Fuel injector for a turbine engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9857080-B2
Application number	US-201414506914-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 6, 2014
Priority date	Oct 8, 2013
Publication date	Jan 2, 2018
Grant date	Jan 2, 2018

Abstract

A fuel injector for a turbine engine is provided. The fuel injector includes a body including an admissions chamber for admitting fuel under pressure, a stop valve mounted in the body downstream from the admission chamber and designed to open at a first determined fuel pressure and to remain open beyond that first pressure in order to feed a primary fuel circuit, and a metering valve mounted in the body downstream from the stop valve and designed to open above a second determined fuel pressure, greater than the first pressure, and to remain open above the second pressure in order to feed a secondary fuel circuit. The stop valve and the metering valve form a common movable assembly.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A fuel injector for a turbine engine, the fuel injector comprising:
a body including a pre-admission chamber for admitting fuel under pressure;
a stop valve mounted in the body downstream from the pre-admission chamber and designed to open at a first determined fuel pressure and to remain open beyond that first determined fuel pressure in order to feed a primary fuel circuit; and
a metering valve mounted in the body downstream from the stop valve and designed to open above a second determined fuel pressure, greater than the first determined fuel pressure, and to remain open above the second determined fuel pressure in order to feed a secondary fuel circuit,
wherein the stop valve and the metering valve form a common movable assembly, the stop valve being formed by a first free end of the movable assembly, the metering valve being formed by a second end of the movable assembly, wherein the stop valve is designed, in a closed position of said stop valve, to bear against a seat of the body, the seat fitted with an O-ring,
wherein the body includes an inner tubular portion in the movable assembly is slidably mounted, an outer surface of the movable assembly including at least one slot having both a first end of the at least one slot opening out into an inner chamber of the body situated downstream from the stop valve and in fluid flow connection with the primary fuel circuit, and a second end of the at least one slot having a varying section, the second end of the at least one slot being spaced apart from the second end of the movable assembly by a sealing section of the movable assembly, in the sealing section of the movable assembly co-operates with a complementary sealing section of the inner tubular portion so as to form the metering valve,
wherein the inner chamber of the body is defined between the inner tubular portion and an annular wall of the body located radially outside said inner tubular portion, a resilient return member being housed at least in part in said inner chamber of the body and bearing at a first end of the resilient return member against an abutment of the movable assembly, and at a second end of the resilient return member against a bottom of said inner chamber of the body,
wherein the abutment of the movable assembly bears against the inner tubular portion of the body when the stop valve and the metering valve are open,
wherein the abutment of the movable assembly is located between the first free end of the movable assembly and the second end of the movable assembly, the abutment of the movable assembly being closer to the first free end of the movable assembly than the second end of the movable assembly, and
wherein the abutment includes holes.

2. The fuel injector according to claim 1 , wherein said movable assembly is urged towards the closed position of the stop valve and of the metering valve with the resilient return member.

3. The fuel injector according to claim 1 , wherein a leakage channel is formed in the body and opens out at a first end of the leakage channel in the sealing section of the inner tubular portion, and at a second end of the leakage channel in the primary fuel circuit.

4. A turbine engine, including at least one fuel injector according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Snecma

Inventors

• Chabaille Christophe
• Loval Sebastien Christophe

Classifications

• F23K5/147 Primary

  Valves · CPC title

• F02C7/232 Primary

  Fuel valves {(control of fuel supply by means of fuel metering valves F02C9/263)}; Draining valves or systems (valves in general F16K) · CPC title

• F23R3/28 Primary

  characterised by the fuel supply (burners F23D) · CPC title