Aircraft turbomachine fan comprising a balancing flange concealed by the inlet cone
View Patent ↗An aircraft turbomachine fan is disclosed. The fan includes a turbomachine inlet cone that has an exterior surface intended to be closely followed by a flow section of the turbomachine, and an annular balancing flange that rotates as one with a fan disk about an axis of rotation and is equipped with a plurality of weight-fixing holes. The fan also includes one or more balancing weights mounted fixedly on the annular balancing flange. The annular balancing flange is positioned inside the inlet cone in such a way that its weight-fixing holes are isolated from the flow section. The flange is produced as a single piece with a fan blade retaining ring.
1. An aircraft turbomachine fan comprising:
a turbomachine inlet cone that has an exterior surface intended to be closely followed by a flow section of the turbomachine;
a fan disk;
fan blades which are mounted on said disk with which disk the blades rotate about an axis of rotation of the fan;
an annular balancing flange that rotates as one with the fan disk about said axis of rotation and is equipped with a plurality of weight-fixing holes spaced circumferentially apart;
one or more balancing weights mounted fixedly on said annular balancing flange by means of one or several of said weight-fixing holes, said annular balancing flange being positioned inside said inlet cone in such a way that weight-fixing holes of the annular balancing flange are isolated from said flow section of the turbomachine; and
a fan blade retaining ring for axially retaining the blades with respect to said fan disk, said retaining ring and said annular balancing flange being produced as a single piece.
2. The fan as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, in operation, at least one of said weight-fixing holes is left clear.
3. The fan as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2 , wherein said annular balancing flange is fixedly attached to said fan disk.
4. The fan as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2 , wherein said inlet cone extends in the downstream direction as far as said fan blades.
5. An aircraft turbomachine comprising a fan as claimed in claim 1 .
6. The aircraft turbomachine as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the turbomachine is a turbojet engine.
7. The fan as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the exterior surface of the inlet cone is free of holes.
8. The fan as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an upstream end of the annular balancing flange includes a flange which abuts a shoulder provided on an interior surface of the inlet cone and a downstream end of the annular balancing flange includes the fan blade retaining ring.