Safran Aircraft Engines

Snecma

Jean-Christophe Duffet

Tewfik Boudebiza

Gilles Alain Charier

Augustin Curlier

Augustin Marc Michel Curlier

Sarah Chartier

A non-faired propeller turbo-engine includes a gas generator and a propulsion unit that is separated from the gas generator by an intermediate housing. The turbo-engine includes a housing and a radially internal ferrule that are coaxial and are connected by hollow radial arms. The housing of the turbo-engine also defines, in part, a gas flow duct of a secondary gas flow. Each radial arm is hollow and is traversed by at least one service of the turbo-engine. Additionally, at least one arm is traversed by a ventilation gas circulation duct from the secondary gas flow and which leads to at least one component from among a power turbine and a mechanical transmission of said propulsion unit.

Turbo-engine including two separate ventilation flows

A jet pump type ejector for a turbomachine, including a duct through which a secondary ventilation air flow passes, and a first end of which forms an air intake and a second end of which forms an air outlet, the two nozzles for spraying a primary air flow being mounted in the duct which defines a mixer and a diffuser downstream from the nozzle, the two nozzles being parallel and adjacent to one another, the mixer including two substantially planar longitudinal walls, bottom and top respectively, connected to one another by two side walls having a semicircular cross-section, in which the radius of curvature R2 is centered on the axis of a nozzle, the center-to-center distance of the nozzles being substantially equal to &#x3a0;/2 times R2 or (&#x3a0;/2)R2.

Ventilation of a turbomachine nacelle

An engine includes systems for changing the pitch of propeller blades, a system for an upstream propeller including a linear actuator and a transmission mechanism connecting the actuator to the blades to transform the sliding of the actuator into a rotation of the blades, the upstream propeller including a rotatable housing rigidly connected to a rotatable shaft supported in a static housing of the turbine engine by an upstream bearing and by a downstream bearing. The rotatable housing of the upstream propeller includes a support rigidly connected to the rotatable housing and surrounding the static housing. The actuator is annular and fixed outside to the support, the transfer mechanism includes connecting rods and rotatable radial arms traversing the gaseous flow path, and the downstream bearing is radially located between the static housing and the support.

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Saint Mande, France

Jean-Christophe Duffet