Fluid reaction surfaces (i.e. – impellers) – With heating – cooling or thermal insulation means – Changing state mass within or fluid flow through working...
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-16
2011-08-16
Nguyen, Ninh H (Department: 3745)
Fluid reaction surfaces (i.e., impellers)
With heating, cooling or thermal insulation means
Changing state mass within or fluid flow through working...
Reexamination Certificate
active
07997866
ABSTRACT:
A gas turbine airfoil (1) includes a pressure sidewall (15) and a suction sidewall (16), extending from a root to a tip and from a leading edge region to a trailing edge and having at least one cooling passage between the pressure sidewall (15) and the suction sidewall (16) for cooling air to pass through and cool the airfoil from within. One or several of the cooling passages (3) extend along the leading edge of the airfoil (1) and several film cooling holes (1,2) extend from the internal cooling passages (3) along the leading edge region to the outer surface of the leading edge region. The film cooling holes (1,2) each have a shape that is diffused in a radial outward direction of the leading edge of the airfoil (1) at least over a part of the length of the film cooling hole (1,2). Improved cooling in the leading edge region can be achieved because the cooling holes (1, 2) have a principal axis (17), and the shape is asymmetrically diffused in that it is diffused in the radial outward direction from the principal axis (17) along a forward inclination axis (20), and it is additionally diffused in a second lateral direction from the principal axis (17) along a lateral inclination axis (21).
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Naik Shailendra
Vogel Gregory
ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
Cermak Adam J.
Cermak Nakajima LLP
Nguyen Ninh H
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