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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2012
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Daniel Cregg Crites, Mesa, AZ (US);
Steve Halfmann, Chandler, AZ (US);
Mark C. Morris, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Ardeshir Riahi, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Abstract
A turbine rotor blade for a turbine section of an engine is provided. The rotor blade includes a platform and an airfoil extending from the platform into a mainstream gas path of the turbine section. The airfoil includes a pressure side wall, a suction side wall joined to the pressure side wall at a leading edge and a trailing edge, and a tip cap extending between the suction side wall and the pressure side wall. The rotor blade further includes an internal cooling circuit having a tip cap passage configured to deliver cooling air to the tip cap and a flow accelerator positioned within the tip cap passage of the internal cooling circuit.