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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2024
General Electric Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
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);
General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);
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.