Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Labyrinth seal with angled fins
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Application No.: US16570066Application Date: 2019-09-13
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Publication No.: US11293295B2Publication Date: 2022-04-05
- Inventor: Alexander Smith , Pierre-Yves Legare
- Applicant: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
- Applicant Address: CA Longueuil
- Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
- Current Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Longueuil
- Agency: Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
- Main IPC: F01D11/02
- IPC: F01D11/02 ; F01D11/00 ; F04D29/10 ; F16J15/447

Abstract:
An aircraft engine having a shaft, an engine casing, at least one bearing located between the shaft and the engine casing, the engine casing defining a bearing cavity containing the at least one bearing, an air distribution system configured to inject compressed air to the bearing cavity to in use provide a sealing air flow entering the bearing cavity, and a labyrinth seal having a seal rotor and a seal stator, fins extending from one of the seal rotor and the seal stator toward the other of the seal rotor and the seal stator, at least one of the fins extending in an angled upstream direction relative to a direction of the sealing air flow.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210079802A1 LABYRINTH SEAL WITH ANGLED FINS Public/Granted day:2021-03-18
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