F02C 5/00
Gas-turbine plants characterised by the working fluid being generated by intermittent combustion
F02C5/00 (Gas-turbine plants characterised by the working fluid being generated by intermittent combustion) appears on 336 US grants and 386 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- F02C 5/02Gas-turbine plants characterised by the working fluid being generated by intermittent combustion138
- F02C 5/12The combustion chambers having inlet or outlet valves75
- F02C 5/10The working fluid forming a resonating or oscillating gas column, i.e. the48
- F02C 5/06The working fluid being generated in an internal-combustion gas generated of the47
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