Jet engine comprising a nacelle equipped with a reverser system comprising inner doors and outer flaps

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11168644-B2
Application number	US-201916556872-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 30, 2019
Priority date	Sep 6, 2018
Publication date	Nov 9, 2021
Grant date	Nov 9, 2021

Abstract

A turbofan including a motor, nacelle and a secondary duct therebetween. The nacelle includes a fan casing with front and rear parts, a fixed assembly including a fixed structure and the front part, a mobile assembly with an openwork frame, a mobile cowl and the rear part and mobile between advanced and retracted positions in which a window is open between the secondary duct and the exterior of the nacelle, inner doors articulated between stowed and deployed positions, a first actuator for moving the frame and a second actuator for moving each inner door. The rear part is divided into outer flaps mobile between lowered and raised positions and is moved by an electric motor. A jet engine accordingly serves to increase retraction distance by freeing up part of the fan cowl and improve orientation of flow of air passing through the window by orienting the outer flaps.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A turbofan comprising a motor, a nacelle surrounding the motor, and in which a secondary duct for a secondary flow is between the nacelle and the motor, the nacelle comprising:
a fan casing comprising a front part and a rear part;
a front of the nacelle including a fixed assembly comprising a fixed structure and the front part of the fan casing;
a mobile assembly rearward of the fixed assembly and comprising a frame having openwork regions, a mobile cowl attached to the frame, and the rear part of the fan casing mounted to the frame in front of the mobile cowl, the mobile assembly being mobile in translation on the fixed structure in a direction of translation between an advanced positions in which the mobile assembly is positioned such that the rear part of the fan casing is adjacent to and acts as an extension for the front part of the fan casing, and a retracted position, in which the mobile assembly is positioned such that the rear part of the fan casing is moved alt, away from the front part of the fan casing, to define between them a window that is open between the secondary duct and an exterior of the nacelle;
a plurality of inner doors, each inner door being mounted articulated along a rear edge of the inner door on the frame between a stowed position and a deployed position, where, in the stowed position, each inner door closes one of the openwork regions of the frame and, in the deployed position, each inner door extends across the secondary duct;
a first actuator for moving the frame in translation from the advanced position to the retracted position and vice versa; and
a second actuator for moving each inner door from the stowed position to the deployed position and vice versa;
the rear part of the fan casing being divided into multiple outer flaps, each of which is mounted articulated by its rear edge to the frame and is mobile between a lowered position, in which each outer flap is aligned with the mobile cowl and extends facing a rear part of one of the openwork regions of the frame, and a raised position, in which each outer flap is tilted to extend its front edge radially outwards and to free the rear part of the one of the openwork regions of the frame; and
the nacelle further comprising, for each outer flap, an electric motor for moving the outer flap from the lowered position to the raised position and vice versa.

2. The turbofan according to claim 1 , comprising at least one deflector attached to the frame and arranged across one of the openwork regions of the frame.

3. An aircraft comprising at least one turbofan according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Airbus Operations Sas

Inventors

• Presseq Laurent
• Cazalis Julie
• Sillieres Lionel
• Sabathier Bastian
• Goncalves José
• Piard Frédéric
• Czapla Lionel
• Gaches Thierry
• Ridray Frédéric
• Gardes Pascal

Classifications

• B64D29/06

  Attaching of nacelles, fairings or cowlings · CPC title

• F02K1/763

  with actuating systems or actuating devices; Arrangement of actuators for thrust reversers · CPC title

• F05D2240/128

  Nozzles · CPC title

• F02K1/72 Primary

  the aft end of the fan housing being movable to uncover openings in the fan housing for the reversed flow · CPC title

• F05D2260/901

  using aerodynamic forces, i.e. lift or drag · CPC title