Gas turbine engine defining a rotor cavity
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorNarendra Anand Hardikar
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Abstract
A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order and defining a working gas flowpath, a compressor of the compressor section comprising an aft-most compressor stage; a stage of stator vanes located downstream of the aft-most compressor stage; a stator case including a seal pad; and a spool drivingly coupled to the compressor, the spool and the stator case together defining a rotor cavity in fluid communication with the working gas flowpath, the spool comprising a seal tooth assembly, the seal tooth assembly including a seal support extension, a seal tooth extending from the seal support extension toward the seal pad, and a dampener operable with the seal support extension.
Claims20
A gas turbine engine defining a longitudinal centerline, a radial direction perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline, a circumferential direction around the longitudinal centerline, and an axial direction in line with the longitudinal centerline, the gas turbine engine comprising:
- a compressor section comprising a compressor, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order and defining a working gas flowpath, the compressor comprising an aft-most compressor stage;
- a stage of stator vanes located downstream of the aft-most compressor stage;
- a stator case coupled to the stage of stator vanes inward of the stage of stator vanes along the radial direction, the stator case including a seal pad;
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- a spool drivingly coupled to the compressor, the spool and the stator case together defining a rotor cavity in fluid communication with the working gas flowpath, the spool comprising a seal tooth assembly, the seal tooth assembly comprising:
- a seal support extension;
- a seal tooth extending from the seal support extension toward the seal pad;
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- a dampener coupled to and extending from with the seal support extension,
- wherein the spool further comprises a rotor arm extending at least partially along the radial direction, and wherein the seal tooth assembly is formed separately from the rotor arm and coupled to the rotor arm.
A seal tooth assembly for a spool of a gas turbine engine defining a longitudinal centerline, a radial direction perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline, a circumferential direction around the longitudinal centerline, and an axial direction in line with the longitudinal center line, the gas turbine engine comprising a stator case having a seal pad, the seal tooth assembly comprising:
- a seal support extension;
- a seal tooth extending from the seal support extension and further extending toward the seal pad of the stator case when the seal tooth assembly is installed in the gas turbine engine;
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- a dampener operable with the seal support extension operable to dampen movement,
- wherein the dampener is configured as a seal ring positioned on an inner side of the seal support extension along the radial direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.