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Patent No.:

US 8545175 B1

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Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2010
Applicants:

Leo V Lewis, Kenilworth, GB;

Bengt E G Blidmark, Madrid, ES;

Inventors:

Leo V Lewis, Kenilworth, GB;

Bengt E G Blidmark, Madrid, ES;

Assignee:

Rolls-Royce PLC, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 5/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Some embodiments control rotor blade over-tip leakage of a working fluid in a rotating machine, which includes a circumferential row of rotor blades. A circumferential row of seal segments seal with the radially outer tips of the rotor blades to reduce over-tip leakage of the working fluid. The seal segments have an inboard abradable layer adapted to be abraded by the blade tips to form a wear track for the blade tips. Tip wearing bodies are adapted to wear down the blade tips. The abradable layer thickness and cold build radial positions of the blade tips, seal segments, and tip wearing bodies are arranged such that, during running-in of the machine, a wear track having a uniform radius is formed in the abradable layer by the blade tips, and the tip wearing bodies wear down the blade tips to provide a uniform blade tip radius.


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Lewis, Leo. (2013). Rotor blade over-tip leakage control (U.S. Patent No. 8545175). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8545175

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