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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2017
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Christopher James Kroger, West Chester, OH (US);
Brandon Wayne Miller, Liberty Township, OH (US);
Trevor Wayne Goerig, Cincinnati, OH (US);
David William Crall, Loveland, OH (US);
Tsuguji Nakano, West Chester, OH (US);
Jeffrey Donald Clements, Mason, OH (US);
Bhaskar Nanda Mondal, Bangalore, IN;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A gas turbine engine includes a turbomachine and a fan rotatable by the turbomachine. The fan includes a plurality of fan blades, each of the plurality of fan blades defining a fan blade span along a radial direction. The gas turbine engine further includes an outer nacelle surrounding the plurality of fan blades and a plurality of part-span inlet guide varies attached to the outer nacelle at a location forward of the plurality of fan blades along an axial direction. Each of the plurality of inlet guide vanes defines an IGV span along the radial direction, the IGV span being at least about five percent of the fan blade span and up to about fifty-five percent of the fan blade span.