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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 1993
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1991
Leroy H Smith, Jr, Cincinnati, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A front fan gas turbine engine subassembly which acts as a particle separator. The subassembly includes an aft-most row of full-size fan blades, a flow splitter, and a row of stator vanes. The flow splitter separates the fan exit air into a core engine airflow and a surrounding bypass airflow. The stator vanes each have a first portion disposed radially inward of, and longitudinally forward of, the leading edge of the flow splitter. The subassembly, in essence, has moved the leading edge of a conventional flow splitter aft without also moving the forward-most row of stator vanes aft. This means that particles which would strike a conventionally-positioned flow splitter and be reflected radially into the core engine airflow will instead miss the aft-moved leading edge of the flow splitter to radially outwardly bypass the core engine airflow.