Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Seal assemblies for turbine engines and related methods
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Application No.: US17691380Application Date: 2022-03-10
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Publication No.: US12000289B2Publication Date: 2024-06-04
- Inventor: Antonio Guijarro Valencia , Rodrigo Rodriguez Erdmenger , Rahul Anil Bidkar , Scott Alan Schimmels , Tran Quang Tue Nguyen
- Applicant: General Electric Company , General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company,General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company,General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady; DE Frankfurt
- Agency: Dority & Manning, P.A.
- Main IPC: F01D11/16
- IPC: F01D11/16

Abstract:
A seal assembly for a rotary machine, such as a turbine engine, may include one or more seal segments that respectively include a seal housing defining a seal chamber and one or more fluid supply apertures that pass through the seal housing, and a seal body defining a seal face and one or more fluid conduits that pass through the seal body to the seal face. The seal chamber may receive at least a portion of the seal body, and the seal body may move within the seal chamber along a radial axis of a rotor of the rotary engine. The fluid supply apertures may fluidly communicate with the fluid conduits, and the fluid conduits may fluidly communicate with a fluid-bearing gap defined between the seal face and a rotor face of the rotor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230287797A1 SEAL ASSEMBLIES FOR TURBINE ENGINES AND RELATED METHODS Public/Granted day:2023-09-14
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