Patent 7104757 was granted and assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft on September, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The invention relates to a turbine blade which has a nose cavity in the region of a leading edge, it being possible for the leading edge to be cooled by impingement cooling, which has an inner cavity at least partly of meander-shaped design, and which has a crown pocket as cavity in the region of the blade tip, which crown pocket is connected to the nose cavity, so that the cooling of the turbine blade is improved.