Turbine blade

• US 5,100,293 A
• Filed: 08/28/1990
• Issued: 03/31/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Noda, Masami, Takehara, Isao, Kawaike, Kazuhiko, Sasada, Tetsuo, Ikeguchi, Takashi, Anzai, Shunichi, Urushidani, Haruo
• Primary Examiner(s): KWON, JOHN
• Application Number:
  US07/573,798
• Time in Patent Office: 581 Days
• Field of Search: 416/96 A, 416/97 R, 415/115, 415/116
• US Class Current: 416/96.00A
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/186 Film cooling F01D5/187 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/189 the insert having a tubular cross-section, e.g. airfoil shape
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/201 by impingement of a fluid

Abstract

A cooling structure for a turbine blade. Comprising a hollow-structured main body and a cooling medium discharging device located in the inner cavity of the hollow-structured main body and formed to discharge a cooling medium from the surface thereof, so that the cooling medium discharged from the cooling medium discharging device impinges against the inner surface of the main body to remove the heat from the same. The turbine blade further includes a projection formed on the inner surface of the leading edge of the main body, extending along the spanwise direction of the blade, and the cooling medium discharging device is formed to allow at least part of the cooling medium to directly impinge against proximal portions of the projection. With this arrangement, a turbine blade is provided which allows a small amount of cooling air to cool the turbine blade and its leading edge in particular with great effectiveness.

Claims

1. A turbine blade comprising:

a hollow-structured main body,

cooling medium discharging means located in an inner cavity of said hollow-structured main body for discharging a cooling medium from a surface thereof,

cooling medium supplying means for supplying the cooling medium into the cooling medium discharging means so that the cooling medium discharged from the cooling medium discharging means impinges against the inner surface of the main body to remove heat therefrom,

a projection formed on an inner surface of a leading edge of said main body and extending along the spanwise direction of the blade,

wherein said cooling medium discharging means is formed to allow at least part of the cooling medium to directly impinge against opposite sides of proximal portions of the projection and the leading edge of the blade.

2. A turbine blade according to claim 1, wherein said turbine blade further includes at least one additional projection formed on the inner surface of said main body and extending along the spanwise direction of the blade, and wherein said cooling medium discharging means is formed to allow at least a portion of the cooling medium to directly impinge against opposite sides of proximal portions of the at least one additional projection.

3. A turbine blade comprising:

a hollow-structured main body,

a core plug located in an inner cavity of the hollow-structured main body and having an outer surface spaced from an inner surface of the main body,

impingement holes bored through side surfaces of said core plug,

cooling medium supplying means for supplying a cooling medium into the inner cavity of the core plug so that the cooling medium supplied into the core plug is discharged from the impingement holes and impinges against the inner surface of the main body to cool the main body,

a projection formed on the inner surface of a leading edge of said main body and extending in the spanwise direction of the blade,

wherein said impingement holes are located to allow the cooling medium discharged from at least some of the impingement holes to directly impinge against opposite sides of proximal portions of the projection and the leading edge of the blade.

4. A turbine blade according to claim 3, wherein said impingement holes are located at certain intervals along the spanwise direction of the blade.

5. A turbine blade according to claim 3, wherein said at least some of the impingement holes are arranged in a plurality of rows respectively opposite to the proximal portions of said projection on both sides.

6. A turbine blade according to claim 5, wherein said at least some of the impingement holes are slots.

7. A turbine blade according to claim 5, wherein said at least some of the impingement holes in said rows are alternately located along the spanwise direction of the blade and displaced with respect to one another.

8. A turbine blade according to claim 7, wherein said at least some of the impingement holes are slots.

9. A turbine blade comprising:

a hollow-structured main body,

cooling medium discharging means located in an inner cavity of the hollow-structured main body and formed with impingement holes through which a medium is discharged form the surface thereof,

cooling medium supplying means for supplying the cooling medium into the cooling medium discharging means so that the cooling medium discharged from the cooling medium discharging means impinges against an inner surface of the main body to remove heat therefrom,

a projection formed on an inner surface of the leading edge of said main body and extending along the spanwise direction of the blade,

wherein said cooling medium discharged from at least some of the impingement holes to directly impinge against proximal portions of the projection on both sides thereby arranging jets of the cooling medium after the impingement to be ejected out of the main body without being mixed with one another.

10. A turbine blade according to claim 9, wherein said turbine blade further includes at least one additional projection which is formed on the inner surface of said main body, extending along the spanwise direction of the blade, said cooling medium discharging means being formed to allow the cooling medium discharged from at least some of the impingement holes to directly impinge against proximal portions of the additional projection thereby arranging jets of the cooling medium after the impingement to be drained out of the main body without being mixed with one another.

11. A turbine blade comprising:

a hollow-structured main body to be cooled from an inner surface thereof,

cooling medium discharging means located in an inner cavity of the hollow-structured main body for discharging a cooling medium from the surface thereof,

cooling medium supplying means for supplying the cooling medium into the cooling medium discharging means so that the cooling medium discharged from the cooling medium discharging means impinges against an inner surface of the main body to remove the heat therefrom,

at least one laterally extending projection formed on the inner surface of the leading edge of said main body and

wherein said cooling medium discharging means is formed to allow at least some of the cooling medium discharged from said cooling medium discharging means to directly impinge against opposite sides of proximal portions of the at least one laterally extending projection.

12. A turbine blade comprising:

a hollow-structured main body,

a core plug located in an inner cavity of the hollow-structured main body and having an outer surface spaced from an inner surface of the main body and formed to discharge a cooling medium from the surface thereof,

cooling medium supplying means for supplying the cooling medium into the core plug so that the cooling medium discharged from the core plug impinges against an inner surface of the main body to cool the main body,

a projection formed on an inner surface of a leading edge of said main body and extending along a spanwise direction of the blade,

wherein an edge of the projection is in close contact with the surface of said core plug, and

wherein said core plug is formed to allow at least part of the cooling medium discharged from the core plug to impinge against opposite sides of a proximal portion of the projection.

13. A turbine blade according to claim 12, further comprising a groove formed in a surface of said core plug at a position where the core plug confronts the edge of said projection so that an edge of the projection is in close contact with the groove.