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Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026

Filed:

Jul. 19, 2024
Applicant:

General Electric Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);

Inventors:

Edward James Walton, Scituate, MA (US);

Keith W. Wilkinson, Portsmouth, NH (US);

Michael Macrorie, Charlestown, MA (US);

Caitlin Jeanne Smythe Almeida, Cambridge, MA (US);

Michael T. Hogan, Tewksbury, MA (US);

Elizabeth Bennett, Danvers, MA (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02C 6/08 (2006.01); B33Y 10/00 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02C 6/08 (2013.01); B33Y 10/00 (2014.12); F05D 2240/12 (2013.01); F05D 2240/35 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods to provide for cross-diffuser bleed are provided herein. An example gas turbine engine includes a frame defining a cavity in a forward side of a diffuser of the gas turbine engine; a compressor including the diffuser, the diffuser defining a primary flow path to provide air flow to a combustor and including at least one conduit, the at least one conduit fluidly coupled to the cavity; and a downstream sink fluidly coupled to the cavity via the at least one conduit defining at least a portion of a bleed air path.


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