IP Library Granted Patent US 9,074,605
Granted Patent B2
US 9,074,605 · App. 13/393,367 · Granted Jul 7, 2015

Turbine engine compressor having air injections

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Patent No.
US 9,074,605
App. No.
13/393,367
Granted
Jul 7, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A turbine engine compressor, including a first housing for supporting injectors, a second housing arranged around the first housing while forming with the first housing an annular space therewith, and a plurality of air injectors each mounted in recesses. Each air injector includes at least one inner air injection channel which leads, on one side, into an outflow jet of the gas stream and, on the other side, into the space formed between the recesses, and, at an upstream end, an upstream rim having an inner surface radially bearing against an upstream rim of the corresponding recess of the first housing and an outer surface radially bearing against an inner surface of the second housing. A mechanism clamping the upstream rim of the air injectors between the housings enables the air injectors to be held in position in the recesses of the first housing.

Claims (13)

1. A turbine engine compressor comprising:

a first housing forming a support of injectors centered on a longitudinal axis of the compressor and delimiting on an outside an outflow jet of a gas flow crossing the compressor;

a second housing centered on the longitudinal axis of the compressor and positioned around the first housing by arranging with the first housing an annular space; and

a plurality of air injectors each mounted in recesses of matching shape formed at an upstream longitudinal end of the first housing and regularly spaced apart from each other, each air injector comprising:

at least one internal air injection channel opening out radially on one side of the outflow jet of the gas flow crossing the compressor and on the other side into the annular space formed between the housings, and

at an upstream longitudinal end, an upstream rim having an inner surface radially bearing against an upstream rim of the corresponding recess of the first housing and an outer surface radially bearing against an inner surface of the second housing; and

means for clamping the upstream rim of the air injectors between the housings to maintain the air injectors in position in the recesses of the first housing.

2. The compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the first housing comprises bosses formed between the recesses and the outer surface of which protrudes relatively to the outer surface of the first housing and is set back relatively to the outer surface of the upstream rims of the air injectors, the clamping means comprising at least one fixing screw that radially crosses the second housing and that is screwed onto one of the bosses of the first housing.

3. The compressor according to claim 1 , wherein each air injector further comprises at one downstream longitudinal end, a downstream rim comprising an inner surface radially bearing against a downstream rim of the corresponding recess of the first housing.

4. The compressor according to claim 3 , wherein each air injector further comprises side rims connecting the upstream rim to the downstream rim, these side rims each having an inner surface radially bearing against a side rim of the recess of the corresponding first housing.

5. The compressor according to claim 1 , further comprising an annular diffusion conduit centered on the longitudinal axis of the compressor, positioned around the second housing and into which opens out the annular space formed between the housings.

6. The compressor according to claim 1 , forming a high pressure compressor.

7. A turbine engine comprising at least one compressor according to claim 1 .

Assignments (3)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE COVER SHEET TO REMOVE APPLICATION NOS. 10250419, 10786507, 10786409, 12416418, 12531115, 12996294, 12094637 12416422 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 046479 FRAME 0807. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF NAME. Recorded Aug 24, 2018
From: SNECMA
To: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Reel/Frame 046939/0336 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 23, 2018
From: SNECMA
To: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Reel/Frame 046479/0807 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 25, 2012
From: BOURU, MICHEL ANDRE; JABLONSKI, LAURENT; TOUYERAS, ARMEL
To: SNECMA
Reel/Frame 028104/0191 →