IP Library Granted Patent US 9,567,861
Granted Patent B2
US 9,567,861 · App. 14/249,851 · Granted Feb 14, 2017

Turbomachine vane cooperating with a vane retention disk

Inventors: Sebastien Congratel (La Brosse Montceaux, FR); Raphael Dupeyre (Levallois-Perret, FR); Guillaume Klein (Mery sur Oise, FR); David Mathieu (Chelles, FR); Ba-Phuc Tang (Cergy Saint Christophe, FR); Denis Gabriel Trahot (Herblay, FR)
Assignee: SNECMA
F01D5/3015F01D5/147F01D5/3007F01D11/006F05D2240/30F05D2250/70Y02T50/671Y02T50/673
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Patent No.
US 9,567,861
App. No.
14/249,851
Granted
Feb 14, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A turbomachine vane for cooperating with a vane retention disk including a plurality of peripheral teeth, the vane including a shank including a neck and a bulb for cooperating with a socket of the disk so as to radially hold the shank in the socket, the socket being a space bounded by two successive teeth of the disk, a pole on top of the neck, including two side walls facing the active surface side of the vane and two side walls facing the passive surface side of the vane, each wall having a rib at a lower end of the pole, the rib extending in the direction of the side wall facing the wall and providing a function of holding the vane when the vane is retained in the disk.

Claims (15)

1. A turbomachine vane constructed to cooperate with a socket of a vane retention disk including a plurality of peripheral teeth, said socket being a space bounded by two successive peripheral teeth of the vane retention disk, said turbomachine vane including a blade extending along a longitudinal direction and a shank projecting at an end of said blade, said shank comprising:

a neck and a bulb constructed to cooperate with the socket of the disk so as to radially hold said shank in said socket;

a pole on top of said neck, said pole including first and second opposite vertical side walls facing each other and arranged on an active surface side of the turbomachine vane and third and fourth opposite vertical side walls facing each other and arranged on a passive surface side of the turbomachine vane, each of the first, second, third and fourth opposite vertical side walls having a length along said longitudinal direction that is greater than a combined length of said neck and bulb along said longitudinal direction,

each side wall of the first, second, third and fourth opposite side walls having a rib at a lower end of the pole, said rib extending toward the opposite side wall facing said side wall and providing a function of holding the turbomachine vane when said turbomachine vane is retained in the vane retention disk.

2. A vane impeller for a turbomachine, the vane impeller comprising:

a vane retention disk including a first main face, a second main face opposite said first main face and a plurality of peripheral teeth provided at a periphery of the vane retention disk, at least two successive peripheral teeth of the plurality of peripheral teeth forming a socket, and

a turbomachine vane constructed to cooperate with said socket, said turbomachine vane including a blade extending along a longitudinal direction and a shank projecting at an end of said blade, said shank comprising

a neck and a bulb constructed to cooperate with the socket of the turbomachine vane retention disk so as to radially hold said shank in said socket,

a pole on top of said neck, said pole including first and second opposite vertical side walls facing each other and arranged on an active surface side of the turbomachine vane and third and fourth opposite vertical side walls facing each other and arranged on a passive surface side of the turbomachine vane,

each vertical side wall of the first, second, third and fourth opposite vertical side walls having a rib at a lower end of the pole, said rib extending toward the opposite vertical side wall facing said vertical side wall to retain the turbomachine vane in the vane retention disk,

wherein at least one peripheral tooth of the two successive peripheral teeth comprises at least one chamfer formed on the first or second main face of the vane retention disk, wherein a thickness of the rib is larger than the length of the at least one chamfer measured along a direction perpendicular to the first and second main faces.

3. The vane impeller according to claim 2 , wherein the turbomachine vane is retained in the vane retention disk by plane attachment between the rib and a portion of a tooth bounding the socket.

4. A turbomachine including a vane impeller according to claim 2 .

5. The vane impeller according to claim 2 , wherein each of the first, second, third and fourth opposite vertical side walls have a length along said longitudinal direction that is greater than a combined length of said neck and bulb along said longitudinal direction.

6. The vane impeller according to claim 2 , wherein a thickness of the side wall above the rib is smaller than the length of the at least one chamber.

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 10, 2014
From: CONGRATEL, SEBASTIEN; DUPEYRE, RAPHAEL; KLEIN, GUILLAUME; MATHIEU, DAVID; TANG, BA-PHUC; TRAHOT, DENIS GABRIEL
To: SNECMA
Reel/Frame 032648/0577 →
Priority Claims (1)
FR 13 53309 · Apr 11, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
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