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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2023
Filed:
May. 20, 2021
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Timothy Deryck Stone, Liberty Township, OH (US);
Gregory Michael Laskowski, Rowley, MA (US);
Robert Proctor, West Chester, OH (US);
Curtis Stover, Mason, OH (US);
Robert Francis Manning, Newburyport, MA (US);
Victor Hugo Silva Correia, Milton Mills, NH (US);
Jared Peter Buhler, Tewksbury, MA (US);
Robert Carl Murray, Rotterdam, NY (US);
Corey Bourassa, Mechanicville, NY (US);
Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., Loveland, OH (US);
Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff, Loveland, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A turbine engine having an inducer assembly. The inducer assembly includes a centrifugal separator fluidly coupled to an inducer with an inducer inlet and an inducer outlet. The centrifugal separator includes a body, an angular velocity increaser to form a concentrated-particle stream and a reduced-particle stream, a flow splitter, and an exit conduit fluidly coupled to the body to receive the reduced-particle stream and define a separator outlet.