Patents Assigned to Safran Transmission Systems
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Patent number: 11976786Abstract: An oil restrictor for emergency lubrication of a component for an aircraft turbine engine includes a metal cylindrical body having a longitudinal axis and configured to be housed in and shrink-fitted into a cylindrical bore of a part of the turbine engine. The restrictor further includes an integrated oil circuit enabling oil to pass through the restrictor along the axial extent thereof. The body is a one-piece body, and the circuit has at least two oil channels recessed on an outer cylindrical surface of the body and extending around and/or along the axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Alexis Claude Michel Dombek, Patrice Jocelyn Francis Gedin
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Patent number: 11970983Abstract: An arrangement for an aircraft turbine engine, including a shaft and a follower element rotatably coupled to the shaft by a spline connection, the arrangement including upstream and downstream connections for radially centring the follower element relative to the shaft; means for spraying a lubricant into a collection cavity; a passage for receiving lubricant, which passage opens into the collection cavity and into a cavity for lubricating the splines which is partially defined by the upstream and downstream radial centring connections; and a passage for discharging lubricant, which passage opens into the cavity for lubricating the splines and outside the arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Matthieu Bruno François Foglia, Serge René Morreale, Adrien Louis Simon
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Patent number: 11959418Abstract: An impeller (230) for a planet carrier of a planetary gear speed reducer of a turbomachine, is configured intended to be rotatably secured to the planet carrier and to be rotated about an axis A of the speed reducer. The impeller has an annular shape about the axis and includes lubrication means (43, 45, 238), in particular for lubricating bearings of planet gears of the speed reducer. The lubrication means include an annular cavity (238) situated at the inner periphery of the impeller. The impeller includes an inner peripheral wall (246) closing the cavity (238) in the radial direction, and the impeller includes an annular port (248) that extends around the axis and that opens in the axial direction into the cavity in order to supply it with lubricating oil.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Guillaume Patrice Kubiak, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Romain Guillaume Cuvillier, Simon Loïc Clément Lefebvre, Emmanuel Pierre Dimitri Patsouris, Didier Jean-Louis Yvon
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Publication number: 20240093773Abstract: An accessory gearbox houses at least one gear train with a series of pinions. The casing has two substantially flat and opposite parallel side walls between which are mounted support shafts for each of the pinions, each of which receives accessories, and which define in the enclosure an internal volume surrounding a shaft supporting at least one hybridization pinion. The gearbox receives at least one electric machine having a rotor and a stator, wherein the rotor of the electric machine is supported by the shaft supporting the hybridization pinion of the gear train, and the stator extends around the rotor in the internal volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Clément FALGUIERE, Clément Romain Aimé CADET, Florian Pierre-Yves CHAPUT, Raphaël Clément Stéphane MARTIN
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Publication number: 20240092480Abstract: A device for driving at least one wheel of an aircraft landing gear is provided. The device includes at least one wheel having a rim, an electric motor having a shaft, and a mechanical transmission system for mechanical transmission between the shaft of the motor and the rim. The mechanical transmission system includes a mechanical reduction gear. The mechanical reduction gear includes a sun gear secured in rotation to the shaft and having an external toothing, a stationary ring gear with internal toothing, a movable ring gear secured in rotation to the rim and having an internal toothing, and planet gears that are meshed with the sun gear and each have two external toothing meshed respectively with the toothing of the stationary and movable ring gears.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Maxime Fernandez, Yohan Douy, Loïc Francois, Boris Pierre Marcel Morelli, Jordane Emile André Peltier
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Patent number: 11933229Abstract: Speed reduction gear for an aircraft turbomachine. The reduction gear has a main axis and planet carrier having a cage and a cage carrier, a sun gear located in the cage and centred on the main axis, an annular row of planet gears arranged around the main axis and the sun gear and meshed with the sun gear, and a ring gear arranged around the axis and the cage and meshed with the planet gears. The cage and the cage carrier are connected to each other by connections whose bending flexibility is optimised.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Patrice Julien Ptaszynski, Antoine Jacques Marie Pennacino, Boris Pierre Marcel Morelli
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Publication number: 20240084876Abstract: A planet carrier for a speed reducer of an aircraft turbomachine, the planet carrier including a cage carrier and a cage. The cage can have two parts: a first part having a wall and bridges, these bridges projecting axially from a face of this wall and including first axial ends connected to this face and second free axial ends; and a second part having another of the walls, this other wall including a face to which the free ends of the bridges are applied. The two parts of the cage can be attached together by screws.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Guillaume Pierre MOULY, Guillaume Julien BECK, Patrice Julien PTASZYNSKI, Jean-Pierre SEREY, Adrien Louis SIMON
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Publication number: 20240084711Abstract: A plain bearing for a mechanical reducer for a turbomachine is integrally formed and includes a cylindrical body. The cylindrical body has an external cylindrical guide surface, a first axial mounting extension, a first circumferential edge extending around the first extension, a second axial mounting extension, and a second circumferential edge extending around the second extension. The plain bearing further includes an attachment cover connected to the first axial extension and extending axially opposite said first edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Bálint PAP, Cyrille CASTELOOT
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Publication number: 20240084712Abstract: A drive assembly for a mechanical reducer for a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, includes planet gears, a planet carrier having at least one transverse wall, plain bearings for guiding the planet gears in rotation, and an oil supply circuit for the plain bearings. The planet carrier has collars for attaching the planet gears to the at least one transverse wall, and each of the planet gears includes at least one external cylindrical surface for forming an oil film with an internal cylindrical surface portion of each of the collars for forming said oil film.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Bálint PAP, Clément JARROUX, Guillaume Pierre MOULY, Pierre-Damien TUNE
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Patent number: 11927215Abstract: A clevis, particularly for a turbomachine includes a body that is attachable to a casing and at least one aperture for fitting a hinge pin. The body is formed in one piece and includes, about the at least one aperture, a honeycomb-type annular portion. The annular portion acts as a vibration filter and has a compressive and/or flexural strain capacity greater than that of the rest of the body.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventor: Simon Pierre Mathieu Mabire
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Patent number: 11927139Abstract: A splined shaft includes splines evenly distributed over the periphery, wherein the splines being spaced apart from each other. At least one portion of the splines are spaced apart by a modified pitch p with respect to the nominal pitch pn of the splines. The ratio of the absolute value of the difference between the modified pitch and the nominal pitch, to the nominal pitch, i.e. |pn?p|/pn, is different from zero, for example between 0.5 and 5%.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Juan-Luis Marcos Izquierdo, Quentin Pierre Henri Pigott
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Patent number: 11927262Abstract: Lubrication device for a turbomachine reduction gear, the device comprising an annular lubricating oil collecting cup delimited by a first wall and a second wall, said cup being divided by internal walls extending between the first wall and the second wall so as to define a plurality of angular sectors forming oil collection basins, the basins being circumferentially adjacent around the axis and comprising lubricating oil outlets, characterized in that one or more of said internal walls have openings allowing oil to pass between the circumferentially adjacent basins, characterized in that said openings (58) are formed in one or more of said internal walls so as to define one or more rows of openings in said one or more internal walls.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Bálint Pap, Patrice Jocelyn Francis Gedin, Antoine Jacques Marie Pennacino
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Patent number: 11913385Abstract: A propulsion system includes a drive shaft that rotates about an axis, a fan, a fan shaft that drives the fan about the axis, a reduction mechanism coupling the drive and fan shafts, a compression section driven by the drive shaft, and an inlet channel that extends between the fan and the compression section. The inlet channel includes inner and outer ferrules delimiting an air inlet flow path, the inner ferrule having a minimum radius. The reduction mechanism includes two reduction stages including two or more planet gears circumferentially distributed around the axis, each planet gear including a first portion meshed with the drive shaft and a second portion meshed with the fan shaft and being mounted fixed with respect to the inner ferrule and having a maximum radius greater than the minimum radius such that the air inlet flow path extends partly between the two or more planet gears.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Caroline Marie Frantz, Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Matthieu Bruno François Foglia, Adrien Louis Simon
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Publication number: 20240043134Abstract: A propulsion assembly for an aircraft comprising at least two electric motors configured to be disposed in a wing of the aircraft and each comprising a rotor having a motor shaft movable about a motor axis, at least one propeller borne by a propeller shaft movable about a propeller axis and mechanically coupled to the motor shaft of the at least two electric motors, the propeller axis being perpendicular to the motor axis of the at least two electric motors.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Clément RAUCOULES, Boris Pierre Marcel MORELLI, Jordane Emile André PELTIER
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Patent number: 11867259Abstract: A mechanical gearbox for turbomachine, in particular for aircraft. The gearbox includes a sun gear including an external toothing, a ring gear including an internal toothing, and planet gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the stationary ring gear. The planet gears are carried by a movable planet carrier and each having external toothings of different diameters. The movable planet carrier includes a movable ring gear which carries an internal toothing and which is independent of the stationary ring gear, each of the planet gears being meshed with the sun gear and the stationary and movable ring gears.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Guillaume Pierre Mouly, Adrien Louis Simon, Dhafer Ghribi
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Patent number: 11859560Abstract: A power transmission module for an aircraft, the module including a torque input connected to a turbine shaft, a first torque output and a second torque output, the power transmission module including a mechanical reducer including a sun gear forming the torque input, and planet gears carried by a planet carrier, wherein each of the planet gears includes at least three independent toothings and further includes a first toothing meshed with the sun gear, a second toothing meshed with an element forming one of the torque outputs, and a third toothing meshed with another element.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Guillaume Pierre Mouly, Adrien Louis Simon, Guillaume Julien Beck, Simon Loic Clement Lefebvre
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Publication number: 20230407765Abstract: Lubrication module for at least one lubrication station of a turbomachine, the lubrication module comprising at least one positive displacement pump including a pump body delimiting a main chamber configured to be in fluid communication with a main lubrication circuit and an auxiliary chamber configured to be in fluid communication with an auxiliary lubrication circuit, and a piston movably mounted in the pump body between an inactive configuration and an active configuration, the piston being configured to perform, in the active configuration, a pumping movement between a top dead center and a bottom dead center by cooperation with a cam of a shaft of the turbomachine and, in the inactive configuration, not to cooperate with the cam of the shaft of the turbomachine, the positive displacement pump including a return element configured to return the piston to the active configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventor: Abdallah BADIDI
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Publication number: 20230383698Abstract: A propulsion system includes a drive shaft that rotates about an axis, a fan, a fan shaft that drives the fan about the axis, a reduction mechanism coupling the drive and fan shafts, a compression section driven by the drive shaft, and an inlet channel that extends between the fan and the compression section. The inlet channel includes inner and outer ferrules delimiting an air inlet flow path, the inner ferrule having a minimum radius. The reduction mechanism includes two reduction stages including two or more planet gears circumferentially distributed around the axis, each planet gear including a first portion meshed with the drive shaft and a second portion meshed with the fan shaft and being mounted fixed with respect to the inner ferrule and having a maximum radius greater than the minimum radius such that the air inlet flow path extends partly between the two or more planet gears.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Caroline Marie FRANTZ, Gilles Alain Marie CHARIER, Matthieu Bruno Francois FOGLIA, Adrien Louis SIMON
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Publication number: 20230356858Abstract: A pre-assembly method for an aircraft turbomachine, having preliminary assembling, outside the turbomachine, the following components with each other a reduction gear configured to transmit a rotation between at least two rotors of the turbomachine while modifying the speed and torque ratio from one to the other of said at least two rotors, a shaft kinematically coupled to the reduction gear and configured to be kinematically coupled to one of said at least two rotors, a bearing support, and at least one bearing mounted on the bearing support and configured to rotatably support the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Adrien Louis SIMON, Guillaume Julien BECK, Yohan DOUY, Jordane Emile André PELTIER, Jérémy David SEBAN
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Patent number: 11808344Abstract: A planet carrier for a mechanical gearbox for a turbomachine includes a one-piece cage that extends about an axis of rotation defining an internal housing configured to receive a sun gear and planet gears of the gearbox. The planet carrier further includes a lubrication system with at least one bore formed in the cage and extending parallel to the axis over more than 30% of a maximum axial dimension (Lmax) of the cage. The lubrication system also includes for the at least one bore, at least two sprinklers which are fitted to the cage and which are each mounted in a recess of the cage.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Guillaume Pierre Mouly, Frederic Nicolas François Laisnez, Adrien Louis Simon