IP Library Granted Patent US 9,919,392
Granted Patent B2
US 9,919,392 · App. 14/650,738 · Granted Mar 20, 2018

Method for manufacturing turbine rotor blade

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Patent No.
US 9,919,392
App. No.
14/650,738
Granted
Mar 20, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for manufacturing a turbine rotor blade wherein warping, bending and twisting of the entire rotor blade, which is provided with an excess thickness portion after a forging step, can be suppressed. In the forging step in a process for manufacturing a rotor blade ( 23 ), the forging is hot-forged such that the distance (the excess thickness amount) from the blade surface of the blade section ( 23 ) to the surface of the excess thickness section is substantially uniform along the entire periphery of a cross section of the blade section ( 23 ) and the excess thickness section ( 31 ) perpendicular to the blade length direction, and such that the amount of the excess thickness in the blade length direction, which is the thickness of the excess thickness section ( 31 ), gradually increases toward the blade tip from a prescribed position.

Claims (7)

1. A method for manufacturing a turbine rotor blade in which a plurality of the rotor blades are fixed to be arranged along the peripheral direction of a rotor on the outer periphery of the rotor rotatably supported in a turbine, comprising:

a forging step of providing an excess thickness section on a blade section of the rotor blade, and molding a forging, in which an excess thickness amount which is the thickness of the excess thickness section increases from a prescribed position of the blade section in a blade length direction toward a blade tip side, by die forging;

a machining step of cutting the excess thickness section from the forging and forming the blade section; and

a molding step of molding the forging, in which the excess thickness amount is substantially uniform in the entire periphery of a cross section of the blade section perpendicular to the blade length direction in at least a portion of the blade section and the excess thickness section in the blade length direction, by die forging in the forging step.

2. The method for manufacturing a turbine rotor blade according to claim 1 , wherein the prescribed position is any position between a base end section of the blade section and a center section of the blade section.

3. The method for manufacturing a turbine rotor blade according to claim 1 , wherein the prescribed position is any position between a base end section of the blade section and a position of a stub which is formed on the blade section.

4. The method for manufacturing a turbine rotor blade according to claim 1 , wherein the prescribed position is any position between a base end section of the blade section and a position of ¼ of the length of the blade section in the blade length direction.

Assignments (3)
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 Jun 9, 2015
From: HATANO, KOHEI; OYAMA, HIROHARU; MACHIDA, MOTONARI; HARAGUCHI, HIDETAKA; ISHII, KEN; KAMITANI, KEISUKE; MATSUMURA, TAKUMI; OTA, TAKAHIRO
To: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 035811/0098 →