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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Seetharamaiah Mannava, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Albert E McDaniel, Cincinnati, OH (US);
William D Cowie, Xenia, OH (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
415200 ; 4161 / ;
Abstract
Turbomachinery rotor components having a metallic body with at least a portion of the body subject to a tensile stress field due to centrifugal and thermal growth induced forces generated by the rotor when the rotor is rotating, at least one stress riser in the stress field portion that causes stress concentration when the rotor is rotating, and at least one region of the component around the stress riser having deep compressive residual stresses imparted by laser shock peening (LSP).