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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2024
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Dustin Sheinberg, Cambridge, MA (US);
Steven Micha Szczap, West Chester, OH (US);
Sean Christopher Binion, Loveland, OH (US);
Kenneth R. Willett, Mukilteo, WA (US);
Daniel Alan Niergarth, Norwood, OH (US);
Jeffrey Donald Clements, Mason, OH (US);
Christopher James Kroger, West Chester, OH (US);
Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Mason, OH (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
An aeronautical vehicle comprising: a vehicle body; a propulsion system operable with the vehicle body, the propulsion system comprising a gas turbine engine, the gas turbine engine comprising a combustion section; a fuel delivery assembly comprising a gaseous fuel delivery section extending to the combustion section, the gaseous fuel delivery section defining a potential leak location; and a fuel leak combustion assembly comprising a heat source positioned in communication with potential leak location to ignite a gaseous fuel leaking from the potential leak location of the gaseous fuel delivery section of the fuel delivery assembly.