Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Turbomachine and turbomachine stage
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Application No.: US13687798Application Date: 2012-11-28
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Publication No.: US09863251B2Publication Date: 2018-01-09
- Inventor: Inga Mahle , Jochen Gier , Kai Koerber , Karl Engel
- Applicant: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
- Applicant Address: DE Munich
- Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
- Current Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Munich
- Agency: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC
- Priority: EP11194441 20111220
- Main IPC: F01D5/14
- IPC: F01D5/14 ; F01D11/08

Abstract:
A turbomachine stage includes guide vanes and an airfoil platform forming a guide vane cascade, and rotor blades and an airfoil platform forming a rotor blade cascade. Airfoil platforms have cascade regions extending between circumferentially adjacent airfoils, and gap regions which radially and/or axially bound an axial gap extending axially between the guide vane cascade and the rotor blade cascade. A contour of at least one of these gap regions varies in the radial and/or axial direction around the circumference. A maximum extent of this contour in the radial direction toward the spoke-like pattern is circumferentially spaced from an airfoil edge of this cascade by no more than 50% of the cascade pitch, a maximum variation in the radial direction being no more than 50% of the cascade pitch and/or a maximum extent in the axial direction away from the spoke-like pattern is circumferentially spaced from an airfoil edge of this cascade by no more than 50% of the cascade pitch, a maximum variation in the axial direction being no more than 50% of the cascade pitch.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130156563A1 TURBOMACHINE AND TURBOMACHINE STAGE Public/Granted day:2013-06-20
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