Patents by Inventor Alain Page

Alain Page has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7631486
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a thrust orienting nozzle, shaped in such a way as to divide a principal propulsion gas flow coming from at least one gas generator into a first flow and a second flow for an ejection in a first half-nozzle and in a second half-nozzle and comprising at least one of following two piloting means: a means of dividing the principal flow into each of the two half-nozzles, and a means of orienting the thrust vector produced by each of the two half-nozzles. The invention applies in particular to the yaw control of an aircraft without a vertical tail unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Alain Page, Jackie Prouteau, Thomas Daris, Marc Doussinault, Frederic Schenher
  • Patent number: 7584615
    Abstract: The after-burner device receives a “hot” central primary flow from the turbine of the turbojet and a “cold” peripheral secondary flow, and it has an after-burner ignition zone situated in the secondary flow that reaches the after-burner device. A fraction of the primary flow is brought into the after-burner ignition zone in order to raise the temperature in said zone to a value that is higher than that of the secondary flow so as to encourage after-burner ignition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Sébastien Baboeuf, Sabine Charpenel, Eric Maingre, Alain Page, Jacques Roche
  • Publication number: 20070284005
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a propulsion gas exhaust assembly, in an aircraft propelled by hot gases produced along the axis of the latter by a gas generator, comprising a duct and a nozzle, wherein said duct comprises a first cylindrical duct element (21) receiving the gases and communicating downstream with two second duct elements (22, 23), the directions of which are divergent in a first plane, each of the two duct elements communicating downstream with a third duct element (25, 27) which emerges in an axial gas-ejection half-nozzle (24, 26).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Edgar BRUNET, Thomas Daris, Alain Page, Jackie Prouteau
  • Publication number: 20070266712
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a propulsion gas exhaust assembly in an aircraft propelled by hot gases produced along the axis of the latter by a gas generator, comprising a duct (21) and a nozzle (24). It is noteworthy by the fact that said duct forms a vertical elbow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Edgar Brunet, Thomas Daris, Alain Page, Jackie Prouteau
  • Publication number: 20070000233
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a thrust orienting nozzle, shaped in such a way as to divide a principal propulsion gas flow coming from at least one gas generator into a first flow and a second flow for an ejection in a first half-nozzle and in a second half-nozzle and comprising at least one of following two piloting means: a means of dividing the principal flow into each of the two half-nozzles, and a means of orienting the thrust vector produced by each of the two half-nozzles. The invention applies in particular to the yaw control of an aircraft without a vertical tail unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Alain Page, Jackie Prouteau, Thomas Daris, Marc Doussinault, Frederic Schenher
  • Publication number: 20060016193
    Abstract: The invention concerns a double flow turbo-jet engine, including a re-heating channel of the primary flow and an ejection nozzle, the secondary flow emerging at least partially in the primary flow upstream of the re-heating channel, the re-heating channel including a burner ring, including a flame holder gutter in the form of a ring portion whereof the upstream section is situated in the secondary flow, receiving a fuel manihold and a protective tubular screen of the manihold. The invention is characterised in that the gutter includes an upstream recess linked with the secondary flow, and the screen includes, on its upstream section, at least one ventilation orifice of the space situated between the screen and the manihold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Roche, Alain Page, Stephane Touchaud, Nicolas Pommier
  • Publication number: 20060016192
    Abstract: The turbojet of the invention includes a combustion chamber, a channel for heating the gas stream, where the heating channel includes at least one device for injection of fuel into the gas stream, which includes an open chamber, with a U-shaped section, having at least one wall within which extend fuel-injection means, which inject the fuel in at least one direction. It is characterised by the fact that a cooling jacket is provided in the chamber, alongside the wall forming the base of its U-section, and the fuel injection device includes protection means interposed between the fuel-injection means and the wall, in a fuel-injection direction. Thus, as a result of the invention, the fuel injection device, which is bathed in a very hot environment, is protected against thermal shocks due to the projection of colder fuel onto its walls, and its life expectancy is therefore increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Bunel, Jacques Roche, Alain Page
  • Patent number: 6976361
    Abstract: The invention relates to ventilating the confluence sheet of an afterburner chamber of an aviation turbomachine, including, upstream from the afterburner chamber: a diffuser defined by a confluence sheet disposed inside a casing, said casing and said confluence sheet defining between them an annular channel for a cold secondary flow, upstream fuel injectors being disposed at the inlet to said diffuser and flame-catchers being disposed downstream from said upstream injectors, said confluence sheet presenting, between the radial plane containing said upstream injectors and the radial plane situated at the rear ends of said flame-catchers two bends so as to flare downstream in order to slow down the primary flow F1 downstream from said upstream injectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Thierry Cortes, Alain Page, Sébastien Baboeuf, Jacques Roche
  • Publication number: 20050274114
    Abstract: The invention relates to ventilating the confluence sheet of an afterburner chamber of an aviation turbomachine, including, upstream from the afterburner chamber: a diffuser defined by a confluence sheet disposed inside a casing, said casing and said confluence sheet defining between them an annular channel for a cold secondary flow, upstream fuel injectors being disposed at the inlet to said diffuser and flame-catchers being disposed downstream from said upstream injectors, said confluence sheet presenting, between the radial plane containing said upstream injectors and the radial plane situated at the rear ends of said flame-catchers two bends so as to flare downstream in order to slow down the primary flow F1 downstream from said upstream injectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURS
    Inventors: Thierry Cortes, Alain Page, Sebastien Baboeuf, Jacques Roche
  • Publication number: 20050257527
    Abstract: The after-burner device receives a “hot” central primary flow from the turbine of the turbojet and a “cold” peripheral secondary flow, and it has an after-burner ignition zone situated in the secondary flow that reaches the after-burner device. A fraction of the primary flow is brought into the after-burner ignition zone in order to raise the temperature in said zone to a value that is higher than that of the secondary flow so as to encourage after-burner ignition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURS
    Inventors: Sebastien Baboeuf, Sabine Charpenel, Eric Maingre, Alain Page, Jacques Roche
  • Patent number: 6150975
    Abstract: A divergence measurement antenna for single-pulse radars comprises at least two radiant panels. With their beams having the same center of phase, they are oriented differently. A monotonic function of the angular divergence of a signal received by the antenna is obtained from the ratio of the power of the signal received by the first panel to its power received by the second panel. An even-parity function of the signal received is obtained by taking the sum of these two signals. Application to precise measurements of angular divergence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Pourailly, Jean-Louis Soule, Michel Gaudron, Alain Pages