Abstract: A rotary machine includes turbine moving blades (50); a casing (10) covering the turbine moving blades (50) so as to define a gap at an outer circumference side of the turbine moving blades; a leaf seal (70) having a seal body (71) that is disposed in the gap so as to protrude radially inward from the casing (10) and is capable of coming into contact with the turbine moving blades (50), and a high-pressure-side plate member (73) that is disposed along a face facing a high pressure side of the seal body (71); and a swirling flow inhibitor (80) that is provided on the high pressure side of the leaf seal (70) in the gap and inhibits a swirl flow flowing through the gap in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: An axial seal structure includes a high-pressure-side regulating member configured to regulate the flow of a fluid from a high-pressure-side region to multiple thin sheet seal pieces arranged with a minute gap between each of the multiple thin sheet seal pieces in a circumferential direction along a high pressure side of the multiple thin sheet seal pieces and along an outer peripheral surface of a rotating shaft. The high-pressure-side regulating member has multiple wires that are flexible. Respective longitudinal directions of the multiple wires are directed towards a direction having a radial component of the rotating shaft. Tips that are radial inner ends of the wires form free ends, and are in close proximity to or in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rotating shaft. The wires that are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction come into contact with each other partially in the longitudinal directions.

Abstract: The turbine related to the invention is a turbine including blades and a structure rotating relative to the blades and having a fluid flowing thereto. The turbine includes step portions that are provided in either radial tip portions of the blades or areas of the structure that face the radial tip portions; sealing fins that extend from the other toward the step portions, and form minute gaps between the sealing fins and the step portions; a flow collision surface that is provided upstream of the sealing fins in a flow direction of the fluid and against which the fluid collides; a protrusion that protrudes toward an upstream side from the flow collision surface; and a facing surface that faces the flow collision surface.

Abstract: A shaft sealing device is provided in an annular space between a rotor and a stator surrounding an outer periphery of the rotor, and divides the annular space in the direction of an axis of the rotor into a high-pressure region and a low-pressure region. The shaft sealing device includes a seal body obtained by stacking a plurality of thin plate sealing pieces in a circumferential direction of the rotor; and a high-pressure side plate that extends from the stator toward the radial inner side so as to run along the high-pressure side of the seal body, and is segmented into a plurality of portions in the circumferential direction, and includes a rigidity imparting member configured to impart rigidity in the direction of the axis to a portion of the surface of the high-pressure side plate that faces the high-pressure region.

Abstract: A shaft sealing device and a rotary machine equipped therewith are provided with a sealing body configured by stacking a plurality of thin sealing pieces; and a low-pressure-side side sealing plate in which a plate surface facing the low-pressure side is pressed against an inner wall surface of the housing facing the direction of the axis by means of the pressure of a fluid applied from a high-pressure side to the low-pressure side. A protrusion for blocking a downward flow toward the inside of the low-pressure-side side sealing plate in the radial direction along the low-pressure side of the sealing body is formed on the inside of the low-pressure-side side sealing plate in the radial direction, and a communication path for guiding the downward flow blocked by means of the protrusion to a low-pressure-side region is formed on the housing.

Abstract: Provided is a shaft sealing apparatus, which includes a seal ring that is installed in an annular space between a rotor and a stator surrounding an outer circumference side of the rotor, that is formed in a divided structure from a movable seal ring and a stationary seal ring whose circumferential ends are adjacent to each other, and that is configured so that the movable seal ring is biased toward a radial outer side thereof by an elastic body, a seal body that is formed by stacking a plurality of thin seal pieces, which extend from the seal ring toward a radial inner side of the rotor, in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and a communicating part that causes the low-pressure side region and the high-pressure side region to communicate with each other.

Abstract: An inner wall surface of a low-pressure-side side plate opposite to a lateral surface of a thin plats is formed along a direction crossing an axial direction of a rotating shaft such that a gap between the inner wall surface and the thin plate gradually decreases from a radially inner side toward a radially outer side of the low-pressure-side side plate.

Abstract: A shaft seal structure capable of preventing a seal body of the shaft seal structure of a rotation body from being held in an inclined posture even when the seal body is inclined is provided. It includes, an accommodation body (9), a seal body (12) including thin plate seal pieces (20), and a plate body (17) covering one end in the axial direction (20d) of the seal body (12). A recessed portion (31) recessing in the axis direction, and a protruding portion projecting to the other side from the recessed portion (31) are formed on one of the plate surface (17c) of the plate body (17) and the inner wall surface (9e) of the accommodation body (9). When the protruding portion abuts the other side and a pocket (X), the recessed portion (31) communicates with the pocket (X) and the fluid low pressure region.

Abstract: The dry gas seal structure has a housing that houses a fluid in a supercritical state, a rotary shaft that penetrates the housing, rotation rings that rotate integrally with the rotary shaft, stationary rings that contact with the rotation rings when the rotary shaft is stopped and stationary positioned in a state in which sealing gaps are formed between the rotation rings and the stationary rings when the rotary shaft rotates, a circulating pipe path that supplies a portion of the fluid to inlet portions of the sealing gaps, a temperature-adjusting device that adjusts the temperature of the fluid flowing through the circulating pipe path, and a control unit that controls operation of the temperature-adjusting device so as to heat the inlet portions of the sealing gaps to a predetermined temperature before the rotary shaft is driven.

Abstract: A shaft seal that is constituted by annularly arranging a plurality of seal segments in the circumferential direction of a rotating shaft, in which each seal segment has a plurality of thin plates that are provided in a predetermined arrangement in the circumferential direction of the rotating shaft, side plates that sandwich the plurality of thin plates from both sides thereof in the axial direction, and retention rings that retain the base ends of the plurality of thin plates and the base ends of the side plates; the distal ends of the thin plates protrude farther toward the rotating shaft than the distal ends of the side plates, and the protrusion length of the distal ends of the thin plates in the vicinity of the end portions in the circumferential direction where adjacent seal segments are connected is set to be less than the protrusion length of the distal ends of the thin plates that are located at the middle of the seal segment in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: An axial seal structure includes a high-pressure-side regulating member (30) that regulates the flow of a fluid from a high pressure side to multiple thin sheet seal pieces (20) arranged with minute gaps from each other in the circumferential direction along the high pressure side of the multiple thin sheet seal pieces (20) and along an outer periphery of a rotating shaft (6). The high-pressure-side regulating member (30) has flexible multiple wires (35). Longitudinal directions of the multiple wires (35) are directed towards a direction having a radial component of the rotating shaft (6). Tips (35b) that are radial inner ends of the wires form free ends, and are brought into close proximity to or into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rotating shaft (6). The wires (35) that are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction come into contact with each other partially in the longitudinal directions.

Abstract: Provided is a method of fabricating a shaft sealing device, in which a plurality of thin plate pieces arranged in a circumferential direction of a rotation shaft are provided and base ends of the thin plate pieces are mutually connected, the method including a stacking step of stacking the plurality of thin plate pieces in one direction, a connecting step of mutually connecting the base ends of the plurality of stacked thin plate pieces to form a stacked body, and a first smoothing step of bringing one lateral end surface of two lateral end surfaces of the stacked body formed by each end portion in a width direction of the plurality of thin plate pieces in contact with a flat surface to smooth the other lateral end surface.

Abstract: There is provided a shaft seal device comprising a seal piece-laminated body (12) where a plurality of thin seal pieces (20) are laminated in the circumferential direction along a rotating shaft, outer ends of the plurality of thin seal pieces in the radial direction are connected to each other, inner ends (20b) of the thin seal pieces in the radial direction are formed as free ends, a small gap (s) is formed at every two thin seal pieces adjacent to each other, and a small gap (s) is formed between the rotating shaft and the seal piece-laminated body (12). A wear-resistant treatment layer (25) is formed on the surface of a portion of the thin seal piece close to the inner end.

Abstract: A self-adjusting seal has a movable seal member fitted in a groove of a dummy ring along a rotor. The movable seal member is biased outwardly in a radial direction by a disc spring, and a gap between the movable seal member and the rotor is large during the start-up or shutdown of rotating turbomachinery. On the other hand, during a rated operation of the rotating turbomachinery, by a fluid having flown into the internal portion of the groove via a gap between a high pressure side end surface of the movable seal member and the groove, the movable seal member is pressed toward the rotor against a biasing force of the disc spring.

Abstract: A seal structure includes a thick abradable film, thereby improving sealing performance. A seal structure (1) is provided with at least one fin (5) that projects in a ring-shape from a circumferential surface of a rotating shaft (3) and that is provided along an axial direction (L) and a seal member (9) having a ring-shaped sealing surface (19) opposed to the fin (5), and on which an abradable layer (25) is formed by thermally spraying abradable material onto the sealing surface (19), the seal structure (1) is provided with tapered portions (21) inclined in a radial direction (K) at end portions of the sealing surface (19) in the axial direction (L).

Abstract: A shaft seal that is constituted by annularly arranging a plurality of seal segments in the circumferential direction of a rotating shaft, in which each seal segment has a plurality of thin plates that are provided in a predetermined arrangement in the circumferential direction of the rotating shaft, side plates that sandwich the plurality of thin plates from both sides thereof in the axial direction, and retention rings that retain the base ends of the plurality of thin plates and the base ends of the side plates; the distal ends of the thin plates protrude farther toward the rotating shaft than the distal ends of the side plates, and the protrusion length of the distal ends of the thin plates in the vicinity of the end portions in the circumferential direction where adjacent seal segments are connected is set to be less than the protrusion length of the distal ends of the thin plates that are located at the middle of the seal segment in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: A shaft seal device that seals between the outer peripheral surface of a rotating shaft and a stationary member that is provided on the outer peripheral side of the rotating shaft, provided with a thin-plate seal that has a plurality of thin plates that are arranged in the circumferential direction of the rotating shaft and an abradable seal that is arranged at a position differing with the thin-plate seal in the axial direction, and having a free-cutting material that is disposed at either one of the rotating shaft and the stationary member, and a seal fin that projects toward the rotating shaft or stationary member from the other of the rotating shaft and the stationary member.

Abstract: In a shaft sealing mechanism which prevents fluid from flowing in an axial direction of a rotor through an annular gap between the rotor and a stator, there are provided a high pressure side plate positioned on a high pressure side region of a plurality of sheets, and a low pressure side plate positioned on a low pressure side region of the plurality of sheets, and construction is such that in a state in which the plurality of sheets is fixed on a stator side, and when under gas pressure, the sheets make contact with each other.

Abstract: A seal structure that is capable of actively controlling the actuation of a movable seal ring, enhancing sealing performance, and enhancing reliability, is provided.

Abstract: A seal structure that achieves a thick abradable film, thereby improving sealing performance, is provided. A seal structure is provided with at least one fin that projects in a ring-shape from a circumferential surface of a rotating shaft and that is provided along an axial direction and a seal member having a ring-shaped sealing surface opposed to the fin, and on which an abradable layer is formed by thermally spraying abradable material onto the sealing surface, the seal structure is provided with tapered portions inclined in a radial direction at end portions of the sealing surface in the axial direction.