Device for guiding a shaft of an aircraft turbine engine
AssigneeSafran Aircraft Engines
InventorOlivier FORMICA
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Abstract
A device for guiding a shaft of an aircraft turbine engine, the device including a rolling bearing;—an annular bearing support and—an oil film compression damping system including two annular sealing segments; and—a first oil supply circuit this first circuit being connected to an annular supply groove wherein the damping system further—includes a second oil supply circuit, this second circuit being connected to at least one annular temperature control groove which is independent of the supply groove and which runs around one of the sealing segments.
Claims20
A device for guiding a shaft of an aircraft turbine engine, the device comprising:
- a rolling bearing, comprising two rings, a first ring and a second ring respectively, between which rolling elements are mounted,
- an annular bearing support extending around the bearing, and
- an oil film compression damping system mounted between the bearing support and the second ring, this damping system comprising:
- an annular shrink ring interposed between the bearing support and the second ring,
- two annular sealing segments upstream and downstream respectively, which are housed in annular grooves formed in an external cylindrical surface of the second ring and which are able to bear radially on an internal cylindrical surface of the shrink ring these external and internal surfaces defining between them an annular space for the formation of an oil film which is delimited axially by the sealing segments, each of these segments being slit by a straight cut to allow the evacuation of the oil from this space, and
- a first oil supply circuit this first circuit being connected to an annular supply channel which extends around the space and is connected to this space by orifices formed in the shrink ring,
- characterised in that the damping system further comprises:
- a second oil supply circuit this second circuit being connected to at least one annular heating channel which is independent of said supply channel and which extends around the space and in line with one of the sealing segments.
The device according to 6, wherein the oil outlet orifice connected to the upstream heating channel opens up upstream of the upstream sealing segment, or upstream of the second ring and said or each heating channel is connected to at least one oil outlet orifice which is formed in the shrink ring.
The device according to 7, wherein said or each heating channel is connected to at least one oil inlet orifice which is formed in the bearing support
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.