IP Library Granted Patent US 9,334,804
Granted Patent B2
US 9,334,804 · App. 14/505,564 · Granted May 10, 2016

Acoustic damping device

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Patent No.
US 9,334,804
App. No.
14/505,564
Granted
May 10, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

An acoustic damper includes a neck and a damping volume. The neck has a mouth being in fluid connection with a chamber. The chamber is limited by an inner surface of at least one wall. The acoustic damper device includes a recess located between the mouth of the neck and the inner surface of the wall.

Claims (19)

1. A chamber of a gas turbine, comprising:

at least one wall having an inner surface limiting the chamber; and

an acoustic damper, including:

a neck;

a damping volume, wherein the neck includes a mouth being in fluid connection with the chamber, wherein the at least one wall includes a recess and the mouth of the neck opens into the recess; and

wherein at the inner surface of the at least one wall and adjacent to the recess at least one shield protrudes into the chamber.

2. An acoustic damper, comprising:

a neck and a damping volume, wherein the neck includes a mouth being in fluid connection with a chamber limited by an inner surface of at least one wall, wherein the at least one wall includes a recess and the mouth of the neck opens into the recess, and wherein at the inner surface of the at least one wall and adjacent to the mouth at least one shield protrudes into the chamber.

3. The chamber according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one shield is annular and surrounds the mouth of the neck.

4. The chamber according to claim 1 , comprising:

two shields and the mouth of the neck is located between the shields.

5. The chamber according to claim 1 , wherein inside the chamber a gas flows, and the at least one shield is configured to deflect the gas flow away from the mouth of the neck.

6. The chamber according to claim 1 , wherein an angle between the at least one shield and the at least one wall is 90° or less.

7. The chamber according to claim 1 , wherein the damper is a Helmholtz resonator comprising one or more damping volumes, a half-wave tube, a quarter-wave tube, multi-volume damper, a liner or any kind of acoustic flow through damper.

8. The chamber according to claim 1 , wherein the chamber is a combustor chamber, a mixing chamber, a plenum and/or an air channel of a gas turbine.

9. The chamber according to claim 1 , wherein an angle between the at least one shield and the at least one wall is 60° or less.

10. The chamber according to claim 1 , wherein an angle between the at least one shield and the at least one wall is 45° or less.

11. The chamber according to claim 1 , wherein an angle between the at least one shield and the at least one wall is 30° or less.

12. The chamber according to claim 1 , wherein an angle between the at least one shield and the at least one wall is 20° or less.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 11, 2017
From: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
To: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
Reel/Frame 041686/0884 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 22, 2016
From: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
To: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
Reel/Frame 038216/0193 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 3, 2015
From: BOTHIEN, MIRKO RUBEN; TONON, DEVIS; GENIN, FRANKLIN MARIE; PENNELL, DOUGLAS ANTHONY
To: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
Reel/Frame 034876/0113 →