Gas turbine engine fuel and hydraulic fluid pumping system

• US 5,159,808 A
• Filed: 07/09/1990
• Issued: 11/03/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Kast, Howard B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bertsch, Richard A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Thorpe, Timothy S.
• Application Number:
  US07/550,340
• Time in Patent Office: 848 Days
• Field of Search: 60/734, 60/39.06, 60/39.091, 123/198 D, 123/359
• US Class Current: 60/39.091
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 7/236 Fuel delivery systems comprising two or more pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 7/32 Arrangement, mounting, or driving, of auxiliaries
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 37/18 characterised by provision of main and auxiliary pumps

Abstract

An arrangement for a main fuel pump, a backup fuel pump, a main hydraulic pump, and a backup hydraulic pump, typically for a gas turbine engine in an aircraft, includes an isolated fuel and hydraulic fluid system and a backup pumping arranngement employing two mechanically-coupled gear-type reversible pump-motors and appropriate control valves.

Claims

1. A gas turbine engine fuel and hydraulic fluid pumping apparatus comprising:

a fuel circuit and a hydraulic fluid circuit isolated from said fuel circuit.

a first means for pressurizing the fuel in said fuel circuit and a first means for pressurizing the hydraulic fluid in said hydraulic fluid circuit.

a second means for pressurizing the fuel in said fuel circuit and a second means for pressurizing the hydraulic fluid in said hydraulic fluid circuit.

wherein said second means for pressurizing the fuel and hydraulic fluid in their respective circuits include fuel and hydraulic fluid reversible pump-motors in their respective circuits, means for switching said pump-motors to their pump or motor modes, and means to drive one of said pump-motors in its pump mode by other of said pump-motors in its motor mode.

wherein said means for switching said pump-motors to their pump and motor modes includes a hydraulic slide valve interposed in said hydraulic fluid circuit between said first and second means for pressurizing the hydraulic fluid.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said means for switching said pump-motors to their pump or motor modes includes a hydraulic slide valve actuation means responsive to a pressure in said fuel circuit.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said means for switching said pump-motors to their pump or motor modes included a fuel slide valve actuation means responsive to a pressure in said fuel circuit.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said means for switching said pump-motors to their pump or motor modes includes a fuel slide valve actuation means and a hydraulic slide valve actuation means responsive to a pressure failure signal generated by a pump failure signal generating means.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein said a first means for pressurizing the fuel and said first means for pressurizing the hydraulic fluid are driven by the engine through an engine gearbox.