Erodable Or Permanently Deformable Patents (Class 415/173.4)
  • Patent number: 9291065
    Abstract: A turbine including a plurality of stages, each stage including a rotatable disk and blades carried thereby. An annular gap defined between a pair of adjacent rotatable disks. A sealing band is located in opposing sealing band receiving slots formed in the adjacent disks to seal the annular gap, the sealing band including band engagement structure. A disk engagement structure is defined in the pair of adjacent rotatable disks. The disk engagement structure extends axially into the pair of adjacent rotatable disks and circumferentially aligns with the band engagement structure. A clip member is positioned in engagement with the sealing band through the band engagement structure and in engagement with the pair of adjacent rotatable disks through the disk engagement structure. The clip member restricts movement of the sealing band in only a circumferential direction of the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Christopher J Muller, David J Mitchell, Michael J Olejarski
  • Patent number: 9249680
    Abstract: Turbine and compressor casing abradable component embodiments for turbine engines, with composite grooves and vertically projecting asymmetric non-parallel walls or trapezoidal cross section ridges that reduce, redirect and/or block blade tip airflow leakage downstream into the grooves rather than from turbine blade airfoil high to low pressure sides. In some embodiments at least one angularly oriented first groove formed in the ridge plateau is adapted for angular orientation upstream a turbine blade rotation direction to resist blade tip airflow leakage and the ridges are separated by second grooves that are skewed relative to the respective ridge plateaus and the substrate that are also adapted for orientation upstream the turbine blade rotation direction to resist blade tip airflow leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Ching-Pang Lee, Gm Salam Azad, Zhihong Gao, Neil Hitchman, Nicholas F. Martin, Jr., David G. Sansom, Ramesh Subramanian
  • Patent number: 9151174
    Abstract: A sealing assembly for use with a rotary machine is described herein. The sealing assembly includes a stator shroud coupled to the casing. The stator shroud includes an inner surface that at least partially defines the cavity within the casing. At least one stator labyrinth tooth extends outwardly from the stator shroud inner surface towards a rotor assembly positioned within the casing. At least one protective member is coupled to the stator shroud upstream from the at least one stator labyrinth tooth to facilitate reducing a flow of combustion gas across the at least one stator labyrinth tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Rohit Chouhan
  • Patent number: 9115596
    Abstract: A blade outer air seal (BOAS) for a gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a seal body having a radially inner face and a radially outer face that axially extend between a leading edge portion and a trailing edge portion. At least one of the leading edge portion and the trailing edge portion includes a solid wall and a perforated wall. At least a portion of the perforated wall is spaced from the solid wall such that a passage extends between the solid wall and the perforated wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Ellis Clouse
  • Publication number: 20150139787
    Abstract: An annular turbine engine stator portion including a structural support provided in succession with a bonding underlayer and with an abradable coating formed by a resin filled with microbeads, the bonding underlayer for fastening the abradable coating to the structural support being formed by fiber reinforcement made of long fibers having a peripheral portion of the reinforcement that is secured to the structural support and having a central portion thereof that is impregnated with the resin filled with microbeads while the abradable coating is being fastened to the structural support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Philippe, Charles Alain Le Biez, Nicolas Cornacchia, Lionel Marcin, Pierre Marie Montfort
  • Publication number: 20150118031
    Abstract: The various embodiments of the present invention provide a method for installing a tip shroud on a turbine disk in a steam turbine. A tip shroud in the form of a ring is installed on the outer periphery of the turbine disk to prevent a leakage of the driving fluid. The method comprises the steps of mounting turbine disk on to a rotor shaft, tapering the outer diameter of the turbine disk and the inner diameter of the tip shroud, aligning and mounting the tapered surface of the turbine disk with the tapered surface of the tip shroud and fastening the tip shroud on the turbine disk with the help of fasteners. The bolted tip shroud is finally machined to reduce the outer peripheral diameter to appropriate dimensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: KRISHNA KUMAR BINDINGNAVALE RANGA
  • Publication number: 20150093237
    Abstract: A ceramic matrix composite component, turbine system and fabrication process are disclosed. The ceramic matrix composite (CMC) component includes a CMC material, an environmental barrier coating (EBC) on the CMC material, and a hard wear coating applied over the EBC. The turbine system includes a rotatable CMC component having a hard wear coating, and a stationary turbine component, the stationary turbine component having an abradable coating arranged and disposed to be cut by the silicon carbide material. The fabrication process includes positioning the rotatable CMC a pre-determined distance from the stationary turbine component and rotating the rotatable CMC component. The hard wear coating on the rotatable CMC component cuts the abradable coating on the stationary turbine component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: John McConnell DELVAUX
  • Patent number: 8967972
    Abstract: A turbine blade is provided and includes a tip end carrying a shroud and at least one fin, which extends radially away from the shroud. The fin includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall, which are spaced apart, arranged parallel to each other, and are connected to the shroud, and a cutting edge, which is connected to the first and second sidewalls. The cutting edge thereby creates a hollow space between the sidewalls, the shroud, and the cutting edge, and further extends radially away from the first and second sidewalls. Also provided is a method of manufacturing the blade by casting the blade as single piece with the hollow fin or by forging the blade; and machining the fin to create the first and second sidewalls and cutting edge thereby opening the hollow space between said sidewalls and the cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Herbert Brandl, Igor Tsypkakyin, Philipp Indlekofer
  • Publication number: 20150044035
    Abstract: An abradable coating for a gas turbine engine includes a bond coat, an intermediate layer, and a porous layer. The bond coat includes a metal coating and a thickness from 0.152 millimeters to 0.229 millimeters. The intermediate layer includes a ceramic material and a thickness from 0.051 millimeters to 0.381 millimeters. The porous layer includes a porous ceramic material. The porous layer also includes a porosity greater than thirty-five percent of a volume of the porous layer. The porous layer further includes a thickness from 0.127 millimeters to 1.524 millimeters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: SOLAR TURBINES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Brent Allen Cottom, Michael Andrew Coe
  • Patent number: 8951008
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compressor blade of a compressor which, along a main axis, comprises a blade base, a platform area and an adjacent blade profile having a profile tip. The blade profile is configured by a convex wall at the suction end and a concave wall at the pressure end opposite the wall at the suction end. These surfaces extend, with respect to a flow medium, from a leading edge to a trailing edge, a profile center line extending in the center between the two. A front face is arranged on the profile tip at an angle to the main axis, a sealing lip at least partially extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge and the blade profile including the sealing lip having a blade profile height extending in the direction of the main axis. In order to allow for an inexpensive compressor blade having improved aerodynamic properties and a modified sealing lip while having the same sealing properties, the height of the sealing lip is less than 2 percent of the height of the blade profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Cornelius, Bernhard Küsters, Stephan Mais, Andreas Peters, Achim Schirrmacher, Lutz Stephan, Bernd van den Toorn
  • Patent number: 8950069
    Abstract: A low leakage, integral fixed vane system for a gas turbine engine compression system which can accommodate the latest 3-D aerodynamic airfoil geometries and provide endwall ovalization control. A unitized construction wherein the vanes are integral with the case wall in the compression system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert A. Ress, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8939707
    Abstract: Turbine and compressor casing abradable component embodiments for turbine engines, with composite grooves and vertically projecting rows of stepped first ridges in planform patterns, to reduce, redirect and/or block blade tip airflow leakage downstream into the grooves rather than from turbine blade airfoil high to low pressure sides. Each stepped first ridge has a first portion proximal the substrate surface with a pair of first opposed lateral walls terminating in a plateau, and a second portion terminating in a ridge tip. These ridge or rib embodiments have first lower and second upper wear zones. The lower zone, which at and below first portion height, optimizes engine airflow characteristics, while the upper zone, between the plateau and the second portion ridge is optimized to minimize blade tip gap and wear by being more easily abradable than the lower zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Pang Lee, Kok-Mun Tham, Gm Salam Azad, Zhihong Gao, Neil Hitchman, David G. Sansom, Barrry L. Allmon
  • Patent number: 8939712
    Abstract: The invention relates to a housing for covering the ends of a row of rotor blades of an axial turbomachine compressor, the housing being provided with a sealing device between the blade tips and the housing. It comprises a shell segmented along its circumference, each segment being fixed to the housing by a series of elastomeric elements in a recess in the shape of a channel cut into the inner surface of the housing. In this way, in the event of misalignment of the rotor relative to the stator, the rotor blades coming into contact with sections of the shell will be able to move to compensate for this misalignment while reducing the frictional forces generated by contact between the blades and the shell. In the event of alignment being re-established the segments of the shell will be able to resume their initial position because of the elastic behavior of the elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Cortequisse
  • Patent number: 8939706
    Abstract: Turbine and compressor casing abradable component embodiments for turbine engines, with composite grooves and vertically projecting rows of ridges in planform patterns, establishing upper and lower wear zones. The lower wear zone reduces, redirects and/or blocks blade tip downstream airflow leakage, while the upper wear zone is optimized to minimize blade tip gap and wear by being more easily abradable than the lower zone. An elongated first ridge in the lower wear zone terminates in a continuous surface plateau. A plurality of second ridges or nibs, separated by grooves, project from the plateau, forming the upper wear zone. Each of the second ridges has a planform cross section smaller than the plateau planform cross section and a height smaller than the first ridge height. Some embodiments of the second ridges have spacing, planform cross sections, heights and separating groove dimensions selected for shearing when contacted by turbine blade tips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Pang Lee, Kok-Mun Tham, Gm Salam Azad, Zhihong Gao, Neil Hitchman, David G. Sansom, Barrry L. Allmon, Jonathan E. Shipper, Jr., Cora Schillig, Gary B. Merrill, Dimitrios Zois, Ramesh Subramanian
  • Patent number: 8939705
    Abstract: Turbine and compressor casing abradable component embodiments for turbine engines, with composite grooves and vertically projecting rows of first ridges in planform patterns, to reduce, redirect and/or block blade tip airflow leakage downstream into the grooves rather than from turbine blade airfoil high to low pressure sides. The abradable component embodiments have a multi-depth grooves formed in the abradable substrate surface between pairs of elongated continuous tip surface first ridges. These ridge and multi-depth groove embodiments have first lower and second upper wear zones. The lower zone, in the deeper grooves, optimizes engine airflow characteristics, while the upper zone, in the shallower grooves, is optimized to minimize blade tip gap and wear by being more easily abradable than the lower zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Pang Lee, Kok-Mun Tham
  • Patent number: 8939716
    Abstract: Turbine and compressor casing abradable component embodiments for turbine engines, with nested loop pattern abradable surface ridges and grooves. The nested loops comprise nested fully closed loops or a spiraling maze pattern loop. Some embodiments include distinct forward upstream and aft downstream composite multi orientation groove and vertically projecting ridges planform patterns, to reduce, redirect and/or block blade tip airflow leakage downstream into the grooves rather than from turbine blade airfoil high to low pressure sides. Ridge or rib embodiments have first lower and second upper wear zones. The lower zone optimizes engine airflow characteristics while the upper zone is optimized to minimize blade tip gap and wear by being more easily abradable than the lower zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ching-Pang Lee, Kok-Mun Tham, Vincent P. Laurello, Gm Salam Azad, Nicholas F. Martin, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8936432
    Abstract: A low density abradable coating for use as a seal material is formed by depositing a metal bond coat followed by depositing a low density, porous, abradable metal seal layer on the bond coat. The seal layer is formed by co-depositing metallic sponge particles and metal precursor particles. The metal precursor particles decompose during heat treatment leaving fine pores distributed throughout the microstructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher W. Strock
  • Patent number: 8936431
    Abstract: A shroud for a turbine and a method of assembling is provided. The turbine includes a housing, a rotatable shaft and a bucket extending outward therefrom. The shroud includes an alignment member which is coupled to the housing, wherein the alignment member includes a first end, a second end and a body extending between the first and second ends. The second end includes an arcuate portion to facilitate fluid flow downstream from the bucket. The shroud further includes a seal coupled to the body to facilitate sealing a gap defined between the bucket and the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rohit Chouhan, Sumeet Soni
  • Patent number: 8926271
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure seal (7) of a turbomachine stator, said seal (7) comprising a first abradable surface opposite a rotor portion of the turbomachine and a second surface in contact with an inner shroud (3) of the stator, said seal (7) comprising a plurality of component units (10), each component unit (10) having, on its first abradable surface, a circumferential step (9) creating an obstacle in the circumferential direction of the inner shroud (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventor: Stéphane Hiernaux
  • Patent number: 8905708
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, a turbine assembly includes a first component, a second component circumferentially adjacent to the first component, wherein the first and second components each have a surface proximate a hot gas path and a first side surface of the first component to abut a second side surface of the second component. The assembly also includes a first slot formed longitudinally in the first side surface, a second slot formed longitudinally in the second side surface, wherein the first and second slots are configured to receive a sealing member, and a first groove formed in a hot side surface of the first slot, the first groove extending axially from a leading edge to a trailing edge of the first component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: David Wayne Weber, Christopher Lee Golden
  • Publication number: 20140356142
    Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine that can solve a problem in which a seal fin of a turbine blade is abraded by a brazed place of a honeycomb seal. A gas turbine 100 includes a compressor 10, a combustor 20, and a turbine 30. The turbine 30 includes: a honeycomb seal 7 disposed so as to be secured to a casing side in a clearance between the casing 1 and turbine blades 5A-5C rotating around a rotating shaft 4 extending in a longitudinal direction of the casing 1 and a seal fin 6 provided on an end face of each of the turbine blades 5A-5C facing the honeycomb seal 7, the seal fin 6 extending in a direction perpendicular to the rotating shaft 4. The honeycomb seal 7 is formed by a plurality of corrugated thin sheet metals 71 overlapped with each other at walls of node 71a thereof and the walls of node 71 blazed with each other, each of the corrugated thin sheet metals 71 having trapezoids alternately continued.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Tadashi KASUYA, Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Yasuyuki WATANABE, Tadashi MURAKATA, Kunihiro ICHIKAWA, Takumi KONRAI
  • Publication number: 20140341722
    Abstract: A device for axially arresting a sealing ring made of an abradable material in contact with a periphery of an aircraft turbomachine module rotor, the device having a first reference central axis, and including: a support including a support opening defining a circular track centered on a second axis at a distance from the axis; and an axial stop part including an extraction passage centered on a third axis at a distance from the axis, and defining a complementary circular track around its periphery, cooperating with the track to allow the part to rotate about the axis, between an axial stop position for the sealing ring, and a position to extract the ring through the extraction passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Sebastien Jean Laurent Prestel
  • Publication number: 20140334920
    Abstract: The present application relates to a compression stage of a low-pressure compressor of an axial turbomachine, such as a turboprop. The stage includes a rotor with, on its outer surface, two lip seals, each forming a radial annular rib; and a stator which includes an annular row of stator blades extending substantially radially; and an inner shell whose radial cross section includes a central part connected to the inner tips of the blades, a lateral part extending from each side of the central part to one of the two lip seals, respectively, thus forming a rotor with the annular cavity. The shell and the rotor are configured so that the radial section of the annular cavity has a length L1 and a height H, the length L1 being greater than the height H, which initiates rotational movement of the air contained therein. The speed of the air reduces its pressure, which limits downstream to upstream leaks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-François Cortequisse
  • Publication number: 20140321993
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention are directed to an elliptical sealing system for use with a rotor and a stator housing of a rotary machine. The elliptical sealing system includes a plurality of sealing segments; and an abradable coating having a uniform thickness disposed on each of the plurality of sealing segments, such that the plurality of sealing segments with the abradable coating disposed thereon has a substantially elliptical shape under all conditions when the rotor rotates and the rotor remains stationary. A rotary machine having the elliptical sealing system is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Roderick Mark Lusted, Bruce William Brisson, Franco Sarri, Farshad Ghasripoor
  • Publication number: 20140321969
    Abstract: A turbomachine in the form of a stationary gas turbine or an aircraft engine, respectively a housing structure therefor; the housing structure including an outer housing wall (1) and an inner wall (2) defining the flow channel; and a hollow space (4) being formed between the inner wall and the outer housing wall. The hollow space is separable into at least two regions (5, 6); a movable wire element (slide ring seal) (10, 10?), which is adapted to rest against the contact faces (8, 9), being configured in the hollow space for purposes of the separation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Manfred Feldmann, Norbert Schinko, Janine Sangl
  • Patent number: 8858162
    Abstract: A labyrinth seal is provided for forming a seal between a first and a second component which rotate relative to each other. The seal has an abradable lining mounted to the first component, and a plurality of fins projecting from the second component. The fins are arranged in abutment with the abradable lining to form a labyrinthal path for a flow of air through the seal. The seal further has a bypass passage which extends through the abradable lining. The bypass passage allows air to flow through the seal and bypass the labyrinthal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventor: Reza Manzoori
  • Patent number: 8858156
    Abstract: A fragment containment assembly for a turbine is provided. The fragment containment assembly includes a plurality of bands disposed around a shroud of the turbine and positioned such that the shroud is disposed between blades of the turbine and the bands along radial directions outwardly extending from a shaft of the turbine. The bands include a material having a first modulus of toughness parameter that is greater than a second modulus of toughness parameter of the shroud at temperatures of at least 260 degrees Celsius. The bands are disposed around the shroud to prevent debris of the turbine from being released outside of the bands along the radial directions caused by failure of the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kendall Swenson, Mark Stablein, Lukas Johnson
  • Patent number: 8858167
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine component has an airfoil and a squealer tip. The airfoil has a pressure side and a suction side. The squealer tip is located at one end of the airfoil to engage with an adjacent surface and thereby form a seal. The squealer tip terminates in a squealer tip apex with an arched cross-sectional profile in a plane extending from the pressure side to the suction side of the airfoil. A method for producing an airfoil seal for the gas turbine engine component is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Paul W. Baumann
  • Publication number: 20140294571
    Abstract: A seal segment is provided for a shroud ring of a rotor of a gas turbine engine. The seal segment is positioned, in use, radially adjacent the rotor. The seal segment includes a body portion having front and rear sides which each contain a respective slot that extends in the circumferential direction so that a respective hook formation is insertable into each slot for attaching the seal segment to the engine casing. The body portion is formed from continuous fibre reinforced ceramic matrix composite, reinforcing fibres of the composite wrapping around each slot so that, at the base of the slot, the reinforcing fibres are parallel to the surface of the body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Steven HILLIER
  • Patent number: 8840366
    Abstract: A preform, for repairing an abradable seal component of a gas turbine engine, includes a multilayer stack that has a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is operative to bond the multilayer stack to a structural substrate of an abradable seal. The first layer includes structural material that corresponds to a material of the structural substrate and braze material that is compatible with the structural material. The second layer includes an abradable material. The multilayer stack is operative to bond to the structural substrate of the abradable seal component during a brazing process such that the second layer forms a replacement abradable layer of the abradable seal component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Minor, Jacob A. Hall
  • Publication number: 20140271148
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine casing assembly has a first casing element which is located radially outward of one or more rotating aerofoil elements of the gas turbine engine. The first casing element is radially enclosed by a track element, a septum layer, a second casing element and a fan case. The track element is formed from an abrasion resistant material in order to prevent abrasion of the septum layer during excoriation of the first casing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Stephen Jonathan DIMELOW
  • Patent number: 8821116
    Abstract: An abradable coating system (2-8) for a turbine or a compressor is proposed has at least one layer of woven or non-woven tissue (15) or foam made of: ceramic, glass, glass-ceramic, ceramic-metal composite and combinations thereof. A free-standing preformed element (18) has at least one layer of such a woven or non-woven tissue or foam is filled with fillers and/or binder. A method prepares such a system. Finally, a method for the repair of an abradable coating portion of a turbine or the compressor component (9) includes in a first optional step that the damaged portion is at least partly removed and/or cleaned and/or surface treated, and in a second step at least one free-standing preformed abradable coating element (18) or a complete abradable coating system is attached to the component (9), preferably by using a matrix, wherein for example only a center part (2) or a fraction of a center part (2) is replaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Sophie Duval, Piero-Daniele Grasso, Sven Olliges, Joergen Ferber, Alexander Stankowski
  • Publication number: 20140227088
    Abstract: A turbine nozzle or a compressor diffuser includes sectors made of CMC material, each having an inner platform, an outer platform, and airfoils. An abradable material support ring is made up of sectors, each presenting upstream and downstream attachment tabs. Each inner platform presents on the inside an upstream hook and a downstream hook, and the abradable material support ring is supported by the nozzle or the diffuser by mutually engaging without fastening together firstly the end portions of the upstream attachment tabs and the upstream hooks and secondly the end portions of the downstream attachment tabs and the downstream hooks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicants: HERAKLES, SNECMA
    Inventors: Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Elric Georges, André Fremont
  • Patent number: 8790078
    Abstract: An abrasive coating on a rotor shaft interacts with cantilevered vanes to form an abradable air seal in a turbine engine. The abrasive coating includes a metal bond coat, and an abrasive layer containing a plurality of abrasive grit particles in a ceramic matrix. The grit particles may be selected from cubic boron nitride (CBN), zirconia, alumina, silicon carbide, diamond and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Paul H. Zajchowski, Christopher W. Strock, Matthew E. Bintz
  • Publication number: 20140205445
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a disk wheel forming a rotor; a rotor blade including a shank mounted on the outer circumference of the disk wheel and a rotor blade profile portion; a stator blade including a stator blade profile portion and an inner circumferential end wall provided on the inner circumferential side of the stator blade profile portion; and a seal fin provided on the shank of the rotor blade so as to face an inside-diameter surface of the inner circumferential end wall of the stator blade. An abradable coating is applied to such a portion of the inside-diameter surface of the inner circumferential end wall of the stator blade that faces the seal fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hayato MAEKAWA, Kenji NANATAKI
  • Patent number: 8777572
    Abstract: A rotor blade has a radially extending aerofoil body having pressure and suction sides. The rotor blade further has squealer tip. The squealer tip includes a peripheral wall surrounding a cavity which is open at the radially outward end of the blade and at the trailing edge of the aerofoil body. The peripheral wall has at least one first region which extends radially from the aerofoil surface which has a first outer surface. The peripheral wall further has, along at least part of at least one of the pressure and suction sides, at least one second region inclined outwardly of the cavity with respect to the radial direction of the blade which has a second outer surface which extends obliquely outwardly of the blade. A radially outer portion of the second outer surface turns towards the radial direction to truncate the outward extension of the second outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventors: Bryan Chee Yuen Cheong, Stephen C Diamond, Gurmukh S Sehra
  • Patent number: 8777562
    Abstract: An air seal for use with rotating parts includes a thermal barrier coating layer adhered to a substrate. An abradable layer is adhered to the thermal barrier coating layer. The abradable layer comprises a matrix of agglomerated hexagonal boron nitride and a metallic alloy. Another hexagonal boron nitride is interspersed with the matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: United Techologies Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher W. Strock, Melvin Freling
  • Patent number: 8770926
    Abstract: An abrasive coating is formed on a rotor shaft that rotates with respect to cantilevered vanes. The coating is formed by thermal spray techniques and comprises a ceramic layer on a metal bond coat. The coating surface is roughened by crush grinding or by grit blasting to increase the abradability of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Changsheng Guo, Christopher W. Strock, Thomas W. Stowe, Paul W. Baumann
  • Patent number: 8770927
    Abstract: A seal for a gas turbine engine component having an airfoil with a radial outward end and a radial inward end, one of which is bare metal. A seal member is adjacent to the bare metal end of the airfoil wherein the seal member is coated with a abrasive layer having a laser engraved surface with the top of the surface has less than about 5% of the surface area of the base of the abrasive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher W. Strock, Changsheng Guo
  • Patent number: 8747586
    Abstract: A liner panel, such as a cassette 120 of a fan track liner of a gas turbine engine, is secured to a casing of the engine at flanges 124 and 126. Foam pads 42 are disposed between the casing 40 and the cassette 120 to support the cassette 120 from the casing 40. The pads 42 may be made from a reticulated polyurethane foam which is sufficiently resilient to be compressed and to expand to remain in contact with the cassette 120 and the casing 40 as the cassette 120 moves towards and away from the casing 40 during the assembly process. The foam is impregnated with a hardener composition which is uncured during installation of the cassette 120, but subsequently cures to increase the rigidity of the pads 42.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Inventors: Ross Collins, Ruth A. Barcock
  • Publication number: 20140147242
    Abstract: A seal system, for an apparatus that includes a rotatable portion with airfoils coupled thereto and a stationary portion with an inner surface, includes an abradable portion including at least one abradable layer of an abradable material formed over the inner surface. The seal system also includes an abrading portion disposed over at least a portion of a substrate of the airfoil. The abrading portion includes at least one abrading layer formed on at least a portion of the substrate and a plurality of abrasive particles embedded within the abrading layer. The plurality of abrasive particles includes at least one of substantially all of one of tantalum carbide (TaC), aluminum oxide (Al2O3), and ziconia (ZrO2), cubic boron nitride (cBN) and Al2O3 in predetermined ratios, cBN, Al2O3 and ZrO2 in predetermined ratios, Al2O3 and ZrO2 fused together in predetermined ratios, and TaC and Al2O3 in predetermined ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: NUOVO PIGNONE S.R.L.
    Inventors: Farshad Ghasripoor, Iacopo Giovannetti, Massimo Giannozzi, Krishnamurthy Anand, Nuo Sheng, Nicole Barbara Piche, Luc Stephane LeBlanc, Wayne Charles Hasz, Warren Arthur Nelson, Paul Matthew Thomas, Dennis Michael Gray
  • Publication number: 20140140826
    Abstract: An axial compressor includes a rotor, a stator, and a blade attached to the stator at a base section and linked to a ferrule at a section opposing the base section, the ferrule being supported solely by the blade. The rotor is configured to rotate within the stator and the ferrule is configured to extend around a periphery of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Cortequisse
  • Patent number: 8727712
    Abstract: An abradable coating for interaction with tips of airfoils (such as vanes or blades of a compressor of a gas turbine engine) includes a metal bond coat thermal, a ceramic layer, and an abradable layer. The ceramic layer on the metal bond coat provides insulation and acts as a fuse that is adapted to spall off upon high rub interaction. The abradable coating on the ceramic layer contacts the tips of the airfoils during operation of the compressor. The abradable coating is sufficiently abradable to roundup the coating by contact with the airfoil tips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher W. Strock, Matthew E. Bintz
  • Publication number: 20140093360
    Abstract: A turbomachine has a seal which mates to a plurality of airfoils. The seal is formed from an abradable aluminum based material having a plurality of hard phase particles embedded therein and having a melting point higher than a melting point of the melting point of the abradable coating matrix alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Christopher W. Strock
  • Publication number: 20140079538
    Abstract: An assembly and method are provided for sealing a compressor in a gas turbine engine. The method comprises forming an annular groove in a compressor casing such that the groove extends circumferentially about a rotor that is housed within the casing. The compressor casing is then coupled to the rotor such that the compressor casing extends circumferentially about the rotor. A plurality of arcuate seal segments are then inserted into the annular groove without removing the rotor from the compressor casing such that the plurality of seal segments extend circumferentially about the rotor to facilitate sealing a gap that is defined between the rotor and the compressor casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: Sanji Ekanayake, Alston Ilford Scipio, Raymond Henry Goetze, Peter Samuel King, Douglas Corbin Warwick
  • Publication number: 20140064938
    Abstract: A case apparatus for a gas turbine engine includes an annular case having an interior surface with annular recess formed therein; and an annular bumper disposed in the recess, the bumper comprising a frangible material and having a low-friction contact surface, wherein the bumper is configured to permit elastic radial deflection in response to applied forces below a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Edward Eriksen, Gerald Alexander Pauley, Daniel Thomas Scorse
  • Patent number: 8662834
    Abstract: A method for reducing tip rub loads in a rotor blade is described having the steps of selecting a location of contact between the rotor blade and a static structure; selecting a location on the blade for incorporating a tip-cutter; selecting a cutter-profile for the tip-cutter; and incorporating the tip-cutter on the selected location on the blade such that tip-cutter is capable of removing a portion of the static structure during a tip rub such that tip rub loads are facilitated to be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Nicholas Joseph Kray, David W. Crall, Daniel E. Mollmann, Donald Lee Gardner, Marcia Boyle Johnson, Howard P. Weaver, Max Robert Farson
  • Patent number: 8657570
    Abstract: An airfoil for use in a rotor assembly is disclosed, the airfoil having a tip-cutter located on a sidewall near a tip portion, wherein the tip-cutter is capable of removing a portion of an abradable material during a tip rub. In another embodiment, an airfoil has a tip-grinder located on the tip portion, wherein the tip-grinder capable of removing a portion of an abradable material during a tip rub. In another embodiment, an airfoil has a tip-rake that facilitates reducing loading induced to said airfoil during tip rubs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Nicholas Joseph Kray, David W. Crall, Daniel E. Mollmann, Donald Lee Gardner, Marcia Boyle Johnson, Howard P. Weaver, Max Robert Farson
  • Patent number: 8650753
    Abstract: A seal (48) between a compressor rotor blade (26) and compressor casing (28) comprises an abradable structure (59) on the compressor casing (28). The abradable structure (59) comprises a metallic foam (60) having pores (66, 68). The metallic foam (60) has a first a region (62) and a second region (64). The first region (62) of the metallic foam (60) is arranged adjacent to the compressor casing (28) and the second region (64) of the metallic foam (60) is spaced from the compressor casing (28) by the first region (62) of the metallic foam (60). The pores (68) of the second region (64) of the metallic foam (60) contain an abradable material (70) and the pores (66) of the first region (62) of the metallic foam (60) do not contain an abradable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce, PLC
    Inventors: Christopher Sellars, Glen Pattinson, John T Gent
  • Patent number: 8647073
    Abstract: A turbine blade for a turbine rotor, is provided having a single-crystal basic body which has a blade tip and extends in the radial direction. The turbine blade includes at least one oxidation-resistant intermediate coating, which is applied by laser metal forming and is epitaxially bonded to the basic body, is arranged on the radially outer blade tip, and in that an at least single-layer, wear-resistant and oxidation-resistant coating, which is applied by laser metal forming and consists of oxidation-resistant binder material and abrasive particles embedded therein, is arranged on at least certain regions of said epitaxial intermediate coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Matthias Hoebel, Alexander Schnell, Yves Pellaton