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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2014
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Stephen Paul Wassynger, Simpsonville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A turbine bucket includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, a root portion, and a tip portion. The turbine bucket also includes one or more cooling passages extending through a body of the turbine bucket from an inlet to an outlet. The cooling passages are configured to route a cooling flow of fluid through the turbine bucket. The turbine bucket further includes a plenum defined within the tip portion to receive the fluid from the outlet of the cooling passages for expulsion of the cooling flow of fluid into a main flow path via at least one outlet hole proximate the trailing edge of the turbine bucket.