid directly through the compressor inlet. In addition, inlet frame may define one or more integral annular heating plenums in fluid communication with a hot air source for heating regions of the inlet frame that are prone to icing conditions.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 6, 2018
Publication date:
February 14, 2019
Applicant:
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY POLSKA SP. ZO.O
Inventors:
Estera SLAWINSKA, Krzysztof KORZEPSKI, Artur KOLODZIEJCZYK, John Alan MANTEIGA