ASPIRATING FACE SEAL ASSEMBLY FOR A ROTARY MACHINE

    公开(公告)号:US20210108730A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-15

    申请号:US17128422

    申请日:2020-12-21

    摘要: A seal assembly for a rotary machine is positioned between a rotating component and a stationary component of the rotary machine. The seal assembly includes a seal bearing face that opposes the rotating component and a slide device. The slide device is positioned between different fluid pressure volumes in the rotary machine. The slide device axially moves toward the rotating component responsive to pressurization of the rotary machine. The slide device includes cross-over ports and the seal bearing face includes feed ports. The feed ports extend through the seal bearing face to form an aerostatic portion of a film bearing between the seal bearing face and the rotating component. The seal bearing face and/or the rotating component is a non-planar surface that, during rotating motion of the rotating component, forms an aerodynamic portion of the film bearing between the seal bearing face and the rotating component.

    Sealing system for turbine shroud segments

    公开(公告)号:US10934873B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-02

    申请号:US16182727

    申请日:2018-11-07

    IPC分类号: F01D11/00 F01D25/26 F01D9/04

    摘要: A turbine shroud is disposed between stages of stationary turbine nozzles. The turbine shroud includes arcuate shroud segments sealingly engaged with one another. Each shroud segment includes a bottom panel with a radially inner surface and a radially outer surface and opposite ends. Each end includes an end face, an end cutback face spaced from the end face, and an intermediate surface extending between the end face and the end cutback face to define a recess. One or more seals overlap the recess of a circumferentially adjacent pair of shroud segments to produce a sealed joint.

    SEAL ASSEMBLY
    3.
    发明申请
    SEAL ASSEMBLY 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20200149638A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-14

    申请号:US16736856

    申请日:2020-01-08

    摘要: A seal assembly that includes a rotatable seal component, a non-rotatable seal component, and a plurality of pairs of flexures. The non-rotatable seal component is disposed facing the rotatable seal component. The plurality of pairs of flexures is spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction of the seal assembly. Each pair of the plurality of pairs of flexures has a center line and includes a first flexure and a second flexure disposed in a stressed condition such that a portion of the first flexure and a portion of the second flexure are in contact with each other. Further, the first end of the first flexure is inclined at a first angle relative to the center line and a first end of the second flexure is inclined at a second angle relative to the center line. Also, first end of the first flexure and a first end of the second flexure are coupled to each other and to the non-rotatable seal component.

    MACHINE THRUST BEARING ASSEMBLY
    4.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190309794A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-10

    申请号:US15944844

    申请日:2018-04-04

    IPC分类号: F16C17/04 F16C33/16

    摘要: A thrust bearing assembly for a machine includes a stator housing, a fluid film thrust bearing, and a ring bearing. The stator housing surrounds at least a segment of a rotor shaft and one or more runners on the rotor shaft that include a first runner surface and a second runner surface facing in opposite axial directions along the rotor shaft. The fluid film thrust bearing is axially held between a first stator surface of the stator housing and the first runner surface. The fluid film thrust bearing is configured to generate a fluid cushion that blocks the first runner surface from engaging the fluid film thrust bearing. The ring bearing is axially held between a second stator surface of the stator housing and the second runner surface. The ring bearing has an annular contact surface that engages the second runner surface to axially support the rotor shaft.

    Machine thrust bearing assembly
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10422373B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-24

    申请号:US15944844

    申请日:2018-04-04

    IPC分类号: F16C17/04 F16C33/16

    摘要: A thrust bearing assembly for a machine includes a stator housing, a fluid film thrust bearing, and a ring bearing. The stator housing surrounds at least a segment of a rotor shaft and one or more runners on the rotor shaft that include a first runner surface and a second runner surface facing in opposite axial directions along the rotor shaft. The fluid film thrust bearing is axially held between a first stator surface of the stator housing and the first runner surface. The fluid film thrust bearing is configured to generate a fluid cushion that blocks the first runner surface from engaging the fluid film thrust bearing. The ring bearing is axially held between a second stator surface of the stator housing and the second runner surface. The ring bearing has an annular contact surface that engages the second runner surface to axially support the rotor shaft.

    SEAL ASSEMBLY AND AN ASSOCIATED METHOD THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20190145522A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-16

    申请号:US15810183

    申请日:2017-11-13

    IPC分类号: F16J15/34 H02K5/24 H02K5/10

    摘要: A seal assembly, for example, a face seal assembly for a machine such as a turbomachine, and an associated method of operating the seal assembly in the machine are disclosed. The seal assembly includes a rotatable seal component, a non-rotatable seal component, and a plurality of pairs of flexures. The non-rotatable seal component is disposed facing the rotatable seal component. The plurality of pairs of flexures is spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction of the seal assembly. Each pair of the plurality of pairs of flexures includes a first flexure and a second flexure disposed in a stressed condition such that a portion of the first flexure and a portion of the second flexure are in contact with each other. Further, an end of the first flexure and an end of the second flexure are coupled to each other and to the non-rotatable seal component.

    EROSION-SHIELDED TURBINE BLADES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20240133297A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-25

    申请号:US17973198

    申请日:2022-10-24

    IPC分类号: F01D5/00 B23P6/00

    摘要: A method of manufacturing an erosion-shielded turbine blade includes providing a turbine blade for use with a rotary machine. The turbine blade includes an airfoil extending between a root and a tip. The airfoil includes a pressure side and an opposite suction side, and each of the pressure and suction sides extends between a leading edge and a trailing edge. The method also includes printing a green body part by an additive manufacturing process by selectively depositing a binder solution across a particulate erosion-resistant material, and sintering the green body part to produce a post-sintering erosion shield that includes densified erosion-resistant material. The method also includes coupling the erosion shield to the leading edge of the turbine blade.

    Seal assembly
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10788130B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-29

    申请号:US16736856

    申请日:2020-01-08

    摘要: A seal assembly that includes a rotatable seal component, a non-rotatable seal component, and a plurality of pairs of flexures. The non-rotatable seal component is disposed facing the rotatable seal component. The plurality of pairs of flexures is spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction of the seal assembly. Each pair of the plurality of pairs of flexures has a center line and includes a first flexure and a second flexure disposed in a stressed condition such that a portion of the first flexure and a portion of the second flexure are in contact with each other. Further, the first end of the first flexure is inclined at a first angle relative to the center line and a first end of the second flexure is inclined at a second angle relative to the center line. Also, first end of the first flexure and a first end of the second flexure are coupled to each other and to the non-rotatable seal component.