Nova Patents
EP0937863A2

Gas turbine rotor blade platform

Abstract

Gas turbine moving blade platform having simple cooling structure and effecting uniform cooling is provided. Cavities 2, 3, 4 are formed in platform 1 with impingement plate 11 being provided below the cavities 2, 3, 4. Cooling hole 5 communicates with cavity 2, cooling hole 6 with cavity 3 and cooling holes 7, 8 with cavity 4 and all these cooling holes pass through the platform 1 inclinedly upwardly. Cooling air 70 flows into the cavities 2, 3, 4 through holes 12 of the impingement plate 11 for effecting impingement cooling of platform 1 plane portion. The cooling air 70 further flows through the cooling holes 5, 6, 7 to blow outside inclinedly upwardly for cooling platform 1 peripheral portions. Thus, the platform 1 is cooled uniformly, no lengthy and complicated cooling passage is provided and workability is enhanced.

EP0937863A2, drawing sheet 1
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Projected expiry passed 22 February 2019, 7.6 years ago.

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6 claims: 3 independent, 3 dependent

  1. 1
    A gas turbine moving blade platform for use in an air cooled gas turbine moving blade, characterized in comprising a cavity (2 to 4, 22 to 24, 32 to 34) formed in said platform (1, 21, 31) around a base portion of the moving blade (51) for introducing thereinto a cooling air (70);and a plurality of cooling holes (5 to 8, 25 to 27, 38 and 39) communicating with said cavity and opening at a peripheral end surface of said platform (1, 21, 31).
  2. 5
    A gas turbine moving blade platform for use in an air cooled gas turbine moving blade, characterized in comprising two cooling passages (42, 43), each being provided in said platform (41) on each side of the moving blade (51), communicating at its one end with a leading edge passage (52) of the moving blade and having at its the other end an opening at a side end surface of said platform;a cover (42a, 43a) for closing said opening of each of said two cooling passages;and at least three linearly formed cooling passages (44, 45, 46) in said platform, each communicating at its one end with any one of said two cooling passages and having at its the other end an opening at a rear end surface of said platform.
  3. 6
    A gas turbine moving blade platform for use in an air cooled gas turbine moving blade, characterized in that said platform consists of an upper platform (61a) and a lower platform (61b), there is formed a cavity (62, 63) between said upper platform and lower platform on each side of ventral and dorsal sides of the moving blade (51), and characterized in comprising a cooling passage (64, 65), being bored in said upper platform along each of both side portions of said upper platform, communicating at its one end with said cavity at a front portion of said platform and having at its the other end an opening at a rear end surface of said platform;and a multiplicity of cooling holes (66a, 66b), being bored in said lower platform and passing through upwardly into said cavity thereabove from a bottom surface of said lower platform.