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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Solar Turbines Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Stephen Edward Pointon, Santee, CA (US);
Andrew Meier, San Diego, CA (US);
Nnawuihe Asonye Okpara, San Diego, CA (US);
Jiang Luo, San Diego, CA (US);
Solar Turbines Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A cooled turbine blade having a base and an airfoil, the base including cooling air inlet and an internal cooling air passageway, and the airfoil including an internal heat exchange path beginning at the base and ending at a cooling air outlet at the trailing edge of the airfoil. The airfoil also includes a 'skin' that encompasses a tip wall, an inner spar, a plurality of trailing edge cooling fins, and a perforated first and second trailing edge rib configured to meter cooling air passing there thorough.