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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2019
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Anthony Louis DiPietro, Jr., Maineville, OH (US);
Tyler James Alexander, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Joseph Capozzi, North Reading, MA (US);
Aspi Rustom Wadia, Loveland, OH (US);
Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow, Montgomery, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A fan for a gas turbine engine is provided. The fan includes a rotor including at least one rotor stage having a rotatable disk defining a flowpath surface and an array of rotor airfoils extending outward from the flowpath surface; an array of splitter airfoils extending outward from the flowpath surface, wherein the splitter airfoils and the rotor airfoils are disposed in a sequential arrangement; and a shroud extending between the rotor airfoils and the splitter airfoils.