Robert Edward Proctor

US Patent:

20210275951, Sep 9, 2021

Filed:

May 20, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/325650

Inventors:

- Schenectady NY, US
Gregory Michael LASKOWSKI - Rowley MA, US
Robert PROCTOR - West Chester OH, US
Curtis STOVER - Mason OH, US
Robert Francis Manning - Newburyport MA, US
Victor Hugo Silva CORREIA - Milton Mills NH, US
Jared Peter BUHLER - Tewksbury MA, US
Robert Carl MURRAY - Rotterdam NY, US
Corey BOURASSA - Mechanicville NY, US
Jonathan Russell RATZLAFF - Loveland OH, US

International Classification:

B01D 45/16
F02C 7/18
B04C 3/06
F02C 6/08
F01D 5/18
F01D 9/06
F02C 7/052

Abstract:

A turbine engine having an inducer assembly. The inducer assembly includes a centrifugal separator fluidly coupled to an inducer with an inducer inlet and an inducer outlet. The centrifugal separator includes a body, an angular velocity increaser to form a concentrated-particle stream and a reduced-particle stream, a flow splitter, and an exit conduit fluidly coupled to the body to receive the reduced-particle stream and define a separator outlet.

US Patent:

20170114720, Apr 27, 2017

Filed:

May 29, 2015

Appl. No.:

15/314536

Inventors:

- Schenectady NY, US
Gregory Michael LASKOWSKI - Rowley MA, US
Robert PROCTOR - West Chester OH, US
Curtis STOVER - Mason OH, US
Robert Francis Manning - Newburyport MA, US
Victor Hugo Silva CORREIA - Milton Mills NH, US
Jared Peter BUHLER - Tewksbury MA, US
Robert Carl MURRAY - Rotterdam NY, US
Corey BOURASSA, Jr. - Mechanicville NY, US
Byron Andrew PRITCHARD - Loveland OH, US
Jonathan Russell RATZLAFF - Loveland OH, US

International Classification:

F02C 7/05
B01D 45/16
B04C 3/06
F02C 7/18
F02C 3/04

Abstract:

A turbine engine having a bypass fluid conduit coupled to the turbine section includes at least one particle separator located within the bypass fluid conduit to separate particles from a bypass fluid stream prior to the bypass stream reaching the turbine section for cooling. A centrifugal separator for removing particles from a fluid stream includes an angular velocity increaser, a particle outlet, an angular velocity decreaser downstream of the angular velocity increaser, and a bend provided between the angular velocity increaser and the angular velocity decreaser.