System and method for assembling a rotational equipment assembly of an aircraft propulsion system
AssigneePratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
InventorsDanny Noiseux, Valentin Andronache
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Abstract
A method for assembling a rotational equipment assembly having a rotational equipment module and a rotational equipment case includes axially supporting the rotational equipment module with a first support assembly, positionally fixing a rotor assembly and a stator assembly of the rotational equipment module together with a second support assembly, coupling a pulling rod assembly with a tooling shaft of the rotational equipment module, and assembling the rotational equipment assembly by positioning the rotational equipment case axially abutting the rotational equipment module and axially pulling the pulling rod assembly to axially fit the rotational equipment module with the rotational equipment case.
Claims7
A method for assembling a rotational equipment assembly for an aircraft propulsion system, the rotational equipment assembly including a rotational equipment module and a rotational equipment case, the method comprising:
- axially supporting the rotational equipment module along an axis of the rotational equipment module with a first support assembly, the rotational equipment module including a tooling shaft, a rotor assembly, and a stator assembly, the rotor assembly mounted on the tooling shaft, the stator assembly circumscribing the rotor assembly, the rotor assembly and the stator assembly seated on the first support assembly;
- positionally fixing the rotor assembly and the stator assembly together with a second support assembly with the rotor assembly and the stator assembly axially supported by the first support assembly, the second support assembly mounted on the tooling shaft at a first axial end of the tooling shaft;
- coupling a pulling rod assembly with the tooling shaft at a second axial end of the tooling shaft;
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- assembling the rotational equipment assembly by positioning the rotational equipment case axially abutting the rotational equipment module and axially pulling the pulling rod assembly to axially fit the rotational equipment module with the rotational equipment case.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.