Abstract: Air bleed device for cooling components in a turbine engine, including an annular conduit (18) having a substantially rectangular cross-section formed in a housing (12) and having a radially internal wall (22) swept by an airflow (24), and which comprises at least one air inlet orifice (20), a flap valve (40) for controlling the airflow entering through the orifice (20), formed by a plate (44) borne by a maneuvering member (50) mobile in translation parallel to the axis (21) of the orifice (20) between a position in which the plate (44) closes off said orifice and a position in which the plate (44) opens said orifice.

Abstract: Air bleed device for cooling components in a turbine engine, including an annular conduit (18) having a radially internal portion swept by an airflow (22) and which comprises at least one air inlet orifice (20) formed in an upstream radial wall (38) of the conduit (18), a flap valve (40) for controlling the airflow entering through the orifice (20) and of which the flapper (41) includes a plate (42) applied against the wall (38) and capable of being moved by sliding on said wall (38) by a maneuvering member (50) mobile in translation parallel to the wall (38) between a position in which the plate (42) closes off the orifice (20) and a position in which the plate (42) opens said orifice.

Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine combustion chamber having an inner wall, an outer wall surrounding the inner wall so as to co-operate therewith to define a space forming a combustion area, a transverse wall interconnecting the inner and outer walls, and fuel injection systems. The inner wall has a plurality of inner steps each extending radially towards the outside of the inner wall, the circumferential spacing between two adjacent inner steps defining an inner cavity. The outer wall includes a plurality of outer steps each extending radially towards the inside of the outer wall, the circumferential spacing between two adjacent inner steps defining an outer cavity. At least some of the inner and outer cavities are fed with air from outside the combustion chamber in a common direction that is circumferential, and with fuel in a direction that is radial.

Abstract: Injection system of a turbojet engine. It comprises a fixed part and a sliding crossmember. The sliding crossmember comprises a flange capable of sliding on the sliding surface of the fixed part. The fixed part comprises antirotation means and the sliding crossmember of the complementary antirotation means to limit the rotation of the sliding crossmember relative to the fixed part. These means consist of at least one cutout formed in the flange and of at least one lug protruding into said at least one cutout of the flange of the sliding crossmember.

Abstract: A diffuser-nozzle assembly mounted at the outlet from a centrifugal compressor comprising a plurality of vanes carried by a radially inner wall forming a surface of revolution and surrounded by an outer casing, elastically deformable means being interposed between the radially outer ends of the vanes of the nozzle and the outer casing, these means preventing air from passing between the outer casing and the radially outer ends of the vanes.

Abstract: The invention applies to the field of turbomachines and relates to a combustion chamber in which the supply of dilution air and cooling air is optimized. The invention is concerned more particularly with optimizing the position of the dilution holes present on the walls of the combustion chamber.

Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine combustion chamber having an inner wall, an outer wall surrounding the inner wall so as to co-operate therewith to define a space forming a combustion area, a transverse wall interconnecting the inner and outer walls, and fuel injection systems. The inner wall has a plurality of inner steps each extending radially towards the outside of the inner wall, the circumferential spacing between two adjacent inner steps defining an inner cavity. The outer wall includes a plurality of outer steps each extending radially towards the inside of the outer wall, the circumferential spacing between two adjacent inner steps defining an outer cavity. At least some of the inner and outer cavities are fed with air from outside the combustion chamber in a common direction that is circumferential, and with fuel in a direction that is radial.

Abstract: A turbomachine comprising: an annular combustion chamber (40) with injection orifices (44); a centrifugal compressor (10) having a centrifugal downstream stage; and an annular diffuser (20) comprising: a radially-oriented upstream portion (21) with diffusion passages (22) connected to the outlet of the compressor; an elbow-shaped intermediate portion (24); and a downstream portion (25) comprising a series of flow-straightening vanes (26) and inclined relative to the axis (A) of the turbomachine. In the section plane containing the axis (A) of the turbomachine and passing via the center (C) of one of said injection orifices (44), the curvilinear abscissa distance along a flow line (L) between the middle (O) of the flow path at the trailing edges of the flow-straightening vanes (26) and said center (C) is greater than or equal to three times the height (h) of said flow path.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a baffle (10) for the bottom of a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine, comprising a flat portion of wall (10a) with an opening for an injector of the combustion chamber to pass through, two longitudinal edges (10c, 10d) for the assembly to two adjacent baffles and two transverse edges (10e, 10f), wherein at least one of the edges comprises a joint cover (10d1) arranging a housing (10d10) along said edge for an edge (10?c) of an adjacent baffle (10?) so as to seal the junction between the two edges. The invention also relates to a combustion chamber incorporating said baffles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine combustion chamber comprising an inner annular wall, an outer annular wall surrounding the inner wall so as to co-operate therewith to define an annular space forming a combustion area, a plurality of fuel injector systems comprising pilot injectors alternating circumferentially with full-throttle injectors, and at least one air admission opening out into the upstream end of the combustion area in a substantially longitudinal direction. The outer wall has a plurality of pilot cavities extending between the two longitudinal ends of the outer wall and extending radially towards thereof, the pilot cavities being fed with air from outside the combustion chamber in a common substantially circumferential direction. Each pilot injector opens out radially into a pilot cavity, and each full-throttle injector opens out radially between two adjacent pilot cavities.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas turbine engine diffuser (30) defined between an external casing (32) and an internal casing (34) of said engine and supplied with air via an upstream annular diffuser duct (36), comprising a combustion chamber (10) of the convergent type, forming an external annular duct (28) with the external casing (32) and an internal annular duct with the internal casing (34), which diffuser comprises a cowling partially closing off the external annular duct. More specifically, the cowling is positioned toward the closed end of the combustion chamber.

Abstract: A system for cooling the impeller of a centrifugal compressor in a turbomachine, this compressor (10) supplying an annular diffuser (12) comprising an end-piece (26) that extends downstream and along the impeller of the compressor and that is covered on the upstream side by an annular metal sheet (90) that delimits, with the impeller of the compressor, a first annular passageway (39) to carry away the air taken from the outlet of the compressor and, with the end-piece of the diffuser, a second annular passageway (98) to carry away a portion of the air flow coming out of the diffuser.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for injecting an air/fuel mixture into a combustion chamber, which is to be mounted within a restricted space. This injection device (20) comprises a bowl (70) having an external cylindrical wall (73) continued at its downstream end by a divergent section (74) provided, downstream, with a collar (75) having the form of a ring extending radially outward, the divergent section of the bowl being connected, immediately upstream of the flange, by a connecting wall (76) to a cylindrical ring (77), the cylindrical ring and the connecting wall forming a connection rim oriented in the upstream direction. At least one row of vortex holes (79) is formed in the external cylindrical wall, close to its upstream end, and the connecting wall of the connection rim of the bowl is provided with a row of cooling orifices (81) inclined axially at an angle y to the axis of symmetry of the injection device.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for a turbomachine combustion chamber, comprising a chamber end wall pierced by at least one substantially circular opening, a deflector mounted from the downstream side of the chamber end wall in the opening by means of an annulus, an injector system associated with the opening and including an annular bowl that is flared downstream, passing through said opening, and means enabling the injector system to shift off-center relative to the chamber end wall, the deflector including an annular collar extending radially inwards, and the bowl of the injector system including at its downstream end an outwardly-open annular groove radially in alignment with the collar of the deflector in such a manner as to enable it to retract into said groove in the event of the injector system shifting off-center relative to the chamber end wall.