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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:
Oct. 10, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2004
Applicants:
Ching-pang Lee, Cincinnati, OH (US);
James Robert Bailey, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Nicholas Charles Palmer, Loveland, OH (US);
Wenfeng LU, Mason, OH (US);
Inventors:
Ching-Pang Lee, Cincinnati, OH (US);
James Robert Bailey, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Nicholas Charles Palmer, Loveland, OH (US);
Wenfeng Lu, Mason, OH (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A turbine blade includes an airfoil having pressure and suction sidewalls extending between leading and trailing edges and root and tip. The tip includes squealer ribs extending from a tip floor forming an open tip cavity. The rib along the pressure sidewall has a squared external corner, and a flute extends along the base of the rib at the tip floor.