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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2009
Joshy John, Karnataka, IN;
Rajnikumar Nandalal Suthar, Gujarat, IN;
Rajaguru Nathan Krishnasamy, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Joshy John, Karnataka, IN;
Rajnikumar Nandalal Suthar, Gujarat, IN;
Rajaguru Nathan Krishnasamy, Tamil Nadu, IN;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A cover of an airfoil having opposing pressure and suction sides of a rotatable turbine stage to prevent fluid from crossover-flowing from a pressure side of a leading airfoil to a suction side of a trailing airfoil is provided. The cover includes pressure and suction side edge portions, one of which having a shape that is discontinuous relative to that of a complementary one of suction and pressure side edge portions of an aft cover of a corresponding one of a trailing and a leading airfoil, respectively.