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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
May. 24, 2012
Benjamin Paul Lacy, Greer, SC (US);
Brian Peter Arness, Greenville, SC (US);
Xiuzhang James Zhang, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Benjamin Paul Lacy, Greer, SC (US);
Brian Peter Arness, Greenville, SC (US);
Xiuzhang James Zhang, Simpsonville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A turbine rotor blade used in a gas turbine engine, which includes an airfoil having a tip at an outer radial edge, is described. The airfoil includes a pressure sidewall and a suction sidewall that join together at a leading edge and a trailing edge of the airfoil, the pressure sidewall and the suction sidewall extending from a root to the tip. The tip includes a tip plate and, disposed along a periphery of the tip plate, a rail. The rail includes a microchannel connected to a coolant source.