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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2024
Filed:
May. 27, 2022
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Joseph G. Rose, Evendale, OH (US);
Atanu Saha, Bengaluru, IN;
Bhaskar Nanda Mondal, Bengaluru, IN;
Craig W. Higgins, Evendale, OH (US);
Darek Zatorski, Evendale, OH (US);
Vaibhav Deshmukh M, Bengaluru, IN;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A turbine engine having a drive shaft rotatable about an axis, a multi-stage compressor, a turbine section, a thrust bearing, and a balance cavity. The thrust bearing being provided between the drive shaft and at least a portion of the multi-stage compressor section and rotationally supporting the drive shaft. During operation of the turbine engine, a first axial force is applied to the thrust bearing by the drive shaft and a second axial force is applied to the thrust bearing in an opposite direction of the first axial force by the balance cavity.