Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Turbine blade with tip shroud cooling passage
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Application No.: US16674059Application Date: 2019-11-05
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Publication No.: US11225872B2Publication Date: 2022-01-18
- Inventor: Melbourne James Myers , Michael Anthony Wondrasek , Mary Virginia Holloway , Luke C. Sponseller , Brandon Joseph Kerins
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: Hoffman Warnick LLC
- Agent Charlotte Wilson
- Main IPC: F01D5/18
- IPC: F01D5/18

Abstract:
A turbine blade includes a root for fixing the turbine blade to a turbine rotor; and an airfoil coupled to the root, the airfoil including a suction side and a pressure side, and at least one internal wall defining a coolant chamber in the airfoil for delivering a coolant through the airfoil. A tip shroud is coupled to a radially outer end of the airfoil by a suction side fillet and a pressure side fillet. The tip shroud includes a shroud body defining a substantially trident-shaped shroud cooling passage including: a trunk cooling passage, a center cooling passage in fluid communication with the trunk cooling passage, a suction side cooling passage in fluid communication with the trunk cooling passage, and a pressure side cooling passage in fluid communication with the trunk cooling passage. The center cooling passage is fluidly coupled to the coolant chamber to receive a coolant.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210131291A1 TURBINE BLADE WITH TIP SHROUD COOLING PASSAGE Public/Granted day:2021-05-06
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