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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2022
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Deutschland Holding Gmbh, Frankfurt, DE;
Antonio Guijarro Valencia, Munich, DE;
Rodrigo Rodriguez Erdmenger, Munich, DE;
Rahul Anil Bidkar, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Scott Alan Schimmels, Miamisburg, OH (US);
Tran Quang Tue Nguyen, Bremen, DE;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH, Frankfurt, DE;
Abstract
A seal assembly for a rotary machine, such as a turbine engine, may include one or more seal segments that respectively include a seal housing defining a seal chamber and one or more fluid supply apertures that pass through the seal housing, and a seal body defining a seal face and one or more fluid conduits that pass through the seal body to the seal face. The seal chamber may receive at least a portion of the seal body, and the seal body may move within the seal chamber along a radial axis of a rotor of the rotary engine. The fluid supply apertures may fluidly communicate with the fluid conduits, and the fluid conduits may fluidly communicate with a fluid-bearing gap defined between the seal face and a rotor face of the rotor.