IP Library Granted Patent US 9,181,807
Granted Patent B2
US 9,181,807 · App. 13/360,014 · Granted Nov 10, 2015

Blade member and rotary machine

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Patent No.
US 9,181,807
App. No.
13/360,014
Granted
Nov 10, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

The airfoil member of the present invention is provided with an airfoil body, an end wall which is installed at an end part of the airfoil body, a fillet portion which smoothly connects the end part of the airfoil body with the end wall, and a cooling channel which allows a cooling medium to circulate inside the airfoil body and the end wall and in which two main channels are connected so as to bend in a folding manner at a return channel. The return channel is formed so as to run along the fillet portion on a cross section intersecting with a center line of a profile of the airfoil body and also formed in such a manner that the width thereof in the profile thickness direction is greater than the width of the main channel in the profile thickness direction.

Claims (22)

1. An airfoil member comprising:

an airfoil body;

an end wall which is installed at an end part of the airfoil body in a blade span direction and extends so as to intersect in the blade span direction;

a fillet portion which smoothly connects the end part of the airfoil body with the end wall; and

a cooling channel which allows a cooling medium to circulate inside the airfoil body and the end wall and in which two main channels extending along the blade span direction are connected so as to bend in a folding manner at a return channel formed on the end wall side, wherein

the return channel is formed in a flat shape in which a length in the blade span direction is smaller than a length in a profile thickness direction so as to run along the fillet portion on a cross section intersecting with a center line of a profile of the airfoil body,

the return channel is provided with an enlarged portion, wherein the width of the enlarged portion in the profile thickness direction is greater than the width of the main channel in the profile thickness direction, and a channel inner wall of the enlarged portion is expanded in the profile thickness direction,

the channel inner wall of the enlarged portion is expanded outward from the end part of the airfoil body along a gas path surface of the fillet portion, and

the return channel has a base part and a projection part, the projection part is formed at the center of the base part in the profile thickness direction and projects from the base part.

2. The airfoil member according to claim 1 , wherein

the return channel has a cooling face that is inside the blade along the fillet, the fillet being on the outside of the blade.

3. The airfoil member according to claim 1 , wherein

the cooling medium is guided to both sides in the profile thickness direction using the projection part.

4. The airfoil member according to claim 1 , wherein

the return channel is provided with a cooling hole on a partition wall from an upstream side channel of the main channel which is positioned on the upstream side in the return channel.

5. The airfoil member according to claim 2 , wherein

the cooling face is formed in such a manner that a distance of the cooling face from the outer surface of the fillet portion is substantially the same in distance from the outer surface of the airfoil body to the inner surface of the main channel.

6. The airfoil member according to claim 1 , wherein

the channel inner wall of the return channel is expanded to the proximity of an outer edge of the fillet portion in the profile thickness direction.

7. A rotary machine which is provided with the airfoil member described in claim 1 .

8. The airfoil member according to claim 1 , wherein

on the cross section intersecting with the center line of the profile including a partition wall which separates the main channel, the channel inner wall of the return channel is expanded to a suction side and a pressure side with respect to a tangent to the radial direction of the channel inner wall in an inner or outer circumference end of the main channel, wherein the main channel is connected to the return channel.

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 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 30, 2015
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 034858/0078 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 8, 2012
From: KUWABARA, MASAMITSU
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 028173/0211 →