US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Nov. 18 for "Axial fuel stage injector with axially elongated mixing chambers with axially wavy inlets" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,055, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Axial fuel stage injector with axially elongated mixing chambers with axially wavy inlets" was invented by Bradley D. Crawley (Greenville, S.C.) and Wei Zhao (Greer, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An axial fuel stage (AFS) injector includes a mixing member including a plurality of axially elongated mixing chambers therebetween. Inlets of the mixing chambers are axially wavy. A high-pressure (HP) air injection member defines a set of HP air jets spaced from the axially wavy inlet of each axially elongated mixing chamber. A fuel plenum in...