Guide vane ring for a turbomachine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10280775-B2
Application number	US-201615006356-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 26, 2016
Priority date	Feb 2, 2015
Publication date	May 7, 2019
Grant date	May 7, 2019

Abstract

The invention relates to a guide vane ring with at least one guide vane ring segment for a turbomachine, including a plurality of guide vanes arranged radially around an axis of rotation, an outer shroud arranged radially on the outer side of the guide vanes, and an inner shroud arranged radially on the inner side of the guide vanes, wherein the outer shroud or the inner shroud has at least one expansion joint, wherein the guide vane ring segment is formed in one piece with the guide vanes, the outer shroud, and the inner shroud and the at least one expansion joint is sealed in each case by at least one sealing device arranged in the respective expansion joint.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A guide vane ring for a turbomachine with at least one guide vane ring segment comprising at least one guide vane arranged radially around an axis of rotation, an outer shroud arranged radially on the outer side of the guide vane, and an inner shroud arranged radially on the inner side of the guide vane, with the outer shroud or the inner shroud having at least one expansion joint, wherein the guide vane ring segment with the guide vane, the outer shroud, and the inner shroud is formed in one piece and the at least one expansion joint is sealed by at least one sealing device arranged in the expansion joint,
wherein the sealing device has an elastically and/or plastically deformable sealing element, which is configured in one piece with the outer shroud or inner shroud having the expansion joints.

2. The guide vane ring according to claim 1 , wherein the guide vane ring segment is manufactured by an additive manufacturing method.

3. The guide vane ring according to one of claim 1 , wherein the guide vane ring is composed of a single guide vane ring segment that runs 360° around the axis of rotation.

4. The guide vane ring according to claim 1 , wherein the sealing device is manufactured in one piece with the outer shroud or the inner shroud.

5. The guide vane ring according to claim 1 , wherein the inner shroud or the outer shroud has the expansion joints.

6. The guide vane ring according to claim 1 , wherein the sealing device and the outer shroud and/or the inner shroud are formed from the same material.

7. The guide vane ring according to claim 1 , wherein the elastically and/or plastically deformable sealing element is configured as a spring-like, corrugated, S-shaped and/or meandering element.

8. The guide vane ring according to claim 1 , wherein, in the region of the mutually adjacent sides of the outer shroud and/or inner shroud of at least two guide vane ring segments, an expansion joint is located, in which at least one sealing element is arranged.

9. The guide vane ring according to claim 8 , wherein the expansion joint is located entirely in one of the mutually adjacent lateral regions of the outer shroud and/or inner shroud or the expansion joint is located in portions by respectively mutually adjacent recesses in the mutually adjacent lateral regions of the outer shroud and/or inner shroud.

10. The guide vane ring ( 10 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one guide vane ring is in a gas turbine.

11. A method for the additive manufacture of a guide vane ring for a turbomachine with at least one guide vane ring segment comprising at least one guide vane arranged radially around an axis of rotation, an outer shroud arranged radially on the outer side of the guide vane, and an inner shroud arranged radially on the inner side of the guide vane, with the outer shroud or the inner shroud having at least one expansion joint, comprising at least the following steps:
local melting of a powder layer or a liquid layer by a high-energy beam that is produced by a radiation source and diverted by a diverting device for local fusion and/or sintering of the powder layer or the liquid layer to form a first component layer;
deposition and local melting of further powder layers or liquid layers on the first component layer for local generation of further component layers on the first component layer;
repetition of the deposition and local melting of the powder layer or liquid layer for the one-piece manufacture of the guide vanes, the outer shroud, the inner shroud, and, in each case, at least one sealing device arranged in the at least one expansion joint, by which this expansion joint is sealed,
wherein no additional fabricating steps are required for manufacturing the at least one expansion joint.

12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the sealing device comprises a sealing element that is mounted loosely in a receiving region of the expansion joint.

13. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the sealing device is designed as a labyrinth seal in one piece with the outer shroud or inner shroud having the expansion joints.

14. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the method is an additive manufacturing method, selected from the group consisting of selective laser melting and laser sintering.

15. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the sealing device has an elastically and/or plastically deformable sealing element, which is configured in one piece with the outer shroud or inner shroud having the expansion joints.

16. The method according to claim 15 , wherein the elastically and/or plastically deformable sealing element is configured as a spring-like, corrugated, S-shaped and/or meandering element.

Assignees

• MTU Aero Engines AG

Inventors

• Liebl Christian
• Scharl Richard
• Kirchner Daniel
• Buck Alexander
• Hess Thomas

Classifications

• F01D9/047 Primary

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• B22F10/25

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• B22F10/28

  Powder bed fusion, e.g. selective laser melting [SLM] or electron beam melting [EBM] · CPC title

• F01D9/04 Primary

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• B23K26/342

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