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US 5,372,006 AGranted
Turbine engine equipped with thrust reverser
AssigneeAeronautical Concept of Exhaust, Ltd.
InventorJean-Pierre Lair
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AssigneeAeronautical Concept of Exhaust, Ltd.
InventorJean-Pierre Lair
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A thrust reverser system for a turbine engine of the type having a central relatively hot gas generator nozzle conducting a core flow and a relatively cold duct conducting a fan flow and surrounding the hot flow, a pair of thrust reverser door, each of the doors being pivotally mounted on an axis which is substantially diametrically positioned with respect to the exhaust nozzle of the engine so as to pivot between a stowed position in which the doors are out of the direct path of exhaust from the engine and a deployed position in which the doors are in the path of the engine exhaust for deflecting the exhaust and creating a braking thrust, a flow modifying arrangement acting on the hot gas generator nozzle for simultaneously decreasing the total pressure of the core flow and increasing the total pressure of the fan flow by increasing the area of the hot gas generator nozzle at the discharge end thereof and moving the boundary between the hot gas and cold gas flows radially outwardly.
A thrust reverser system for a turbine engine of the type having on a longitudinal axis a central hot gas generator nozzle conducting a relatively hot core flow and a fan duct conducting a relatively cold fan flow surrounding the hot flow, comprising a pair of thrust reverser door members, each of said door members being pivotally mounted on a pivot axis which is substantially diametrically positioned with respect to the exhaust of the engine so as to pivot between a stowed position in which said door members are out of the direct path of exhaust from the engine and a deployed position in which said door members are in the path of the engine exhaust for deflecting the exhaust and creating a braking thrust, means for simultaneously decreasing the total pressure of said core flow and increasing the total pressure of said fan flow by increasing the area of said hot gas generator nozzle at the discharge end thereof.
A thrust reverser system for a turbine engine of the type having on a longitudinal axis a central hot gas generator nozzle conducting a relatively hot core flow and a fan duct conducting a relatively cold fan flow and surrounding the hot flow, comprising a pair of thrust reverser door members, each of said door members being pivotally mounted on an axis which is substantially diametrically positioned with respect to the exhaust of the engine so as to pivot between a stowed position in which said doors are out of the direct path of the engine exhaust and a deployed position in which said door members are in the path of the engine exhaust for deflecting the exhaust and creating a braking thrust, means for changing the boundary between the core flow and the fan flow and moving said boundary radially outwardly for simultaneously decreasing the total pressure of said core flow and increasing the total pressure of said fan flow by increasing the area of said hot gas generator nozzle at the discharge end thereof.
A process for modifying the flow of gas through a turbine engine of the type having a central relatively hot gas generator nozzle conducting a hot core flow and an annular duct for conducting a relatively cold fan flow surrounding the hot flow for improving the performance of said engine, said process comprising decreasing the total pressure of said hot core flow and simultaneously increasing the total pressure of said fan flow for moving the boundary between said hot core flow and said fan flow radially outwardly within said duct.
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