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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2011
Stephane Pierre Guillaume Blanchard, Chartrettes, FR;
Laurent Pierre Joseph Ricou, Melun, FR;
Stephane Pierre Guillaume Blanchard, Chartrettes, FR;
Laurent Pierre Joseph Ricou, Melun, FR;
SNECMA, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A rotor wheel for a gas turbine engine, the wheel including: a metal holder disk including a plurality of teeth at its periphery, the teeth extending radially outwards from the disk; a plurality of composite material blades, each blade including a root engaged between two adjacent teeth of the holder disk and that is held against the teeth by a pivot connection; a clamp disk including a plurality of teeth at its periphery extending in an axial direction, the clamp disk being fastened against the holder disk and on the same axis, with each of its teeth taking up a circumferential position between a blade root and a tooth of the holder disk; and a mechanism exerting a clamping force in a circumferential direction urging the teeth of the clamp disk against the blade roots.