IP Library Granted Patent US 9,605,594
Granted Patent B2
US 9,605,594 · App. 13/980,506 · Granted Mar 28, 2017

Injection device for a turbine engine combustion chamber

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Patent No.
US 9,605,594
App. No.
13/980,506
Granted
Mar 28, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A fuel injection device for an annular combustion chamber of a turbine engine, the device including a pilot circuit feeding an injector, a multipoint circuit feeding injection orifices formed in a front face of an annular chamber, and an annular ring mounted in the annular chamber and including fuel-passing orifices opening out into the injection orifices, each fuel-passing orifice formed in the annular ring including a zone of small section that is extended at least downstream or upstream by an orifice portion of increasing section.

Claims (18)

1. A fuel injection device for an annular combustion chamber of a turbine engine, the device comprising:

a pilot circuit continuously feeding an injector opening out into a first Venturi;

a multipoint circuit intermittently feeding injection orifices formed in a front face of an upstream annular chamber of a second Venturi that is coaxial about the first Venturi; and

an annular ring mounted in the annular chamber and including fuel-passing orifices opening out into the injection orifices,

wherein each of the fuel-passing orifices formed in the annular ring includes a zone of small cross-section extended at least downstream or upstream by a portion of increasing cross-section, and

wherein the pilot circuit includes a circuit for cooling the annular ring, and further comprising a gap interposed between a front face of the annular ring and a front face of the annular chamber for thermally protecting the front face of the annular ring.

2. A device according to claim 1 , wherein the portion of increasing cross-section increases progressively to upstream or downstream ends of the fuel-passing orifices.

3. A device according to claim 1 , wherein the zone of small cross-section is formed at an upstream or downstream end of the fuel-passing orifices.

4. A device according to claim 1 , wherein the zone of small cross-section is formed between upstream and downstream ends of the fuel-passing orifices and is extended by respective portions of section that increases going upstream and of section that increases going downstream.

5. A device according to claim 4 , wherein the zone of small cross-section is formed in a middle portion of the fuel-passing orifices.

6. A device according to claim 1 , wherein the portion of increasing cross-section has a profile that is straight or curved.

7. A device according to claim 1 , wherein the gap is in fluid communication with a portion of the cooling circuit extending over the front face of the annular ring in an immediate vicinity of the injection orifices.

8. An annular combustion chamber of a turbine engine, comprising at least one fuel injection device according to claim 1 .

9. A turbine engine, a turbojet, or a turboprop, comprising a combustion chamber according to claim 8 .

10. A device according to claim 1 , wherein the annular chamber includes a first radially inner wall and a first radially outer wall connected together by a first frustoconical downstream wall,

the annular ring includes a second radially inner wall and a second radially outer wall connected together by a second frustoconical downstream wall,

the first frustoconical downstream wall abuts the second frustoconical downstream wall, and

the injection orifices are provided in the first frustoconical downstream wall and the fuel-passing orifices are provided in the second frustoconical downstream wall.

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 Jul 22, 2013
From: CORTES, THIERRY; CAMERIANO, LAURENT BERNARD
To: SNECMA
Reel/Frame 030846/0023 →