IP Library Granted Patent US 11,988,385
Granted Patent B2
US 11,988,385 · App. 18/002,011 · Granted May 21, 2024

Production by additive manufacturing of complex parts

Inventors: Jean-Paul Didier Autret (Moissy-Cramayel, FR); Thomas Sebastien Alexandre Gresy (Moissy-Cramayel, FR); Stéphane Lavignotte (Moissy-Cramayel, FR); Nicolas Roland Guy Savary (Moissy-Cramayel, FR)
Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
F23R3/002F23R3/005B33Y80/00F23R2900/00018F23R2900/03042
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Patent No.
US 11,988,385
App. No.
18/002,011
Granted
May 21, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A gas turbomachine combustion chamber includes bridges extending side by side to connect in one piece a radially inner wall and a radially outer wall towards a free end of the radially inner wall. The bridges, inner wall, and outer wall have an additive layer structure.

Claims (10)

1. A method of production by additive manufacturing of at least one part of an aeronautic turbomachine combustion chamber extending about an axis and comprising a radially outer wall which is lined locally by a radially inner wall so as to form therebetween an intermediate space that creates a film of air, wherein from bottom to top, and by additive manufacturing:

while, by depositing a succession of layers of material, a lower portion of said radially outer wall is created, the deposition of layers of said material is continued in order to erect, on said lower portion, bridges which are built up next to one another up to tops of said bridges, wherein:

the deposition of layers of said material is continued to create the radially inner wall, while continuing with erecting the radially outer wall, wherein the deposition of layers joins the radially inner wall and radially outer wall to the bridges; and

said deposition of layers of material is continued, at least until said lower portion of the radially outer wall and an end of the radially inner wall opposite to a location where the bridges join together, and:

by manufacturing, according to a polygonal design, around the axis, said radially external wall and radially internal wall, and

by manufacturing the bridges so that, between said radially outer wall and radially inner wall, the bridges extend in an inclined manner, not perpendicular to a side of a polygon where they are arranged,

so that the bridges are disposed adjacent to each other towards the end of the radially inner wall opposite to that where the radially inner wall joins the radially outer wall and wherein the radially inner wall is located in an upstream portion of the combustion chamber adjacent to an air fuel injection system for the combustion chamber.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said additive manufacturing is performed on a metallic powder bed.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the radially outer wall and the radially inner wall are parallel to one another over a portion of a length of the radially inner wall extending between its ends.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, in the radially outer wall, openings are made which open between the radially outer wall and the radially inner wall.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 15, 2022
From: AUTRET, JEAN-PAUL DIDIER; GRESY, THOMAS SEBASTIEN ALEXANDRE; LAVIGNOTTE, STÉPHANE; SAVARY, NICOLAS ROLAND GUY
To: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
Reel/Frame 062110/0055 →
Priority Claims (1)
FR 2006204 · Jun 15, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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