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Turbine rotor construction

US4191508A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 31, 1978
Grant dateMar 4, 1980
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Expiry dateJan 31, 1998

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S416/50
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A turbomachine rotor arrangement is provided having a rotor wheel and blades thereon with a tie pin for interconnecting adjacent blades. A plurality of blades respectively define tie holes wherein the tie holes of adjacent blades are disposed with the radial heights of said holes being different and with the tie pin disposed in the tie holes so as to be acted upon by respective different amplitudes of vibration than said adjacent blades during rotation.

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