IP Library Granted Patent US 8,113,785
Granted Patent B2
US 8,113,785 · App. 11/770,341 · Granted Feb 14, 2012

Turbomachine rotor and turbomachine comprising such a rotor

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Patent No.
US 8,113,785
App. No.
11/770,341
Granted
Feb 14, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A turbomachine rotor comprising a disk the periphery of which has a plurality of slots, a plurality of removable blades, each blade comprising a blade root housed in one of the slots, and a downstream flange, secured to said disk and against which each blade root bears. Further, the rotor comprises, between each blade root and the downstream flange, an elastic buffer intended to maintain a gap between the blade root and the downstream flange.

Claims (24)

1. A turbomachine rotor comprising:

a disk, a periphery of which has a plurality of slots,

a plurality of removable blades, each blade comprising a blade root housed in one of the slots, the blade root including a tenon at a base of the blade root, and

a downstream flange, secured to said disk and against which each blade root bears, wherein

said rotor includes, between a downstream part of each blade root and the downstream flange, an elastic buffer to maintain a gap between the blade root and the downstream flange, and

said downstream part of each blade root is radially outside of the tenon of said blade root.

2. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the elastic buffer has a shape to clip onto the downstream part of each blade root.

3. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the elastic buffer has a shape to clip onto the downstream flange.

4. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the elastic buffer has a U-shape including a base which bears against the downstream part of each blade and two branches which bear against lateral faces of each blade root.

5. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 4 , wherein each branch of the U-shape has a substantially flat shape.

6. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 4 or 5 , wherein the base of the U-shape has a substantially flat shape and includes an upstream face and a downstream face.

7. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the base, on the downstream face, includes at least one spike as a grip-enhancing stud.

8. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the base, on the downstream face, includes three spikes.

9. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the spike projects out from a plane defined by the downstream face of the base.

10. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the spike is situated in a circular recess on the downstream face of the base.

11. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 6 , wherein a hardness of the downstream face of the base ranges between 50 and 70 Shore A.

12. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the downstream face of the base has a hardness of 60 Shore A.

13. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the downstream face of the base is made of silicon elastomer.

14. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a hardness of the elastic buffer ranges between 40 and 80 Shore D.

15. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the hardness of the elastic buffer ranges between 65 and 75 Shore D.

16. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the hardness of the elastic buffer ranges between 71 and 73 Shore D.

17. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the elastic buffer is made of polyurethane elastomer.

18. The turbomachine rotor as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each blade is a fan blade.

19. A turbomachine comprising a rotor as defined in claim 1 .

Assignments (2)
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 →