Patent classifications
B64D27/402
ENGINE PYLON FOR FASTENING AN AIRCRAFT ENGINE
An engine pylon has a structure for fastening an aircraft engine beneath a wing and has two lateral faces. The structure has a tunnel laterally passing through it, between and through the lateral faces, and the engine pylon has a spreader housed in the tunnel and fastened in an articulated manner to each lateral face. A first end of the spreader has a first bore. A second end of the spreader has two second bores each forming a connection point with the engine. A rod is fastened in an articulated manner to the first bore and has two third bores each forming a connection point with the engine. Such an engine pylon has the ability to attach the engine, with reduced vertical bulk and with less drag.
Load bearing element and a method for manufacturing a load bearing element
A load bearing element for attachment of a heat generating unit to a heat sensitive supporting structure, wherein said load bearing element includes at least one body integrally formed by additive layer manufacturing, ALM. The body is adapted to provide a controlled heat transfer from said heat generating unit to said heat sensitive supporting structure.
Front engine attachment for an aircraft engine
A front engine attachment, intended to fix an engine to a structure of an aircraft, includes a first attachment including a base intended to be fixed to the structure, a first fixture articulated on the base, two first connecting rods, each being articulated by a first end to the engine and by a second end to the fixture, and a first cylindrical nose mounted on the base. The front engine attachment includes a second attachment including a cradle including an orifice into which the cylindrical nose is fitted, and a second cylindrical nose being threaded into a piercing of the engine, and two second connecting rods, each being intended to be articulated by a first end to the engine, and by a second end to the cradle.
Device for suspending a casing, a turbine engine and a propulsion assembly
A device for suspending a casing of a turbine engine to the structure of an aircraft is provided. The device includes a suspension ring including a plurality of attachment surfaces positioned so as to protrude on the circumference of the suspension ring and having attachment holes for attachment to the structure; a circumferential flange including a plurality of holes for attaching the suspension ring to the casing; and one or several hanging surfaces for hanging at least one piece of equipment, positioned so as to protrude on the circumference of the suspension ring, and having holes for hanging the piece of equipment to the ring.
Tip rib mounted pylon assemblies
A pedestal assembly receives a pylon assembly of a tiltrotor aircraft having an airframe including a fuselage and a wing. The pedestal assembly includes inboard and outboard tip ribs that extend above the wing and respectively define inboard and outboard slots. The pedestal assembly also includes inboard and outboard bearing cartridges. The inboard bearing cartridge is received within the inboard slot, is coupled to the inboard tip rib and includes an inboard bearing assembly. The outboard bearing cartridge is received within the outboard slot, is coupled to the outboard tip rib and includes an outboard bearing assembly. The inboard and outboard bearing assemblies are operable to receive the pylon assembly therein such that the pylon assembly is rotatably mounted between the inboard and outboard tip ribs to selectively operate the tiltrotor aircraft between a helicopter mode and an airplane mode.
Propulsor Mounting for Advanced Body Aircraft
A propulsor and mount arrangement comprises a propulsor rotor and a fan casing surrounding the propulsor rotor. The fan casing receives two side mounts and a thrust link pivotally attached to the fan casing at a location that will be within 10? of a vertically lowermost location when the propulsor is mounted on an aircraft, and the side mounts being at circumferentially opposed positions, and within a lower 270? when the propulsor is mounted on an aircraft. At least a portion of both the side mounts, and a pivot point connect the thrust link to the fan casing in a common plane defined perpendicular to a rotational axis of the propulsor rotor. An aircraft is also disclosed.
Aircraft with Under Wing Direct Drive Low Pressure Turbine
The present disclosure is directed to an aircraft including a fuselage to which a pair or more of wings attaches. The aircraft defines a transverse direction, a longitudinal direction, and a latitudinal direction. The aircraft includes a wing extended from the fuselage along the transverse direction in which the wing defines a leading edge, and a gas turbine engine coupled to the wing. The engine defines an axial centerline therethrough along the longitudinal direction. The engine includes a nacelle including an outer wall extended around the axial centerline. The nacelle defines a radial reference plane extended perpendicular from the axial centerline. The outer wall defines an outer wall point closest to the fuselage. The radial reference plane extends through a reference line defined along the latitudinal direction from the outer wall point to the leading edge of the wing. The engine further includes a low pressure (LP) turbine rotor that includes an upstream-most first turbine rotor concentric to the axial centerline. The first turbine rotor is disposed downstream along the longitudinal direction of the radial reference plane.
AIRCRAFT ENGINE PYLON WITH INBUILT MULTIFUNCTIONAL FRAMEWORK
The invention seeks to get around the problems of mass and complexity of pylons made up of assembled box sections. In order to do so, the invention effectively proposes organizing the engine-wing interface around a substantially uniform framework configured to incorporate the multiple functions (transmission, safety) and house the pylon equipment (extinguishers, heat exchanger etc.). This framework forms a structural assembly capable of transmitting load and of forming an aerodynamic fairing suited to this framework. A pylon according to the invention comprises a single structural and multifunctional framework (10) made up of main canals (11; 11a to 11e) housing equipment and transmission systems (41a to 41c) between the engine and the wing structure, and a latticework (20) of arms (12) and of nodes (13) connecting the arms together. These arms (12) and/or canals (11; 11a to 11e) being able to attach fairing cowls (14) to form an aerodynamic fairing with a configuration that is predetermined by a pre-established positioning of the arms (12) and of the canals (11; 11a to 11e).
HYDRAULIC TORQUE COMPENSATION DEVICE
A hydraulic torque compensation device comprises a pair of housings, a first housing including a first high pressure liquid chamber and a second low pressure liquid chambers, a second housing having a third high pressure liquid chamber, a fourth accumulator chamber, and a fifth low pressure chamber that is defined by a wall and an end of the second housing. A first main duct links the first chamber of the first housing to the third chamber of the second housing. A second main duct links the second chamber of the first housing to the fifth chamber of the second housing. Each housing also include a piston, the first chamber between a first piston body and an end of the first housing and the third chamber between a second piston body and the wall. The device ensures a counter action to engine loads when a positive torque is applied.
AIR AND SPACE CRAFT WITH INDEPENDENTLY ORIENTED THRUST GENERATORS
An aircraft includes a fuselage having an upper surface and a lower surface and a plurality of planetary modules housed in the fuselage, an individual planetary module having a first jet engine directed outward of the upper surface of the fuselage and a second jet engine directed outward of the lower surface of the fuselage, the individual planetary module rotatable within the fuselage about a vertical axis.