US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Aug. 25 for "Combustor having a damper for a turbine engine" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,382, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Combustor having a damper for a turbine engine" was invented by Fei Han (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Nicholas Arthur Magina (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor for a turbine engine. The combustor includes a combustion chamber and a damper. The combustion chamber is configured to combust a mixture of a fuel flow and a compressed air flow to generate combustion products. The damper is in fluid communication with the combustion chamber to damp an instability generated in the combustion chamber by the combustion products. The da...