IP Library Granted Patent US 10,934,941
Granted Patent B2
US 10,934,941 · App. 16/194,857 · Granted Mar 2, 2021

Air seal interface with AFT engagement features and active clearance control for a gas turbine engine

Inventor: Michael G. McCaffrey (Windsor, CT)
Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
F02C7/28F01D11/122F01D25/24F05D2240/55F05D2260/30
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Patent No.
US 10,934,941
App. No.
16/194,857
Granted
Mar 2, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

An interface for a gas turbine engine. The interface includes a full-hoop vane ring around the engine axis, the full-hoop vane ring comprises a forward vane rail with a vane ring forward contact surface and a vane ring anti-rotation tab, the vane ring anti-rotation tab engaged with the anti-rotation case slot; and a multiple of BOAS segments around the engine axis, each of the multiple of BOAS segments comprise a BOAS aft engagement feature and a BOAS aft contact surface, the BOAS aft engagement feature engaged with the engine case and the anti-rotation case slot, the BOAS aft contact surface abuts the vane ring forward contact surface.

Claims (20)

1. An interface assembly for a gas turbine engine, comprising:

an engine case that defines an engine axis, the engine case comprises an anti-rotation case slot;

a full-hoop vane ring around the engine axis, the full-hoop vane ring comprises a forward vane rail with a vane ring forward contact surface and a vane ring anti-rotation tab, the vane ring anti-rotation tab engaged with the anti-rotation case slot; and

a multiple of BOAS segments around the engine axis, each of the multiple of BOAS segments comprise a BOAS aft engagement feature and a BOAS aft contact surface, the BOAS aft engagement feature engaged with the engine case and the anti-rotation case slot, the BOAS aft contact surface abuts the vane ring forward contact surface, wherein the BOAS anti-rotation tab abuts the vane ring anti-rotation tab.

2. The interface assembly as recited in claim 1 , wherein the vane ring forward contact surface loads against the BOAS segment contact surface in response to attachment of a second engine case to the engine case.

3. The interface assembly as recited in claim 2 , wherein the second engine case comprises a turbine exhaust case.

4. The interface assembly as recited in claim 1 , further comprising a full hoop seal arranged around the engine axis, the multiple of BOAS segments loaded against the full hoop seal.

5. The interface assembly as recited in claim 4 , wherein the full hoop seal is a dogbone seal.

6. The interface assembly as recited in claim 2 , wherein the BOAS aft engagement feature of each of the multiple of BOAS segments comprises at least one BOAS anti-rotation tab.

7. The interface assembly as recited in claim 1 , wherein the BOAS aft engagement feature is engaged with the engine case, the BOAS aft engagement feature forms a forward facing hook.

8. The interface assembly as recited in claim 1 , wherein the forward vane rail comprises a groove to receive a seal.

9. The interface assembly as recited in claim 1 , wherein each of the multiple of BOAS segments comprises a circumferential feather seal slot to seal between each of the multiple of BOAS segments.

10. The interface assembly as recited in claim 1 , wherein the engine case comprises a case groove with an anti-rotation case slot that receives the vane ring anti-rotation tab and the BOAS anti-rotation tab.

11. The interface assembly as recited in claim 10 , wherein the BOAS aft engagement feature comprises a rail with the BOAS anti-rotation tab to receive the vane ring anti-rotation tab.

12. The interface assembly as recited in claim 11 , wherein the BOAS aft engagement feature is a hooked rail.

13. The interface assembly as recited in claim 12 , further comprising a BOAS forward engagement feature received within a groove in the engine case.

14. A method of assembling a module for a gas turbine engine, comprising: installing a full-hoop vane ring around an engine axis into a case groove with an anti-rotation slot in an engine case, the full-hoop vane ring comprises an forward vane rail with a vane ring forward contact surface and a vane ring anti-rotation tab received into the anti-rotation slot in the engine case; and installing a multiple of BOAS segments around the engine axis, each of the multiple of BOAS segments comprise a BOAS aft engagement feature, a BOAS aft contact surface and a BOAS anti-rotation tab, the BOAS anti-rotation tab engaged with the anti-rotation slot in the engine case such that the BOAS aft contact surface abuts the vane ring forward contact surface and the BOAS anti-rotation tab abuts the vane ring anti-rotation tab.

15. The method as recited in claim 14 , further comprising attaching a second engine case to the engine case to seal the BOAS segment contact surface with the vane ring forward contact surface.

16. The method as recited in claim 15 , further comprising compressing a seal between the full-hoop vane ring and a second multiple of BOAS segments forward of the full-hoop vane ring.

17. The method as recited in claim 16 , further comprising installing the seal within a groove formed in the full-hoop vane ring.

Assignments (5)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 27, 2023
From: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: RTX CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 064714/0001 →
CONFIRMATORY LICENSE Recorded Jan 12, 2022
From: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION PRATT & WHITNEY
To: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY
Reel/Frame 058719/0046 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE AND REMOVE PATENT APPLICATION NUMBER 11886281 AND ADD PATENT APPLICATION NUMBER 14846874. TO CORRECT THE RECEIVING PARTY ADDRESS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 054062 FRAME: 0001. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Recorded Mar 4, 2021
From: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 055659/0001 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 4, 2020
From: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 054062/0001 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 19, 2018
From: MCCAFFREY, MICHAEL G.
To: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 047540/0899 →
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