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Mechanical system for a turbine engine, turbine engine, and method for attaching a mechanical system within a turbine engine

US9790814B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 20, 2012
Grant dateOct 17, 2017
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Expiry dateApr 1, 2034

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  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF02K1/80
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A mechanical system for a turbomachine includes a turbomachine part to be attached and a plurality of threaded attachment elements mounted on the turbomachine part in sequence along a line. The attachment elements fix the turbomachine part to the turbomachine. At least some of the attachment elements are arranged to be prevented from rotating by mutual cooperation about their corresponding thread axes, by a rotation prevention system provided on each of these attachment elements called self-locking elements. The self-locked elements cooperate in pairs, each pair including two directly consecutive self-locked elements along the line. At least one of the pairs has a distance between the thread axes of its two self-locked elements less than the distance between one of these two thread axes and the axis of either of the two attachment elements arranged along the line on each side of the at least one of the pairs.

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