Arrangement of gas turbine engine comprising aerodynamic vanes and struts located in the same plane and an intermediate casing

• US 5,740,674 A
• Filed: 08/15/1996
• Issued: 04/21/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Snecma (Safran SA)
• Original Assignee: Societe Nationale dEtude et de Construction de Moteurs dAviation SNECMA (Safran SA)
• Inventors: Charbonnel, Jean-Louis, Beutin, Bruno, Dejaune, Claude, Ranvier, Jean-Francois, Paitre, Herve, Gregoire, Jean-Claude, Espenel, Alain, Martin, Daniel, Fessou, Philippe, Thore, Monique, Collot, Andre
• Primary Examiner(s): Thorpe, Timothy
• Assistant Examiner(s): KIM, TAE JUN
• Application Number:
  US08/698,064
• Time in Patent Office: 614 Days
• Field of Search: 60/39.31, 60/226.1, 60/226.3, 60/224, 60/262, 415/142
• US Class Current: 60/226.1
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 9/042 fixing blades to stators fixing stator-rings in the casing or to each other F01D25/246
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 50/60 Efficient propulsion technologies, e.g. for aircraft

Abstract

The arrangement of a gas turbine engine suitable for high bypass ratio aircraft engines in which gases circulate in a primary air channel (7) and a secondary channel (8) concentric to said primary air channel, is characterized in that structural vanes (22) connecting the channel delimitation casings (2, 10, 14, 5) with each other, alternate with aerodynamic vanes (20) for guiding the gases on a common circumference of the engine bypass air channel (8), and in that the structural channels branch out between the two channels. The resulting advantages are simplicity of construction associated with a reduction in the space required for housing the channels and good resistance without notable increase of the total mass.

Claims

1. Arrangement of a gas turbine engine comprising:

a first, a second, a third and a fourth circular casing of decreasing and concentric diameters, the first casing and second casing forming the boundary of a bypass engine air channel and the third casing and fourth casing forming a primary air channel, the bypass engine air channel being occupied by fixed gas guide vanes outer parts of fixed support vanes extending from the first to the fourth casing, the outer parts being prolonged by support arms between the third and fourth casings and by intermediate sleeves between the second and third casings, the guide and support vanes alternate by groups on a single circumference and the intermediate sleeves are oblique and branched from the support arms to the outer parts of the support vanes.

2. Arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the guide vanes are constructed in a different material from that of the support vanes.

3. Arrangement according to one of claims 1 or 2, wherein the intermediate sleeves are hollow.

4. Arrangement according to claim 3, wherein at least some of the support vanes are hollow and form ducts.

5. Arrangement according to claim 4, wherein at least some of the ducts are straight.

6. Arrangement according to claim 5, wherein it comprises two diametrically opposed straight ducts, the structural vanes, with the exception of said two straight ducts, being split in two at the outer parts.

7. Arrangement according to claim 2, wherein the outer parts of the support vanes are mostly solid, and the guide vanes are hollow.

8. Arrangement according to claim 2, wherein the guide vanes are fixed to the first casing and detached from the second casing.

9. Arrangement according to claim 3, wherein the outer parts of the support vanes are mostly solid, and the guide vanes are hollow.

10. Arrangement according to claim 3, wherein the guide vanes are fixed to the first casing and detached from the second casing.

11. Arrangement according to claim 4, wherein the outer parts of the support vanes are mostly solid, and the guide vanes are hollow.

12. Arrangement according to claim 4, wherein the guide vanes are fixed to the first casing and detached from the second casing.

13. Arrangement according to claim 5, wherein the outer parts of the support vanes are mostly solid, and the guide vanes are hollow.

14. Arrangement according to claim 5, wherein the guide vanes are fixed to the first casing and detached from the second casing.

15. Arrangement according to claim 6, wherein the outer parts of the support vanes are mostly solid, and the guide vanes are hollow.

16. Arrangement according to claim 6, wherein the guide vanes are fixed to the first casing and detached from the second casing.

17. Arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the outer parts of the support vanes are mostly solid, and the guide vanes are hollow.

18. Arrangement according to claim 10, wherein the guide vanes are fixed to the first casing and detached from the second casing.

19. Arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the guide vanes are fixed to the first casing and detached from the second casing.

20. Arrangement according to claim 8, wherein the groups of guide vanes are interlocked by respective flanges screwed onto the first casing.

21. Arrangement according to claim 20, wherein the outer parts of the support vanes are interlocked by flanges screwed onto the first casing, and are welded to the second casing.