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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2012
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroharu Oyama, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinori Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Asaharu Matsuo, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a turbine. One of a tip portion of a blade and a portion of a partition plate outer ring corresponding to the tip portion of the blade is provided with a step part having a step face that protrudes toward the other, and the other is provided with seal fins) extending out with respect to the step part and forming minute clearance between the step part and the other. The step part facing the seal fins is configured to protrude so that a cavity forming a main vortex and counter vortex being formed by the main vortex are formed on an upstream side of the seal fins. The cavity is formed so that an axial width dimension and a radial height dimension satisfy Formula expressed by 0.45≤D/W≤2.67.