IP Library Granted Patent US 7,658,591
Granted Patent B2
US 7,658,591 · App. 11/556,867 · Granted Feb 9, 2010

Cooling layout for a turbine blade, turbine blade included therein, turbine and aircraft engine equipped therewith

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Patent No.
US 7,658,591
App. No.
11/556,867
Granted
Feb 9, 2010
Kind
B2
Abstract

A layout for cooling a blade having a cavity surrounded by an internal wall including cooling fins which are spaced apart from each other by a pitch (p) and each have a thickness (e). The blade has, inside the cavity, a jacket passed through by emission holes each having a diameter (d). When the jacket is in place in the cavity of the blade, and in respect of the critical operating point of the turbine engine, each emission hole of the jacket is opposite a place on the internal wall of the blade which is located between cooling fins.

Claims (25)

1. A cooling layout for a turbine engine distributor blade,

said blade being fitted with at least one cavity surrounded by an internal wall comprising cooling fins which are spaced apart from each other by a pitch (p) and each have a thickness (e),

said blade being fitted with a jacket, and passed through by emission holes each having a diameter (d), wherein, when the jacket is in place in the cavity of the blade, and in respect of the critical operating point of the turbine engine, each emission hole of the jacket is opposite a place on the internal wall of the blade which is between cooling fins,

wherein said jacket does not contact said cooling fins and contacts said internal wall via lobes on a surface of the jacket.

2. A cooling layout according to claim 1 , wherein, when the jacket is in place in the cavity of the blade, and in respect of the critical operating point of the turbine engine, at least one place on the internal wall of the blade which is between cooling fins is opposite at least one emission hole of the jacket.

3. A cooling layout according to claim 1 , wherein, in respect of the critical operating point of the turbine engine, no cooling fin on the internal wall of the blade is opposite an emission hole of the jacket.

4. A blade of a turbine engine turbine, wherein said blade comprises a cooling layout according to claim 1 .

5. A turbine engine comprising at least one blade according to claim 4 .

6. An aircraft engine comprising at least one blade according to claim 4 .

7. An aircraft engine comprising a cooling air bleeding device which brings cooling air into the inside of a jacket arranged in a cavity of at least one blade according to claim 5 , said cooling air being then blasted onto the internal wall of the blade through emission holes made in said jacket in the form of a cooling flow which has a Reynolds number (R e ) the characteristic length of which is the diameter (d) of the emission holes and which satisfies the relationship:

Re<10,000.  (2)

8. A blade according to claim 4 , wherein said thickness (e) of the cooling fins is constant.

9. A cooling layout for a turbine engine distributor blade,

said blade being fitted with at least one cavity surrounded by an internal wall comprising cooling fins which are spaced apart from each other by a pitch (p) and each have a thickness (e),

said blade being fitted with a jacket, and passed through by emission holes each having a diameter (d), wherein, when the jacket is in place in the cavity of the blade, and in respect of the critical operating point of the turbine engine, each emission hole of the jacket is opposite a place on the internal wall of the blade which is between cooling fins,

wherein, when the jacket is in place in the cavity of the blade, and in respect of the critical operating point of the turbine engine, the pitch (p) and the thickness (e) of the cooling fins satisfy the relationship:

p/e≧ 3.  (1)

10. An aircraft engine, comprising a layout for cooling a turbine blade,

said blade being fitted with at least one cavity surrounded by an internal wall comprising cooling fins, wherein said cooling fins are spaced apart from each other by a pitch (p) and each have a thickness (e),

said blade being fitted with a jacket, arranged inside said cavity and passed through by emission holes, wherein said emission holes each have a diameter (d),

said aircraft engine additionally comprising a cooling air bleeding device which brings cooling air into the inside of said jacket, said cooling air then being blasted onto the internal wall of the blade through the emission holes made in said jacket, in the form of a cooling flow which has a Reynolds number (R e ) the characteristic length of which is the diameter (d) of the emission holes, wherein, when the jacket is in place in the cavity of the blade, and in respect of the critical operating point of the turbine engine, each emission hole of the jacket is opposite a place on the internal wall of the blade which is between cooling fins,

and in that the pitch (p), the thickness (e) and the Reynolds number (R e ) satisfy the relationships:

p/e≧ 3  (1)

and

Re<10,000.  (2)

Assignments (3)
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 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 6, 2007
From: DERVAUX, ALEXANDRE; GUIMBARD, JEAN-MICHEL BERNARD; REDON, DAMIEN GILBERT ANDRE; PAPOT, PASCAL BERTRAND YVES CLAUDE
To: SNECMA
Reel/Frame 018882/0792 →