A gas turbine engine has a nose cone with a nose cone upstream end and an inlet housing including a plurality of separate flow paths at a housing upstream end which is downstream of the nose cone upstream end. The inlet housing includes a mixing portion downstream of the housing upstream end which mixes airflow from the separate flow paths, such that the airflow is generally around 360 degrees of a rotational axis of the gas turbine engine. A rotor and a turbine drive a shaft to drive the rotor with the shaft including a bearing mounted at a location downstream of the nose cone upstream end.
Bifurcated air inlet housing for a miniature gas turbine engine
2020-05-05
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
GAS TURBINE ENGINE HAVING A BIFURCATED AIR INLET HOUSING
European Patent Office | 2019
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