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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2015
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Mark David Ring, Cape Neddick, ME (US);
Scot A Webb, Gales Ferry, CT (US);
Mark J Rogers, Kennebunk, ME (US);
Gerald D Cassella, North Berwick, ME (US);
Charles H Warner, South Portland, ME (US);
Eric A Kuehne, Lyman, ME (US);
Jonathan J Earl, Wells, ME (US);
Matthew M Zietala, York, ME (US);
Neil L Tatman, Brentwood, NH (US);
Randall J Butcher, Newington, CT (US);
Matthew R Willett, Portsmouth, NH (US);
Nicholas R Leslie, South Berwick, ME (US);
Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A vane cluster for a gas turbine engine includes a first end-of-cluster vane, a second end-of-cluster vane, a neighbor vane adjacent to the second end-of-cluster vane at an interface that includes an angled load interface therebetween; and a multiple of base vanes between the first end-of-cluster vane and the neighbor vane, the angled load interface different than an interface between each of the multiple of base vane.