Patents Assigned to Aircelle
  • Patent number: 10669971
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for a turbojet engine nacelle includes movable cowls which move backward relative to a front frame under the action of an actuation system, thereby making flaps tilt, via a control mechanism, so as to substantially close the annular cold air flow path, and by opening cascades disposed around this flow path and which receive the cold air flow and return it forward. When the thrust reverser is closed, the cascades are partially integrated in the cowls, and the thrust reverser includes an actuation system which makes the cascades move backward along a stroke which is shorter than the stroke of the cowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventor: Pierre Caruel
  • Patent number: 10655250
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a shape-woven preform which has an omega-shaped cross-section including a core and a sole. At least one part of the core and at least one part of the sole have weft yarns in common with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Aircelle
    Inventors: Julien Lorrillard, Bertrand Desjoyeaux, Michel Rognant, Benjamin Provost
  • Patent number: 10619598
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a nacelle for an aircraft engine, which includes a thrust reverser cowling that is slidably mounted between a direct jet position, and a reversed jet position in which the cowling opens a passage in the nacelle and uncovers a deflection device, and at least one actuator for moving the cowling. The nozzle section of the cowling delimits at least one opening that is combined with a leakage door, the leakage door being movably mounted on the cowling between a closed position in which the door engages with the associated opening to counteract the flow of air through said opening, and an open escape position in which the door is retracted to allow a portion of the air flow to flow through said opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Peter Segat, Sarah Tissot, Xavier Bouteiller
  • Patent number: 10605196
    Abstract: A door-type thrust reverser device for a turbojet engine nacelle is provided that includes a fixed structure, a mobile structure mobile with respect to said fixed structure, and at least one door mounted with the ability to pivot via pivots between a retracted position corresponding to the nacelle operating in direct-jet mode, and a deployed position corresponding to the nacelle operating in reverser-jet mode. The thrust reverser device includes a device for bleeding off some of a secondary or bypass airflow, which device is able to bleed off part of the secondary airflow from a duct through which the secondary airflow circulates and for conveying said bled-off airflow toward at least one pivot of the door, so as to cool areas on and/or around the door pivots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Pierre Caruel, Thiery Le Docte
  • Patent number: 10544754
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a thrust reverser device for a turbo jet engine nacelle including a fixed thrust reverser support structure having a longitudinal support half beam able to support a thrust reverser half-cowl, and the thrust reverser half-cowl mounted such that it can slide on the fixed structure in a direction substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the device via a guidance assembly, between a direct-jet position and a reverse-thrust position. In particular, the fixed structure includes a structure for offsetting the guidance assembly that guides the half-cowl circumferentially in a plane radial to the longitudinal axis between its various positions with respect to the half-beam on which the half-cowl is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Serge Bunel, Alexandre Bellanger
  • Patent number: 10532820
    Abstract: A de-icing device is provided that includes a piccolo tube integrated with a front bulkhead for limiting an inner volume of a perforated front lip. The piccolo tube is in contact with a noise reduction cellular structure provided with perforations and hot air circulation channels delivered by the piccolo tube, the de-icing hot air being diffused through the perforations and channels of the cellular structure, on the perforations facing the front lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Aircelle
    Inventor: Pierre Caruel
  • Patent number: 10443542
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for locking the position of the flaps of a thrust reverser of a turbojet nacelle, said flaps being controlled by actuators, each one swinging about a tranverse pivot in order to partially close off the air stream so as to guide it forwards, further including locks for locking the flaps in an intermediate opening position, between the closed position and the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Corentin Hue, Rodolphe Denis, Denis Guillois, Sarah Tissot
  • Patent number: 10309340
    Abstract: A thrust reverser of a bypass turbojet engine nacelle is disclosed, which includes movable cowls that move backwards with respect to a fixed front structure to uncover thrust reverser cascades and a variable secondary nozzle connected to the movable cowls by guide means allowing an axial sliding of the system which controls the movement of this variable secondary nozzle, wherein it includes cylinders bearing on the front structure for controlling reversal means of the displacement direction connected to the movable cowls, which move the variable secondary nozzle backwards when these cylinders output a forward stroke, as well as blocking devices which connect the secondary nozzle to the movable cowls when this nozzle is deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Patrick Boileau, Olivier Kerbler
  • Patent number: 10294822
    Abstract: A nacelle of a turbine engine includes an external cowling, an internal cowling, and a heat exchanger associated with at least one circulation duct for a fluid. In particular, the circulation duct forms a recirculation loop through the heat exchanger, and the recirculation loop includes at least one circulation area extending at least partially along the external cowling in contact with a wall of the external cowling so as to allow exchange of heat by conduction with the air outside the nacelle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Pierre Caruel, Franck Zaganelli, Patrick Gonidec, Olivier Kerbler
  • Patent number: 10214293
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aircraft element including a leading edge section and a trailing edge section, and the leading edge section includes an anti-frost treatment device. This aircraft element is remarkable in that the trailing edge section includes a superhydrophobic surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Audrey Riquet, Caroline Coat-Lenzotti
  • Patent number: 10189095
    Abstract: A device for drilling an acoustic component including a drilling head, and the drilling head has a support unit including at least two autonomous drilling cassettes. Each cassette includes at least one drill bit, a stationary frame with respect to the support unit, and a bit support moveable along the main axis (?) of the cassette between a retracted position and a deployed position. In particular, each bit support is equipped with a device for sensing the skin of the acoustic component to be drilled allowing to automatically control the drilling depth of the bits of each cassette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Denis Ramage, Didier Barbarit
  • Patent number: 10190538
    Abstract: A thrust reverser device for an aircraft turbojet engine includes: a movable cowl, translating cascades connected to the movable cowl, a mast; and a front suspension to suspend the turbojet engine. The cascades translates between a direct jet position where the cascades are retracted in a fan casing, and an indirect jet position where the cascades are brought out of the fan casing. In particular, the cascades have a sliding connection with the mast by means of at least one spacer connected to the mast downstream of the front suspension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Patrick Boileau, Peter Segat, Pierre Caruel, Sarah Tissot
  • Patent number: 10167815
    Abstract: A thrust reverser of a turbofan pod is provided that includes movable cowlings that retract relative to stationary front structure to reveal stationary or movable thrust reverser cascades, as well as a secondary variable nozzle section connected to the movable cowlings by guiding means enabling movement controlled by actuators engaged with the front structure to apply an axial thrust. The actuators are directly connected to the secondary nozzle, and in that the thrust reverser comprises latches connected to the movable cowlings, having two positions providing, alternately, latching onto the front structure or latching onto the control of the secondary nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Patrick Boileau, Olivier Kerbler
  • Patent number: 10125683
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device for de-icing an air inlet lip of an aircraft nacelle. The device includes a pre-exchanger, an intake orifice of taking in low-pressure air downstream from a fan, and two high-pressure air intake orifices downstream from a compressor in addition to controlled valves and check valves installed in an air flow network. In particular, the pre-exchanger includes a low-pressure air outlet capable of opening into the air inlet lip of the aircraft nacelle via a pipe of the air flow network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Pierre Caruel, Hervé Hurlin
  • Patent number: 10125721
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a turbojet engine nacelle having a downstream section including a cowl which is ended with a hinged flap constituting a nozzle. In particular, the hinged flap is hingedly and translatably hinged to the cowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Olivier Kerbler, Olivier Gilo, Patrick Gonidec
  • Patent number: 10118710
    Abstract: An unducted fan for an aircraft turbine engine, including a propeller having a hub and an annular array of blades extending substantially radially outwards from the hub, is provided. The hub includes an annular array of cowls, each of which is mounted between the radially inner ends of the blades and suitable for being fixed to an upstream collar and to a downstream collar of the hub. At least one cowl includes, at a circumferential end, a joint edge which is contiguous with a complementary joint edge of an adjacent cowl. The at least one cowl and at least one of the upstream and downstream collars are configured so that the cowl can be mounted and dismounted by a movement including a pivoting about an initial pivot axis circumferentially separated from the at least one joint edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Charles-Henri Michel Marie Derrez, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Sebastien Marcelino Juste, Cyril Roger Yves Le Pecheur, Michel Pierre Rognant
  • Patent number: 10113506
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a nozzle for an aircraft turboprop engine with an unducted fan, including: an inner wall, an outer wall radially spaced apart from the inner wall and concentric with the inner wall, a junction area of the inner and outer walls including an opening contained in a plane transverse to a longitudinal axis of the nozzle. In particular, the junction area of the inner and outer walls includes two connecting plates and a member to secure the two connecting plates together, or in another form, the junction area includes a pad secured to the inner wall, and a pad secured to the outer wall, facing the pad of the inner wall of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Hélène Malot, Jean-Pierre Guegou, Philippe Bienvenu, Philippe Prunin
  • Patent number: 10087842
    Abstract: A turbojet engine nacelle includes a fixed structure, which has a fan casing of the turbojet engine and a front frame mounted downstream of the fan casing and directly or indirectly supporting cascade vanes. The front frame is able to collaborate with a thrust reverser cowling sliding between a closed position covering the flow-diverting means and an open position exposing this flow-diverting means. At least one reinforcing structure of the engine nacelle transmits load between the fan casing and the front frame. The reinforcing structure extends along the longitudinal axis of the nacelle and supports a third line of defense and/or an inhibiting device between the front frame and the thrust reverser cowling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventor: Pierre Caruel
  • Patent number: 10087841
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aircraft nacelle including: an outer aerodynamic wall having an upstream air intake lip; an inner aerodynamic wall, the air intake lip connecting the two outer and inner aerodynamic skins; a front wall arranged downstream of the air intake lip and connecting the two outer and inner aerodynamic skins; and a network for the circulation of a first fluid for cooling a second fluid. The network includes two air/oil-type heat exchangers, one air/air type heat exchanger, an air scoop to collect air from the outside of the nacelle, an orifice to collect cold air, and an outlet orifice to discharge air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventor: Pierre Caruel
  • Patent number: 10087781
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a centering device for a nacelle of a turbojet engine providing the flush centering of an outer downstream panel of a thrust reverser with respect to a cowl of a fan casing. The centering device includes, in one single piece: a sub plate allowing the fixing of the centering device to the fan casing; a first positioning arm integrally formed with the sub plate, protruding upstream, in such a manner as to form, with respect to a directing axis (A) of the nacelle; a first radial abutment designed for guiding the cowl of the fan casing; and a second positioning arm, integrally formed with the sub plate, protruding downstream, in such a manner as to form, with respect to the directing axis (A) of the nacelle, a second radial abutment designed for guiding the outer downstream panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Hazem Kioua, Xavier Raymond Yves Lore, Olivier Conet, Xavier Holay