WO2017182748A1 - Systeme d'actionnement simplifie de pas pour une helice de turbomachine - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a pitch actuation system for a turbomachine propeller, such as a turboprop.
- a turboprop engine comprises at least one propeller having a hub and blades carried by the hub and extending substantially radially outwardly with respect to the hub and the axis of rotation of the propeller.
- the turboprop engine is generally equipped with a propeller pitch actuation system, also known as the angular setting system of the propeller blades.
- the regulation of the pitch of the propeller blades makes it possible to improve their efficiency by guaranteeing a rotational speed of the propeller for each phase of flight.
- US-A1-201 1/014046 discloses independent pitch actuation systems for two propellers.
- Each blade is movable in rotation about an axis, generally radial, between a first relief position called feathering in which it extends substantially parallel to the axis of rotation of the propeller, and a second position in which it is strongly inclined with respect to this axis. It can adopt any position between these two extreme positions.
- the actuation system used is a hydraulic system, which is relatively complex and has several disadvantages.
- This system comprises an actuator whose movable part is connected to the blades of the propeller for their setting.
- the actuating system must not only be able to provide the step control function but also the emergency function of in flag of the blades.
- the step actuation system therefore comprises an auxiliary system for the emergency function.
- the pitch actuation system shall also provide protection functions in the event of overspeed, in the event of a stationary engine, in the event of failure of the FADEC computer (acronym for Full Authority Digital Engine Control), and ensure the limitation of small steps in flight.
- FADEC computer an analog for Full Authority Digital Engine Control
- the step control system is also subject to very stringent failure rate requirements, which involve redundancies and additional protection systems.
- the present invention overcomes these drawbacks and provides a solution to all or part of the problems of the current technique described below.
- the first problem is the stringent FAL (acronym for Functional Hazard Assessment) string control requirements, which involve robust architectures with redundancy.
- the second problem (problem B) concerns the feathering function, which must be ensured even after a failure of the step control means.
- the third problem concerns the risk of blockage of the moving part of the actuator.
- the Rotation of a blade of the helix is obtained by the translation of an eccentric at the foot of the blade.
- Axial locking of the hydraulic cylinder is considered a failure.
- problem E concerns protection functions other than that covering the failure of the step control, which require additional mechanical and hydraulic devices in a hydraulic system of the current technique.
- the invention proposes a pitch actuation system for a turbomachine propeller, comprising an actuator whose moving part is configured to be connected to blades of the propeller in order to move them in rotation with respect to the stall axes of the propeller. not blades, characterized in that the actuator is an electromechanical actuator, and comprises:
- first pitch control means for the blades which comprise at least one electric motor for driving a first rotor about a longitudinal axis, and a first transmission screw driven in rotation about the axis by said first rotor; rotor,
- a first nut traversed by said first transmission screw and configured to cooperate with the blades for their displacement
- second means for feathering the blades which comprise at least one electric motor driving a second rotor around the axis, and a second fixed transmission screw, a second nut traversed by said second transmission screw and driven in rotation about the axis by said second rotor in order to move in translation along the axis on said second nut,
- the system is configured so that a displacement of the second nut in translation along the axis causes a displacement of the first transmission screw in translation along the axis.
- the hydraulic actuator of the prior art is thus replaced by an electromechanical actuator whose movable part comprises a transmission screw.
- the rotational movement of the blades is obtained by a translation of the nut on the transmission screw which is rotated by the first rotor.
- the rotation of a blade of the helix is obtained by the translation of an eccentric at the foot of the blade.
- the failure resulting from the axial blocking of the hydraulic cylinder (problem C), which generates this translation, is considered extremely unlikely. This low value of the failure rate seems to be consolidated by feedback.
- the basic system comprises a redundancy of the transmission screw.
- the proposed concept does not require any additional device unlike the hydraulic system, to cover the protection functions other than that covering the failure of the step control.
- a hydraulic system the case of engine stopped or loss of engine power leads to a suppression of the hydraulic power of the pump coupled to the engine, an auxiliary system is expected.
- an electromechanical system for these cases of failure, the electrical energy is delivered by an independent source.
- the feathering function therefore remains active for cover these cases of failure, preferably via a protective case.
- the overspeed case is covered by a mechanical counterweight system.
- the engine control laws can act on electric pitch control motors via the protective case to provide feathering.
- said first means comprise two electric motors, preferably synchronous motors driving the same first rotor.
- the choice of technology and the strategy of the sizing of these electrical means minimize the short-circuiting torque and lead to reasonable engine sizes.
- Electrical redundancy at the level of the electric motors makes it possible to respect the reliability requirements FHA (problem A).
- FHA problem A
- the proposed system is preferably capable of providing the reliability required by electrical redundancy both at the level of the electrical components at the level of the control and independent power circuits controlled by a computer. This system is then able to perform its step control function even in the event of a short circuit in the power supply.
- This electromechanical concept may require no mechanical energy from the turbomachine.
- the cases of failure of the loss of engine power and the engine at a standstill can therefore be provided via a protective case by the nominal electromechanical system without any additional device.
- This electromechanical concept also makes it possible to cover the overspeed case and the failure of the FADEC without any additional device.
- the system according to the invention may comprise one or more of the following features, taken separately from each other or in combination with each other:
- said first rotor is connected to the first transmission screw by a first gearbox, for example a sun gear,
- said second nut is connected to said second rotor by a second gearbox, for example a sun gear,
- a planet carrier of the or each gearbox is guided in rotation by a pair of angular contact bearings and inverted,
- said first means comprise at least two resolvers
- the electric motor of said second means is an asynchronous motor; the choice of this type of electric motor for feathering makes it possible to reduce the control box and to eliminate any resistive torque linked to a short-circuiting (problem B),
- said electric motors comprise stators carried by a first casing which is slidably mounted in translation along the axis in a second fixed casing,
- said first rotor and / or said transmission screw are guided in rotation by at least one bearing in a housing, preferably a stator; in the latter case, the second housing of the actuator is fixed while the nut mounted on the transmission screw is integral in rotation with the propeller; to prevent this rotation of the nut causes a translation thereof on the transmission screw and therefore a variation of the pitch of the blades, it is necessary that the transmission screw is kept rotating continuously and therefore the electric motors running continuously ; the maintenance of the pitch therefore requires continuous rotation of the rotors of the motors; the control of the pitch is managed by the differences in rotational speeds between the propeller and the electric motors (which thus brings a solution to the aforementioned problem D), and
- the two electric motors of said first means are respectively connected to two electronic control units which are each configured to be active when the other is passive, and vice versa.
- the present invention also relates to a turbomachine, such as a turboprop, comprising a propeller whose blades are variable pitch and a system as described above, wherein the first nut cooperates with eccentric provided on support plates and rotation of the blades.
- the present invention relates to a pitch actuation method of the blades of a turbomachine propeller, by means of a system as described above, comprising the steps of:
- FIG. 1 is a partial schematic half-view in axial section of a blade pitch actuation system associated with a turbomachine propeller
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the general architecture of the actuation system and electrical control means of the system of FIG. 1;
- FIG. 3 is a partial schematic half-view in axial section of a pitch actuation system of the blades according to the invention associated with a turbomachine propeller;
- FIGS. 4a to 7b are diagrams illustrating the operation of the system of FIG. 3, in several distinct cases.
- a propeller 10 of a turbomachine, and in particular a turboprop engine is generally non-ducted and comprises a movable hub 12 (arrow ⁇ 'of FIG. 1) with axis A of rotation, the hub carrying blades 14 which extend substantially radially. relative to the axis A.
- Each blade 14 is connected at its radially inner end to a substantially cylindrical platen 1 6 supporting and guiding the blade in rotation in order to rotate it about an axis B, here substantially radial.
- the plate 1 6 of each blade 14 is mounted in a housing of the hub 12 and is centered and guided in this housing by bearings 18 extending around the axis B.
- each blade comprises an eccentric 20 This is integrally connected to the plate 1 6 and an actuating system 22 can move it in rotation about the axis B.
- the displacement of the eccentric 20 causes a rotational movement of the plates 16 and therefore the blades 14 around B.
- Each blade 14 can be wedged at a given pitch or position about its axis B, between two extreme positions, one of which, called feathering, corresponds to the case where the rope of the cross-section of the blade extends substantially parallel to the axis A.
- Figure 1 shows an electromechanical actuation system.
- the actuating system 22 of FIG. 1 comprises an electromechanical actuator 24 whose moving part comprises a transmission screw 26 which is associated with a nut 28 guided in translation relative to the hub 12 and configured to cooperate with the eccentrics 20 of the blades 14 for rotation in relation to the B axis.
- the nut 28 comprises housings intended to receive the eccentrics 20 and to drive them during the displacements of the nut 28.
- Each housing receives, for example, an eccentric finger 20 of the corresponding blade 14, each finger being disposed in protruding into the housing.
- the nut is thus integral in movement of the blades, and therefore of the propeller when it is rotated relative to the axis A.
- the nut 28 is thus arranged to be rotatable relative to the axis A in a fixed landmark.
- the transmission screw 26 extends along the axis A and is rotatable relative to the axis A. It passes through the nut 28 and therefore comprises a thread complementary to that of the nut.
- the nut 28 is thus also arranged to be movable in translation relative to the axis A in the same fixed reference.
- the transmission screw 26 advantageously has a reversibility function in that it is able to be subjected by the actuator to a torque so as to cooperate with the nut and move it, and also to be subjected by the nut to axial forces causing a rotation of the transmission screw. On this point, it is distinguished from an endless screw which has a function of irreversibility.
- the transmission screw 26 is driven by a rotor 30 of the actuator 24 which is centered and guided by bearings in a casing 32 of the stator in the example shown.
- the housing 32 is thus fixed. It has a generally elongated cylindrical shape of axis A.
- the rotor 30 has an elongated shape of axis A and is here guided in the housing 32 by at least one bearing 34.
- the bearing 34 here bearing and more specifically with balls, is mounted at the axial end of the actuator opposite to the propeller (left end on the drawing).
- the actuator 24 comprises first electric means 36 blade pitch control.
- these means Electrical devices 36 comprise two resolvers 38a, 38b and two electric motors 40a, 40b, which are here synchronous machines.
- the resolvers 38a, 38b are arranged next to each other and have the common axis, the axis A.
- the electric motors 40a, 40b are arranged next to each other and also have common axis , axis A.
- the resolvers 38a, 38b are here arranged between the bearing 34 and the electric motors 40a, 40b.
- Each resolver 38a, 38b comprises a resolver rotor mounted on the common rotor 30, and a resolver stator integral with the housing 32.
- the resolver rotors and stators are generally composed of coils.
- a resolver makes it possible to obtain an electrical value from a change of angle of a rotor.
- a resolver operates as a transformer whose coupling varies with the mechanical angle of the rotor. When the rotor winding is excited with an alternating voltage, an AC voltage is recovered on the stator winding.
- the redundancy associated with the use of two resolvers 38a, 38b instead of one, makes it possible to guarantee the reliability requirements mentioned above.
- Each electric motor 40a, 40b is here of the synchronous machine type and comprises a rotor mounted on the common rotor 30, and a stator secured to the casing 32.
- the rotor may consist of permanent magnets or be constituted by a coil supplied with current continuous and a magnetic circuit (electromagnet).
- an external force is used to turn the rotor: its rotating magnetic field induces an alternating electric current in the stator coils.
- the speed of this rotating field is called "synchronism speed”.
- the speed of synchronism is directly related to the frequency of the power supply.
- the motors are powered by a system of three-phase currents.
- the transmission screw 26 is driven by the common rotor 30 by means of a gear reducer 42, which is here a planetary gear or epicyclic gear.
- This reducer 42 comprises a planet shaft 42a integral in rotation with the common rotor 30, an outer ring 42b surrounding the planet shaft and secured to the housing 32, satellites 42c meshing with the sun shaft 42a and the ring 42b and carried by a planet carrier 42d which is here integral in rotation with the transmission screw 26.
- the transmission screw 26 and the planet carrier 42d are formed in one piece.
- the part comprising the planet carrier 42d and the transmission screw 26 is centered and guided in the housing 32 by a pair of rolling bearings, here ball. These bearings 44 are angular contact. They are inverted and mounted next to each other at the axial end of the actuator located on the side of the propeller 10 (right end in the drawing).
- the actuating system 22 further comprises at least one sensor 46 of the LVDT type (acronym for Linear Variable Differential Transformer).
- the transmission screw 26 comprises an internal axial bore in which is slidably engaged a LVDT ferromagnetic plunger 46a carried by a rear cover 48 of the actuator 22, which is itself fixed to the housing of stator 32.
- the plunger 46a is surrounded by several windings carried by the transmission screw 26, including at least one primary winding fed by an alternating current and two secondary windings. These coils are preferably redundant to increase the reliability of the system.
- the axial displacement of the plunger 46a inside the coils channels the flow and generates voltages in the secondary windings whose amplitudes depend on the position thereof.
- the sensor 46 thus provides a voltage proportional to the displacement of the plunger 46a.
- the turboprop is equipped with an auxiliary system for feathering the blades 14, which is here electromechanical.
- the system 50 is integrated with the actuator 22 and comprises an electric motor 52, which is preferably an asynchronous machine (so as not to generate a resistive torque), the stator of which is integral with the casing 32 and whose rotor is integral with the casing. In the example shown, it is mounted between the rear cover 48 and bearing 34.
- control box is simple and of high reliability; the case of short-circuiting is not to be covered, it is not necessary to oversize synchronous machines to cover this case of failure; in the absence of short-circuiting induced by this motor, the rotor can be mounted directly on the rotor axis of the synchronous machines and benefit from the reduction ratio of the gears. There is no necessary addition of reducers.
- FIG. 2 schematically represents the electrical block diagram of the operation of the system of FIG. 1.
- FIG. 2 shows in particular the control means of the electrical machines of the system, namely, in the case where the redundancy applies to all these machines, two sensors 46 LVDT, two resolvers 38a, 38b, and two electric motors 40a, 40b .
- the control means comprise in particular two segregated electronic control units 54a, 54b which are each connected to a resolver, a sensor and an electric motor, and which have the ability to drive these machines independently.
- the housings 54a, 54b operate in "passive-active" mode. In nominal mode, the pitch is controlled by the control unit 54a for example, and the control unit 54b is in passive mode. In case of failure detected by a position error for example, the housing 54a is deactivated and the housing 54b is activated.
- the housings 54a, 54b comprise three interlocking local loops: a torque loop using the phase current measurements, a speed loop using the resolver, and a linear position loop using the LVDT sensor.
- the housings 54a, 54b receive the position instruction respectively of computer housings 56a, 56b and are associated with electrical networks 58a, 58b for sending a current command to the motors 40a, 40b.
- control means furthermore comprise an independent power supply device for the electric motor 52.
- FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the invention, wherein the system 22 'step actuation has a redundancy of the transmission screw.
- the architecture comprises two transmission chains. Each of them has a transmission screw, both active during the step control function or during the feathering function. These two transmission screws here have totally different modes of operation. This asymmetrical combination has been studied so that if one of the two screws is blocked, the feathering function can always be activated.
- Each transmission chain has a gear reduction unit and one or two electrical machines. Angular contact bearings are mounted upstream and downstream of the assembly to ensure their translation under the application of an axial force.
- the body of these two electrical assemblies can move axially in a fixed body provided with anti-rotation means. Only one electrical set is active and the other passive. In case of blocking of one of the transmission screws, the feathering requires a tilting, the active electrical assembly to be deactivated and the passive electrical assembly to be activated, as described above.
- system 22 'of FIG. 3 includes all the features of the system 22 of FIG. 1 except for those which are in contradiction with the following.
- the assembly formed by the transmission screw 26 and the nut 28 is four degrees of freedom (against three previously): in a fixed reference, the nut 28 has two degrees of freedom (in translation and rotation screws with respect to the axis A - respectively arrows X 'and ⁇ '), and the transmission screw 26 also has two degrees of freedom (in translation and in rotation with respect to the axis A - respectively arrows X and ⁇ ).
- the housing 32 ' is slidably mounted axially in a stator casing 32 ", that is to say fixed, for example by means of a sliding device.
- the housing 32 ' is prevented from rotating with respect to the casing 32 "by anti-rotation means.
- the casing 32 ' comprises an axial extension of the side opposite to the propeller 10, on which is fixed the stator of the electric motor 52 of the means 50' of feathering.
- the rotor of the electric motor 52 is mounted on a shaft 60 which is independent of the stator rotor 30.
- the shaft 60 is guided in rotation about the axis A by means of a rolling bearing 61, here ball, mounted between the shaft 60 and the housing 32 ', and rotates a nut 62 through a gear reducer 64, which is here also a planetary gear.
- This gear 64 comprises a planetary shaft 64a integral in rotation with the shaft 60, an outer ring 64b surrounding the planetary shaft and integral with the housing 32 ', and satellites 64c meshing with the planet shaft 64a and the ring 64b and carried by a planet carrier 64d which is here integral in rotation with the nut 62.
- the nut 62 and the planet carrier 64d are formed in one piece.
- the part comprising the planet carrier 64d and the nut 62 is centered and guided in the housing 32 'by a pair of bearing bearings 66, here ball bearings. These bearings 66 are angular contact. They are inverted and mounted next to each other between the gearbox 64 and the bearing 34.
- the nut 62 is traversed by a transmission screw 68 which is fixed.
- the screw 68 is located at a longitudinal end of a cylindrical body which extends along the axis A inside the shaft, and whose opposite end is secured to the lid 48.
- the cover 48 is fixed to the stator housing 32 "and can carry a ferromagnetic plunger of one or two LVDT sensors.
- the nut 62 cooperates with the transmission screw 68. Due to the fixed nature of the transmission screw 68, a rotation of the nut 62 about the axis A causes a displacement in translation of the nut on the Thus, the assembly formed by the transmission screw 68 and the nut 62 has two degrees of freedom: the nut 62 has two degrees of freedom (in translation and in rotational direction). with respect to the axis A - respectively arrows X "and ⁇ "), and the transmission screw 68 does not.
- a rotation of the nut 62 causes an axial displacement of the nut 62 which, via the bearings 66, will cause an axial displacement of the casing 32 'which will itself, by the intermediate of the bearings 44, cause an axial displacement of the transmission screw 26.
- the shaft 60 and the rotor 30 (and the screw 26) move simultaneously in translation with the nut 62 and the housing 32 ".
- FIGS. 4a to 7b make it possible to explain in more detail the various operating cases of the system 22 'according to the invention.
- Figures 4a, 5a, 6a and 7a illustrate what happens at the two-degree of freedom assembly including transmission screw 68 and nut 62
- Figures 4b, 5b, 6b and 7b illustrate what occurs at the four degrees of freedom including the transmission screw 26 and the nut 28.
- Figures 4a and 4b illustrate a first case in which the blades must be feathered when the transmission screw 26 is operational (not blocked).
- the arrow in dashed lines surmounted by a cross represents the fixed transmission screw 68.
- the arrow 70 represents the torque Cm applied by the electric motor 52 to the nut 62.
- This torque Cm is decomposed into an axial component 70a and a radial component 70b.
- the radial component will be taken up by the transmission screw 68 and this will result in an axial force Fm which will generate a rotation 0m1 of the nut 62 and therefore a translation Xm1 thereof on the screw 68.
- Xm1 0m1 * 2 ⁇ .
- Figures 5a and 5b illustrate a second case in which the blades must be feathered when the transmission screw 26 is blocked.
- Figure 5a is similar to Figure 4a.
- the force Xm1 will not cause rotation of the screw 26 because of the locking of the latter.
- the feathering function can be ensured by the activation of the feathering means. If the screw 26 is blocked, the rotation of the propeller 10 will be transmitted not only to the nut 28 but also to the screw 26.
- Figures 6a and 6b illustrate a third case in which the pitch of the blades must be controlled when the nut 62 is blocked.
- the feathering function can be ensured by the activation of one of the two motors 40a, 40b. If the nut 62 is blocked, the translation of the housing 32 'is not possible also.
- the torque Cm developed by the motors 40a, 40b on the propeller side has an axial component. If this axial component is greater than the external force FH, this will result in an axial displacement of the nut 28 connected to the resultant and a 0m2 rotation.
- Figures 7a and 7b illustrate a fourth case in which the pitch of the blades must be controlled when the transmission screw 68 is operational (not locked).
- each transmission chain is dedicated to a function, one ensures that of feathering and the other that of the step control.
- each transmission chain is capable of providing both the feathering function and the step control function.
- Each transmission chain will include a machine dedicated to step control and a machine dedicated to feathering.
- This architecture will include four machines in all, an additional machine compared to the previous case. This option is proposed for the following advantages: - in case of short-circuiting of the machine of the control of step, one will activate the machine of the control of the step of the other chain of transmission; no over-sizing of the machines is therefore required to overcome the resistive torque generated by the short-circuiting of the pitch control machine;
- This electromechanical concept thanks to the natural redundancy of the transmission screw offers considerable reliability and robustness. To maintain a simple architecture, it is essential to be able to propose an architecture that does not include additional electrical device to release the locked screw. This electromechanical concept without additional electrical device avoids the addition of an additional source of failure in the system and also avoids the addition of dormant failures. This electromechanical concept has been studied in principle to cover all cases of failure.
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