Patent classifications
F05D2240/301
Turbine blade for a gas turbine engine
A turbine blade for a gas turbine engine has: an airfoil extending along a span from a base to a tip and along a chord from a leading edge to a trailing edge, the airfoil having a pressure side and a suction side, a tip pocket at the tip of the airfoil, the tip pocket at least partially surrounded by a peripheral tip wall defining a portion of the pressure and suction sides; at least one internal cooling passage in the airfoil and having at least one outlet communicating with the tip pocket; and a reinforcing bump located on the pressure side of the airfoil and protruding from a baseline surface of the peripheral tip wall to a bump end located into the tip pocket, the reinforcing bump overlapping a location where a curvature of a concave portion of the pressure side of the airfoil is maximal.
Internal core profile for a turbine nozzle airfoil
An airfoil profile for a second stage turbine nozzle of a gas turbine is provided. The turbine nozzle may include an airfoil portion having an uncoated nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z set forth in Table 1, wherein the X, Y, and Z coordinates are distances in inches measured in a Cartesian coordinate system, the corresponding X and Y coordinates, when connected by a smooth continuous arc, define one of a plurality of airfoil profile sections at each Z distance, and the plurality of airfoil profile sections, when joined together by smooth continuous arcs, define an airfoil shape.
Compressor rotor blade airfoils
A rotor blade includes an airfoil having an airfoil shape. The airfoil shape has a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table I. The Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z are non-dimensional values from 0% to 100% convertible to dimensional distances expressed in a unit of distance by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z by a scaling factor of the airfoil in the unit of distance. The X and Y values, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each Z value. The airfoil profile sections at Z values are joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
Impeller with chordwise vane thickness variation
An impeller for a centrifugal compressor, the impeller comprising: a hub defining a rotation axis about which the impeller is rotatable; and a vane extending from the hub, the vane having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a chord defined therebetween, a pressure side of the vane and a suction side of the vane opposite the pressure side, a vane thickness defined transversely between the pressure side and the suction side, the vane thickness reducing over at least a downstream 40% of the chord, the vane thickness having a trailing edge thickness value at the trailing edge of between 40% and 80% of a maximum thickness value of the vane thickness.
Blade root shank profile
Turbine components, such as blades, having a shank portion with an uncoated, nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z set forth in Table 1, Table 2, or Table 1 and Table 2. X and Y are distances in inches which, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define shank portion profile section edges at each Z distance in inches. The shank portion profile section edges at the Z distances are joined smoothly with one another to form a complete shank shape.
Throat distribution for a rotor and rotor blade having camber and location of local maximum thickness distribution
A rotor for a compressor includes a hub and a plurality of airfoils having a root, a tip opposite the root and a span that extends from 0% at the root to 100% at the tip. Each of the airfoils is coupled to the hub at the root and is spaced apart from adjacent ones of the airfoils over the span by a throat dimension. The throat dimension has a maximum value at a spanwise location between 60% of the span and 90% of the span of the adjacent ones of the airfoils. The throat dimension between 90% of the span and the tip of the adjacent ones of the plurality of airfoils has a first value that is less than 70% of the maximum value.
Ceiling fan
A ceiling fan comprising a motor system. The motor system is mounted around a motor shaft. The motor shaft couples to a downrod for suspending the ceiling fan from a structure. The motor shaft and motor are encased by a motor housing. The motor housing comprises hub arms for mounting a plurality of blade holders. The blade holders coupled to a plurality of blades rotatable about the motor during operation. The downrod comprises a wire disk mounting guy wiring to the downrod. A retention rod is utilized internal of the motor and downrod as a secondary retention method. An electrical connector is internal of the motor shaft and electrically couples to the stator to power the motor.
Cooled turbine vane
The invention relates to a turbomachine turbine vane comprising a root having a blade (12) comprising a leading edge (16) and a trailing edge (17) and a lower surface wall (14) and an upper surface wall (13), as well as: a manifold for cooling (18) the leading edge (16); a supply line (19) for collecting air from the root and supplying the manifold (18); a side cavity (23) extending along the upper surface wall (13) and supplied with air from the root, to form a heat shield facing the supply line (19); and a circuit forming a trombone comprising a middle portion (24) extending along the supply line (19) and extending laterally to the upper surface wall (13), the middle portion (24) being supplied by the supply line at the tip of the blade (12).
TURBINE BLADE AND STEAM TURBINE INCLUDING THE SAME
A turbine blade includes an airfoil portion having a pressure surface and a suction surface each of which extends between a leading edge and a trailing edge, and a platform including an end wall to which a base-end portion of the airfoil portion is connected. The end wall includes a concave portion on suction surface disposed at least in a region of suction surface of the end wall, and a convex portion on pressure surface disposed at least in a region of pressure surface of the end wall. The concave portion on suction surface has a bottom point located on an axially upstream side of a tangent point on the suction surface, the suction surface having a tangential line extending in an axial direction through the tangent point.
Shrouded blades with improved flutter resistance
A bladed rotor system includes a circumferential row of blades mounted on a rotor disc. Each blade includes an airfoil and a shroud attached to the airfoil at a span-wise height of the airfoil. The row of blades includes a first set of blades and a second set of blades. The airfoils in the first and second set of blades have substantially identical cross-sectional geometry about a rotation axis. The blades of the second set are distinguished from the blades of the first set by a geometry of the shroud that is unique to the respective set, whereby the natural frequency of a blades in the first and second sets differ by a predetermined amount. Blades of the first set and the second set alternate in a periodic fashion in said circumferential row, to provide a frequency mistuning to stabilize flutter of the blades.