# US 12,215,605 B2 · Stator blade and gas turbine comprising same

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- Number: US 12,215,605 B2
- Document ID: US12215605B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 18/275,853
- Filed: 2022-03-17
- Published: 2024-04-11
- Granted: 2025-02-04
- Earliest claimed: 2021-03-26
- Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Applicants: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Inventors: Saki Matsuo; Satoshi Hada; Yasuo Miyahisa; Satoshi Mizukami
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12215605B2

## CPC

- F01D 9/041: {using blades (F01D5/148 takes precedence)}
- F01D 9/065: {Fluid supply or removal conduits traversing the working fluid flow, e.g. for lubrication-, cooling-, or sealing fluids (see also F01D25/16, F01D25/24 and F01D25/26)}
- F01D 5/18: Hollow blades, {i.e. blades with cooling or heating channels or cavities (structure of hollow blades in general F01D5/147)}; Heating, heat-insulating or cooling means on blades
- F01D 9/02: Nozzles; Nozzle boxes; Stator blades; Guide conduits {, e.g. individual nozzles (nozzle boxes F01D9/047)}
- F01D 25/24: Casings (modified for heating or cooling F01D25/14); Casing parts, e.g. diaphragms, casing fastenings (casings for rotary machines or engines in general F16M {; special arrangements in stators dealing with breaking-off of part of rotor F01D21/045})
- F01D 5/189: {the insert having a tubular cross-section, e.g. airfoil shape}
- F05D 2230/642: using maintaining alignment while permitting differential dilatation
- F05D 2240/12: Fluid guiding means, e.g. vanes
- F05D 2260/201: by impingement of a fluid
- F01D: NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES (machines or engines for liquids F03; non-positive displacement pumps F04D)
- F05D: INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS

## Abstract

A stator blade including a blade body, a first insert, a second insert, and an end cover. The blade body has a first blade air passage and a second blade air passage extending in the blade height direction within the blade body. Each passage has an open end on a blade-height second side. The first insert and the second insert have tubular outer peripheral plate portions. A plurality of impinge holes are formed in the outer peripheral plate portion. The tube height opening side of the outer peripheral plate portion in the tube height direction is open. The outer peripheral plate portion of the first insert is disposed in the first blade air passage such that cooling air flows into the outer peripheral plate portion from the opening of the first insert. The outer peripheral plate portion of the second insert is disposed in the second wing air passage.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A stator vane provided in a gas turbine, comprising:
a blade body having a blade shape in a cross-section and extending in a blade-height direction having a direction component perpendicular to the cross section;
a first insert and a second insert which have a tubular shape, extend in a tube-height direction, and are disposed inside the blade body so that the tube-height direction faces the blade-height direction; and
an end cover,
wherein the blade body includes a plurality of blade air passages extending in the blade-height direction inside the blade body,
in the plurality of blade air passages, both a first blade air passage and a second blade air passage have an open end on a blade-height one side which is one side of a blade-height first side and a blade-height second side in the blade-height direction,
both the first insert and the second insert include
an outer peripheral plate portion having a tubular shape and extending in the tube-height direction, and
a sealing plate portion that closes an end on a tube-height sealing side which is one side of the outer peripheral plate portion in the tube-height direction out of two sides in the tube-height direction,
the outer peripheral plate portion has a plurality of impingement holes penetrating from an inside to an outside of the tubular outer peripheral plate portion,
a tube-height opening side which is the other side of the outer peripheral plate portion in the tube-height direction is open,
the outer peripheral plate portion of the first insert has a gap existing between the outer peripheral plate portion of the first insert and a first passage defining surface of the blade body defining the first blade air passage, and is disposed inside the first blade air passage so that cooling air flows into the outer peripheral plate portion from an opening of the first insert,
the outer peripheral plate portion of the second insert is configured so that the tube-height opening side of the second insert faces the blade-height one side, has a gap existing between the outer peripheral plate portion of the second insert and a second passage defining surface of the blade body defining the second blade air passage, and is disposed inside the second blade air passage so that the cooling air flows from an opening of the second insert,
the end cover is provided on the blade-height one side of the blade body so that the cooling air ejected from the plurality of impingement holes of the first insert to between the outer peripheral plate portion of the first insert and the first passage defining surface is guided into the second insert from the opening of the second insert through the opening of the first blade air passage, and covers the opening of the first blade air passage and the opening of the second insert,
in the first blade air passage, an end on the blade-height first side and an end on the blade-height second side of the first blade air passage are open,
in the second blade air passage, an end on the blade-height first side of the second blade air passage is closed, and an end on the blade-height second side is open,
the first insert includes a flange portion spreading from an end on the tube-height opening side in the outer peripheral plate portion of the first insert toward an outer peripheral side of the outer peripheral plate portion of the first insert, extending to the first passage defining surface, and connected to the blade body,
the second insert includes a flange portion spreading from an end on the tube-height opening side in the outer peripheral plate portion of the second insert toward an outer peripheral side of the outer peripheral plate portion of the second insert, extending to the second passage defining surface, and connected to the blade body,
the outer peripheral plate portion of the first insert is disposed inside the first blade air passage so that the tube-height opening side of the first insert faces the blade-height first side, and
the outer peripheral plate portion of the second insert is disposed inside the second blade air passage so that the tube-height opening side of the second insert faces the blade-height second side.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The stator vane according to claim 1,
wherein a blade surface which is an outer surface of the blade body includes
a first blade surface portion having a back-to-back positional relationship with the first passage defining surface, and
a second blade surface portion having a back-to-back positional relationship with the second passage defining surface,
the plurality of impingement holes are formed in a portion facing the first blade surface portion in the outer peripheral plate portion in the first insert, and
the plurality of impingement holes are formed in a portion facing the second blade surface portion in the outer peripheral plate portion in the second insert.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The stator vane according to claim 2,
wherein the blade body has a plurality of ejection holes penetrating from the second passage defining surface to the second blade surface portion, and
a position of the second blade surface portion on the blade surface is a position where a pressure of a portion along the second blade surface portion outside the blade body is lower than a pressure of a portion along the first blade surface portion outside the blade body while the gas turbine is driven.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The stator vane according to claim 3,
wherein the blade body includes
a leading edge extending in the blade-height direction,
a trailing edge extending in the blade-height direction, and
a pressure surface and a suction surface which extend in the blade-height direction and connect the leading edge and the trailing edge,
the first blade surface portion is a portion of one blade surface of the pressure surface and the suction surface, and
the second blade surface portion is located closer to a side of the trailing edge than the first blade surface portion is in the one blade surface.

### Claim 5 (depends on 3)

The stator vane according to claim 3,
wherein the blade body includes
a leading edge extending in the blade-height direction,
a trailing edge extending in the blade-height direction, and
a pressure surface and a suction surface which extend in the blade-height direction and connect the leading edge and the trailing edge,
the first blade surface portion is a portion of the pressure surface, and
the second blade surface portion is a portion of the suction surface.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The stator vane according to claim 1, further comprising:
a first guide member that allows displacement of the first insert in the tube-height direction and that regulates displacement of the first insert in a spreading direction of the cross section of the first insert, inside the first blade air passage; and
a second guide member that allows displacement of the second insert in the tube-height direction and that regulates displacement of the second insert in a spreading direction of the cross section of the second insert, inside the second blade air passage.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The stator vane according to claim 6,
wherein the first guide member includes
a first groove member having a first groove extending in the tube-height direction, and
a first convex member entering an inside of the first groove and being relatively movable in the tube-height direction with respect to the first groove,
one member of the first groove member and the first convex member is fixed to the first insert, and the other member is fixed to the first passage defining surface,
the second guide member includes
a second groove member having a second groove extending in the tube-height direction, and
a second convex member entering an inside of the second groove and being relatively movable in the tube-height direction with respect to the second groove, and
one member of the second groove member and the second convex member is fixed to the second insert, and the other member is fixed to the second passage defining surface.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The stator vane according to claim 1, further comprising:
a first guide member that allows displacement of the first insert in the tube-height direction and that regulates displacement of the first insert in a spreading direction of the cross section of the first insert, inside the first blade air passage; and
a second guide member that allows displacement of the second insert in the tube-height direction and that regulates displacement of the second insert in a spreading direction of the cross section of the second insert, inside the second blade air passage,
wherein the first guide member includes
a first groove member having a first groove extending in the tube-height direction, and
a first convex member entering an inside of the first groove and being relatively movable in the tube-height direction with respect to the first groove,
one member of the first groove member and the first convex member is fixed to the outer peripheral plate portion of the first insert, and the other member is fixed to the first passage defining surface of the blade body,
the second guide member includes
a second groove member having a second groove extending in the tube-height direction, and
a second convex member entering an inside of the second groove and being relatively movable in the tube-height direction with respect to the second groove, and
one member of the second groove member and the second convex member is fixed to the sealing plate portion of the second insert, and the other member is fixed to a portion closed in an end on the blade-height first side in the second blade air passage in the blade body.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The stator vane according to claim 1, further comprising:
a first shroud provided in an end on the blade-height first side in the blade body;
a second shroud provided in an end on the blade-height second side in the blade body; and
an impingement plate having a plurality of impingement holes,
wherein the first shroud includes
a shroud body having a gas path surface facing the blade-height second side, and a counter-gas path surface facing a side opposite to the gas path surface, and
a peripheral wall provided along a peripheral edge of the shroud body and protruding from the counter-gas path surface to the blade-height first side, and
the impingement plate is formed of the shroud body and the peripheral wall, and is fixed to the first shroud so that a cavity inside a concave portion recessed toward the blade-height second side is partitioned into a space on the blade-height first side and a space on the blade-height second side, and the plurality of impingement holes of the impingement plate extend in the blade-height direction.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

A gas turbine comprising:
the stator vane according to claim 1;
a rotor that rotates around an axis; and
a casing that covers an outer peripheral side of the rotor,
wherein the stator vane is fixed to an inner peripheral surface of the casing.