IP Library Granted Patent US 7,080,974
Granted Patent B2
US 7,080,974 · App. 10/866,678 · Granted Jul 25, 2006

Retention capacity of a blade having an asymmetrical hammerhead fastener, with the help of platform stiffeners

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Patent No.
US 7,080,974
App. No.
10/866,678
Granted
Jul 25, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a bladed disk for a turbomachine, the disk including blades which extend into a conical stream and which are held in a peripheral groove of said disk by hammerhead type fasteners, each of said blades further including a platform whose radially-outer face defines the boundary of the gas flow stream and whose radially-inner face presents an upstream rib and a downstream rib disposed in planes that are perpendicular to the axis of rotation of said disk and that are radially adjacent respectively to an upstream ring and a downstream ring formed at the periphery of said disk on either side of said groove in order to provide leaktightness in these zones, wherein the thickness of the downstream rib in the axial direction is greater than the thickness of the upstream ring.

Claims (20)

1. A bladed disk for a turbomachine, the disk including blades which extend into a conical stream and which are held in a peripheral groove of said disk by hammerhead type fasteners, each of said blades further including a platform whose radially-outer face defines the boundary of the conical stream and whose radially-inner face presents an upstream rib and a downstream rib disposed in planes that are perpendicular to the axis of rotation of said disk and that are radially adjacent respectively to an upstream ring and a downstream ring formed at the periphery of said disk on either side of said groove in order to provide leaktightness in these zones, wherein the thickness of the downstream rib in the axial direction is greater than the thickness of the downstream ring.

2. A disk according to claim 1 , wherein the thickness of the upstream rib in the axial direction is greater than the thickness of the upstream ring.

3. A disk according to claim 1 , wherein the height of the ribs is great enough to limit any possibility of platforms overlapping.

4. A disk according to claim 1 , wherein each of said blades has a root in the form of a dovetail.

5. A disk according to claim 1 , wherein each of said blades has a root comprising an upstream flank and a downstream flank that bear against an upstream lip and a downstream lip of said disk, respectively, said upstream and downstream flanks and lips defining said peripheral groove.

6. A disk according to claim 5 , wherein said upstream lip is of diameter that is greater than a diameter of said downstream lip.

7. A disk according to claim 1 , wherein said upstream ring has a thickness smaller than that of said downstream ring.

8. A disk according to claim 1 , wherein said downstream ring defines a groove configured to receive a sealing gasket.

9. A disk according to claim 1 , wherein said upstream and downstream rings present cylindrical peripheral surfaces that are circularly symmetrical about an axis of rotation of said disk.

10. A disk according to claim 1 , wherein each of said blades has a single root coupled to said disk.

11. A disk according to claim 1 , wherein said upstream and downstream ribs each present a cylindrical surface portion.

12. A disk according to claim 1 , wherein said upstream and downstream ribs each present a surface portion that is symmetrical about an axis of rotation of said disk.

13. A disk according to claim 1 , wherein said upstream rib presents a surface portion that covers a peripheral surface of said upstream ring.

14. A disk according to claim 13 , wherein a width in said axial direction of said surface portion of said upstream rib is greater than a width in said axial direction of said peripheral surface of said upstream ring.

15. A disk according to claim 1 , wherein said downstream rib presents a surface portion that covers a peripheral surface of said downstream ring.

16. A disk according to claim 15 , wherein a width in said axial direction of said surface portion of said downstream rib is greater than a width in said axial direction of said peripheral surface of said downstream ring.

17. A bladed disk for a turbomachine, the disk defining a peripheral groove configured to receive a root of a blade, said blade including a platform whose radially-outer face defines the boundary of a conical stream and whose radially-inner face presents an upstream rib and a downstream rib disposed in planes that are perpendicular to an axis of rotation of said disk and that are radially adjacent respectively to an upstream ring and a downstream ring formed at a periphery of said disk, wherein said downstream rib presents a surface portion that covers a peripheral surface of said downstream ring, and a width in an axial direction of said surface portion of said downstream rib is greater than a width in said axial direction of said peripheral surface of said downstream ring.

18. A disk according to claim 17 , wherein said upstream ring and said downstream ring are formed on either side of said groove.

19. A disk according to claim 17 , wherein said upstream rib presents a surface portion that covers a peripheral surface of said upstream ring, and a width in said axial direction of said surface portion of said upstream rib is greater than a width of said peripheral surface of said upstream ring.

20. A disk according to claim 19 , wherein said surface portion of said downstream rib and said peripheral surface of said downstream ring form a downstream leaktight contact between said downstream rib and said downstream ring, and said surface portion of said upstream rib and said peripheral surface of said upstream ring form an upstream leaktight contact between said upstream rib and said upstream ring.

Assignments (4)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE COVER SHEET TO REMOVE APPLICATION NOS. 10250419, 10786507, 10786409, 12416418, 12531115, 12996294, 12094637 12416422 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 046479 FRAME 0807. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF NAME. Recorded Aug 24, 2018
From: SNECMA
To: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Reel/Frame 046939/0336 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 23, 2018
From: SNECMA
To: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Reel/Frame 046479/0807 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 20, 2008
From: SNECMA MOTEURS
To: SNECMA
Reel/Frame 020609/0569 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 15, 2004
From: LEJARS, CLAUDE; REGHEZZA, PATRICK; MACE, JEROME; FOLLONIER, CHRISTOPHE; PONTOIZEAU, BRUCE
To: SNECMA MOTEURS
Reel/Frame 015476/0918 →