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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2014
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Craig Miller Kuhne, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Christopher Charles Glynn, Lawrenceburg, IN (US);
Randy M. Vondrell, Sharonville, OH (US);
Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow, Montgomery, OH (US);
Kurt David Murrow, Liberty Township, OH (US);
Darek T. Zatorski, Ft. Wright, KY (US);
Donald Scott Yeager, Loveland, OH (US);
Nicholas Rowe Dinsmore, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Samuel Jacob Martin, Independence, KY (US);
Donald Albert Bradley, Cincinnati, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A gas turbine engine comprises a fan, a compressor, a turbine having first stage blades and second stage blades, the first stage blades rotates in a first direction and the second stage blades rotates in a second direction opposite the first direction. The first stage blades are directly adjacent to one another, a drive in operable input connection with the fan and in operable output connection with the first stage blades and the second stage blades, the first stage blades and the second stage blades driving the fan through the drive.