Patents Assigned to Aircelle
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Patent number: 9777598Abstract: A nacelle includes an outer structure provided with a thrust reverser and a front frame, a movable cowl, and an inner structure covering a downstream section of a turbojet engine. The outer structure and the inner structure define a flow stream of an air flow. In particular, the connection of the front frame and diversion cascade of the thrust reverser which is mounted on a reduced transverse section area of the movable cowl is centered on an axis offset relative to an axis on which the connection of the front frame and the diversion cascade mounted on the remainder of the periphery of the movable cowl is centered.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: AIRCELLEInventors: Jean-Philippe Joret, Xavier Bouteiller, Xavier Cazuc, Pierre Caruel
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Patent number: 9777670Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a nacelle for a dual-flow turbojet engine includes a cold airstream having a non-constant cross-section over the periphery of the nacelle, such that at least one flap is radially offset with respect to the central axis of the turbojet engine, relative to the adjacent flaps. The system for driving the radially offset flaps is suitable for ensuring that the kinematics of the flaps are offset relative to the kinematics of the flaps mounted along the remainder of the periphery of the airstream.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: AIRCELLEInventor: Pierre Caruel
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Patent number: 9772616Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a drilling robot and a method for controlling a drilling robot including a driven mechanical structure allowing to place a drilling tool in a sequence of drillings programmed in terms of position and orientation of the drilling of a part such as a technical skin. The method includes a step of determining the acceleration of the drilling tool at the end of the approach on a drilling position, then also testing a stabilization condition of the drilling tool to finally establish a drilling authorization.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: AIRCELLEInventors: Maxime Coin, Denis Ramage
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Patent number: 9701413Abstract: A locking device between a first structure and a second structure includes a bolt to lock the first and second structures, an indicator as to whether the bolt has locked/unlocked the structures, and a connecting system. The bolt includes a lock bolt attached to the first structure and able to engage a hook which is attached to the second structure. In particular, the connecting system connects the bolt with the lock bolt to the indicator, and the hook is mounted such that it can move between a first position in which it is engaged with the lock bolt and allows the indicator to be locked, and a second position in which the hook is free of the lock bolt and allows the indicator to be unlocked.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: AIRCELLEInventors: Fabrice Provost, Pascal Soulier
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Patent number: 9677502Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a turbojet engine nacelle equipped with at least one thrust reverser. The thrust reverser includes: two half-cowls forming an outer cowl which is articulated on hinges and translates between closed and open positions, a first actuator to translationally actuate a downstream frame, a second actuator to rotationally actuate each half-cowl, and a lock capable of locking or unlocking the half-cowls relative to one another. In particular, the thrust reverser includes cascades vanes supported at their upstream end by an upstream frame and at their downstream end by the downstream frame, and a connector between the downstream frame and the external cowl. The cascade vanes are enclosed in a shroud formed by a fan casing and a fan cowl.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: AIRCELLEInventor: Pierre Caruel
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Patent number: 9670874Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a seal for an aircraft turbojet engine nacelle thrust reverser, the seal having body having a cross section with respect to a longitudinal axis of the seal that is substantially circular, and a base which is intended to be mounted in a seal support. The seal is notable in that the base of said seal has apertures spaced from each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2016Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: AIRCELLEInventor: Fabrice Provost
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Patent number: 9670798Abstract: A turbojet engine nacelle includes a rear section having an internal structure. The internal structure surrounds a rear part of an engine compartment and delimits, with an ejection jet pipe, an outlet cross section for the ventilation of the engine compartment. The engine nacelle includes a moving element associated with a corresponding controller. The moving element is able to move between a withdrawn position in which the outlet cross section for ventilation is at a maximum and an engaged position in which the moving element partially reduces the outlet cross section for ventilation by comparison with the retracted position. The controller is capable of moving the moving element between the retracted and engaged positions.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2013Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: AIRCELLEInventors: Guy Bernard Vauchel, Laurence Lemains
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Patent number: 9670878Abstract: A cellular acoustic structure for a turbojet engine includes a closed wall. The closed wall includes at least two faces having acoustically transparent areas and acoustic reflective areas. The closed wall is filled with a plurality of cells, and the acoustic reflective areas are disposed within the closed wall so that an acoustic path of aerial sound vibrations travels through the acoustically transparent areas, penetrates inside the cells and reflects on the acoustic reflective areas. In particular, the acoustic path in some of the cells has a depth greater than a half of the thickness of the cellular acoustic structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: AIRCELLEInventors: Xavier Cazuc, Jean-Philippe Joret
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Patent number: 9617955Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cascade thrust reverser providing that when a sliding cowl and a flap are in a direct jet position, a hook is held in engagement with another hook and the flap is immobilized inside of a housing of the sliding cowl by a stem of a telescopic connecting rod subjected to pre-stress generated by a compressed spring located in the body of the connecting rod. When the sliding cowl starts to slide from the direct jet position toward the reverse jet position, the hooks disengage each other and the stem engages with an extension in the body of the connecting rod, so that the flap is rotated from the direct jet position toward the reverse jet position due to the tensile force exerted by the stem.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: AIRCELLEInventors: Vincent Peyron, Laurent Georges Valleroy, Franck Depoortere
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Patent number: 9611807Abstract: A gas ejection cone includes a cylindrical-shaped front cone portion, a conical-shaped rear cone portion, a ventilation tube and a support bearing of this drainage and/or ventilation tube. The ventilation tube extends inside the cylindrical-shaped front and conical-shaped rear cone portions and emerges at the end of the conical-shaped rear cone portion. In particular, the conical-shaped rear cone portion includes a front sub-portion connected to the cylindrical-shaped front cone portion, and a rear sub-portion removably secured to the front sub-portion. The rear sub-portion is further equipped with an outlet port of the ventilation tube.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: AIRCELLEInventors: Pascal-Marie Paul Marcel Soulier, Jean-Bernard Guillon, Jean-Pierre Guegou
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Patent number: 9593644Abstract: A control device for a thrust reverser of a turbojet engine nacelle, which includes movable portions actuated by actuators, includes: a first blocking control acting on a motor-actuated system; and a second blocking control acting, mechanically, on the movable portions. The second blocking control may inhibit, when activated, a deployment of the movable portions. The control device further includes a device inhibiting disengagement of the first blocking control when a mechanical control is activated.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: AIRCELLEInventors: Jean-Philippe Joret, Pascal Soulier, Vincent Taddei
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Patent number: 9587584Abstract: A thrust reverser device for an aircraft includes at least two thrust reversers, and each of them includes a movable cowl movably actuated by an actuator driven by an electric motor. The electric motor is powered by a single power-conversion module including at least one autotransformer which is supplied with an alternating electric voltage and connected to at least one rectifier stage converting the alternating electric voltage into a direct voltage. The rectifier stage is connected to a current balancing stage and a current smoothing stage, supplying with the direct voltage the electric motor of the electric actuator of the movable cowl.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: AIRCELLEInventors: Hakim Maalioune, Alain Nourrisson
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Patent number: 9587583Abstract: A turbojet engine nacelle has a thrust reverser device and an actuating system for said thrust reverser device, and the thrust reverser device includes a moving cowl mounted translatably alternating between a closed position and an open position, and a jet nozzle section for gases that extends the moving cowl. In particular, the jet nozzle section includes a nozzle flap mounted movable between a closed position and an open position in which the nozzle flap opens a leakage passage toward the outside of the nozzle section. The actuating system has an actuator shared with the moving cowl and the nozzle flap to activate the translational movement of the moving cowl and to pivot the nozzle flap between three following positions: an idle position, an open position of the nozzle flap and an open position of the moving cowl.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: AIRCELLEInventors: Pierre Caruel, Patrick Gonidec, Patrick Boileau
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Patent number: 9562595Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a double-acting linear actuator for moving an inner part and an outer part of a cowl relative to a fixed frame. The linear actuator includes a first tubular body housing a first drive shaft and a second tubular body housing a second drive shaft. In particular, the first and second tubular bodies are mounted in series by the second drive shaft which is mounted on the first tubular body. The second drive shaft translates the second tubular body relative to the first tubular body when a lock of the first tubular body is in a locked position, and the first drive shaft translates both the first tubular and second tubular bodies when the lock is in an unlocked position.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: AIRCELLEInventors: Pierre Caruel, Pierre Moradell-Casellas
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Patent number: 9555586Abstract: A method of fabricating a connecting rod (6) out of composite material using three-dimensional fabric of woven reinforcing fibers, the connecting rod (6) extending in a main direction. The method comprises the steps of: cutting out one or more base pieces (7, 8) from a three-dimensional fabric; cutting out one or more reinforcing pieces (9, 10) from a three-dimensional fabric; installing the various pieces (7, 8, 9, 10) on a support in order to shape them; securing the various pieces (7, 8, 9, 10) to one another by stitching (12, 13, 14, 15) using reinforcing fibers in order to constitute a reinforcing fiber preform; installing the preform on a mandrel; and injecting resin into the preform and polymerizing the resin.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignees: MESSIER-BUGATTI-DOWTY, AIRCELLEInventors: Masson Richard, Garnier Gildas, Desjoyeaux Bertrand
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Publication number: 20170022934Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: AIRCELLEInventors: Pierre CARUEL, Thiery LE DOCTE
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Publication number: 20170022935Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: AIRCELLEInventors: HUE Corentin, Rodolphe DENIS, Denis GUILLOIS, Sarah TISSOT
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Publication number: 20170016412Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicant: AIRCELLEInventors: Patrick BOILEAU, Olivier KERBLER
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Publication number: 20160376735Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Applicant: AIRCELLEInventors: Julien LORRILLARD, Bertrand DESJOYEAUX, Michael ROGNANT, Benjamin PROVOST
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Patent number: 9518509Abstract: The present disclosure related to a method for manufacturing a structure with cellular cores that can be used in a structural panel of a turbojet nacelle, including at least one block of cellular cores. The at least one block of cellular cores includes a central portion with core honeycomb cells, and two side portions each including side honeycomb cells. The side honeycomb cells have edge honeycomb cells situated on edges of a side part of a block, and adjacent honeycomb cells. In particular, the method includes: A) forming junction walls on the side honeycomb cells by opening the edge honeycomb cells, the junction walls being capable of interacting for forming a junction area; B) unfolding the junction walls thus formed in step A; and C) joining the junction walls thus unfolded in step B and belonging to two different side portions end-to-end.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: AIRCELLEInventors: Bertrand Desjoyeaux, Thierry Deschamps, John Moutier