US Patent Issued to RTX on Feb. 24 for "Main mixer in an axial staged combustor for a gas turbine engine" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,326, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Main mixer in an axial staged combustor for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Zhongtao Dai (West Hartford, Conn.), Lance L. Smith (West Hartford, Conn.) and Jeffrey M. Cohen (Hebron, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A main mixer including a swirler along an axis, the swirler including an outer swirler with a multiple of outer vanes, and a center swirler with a multiple of center vanes and a swirler hub along the axis, the swirler hub including a fuel manifold and an inner swirler with a multiple of inner vanes that support a centerbody, the multiple of in...