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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2024
General Electric Company, Evendale, OH (US);
Pabitra Badhuk, Jhargram, IN;
Aritra Chakraborty, Kolkata, IN;
Prithiviraaj Pet T, Madurai, IN;
Karthikeyan Sampath, Bengaluru, IN;
Pradeep Naik, Bengaluru, IN;
Perumallu Vukanti, Bengaluru, IN;
Michael T. Bucaro, Arvada, CO (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Evendale, OH (US);
Abstract
A fuel injector is provided for a turbine engine comprising a compression section, a combustion section, and a turbine section is serial flow arrangement. The fuel injector includes an outer wall surrounding an injector passage and defining a longitudinal injector axis. The injector passage exhausts at an injector outlet and defines a flow direction through the injector passage. A first converging portion is provided in the outer wall. A swirler assembly configured to provide a swirled airflow to the injector passage upstream of the first converging portion relative to the flow direction. A first set of fuel passages are provided in annular arrangement about the outer wall fluidly exhausting to the injector passage downstream of the first converging portion relative to the flow direction.