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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2009
Jun Shi, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Kevin E. Green, Broad Brook, CT (US);
Gregory E. Reinhardt, South Glastonbury, CT (US);
Jun Shi, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Kevin E. Green, Broad Brook, CT (US);
Gregory E. Reinhardt, South Glastonbury, CT (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Abstract
A turbine shroud includes a ceramic shroud ring configured to surround a plurality of turbine rotor blades, a plurality of slots circumferentially distributed around the ceramic shroud ring, a forward metallic support ring, a plurality of tabs attached to a forward edge of the forward metallic support ring configured to engage a turbine support case, and a plurality of tabs attached to an aft edge of the forward metallic support ring received by the slots of the ceramic shroud ring. Only two axially extending radial surfaces of each of the tabs attached to the aft edge of the forward metallic support ring are configured to contact the slots of the ceramic shroud ring.