Patent ID: 8133017

Claim:
A diffuser for a turbine engine, including an annular casing to seal compressor discharge air and struts attached to the casing to delimit an annular array of intra-strut regions, the diffuser comprising: a ring portion, including a ring shaped annular body with a forward face disposed on a forward facing side thereof and an aft face disposed on an aft facing side thereof, the forward and aft facing sides opposing one another and the ring portion being supportable by an integral connection between one or more of the struts and the aft face; and a splitter portion, including a ring shaped annular body with an aft face disposed on an aft side thereof to mate with the forward face of the ring portion body, the splitter portion further including: a lead edge, on a forward side of the splitter portion body, which is extendable into a flow path of the compressor discharge air to split the flow path into secondary flow paths defined radially outside of and inside of the splitter portion body.