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US 10,865,714 B2Granted
Gas turbine engine fuel injector
AssigneeWoodward, Inc.
InventorsMark G. Goeddeke, Michael Stratton
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Abstract
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a fuel injector for a gas turbine engine includes a fuel injector housing, and an elongated fuel tube held in position in said housing by spaced apart joints and including an undulating tube surface along at least a portion of its length between said joints, said undulating tube surface being in contact with another surface disposed in said housing at one or more locations of said undulating tube surface.
Claims9
A fuel injector for a gas turbine engine, comprising:
- a fuel injector housing comprising an internal surface of an outer housing, the outer housing having uniform thickness;
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- a first elongated fuel tube affixed to said fuel injector housing by spaced apart joints and including a first undulating tube outer surface along at least a portion of a length of the first elongated fuel tube between said spaced apart joints, said first undulating tube outer surface being in direct contact with the internal surface of the outer housing of said fuel injector housing at one or more undulations of said first undulating tube outer surface between said spaced apart joints, wherein the first undulating tube outer surface comprises one or more of a pseudo-random, sinusoidal, or serpentine shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.