Aircraft engine layout

US5410870A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation - S.N.E.C.M.A · FR

Inventors

• Michel Gilbert Roland Brault · Épinay-sous-Sénart, FR
• Georges Mazeaud · Yerres, FR
• Jean-Marie N. Pincemin · Crosne, FR
• Pascal C. Wurniesky

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 29, 1993
• Grant date: May 2, 1995
• Expiry date: Nov 29, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F02C7/32
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Aircraft engine, whose ancillary equipment forms a unitary assembly wherein the equipment is located to the rear of the air intake duct in a substantially closed central compartment just upstream of the gas generator. The equipment positioned along the engine axis, which, inter alia, leads to low engine drag in operation.