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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Neil Ristau, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Zachary James Taylor, Greenville, SC (US);
David Wayne Weber, Simpsonville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of the invention include turbine buckets and systems employing such buckets. Various particular embodiments include a turbine bucket having: an airfoil having: a suction side; a pressure side opposing the suction side; a leading edge spanning between the pressure side and the suction side; and a trailing edge opposing the leading edge and spanning between the pressure side and the suction side; a base connected with a first end of the airfoil along the suction side, pressure side, trailing edge and the leading edge; and a tip shroud connected with a second end of the airfoil along the suction side, pressure side, trailing edge and the leading edge, the tip shroud including a tip shroud fillet connecting the airfoil and the tip shroud and having a non-uniform thickness across an axial length of the airfoil.