# US 11,719,524 B2 · Method and system for measuring turbine shape

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- Number: US 11,719,524 B2
- Document ID: US11719524B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/521,183
- Filed: 2021-11-08
- Published: 2022-02-24
- Granted: 2023-08-08
- Earliest claimed: 2019-04-12
- Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Applicants: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Inventors: Koji Ishibashi; Shunsuke Mizumi; Kenji Yashirodai; Jie Huang
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11719524B2

## CPC

- F01D 21/003: {Arrangements for testing or measuring (for measuring vibrations G01H)}
- G01B 5/016: Constructional details of contacts
- F01D 25/243: {Flange connections; Bolting arrangements (F01D25/265 takes precedence)}
- G01B 5/004: for measuring coordinates of points
- G01B 5/20: for measuring contours or curvatures
- G01B 5/205: {of turbine blades or propellers}
- F05D 2220/31: in steam turbines
- F05D 2230/80: Repairing, retrofitting or upgrading methods
- F05D 2260/80: Diagnostics
- F01D: NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES (machines or engines for liquids F03; non-positive displacement pumps F04D)
- G01B: MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS
- F05D: INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS

## Abstract

A method and system for measuring a turbine shape is provided in which an appropriate measurement accuracy can be achieved that is sufficient to prevent a failure to recognize features of shape of a measurement object, with extension of a measurement time suppressed. In a turbine including casings, recesses and protrusions on flange surfaces of the casings are measured at measurement intervals M set on the basis of the entire length L of flange portions in an axial direction, the number of bolts N joining the flange portions, and intervals between the bolts in the axial direction of the flange portions.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for measuring a turbine shape of a turbine including a casing having an upper half casing and a lower half casing with respective flange portions joined by bolts, a stationary body housed inside the casing, and a rotating body housed inside the casing and rotating with respect to the stationary body, the method comprising:
measuring, along an axial direction, recesses and protrusions on respective contact surfaces of the flange portions of the casing disassembled into the upper half casing and the lower half casing at an interval equal to or smaller than a measurement interval M predetermined on a basis of an entire length of the flange portions in the axial direction, the number of bolts joining the flange portions, and an interval between the bolts in the axial direction of the flange portions and, assuming that L denotes the entire length of the flange portions in the axial direction, N denotes the number of the bolts, and Pmi and Pma denote a minimum value and a maximum value for the interval between the bolts in the axial direction of the flange portion, the measurement interval M are represented by:
M=L/N×(Pmi/Pma).

### Claim 2

A measurement system for a turbine including a casing having an upper half casing and a lower half casing with respective flange portions joined by bolts, a stationary body housed inside the casing, and a rotating body housed inside the casing and rotating with respect to the stationary body, the measurement system measuring recesses and protrusions on respective contact surfaces of the flange portions of the casing disassembled into the upper half casing and the lower half casing, the measurement system comprising:
a point probe including a probe main body and a rod-shaped probe member having a base end fixed to the probe main body and a tip in contact with a measurement object;
a probe position sensor sensing a position and a direction of the point probe in a predetermined coordinate system including the casing; and
a controller calculating a position of the tip of the probe member in the coordinate system on a basis of a sensing result from the probe position sensor, wherein
the controller notifies, via a notification device, an operator that the tip of the probe member is close to one of measurement points, the measurement points being set at an interval equal to or smaller than a predetermined measurement interval based on an entire length of the flange portions in an axial direction, the number of bolts joining the flange portions, and intervals between the bolts in the axial direction of the flange portions and being set along an axial direction on respective contact surfaces of the flange portions of the casing disassembled into the upper half casing and the lower half casing, in a case where a distance between the tip of the probe member and the one of the measurement points is within a predetermined range and
assuming that L denotes the entire length of the flange portions in the axial direction, N denotes the number of the bolts, Pmi and Pma denote a minimum value and a maximum value for the interval between the bolts in the axial direction of the flange portion, and Z denotes the weight variable (set to vary on the basis of areal temperature or any other factor), the measurement interval M are represented by:
M=L/N×(Pmi/Pma)×Z.