Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Blade cooling circuit feed duct, exhaust duct, and related cooling structure
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Application No.: US14271823Application Date: 2014-05-07
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Publication No.: US09771816B2Publication Date: 2017-09-26
- Inventor: David Wayne Weber
- 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 Ernest G. Cusick
- Main IPC: F01D5/18
- IPC: F01D5/18 ; F01D9/06 ; F01D25/12

Abstract:
A blade cooling circuit feed and exhaust duct and related cooling structure are provided. The feed duct may include a feed chamber having a feed entrance fluidly coupled to a cooling fluid source and a feed exit to an elongate entrance to the cooling circuit, the feed exit including a ramped wall maintaining a flow velocity of the cooling fluid along the elongated entrance to the cooling circuit. The exhaust duct may include a substantially concave exhaust chamber including an exhaust entrance at a wider end of the exhaust chamber and in fluid communication with an elongated exit from the cooling circuit, and an exhaust exit at a narrower end of the exhaust chamber, the exhaust exit including an opening to an exhaust passageway from the exhaust chamber.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150322802A1 BLADE COOLING CIRCUIT FEED DUCT, EXHAUST DUCT, AND RELATED COOLING STRUCTURE Public/Granted day:2015-11-12
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