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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2012
Applicant:
Solar Turbines Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey Eugene Tarczy, San Diego, CA (US);
Leslie John Faulder, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Solar Turbines Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 5/22 (2006.01); F01D 11/00 (2006.01); F01D 5/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F01D 5/22 (2013.01); F01D 5/3015 (2013.01); F01D 5/3069 (2013.01); F01D 11/006 (2013.01);
Abstract
A turbine rotor assembly may include a turbine rotor with a plurality of turbine blade slots and a plurality of turbine blades. A root structure of each turbine blade may include a portion shaped to be received in a corresponding turbine blade slot of the rotor. The rotor assembly may also include a seal plate attached to the forward end of the rotor. The seal plate may extend upwards from a first end below the inner end of the blade slots to a second end located between an outermost lobe of the blade slots and the outer rim of the rotor.