Protection system with gasket for ceramic core processing operation and related method

    公开(公告)号:US10830354B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-10

    申请号:US15983604

    申请日:2018-05-18

    摘要: A protection system for preventing foreign material from lodging in a channel between and/or damage to adjacent ceramic core features during a core processing operation is disclosed. The system includes a gasket sized and shaped to self-lock within the channel and prevent foreign material from lodging within the channel during the core processing operation. A method may include determining a geometrical characteristic of the channel and adjacent ceramic core feature; fabricating a gasket to fit and self-lock within the channel; positioning the gasket within the channel; and performing the core processing operation. The gasket prevents the foreign material from lodging in the channel, reducing subsequent damage to the ceramic core compared to the channel without the gasket.

    Blade with parallel corrugated surfaces on inner and outer surfaces

    公开(公告)号:US10436037B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-08

    申请号:US15217033

    申请日:2016-07-22

    IPC分类号: F01D5/14 F01D5/18

    摘要: A blade includes an airfoil body defined by a concave pressure side outer wall and a convex suction side outer wall that connect along leading and trailing edges and, therebetween, form a radially extending chamber for receiving the flow of a coolant. The airfoil body has an inner surface facing the radially extending chamber and an outer surface, a first corrugated surface on a portion of the outer surface, and a second corrugated surface on the inner surface paralleling the first corrugated surface. The corrugated surface on the outer surface of the airfoil provides wake mixing. The blade may also include an integrally formed impingement cooling structure having a third corrugated surface parallel to the second corrugated surface, which is made possible through additive manufacturing. The impingement cooling structure so formed provides improved cooling of the blade.

    Rotor blade having a flared tip
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10107108B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-23

    申请号:US14699321

    申请日:2015-04-29

    摘要: A rotor blade includes an airfoil having a blade tip and a tip cavity formed at the blade tip. The tip cavity includes a tip cap that is recessed radially inwardly from the tip and surrounded continuously by pressure and suction side walls of the airfoil. The tip cap further includes an aperture that extends through the tip cap and provides for fluid communication between an internal cavity defined within the airfoil and the tip cavity. An exhaust port provides for fluid communication out the tip cavity through one of the pressure side wall, the suction side wall or the trailing edge. A portion of at least one of the suction side wall and the pressure side wall that defines the tip cavity extends obliquely outwardly from the tip cavity with respect to a radial direction.

    TURBINE AIRFOIL MULTILAYER EXTERIOR WALL
    7.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190309634A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-10

    申请号:US15948207

    申请日:2018-04-09

    摘要: An airport having an exterior wall including a plurality of spaced layers for improved cooling and lifetime is disclosed. The airfoil and exterior wall are made by additive manufacturing. The exterior wall includes an exterior layer, an intermediate layer, and an interior layer each separated from adjacent layers by a plurality of standoff members; a plurality of first cooling chambers between the exterior and intermediate layers, the chambers partitioned by a first partitioning wall; a plurality of second cooling chambers between in the intermediate and interior layers, the chambers partitioned by a second partitioning wall; a thermal barrier coating on the exterior layer; a plurality of impingement openings in the intermediate layer and a second plurality of impingement openings in the interior layer; and a plurality of cooling passages in the exterior layer. The exterior layer may also include plateaus on an exterior face through which the cooling passages extend.

    TIP SHROUDED TURBINE ROTOR BLADES
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170183971A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-29

    申请号:US14979788

    申请日:2015-12-28

    IPC分类号: F01D5/22 F01D11/00

    摘要: A rotor blade for a gas turbine that includes an airfoil and a tip shroud. The tip shroud may have a seal rail that projects radially from an outboard surface and extends circumferentially. The tip shroud may further include: a rotationally leading circumferential face; a rotationally trailing circumferential face; and an outboard face of the seal rail. The tip shroud may be circumferentially divided into three parallel reference zones: a rotationally leading edge zone, a rotationally trailing edge zone and, formed between and separating those, a middle zone. The seal rail may include a hollow cavity wholly contained within at least one of the rotationally leading edge zone and the rotationally trailing edge zone. The cavity may include a mouth formed through at least one of the rotationally leading circumferential face, the rotationally trailing circumferential face, and the outboard face of the seal rail.