Turbomachine including a cooling and turbine clearance control system having an air supply scoop

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11248487-B2
Application number	US-201816001882-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 6, 2018
Priority date	Jun 7, 2017
Publication date	Feb 15, 2022
Grant date	Feb 15, 2022

Abstract

A dual-flow turbomachine generally includes a cooling and turbine clearance control system located in a primary air flow path of the turbomachine, supplied a scoop configured to take air from a secondary air flow path arranged around the primary air flow path through an air inlet of the scoop, where the scoop may further include one wall configured to be arranged in the extension of a wall of the secondary flow path, and further where the air inlet may be formed in and flush with the wall.

First claim

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:

1. A dual-flow turbomachine, comprising:
a secondary air flow path arranged around a primary air flow path;
a cooling and turbine clearance control system located in said primary air flow path;
an air inlet scoop having an air inlet and an air outlet, the air inlet scoop supplying said turbine clearance control system with air and configured to take air from the secondary air flow path through the air inlet located in said scoop, wherein the air inlet scoop includes a wall positioned along the secondary flow path in an extension of a wall of the secondary flow path, and wherein the air inlet is formed in and flush with said wall of the air inlet scoop,
wherein said scoop further includes a body in which is formed a duct connecting the air inlet to the outlet of said scoop, the outlet being formed in a base of the scoop and configured to allow the connection of said scoop to said cooling and clearance control system; and
an air flow control shutter is located inside said duct, in the vicinity of said air inlet,
wherein the shutter is assembled in the duct and configured to be movable from a minimum flow position, in which the shutter creates the biggest obstruction in a plane that is transverse to the cross section of the duct, to a maximum flow position, in which the shutter creates the smallest obstruction in said plane that is transverse to the cross section of the duct,
wherein the shutter is mounted for movement about a pivot defining a pivot axis that is transverse to the direction of the duct, and wherein the shutter is elastically returned to its minimum flow position by an elastic return inserted between the body of said scoop and the pivot axis of said shutter, wherein the body includes, in a plane that is transverse to the pivot axis of the shutter and intersecting with a radial finger associated with the shutter, two adjustable stops designed to stop the radial finger, thereby defining two extreme angular positions associated with the minimum flow and maximum flow positions of the shutter, and
wherein the body contains a housing that opens in the duct and houses the shutter, the pivot of the shutter passing through a wall of said housing, and wherein the elastic return, the radial finger, and the adjustable stops are arranged outside said housing.

2. The dual-flow turbomachine of claim 1 , wherein the shutter comprises an area that is smaller than the surface of the cross section of the duct in a plane that is transverse to the cross section of the duct, thereby defining a non-zero minimum flow that is called leakage rate.

3. The dual-flow turbomachine of claim 2 , wherein said scoop include a rotating actuator coupled to the shutter and arranged outside said housing.

4. The dual-flow turbomachine of claim 1 , wherein the turbomachine is oriented along an axis A and includes the secondary air flow path that is externally delineated, in the general flow direction of the air from upstream to downstream along the axis, by an outer shroud of an intermediary annular casing that supports a casing of a ducted fan and one of an annular external casing or a guiding nacelle of the secondary flow assembled to said outer shroud, and internally delineated, in the general flow direction of the air from upstream to downstream along the axis, by an inner shroud of said intermediary annular casing and an annular internal casing for the secondary flow, assembled to said inner shroud, wherein said intermediary annular casing comprises radial arms connecting at least the outer and inner shrouds and the turbomachine.

5. The dual-flow turbomachine of claim 4 , wherein the radial arms include structural radial arms each having radial walls, the structural radial arms connect the outer and inner shrouds of the intermediary annular casing, wherein the turbomachine includes an aerodynamic arm having a wall, the aerodynamic arm being connected to one of said structural arms of said intermediary annular casing and that is arranged radially between one of said external annular casing and guiding nacelle of the secondary flow on one hand, and said annular internal casing of the secondary flow on the other hand, wherein said aerodynamic arm extends axially to the radial arm of the annular intermediary casing and in the axial extension of said radial arm, and wherein the aerodynamic arm includes a housing, at its junction with its structural radial arm of the intermediary casing, that houses the scoop, enabling the wall of said scoop to be oriented radially and flush with the radial wall of the structural radial arm and the wall of said aerodynamic arm.

6. The dual-flow turbomachine of claim 5 , wherein the wall of said scoop extends along the entire radial dimension of said aerodynamic arm and said structural radial arm.

Assignees

• Safran Aircraft Engines

Inventors

• Delaitre Pascal Xavier
• Kohn Thierry
• Ramos Bruna Manuela
• Lacroix Florian Benjamin Kévin
• Tessiereau Antonin Etienne Diego

Classifications

• F05D2240/14

  Casings or housings protecting or supporting assemblies within · CPC title

• F05D2240/12

  Fluid guiding means, e.g. vanes · CPC title

• F01D11/24 Primary

  by selectively cooling-heating stator or rotor components · CPC title

• F01D25/12

  Cooling · CPC title

• F05D2260/38

  by a spring, i.e. spring loaded or biased towards a certain position · CPC title