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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2024
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Uttara Vijay Kumar, Rexford, NY (US);
Rahul Anil Bidkar, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff, Loveland, OH (US);
Steven Douglas Johnson, Milford, OH (US);
Prateek Jalan, Bengaluru, IN;
Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Bengaluru, IN;
General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
A rotary machine includes a stator and a rotor configured to rotate with respect to the stator. The rotor is arranged with the stator at a rotor-stator interface and defines a rotor face. The rotary machine also includes a seal assembly at the rotor-stator interface. The seal assembly includes a seal rotor, a seal stator, a seal slider, and a seal defined by a rotor face of the seal rotor and a slider face of the seal slider. Further, the seal assembly includes a flexible joint connected between the slider face and a primary seal body of the seal slider. The flexible joint is configured to locally decouple movement of the slider face from the seal slider to allow the slider face to track movement of the rotor apart from the primary seal body.