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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2017
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Zhongtao Dai, West Hartford, CT (US);
Lance L. Smith, West Hartford, CT (US);
Jeffrey M. Cohen, Hebron, CT (US);
RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A combustor assembly for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a combustion chamber, and a fuel injector assembly in communication with the combustion chamber that has a swirler body situated about a nozzle to define an injector passage that converges to a throat. The throat is defined at a distance from the combustion chamber. The nozzle includes a primary fuel injector along a first fuel injector axis and at least one secondary plain jet fuel injector axially forward of the primary fuel injector.