Assembly formed by a turbine engine and a system for attaching it to an aircraft structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9488106-B2
Application number	US-201214241246-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 24, 2012
Priority date	Sep 1, 2011
Publication date	Nov 8, 2016
Grant date	Nov 8, 2016

Abstract

In an assembly including a bypass turbine engine and an attachment system attaching the turbine engine to an aircraft structure, the attachment system includes a mast, at least two rear attachments connecting the mast to two rear attachment points of the turbine engine, and a rear covering covering the rear attachments and providing a streamlined fairing. The rear covering includes two side walls, each including a first portion extending along and in proximity of the mast and extending rearwards, and a second portion projecting sideways relative to the first portion towards its outside, to cover the rear attachments. Each second portion is substantially a bulge and is connected to the first portion along a curved connection line extending between front and rear points situated substantially level with an inner longitudinal edge of the first portion to minimize the impact on a flow of bypass stream leaving the bypass passage.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An assembly comprising a turbine engine and an attachment system for attaching the turbine engine to an aircraft structure;
wherein the turbine engine is a bypass engine including an annular passage in which a core stream flows that opens out to a rear around a central body and an annular passage along which a bypass stream flows that opens out to a rear between a primary cover and a rear end of a secondary cover, and
wherein the attachment system includes a mast, at least two rear attachments connecting the mast to two rear attachment points of the turbine engine, and a rear covering of the mast covering the rear attachments, providing a streamlined fairing and having a rear portion that extends rearwards beyond an opening of the core stream flow passage, a distance between the rear attachment points being substantially greater than a width of the mast level with the rear attachments;
wherein the rear covering includes two side walls each including a first portion extending along and in proximity of the mast and extended rearwards, and a second portion that projects sideways relative to the first wall portion on an outside thereof to cover the rear attachments; and
wherein the second portions of the side wall of the rear covering are substantially in a form of bulges and connect to the first portions of the side wall along curved connection lines extending between front points and rear points situated substantially level with inner longitudinal edges of the first side wall portions.

2. An assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the second side wall portions of the rear covering are connected to the first side wall portions along curved connection lines extending rearwards as far as rear points situated at or in proximity of an outer edge of the opening of the annular flow passage for the core stream.

3. An assembly according to claim 2 , wherein the second side wall portions of the rear covering have curved profiles of generally concave shape to locally favor a flow of the bypass stream towards an inside and under a rear portion of the rear covering.

4. An assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the second side wall portions of the rear covering are connected to the first side wall portions along connection lines from front points situated in proximity of the primary cover substantially facing a rear edge of the secondary cover.

5. An assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the second side wall portions of the rear covering occupy less than 2% of an ejection of the annular passage for the bypass stream.

Assignees

• Gaillot Mathieu
• Bertucchi Jean
• Leyko Matthieu
• Snecma

Inventors

• Gaillot Mathieu
• Bertucchi Jean
• Leyko Matthieu

Classifications

• F02C7/20 Primary

  Mounting or supporting of plant; Accommodating heat expansion or creep · CPC title

• B64D27/402

  comprising box like supporting frames, e.g. pylons or arrangements for embracing the power plant · CPC title

• B64D27/404

  Suspension arrangements specially adapted for supporting vertical loads · CPC title

• B64C7/02 Primary

  Nacelles · CPC title

• B64D2027/266

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic