Twin fan turbomachine
View Patent ↗A twin fan turbomachine with two contrarotating fans, one upstream and one downstream, driven by two contrarotating coaxial shafts each of which connects one fan impeller to at least one low-pressure turbine impeller located downstream, the downstream fan impeller being connected by its downstream part to its drive shaft.
1. A twin fan turbomachine comprising:
two contrarotating upstream and downstream fan impellers which are mounted upstream of a low-pressure compressor, said upstream fan impeller having a hub connected via an upstream fan shaft to a first low pressure turbine shaft, said downstream fan impeller having a hub connected via a downstream fan shaft to a second low pressure turbine shaft,
wherein a downstream part of the hub of the downstream fan impeller is connected to the downstream fan shaft, and
wherein an upstream part of the downstream fan shaft comprises upstream and downstream frustoconical walls joined together to form a V-shaped section, a vertex of which is directed radially outward and bears a guide bearing that guides the downstream fan shaft.
2. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an upstream part of the downstream fan shaft is rotationally guided by a bearing situated downstream of the hub of the downstream fan impeller.
3. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 2 , wherein an outside diameter of the bearing is substantially equal to an internal diameter of the hub of the downstream fan impeller.
4. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the downstream part of the hub of the downstream fan impeller is bolted to an annular rim of the upstream part of the downstream fan shaft and to an upstream end of a frustoconical wall providing the connection to the rotor of a low-pressure compressor of the turbomachine.
5. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an upstream inter-shafts bearing is mounted between an upstream end of the upstream frustoconical wall of the downstream fan shaft and an upstream end of the upstream fan shaft.
6. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 5 , wherein a downstream inter-shafts bearing is mounted between the coaxial upstream and downstream fan shafts at a downstream end of the downstream frustoconical wall of the downstream fan shaft and comprises means of recovering lubricating oil and guiding the recovered oil to means that supply oil to the upstream inter-shafts bearing.
7. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the means of recovering the oil from the downstream bearing comprise an axial cylindrical skirt extending an external nut of the downstream bearing in the upstream direction.
8. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the means of supplying oil to the upstream bearing comprise a centrifugal scoop incorporated into oil separation means mounted between the upstream and downstream fan shafts and axial tubes that are diametrically opposed with respect to the axis of the turbomachine, supplied by the centrifugal scoop and supplying a scoop incorporated into an internal nut of the upstream inter-shafts bearing.
9. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the oil separation means includes radial oil separation ducts attached to the upstream fan shaft by a first ring near a downstream end of the axial tubes.
10. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 9 , wherein a retaining ring is disposed at an upstream end of the axial tubes.
11. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 10 , further comprising a lock ring which locks the internal nut of the upstream inter-shafts bearing and centers and angularly indexes the retaining ring with respect to the upstream fan shaft.
12. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the upstream part of the downstream fan drive shaft comprises ventilation holes.
13. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an upstream end of the upstream frustoconical wall of the downstream fan shaft is connected by a frustoconical cap to an upstream part of the hub of the downstream fan impeller.
14. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 13 , wherein an upstream end of the frustoconical cap is connected to an annular wall extending radially inward and a radially internal end of the annular wall lies flush with part of the downstream fan drive shaft located upstream of the upstream bearing.
15. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the annular wall comprises ventilation holes formed in its thickness, the ventilation holes open at the radially internal end of the annular wall and into a space defined between the hub of the downstream fan impeller and the upstream frustoconical wall of the downstream fan shaft.
16. The turbomachine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the downstream frustoconical wall of the downstream fan shaft includes bleed holes through which air bled from the low-pressure compressor flows.