Variable pitch bladed disc

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11046424-B2
Application number	US-201515506937-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 28, 2015
Priority date	Aug 29, 2014
Publication date	Jun 29, 2021
Grant date	Jun 29, 2021

Abstract

A variable pitch bladed disc including a plurality of blades, each being of variable pitch about a blade axis of rotation and having a root, the plurality of blades including at least one first blade and at least one second blade, a plurality of rotor connecting shafts, each shaft having a root and a tip, the root of each blade being mounted on the tip of a corresponding rotor connecting shaft via a pivot so as to allow each blade to be rotated about the blade axis of rotation, the first blade having a first rotation axis inclination such that the rotation axis thereof is inclined in a fixed manner with respect to a radial axis passing through the root of the corresponding shaft, and the second blade has a second rotation axis inclination different from the first rotation axis inclination.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A bladed wheel with variable pitches comprising: a plurality of blades, each with a variable pitch along an axis of rotation of a blade and each having a root, the plurality of blades comprising a first blade and a second blade; and a plurality of rotor connection shafts, each rotor connection shaft having a foot and a head, the root of each blade being mounted on the head of a corresponding rotor connection shaft through a pivot so as to allow the rotation of each blade along the blade rotation axis, wherein the first blade has a first tilt of the axis of rotation, such that the blade rotation axis of the first blade is tilted in a fixed way with respect to a radial axis of the bladed wheel passing through the foot of the corresponding rotor connection shaft, and the second blade has a second tilt of the axis of rotation different from the first tilt of the axis of rotation so as to present an untuning between the first blade and the second blade for at least one pitch, wherein the first tilt of the axis of rotation comprises a tangential tilt component in a plane of the bladed wheel.

2. The bladed wheel according to claim 1 , wherein the first tilt of the axis of rotation comprises a tilt component towards an upstream or a downstream side with respect to a plane of a propeller.

3. The bladed wheel according to claim 1 , wherein the axis of rotation of the second blade is fixed with respect to the corresponding radial axis.

4. The bladed wheel according to claim 1 , wherein each shaft corresponding to the first blade is tilted with respect to the radial axis, tilting the first corresponding blade according to the first tilt of the axis of rotation.

5. The bladed wheel according to claim 1 , wherein each shaft corresponding to the first blade has a joint tilting the head of the shaft with respect to a remainder of the shaft, and thus tilting the first corresponding blade according to the first tilt of the axis of rotation.

6. The bladed wheel according to claim 1 , wherein the first blade and the second blade have a same geometrical shape.

7. The bladed wheel according to claim 1 , wherein the first blade has a first blade tilt, such that the first blade is tilted in a fixed way with respect to the blade rotation axis of the first blade, and the second blade has a second blade tilt different from the first blade tilt.

8. The bladed wheel according to claim 7 , wherein the first blade and the second blade are configured so that the respective pitches along the corresponding blade axes of rotation are modified simultaneously, and so that:
when the bladed wheel is blocked in a high speed position, a position of the first blade with respect to the corresponding radial axis is the same as a position of the second blade with respect to the corresponding radial axis,
when the bladed wheel is blocked in a low speed position, the position of the first blade with respect to the corresponding radial axis is different from the position of the second blade with respect to the corresponding radial axis.

9. The bladed wheel according to claim 1 , wherein each pivot is mounted in an axisymmetric ring including a plurality of substantially cylindrical housings,
wherein roller bearings are positioned between the ring and each pivot so as to provide a degree of rotary freedom of the pivot with respect to the ring, and
wherein the first tilt of the axis of rotation of the first blade and the second tilt of the axis of rotation of the second blade are applied to the roller bearings.

10. A turbine engine comprising a first bladed wheel according to claim 1 .

11. The turbine engine according to claim 10 , further comprising a second bladed wheel, the second bladed wheel comprising a plurality of blades, the first bladed wheel being positioned upstream or downstream from the second bladed wheel along the axis of the turbine engine, so as to allow, during the operation of the turbine engine, at least one of a time or space phase shift of an interaction between the first blade of the first bladed wheel and the blades of the second bladed wheel, with respect to an interaction between the second blade of the first bladed wheel and the blades of the second bladed wheel.

12. The turbine engine according to claim 11 , wherein the first bladed wheel and the second bladed wheel have at least one of different speeds or directions of rotation.

Assignees

• Safran Aircraft Engines

Inventors

• Dejeu Clement Marcel Maurice
• Vlastuin Jonathan Evert
• Gruber Mathieu Simon Paul

Classifications

• B64C11/32

  mechanical · CPC title

• F05D2220/36

  specially adapted for the fan of turbofan engines · CPC title

• F05D2260/74

  by turning around an axis perpendicular the rotor centre line · CPC title

• F05D2250/314

  the axes being inclined in relation to each other · CPC title

• F02K3/072

  with counter-rotating {, e.g. fan} rotors · CPC title