IP Library Granted Patent US 9,617,867
Granted Patent B2
US 9,617,867 · App. 14/078,770 · Granted Apr 11, 2017

Gas turbine

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Patent No.
US 9,617,867
App. No.
14/078,770
Granted
Apr 11, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A gas turbine includes a disk wheel forming a rotor; a rotor blade including a shank mounted on the outer circumference of the disk wheel and a rotor blade profile portion; a stator blade including a stator blade profile portion and an inner circumferential end wall provided on the inner circumferential side of the stator blade profile portion; and a seal fin provided on the shank of the rotor blade so as to face an inside-diameter surface of the inner circumferential end wall of the stator blade. An abradable coating is applied to such a portion of the inside-diameter surface of the inner circumferential end wall of the stator blade that faces the seal fin.

Claims (16)

1. A gas turbine comprising:

disk wheels of which a rotor is formed;

a rotor blade including a shank and a rotor blade profile portion, the shank being mounted on the outer circumference of each of the disk wheels;

a first-stage stator blade including a stator blade profile portion and an inner circumferential end wall provided at the stator blade profile portion on the side of the inner circumference of the stator blade profile portion; and

a seal fin provided on the shank of the rotor blade in such a manner that the seal fin faces an inside-diameter surface lying on the inner circumferential end wall of the stator blade; wherein

an abradable coating is applied to a portion of the inside-diameter surface of the first-stage stator blade lying on the inner circumferential end wall of the first-stage stator blade and facing the seal fin on the shank;

the abradable coating is a ceramic abradable coating applied to the portion of the inside-diameter surface of the first-stage stator blade, to which high-temperature and high-pressure combustion gas is led from a combustor; and

the ceramic abradable coating has an underlying layer provided on an inside-diameter side portion of the inner circumferential end wall of the first-stage stator blade, a cellular ceramic heat barrier and a ceramic layer with cellular structure being provided on the heat barrier.

2. The gas turbine according to claim 1 ,

wherein the ceramic abradable coating is applied to a portion of an inside-diameter surface of a support ring supporting the first-stage stator blade to which the high-temperature and high-pressure combustion gas is led from the combustor.

3. The gas turbine according to claim 1 ,

wherein a sealing device composed of the inside-diameter surface of the inner circumferential end wall and the seal fin narrows a radial seal clearance by a thickness of at least one of the applied abradable coating and the ceramic abradable coating.

4. The gas turbine according to claim 1 ,

wherein a ceramic abradable coating is further applied to a stator blade side portion facing a seal fin provided on a downstream side of the rotor blade.

5. The gas turbine according to claim 1 ,

wherein the ceramic abradable coating is applied to have an axial size greater than the axial size of a leading end of the seal fin.

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 Sep 17, 2014
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033763/0701 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 19, 2013
From: MAEKAWA, HAYATO; NANATAKI, KENJI
To: HITACHI, LTD.
Reel/Frame 031633/0324 →