Device for the offtake of mechanical power between the HP and LP shafts of a double-shaft turbine engine

• US 7,758,302 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2006
• Issued: 07/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Safran Transmission Systems
• Original Assignee: Hispano-Suiza (Safran SA)
• Inventors: Linet, Hugues Henri Raymond, Mouchnino, Cyril Franck, Pettinotti, Serge Dominique
• Primary Examiner(s): Look; Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): EASTMAN, AARON ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US11/551,494
• Publication Number:
  US 20070137219A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,369 Days
• Field of Search: 415/65, 415/68, 415/122.1, 415/123, 415/124.1, 416/124, 416/126, 746/65.GC, 746/65.GB, 746/65.T, 607/92, 60/391.62, 608/02, 60/391.63
• US Class Current: 415/68
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 3/107 with two or more rotors connected by power transmission
• 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

Abstract

A device for driving auxiliary machines of a double-shaft turbine engine with an LP shaft and an HP shaft is disclosed. The machines are installed in an accessory gearbox which includes a common drive shaft. The device includes a differential gear with a first input shaft and a second input shaft and an output shaft. The first shaft being connected via a selective coupling either to the LP shaft or to the HP shaft, the second input shaft is connected to the HP shaft, and the output shaft being connected to the drive shaft of the gearbox.

Claims

1. A device for driving auxiliary machines of a double-shaft turbine engine with an LP shaft and an HP shaft, the machines being installed in an accessory gearbox comprising a common drive shaft, the device comprising:

a differential gear with a first input shaft and a second input shaft and an output shaft, the first input shaft being connected via a selective coupling either to the LP shaft or to the HP shaft, the second input shaft being connected to the HP shaft, and the output shaft being connected to the drive shaft of the gearbox,

wherein the selective coupling includes a first coupling disposed between the first input shaft and the LP shaft, and

wherein a free wheel device disposed in a mechanical transmission line between the first coupling and the LP shaft is engaged when the engine is operating and disengaged when the engine is driven on start-up by the shaft of the accessory gearbox.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first shaft is connected via the selective coupling to the LP shaft when the engine speed is less than a determined value (N) and to the HP shaft when the speed is greater than the determined value.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first coupling is a dog clutch.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein the selective coupling further comprises a a second coupling disposed between the first input shaft and the HP shaft.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein the second coupling is a dog clutch.

7. The device according to claim 5, wherein the first coupling and the second coupling are engaged when the engine is driven on start-up.

8. The device according to claim 5, wherein a first gear is disposed on a first side of the second coupling and a second gear is disposed on a second side of the second coupling, and

wherein the first gear engages a third gear disposed on the first input shaft and the second gear engages a fourth gear disposed on the second input shaft.

6. A device for driving auxiliary machines of a double-shaft turbine engine with an LP shaft and an HP shaft, the machines being installed in an accessory gearbox comprising a common drive shaft, the device comprising:

a differential gear with a first input shaft and a second input shaft and an output shaft, the first input shaft being connected via a selective coupling either to the LP shaft or to the HP shaft, the second input shaft being connected to the HP shaft, and the output shaft being connected to the drive shaft of the gearbox,

wherein the selective coupling is a dog clutch,

wherein the dog clutch selective coupling comprises a first dog clutch between the first input shaft and the LP shaft and a second dog clutch between the first input shaft and the HP shaft, and

wherein a free wheel device in a mechanical transmission line between the first dog clutch and the LP shaft is arranged so as to be engaged when the engine is operating and disengaged when the engine is driven on start-up by the shaft of the accessory gearbox.