IP Library Granted Patent US 8,485,788
Granted Patent B2
US 8,485,788 · App. 11/917,547 · Granted Jul 16, 2013

Rotor for steam turbine and method of manufacturing the same

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Patent No.
US 8,485,788
App. No.
11/917,547
Granted
Jul 16, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A steam turbine rotor shaft and method of manufacturing the same are provided wherein the sliding characteristics of a journal are improved, and the journal is free from welding cracks and does not need a post heat treatment. The low alloy steel coating layer having better sliding characteristics than 9 to 13% Cr heat resisting steel and an area rate of defects including pores and oxides in a range of 3 to 15% is formed by a high velocity flame spray coating method on a sliding surface of the journal.

Claims (3)

1. A steam turbine rotor made of 9 to 13% wt Cr heat resisting steel, having a sliding surface of a journal is provided with a coating layer of a low alloy steel containing Cr of 0.5 to 2.5 wt %, Mo of 0.4 to 1.1 wt % and the balance being Fe wherein the coating layer is obtained by a high velocity flame spray (HVOF) method and the coating layer has an area ratio of defects including pores and oxides which contain Fe oxides in an arbitrary cross sectional structure of 3 to 15%.

2. The steam turbine rotor according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the coating layer of the low alloy steel is 0.5 to 5 mm.

3. The steam turbine rotor shaft according to claim 1 , wherein the coating layer of the low alloy steel has an adhesion-strength of 40 Mpa or more.

Assignments (4)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE REMOVING PATENT APPLICATION NUMBER 11921683 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 054975 FRAME: 0438. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded May 26, 2023
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 063787/0867 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 13, 2021
From: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 054975/0438 →
CONFIRMATORY ASSIGNMENT Recorded Oct 8, 2014
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033917/0209 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 22, 2014
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033003/0648 →