Rotary machines including a hybrid rotor with an integrally bladed rotor portion

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9810078-B2
Application number	US-201514742438-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 17, 2015
Priority date	Jun 17, 2015
Publication date	Nov 7, 2017
Grant date	Nov 7, 2017

Abstract

Rotary machines including a hybrid rotor with an integrally bladed rotor portion are provided. The integrally bladed rotor portion for the hybrid rotor comprises a rotor disk portion and a blade portion. The rotor disk portion has a peripheral rim configured to mechanically retain an individual rotor blade. The blade portion comprises an integral rotor blade extending outwardly and integrally from the rotor disk portion. The individual rotor blade is configured to extend outwardly from the rotor disk portion in a blade array with the integral rotor blade. The hybrid rotor is also provided and comprises the integrally bladed rotor portion and a plurality of individual rotor blades extending outwardly from the rotor disk portion in a blade array with a plurality of integral rotor blades.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An integrally bladed rotor portion for a hybrid rotor, the integrally bladed rotor portion comprising:
a rotor disk portion having a peripheral rim configured to mechanically retain an individual rotor blade, wherein the individual rotor blade comprises a plurality of individual rotor blades spaced around the circumference of the rotor disk portion in circumferentially spaced apart sets, each set comprising at least one individual rotor blade; and
a blade portion comprising an integral rotor blade extending outwardly and integrally from the rotor disk portion, the individual rotor blade configured to extend radially outwardly from the rotor disk portion in a blade array with the integral rotor blade, wherein the integral rotor blade comprises a plurality of integral rotor blades spaced around a circumference of the rotor disk portion in circumferentially spaced apart sets, each set comprising one or more integral rotor blades;
wherein each set of the one or more individual rotor blades is disposed circumferentially adjacent and between a pair of adjacent circumferentially spaced apart sets of the integral rotor blades.

2. The integrally bladed rotor portion of claim 1 , wherein the peripheral rim includes a mechanical retention slot disposed between and adjacent the pair of adjacent circumferentially spaced apart sets of the integral rotor blades, the number of mechanical retention slots corresponding to the number of individual rotor blades in the blade array.

3. The integrally bladed rotor portion of claim 1 , wherein each set of the at least one or more integral rotor blades comprises the same or a different number of integral rotor blades and each set of the one or more individual rotor blades comprises a different number of individual rotor blades.

4. The integrally bladed rotor portion of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of individual rotor blades and the plurality of integral rotor blades respectively comprise the same or different materials.

5. The integrally bladed rotor portion of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of individual rotor blades and the plurality of integral rotor blades are respectively independently tuned.

6. The integrally bladed rotor portion of claim 2 , wherein the individual rotor blade comprises:
an airfoil having a leading edge and a trailing edge extending from a root portion to a tip portion defining therebetween first and second opposite sides; and
a flange integrally joined to the root portion and received in the mechanical retention slot.

7. The integrally bladed rotor portion of claim 6 , wherein each mechanical retention slot includes opposing overhung portions cooperating with the flange to retain the individual rotor blade in the integrally bladed rotor portion.

8. A hybrid rotor comprising:
an integrally bladed rotor portion comprising a rotor disk portion having a peripheral rim and a blade portion comprising a plurality of integral rotor blades extending outwardly and integrally from the rotor disk portion; and
a plurality of individual rotor blades extending outwardly from the rotor disk portion in a blade array with the plurality of integral rotor blades;
wherein the plurality of integral rotor blades are spaced around a circumference of the rotor disk portion in circumferentially spaced apart sets, each set comprising one or more integral rotor blades and the plurality of individual rotor blades are spaced around the circumference of the rotor disk portion in circumferentially spaced apart sets of one or more individual rotor blades, wherein each set of the one or more individual rotor blades is disposed circumferentially adjacent and between a pair of adjacent circumferentially spaced apart sets of integral rotor blades.

9. The hybrid rotor of claim 8 , wherein the peripheral rim includes a mechanical retention slot disposed between and adjacent the pair of adjacent circumferentially spaced apart sets of integral rotor blades, the number of mechanical retention slots corresponding to the number of individual rotor blades in the blade array and each mechanical retention slot configured to retain an individual rotor blade of the hybrid rotor.

10. The hybrid rotor of claim 9 , wherein each set of the one or more integral rotor blades comprises the same or a different number of integral rotor blades and each set of the one or more individual rotor blades comprises the same or a different number of individual rotor blades.

11. The hybrid rotor of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of individual rotor blades and the plurality of integral rotor blades respectively comprise the same or different materials.

12. The hybrid rotor of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of individual rotor blades and the plurality of integral rotor blades are respectively independently tuned for effecting a different response at an engine stability pinch point.

13. The hybrid rotor of claim 8 , wherein each individual rotor blade comprises:
an airfoil having a leading edge and a trailing edge extending from a root portion to a tip portion defining therebetween first and second opposite sides; and
a flange integrally joined to the root portion and received in the mechanical retention slot, wherein each mechanical retention slot includes opposing overhung portions cooperating with the flange to retain the individual rotor blade in the blade array.

14. A rotary machine comprising:
an integral rotary body having a plurality of integral blades extending outwardly and integrally from a peripheral rim thereof; and
a plurality of individual blades extending outwardly from the peripheral rim and mechanically retained by a mechanical retention slot in the peripheral rim;
wherein each integral blade of the plurality of integral blades is circumferentially disposed between adjacent individual blades of the plurality of individual blades and wherein each individual blade of the plurality of individual blades is circumferentially disposed between adjacent integral blades of the plurality of integral blades.

15. The rotary machine of claim 14 , wherein the integral rotary body is an integrally bladed rotor portion and the rotary machine comprises a gas turbine engine.

16. The rotary machine of claim 14 , wherein the integral rotary body comprises an integrally bladed impeller portion and the rotary machine comprises a gas turbine engine.

Assignees

• United Technologies Corp

Inventors

• Whitehurst Sean A
• Mccomb Patrick James

Classifications

• F04D29/666

  by means of rotor construction or layout, e.g. unequal distribution of blades or vanes · CPC title

• F01D5/3007 Primary

  of axial insertion type · CPC title

• F05D2260/961

  by mistuning rotor blades or stator vanes with irregular interblade spacing, airfoil shape · CPC title

• F01D5/34

  Rotor-blade aggregates of unitary construction {, e.g. formed of sheet laminae; (discs formed of sheet laminae F01D5/028; ceramic materials F01D5/284, composite materials F01D5/282)} · CPC title

• F04D29/644

  especially adapted for elastic fluid pumps · CPC title