Gas turbine engine front center body architecture
AssigneeRtx Corporation
InventorsTodd A. Davis, Brian P. Cigal
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Abstract
A gas turbine engine includes a fan that has fan blades wherein the fan delivers airflow to a bypass duct. A gearbox is defined along an engine axis. A low spool is arranged aft of the gearbox and coupled to drive the gearbox. A front center body assembly is defined around the engine axis. A flexible support supports the gearbox relative to the front center body assembly. A bearing package is mounted to the front center body assembly and the low spool. A front wall is mounted to the front center body assembly. The front wall is removable from the front center body assembly to access at least one of the gearbox or the bearing package. The low spool includes a low pressure compressor hub that provides an engagement feature for engaging the bearing package.
Claims21
A gas turbine engine comprising:
- a propulsor including a plurality of blades;
- a geared architecture including a gearbox;
- a first spool including a first shaft interconnecting a first turbine and a first compressor, and the first compressor includes a compressor hub and a disk extending from the compressor hub to support a plurality of compressor blades;
- a front center body assembly defined around an engine longitudinal axis, wherein the front center body assembly defines a portion of a core flow path through the gas turbine engine that is upstream of an inlet to the first compressor;
- a flex support that supports the gearbox relative to the front center body assembly;
- a bearing support including a bearing package mounted to the front center body assembly and the first spool, wherein the bearing package engages the compressor hub at a position forward of the disk relative to the engine longitudinal axis;
- a front wall mounted to the front center body assembly;
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- wherein the front wall is removable from the front center body assembly to access at least one of the gearbox or the bearing package.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.