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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2013
Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., Longueuil, CA;
Eduardo David Hawie, Woodbridge, CA;
Nigel Caldwell Davenport, Hillburgh, CA;
Jian-Ming Zhou, Mississauga, CA;
PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP., Longueuil, CA;
Abstract
The described gas turbine engine fuel manifold includes one or more fuel conduits defined within a ring-shaped manifold body, each of the fuel conduits being fluidly connected to a respective separate group of fuel injection nozzles. Each of the fuel conduits, which extend from a conduit inlet to a conduit end, include a first portion extending continuously between the conduit inlet and an inflexion of the conduit, and a second portion downstream of the first portion and connected thereto in serial flow communication, the second portion extending between the inflexion and the conduit end. The inflexion being a single exit of the first portion such that fuel flows uninterrupted between the conduit inlet and the inflexion. The respective separate group of fuel injection nozzles of the fuel conduit fluidly communicating exclusively with the second portion of the fuel conduit.