IP Library Granted Patent US 8,967,968
Granted Patent B2
US 8,967,968 · App. 13/362,755 · Granted Mar 3, 2015

Turbine rotor blade

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Patent No.
US 8,967,968
App. No.
13/362,755
Granted
Mar 3, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A concave (a relief portion) is formed along a circumferential direction of a rotor in a trailing-edge end surface of a platform. In the trailing-edge end surface disposed outside of the relief portion in the radial direction of the rotor an opening of a cooling channel is provided. The end surface is formed thicker in the radial direction of the rotor at the opening of the cooling channel than at a position corresponding to a trailing-edge end of a hub of an airfoil portion connected to the platform.

Claims (23)

1. A turbine blade comprising:

a base portion which is fixed to a rotor;

an aerofoil portion which extends in a radial direction of the rotor and which includes a blade surface on a pressure side and a suction side, the blade surface on the pressure side and the suction side forming an aerofoil profile between a leading edge and a trailing edge; and

a platform which is provided between the base portion and the aerofoil portion, and which has a concave formed in a trailing-edge end portion of the platform along a circumferential direction of the rotor and a cooling channel formed inside the platform with an opening to an end surface of the trailing-edge end portion disposed outward from the concave in the radial direction of the rotor,

wherein a thickness of the end surface constantly decreases in the radial direction of the rotor from an edge of the platform on the suction side of the aerofoil portion toward the trailing-edge end of a connecting portion between the aerofoil portion and the platform, where the edge of the platform on the suction side is an outermost edge of the platform on the suction side, the outermost edge extending along an axial direction of the rotor.

2. The turbine blade according to claim 1 ,

wherein a plurality of the cooling channels are formed in the platform along the axial direction of the rotor next to each other, and

wherein one of the plurality of the cooling channels that is arranged on the pressure side of the aerofoil portion has a smaller diameter than at least another one of the plurality of the cooling channels that is arranged on the suction side of the aerofoil portion.

3. The turbine blade according to claim 1 ,

wherein the end surface gradually decreases in a thickness in the radial direction of the rotor from an edge of the platform on the pressure side of the aerofoil portion toward the trailing-edge end of the connecting portion.

4. The turbine blade according to claim 1 or 3 ,

wherein a plurality of the cooling channels are formed in the platform along the axial direction of the rotor next to each other, and

wherein one of the plurality of the cooling channels that is arranged closer to the trailing-edge end of the connecting portion has a smaller diameter than at least another one of the plurality of the cooling channels that is arranged farther from the trailing-edge end of the connecting portion.

5. The turbine blade according to claim 1 ,

wherein a plurality of the cooling channels includes a cooling channel which is formed in the trailing-edge end portion of the platform along a shape of a trailing edge side of the blade surface on the suction side.

6. The turbine blade according to claim 4 ,

wherein the plurality of the cooling channels includes a cooling channel which is formed in the trailing-edge end portion of the platform along a shape of a trailing edge side of the blade surface on the suction side.

7. A turbine blade comprising:

a base portion which is fixed to a rotor;

an aerofoil portion which extends in a radial direction of the rotor and which includes a blade surface on a pressure side and a suction side, the blade surface on the pressure side and a suction side forming an aerofoil profile between a leading edge and a trailing edge; and

a platform which is provided between the base portion and the aerofoil portion, and which has a concave formed in a trailing-edge end portion of the platform along a circumferential direction of the rotor and a cooling channel formed inside the platform with an opening to an end surface of the trailing-edge end portion disposed outward from the concave in the radial direction of the rotor,

wherein the platform extends along the circumferential direction over an entire width of the platform from a first edge of the platform on the suction side to a second edge of the platform on the pressure side, and

wherein a thickness of the end surface constantly decreases in the radial direction of the rotor from the first edge of the platform on the suction side toward the trailing-edge end of a connecting portion between the aerofoil and the platform.

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 Feb 3, 2015
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 034872/0772 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 16, 2012
From: UMEHARA, TAKESHI; UEDA, OSAMU; WATANABE, KOJI
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 028050/0215 →