IP Library Granted Patent US 6,976,361
Granted Patent B1
US 6,976,361 · App. 10/872,510 · Granted Dec 20, 2005

Ventilation channels in an afterburner chamber confluence sheet

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Patent No.
US 6,976,361
App. No.
10/872,510
Granted
Dec 20, 2005
Kind
B1
Abstract

The invention relates to ventilating the confluence sheet of an afterburner chamber of an aviation turbomachine, including, upstream from the afterburner chamber: a diffuser defined by a confluence sheet disposed inside a casing, said casing and said confluence sheet defining between them an annular channel for a cold secondary flow, upstream fuel injectors being disposed at the inlet to said diffuser and flame-catchers being disposed downstream from said upstream injectors, said confluence sheet presenting, between the radial plane containing said upstream injectors and the radial plane situated at the rear ends of said flame-catchers two bends so as to flare downstream in order to slow down the primary flow F 1 downstream from said upstream injectors. An annular scoop is provided around the upstream portion of said confluence sheet in order to extract a flow of air from the cold flow, said extracted flow being injected tangentially into the primary flow via a plurality of channels formed in the wall of said confluence sheet between the scoop and said diffuser.

Claims (5)

1. An aviation turbomachine including, upstream from a afterburner chamber: a diffuser defined by a confluence sheet disposed inside a casing, said casing and said confluence sheet defining between them an annular channel for conveying a cold secondary flow, upstream fuel injectors being disposed at the inlet to said diffuser and flame-catchers being disposed downstream from said upstream injectors, said confluence sheet presenting, between the radial plane containing said upstream injectors and the radial plane situated at the rear ends of said flame-catchers, two bends so as to flare downstream in order to slow down the primary flow F 1 downstream from said upstream injectors, wherein an annular scoop is provided around the upstream portion of said confluence sheet in order to extract a flow of air from the cold flow, this extracted flow of air being injected tangentially into the primary flow via a plurality of channels formed in the wall of said confluence sheet between the scoop and said diffuser.

2. A turbomachine according to claim 1 , wherein the channels opening out circumferentially into the wakes from the injectors are of section that is considerably greater than the section of the other channels.

3. A turbomachine according to claim 2 , wherein the scoop is defined on the inside by a shell surrounding the upstream section of the diffuser, and on the outside by the upstream portion of a sheet which, downstream from the shell forms the middle zone and the downstream zone of the confluence sheet, which zones are cooled by the flow of air injected via the channels.

4. A turbomachine according to claim 3 , wherein the shell and the upstream portion present downstream junction zones, and the channels are formed at the interface of said junction zones.

5. A turbomachine according to claim 4 , wherein the channels are formed in the outside face of the shell.

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 22, 2004
From: CORTES, THIERRY; PAGE, ALAIN; BABOEUF, SEBASTIEN; ROCHE, JACQUES
To: SNECMA MOTEURS
Reel/Frame 015505/0282 →