Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Compliant rotatable inter-stage turbine seal
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Application No.: US15637259Application Date: 2017-06-29
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Publication No.: US10539035B2Publication Date: 2020-01-21
- Inventor: Peter Andrew Simeone , Robert Clayton von der Esch
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: General Electric
- Agent Pamela Kachur
- Main IPC: F01D25/12
- IPC: F01D25/12 ; F01D11/00 ; F01D11/02 ; F01D5/08

Abstract:
Compliant bellow seal may be axially disposed between first and second cooling plates bounding first and second cooling passages between cooling plates and first and second stage disks in turbine. Bellow seal includes two or more convolutions with oppositely facing forward and aft sealing surfaces, which may be flat, on forward and aft annular sealing walls and cylindrical annular outer and inner contact and sealing surfaces on and facing radially outwardly or inwardly from one of the convolutions. A snake bellow seal embodiment may have at least two of the convolutions being full convolutions of unequal width and a forwardmost partial convolution including the sealing wall.Bellow seal may allow turbine cooling flow from an inter-stage radial face spline to flow through inner openings of second cooling passage and block first stage disk cooling air from flowing through inner openings of first cooling passage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190003326A1 COMPLIANT ROTATABLE INTER-STAGE TURBINE SEAL Public/Granted day:2019-01-03
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