Method for producing turbine engine parts, and resulting mould and blank compromising stacked parts

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9796058-B2
Application number	US-201415106132-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 12, 2014
Priority date	Dec 20, 2013
Publication date	Oct 24, 2017
Grant date	Oct 24, 2017

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing multiple metal turbine engine parts, comprising steps consisting in:
a) casting a metal alloy in a mould in order to produce a blank ( 3 ); and b) machining the blank in order to produce the parts,

characterized in that the blank obtained by casting is a solid polyhedron with two generally trapezoidal opposing sides ( 30 a, 30 b ), and the parts are machined in the blank.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for producing multiple metal turbine engine parts for a turbine engine, comprising:
a) casting a metal alloy in a mould in order to produce a blank which is a solid polyhedron having faces including two opposite faces, opposite to each other; and
b) machining the blank in order to produce the parts,
wherein each of the two opposite faces of the solid polyhedron is trapezoidal,
wherein said two opposite faces each have a surface area larger than the respective surface areas of any other face of the blank,
wherein, during the step a), the blank is moulded so that it has a trapezoid-based prism shape, and
wherein, upon moulding, the blank is moulded:
with trapezoidal bases thereof corresponding to said two opposite faces having the largest surface areas of the blank, and
with an angular opening of the trapezoidal bases ranging from 2° to 10°.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein:
the blank has faces including said two opposite faces, opposite to each other, and other faces including a first and a second opposite faces, opposite to each other,
said parts are blades each having a longitudinal axis and, along such axis, a root at a first end, a heel at a second end, and a curved section vane which extends between the first and second ends,
the blank is adapted to totally contain at least two identical and distant of said parts, located side by side and stacked, and
said blades are so machined in the blank that one is rotated by 180° relative to the adjacent blade, about the longitudinal axis which then passes through said first and a second opposite faces of the blank.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, prior to machining said parts, the blank is cut substantially along a plane of symmetry:
which passes between two volumes of the blank, each being adapted to totally contain at least one of said parts,
and which cuts:
said opposite faces which have the largest surface areas of the blank; and
two other opposite faces parallel to each other.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said faces of the solid polyhedron further include other faces including a first and a second opposite faces that are opposite to each other and each of which is a parallelogram.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, during the step a), the blank is moulded so that the trapezoid-based prism shape is oblique.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the oblique trapezoid-based prism has an opening angle ranging from more than 0° to 30°.

7. A method for producing multiple metal turbine engine parts for a turbine engine, the method comprising:
a) casting a metal alloy in a mould in order to produce a blank which is a solid polyhedron having faces including:
two opposite faces, opposite to each other, and
other faces; and

b) machining the blank in order to produce the parts,
wherein each of the two opposite faces of the solid polyhedron is trapezoidal,
wherein said other faces include a first opposite parallelogram face and a second opposite parallelogram face that are opposite to each other, and
wherein said two opposite trapezoidal faces each have a surface area larger than the respective surface areas of said other faces,
wherein, during the step a), the blank is moulded so that it has a trapezoid-based prism shape, and
wherein, upon moulding, the blank is moulded:
with trapezoidal bases thereof corresponding to said two opposite faces of the largest surface areas of the blank, and
with an angular opening of the trapezoidal bases ranging from 2° to 10°.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein, prior to machining said parts, the blank is cut along a plane of symmetry:
which passes between two volumes of the blank, each adapted to totally contain at least one of said parts,
and which cuts the two opposite faces and said first and second opposite parallelogram faces.

Assignees

• Snecma

Inventors

• Huchin Patrick Emilien Paul Emile
• Deschandol Karine
• DIGARD BROU DE CUISSART Sébastien
• Fargeas Serge
• Soisson Marc
• Texier Anthony
• Piaton Valéry

Classifications

• B22D13/00

  Centrifugal casting; Casting by using centrifugal force · CPC title

• B23P15/02 Primary

  turbine or like blades from one piece · CPC title