IP Library Granted Patent US 9,206,705
Granted Patent B2
US 9,206,705 · App. 13/669,947 · Granted Dec 8, 2015

Sealing device and gas turbine having the same

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Patent No.
US 9,206,705
App. No.
13/669,947
Granted
Dec 8, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a sealing device which seals between an outside space between an outer side in the radial direction of an external diffuser which has a tubular shape and forms an exhaust channel through which combustion gas rotating a rotor of a gas turbine passes in the inner side in the radial direction and an outside member which is disposed outside the external diffuser with an interval between them in the radial direction, and the exhaust channel by an end of the external diffuser, a first seal plate group and a second seal plate group in which a plurality of seal plates, which extend to the outer side in the radial direction from the end of the tubular external diffuser and reach the outside member, are laminated in contact with each other, and a spacer which maintains the first seal plate group and the second seal plate group with an interval in an axial direction in which a rotational axis of the rotor extends are provided.

Claims (25)

1. A sealing device which seals between an outside space between an outer side in the radial direction of an external diffuser which has a tubular shape and forms an exhaust channel through which combustion gas rotating a rotor of a gas turbine passes in the inner side in the radial direction and an outside member which is disposed outside the external diffuser with an interval between them in the radial direction, and the exhaust channel by an end of the external diffuser, the sealing device comprising:

a first seal plate group and a second seal plate group which include a plurality of seal plates, wherein the plurality of seal plates, which extend to the outer side in the radial direction from the end of the tubular external diffuser and reach the outside member, are laminated in contact with each other; and

a spacer is sandwiched between the first seal plate group and the second seal plate group, and maintains an interval between the first seal plate group and the second seal plate group in an axial direction in which a rotational axis of the rotor extends,

wherein the spacer includes an outside spacer which maintains an interval between an outer side portion in the radial direction of the first seal plate group and an outer side portion in the radial direction of the second seal plate group, and an inside spacer which maintains an interval between an inner side portion in the radial direction of the first seal plate group and an inner side portion in the radial direction of the second seal plate group, and

wherein a seal air hole which penetrates from the outer side in the radial direction toward the inner side in the radial direction is formed in the outside spacer.

2. The sealing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the plurality of seal plates of the first seal plate group or the second seal plate group are configured so as to have a plurality of divided pieces which are aligned in a circumferential direction around the rotor, and one divided piece forms a portion of one of the seal plates in the circumferential direction, and

a position of a parting line in the circumferential direction in the plurality of divided pieces which configure the first seal plate group or the second seal plate group, and a position of a parting line in the circumferential direction in other divided pieces which contact the divided pieces on a surface facing the axial direction wherein the divided pieces configures the first seal plate group or the second seal plate group are different from each other in the circumferential direction.

3. The sealing device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an intermediate spacer which maintains an interval between the first seal plate group and the second seal plate group between the outside spacer and the inside spacer.

4. The sealing device according to claim 3 , further comprising:

a connector which penetrates the first seal plate group, the intermediate spacer, and the second seal plate group and brings the first seal plate group and the second seal plate group into close contact with the intermediate spacer,

wherein a combustion gas side through hole, which is formed in the second seal plate group and which the connector penetrates, is formed so as to be larger than the outer diameter of the connector so that the second seal plate group moves relative to the connector in the radial direction.

5. The sealing device according to claim 4 ,

wherein a thickness in the axial direction of the second seal plate group is formed so as to be smaller than an interval in the axial direction which is formed between the intermediate spacer and a nut side washer of the connector.

6. The sealing device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an outside mounting tool which sandwiches the outer side portion in the radial direction of the first seal plate group, the outside spacer, and the outer side portion in the radial direction of the second seal plate group between the outside member and the outside mounting tool in the axial direction and mounts the outer side portions of the first and second seal plate groups and the outside spacer to the outside member; and

an inside mounting tool which sandwiches the inner side portion in the radial direction of the first seal plate group, the inside spacer, and the inner side portion in the radial direction of the second seal plate group between the external diffuser and the inside mounting tool in the axial direction and mounts the inner side portions of the first and second seal plate groups and the inside spacer to the external diffuser,

wherein any one mounting tool of the inside mounting tool and the outside mounting tool mounts the first seal plate group and the second seal plate group so as to be able to move relative to the external diffuser or the outside member to be mounted in the radial direction.

7. A gas turbine comprising:

the sealing device according to claim 1 ;

a compressor compressing air; and

a combustor which combusts fuel in the air compressed by the compressor and generates the combustion gas.

8. The gas turbine according to claim 7 , further comprising:

a seal air channel which is formed in the outside member and supplies seal air between the first seal plate group and the second seal plate group.

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 Nov 6, 2012
From: HASHIMOTO, SHINYA; TEZUKA, NORIKAZU; HIROKAWA, KAZUHARU
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 029250/0180 →