IP Library Granted Patent US 11,814,984
Granted Patent B2
US 11,814,984 · App. 17/615,362 · Granted Nov 14, 2023

Rotor and compressor

Inventors: Hidetaka Okui (Kanagawa, JP); Kondo Takahiro (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
F01D5/3007F04D17/10F04D29/34F01D5/3015F04D29/322F05D2220/32F05D2240/24
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Patent No.
US 11,814,984
App. No.
17/615,362
Granted
Nov 14, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A rotor has formed therein a groove with which a moving blade including a dovetail portion and a platform portion connecting the dovetail portion and a blade portion engages. The groove opens in a surface intersecting the axis of rotation of the rotor, and includes a contacting portion extending obliquely with respect to the axis of rotation and coming into contact with the dovetail portion, a bottom portion of an end portion on the radially inner side of the rotor, a joining portion between the contacting portion and the bottom portion, a platform facing portion facing the platform portion, and a chamfered portion formed on an end surface in the groove-extending direction. The chamfered dimension of the joining portion is greater on the side with an acute angle between the groove and the end surface than on the side with an obtuse angle between the groove and the end surface.

Claims (25)

1. A rotor comprising:

a rotor blade including a dovetail portion, a platform portion connected to the dovetail portion, and a blade portion; and

a rotor disc having a groove configured to mesh with the rotor blade, the rotor disc defining an axial direction with respect to a rotational axis of the rotor disc, a radial direction with respect to a radius of the rotor disc, and a circumferential direction with respect to a circumference of the rotor disc,

wherein the groove includes:

a contact portion open at an axial end surface of the rotor disc on a plane intersecting the rotational axis of the rotor disc, the contact portion extending at an inclined angle with respect to the rotational axis, and increasing in width toward a rotor radial inner side to be in contact with the dovetail portion of the rotor blade,

a bottom portion forming an end portion of the groove on the rotor radial inner side,

a connecting portion between the contact portion and the bottom portion,

a platform-facing portion located on a rotor radially-outer side of the contact portion to face the platform portion of the rotor blade, and

a chamfered portion formed at an axial end of the groove and having a chamfer width, the chamfer width being defined as a distance between a first end of the chamfer portion at an inner surface of the groove and a second end of the chamfer portion at the axial end surface of the rotor disc when viewed in an axial direction of the rotor disc,

wherein the chamfer width of the chamfered portion of the connecting portion when viewed in an axial direction of the rotor is larger on a first circumferential side of the groove on which an angle is formed by the inner surface of the groove and the axial end surface of the rotor disc is an acute angle than on a second circumferential side of the groove on which an angle formed by the inner surface of the groove and the axial end surfce of the rotor disc is an obtuse angle.

2. The rotor according to claim 1 , wherein the chamfer width of the chamfered portion of the connecting portion on the first circumferential side of the groove on which the angle formed by the groove and the axial end surface of the rotor disc is an acute angle is larger than a chamfer width of the chamfered portion of the platform-facing portion on the first circumferential side of the groove on which the angle formed by the groove and the axial end surface of the rotor disc is an acute angle.

3. The rotor according to claim 1 , wherein the chamfer width of the chamfered portion of the connecting portion on the first circumferential side of the groove on which the angle formed by the groove and the axial end surface of the rotor disc is an acute angle is larger on an upstream side in a gas flow direction than on a downstream side in the gas flow direction.

4. The rotor according to claim 1 , wherein the chamfer width of the chamfered portion of the connecting portion is a dimension at a position at which a distance between the chamfered portion and a facing surface of the groove is larger than at any other position.

5. The rotor according to claim 1 , wherein the chamfered portion is formed on an entire periphery of the axial end of the groove.

6. The rotor according to claim 5 , wherein the chamfer width of the chamfered portion of the connecting portion on the first circumferential side on which the angle formed by the groove and the axial end surface of the rotor disc is an acute angle is larger than the chamfer width of the chamfered portions of other portions.

7. The rotor according to claim 1 , wherein a chamfer width of the chamfered portion of both the contact portion and the connecting portion are larger on the first circumferential side of the groove on which the angle formed by the groove and the axial end surface of the rotor disc is an acute angle than on the second circumferential side of the groove on which the angle formed by the groove and the axial end surface of the rotor disc is an obtuse angle.

8. The rotor according to claim 1 , wherein a chamfer width of a section of the chamfered portion extending from the platform-facing portion to the connecting portion is larger on the first circumferential side of the groove on which the angle formed by the groove and the axial end surface of the rotor disc is an acute angle than on the second circumferential side of the groove on which the angle formed by the groove and the axial end surface of rotor disc is an obtuse angle.

9. The rotor according to claim 1 , wherein the platform-facing portion includes a shape facing a shank portion of the rotor blade between the platform portion and the dovetail portion.

10. The rotor according to claim 1 , wherein the groove further includes a non-contact portion on the rotor radial inner side of the connecting portion, and the contact portion is located on the rotor radial inner side of the non-contact portion.

11. A compressor comprising:

a main shaft; and

the rotor according to claim 1 mounted on the main shaft;

wherein the rotor blade of the rotor has a blade root engaging with the rotor.

12. The compressor according to claim 11 , wherein the platform portion of the rotor blade is connected to a root side of the blade portion and has a surface parallel to a centrifugal force application direction of the blade portion, and the dovetail portion of the rotor blade is a connected to the platform portion and disposed on a radial inner side of the platform portion,

a dovetail portion, a platform portion connected to the dovetail portion, and a blade portion.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 24, 2022
From: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058743/0129 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 30, 2021
From: OKUI, HIDETAKA; KONDO, TAKAHIRO
To: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058244/0591 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-109899 · Jun 12, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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