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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2018
Applicant:
Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., Longueuil, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP., Longueuil, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 25/12 (2006.01); F02C 7/18 (2006.01); F01D 25/14 (2006.01); F01D 11/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02C 7/18 (2013.01); F01D 11/24 (2013.01); F01D 25/12 (2013.01); F01D 25/14 (2013.01);
Abstract
The gas turbine engine can have a gas path extending in serial flow communication across a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine, the turbine having at least one multistage turbine section having a front toward the combustion chamber and a rear opposite the front, a plenum radially outward of the gas path, and a plurality of aperture sets interspaced from one another between the front and the rear, the aperture sets providing fluid flow communication from the plenum to the gas path, and a cooling air path having an outlet fluidly connected to the plenum at the rear of the plenum.