Turbine rotor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9797256-B2
Application number	US-201314380603-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 26, 2013
Priority date	Feb 28, 2012
Publication date	Oct 24, 2017
Grant date	Oct 24, 2017

Abstract

To provide a turbine rotor which enables mass production with a low-cost apparatus and which capable of suppressing leaning of the rotor shaft after welding to improve the yield, while a turbine blade rotor 12 and the rotor shaft 14 are fit to each other with concave and convex portions 12 a and 14 a and are permitted to be rotated, laser beam L from a laser beam generating device 30 is applied to a joint face 16 along the circumferential direction to weld the welding portion. Then, laser beam L is polarized to temper a region X on the rotor shaft side containing the welding portion with laser beam L. In contrast to residual stress R 1 having a local angular distribution generated during the welding, residual stress R 2 is permitted to be generated over the entire circumference by tempering. Leaning of the rotor shaft 14 after cooling is thereby be suppressed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing a turbine rotor having a turbine blade made of a material containing heat-resistant metal and a rotor shaft made of a material containing carbon steel which are connected to each other by butt welding, comprising the steps of:
welding a joint portion of the turbine blade and the rotor shaft at the joint portion by irradiation with a first beam for one revolution or two revolutions from a starting point of welding in a prescribed rotating direction; and
after the welding, tempering a prescribed range of a rotor shaft side of the joint portion by irradiation with a second beam from the starting point of welding in the prescribed rotating direction, wherein
when said welding is carried out for one revolution, said prescribed range of tempering is from the starting point to a point approximately 270° from the starting point;
when said welding is carried out in two revolutions, said prescribed range of tempering is one revolution plus approximately 270° in a second revolution.

2. The manufacturing method for a turbine rotor according to claim 1 ,
wherein the welding step includes welding by irradiation at the joint portion with the first beam for one revolution or two revolutions from the starting point of welding in the prescribed rotating direction, followed by welding by irradiation with the first beam while decreasing gradually an output of the first beam during approximately a half revolution.

3. The manufacturing method for a turbine rotor according to claim 1 , comprising
generating both the first beam used in the welding and the second beam used in the tempering from a laser beam generating device,
in the welding step, collecting the laser beam generated from the laser beam generating device and applying the beam to the joint portion, and
in the tempering step, distributing the laser beam generated from the laser beam generating device so as to apply to the joint portion over the prescribed range.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Otsubo Hitomi
• Arai Takashi
• Ebisu Motoki

Classifications

• B23K2101/001

  Turbines · CPC title

• F05D2230/234

  Laser welding · CPC title

• C21D1/09

  by direct application of electrical or wave energy; by particle radiation · CPC title

• B23K15/0026

  Auxiliary equipment · CPC title

• B23K15/0006

  specially adapted for particular articles or work · CPC title