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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2020
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow, Montgomery, OH (US);
Syed Arif Khalid, West Chester, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A single unducted rotor engine includes a power source; a casing surrounding the power source; an unducted rotor assembly driven by the power source having a single row of rotor blades; and an outlet guide vane assembly having a plurality of pairs of outlet guide vanes, each pair of the plurality of pairs of outlet guide vanes including a first outlet guide vane extending from the casing at a location downstream from the single row of rotor blades of the unducted rotor assembly and a second outlet guide vane also positioned downstream from the single row of rotor blades of the unducted rotor assembly. The first outlet guide vane of each pair of outlet guide vanes defines a first geometry. The second outlet guide vane of each pair of outlet guide vanes defines a second geometry. The first geometry is not equal to the second geometry.