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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2015
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Apostolos Pavlos Karafillis, Winchester, MA (US);
Martin Wayne Frash, Newburyport, MA (US);
Schuyler Javier Ortega, Peabody, MA (US);
Angelo Parisi, Nahant, MA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A turbine frame for a turbine engine having an axial centerline, includes an inner hub, an outer hub encircling the inner hub, a plurality of struts extending between the inner and outer hubs, at least one vane segment comprising at least first and second fairings mounted to the inner and outer hubs and encircling one of the struts and a single piece outer retaining ring that is operably coupled to the vane segment to fix a radial position of the vane segment relative to the inner and outer retaining rings and methods of assembling at least one vane segment having at least one vane formed from a pair of fairings to an exhaust frame.