Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Francis pump-turbine
- Patent Title (中): 弗朗西斯泵轮机
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Application No.: US11545760Application Date: 2006-10-11
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Publication No.: US07682134B2Publication Date: 2010-03-23
- Inventor: Kazuyuki Nakamura , Kotaro Tezuka , Toshifumi Kurokawa
- Applicant: Kazuyuki Nakamura , Kotaro Tezuka , Toshifumi Kurokawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Priority: JP2005-297423 20051012
- Main IPC: B63H1/16
- IPC: B63H1/16

Abstract:
A Francis pump-turbine includes a runner provided with runner blades arranged around in a circumferential direction of a main shaft of the runner, each of the runner blades being supported by a band at a bottom side thereof in a blade height direction and supported by a crown at a head side in the blade height direction, in which the runner blade is formed, at a trailing edge thereof, with a curved portion expanding to the main shaft when the turbine is in operation, the curved portion has a maximum point with respect to a straight line connecting a crown-side trailing edge connecting end at which the trailing edge and the crown are connected and a band-side trailing edge connecting end at which the trailing edge and the band are connected, and an angle α formed by a straight line connecting the maximum point and the crown-side trailing edge connecting end and a straight line connecting the maximum point and the band-side trailing edge connecting end is set to be within a range of α≦150°.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070140852A1 Francis pump-turbine Public/Granted day:2007-06-21
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