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Stator vane row

US9683449B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 27, 2014
Grant dateJun 20, 2017
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Expiry dateMay 21, 2035

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  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF05D2250/73
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a gas turbine engine, each vane has pressure and suction surfaces extending radially from an inner to outer endwall of an annular working gas engine passage, and extending axially from a leading to a trailing edge of the vane. Each vane has transverse sections providing respective aerofoil sections. Neighboring vanes are arranged in unequally-shaped pairs in which either: (i) the first vane of each pair exhibits compound lean, and the second vane of the pair exhibits reverse compound lean or has substantially no tangential lean, (ii) the first vane of each pair has substantially no tangential lean, and the second vane of the pair exhibits reverse compound lean, or (iii) the first vane of each pair exhibits reverse compound lean, and the second vane of the pair exhibits greater reverse compound lean. Within each unequally-shaped pair the first vane is on the pressure surface side of the second vane.

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