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AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsRichard William Albrecht, Jr., Joseph Charles Kulesa, Robert Paul Czachor, Shesh Krishna Srivatsa, Daniel Edward Wines, Thomas Tracy Wallace
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A gas turbine engine includes a non-rotatable member that includes a honeycomb seal that reduces wear to rotor seal teeth disposed within the gas turbine engine. The gas turbine engine also includes a rotatable annular member including a sealing assembly disposed between rotor and stator components. The rotatable annular member includes seal teeth that extend radially outward from the rotatable annular member. The stator components include a non-rotatable member that includes a honeycomb seal that extends radially inward. The honeycomb seal is fabricated from a material that has a melting temperature less than approximately 2000° F.
A method for assembling a gas turbine engine, said method comprising the steps of:
A honeycomb seal for a gas turbine engine, said seal comprising a material having a melting temperature less than approximately 2000° F., the gas turbine engine including a plurality of seal teeth, said honeycomb seal configured to reduce an operating temperature of the seal teeth as the seal teeth rub said honeycomb seal.
A gas turbine engine comprising a rotor assembly and a stator assembly comprising a honeycomb seal fabricated from a material having a melting temperature less than approximately 2000° F., said rotor assembly comprising a plurality of seal teeth, said honeycomb seal condfigured to reduce an operating temperature of each of said rotor seal teeth as said seal teeth rub said honeybomb seal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.