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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2018
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
William Scott Zemitis, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Jacob Charles Perry, II, Taylors, SC (US);
Melbourne James Myers, Woodruff, SC (US);
Ajay Gangadhar Patil, Greer, SC (US);
Richard Ryan Pilson, Greer, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A turbine rotor blade including an airfoil having a tip shroud, the tip shroud having leading and trailing edges, the leading edge having a leading edge profile including first and second scalloped sections substantially in accordance with X and Y coordinate values in a Cartesian coordinate system at points 1-6 and 11-25, respectively, as set forth in Table I, where X and Y are distances in inches from an origin and, when points 1-6 and points 11-25 are connected by smooth, continuing arcs, the points define the first and second scalloped sections, respectively, of the leading edge profile of the tip shroud.