Patents Assigned to SAFRAN
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Publication number: 20240133302Abstract: The turbomachine subassembly comprises:—at least one tow-pressure nozzle ring, the nozzle ring comprising a root (38) integral with the nozzle ring;—a clamp (40) configured so as to fasten the root to a casing of the turbomachine; and—at least two pads (150) interposed between the root and the clamp, each pad being assembled in a form-fitting manner with one of either the root or the clamp.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Alice Marie CLEMENT, Paul GRANDIN, Clément MARCHAND, Vijeay PATEL, Mireya SANCHEZ GOMEZ
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Publication number: 20240133346Abstract: An accessory gearbox for an aircraft turbine engine having a radial shaft connecting a high-pressure body of the turbine engine to a gear train having at least one mixed shaft coupled to a high-speed device. The accessory gearbox has a clutch system having a low-speed motor mounted thereon and configured to mate with the mixed shaft such that: in an engaged position of the clutch, the low-speed motor is coupled to the mixed shaft so as to drive the high-pressure body at low speed when the turbine engine is stationary and, in a disengaged position of the clutch, the low-speed motor is decoupled from the mixed shaft so as to be protected when the turbine engine is in operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventor: Frédéric Dautreppe
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Publication number: 20240133304Abstract: A sub-assembly for a low-pressure compressor of an aircraft turbine engine includes a straightener provided with cantilevered vanes and a rotor hub having a cavity covered by an inner shroud opposite the vanes. Orifices are made in the inner shroud to allow an air flow to circulate in the downstream to upstream direction of the low-pressure compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERSInventor: Stéphane HIERNAUX
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Publication number: 20240131457Abstract: A method for generating an alarm is implemented by an alarm-generating device installed in an aircraft. It comprises: a step of obtaining information delivered by a sensor of said device and representative of an oil flow rate inside an oil filter of the aircraft; a step of obtaining a temperature delivered by a sensor of said device and representative of a temperature of the oil inside said filter; a step of obtaining a differential pressure at said filter; and a step of generating an alarm if the differential pressure exceeds an alarm threshold obtained on the basis of said information and of said temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Jean-Louis MULLER, Thibault Maxime Adrien MALLET
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Publication number: 20240133300Abstract: Assembly for a turbomachine blade, comprising: a fastener (9) defining a pocket (10) for receiving a blade root (11), and comprising two flanks defining between them a passage leading into the pocket (10) and forming stops preventing the root (11) from exiting from the pocket (10) via the passage, a shim (26a, 26b) adapted to be received in the pocket (10) with the root (11), the shim (26a, 26b) having a first support surface (28a, 28b) to bear on the root (11) and a second support surface (30a, 30b) opposite the first support surface (28a, 28b) to bear against the fastener (9), the support surfaces being fixed relative to each other and oriented such that movement of the shim (26a, 26b) in the pocket (10) relative to the fastener (9) varies the value of force exerted by the shim (26a, 26b) on the root (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2020Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Vivien Mickaël COURTIER, Christophe Paul JACQUEMARD, Vincent JOUDON
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Publication number: 20240132204Abstract: An uplock for retaining a capture pin of a movable part includes a hook that is movable between a release position and a retaining position, a locking part that interacts with the hook and is movable between a locking position and an unlocking position, and a detector. The detector includes a first sensor for detecting whether the hook is in the retaining position, and a second sensor for detecting a presence of the mobile part in the immediate vicinity of the uplock in the position occupied by the mobile part when the capture pin is in the hook.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMSInventors: Ludovic DUFAY, Michel ARBENTZ, Vincent PASCAL
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Publication number: 20240133311Abstract: A distributor for a turbine of a turbomachine. The distributor includes a radially inner platform, a blade and a root which is coated with a track made of an abradable material. According to the invention, the distributor includes a leakage gas reintroduction duct. The duct includes an inlet through the track made of an abradable material, an outlet opening through a downstream surface of the root, and a duct intermediate portion which extends from the inlet up to the outlet. The duct intermediate portion is orientated with a tangential component.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Jérôme Claude George LEMONNIER, Franck Davy BOISNAULT, Antoine Bruno VAN NOORT
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Publication number: 20240133339Abstract: A propulsion unit including: a gas generator including a compressor, a combustion chamber, a turbine, at least two compressed-air propulsion modules, each propulsion module including: a fan, a compressed-air turbine configured to drive the rotation of the fan, a manifold allowing the respective turbines of the compressed-air propulsion modules to be supplied with compressed air, wherein the manifold is configured to collect and mix: at least a portion of the flow that has passed through the combustion chamber of the gas generator, typically as it leaves the turbine, and at least one bypass flow, the bypass flow being a flow of air which is not passed through the combustion chamber of the gas generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2020Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DE L'AERONAUTIQUE ET DE L'ESPAC, SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Miguel Angel AGUIRRE, Sébastien DUPLAA, Bernard ROBIC, Benoit RODRIGUEZ, Nicolas Jérôme Jean TANTOT
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Publication number: 20240133306Abstract: A turbine engine nozzle extending about an axis and including a vane assembly mounted between an outer shroud and an inner shroud; and a position retaining device configured to be placed in an elastically prestressed state between the inner shroud and an inner platform of the vane assembly to apply a stress on the vane assembly towards the outer shroud. The contact between the inner shroud and the inner platform is obtained by one same surface of the position retaining device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN CERAMICSInventors: Sébastien Serge Francis CONGRATEL, Aurélien GAILLARD, Matthieu Arnaud GIMAT, Clément JARROSSAY, David René Pierre LE CAIR
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Publication number: 20240136248Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a power electronics apparatus. The power electronics apparatus includes at least a first electrically conductive element and a second electrically conductive element. The elements are intended to be at a first electrical potential and at a second electrical potential, respectively. At least a first and second power electronics components are mounted on the first and second elements, respectively, a first portion and a second portion of a sink are mounted on the first conductive element and on the second conductive element, respectively, so as to permit the transfer of heat from each power component to the corresponding portion of the sink through the corresponding conductive element. An electrical insulator is present between each portion of the sink so as to prevent the risk of flashover between the two portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWERInventors: Benoit Michaud, Julien Marc Nicolas Rambaud
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Patent number: 11964777Abstract: A remote towing interface is used to couple a towbar to an aircraft having a fuselage and a steerable landing gear. The remote towing interface includes a towbar coupler mounted to the aircraft and configured to releasably couple a towbar to the aircraft. The remote towing interface further includes a sensor and a controller. The sensor is configured to sense a position of the towbar relative to the aircraft when the towbar is coupled to the towbar coupler, and the controller controls the steerable landing gear according to the sensed position of the towbar relative to the aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Safran Landing Systems Canada Inc.Inventor: Robert Kyle Schmidt
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Patent number: 11965426Abstract: The turbine (12) for a turbine engine (100) extends around a major axis (X-X) and comprises: —a casing (4) comprising an annular hook (38), —a movably mounted impeller (16), —a ring (30) extending opposite the impeller in a direction radial to the major axis (XX), —a distributor (14) comprising a blade provided with a platform (11), the platform being extended radially outwards by a spoiler (22, 24), the spoiler (22, 24) being radially mounted on the hook (38), and —foils (40) each having a profiled trough shape in a direction circumferential to the axis, the foils extending in succession in the circumferential direction, each foil (40) extending between the spoiler (22, 24) and the hook (38). The turbine comprises stops (162) to prevent the foils (40) from moving in the circumferential direction. Each foil (40) comprises a protrusion (162) arranged so as to extend circumferentially opposite another protrusion (162) of another adjacent foil (40).Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Franck Davy Boisnault, Florent Pierre Antoine Luneau, Axel Sylvain Loïc Thomas
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Patent number: 11964767Abstract: A passenger seat assembly can include a seat frame; a seat back supported by the seat frame, comprising a rearward surface, and moveable between a stowed position and a deployed position; and a monitor shroud positioned proximate to the rearward surface of the seat back and fixedly coupled to a stationary surface, wherein the monitor shroud remains stationary as the seat back moves between the stowed position and the deployed position, and the monitor shroud defines an opening that provides access to the rearward surface of the seat back.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLCInventors: Reza Mansouri, Romain Tranier, Charles Michael Parker, Amen Omoragbon, Gokul Ramarathnam
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Patent number: 11965440Abstract: A part for a centrifugal breather for an air/oil mixture of a turbomachine is configured to rotate about a longitudinal axis of symmetry. The breather forms an annular chamber for centrifugal separation of said mixture. The chamber includes mesh structure that takes up at least one space in a duct which closes communication between an axial inlet and an internal radial outlet. The mesh structure is formed by the spatial repetition of the material or of the space of a single pattern produced by the interconnection of simple shapes. The pattern is designed such that the spaces between the materials paths passing through the materials in at least three dimensions of space forming a trihedron.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SAFRANInventors: Arnaud Georges Nifenecker, Benjamin Nicolas Fulleringer, Cédric Jean Daniel Plaino, Xavier Roger Betbeder-Laüque
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Patent number: 11964779Abstract: In order to fill a reservoir while avoiding laborious manual filling operations, there is added to the existing device, including a supply duct, a pump and a measuring probe, a stop valve designed to interrupt the filling as soon as the desired level has been reached, which is detected for example by an air intake which controls the closure of the valve. Two level indicators are added and make it possible to ascertain either that optimum filling has been achieved or that a malfunction is present in the system. Application to the systems for oil filling of aircraft engine reservoirs from another reservoir arranged within the aircraft, generally common to all the engines.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Mathieu Jean Jacques Santin, Clément Dupays, Bellal Waissi
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Patent number: 11964326Abstract: A method for manufacturing an integrally formed bladed disk of a turbomachine, includes manufacturing a plurality of blades, the blades including a root and a profiled portion; and spark plasma sintering the blades with a metal powder, the blades being angularly distributed over a contour of an annular spark plasma sintering mold, the root of the blades being embedded into the metal powder, the profiled portion of the blades protruding from the metal powder radially outwardly.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SAFRANInventor: Pierre Jean Sallot
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Patent number: 11965433Abstract: A turbomachine turbine nozzle extending around a central axis, including at least one radially outer shroud, at least one radially inner shroud, and at least one blade made of ceramic matrix composite material, distinct from the radially inner shroud and from the radially outer shroud, and extending radially between the radially inner shroud and the radially outer shroud, the blade being hollow and including a cavity opening at a radially inner end and at a radially outer end of the blade, the nozzle including at least one tubular mast arranged in the cavity of the blade and allowing routing the ventilation air passing through the cavity of the blade, the mast including a radially outer end attached to the radially outer shroud, and a radially inner end cooperating with a radial flange for positioning the radially inner shroud.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN CERAMICSInventors: Antoine Claude Michel Etienne Danis, Clément Jarrossay, Lucien Henri Jacques Quennehen, Nicolas Paul Tableau, Matthieu Arnaud Gimat
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Patent number: 11965474Abstract: A control system includes an actuator, a locking/unlock device, a central control valve, first and second control valves, and a spool control valve. The actuator is arranged so as to move a door of a thrust reverser between direct jet and reverse jet positions. The locking/unlocking device unlockable under load allowing locking and/or unlocking of the door. The locking/unlocking device is movable between a closure position in which it holds the door in the direct jet position and an opening position in which the door is released. The first and second control valves each fed by the central control valve. The spool control valve fed at least by the first and second control valves. The spool control valve is configured so that a pressure difference between two inlets of the first and second control valves provides a displacement of the spool control valve between first and second stable positions.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Safran NacellesInventors: Pierre Caruel, Régis Giard, Alexandre Descamps, Philippe Vancon
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Publication number: 20240124132Abstract: An uplock for the selective retention of a capture pin of a movable element includes a hook, a locking member, and a detector. The hook is movable between a release position and a retaining position for retaining the capture pin. The locking member moves between a locked position, and an unlocked position. The detector detects whether the hook is in the retaining position and the capture pin is in the hook. The detector includes a sensor movable relative to a target. The target or the sensor is carried by the locking member and the other by an indicator lever which is movable between a first position indicating absence of the capture pin in the hook and a second position indicating presence. The target and the sensor are only in the proximate position if the locking member is in the locked position and the indicator lever is in the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2020Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMSInventors: Vincent PASCAL, Ludovic DUFAY
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Publication number: 20240125249Abstract: A ventilation ring for a bearing support member of an aircraft turbine engine includes two or more tubular walls and one or more spacer walls. The two or more tubular walls extend opposite each other, and one or more of the tubular walls includes a main portion and a base, the base having a thickness greater than a thickness of the main portion. The one or more spacer walls connect the two or more tubular walls. The one or more spacer walls have one or more apertures extending into the base and a rim around the aperture. An entirety of the rim has a thickness greater than a thickness of the spacer wall at a distance from the rim.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Mickaël VOIRON, Fabien Stéphane GARNIER, Nicolas OVAERE