System for defrosting the leading edge sheath of an air inlet hood for a turboengine
View Patent ↗The system for defrosting the leading edge sheath of an air intake hood for a turboengine comprises a hot pressure air supply duct ( 60 ) and a protective shell ( 90 ) which are longitudinally rigid and rigidly fixed to the partition ( 5 ) of a caisson ( 10 ), wherein said protective shell ( 90 ) is slidable with respect to a sliding bearing ( 15 ) embodied in the partition ( 11 ) and said air supply duct ( 60 ) is connected to the protective shell ( 90 ) by an elastic wall ( 16 ) closing an insulating space ( 12 ) and enabling relative longitudinal movements to be carried out between the air supply duct ( 60 ) and the protective shell ( 90 ).
1. A system for deicing a leading edge of a nose inlet cowl of a turbine engine, said leading edge being defined by a hollow annular chamber closed off by a first internal bulkhead of the cowl, said deicing system comprising:
a pressurized hot air supply duct having a rear end and a front end in which the rear end of the pressurized air supply duct is connected to a pressurized hot air circuit of the turbine engine and the front end is connected to an injector that injects pressurized hot air from the pressurized hot air circuit into said annular chamber said supply duct passing through a compartment of said nose inlet cowl, with the compartment being defined at a front end by said first internal bulkhead and at a rear end by a second internal bulkhead; and
an internal protective envelope arranged in said compartment and defining an isolation volume enclosing said supply duct, wherein:
said supply duct and said protective envelope are longitudinally rigid, and at least one of said supply duct and said protective envelope is integrally connected to the pressurized hot air circuit;
on one side, said supply duct and said protective envelope are rigidly fastened to one of said bulkheads; and
on the other side, said protective envelope is configured to slide relative to a sliding bearing provided at the other bulkhead; and
on said other side said supply duct is connected to said protective envelope by a spring washer made of a spring steel and having internal and external peripheries, with the spring washer being welded to said supply duct and to said protective envelope at the internal and external peripheries of the spring washer, and with the spring washer being configured to close off said isolation volume and provide relative longitudinal movement between said supply duct and said protective envelope.
2. The deicing system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said sliding bearing is arranged in said first internal bulkhead.
3. The deicing system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said sliding bearing is arranged in said second internal bulkhead.
4. The deicing system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said washer has concentric corrugations.
5. The deicing system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said spring washer is arranged at the location of a narrowing of said supply duct.
6. The deicing system as claimed in claim 5 , wherein there is provided a conical guide surface upstream of said spring washer, and in connection with the pressurized hot air circuit, so as to cause said pressurized hot air to converge toward said narrowing of said supply duct.
7. The deicing system as claimed in claim 6 , wherein:
the rear end of the protective envelope is integrally connected to the hot air circuit by co-acting flanges;
the spring washer and the narrowing are situated level with one of the co-acting flanges, which flange is integrally connected to the rear end of the protective envelope; and
said conical guide surface ( 24 ) is formed by the other of the co-acting flanges, which flange is integrally connected to said hot air circuit.
8. The deicing system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said sliding bearing allows said protective envelope to perform a limited nutation movement.
9. The deicing system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the internal protective envelope is integrally connected to the hot air circuit by flanges.
10. The deicing system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the internal protective envelope is integrally connected to the hot air circuit by being rigidly fastened to the second internal bulkhead.
11. The deicing system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the supply duct is rigidly connected to the hot air circuit.