Patent classifications
F05D2250/20
Airfoil with airfoil piece having radial seal
An airfoil includes an airfoil piece that defines at least a portion of an airfoil profile. The airfoil piece has a radial end and a first radial slot in the radial end. An end section has a second radial slot adjacent the first radial slot. The first radial slot and the second radial slot together form a radial seal slot. A seal is disposed in the radial seal slot.
Shielding pockets for case holes
A case is provided for a gas turbine engine. The case includes a wall defining a through-hole. The case also includes first and second pockets adjacent to, and on opposite sides, of the through hole. A method of reducing stress in a case of a gas turbine engine is also provided that includes reducing stress about a through-hole by providing a concavity on each side of the through-hole.
TURBINE ENGINE AIRFOIL
A component, such as for a turbine engine, can include an airfoil with an outer wall defining an exterior surface bounding an interior and defining a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a chord-wise direction and extending between a root and a tip to define a span-wise direction. The component can also include at least one cooling passage within the interior.
TIP RAIL WITH COOLING STRUCTURE USING THREE DIMENSIONAL UNIT CELLS
A tip for a turbine component, turbine rotor blade or tip of a blade, is disclosed. The tip includes a tip plate configured to be coupled at a tip end of an airfoil chamber; and a tip rail extending radially from the tip plate, the tip rail disposed near or at a periphery of the tip plate. The trip rail includes a cooling structure constituting at least a portion of the tip rail. The cooling structure is in fluid communication with the airfoil chamber, and includes a plurality of repeating, three dimensional unit cells. Each unit cell defines a flow passage that is in fluid communication with the flow passage of at least one other unit cell. The flow passages of the 3D unit cells create a tortuous cooling passage in at least a portion of the tip rail.
Airfoil assembly with a scalloped flow surface
A stage for a compressor or a turbine in a turbine engine can include an annular row of airfoils radially extending from corresponding platforms, where each platform can include a fore edge and aft edge and each airfoil can include a leading edge and trailing edge. At least one of the platforms can have a scalloped flow surface including a bulge and a trough.
AIRFOIL WITH SEAL BETWEEN ENDWALL AND AIRFOIL SECTION
An airfoil includes an endwall section and an airfoil section that defines, at least in part, an airfoil profile. The airfoil section includes an internal passage and a rib that sub-divides the internal passage. At least one of the rib or the endwall section includes a seal cavity. A seal is disposed in the seal cavity.
STRUCTURAL ASSEMBLY FOR A COMPRESSOR OF A FLUID FLOW MACHINE
A structural subassembly for a compressor of a turbomachine, which has: a stator with a multiplicity of guide blades which extend in a flow path of the turbomachine, wherein the guide blades have an axis of rotation and are designed to be adjustable in terms of their stagger angle; an inner flow path boundary, which delimits the flow path through the turbomachine radially at the inside; and an outer flow path boundary, which delimits the flow path through the turbomachine radially at the outside. Here, the guide blades have first partial gaps with respect to the outer flow path boundary and/or second partial gaps with respect to the inner flow path boundary. Provision is made whereby the guide blades are arranged and formed such that the axes of rotation of the guide blades have a combined inclination both with respect to the axial direction and in a circumferential direction.
AIRCRAFT NOZZLE
A flap for a variable area exhaust nozzle of a gas turbine engine, having a support structure and a gas shield having a plurality of gas shield segments connected to the support structure and adjacently arranged along a longitudinal direction of the flap corresponding to flow through the nozzle. Each of the gas shield segments has a flowpath section arranged to cooperate with a corresponding flowpath section of an adjacent gas shield segment to define a flowpath surface of the gas shield to bound flow through the nozzle. The gas shield segments are configured to permit the respective flowpath section to move longitudinally relative the support structure in response to thermal expansion of the gas shield.
STEAM TURBINE EXHAUST CHAMBER AND STEAM TURBINE
A steam turbine exhaust chamber includes a casing and a bearing cone disposed in the casing. The casing has a recess provided along at least a part of a circumference of the casing on a radially outer side of a downstream end of the bearing cone and recessed downstream in an axial direction with respect to the downstream end of the bearing cone.
Gas turbine engine component with converging/diverging cooling passage
A component for a gas turbine engine includes a gas path wall having a first surface and a second surface and a cooling hole extending through the gas path wall from the first surface to the second surface. The cooling hole includes an inlet portion having an inlet at the first surface, an outlet portion having an outlet at the second surface, and a transition defined between the inlet and the outlet. The inlet portion converges in a first direction from the inlet to the transition and diverges in a second direction from the inlet to the transition. The outlet portion diverges at least in one of the first and second directions from the transition to the outlet.