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Granted Patent B2
US 9,593,587 · App. 13/580,078 · Granted Mar 14, 2017

Turbine seal fin leakage flow rate control

Inventors: Kazuyuki Matsumoto (Tokyo, JP); Yoshihiro Kuwamura (Tokyo, JP); Hiroharu Oyama (Tokyo, JP); Yoshinori Tanaka (Tokyo, JP); Asaharu Matsuo (Kobe, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
F01D11/001F01D11/02F01D11/08F16J15/447F05D2220/31F05D2240/127F05D2240/55
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Patent No.
US 9,593,587
App. No.
13/580,078
Granted
Mar 14, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a turbine in which seal fins ( 15 ) are provided to a hub shroud ( 41 ) to protrude toward a bottom surface ( 33 a ) of an annular groove ( 33 ), small gaps (H) are formed between the tip ends of the seal fins and the bottom surface of the annular groove, and assuming that the axial distance between a first seal fin ( 15 a ) disposed on the front edge side of the hub shroud among the seal fins and a front edge ( 41 a ) of the hub shroud is (L) and the axial distance between the front edge of the hub shroud and an inside surface ( 33 b ) of the annular groove is (Bu), the first seal fin is disposed to satisfy L/Bu<0.3.

Claims (27)

1. A turbine comprising:

a blade; and

a structure which is formed to surround a periphery of the blade and rotates relative to the blade,

wherein an annular groove that ensures a gap from a tip end of the blade is formed at a position of the structure corresponding to the tip end of the blade,

at least one seal fin protrudes from the tip end of the blade toward a bottom surface of the annular groove, and a small gap in a radial direction is formed between the tip end of the seal fin and the bottom surface of the annular groove,

among the seal fins, assuming that an axial distance between the upstream end side seal fin disposed on the upstream end side of the blade and an upstream end of the blade is L and an axial distance between the upstream end of the blade and an inside surface on an upstream side of the annular groove is Bu, the upstream end side seal fin is disposed to satisfy:

L/Bu≦ 0.1,

a small annular groove is formed in the annular groove at a position corresponding to the upstream end of the blade, and

the upstream end side seal fin is disposed on the upstream end side of the blade among the seal fins is disposed to be in the same plane as an inside surface on a downstream side of the small annular groove.

2. The turbine according to claim 1 ,

wherein the upstream end side seal fin is disposed to be in the same plane as the upstream end of the blade.

3. The turbine according to claim 2 ,

wherein a plurality of the seal fins are provided to the tip end of the blade,

a stepped portion is provided in the annular groove from the upstream end of the blade toward a downstream side, and

the stepped portion is formed so that a height thereof is gradually lowered toward the downstream due to at least one level, and a downstream side edge portion formed with the level is formed to be positioned between the seal fins which are adjacent.

4. The turbine according to claim 3 ,

wherein the small annular groove is formed in the annular groove at a position corresponding to at least any one of the seal fins among the seal fins positioned on the downstream side from the upstream end side seal fin.

5. The turbine according to claim 2 ,

wherein the small annular groove is formed in the annular groove at a position corresponding to at least any one of the seal fins among the seal fins positioned on the downstream side from the upstream end side seal fin.

6. The turbine according to claim 1 ,

wherein a plurality of the seal fins are provided to the tip end of the blade,

a stepped portion is provided in the annular groove from the upstream end of the blade toward a downstream side, and

the stepped portion is formed so that a height thereof is gradually lowered toward the downstream due to at least one level, and a downstream side edge portion formed with the level is formed to be positioned between the seal fins which are adjacent.

7. The turbine according to claim 6 ,

wherein the small annular groove is formed in the annular groove at a position corresponding to at least any one of the seal fins among the seal fins positioned on the downstream side from the upstream end side seal fin.

8. The turbine according to claim 1 ,

wherein the small annular groove is formed in the annular groove at a position corresponding to at least any one of the seal fins among the seal fins positioned on the downstream side from the upstream end side seal fin.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 22, 2012
From: MATSUMOTO, KAZUYUKI; KUWAMURA, YOSHIHIRO; OYAMA, HIROHARU; TANAKA, YOSHINORI; MATSUO, ASAHARU
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 028829/0200 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2010-040920 · Feb 25, 2010 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120321449A1 · Dec 20, 2012