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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2018
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Jonathan Atef Tawfik, Arlington, MA (US);
Jeffrey Miles McMillen Prescott, Somerville, MA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A compressor bleed port apparatus includes: a compressor shroud which defines a boundary between a primary flowpath and a plenum; a bleed port including one or more apertures passing through the compressor shroud, each of the one or more apertures having an inlet communicating with the primary flowpath and an outlet communicating with the plenum, and extending along a respective centerline. Each of the one or more apertures is bounded by sidewalls, and includes a diffuser section in which the sidewalls diverge from each other in a downstream direction; A diffusing angle between the sidewalls varies over the length of the diffuser section.