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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2019
Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., Longueuil, CA;
Richard Freer, Saint-Basile-le-Grand, CA;
Kian McCaldon, Orangeville, CA;
Tin-Cheung John Hu, Markham, CA;
Michel Bousquet, Longueuil, CA;
André Fortin, Ste-Praxède, CA;
PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP., Longueuil, CA;
Abstract
There is disclosed an igniter for a gas turbine engine including: a base including a securing assembly configured to be matingly connected to a casing of the gas turbine engine, a glow plug heater rod, the glow plug heater rod extending from the base along an axis and terminating in a rod end, a flow impeding member extending along the axis and having a distal end spaced from the base and extending axially relative to the axis beyond the rod end, the flow impeding member sized and configured such that the distal end extends into a combustion chamber of the gas turbine engine upon the base connected to the casing.