Turbojet architecture with two fans at the front
View Patent ↗A turbojet has a low-pressure compressor and two fans at the front of an intermediate casing which fans are driven by two independent shafts. The compressor is disposed under the rear fan and has a downstream ring of rotor blades connecting the rear fan to the drive shaft of the rear fan, an upstream rotor blade ring that is connected to the drive shaft of the front fan and at least one ring of stator blades that is disposed between the rings of rotor blades and inside an outer stator that is supported by a second intermediate casing. Bearings are interposed respectively between the two intermediate casings and the two shafts.
1. A three-spool by-pass turbojet with a high by-pass ratio, the turbojet having a front fan and a rear fan at the front of a first intermediate casing that presents a first outer structural grid in a by-pass air flow and a first inner structural grid in a main air flow, the fans having blades that extend radially outwards to a fan casing, which fan casing outwardly defines the by-pass air flow, the turbojet also having a low-pressure compressor for compressing air coming into a channel for the main air flow, said front fan and said rear fan being rotated directly, and separately, by two shafts that are coaxial,
wherein the blades of the rear fan extend into the by-pass air flow from a wheel that is connected to its drive shaft via a downstream ring of rotor blades in the low-pressure compressor, said low-pressure compressor also comprising at least one upstream ring of rotor blades that is driven by the drive shaft for the front fan, and an outer stator in the bore from which grids of stator blades extend, said grids being interleaved between the rings of rotor blades, said outer stator being carried by the fan casing via a second intermediate casing having a second outer structural grid in the by-pass air flow between the blades of the front fan and the blades of the rear fan, and a second inner structural grid in the main air flow, and wherein the first intermediate casing supports the rotary shaft of the rear fan via an axial thrust bearing, and the drive shaft of the front fan via an inter-shaft bearing, and additional bearings are also interposed between said second intermediate casing and said shafts.
2. A turbojet according to claim 1 , wherein the thrust bearing of the drive shaft of the front fan that is supported by the second intermediate casing and the inter-shaft bearing is a roller bearing.
3. A turbojet according to claim 1 , wherein the inter-shaft bearing is a thrust bearing, and the bearing that is interposed between the second intermediate casing and the drive shaft of the front fan is a roller bearing.
4. A turbojet according to claim 2 , wherein the bearing that is interposed between the second intermediate casing and the drive shaft of the front fan is a roller bearing.
5. A turbojet according to claim 1 , wherein the first intermediate casing also supports the drive shaft of a high-pressure compressor via a thrust bearing.
6. A turbojet according to claim 1 , wherein the front fan and the rear fan are counter-rotatable fans.
7. A turbojet according to claim 1 , wherein said second outer structural grid is connected outwardly to said fan casing.
8. A turbojet according to claim 1 , wherein said second outer structural grid and said second inner structural grid are radially aligned with each other.
9. A turbojet according to claim 1 , wherein said second outer structural grid extends radially from said outer stator to said fan casing.
10. A turbojet according to claim 1 , wherein said blades of said rear fan extend in said by-pass air flow between said first and second outer structural grids.