Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Gas turbine sealing
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Application No.: US14585896Application Date: 2014-12-30
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Publication No.: US09771820B2Publication Date: 2017-09-26
- Inventor: Richard William Johnson , Kevin Richard Kirtley , David Richard Johns , James William Vehr , Andrew Paul Giametta
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agent Mark E. Henderson; Ernest G. Cusick; Frank A. Landgraff
- Main IPC: F01D11/00
- IPC: F01D11/00 ; F02C7/28 ; F01D11/04 ; F01D5/08

Abstract:
A turbine in a gas turbine engine that includes a stator blade and a rotor blade having a seal formed in a trench cavity. The trench cavity may include an axial gap defined between opposing inboard faces of the stator blade and rotor blade. The seal may include: a stator overhang extending from the stator blade toward the rotor blade so to include an outboard edge and an inboard edge and, defined therebetween, an overhang face; a rotor outboard face extending radially inboard from a platform edge, the rotor outboard face opposing at least a portion of the overhang face across the axial gap of the trench cavity; and a first axial projection extending from the rotor outboard face toward the stator blade. The stator overhang and the first axial projection of the rotor blade may be configured so to axially overlap.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160186665A1 GAS TURBINE SEALING Public/Granted day:2016-06-30
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