IP Library Granted Patent US 10,921,179
Granted Patent B2
US 10,921,179 · App. 15/107,533 · Granted Feb 16, 2021

Assembly for turbine engine for measuring vibrations sustained by a rotating blade

Inventors: Arnaud Talon (Espoey, FR); Gilbert Arrouge (Ogeu les Bains, FR); Jean-Yves Cazaux (Artiguelouve, FR); Julien Garnier (Jurancon, FR)
Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
G01H1/006F01D5/02F01D5/12F01D21/003F01D25/24G01P3/487F05D2220/30F05D2240/307
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Patent No.
US 10,921,179
App. No.
15/107,533
Granted
Feb 16, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

An assembly for a turbine engine, the assembly including a casing and an impeller rotatably movable inside the casing, the impeller including at least one blade having a tip edge opposite the casing, wherein the tip edge includes a magnet and wherein the casing includes an electrical conductor suitable for generating between the terminals thereof an electric voltage induced by the magnet of the tip edge opposite same and representing vibrations sustained by the tip edge of the blade when the impeller is rotated.

Claims (15)

1. An assembly for turbine engine, the assembly comprising: a casing; and an impeller rotatably movable in the casing, the impeller comprising at least one vane having a tip facing the casing, the tip including a magnet, wherein the casing comprises an electrical conductor adapted to generate between terminals thereof an electrical voltage signal induced by the magnet of the tip and representative of vibrations sustained by the tip of the vane when the impeller is set in rotation, wherein the electrical conductor comprises: a central part having first and second opposite ends, and first and second branches forming the terminals of the electrical conductor, the first branch extending from the first end of the central part, and the second branch extending from the second end of the central part, wherein the central part extends over an entire length thereof from the first end to the second end in a plane which coincides with a path plane of the magnet around an axis of rotation of the impeller, and wherein the electrical conductor is embedded at least partially in an abradable deposit located on an internal surface of the casing facing the impeller, the abradable deposit being made of diamagnetic material.

2. The assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second ends of the central part are located at different angular positions around the axis of rotation of the impeller.

3. The assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the central part extends over fewer than 360 degrees around the axis of rotation of the impeller.

4. The assembly according to claim 2 , wherein the central part has a circular shape centered on the axis of rotation of the impeller.

5. The assembly according to claim 2 , wherein the first and second branches respectively extend from the first and second ends of the central part radially to an outside relative to the axis of rotation of the impeller, the central part and the first and second branches being coplanar.

6. The assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the magnet is adapted to emit a magnetic field radially oriented relative to the axis of rotation of the impeller.

7. The assembly according to claim 1 , further comprising a voltage amplifier connected to the terminals of the electrical conductor.

8. The assembly according to claim 1 , further comprising a measuring device adapted to apply a Fourier transform to the electrical voltage signal so as to produce a spectrum representative of frequencies of vibrations of the vane.

9. A method of characterizing vibrations of a vane of an assembly for turbine engine according to claim 1 , the method comprising:

setting in rotation of the impeller in the casing,

measuring at the terminals of the electrical conductor of an electrical voltage signal induced by the magnet contained in the tip of the vane facing the casing,

determining information representative of the vibrations sustained by the tip of the vane from the measured electrical voltage.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the measuring, conducted continuously for at least one revolution of the vane, provides a voltage time signal, and the determining comprises a Fourier transform of said time signal in a spectrum representative of frequencies of vibrations of the vane.

11. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising amplifying the electrical voltage signal induced by the magnet, performed before the measuring.

12. The assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the magnet comprises aluminum-nickel-cobalt with a Curie point between 800° C. and 850° C.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 11, 2018
From: TURBOMECA
To: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
Reel/Frame 046127/0021 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 19, 2016
From: TALON, ARNAUD; ARROUGE, GILBERT; CAZAUX, JEAN-YVES; GARNIER, JULIEN
To: TURBOMECA
Reel/Frame 039182/0948 →
Priority Claims (1)
FR 1363471 · Dec 23, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160320230A1 · Nov 3, 2016