Fuel-injection device in a turbomachine
View Patent ↗A fuel-injection device in a turbomachine is disclosed. The device includes a high-pressure pump supplying a flow control valve, whose outlet is connected via a pressurization and cut-off valve to a fuel-injector feed pipe. The valve is connected to the inlet and to the outlet of the pump in order to define two fuel pressurization thresholds, one of which is used to start-up and restart the turbomachine and the other is used for operating the turbomachine from an idle speed and for commanding an equipment with variable geometry.
1. A fuel injection device in a turbomachine, comprising:
at least one pump connecting a fuel tank to flow rate control means supplying fuel injectors through the intermediary of a pressurization and cut-off valve, said valve comprising
a piston that can be moved inside a cylindrical body between a closed position and an open position for feeding the injectors,
means for applying the fuel pressure at the flow rate control means to the piston for closing the injector supply as long as said fuel pressure is lower than a first predetermined threshold, and
means for applying a counter-pressure on the piston for closing the injector supply, as from the idle speed of the turbomachine, thereby creating a second pressurization threshold, such second threshold exceeding the first threshold and a minimal pressure value for controlling equipment with variable geometry of the turbomachine,
wherein the cylindrical body of the valve comprises an orifice connected to the inlet of the pump, this orifice being axially spaced away from the means for applying the counter-pressure defining the second pressurization threshold, in order to permanently apply a pressure at the pump inlet on the piston and to define the first pressurization threshold.
2. A device according to claim 1 , wherein the means for applying counter-pressure comprises an admission orifice formed in the cylindrical body of the valve and through which passes pressure from the outlet of the pump, this admission orifice being sealed off by the piston in its closed injector-feeding position and being open again by moving the piston as from the idle speed of the turbomachine.
3. A device according to claim 2 , wherein the displacement distance of the piston between its closed injector feeding position and the opening of the admission orifice of the cylindrical body determines the flow rate of the injected fuel for which is performed the transition from the first pressurization threshold to the second threshold.
4. A device according to claim 2 , wherein the diameter of the admission orifice of the counter-pressure inside the cylindrical body determines the value of the second pressurization threshold.
5. A device according to claim 2 , wherein the shape of the means for applying the counter-pressure on the piston determines the transition speed between the first and the second pressurization threshold.
6. A device according to claim 2 , wherein the admission orifice formed in the cylindrical body comprises a hole of a determined diameter, which opens into an annular groove of the internal cylindrical surface of the cylindrical body.
7. A device according to claim 6 , wherein the annular groove of the internal surface of the body is adapted to communicate with an annular groove of the external cylindrical surface of the piston, in which are formed radial orifices opening inside the piston.
8. A turbomachine comprising a fuel-injection device according to claim 1 .
9. A turbomachine according to claim 8 , wherein the turbomachine is an aeroplane turboreactor or a turbopropeller.
10. A device according to claim 1 , wherein a lower position of the piston is defined by a seat mounted inside an open lower end of the cylindrical body of the valve, and
wherein a first spring is mounted around the piston, a first end of the first spring abutting an external edge of an upper part of the piston and a second end of the first spring abutting a seat mounted on an upper tip of the cylindrical body.
11. A device according to claim 10 , wherein a shaft extends inside the piston and is pushed against a bottom portion of the piston by a second spring, a first end of the second spring abutting an edge of a lower end of the shaft and a second end of the second spring abutting the seat mounted on the upper tip of the cylindrical body, and
wherein the second spring is disposed coaxial with and inside of the first spring.
12. A device according to claim 7 , wherein the admission orifice includes a cylindrical passage which opens on an outside of the cylindrical body of the valve, a length of the cylindrical passage being less than a thickness of the body at the axial position of the cylindrical passage, and
wherein the annular groove of the internal surface of the body is formed at the axial position of the cylindrical passage.