Device for driving accessory machines of a gas turbine engine

• US 7,707,909 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2006
• Issued: 05/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Safran Transmission Systems
• Original Assignee: Hispano Suiza SA (Safran SA)
• Inventors: Linet, Hugues Henri Raymond, Mouchnino, Cyril Franck, Pettinotti, Serge Dominique
• Primary Examiner(s): PANG, ROGER L
• Application Number:
  US11/551,455
• Publication Number:
  US 20070173365A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,292 Days
• Field of Search: 746/61, 746/65.R, 747/18, 747/20, 746/65.A, 746/65.B, 746/65.C, 746/65.GB, 746/65.GC, 746/65.L, 746/65.M, 746/65.N, 60/391.7, 607/92
• US Class Current: 74/720
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 3/107 with two or more rotors connected by power transmission
• 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: F16H 2037/088 Power split variators with summing differentials, with the input of the CVT connected or connectable to the input shaft
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 47/04 the mechanical gearing being of the type with members having orbital motion
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 50/60 Efficient propulsion technologies, e.g. for aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/19033 Fluid drive divides or combines alternate paths
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/19037 One path includes fluid drive
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/19093 Spur and bevel

Abstract

A device drives auxiliary machines by using power extracted from a multi-shaft gas turbine engine. The gas turbine engine may include a LP shaft and a HP shaft. The machines may be installed in a gearbox. The device may include a first mechanical transmission between the HP shaft and the gearbox. The device also may include a hydraulic transmission between the LP shaft and the gearbox. Further, the LP shaft connects a low pressure turbine to a low pressure compressor, the HP shaft connects a high pressure turbine to a high pressure compressor, and the low pressure compressor is upstream of the high pressure compressor.

Claims

1. A device for driving auxiliary machines of a double-shaft gas turbine engine, the engine including an LP shaft and an HP shaft, said machines being installed in a gearbox, and the device comprising:

a first mechanical transmission between the HP shaft and said gearbox; and

a hydraulic transmission between the LP shaft and said gearbox, wherein the LP shaft connects a low pressure turbine to a low pressure compressor, the HP shaft connects a high pressure turbine to a high pressure compressor, and the low pressure compressor is upstream of the high pressure compressor.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the hydraulic transmission comprises a hydrostatic variator with a hydraulic pump connected via a second mechanical transmission to the LP shaft and the hydraulic pump connected via a hydraulic circuit to a hydraulic motor, and the hydraulic motor is connected via a third mechanical transmission to said gearbox.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the third transmission and the first transmission are connected in parallel to the gearbox.

4. The device according to claim 2, wherein the second transmission comprises a speed reduction gear.

5. The device according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor has a positive displacement.

6. The device according to claim 3, wherein the hydraulic pump and/or the hydraulic motor have a variable cubic capacity.

7. The device according to claim 2, wherein the hydraulic circuit comprises a fluid accumulator downstream of the hydraulic pump.

8. The device according to claim 2, comprising a member for controlling an output of the hydraulic motor.

9. Device according to claim 2, in which the third mechanical transmission comprises a differential gear with an epicyclic gear set consisting of three stages:

cage, sun gear and planet carrier.

10. Device according to claim 9, in which one of said cage and sun gear being of an input stage of the epicyclic gear set is connected via a fourth mechanical transmission to the LP shaft.

11. Device according to claim 10, in which the shaft of the hydraulic motor is connected to the other one of said cage and sun gear of the epicyclic gear set.

12. Device according to claim 10 in which the shaft of the hydraulic motor is connected to the input stage of the epicyclic gear set via a speed reduction gear.

13. Device according to claim 9, the planet carrier being of an output stage is connected to the gearbox.

14. Device according to claim 1, in which the hydraulic transmission comprises a hydraulic coupler connected, on the one hand, via a second mechanical transmission, to the LP shaft, on the other hand, via a third transmission, to the said gearbox.

15. Device according to claim 14, in which the coupler comprises a control means for filling with liquid.

16. The device according to claim 2, wherein the LP shaft and the HP shaft are both configured to be mechanically free to rotate relative to one another.