Ihi Corporation

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Hiroshi Kuroki

Kenro Obuchi

Hiroyuki Yagi

Masahiro Hojo

Takeshi Murooka

Rintaro Kajiwara

A fan rotor blade includes a blade body made from a composite material of a resin and fibers, and having a pressure surface and a suction surface. A dovetail capable of being fitted into a fitting groove in a fan disk is provided in a base end of the blade body. The blade body is provided with a sheath. The sheath is more rigid than the blade body and is fixed to the blade body in a state where the sheath covers a leading edge portion of the blade body and the vicinity thereof. The sheath extends in the longitudinal direction of the blade body from a blade root side to a tip end side of the blade body, and a base end portion of the sheath located on the blade root side of the blade body extends to the dovetail.

Fan rotor blade of aircraft jet engine

A fan rotor blade includes a blade body made from a composite material of a resin and fibers, and having a pressure surface facing one side in a rotation direction and a suction surface facing the other side in the rotation direction. The blade body is provided with a sheath which is more rigid than the blade body and is fixed to the blade body in a state where the sheath covers a leading edge portion of the blade body, which is located on an upstream side in the direction of intake of external air, and the vicinity thereof. A tip end portion of the sheath extends from the leading edge portion side of the blade body to a trailing edge portion side of the blade body. An end portion of the tip end portion of the sheath is flush with the trailing edge portion of the blade body.

A fan rotor blade includes a blade body constructed of a composite material, a blade root constructed of the composite material, and a sheath attached to a leading edge of the blade body. The sheath includes a sheath main body and a pair of joint flanges, and is segmented into a sheath base segment and a sheath top segment. The sheath top segment has a longer length than a length of the sheath base segment along a span direction. A sheath length of the sheath main body at an assumed impact position with an obstacle is not shorter than 10% chord and not longer than 60% chord. A sheath length of the sheath along an end edge of the fan rotor blade is not shorter than 40% chord. The fan rotor blade possesses sufficient impact resistance and can be simplified and light-weighted.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Kuroki