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Turbo aero engine provided with a device for heating turbine disks on revving up
Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines SAS
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Filing: 1994-10-31
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Granted: 1996-12-24
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Expires: 2014-10-31
Abstract
Abstract Turbo aero engine including a heating arrangement for the internal portions (12) of turbine disks on revving up so as to reduce the temperature gradient in the disks. Heating gas passes through pipes (11) integral with the stator and reheats the disks by passing through a gasket (13) designed with the tongues (18) and orifices (20 and 22) which allow the gas to circulate towards the zones to be heated when the revving up has firstly heated the portions of the machine close to the pipes (11) and then makes it possible to interrupt the communication when the temperatures even out and the original heat expansions become uniform and offset the orifices (20 and 23).
Inventors
- 👤 Jean-Louis Bertrand
- 👤 Gilles A. Charier
- 👤 Xavier J.A. Guyonnet
- 👤 Jean-Louis Picard
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-04 20:08
CPC Classifications
F; F01; F01D; F01D5/00; F01D5/02; F01D5/08; F01D5/081; F01D5/082; Y; Y02; Y02T; Y02T50/00; Y02T50/60
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim
197 words
A turbo aero engine including a rotor, a stator, a combustion chamber upstream of a turbine belonging to the rotor and party constituted by a disk, wherein it includes a channel for sending and blowing hot gas from a drawing off zone of the turbo aero engine to a central zone of the disk, the sending channel being composed of a portion opening into the drawing off zone and integral with the stator, and another portion integral with the rotor, the two portions being joined by an annular assembly including concentric walls for closing the portions, the walls, however, being perforated by orifices, and further including for one of the portions, circular parallel peaks established on the wall of said one portion being adjusted towards the other of the portions where the peaks approximately touch the wall, and delimiting grooves with certain of the grooves having no orifices, the orifices of the other portion being situated so that, according to the differential heat expansions in the turbo aero engine at different operating conditions, they open either in front of the grooves without orifices for certain conditions or in front of the grooves with orifices for other conditions.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
197 words
A turbo aero engine including a rotor, a stator, a combustion chamber upstream of a turbine belonging to the rotor and party constituted by a disk, wherein it includes a channel for sending and blowing hot gas from a drawing off zone of the turbo aero engine to a central zone of the disk, the sending channel being composed of a portion opening into the drawing off zone and integral with the stator, and another portion integral with the rotor, the two portions being joined by an annular assembly including concentric walls for closing the portions, the walls, however, being perforated by orifices, and further including for one of the portions, circular parallel peaks established on the wall of said one portion being adjusted towards the other of the portions where the peaks approximately touch the wall, and delimiting grooves with certain of the grooves having no orifices, the orifices of the other portion being situated so that, according to the differential heat expansions in the turbo aero engine at different operating conditions, they open either in front of the grooves without orifices for certain conditions or in front of the grooves with orifices for other conditions.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
27 words
The turbo aero engine according to claim 1, wherein the wall of one of the portions is covered with an erodable material in front of the peaks.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
29 words
The turbo aero engine according to claim 1, wherein the portion of the communication channel belonging to the rotor in front of the central zone renders the gases turbulent.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
18 words
The turbo aero engine according to claim 3, wherein the channel comprises reliefs situated on the central zone.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
35 words
The turbo aero engine according to claim 1, wherein the portion of the communication channel belonging to the rotor in front of the central zone deviates the gases towards the blowing zone of the channel.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
23 words
The turbo aero engine according to claim 5, wherein the channel comprises a drilled plate close to the central zone and overlapping it.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
20 words
The turbo aero engine according to claim 1, wherein the drawing off zone is a portion of the combustion chamber.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
25 words
The turbo aero engine according to claim 1, wherein the drawing off zone is an adjacent portion of a compressor upstream of the combustion chamber.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
36 words
The turbo aero engine according to claim 8, wherein the portion of the communication channel integral with the rotor includes orifices for blowing gas towards the central zones of compressor disks of the turbo aero engine.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
30 words
The turbo aero engine accoridng to claim 8, wherein the portion of the communication channel integral with the rotor includes two concentric cowlings between which the communication channel is annular.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
29 words
The turbo aero engine according to claim 10, wherein the cowling surrounding the other cowling extends as far as the central zone of the turbine disk without overlapping it.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
35 words
The turbo aero engine according to claim 10, wherein the cowling surrounding the other cowling extends beyond the central zone of the turbine disk and is pierced or drilled in front of the central zone.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
30 words
The turbo aero engine according to claim 12, wherein the cowling surrounding the other cowling is composed of two portions partially overlapping and being able to slide into the other.
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