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US 10,329,916 B2Granted
Splayed tip features for gas turbine engine airfoil
AssigneeUnited Technologies Corporation
InventorsSan Quach, Tracy A Propheter-Hinckley, Dominic J Mongillo, Jr., Steven Bruce Gautschi
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Abstract
A component for a gas turbine engine includes a trailing edge tip corner that at least partially defines a trailing edge cavity and a multiple of corner features within the trailing edge cavity, the multiple of corner features splayed along the trailing edge tip corner.
Claims13
A component for a gas turbine engine, comprising:
- a tip between a suction side and a pressure side to define a trailing edge cavity bounded by said tip and a trailing edge, a trench within said tip, said trench angled to direct a cooling flow against a flow direction of a working gas;
- a trailing edge tip corner that at least partially defines said trailing edge cavity;
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- a multiple of corner features within said trailing edge cavity, said multiple of corner features splayed along said trailing edge tip corner, wherein said multiple of corner features define a respective multiple of channels each with an exit, each said exit recessed within said trench, said multiple of corner features includes an inner row and an outer row of features, said inner row and said outer row of features are each of a teardrop shape with a larger end of said inner row and said outer row of features facing each other.
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A core for an airfoil component, comprising:
- a ceramic core that forms a feed passage within the airfoil component;
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- a Refractory Metal Core (RMC) mounted to said ceramic core, said RMC includes a multiple of trailing edge apertures to form a multiple of trailing edge features, a multiple of tip apertures to form a multiple of tip features, and a multiple of corner apertures to form a multiple of corner features splayed between said multiple of trailing edge apertures and said multiple of tip apertures, said RMC includes a bend positioned along a corner thereof to arrange an RMC trailing edge to be in-line with a trailing edge of the airfoil component and a forward portion of said corner of said RMC at an angle with respect to an outer tip surface of the airfoil component.
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