Method of manufacturing a component of a rotary machine and component manufactured using said method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12090569-B2
Application number	US-202017083612-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 29, 2020
Priority date	May 31, 2016
Publication date	Sep 17, 2024
Grant date	Sep 17, 2024

Abstract

A component of a rotary machine formed from a blank, the component includes a center, a boundary surface, and at least one inner passage extending from the center up to the boundary surface and being at least partly closed. The inner passage is formed by a first subtractive machining in which a part of the passage that at least includes an opening of the passage into the boundary surface as well as a cut-out in the top surface is manufactured by machining production, and subsequently the passage is completed by a build-up production on the blank.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A component of a rotary machine formed from a blank, the component comprising:
a center;
a boundary surface; and
at least one inner passage extending from the center to the boundary surface and being at least partly closed, the at least one inner passage being formed by a first subtractive machining in which a part of the at least one inner passage at least comprises an opening of the at least one passage into the boundary surface as well as a cut-out in a top surface, the cut-out being manufactured by the first subtractive machining, and the at least one inner passage subsequently completed by a building up of the blank on the top surface such that the blank has a first portion and the building up forms a second portion, the first and second portions having different microstructures with a transition between the first and second portions, a portion of each of the first and second portions forming a portion of a surface of the at least one inner passage.

2. The component in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one inner passage comprises a plurality of inner passages, and adjacent passages of the plurality of inner passages are separated by a partition wall, the partition wall being a blade.

3. The component in accordance with claim 2 , wherein each of the adjacent passages of the plurality of inner passages are separated by a respective partition wall, a respective part of each respective inner passage of the plurality of inner passages is manufactured in the first subtractive machining, each respective part at least partially delimiting the opening of each respective inner passage into the boundary surface and partially delimiting an opening of the respective inner passage into a cut-out in the top surface, and each partition wall is completed by the building up.

4. The component in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the component is an impeller or a stator or a diffuser of a pump, of a turbine, of a compressor, of a compactor or of an expander.

5. The component in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the component is an impeller or a stator or a diffuser of the rotary machine.

6. The component in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one inner passage extends from the center to the boundary surface, and is bound by at least one partition wall, the at least one partition wall being completed only by the building up.

7. The component in accordance with claim 1 , wherein a start of the at least one passage is disposed at the center and is separated from a central opening by a ring body in a completed state of the component.

8. The component in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the building up the blank includes building up the blank from formless material or a neutral-shape material.

Assignees

• Sulzer Management Ag

Inventors

• RETTBERG Robin
• KRäNZLER THOMAS
• WÜRMS Andreas

Classifications

• F05D2230/50

  Building or constructing in particular ways · CPC title

• F05D2230/10

  by removing material · CPC title

• F04D29/448

  bladed diffusers · CPC title

• F04D29/444

  Bladed diffusers · CPC title

• F04D29/284

  for compressors · CPC title