IP Library Granted Patent US 12,372,004
Granted Patent B2
US 12,372,004 · App. 18/256,317 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

Turbine blade for an aircraft turbomachine, provided with a channel for ejecting a primary flow towards an inter-lip cavity

Inventors: Jean Charles Marie Coussirou (Moissy-Cramayel, FR); Thomas Langevin (Moissy-Cramayel, FR); Benoit Guillaume Silet (Moissy-Cramayel, FR)
Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
F01D11/122F01D5/143F01D5/145F01D5/147F01D11/001F01D11/04F01D11/10B33Y80/00F05D2220/323F05D2240/80
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Patent No.
US 12,372,004
App. No.
18/256,317
Granted
Jul 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A blade and a sealing element forming an assembly for a turbomachine turbine. The blade includes an airfoil and a platform to which the sealing element is connected. An internal channel passes through the platform so as to draw off fluid circulating in a primary duct that it delimits and to inject the thus drawn-off fluid into an inter-lip cavity delimited by the sealing element.

Claims (13)

1. An assembly for a turbine of a turbomachine extending around a longitudinal axis, comprising:

a blade;

a sealing element, said sealing element forming an abradable, the blade comprising a platform and an airfoil extending from the platform, the platform forming a first surface from which the airfoil extends and intended to delimit a primary duct wherein the airfoil extends in order to receive a fluid flowing in a direction going from a leading edge towards a trailing edge of the airfoil and going from an upstream part towards a downstream part of the platform, the sealing element being connected to the platform and forming a second surface intended to delimit an inter-lip cavity;

an internal channel passing through the platform and having a suction opening which opens onto the first surface of the upstream part of the platform and an ejection opening which opens onto the second surface, the blade including a root between the platform and the sealing element, and the internal channel including an angled portion passing through the platform, and a radially extending portion passing through the root and the sealing element; and

a rotor element carrying lips of a dynamic sealing joint, the inter-lip cavity extending longitudinally between two of said lips and radially between the abradable and the rotor element carrying the lips,

wherein the suction opening is positioned upstream of the leading edge of the airfoil relative to a direction of flow of the fluid in the primary duct.

2. The assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the sealing element is annular.

3. The assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the upstream part of the platform is delimited by an imaginary line located equidistantly from the leading edge and from the trailing edge of the airfoil.

4. The assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the suction opening is disposed adjacent to a lower-surface side of the airfoil.

5. The assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the blade is intended to be fastened to a casing of the turbomachine, the sealing element forming the abradable and being carried by the root of the blade, the abradable being intended to cooperate with the lips carried by the rotor element.

6. A turbine for a turbomachine, comprising the assembly according to claim 1 .

7. A turbomachine comprising the turbine according to claim 6 .

8. A method for manufacturing the assembly according to claim 1 , comprising additive manufacturing of the blade of said assembly.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 7, 2023
From: COUSSIROU, JEAN CHARLES MARIE; LANGEVIN, THOMAS; SILET, BENOIT GUILLAUME
To: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Reel/Frame 063883/0213 →
Priority Claims (1)
FR 2012975 · Dec 10, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240035391A1 · Feb 1, 2024
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