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Turbomachine fan rotor

US8740568B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 27, 2009
Grant dateJun 3, 2014
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Expiry dateNov 27, 2030

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02T50/60
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A turbomachine fan rotor including a disk carrying blades with roots that are engaged in axial grooves of the disk, a spacer being interposed between the bottom of each groove and the corresponding blade root, the spacer including at its upstream end a nib for retaining the blade root, the nib including a downstream abutment face against which the upstream end of the blade root bears in event of a violent force being applied thereto, the abutment face being oblique relative to the axis of rotation of the rotor.

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