IP Library Granted Patent US 8,182,203
Granted Patent B2
US 8,182,203 · App. 12/411,569 · Granted May 22, 2012

Turbine blade and gas turbine

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Patent No.
US 8,182,203
App. No.
12/411,569
Granted
May 22, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A turbine blade and a gas turbine are provided in which the velocity of cooling fluid at the inlet of a pin fin region is improved so that the cooling performance at the trailing edge of the turbine blade can be improved. It includes an airfoil; a supply channel extending through the interior of the airfoil in the span direction, through which cooling fluid flows; a pin fin channel extending from the supply channel along the center line of the airfoil toward the trailing edge of the airfoil and opening at the trailing edge to the exterior of the airfoil; a plurality of gap pin fins projecting from a pair of opposing inner walls that constitute the pin fin channel at a region at the supply channel side of the pin fin channel and forming a gap therebetween extending in the span direction; pin fins connecting the pair of opposing inner walls at a region at the trailing edge side of the pin fin channel; and an insertion portion disposed in the gap to decrease the area of the channel of the cooling fluid at the region at the supply channel side of the pin fin channel.

Claims (10)

1. A turbine blade comprising:

an airfoil;

a supply channel extending through the interior of the airfoil in the span direction, through which cooling fluid flows;

a pin fin channel extending from the supply channel along the center line of the airfoil toward the trailing edge of the airfoil and opening at the trailing edge to the exterior of the airfoil;

a plurality of gap pin fins projecting from a pair of opposing inner walls that constitute the pin fin channel at a region at the supply channel side of, the pin fin channel and forming a gap between ends of the gap pin fins such that the ends are not in contact with each other, said gap extending in the span direction;

pin fins connecting the pair of opposing inner walls at a region at the trailing edge side of the pin fin channel; and

an insertion portion disposed in the gap to decrease the area of the channel of the cooling fluid at the region at the supply channel side of the pin fin channel.

2. The turbine blade according to claim 1 , wherein the cross-sectional area of the insertion portion decreases from the supply channel toward the trailing edge.

3. The turbine blade according to claim 1 , wherein the ends of the gap pin fins and the insertion portion are in contact.

4. A gas turbine comprising the turbine blade according to claim 1 .

Assignments (3)
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 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 26, 2015
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 035101/0029 →