IP Library Granted Patent US 10,138,745
Granted Patent B2
US 10,138,745 · App. 15/034,728 · Granted Nov 27, 2018

Sealing system with two rows of complementary sealing elements

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Patent No.
US 10,138,745
App. No.
15/034,728
Granted
Nov 27, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A sealing system in a cavity under the stator of a turbomachine flow path, the cavity being located between a root of a vane of the stator and a complementary rotor device, the root including two surfaces each provided with an abradable coating, the rotor device being provided with a first and a second sealing element, arranged facing the first and the second surface respectively, the first surface and the first sealing element forming a first sealing pair and delimiting a first leakage section between them, the second surface and the second sealing element forming a second sealing pair and delimiting a second leakage section between them, one of the two pairs tending towards a minimum leakage section when the other tends towards a maximum leakage section, and vice versa.

Claims (16)

1. A sealing system in a cavity under a stator sector of a turbomachine flow path, comprising a stator sector and a rotor device, the cavity being located between a root of a vane of the stator sector and the complementary rotor device,

the root comprising a first surface provided at least partially with an abradable coating,

the rotor device being provided with at least one first sealing element arranged facing the first surface, the first surface and the first sealing element forming a first sealing pair and delimiting a first leakage section between them,

wherein:

the root comprises a second surface provided at least partially with an abradable coating,

the rotor device being provided with at least one second sealing element arranged facing the second surface, the second surface and the second sealing element forming a second sealing pair and delimiting a first leakage section between them,

the first sealing pair tending towards a minimum leakage section when the second pair tends towards a corresponding maximum leakage section, and the first leakage pair tending towards a maximum leakage section when the second pair tends towards a minimum leakage section during an engine mission,

the first and second sealing pairs being at an axial spacing from each other.

2. The sealing system according to claim 1 , the first surface being an internal surface of the root and the second surface being an external surface of the root.

3. The sealing system according to claim 1 , the first surface having a radius of curvature less than the radius of curvature of the second surface.

4. The sealing system according to claim 1 , the second surface belonging to an axial wall projecting axially from a body of the root, such that the second surface is radially located under a platform of the rotor device, and the first surface being located on the body of the root while being at least partially overlapped radially by the platform of the sector.

5. The sealing system according to claim 1 , the axial wall extending towards the upstream direction and the turbomachine flow path being a compressor flow path.

6. The sealing system according to claim 1 , the axial wall extending towards the downstream direction and the flow path being a turbine flow path.

7. A turbomachine rotor device comprising at least one first sealing element extending towards the outside of the turbomachine and forming a first group of sealing elements, and at least one second sealing element facing the longitudinal axis of the turbomachine and forming a second group of sealing elements, the rotor device being configured to form a system according to claim 1 in combination with a stator sector, the first and the second group of sealing elements being at an axial spacing from each other.

8. The turbomachine stator sector comprising a vane having a root, the root of the vane comprising a first surface provided at least partially with an abradable coating and facing a longitudinal axis of the turbomachine, and a second surface provided at least partially with an abradable coating and facing the outside of the turbomachine, the stator sector being configured to form a sealing system according to claim 1 in combination with a rotor device, the abradable coating and the abradable coating being at an axial spacing from each other.

9. The turbomachine comprising a rotor device according to claim 7 and a stator sector, the rotor device and the stator sector jointly forming a sealing system.

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 May 5, 2016
From: SCHOLTES, CHRISTOPHE
To: SNECMA
Reel/Frame 038479/0060 →