Engine pylon for the suspension of a turbo engine under an aircraft wing
View Patent ↗According to the invention, the engine pylon for the suspension of a turbo engine under an aircraft wing is such that the trailing edge of the rear lower part of the engine pylon is shifted toward the root of the wing.
1. A engine pylon for suspending a turbo engine from a wing of an aircraft, said turbo engine having a vertical mid-plane passing through its longitudinal axis, said engine pylon comprising two lateral faces, of which one of the lateral faces is directed toward the root of said wing and the other of the lateral faces is directed toward a distal end of said wing, said lateral faces converging to form a trailing edge at a rear of said engine pylon, and a lower part of said rear of the engine pylon supporting and directly connected to a hot stream nozzle of said turbo engine such that said lower part of the rear of the engine pylon is swept by a cold stream of this turbo engine,
wherein at least said lower part of the rear of the engine pylon is curved toward the root of said wing so that at least said trailing edge part of said lower part is shifted toward said root with respect to said vertical mid-plane.
2. The engine pylon as claimed in claim 1 , wherein all of the rear of the engine pylon is curved toward said root so that all of said trailing edge of said engine pylon is shifted toward said root.
3. The engine pylon as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the rear of the engine pylon is entirely fixed.
4. The engine pylon as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein at least said lower part of the rear of said engine pylon comprise a mobile trailing edge flap configured to reversibly occupy at least one of the following two positions:
a shifted position in which said trailing edge of said lower part is shifted at least partially toward said root; and
an aligned position in which said mobile flap is aligned with the fixed part of said engine pylon.
5. The engine pylon as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, at least in a region of the lower part of the rear of the engine pylon, said lateral face directed toward said root is concave and said lateral face directed toward said distal end is convex.
6. The engine pylon as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, at least in a region of the lower part of the rear of the engine pylon, said lateral face directed toward said root is at least substantially planar and said lateral face directed toward said distal end is convex.
7. The engine pylon as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said lateral faces are convex, the convex nature of said lateral face directed toward said distal end being more pronounced than the convex nature of said lateral face directed toward said root.