Steam turbine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10550697-B2
Application number	US-201515572521-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 21, 2015
Priority date	Aug 21, 2015
Publication date	Feb 4, 2020
Grant date	Feb 4, 2020

Abstract

A steam turbine includes: a rotor shaft including a shaft core that rotates about an axis and disk portions that are fixed to the shaft core and expand toward a radially outer side in the shaft core; and a plurality of rotor blades that are fixed to outer peripheries of the disk portions and are disposed in a circumferential direction of the shaft core. A first surface that is toward a first direction including a directional component toward a radially inner side of the shaft core is formed on each of the rotor blades, and a second surface that is toward a second direction including a directional component toward the radially outer side and faces the first surface is formed on each of the disk portions.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A steam turbine, comprising:
a rotor shaft comprising:
a shaft core that rotates about an axis; and
disk portions that are fixed to the shaft core and expand toward a radially outer side in the shaft core; and

a plurality of rotor blades that are fixed to outer peripheries of the disk portions and are disposed in a circumferential direction of the shaft core, wherein
each of the rotor blades comprises:
a blade body that extends in a radial direction,
a platform on a radially inner side of the blade body, and
a blade root on the radially inner side of the platform, wherein
the blade root is fitted into a blade groove in each of the disk portions,

a first surface, that faces toward a first direction, including a directional component toward the radially inner side of the shaft core is formed on an engaging protrusion of each of the rotor blades, wherein the engaging protrusion protrudes in the circumferential direction from the blade root and engages with an engaging recess disposed on the blade groove,
a second surface, that faces toward a second direction, including a directional component toward the radially outer side and facing the first surface is formed on each of the disk portions,
a first recess is disposed on the first surface,
a second recess is disposed on the second surface, and
the first recess and the second recess form a balance hole that decreases a pressure difference between a first side and a second side of each of the disk portions in an axial direction of the disk portions.

2. The steam turbine according to claim 1 , wherein
in the blade root, as the first surface, a blade root inner surface is formed on the engaging protrusion, and
in each of the disk portions, a blade groove outer surface is formed on the engaging recess as the second surface.

3. The steam turbine according to claim 1 , wherein the balance hole is disposed on the radially outer side of a groove bottom on the radially innermost side of the blade groove.

4. The steam turbine according to claim 1 , wherein
in the platform, a platform inner peripheral surface toward the radially inner side is formed as the first surface,
in each of the disk portions, a rotor outer peripheral surface that faces the platform inner peripheral surface and is toward the radially outer side is formed as the second surface, and
the balance hole is formed on the rotor outer peripheral surface.

5. The steam turbine according to claim 1 , wherein in each of the disk portions, a communication hole that communicates in the axial direction is formed between the blade grooves adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Compressor Corp

Inventors

• Koda Takuro

Classifications

• F05D2240/242

  of reaction type · CPC title

• F01D3/00 Primary

  Machines or engines with axial-thrust balancing effected by working-fluid · CPC title

• F05D2240/81

  Cooled platforms · CPC title

• F01D5/3007

  of axial insertion type · CPC title

• F05D2260/15

  Load balancing · CPC title