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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2002
Vincent M. Drerup, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Ronald Galley, Mason, OH (US);
David E. Budinger, Loveland, OH (US);
Mariusz P. Staszak, Warsaw, PL;
Ching-Pang Lee, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Richard W. Albrecht, Fairfield, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method enables a nozzle assembly for a gas turbine engine rotor assembly to be fabricated. The rotor assembly includes at least two adjacent rows of rotor blades coupled together by a disk spacer arm. The method includes providing a nozzle assembly that includes at least one nozzle including a vane that extends outwardly from a radially outer side of an inner band, coupling the nozzle assembly into the rotor assembly between the two adjacent rows of rotor blades, and coupling a seal assembly that includes a backing piece to the nozzle assembly such that the backing piece is substantially parallel to the rotor assembly disk spacer arm.