ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,641, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Combustor for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Hejie Li (Mason, Ohio), Gerardo Antonio Salazar Lois (West Chester, Ohio) and Clayton S. Cooper (Loveland, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a dome-deflector structure and a fuel nozzle-swirler assembly having a mounting wall with a plurality of purge orifices extending therethrough. A circumferential purge cavity is defined between a fuel nozzle-swirler assembly housing, a fuel nozzle-swirler assembly opening of the dome-deflector structure, and the mo...