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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2012
Cheng-zhang Wang, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Thomas G. Phillips, Coventry, CT (US);
David F. Cloud, Simsbury, CT (US);
Peter M. Munsell, Granby, CT (US);
Cheng-Zhang Wang, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Thomas G. Phillips, Coventry, CT (US);
David F. Cloud, Simsbury, CT (US);
Peter M. Munsell, Granby, CT (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A bleed air supply system for a gas turbine engine comprising a duct having an inlet end and extending to an outlet end. The inlet end of the duct is provided with a central insert. In another feature, there may be a plurality of ducts, and inlet ends of the plurality of ducts being spaced by at least 90°. In another feature, a compressor may have a diffuser with a shroud ending upstream of the downstream end of an inner shroud, having an outer shroud ending at a location upstream of a downstream end of an inner shroud at locations circumferentially aligned with an inlet end of the duct.