Device for damping vibration of a ring for axially retaining turbomachine fan blades

• US 7,458,769 B2
• Filed: 07/17/2006
• Issued: 12/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engine Company
• Original Assignee: Snecma (Safran SA)
• Inventors: Forgue, Jean-Bernard, Nitre, Thierry, Lauvergnat, Jack-Pierre, Monnet, Didier, Loiseau, Henry Louis Paul Nicolas, Reghezza, Patrick Jean-Louis
• Primary Examiner(s): Kershteyn; Igor
• Application Number:
  US11/457,954
• Publication Number:
  US 20070020089A1
• Time in Patent Office: 869 Days
• Field of Search: 415/119, 416/220.R, 416/221
• US Class Current: 415/119
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 25/04 Antivibration arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/26 Antivibration means not restricted to blade form or construction or to blade-to-blade connections or to the use of particular materials
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/3007 of axial insertion type
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 5/326 Locking of axial insertion type blades by other means
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/322 Blade mountings
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 29/668 damping or preventing mechanical vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2250/182 crenellated, notched
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/30 Retaining components in desired mutual position
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2300/431 Rubber

Abstract

A device for damping vibration of a retention ring for axially retaining turbomachine fan blades, the blades being designed to be mounted via their roots on a rotary disk having an annular flange extending axially and provided with a plurality of radial crenellations for coming into contact with a plurality of complementary radial crenellations of a retention ring designed to be mounted around the disk flange, the device comprising an abutment element of elastomer material designed to be received axially between two adjacent crenellations of the flange and two adjacent complementary crenellations of the retention ring, and radially between the flange of the rotary disk and the retention ring, said abutment element presenting contact surfaces for coming into contact with the adjacent crenellations, with the retention ring, and with the flange of the rotary disk.

Claims

1. A device for damping vibration of an axial retention ring for retaining fan blades of a turbomachine, said fan blades being designed to be mounted via their roots on a rotary disk including an annular flange extending axially and provided with a plurality of radial crenellations for coming into contact with a plurality of complementary radial crenellations of the retention ring that is to be mounted around said flange of the disk, said device being made up of an abutment element of elastomer material that is to be received axially between two adjacent crenellations of the flange and two adjacent complementary crenellations of the retention ring, and radially between the flange of the rotary disk and the retention ring, said abutment element presenting contact surfaces for coming into contact with said adjacent crenellations, with the retention ring, and with the flange of the rotary disk.

2. A device according to claim 1, in which the abutment element is substantially in the form of a flat rectangular block.

3. A device according to claim 1, in which the abutment element presents a geometrical shape that is designed to prevent error while it is being mounted on the disk.

4. A device according to claim 1, in which the elastomer material of the abutment element presents hardness lying in the range 50 to 90 on the Shore scale.

5. A device according to claim 1, in which the elastomer material of the abutment element is a silicone, a fluorosilicone, or a fluorocarbon.

6. A rotary disk for a turbomachine for mounting blades of a fan, the disk including an annular flange extending axially and provided with a plurality of radial crenellations for coming into contact with a plurality of complementary radial crenellations of a retention ring for axially retaining fan blades and designed to be mounted around the flange of the disk, the disk including at least two damper devices according to claim 1.

7. A disk according to claim 6, in which the damper devices are equidistant from one another.

8. A retention ring for axially retaining fan blades of a turbomachine, the ring including at least one vibration damper device according to claim 1.

9. A turbomachine including at least one rotary disk according to claim 6.