# US 10,309,654 B2 · Structure for cooling gas turbine engine

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- Number: US 10,309,654 B2
- Document ID: US10309654B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/220,530
- Filed: 2016-07-27
- Published: 2018-02-01
- Granted: 2019-06-04
- Earliest claimed: 2016-07-27
- Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Yasuharu Kamoi; Daisuke Kato
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10309654B2

## CPC

- F23R 3/283: {Attaching or cooling of fuel injecting means including supports for fuel injectors, stems, or lances}
- F23R 3/002: {Wall structures (F23R3/02 and F23R3/007 take precedence)}
- F23R 3/10: for primary air (F23R3/06, F23R3/045 take precedence)
- F05B 2220/302: in gas turbines
- F23R 2900/03044: Impingement cooled combustion chamber walls or subassemblies
- F23R: GENERATING COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OF HIGH PRESSURE OR HIGH VELOCITY, e.g. GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION CHAMBERS (fluidised bed combustion apparatus specially adapted for operation at superatmospheric pressures F23C10/16)
- F05B: INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G

## Abstract

In a structure for cooling a gas turbine engine, an open flange part encircling a fuel supply hole formed in a combustor includes a conical portion enlarging in a conical shape toward an outside of the combustor and a flat portion extending radially outward in a flat plate shape from an extremity of the conical portion, and a nozzle guide includes a cylindrical portion covering an outer periphery of a fuel nozzle for supplying fuel to the fuel supply hole and a bottom flange portion being bent radially outward from a corner portion at an extremity of the cylindrical portion and supported in a floating state on the flat portion. A cooling hole for supplying air that cools the open flange part and the nozzle is formed in the corner portion of the guide, and a direction of the cooling hole is inclined toward an axis of the nozzle.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A structure for cooling a gas turbine engine in which an open flange part encircling a fuel supply hole formed in a combustor of the gas turbine engine comprises a conical portion that enlarges in a conical shape in going toward an outside of the combustor and a flat portion that extends radially outward in a flat plate shape from an extremity of the conical portion, and a nozzle guide comprises a cylindrical portion that covers an outer periphery of a fuel nozzle for supplying fuel to the fuel supply hole and a bottom flange portion that is bent radially outward from a corner portion at an extremity of the cylindrical portion and is supported in a floating state on the flat portion,
wherein a plurality of caps for supporting the bottom flange portion in the floating state are fixed to the flat portion, and a cooling hole for supplying air that cools the open flange part and the fuel nozzle is formed in the corner portion of the nozzle guide, and a direction of the cooling hole is inclined toward an axis of the fuel nozzle, and
wherein the direction of the cooling hole is inclined toward the axis side in going from the outside of the combustor to an inside of the combustor when viewed in a direction orthogonal to the axis, and the direction of the cooling hole is also inclined toward one side in a circumferential direction with respect to the axis in going from the outside of the combustor to the inside of the combustor when viewed in the axis direction.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The structure for cooling a gas turbine engine according to claim 1, wherein the nozzle guide is a press-formed product.