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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2011
Applicants:
Mustafa Dindar, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Vaughn Kunze, Lebanon, OH (US);
Inventors:
Mustafa Dindar, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Vaughn Kunze, Lebanon, OH (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02K 1/00 (2006.01); F02K 1/48 (2006.01); F02C 7/045 (2006.01); F02K 1/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02K 1/48 (2013.01); F02C 7/045 (2013.01); F02K 1/386 (2013.01); F05D 2250/183 (2013.01);
Abstract
A mixer for mixing flows in a turbofan engine is provided. The mixer includes a plurality of chevron lobes, each of the plurality of lobes comprising a crown, a keel, a first trailing edge, a second trailing edge, and a first transverse edge extending between first trailing edge and second trailing edge, said mixer configured to receive two separate incoming exhaust flows and mix the two flows into at least one rotational exhaust flow that is ejected out at least one of said first trailing edge and said second trailing edge.