Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fluted tip turbine blade
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Application No.: US10937642Application Date: 2004-09-09
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Publication No.: US07118342B2Publication Date: 2006-10-10
- Inventor: Ching-Pang Lee , James Robert Bailey , Nicholas Charles Palmer , Wenfeng Lu
- Applicant: Ching-Pang Lee , James Robert Bailey , Nicholas Charles Palmer , Wenfeng Lu
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agent William S. Andes; Francis L. Conte
- Main IPC: F01D5/14
- IPC: F01D5/14

Abstract:
A turbine blade includes an airfoil having pressure and suction sidewalls extending between leading and trailing edges and root and tip. The tip includes squealer ribs extending from a tip floor forming an open tip cavity. The rib along the pressure sidewall has a squared external corner, and a flute extends along the base of the rib at the tip floor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20060051209A1 Fluted tip turbine blade Public/Granted day:2006-03-09
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