Fan having a variable setting by means of differential rotation of the fan disks

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9695703-B2
Application number	US-201314404975-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 24, 2013
Priority date	Jun 25, 2012
Publication date	Jul 4, 2017
Grant date	Jul 4, 2017

Abstract

A compressor rotor for a turbomachine including a shaft and at least two disks mounted on the shaft to hold a single set of vanes that are rotatably mobile about the rotational axis of the shaft, at least one first disk being mounted in a mobile manner on the shaft to be able to generate an angular gap in relation to the second disk and to trigger a rotation of the vanes about the radial axis of same, at least one of the two disks being shaped to receive at least one mechanism for attaching the vanes, the connection between the disk and the attaching mechanism enabling a rotation of the attaching mechanism about a radial axis, and connection is a ball-jointed connection that is tangentially and axially mobile.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A compressor rotor for a turbine engine comprising:
a shaft and at least two discs which are mounted on the shaft to ensure retention of a same set of movable vanes during rotation about a rotation axis of the shaft;
at least a first disc being mounted in a movable manner on the shaft to be able to generate angular spacing with respect to a second disc;
at least one of the two discs being formed to receive at least one fixing means for each vane;
a connection between at least one of the two discs and the fixing means allowing rotation of the fixing means about an axis;
wherein the connection is a ball-and-socket joint which is tangentially and axially movable.

2. The compressor rotor according to claim 1 , wherein the two discs are formed to receive the fixing means in a form of a ball-and-socket joint which is tangentially and axially movable.

3. The compressor rotor according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the two discs comprises a cap, through which a hole provided with the ball-and-socket joint extends, the fixing means for the vanes being an axle which extends through the hole.

4. The compressor rotor according to claim 1 , wherein the second disc is fixed in terms of rotation in relation to the shaft, the first disc being fixed to an actuation means which comprises a fixed portion which is connected to the shaft and a movable portion, the movable portion being movable in terms of rotation about the rotation axis of the shaft.

5. The compressor rotor according to claim 4 , wherein the actuation means is a rotary actuator.

6. The compressor rotor according to claim 5 , wherein the rotary actuator comprises an axle which extends in accordance with the rotation axis of the shaft, to which it is rigidly fixed, and a vessel which is movable in terms of rotation about the axle, the first disc being mounted on the vessel.

7. The compressor rotor according to claim 6 , wherein the vessel of the rotary actuator comprises two chambers configured to receive a hydraulic liquid for rotation of the first disc relative to the second disc.

8. The compressor rotor according to claim 1 , further comprising a rotation guiding ring which is positioned between the two discs to ensure that the respective axial pitches thereof are in a permanent state.

9. The compressor rotor according to claim 1 , wherein the connection between at least one of the two discs and the fixing means allows rotation of the fixing means about a radial axis or a longitudinal axis of the vane.

10. A fan module of a bypass turbojet engine having a high dilution rate, comprising a fan rotor according to claim 1 .

11. A bypass turbojet engine comprising a fan module according to claim 10 .

Assignees

• Snecma

Inventors

• Gallet Francois

Classifications

• F01D9/041 Primary

  using blades (F01D5/148 takes precedence) · CPC title

• Y02T50/673

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F04D29/323

  adjustable · CPC title

• F05D2260/74

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

• F01D17/12

  arranged in stator parts · CPC title