Seal assembly for a turbine engine
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsRahul Anil Bidkar, Christopher Walter Falcone, Grant Robert Portune, Nora Marie Molino, Matthew James Misch
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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsRahul Anil Bidkar, Christopher Walter Falcone, Grant Robert Portune, Nora Marie Molino, Matthew James Misch
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A turbine engine includes a rotor, a stator having an aft wall, and a seal assembly having a plurality of seal segments disposed between the rotor and the stator. The rotor, the stator, and the seal assembly are arranged together to define a high pressure region and a low pressure region. The turbine engine also includes at least one biasing member engaged with one or more of the plurality of seal segments. The plurality of seal segments include a primary seal segment and a secondary seal segment connected together via a flexible joint. As such, the flexible joint allows for angular misalignment between the primary seal segment and the secondary seal segment, thereby allowing the primary seal segment to move with the rotor while the secondary seal segment maintains contact with the aft wall of the stator.
A turbine engine, comprising:
A seal assembly for a turbine engine having a rotor and a stator, the seal assembly comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.