Patent ID: 8678396

Claim:
A leaf seal device, comprises a leaf seal having a plurality of sealing plates of thin plate shape including a connection holding section of an outer circumferential side and a sealing section of an inner circumferential side, the connection holding sections being connected to overlap the sealing plates and to form an annular shape to which a rotary axis is available to fit at a center thereof, wherein said respective sealing plates are bent at a boundary between said connection holding section and said sealing section so that said connection holding section and said sealing section are crossed at an angle θ 1 +θ 2 , where a circumferential line passes through the boundary between the connection holding section and the sealing section, said connection holding section of said respective sealing plates are connected by sequentially overlapping said sealing plates at an acute angle θ 2 measured with respect to a tangent of the circumferential line at the point of intersection of a sealing plate of the connection holding section and the boundary between the connection holding section and the sealing section of said leaf seal, said sealing section of said respective sealing plates are provided so as to incline at an acute angle θ 1 measured with respect to the tangent of the circumferential line at the point of intersection of a sealing plate of the sealing section and the boundary between the connection holding section and the sealing section of said leaf seal, said connection holding section and said sealing section of said respective sealing plates are formed as a flat portion without any bending portion, and each of the sealing plates outside of the connection holding section of said respective sealing plates is folded at an end portion thereof to form a connection holding section having a portion in which the sealing plates are folded over upon themselves, and each space between the sealing plates at said sealing sections is set up as a desired length based on a following formula: G= 2 ×P ×sin θ1 −t wherein G is the space between the respective sealing plates at the sealing sections; P is a pitch of the sealing plates, where the pitch is defined by P=t/sin θ 2 ; and t is a plate thickness of the sealing plate.