US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Sept. 30 for "Axial fuel stage injector with fuel injection in same direction as high-pressure air flow" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,224, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Axial fuel stage injector with fuel injection in same direction as high-pressure air flow" was invented by Bradley D. Crawley (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An axial fuel stage (AFS) injector includes a mixing member defining a mixing chamber having an inlet and an outlet in fluid communication with a combustion chamber of the combustor. A high pressure (HP) air-fuel injection member includes at least one row of HP air-fuel injectors for directing an air-fuel mixture into the mixing chamber. Each HP air-fuel injector incl...