Turbine nozzle

• US 6,036,438 A
• Filed: 12/05/1997
• Issued: 03/14/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Imai, Kenichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Look, Edward K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WOO, RICHARD SUKYOON
• Application Number:
  US08/986,163
• Time in Patent Office: 830 Days
• Field of Search: 415/191, 415/192, 415/193, 415/194, 415/195, 415/208.1, 415/208.2, 415/914, 416/DIG. 5, 416/223 A
• US Class Current: 415/192
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/142 of the blades of successive rotor or stator blade-rows
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 415/914 Device to control boundary layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 416/05 Variable camber or chord length

Abstract

An optimum axial distance is secured by varying the distance between a nozzle blade and a moving blade along the length of a nozzle blade (11). The nozzle blades (11) are curved so that a middle portion of each nozzle blade has a section (b2) dislocated in the flowing direction of a fluid which flows through the fluid passage relative to the root section (b3) and the tip section (b1) of the blade with respect to a circumferential direction and an axial direction. Outlet flow angle of the nozzle is varied with distance along the blade length to vary optimum axial distance properly.

Claims

1. A turbine nozzle comprising:

an annular diaphragm inner ring disposed coaxially with a predetermined axis;

an annular diaphragm outer ring disposed coaxially with the diaphragm inner ring so as to define an annular fluid passage between the diaphragm inner ring and the diaphragm outer ring; and

a plurality of nozzle blades arranged in a circumferential arrangement in the fluid passage between the diaphragm inner ring and the diaphragm outer ring and each blade having a root and a tip located respectively at the diaphragm inner ring side and the diaphragm outer ring side;

wherein the nozzle blades are curved so that the ratio S/T, where S is the minimum distance between the trailing edge of each nozzle blade and back surface of the nozzle blade adjacent to the former nozzle blade, and T is the pitch of the nozzle blades, is a minimum at a middle portion of the nozzle blade,

and wherein the middle portion of each nozzle blade has a section dislocated in a flowing direction of a fluid which flows through the fluid passage relative to the root section and the tip section of the blade with respect to an axial direction.

2. The turbine nozzle according to claim 1, wherein a line connecting a point corresponding to the root side end of a trailing edge of each nozzle blade, and a point corresponding to the tip side end of the trailing edge of each nozzle blade is inclined at a fixed angle towards a fluid outlet side to a radial line of the nozzle blade.

3. A turbine nozzle comprising:

an annular diaphragm inner ring disposed coaxially with a predetermined axis;

an annular diaphragm outer ring disposed coaxially with the diaphragm inner ring so as to define an annular fluid passage between the diaphragm inner ring and the diaphragm outer ring; and

a plurality of nozzle blades arranged in a circumferential arrangement in the fluid passage between the diaphragm inner ring and the diaphragm outer ring and each blade having a root and a tip located respectively at the diaphragm inner ring side and the diaphragm outer ring side;

wherein the nozzle blades are curved so that the ratio S/T, where S is the minimum distance between the trailing edge of each nozzle blade and the back surface of the nozzle blade adjacent to the former nozzle blade, and T is the pitch of the nozzle blades, is a maximum at a middle portion of the nozzle blade,

and wherein the middle portion of each nozzle blade has a section dislocated in a direction opposite to a flowing direction of a fluid which flows through the fluid passage relative to the root section and the tip section of the blade with respect to an axial direction.

4. The turbine nozzle according to claim 3, wherein a line connecting a point corresponding to the root side end of a trailing edge of each nozzle blade, and a point corresponding to the tip side end of the trailing edge of each nozzle blade is inclined at a fixed angle towards a fluid outlet side to a radial line of the nozzle blade.