Gas turbinen rotor blade

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9739156-B2
Application number	US-201414550263-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 21, 2014
Priority date	Nov 27, 2013
Publication date	Aug 22, 2017
Grant date	Aug 22, 2017

Abstract

A turbine or compressor stage of a gas turbine, the rotor blade having a radially outer shroud ( 1 ) which has a sealing fin array having a first sealing fin ( 3.1 ) and a second sealing fin ( 3.2 ) which is adjacent to the first sealing fin and connected thereto by a first groove base ( 10 ) having a circumferential region ( 13 ) of maximum radial height, which is located at a first circumferential position is provided. The sealing fin array has a third sealing fin ( 3.3 ) adjacent to the second sealing fin and opposite to the first sealing fin, the third sealing fin being connected to the second sealing fin by a second groove base ( 20 ) having a circumferential region ( 23 ) of maximum radial height, which is located at a second circumferential position different from the first circumferential position.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A rotor blade for a turbine or compressor stage of a gas turbine, the rotor blade comprising:
a radially outer shroud having a sealing fin array having a first sealing fin and a second sealing fin adjacent to the first sealing fin and connected to the first sealing fin by a first groove base having a circumferential region of maximum radial height and located at a first circumferential position, the sealing fin array having a third sealing fin adjacent to the second sealing fin and opposite to the first sealing fin, the third sealing fin being connected to the second sealing fin by a second groove base having a further circumferential region of maximum radial height located at a second circumferential position different from the first circumferential position.

2. The rotor blade as recited in claim 1 wherein the sealing fin array has at least one further sealing fin connected to an adjacent one of the first, second and third sealing fins by a further groove base having a third circumferential region of maximum radial height located at a further circumferential position different from the first or second circumferential positions.

3. The rotor blade as recited in claim 1 wherein a circumferential position the groove base is further away from the leading edge than the second groove base, the offset being in a direction from a trailing edge toward a leading edge of the rotor blade.

4. The rotor blade as recited in claim 1 wherein the circumferential region and the further circumferential region lie on a straight line.

5. The rotor blade as recited in claim 1 wherein the groove base of the sealing fin array has a first flank sloping upwardly in the circumferential direction, to the circumferential region of maximum radial height, and, oriented oppositely to the first flank, a second flank slopes downwardly in the circumferential direction from the circumferential region of maximum radial height.

6. The rotor blade as recited in claim 5 wherein the first flank slopes monotonically upwardly and the second flank monotonically downwardly toward a second edge of the shroud located opposite to a first edge in the circumferential direction.

7. The rotor blade as recited in claim 5 wherein the first and second flanks merge into each other at an edge or into a plateau at two edges.

8. The rotor blade as recited in claim 1 wherein the groove base of the sealing fin array is at least partly contoured by machining with a geometrically undefined cutting edge or by primary shaping.

9. The rotor blade as recited in claim 8 wherein the groove base is contoured by machining with the geometrically undefined cutting edge, the machining including grinding, thermal or electrochemical machining, or electrical discharge machining.

10. The rotor blade as recited in claim 8 wherein the groove base is primary-shaped, the primary shaping including casting.

11. A gas turbine comprising:
at least one turbine or compressor stage having at least one rotor blade as recited in claim 1 .

12. An aircraft engine gas turbine comprising:
at least one turbine or compressor stage having at least one rotor blade as recited in claim 1 .

13. A method for manufacturing a rotor blade as recited in claim 1 , the method comprising:
contouring at least one groove base of the sealing fin array by machining with a geometrically undefined cutting edge or by primary shaping.

14. The method as recited in claim 13 wherein the groove base is contoured by machining with the geometrically undefined cutting edge, the machining including grinding, thermal or electrochemical machining, or electrical discharge machining.

15. The method as recited in claim 13 wherein the groove base is primary-shaped, the primary shaping including casting.

Assignees

• MTU Aero Engines AG
• Mtu Aero Engines Gmbh

Inventors

• Boeck Alexander
• Schmid Sven

Classifications

• F05D2230/11

  by electrochemical methods · CPC title

• F05D2250/314

  the axes being inclined in relation to each other · CPC title

• Y10T29/49336

  Blade making · CPC title

• F05D2230/21

  by casting · CPC title

• F01D11/08

  for sealing space between rotor blade tips and stator (specially-shaped blade tips therefor F01D5/20) · CPC title