System for driving accessory machines of a double-bodied turbine engine

• US 7,690,185 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2006
• Issued: 04/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Safran Transmission Systems
• Original Assignee: Hispano Suiza SA (Safran SA)
• Inventors: Mouchnino, Cyril Franck, Pettinotti, Serge Dominique, Linet, Hugues Henri Raymond
• Primary Examiner(s): Casaregola; Louis J
• Application Number:
  US11/608,528
• Publication Number:
  US 20070130959A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,215 Days
• Field of Search: 60/391.63, 607/88, 607/92, 608/02
• US Class Current: 60/39.163
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 3/113 with variable power transmission between rotors
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 7/32 Arrangement, mounting, or driving, of auxiliaries
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 7/36 Power transmission arrangements between the different shafts of the gas turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user F02C3/107 - F02C3/13 and F02C7/32 take precedence; couplings for transmitting rotation F16D; gearing in general F16H
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/04 the pump being fluid-driven pumps driven by exhaust gases F02B37/00, F02B39/00; turbochargers F02C6/12

Abstract

A system for driving first and second accessory machines of a double-bodied turbine engine with an LP shaft and an HP shaft is disclosed. The system includes a first power train disposed between the shaft of the HP rotor and the first machines, which mechanically drives the first machines, and a first coupling means and a second power train between the shaft of the LP rotor and the second machines arranged so as to drive the said second machines. The system also includes a second coupling means between the first power train and the second power train allowing the second accessory machines to be driven by the shaft of the HP rotor, particularly when the engine operates at high speeds. The system may include a gearbox with at least two speed ratios and the first coupling means may be arranged to selectively couple one or other of the two ratios or else to decouple the mechanical transmission from the shaft of the LP rotor.

Claims

1. A system for driving first and second accessory machines of a double-bodied turbine engine with a shaft of the low pressure LP rotor and a shaft of the high pressure HP rotor, comprising:

a first power train disposed between the shaft of the HP rotor and the first accessory machines, which mechanically drives the first accessory machines;

a first coupling means disposed between the shaft of the LP rotor and a second power train;

the second power train disposed between the first coupling means and the second accessory machines, which drives the second machines;

a second coupling means disposed between the first power train and the second power train which allows the second accessory machines to be driven by the shaft of the HP rotor when the engine operates at high speeds; and

control means configured to selectively couple the first coupling means and the second coupling means based on speed signals of the shaft of the LP rotor and the shaft of the HP rotor,

wherein the second accessory machines are driven by the shaft of the LP rotor when the first coupling means is coupled.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the control means is configured to decouple the first coupling means when the second coupling means is coupled.

3. The system according to claim 1, comprising a gearbox with at least a first and second speed ratios, an input of the gearbox being connected to the shaft of the LP rotor and an output of the gearbox being connected to the second power train,

wherein the control means is configured to selectively couple the first coupling means to the first or second speed ratio or decouple the first coupling means.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the control means is configured to couple the first coupling means at the first speed ratio at a first speed of the turbine engine and is configured to couple the first coupling means at the second speed ratio at a second speed of the turbine engine, and

wherein the second speed is greater than the first speed.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the control means is configured to decouple the second coupling means when the first coupling means is coupled.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the control means is configured to couple the second coupling means and decouple the first coupling means at high speed of the turbine engine.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein one of the first or second accessory machines comprises a means for starting the engine, and the control means is configured to decouple the first coupling means and couple the second coupling means at start-up of the turbine engine.