# US 11,898,461 B2 · Axial flow turbine > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,898,461 B2 - Document ID: US11898461B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/628,401 - Filed: 2020-07-30 - Published: 2022-08-25 - Granted: 2024-02-13 - Earliest claimed: 2019-07-31 - Assignees: Mitsubish Heavy Industries, Ltd. - Applicants: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd. - Inventors: Chongfei Duan; Hideaki Sugishita; Kazuyuki Matsumoto; Hideki Ono; Yoshihiro Kuwamura; Kiyoshi Segawa; Hisataka Fukushima - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11898461B2 ## CPC - F01D 5/225: {by shrouding} - F01D 5/20: Specially-shaped blade tips to seal space between tips and stator {(F01D5/225 takes precedence)} - F01D 11/02: by non-contact sealings, e.g. of labyrinth type (for sealing space between rotor blade tips and stator F01D11/08) - F02C 7/28: Arrangement of seals - F05D 2260/606: Bypassing the fluid - F16J 15/4472: {with axial path} - F01D: NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES (machines or engines for liquids F03; non-positive displacement pumps F04D) - F02C: GAS-TURBINE PLANTS; AIR INTAKES FOR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS; CONTROLLING FUEL SUPPLY IN AIR-BREATHING JET-PROPULSION PLANTS (construction of turbines F01D; jet-propulsion plants F02K; construction of compressors or fans F04; generating combustion products of high pressure or high velocity F23R; using gas turbines in compression refrigeration plants F25B11/00) - F05D: INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS - F16J: PISTONS {(specially adapted for dampers F16F9/32)}; CYLINDERS; SEALINGS ## Abstract A steam turbine provided with: a rotor; a plurality of movable blades each of which has a movable blade body and a shroud, and which are circumferentially arranged at intervals; a casing that has a recessed section for accommodating the shroud; fins that form clearances from the outer circumferential surface of the shroud; a stator blade support part disposed on the downstream side of the recessed section; a plurality of stator blades circumferentially arranged at intervals; and an annular partition plate that extends from a recessed section downstream surface toward the upstream side thereof. The casing has formed therein a bypass flow passage that communicates a region radially outside of the partition plate and a region between the stator blades. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An axial flow turbine comprising: a rotor extending along an axis; a plurality of rotating blades each having a rotating blade body extending from the rotor outward in a radial direction and a shroud provided at an outside end portion of the rotating blade body in the radial direction, and arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction; a casing surrounding the rotating blades from an outer side in the radial direction and having a recessed portion formed on an inner peripheral surface to accommodate the shrouds; a fin protruding from a facing surface of the recessed portion of the casing, which faces the shroud, inward in the radial direction, wherein a clearance is formed between the fin and an outer peripheral surface of the shroud; a stator blade support portion disposed close to a downstream end of the rotor with respect to the recessed portion on the inner peripheral surface of the casing; a plurality of stator blades each extending from the stator blade support portion inward in the radial direction and arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction; and an annular partition plate extending from a recessed portion downstream surface of the recessed portion, which is a surface on close to the downstream end of the rotor, toward an upstream end of the rotor and centered on the axis, wherein a bypass flow path, is formed in the casing, wherein the bypass flow path has a first end formed in the recessed portion downstream surface and a second end formed in the inner peripheral surface of the casing. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The axial flow turbine according to claim 1, wherein the bypass flow path extends from an outside of the casing toward an inside thereof in the radial direction and from the upstream end of the rotor to the downstream end thereof, when viewed in a cross section that includes the axis. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The axial flow turbine according to claim 1, wherein the bypass flow path is extended rearward in a rotation direction of the rotor as moving from the upstream end of the rotor to the downstream end thereof, when viewed from an outside of the casing in the radial direction. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The axial flow turbine according to claim 1, wherein when a first dimension of the stator blade support portion in a direction of the axis is denoted by L and a second dimension from an upstream end edge of the stator blade support portion to a downstream end portion of the bypass flow path in the direction of the axis is denoted by A, a value of A/L satisfies a relationship of 0