US Patent Issued to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA on April 21 for "Combustor with fuel plenum and extending mixing passages" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,357, issued on April 21, was assigned to PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP. (Longueuil, Canada).

"Combustor with fuel plenum and extending mixing passages" was invented by Tin Cheung John Hu (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor for a gas turbine engine includes a liner surrounding a fuel and air mixing body. A fuel supply passage communicates into an open fuel plenum downstream of the fuel supply passage. A wall of the mixing body has air openings to receive air flow, and communicate air into mixing passages. The mixing passages pass through the fuel plenum. Fuel openings in the mixing passages to allow fuel to flow...