Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Gas turbine engine with variable pitch inlet pre-swirl features
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Application No.: US17686673Application Date: 2022-03-04
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Publication No.: US11808281B2Publication Date: 2023-11-07
- Inventor: Brandon Wayne Miller , Arthur William Sibbach
- 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: F04D29/54
- IPC: F04D29/54 ; F04D19/00

Abstract:
A gas turbine engine includes a fan having a plurality of fan blades, a turbomachine operably coupled to the fan for driving the fan, the turbomachine including a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow order and together defining a core air flowpath, a nacelle surrounding and at least partially enclosing the fan, the nacelle defining a longitudinal axis, and an inlet pre-swirl feature located upstream of the plurality of fan blades, the inlet pre-swirl feature attached to or integrated into the nacelle, wherein the inlet pre-swirl feature is transitionable between a first angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the nacelle and a second angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the nacelle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230279872A1 GAS TURBINE ENGINE WITH VARIABLE PITCH INLET PRE-SWIRL FEATURES Public/Granted day:2023-09-07
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