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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
May. 03, 2011
Donald Mark Bailey, Greenville, SC (US);
Jonathan Dwight Berry, Greenville, SC (US);
Luis Manuel Flamand, Greenville, SC (US);
Kwanwoo Kim, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Patrick Benedict Melton, Greenville, SC (US);
Robert Joseph Rohrssen, Greenville, SC (US);
John Drake Vanselow, Greenville, SC (US);
Donald Mark Bailey, Greenville, SC (US);
Jonathan Dwight Berry, Greenville, SC (US);
Luis Manuel Flamand, Greenville, SC (US);
Kwanwoo Kim, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Patrick Benedict Melton, Greenville, SC (US);
Robert Joseph Rohrssen, Greenville, SC (US);
John Drake Vanselow, Greenville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A gas turbine engine combustor is provided and includes an array of fuel nozzles, a combustion casing assembly disposed about the array of fuel nozzles and an end cap assembly disposed within the combustion casing assembly to define with the combustion casing assembly an axis-symmetric annulus through which fluid travels into each of the fuel nozzles, at least one of the combustion casing assembly and the end cap assembly being formed with lobed, three-dimensional contouring.