Patents by Inventor Cedrik Djelassi

Cedrik Djelassi 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: 11867128
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for filtering an input signal (3b, 4b, 5b) relative to a physical variable of a turbine engine (9), the input signal being digitised, the method implementing frequency filtering of said signal in a computer (6) of a control system (7) of said turbine engine (9), said signal being provided at the input of the computer, a digital derivative of said signal being intended for being used by the control system (7), characterised in that it involves: —detecting an amplitude variation of said variable on said input signal, by a step of generating a second derivative signal (S) of the input signal and a step of comparing a value of the second derivative value of the input signal with at least one predetermined threshold (S1 . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Cedrik Djelassi
  • Publication number: 20230417194
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a turbine engine having an electric motor forming a device for injecting torque on the high-pressure rotation shaft, in which method a setpoint for fuel flow into the combustion chamber and a setpoint for torque supplied to the electric motor are determined, the control method having: a step of determining a temperature correction value as a function of a temperature parameter of the gases leaving the turbine engine and a maximum value of the temperature parameter of the gases leaving the turbine engine, a step of determining a torque correction value as a function of the temperature correction value and a step of determining the torque setpoint as a function of the torque correction value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Cedrik Djelassi
  • Patent number: 11772778
    Abstract: The invention describes a system for controlling the cyclic setting of blades (1) of a turbine engine propeller, the blades (1) being arranged in a plane normal to the axis of rotation (r) of the propeller, the system comprising: —a plate assembly (40) that can be tilted relative to the normal plane (P), —an articulation system (50) articulating the plate assembly (40) relative to the blades (1) such that tilting the plate assembly (40) modifies the setting of the blades (1), —a force sensor (5) designed to measure a force applied in the normal plane (P) by an air flow at the inlet of the propeller blades (1), —a cylinder (60) suitable for tilting the plate assembly (40) in response to a force measured by the force sensor (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Tewfik Boudebiza, Julien Michel Patrick Christian Austruy, Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Cedrik Djelassi
  • Patent number: 11674760
    Abstract: A method of regulating a temperature associated with a heat exchanger assembly of a turbine engine, the method includes, in a single cycle: measuring the temperature of an air stream at the outlet from a heat exchanger; receiving a setpoint temperature for the air stream at the outlet from the heat exchanger; estimating a theoretical temperature for the air stream at the outlet from the heat exchanger as a function of an estimate of the shutter position of a controlled valve bleeding off a cooling air stream for the heat exchanger; determining a correction current from the difference between the measured temperature and the theoretical temperature; and determining a control current for the shutter from the difference between the measured temperature and the setpoint temperature and the correction current determined during the preceding cycle, the shutter position being determined from the control and correction currents determined during the preceding cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Cedrik Djelassi, Pierre Cabrera
  • Patent number: 11549448
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the speed and the power of a turbine engine propeller, wherein at least two operating modes are implemented: —one operating mode, called “speed mode”, in which the pitch (?) of the propeller is controlled as a function of the desired propeller speed, while the fuel flow is controlled as a function of the desired torque; the other operating mode, called “? mode”, in which the fuel flow is controlled as a function of the desired propeller speed, the pitch (?) of the propeller being set to a limit angle (?min) that limits the pitch of the propeller in the two operating modes, the pitch angle (?min(t)) being continuously computed and updated during a flight on the basis of parameters relating to the flight conditions estimated in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Cedrik Djelassi
  • Publication number: 20220371721
    Abstract: The invention describes a system for controlling the cyclic setting of blades (1) of a turbine engine propeller, the blades (1) being arranged in a plane normal to the axis of rotation (r) of the propeller, the system comprising: —a plate assembly (40) that can be tilted relative to the normal plane (P), —an articulation system (50) articulating the plate assembly (40) relative to the blades (1) such that tilting the plate assembly (40) modifies the setting of the blades (1), —a force sensor (5) designed to measure a force applied in the normal plane (P) by an air flow at the inlet of the propeller blades (1), —a cylinder (60) suitable for tilting the plate assembly (40) in response to a force measured by the force sensor (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Tewfik BOUDEBIZA, Julien Michel Patrick Christian AUSTRUY, Gilles Alain Marie CHARIER, Cedrik DJELASSI
  • Patent number: 11466626
    Abstract: A method for controlling a turbomachine comprising an electric motor forming a torque injection device on a high-pressure rotation shaft, in which method a fuel flow setpoint QCMD and a torque setpoint TRQCMD provided at the electric motor are determined, the control method comprising: • a step of implementing a first fuel control loop in order to determine the fuel flow set point QCMD, • a step of implementing a second, torque control loop in order to determine the torque setpoint TRQCMD comprising i. a step of determining a torque correction variable ?TRQCMD as a function of a transitory speed setpoint NHTrajAccelCons, NHTrajDecelCons and ii. a step of determining the torque setpoint TRQCMD as a function of the torque correction variable ?TRQCMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Cedrik Djelassi
  • Publication number: 20220228531
    Abstract: A system REG for regulating a physical parameter of a real turbomachine system F(p) from a physical setpoint parameter, the regulation system REG comprising a system OPTK for optimising the parameterisation gain K during the regulation, the optimisation system OPTK comprising a stability correction module determining a first gain component K1, a response time correction module determining a second gain component K2, the stability correction module being designed to inhibit the response time correction module when an instability is detected during the regulation of the physical parameter, and a determination module configured to determine the parameterisation gain K as a function of the previously determined first gain component K1 and second gain component K2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Cedrik Djelassi
  • Publication number: 20220219838
    Abstract: The present intention relates to a method for resetting the static pressure model (mod_Ps3(PCN25R)), called “Ps3 model”, upstream of a combustion chamber in a turbine engine comprising a compressor (3), the Ps3 model being used to arbitrate between two acquisition channels (V10, V20) of the static pressure (Ps3), called “Ps3 pressure”, upstream of the combustion chamber, the two acquisition channels (V10, V20) using two sensors (10, 20), the model expressing the pressure Ps3 as a function at least of the speed (PCN25R), called “PCN25R speed”, of the compressor (3), and comprising the following steps: E1: measuring a value of the pressure Ps3 using one of the two sensors (10, 20); E2: resetting the Ps3 model using the measurement of the value of Ps3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Rudy Charles André AULNETTE, Cedrik DJELASSI, Emmanuel Mickaël EBURDERIE, Mehdy EL KONNADI
  • Patent number: 11360113
    Abstract: A method for measuring rotation speed of an aircraft engine shaft includes: acquisition of an alternating rotation speed detection signal across terminals of a phonic wheel sensor, conversion of the alternating signal into a square signal; comparison of a plurality of previously-stored square signal period samples to lower and upper period limits, to determine valid samples of a value included between the terminals; if the number of valid samples is greater than a first threshold, determination on the basis of the valid samples of a desired period of the square signal; and at least on the condition that the number of valid samples is less than the first threshold, computation of a plurality of sums of samples, and computation of the average of a set comprising a number of valid period samples and a number of sums from among the plurality of sums of at least two samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Cedrik Djelassi, Jacques Paul Michel Gauvrit, Jean-Francois Jean-Paul Clement Schielin
  • Patent number: 11300055
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method (E) for detecting the ignition of a turbine engine combustion chamber, the method (E) comprising the steps of: receiving (E11) a first measurement of the exhaust gas temperature downstream from the combustion chamber, before an attempt to ignite said combustion chamber; receiving (E12) a temperature threshold; receiving (E13) a secondary detection criterion; updating (E14) the received temperature threshold as a function of the secondary detection criterion received; receiving (E15) a second measurement of the exhaust gas temperature, after the attempt to ignite the combustion chamber; comparing (E16) the updated temperature threshold with the difference between the first and second exhaust gas temperature measurements; and determining (E17) the state of ignition of the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Adel Cédric Abir Widemann, Nicolas Raillard, Cedrik Djelassi
  • Publication number: 20220056853
    Abstract: A method for detecting a rotating stall includes: determining a level of variation of a static pressure in a combustion chamber of the turbojet engine around an average value of this static pressure; comparing the level of variation of the static pressure relative to a first threshold; comparing a temperature measured at the outlet of a turbine of the turbojet engine relative to a second threshold; and if the level of variation of the static pressure is greater than the first threshold and the temperature at the outlet of the turbine is greater than the second threshold, detecting a presence of a rotating stall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Soufiane HERDA, Vincent Michel CABRET, Cedrik DJELASSI
  • Publication number: 20220049911
    Abstract: A method of regulating a temperature associated with a heat exchanger assembly of a turbine engine, the method includes, in a single cycle: measuring the temperature of an air stream at the outlet from a heat exchanger; receiving a setpoint temperature for the air stream at the outlet from the heat exchanger; estimating a theoretical temperature for the air stream at the outlet from the heat exchanger as a function of an estimate of the shutter position of a controlled valve bleeding off a cooling air stream for the heat exchanger; determining a correction current from the difference between the measured temperature and the theoretical temperature; and determining a control current for the shutter from the difference between the measured temperature and the setpoint temperature and the correction current determined during the preceding cycle, the shutter position being determined from the control and correction currents determined during the preceding cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Cedrik DJELASSI, Pierre CABRERA
  • Patent number: 11248524
    Abstract: A system for regulating a thermal parameter associated with a heat exchange assembly of a turbomachine includes at least one device for measuring or estimating the thermal parameter, a controlled valve acting on the flow rate of a fluid in the assembly, and a regulator including a comparator determining the sign of an error signal relating to the difference between the thermal parameter and a setpoint. The regulator further includes a switch configured to deliver, based on the sign, to a valve control system, a maximum control current switching the valve in a closed state or a minimum control current switching the valve in an open state, and a phase-shifter configured to apply on the error signal a phase advance determined from an estimate of a time constant of the control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Cedrik Djelassi
  • Patent number: 11209227
    Abstract: A method of regulating a temperature associated with a heat exchanger assembly of a turbine engine, the method includes, in a single cycle: measuring the temperature of an air stream at the outlet from a heat exchanger; receiving a setpoint temperature for the air stream at the outlet from the heat exchanger; estimating a theoretical temperature for the air stream at the outlet from the heat exchanger as a function of an estimate of the shutter position of a controlled valve bleeding off a cooling air stream for the heat exchanger; determining a correction current from the difference between the measured temperature and the theoretical temperature; and determining a control current for the shutter from the difference between the measured temperature and the setpoint temperature and the correction current determined during the preceding cycle, the shutter position being determined from the control and correction currents determined during the preceding cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Cedrik Djelassi, Pierre Cabrera
  • Publication number: 20210388771
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for filtering an input signal (3b, 4b, 5b) relative to a physical variable of a turbine engine (9), the input signal being digitised, the method implementing frequency filtering of said signal in a computer (6) of a control system (7) of said turbine engine (9), said signal being provided at the input of the computer, a digital derivative of said signal being intended for being used by the control system (7), characterised in that it involves: —detecting an amplitude variation of said variable on said input signal, by a step of generating a second derivative signal (S) of the input signal and a step of comparing a value of the second derivative value of the input signal with at least one predetermined threshold (S1 . . .
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Cedrik DJELASSI
  • Publication number: 20210348569
    Abstract: A method for controlling a turbomachine comprising an electric motor forming a torque injection device on a high-pressure rotation shaft, in which method a fuel flow setpoint QCMD and a torque setpoint TRQCMD provided at the electric motor are determined, the control method comprising: •a step of implementing a first fuel control loop in order to determine the fuel flow set point QCMD, •a step of implementing a second, torque control loop in order to determine the torque setpoint TRQCMD comprising i. a step of determining a torque correction variable ?TRQCMD as a function of a transitory speed setpoint NHTrajAccelCons, NHTrajDecelCons and ii. a step of determining the torque setpoint TRQCMD as a function of the torque correction variable ?TRQCMD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Cedrik Djelassi
  • Publication number: 20210148946
    Abstract: A method for measuring rotation speed of an aircraft engine shaft includes: acquisition of an alternating rotation speed detection signal across terminals of a phonic wheel sensor, conversion of the alternating signal into a square signal; comparison of a plurality of previously-stored square signal period samples to lower and upper period limits, to determine valid samples of a value included between the terminals; if the number of valid samples is greater than a first threshold, determination on the basis of the valid samples of a desired period of the square signal; and at least on the condition that the number of valid samples is less than the first threshold, computation of a plurality of sums of samples, and computation of the average of a set comprising a number of valid period samples and a number of sums from among the plurality of sums of at least two samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Cedrik DJELASSI, Jacques Paul Michel GAUVRIT, Jean-Francois Jean-Paul Clement SCHIELIN
  • Publication number: 20210071582
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method (E) for detecting the ignition of a turbine engine combustion chamber, the method (E) comprising the steps of: receiving (E11) a first measurement of the exhaust gas temperature downstream from the combustion chamber, before an attempt to ignite said combustion chamber; receiving (E12) a temperature threshold; receiving (E13) a secondary detection criterion; updating (E14) the received temperature threshold as a function of the secondary detection criterion received; receiving (E15) a second measurement of the exhaust gas temperature, after the attempt to ignite the combustion chamber; comparing (E16) the updated temperature threshold with the difference between the first and second exhaust gas temperature measurements; and determining (E17) the state of ignition of the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Adel Cédric Abir WIDEMANN, Nicolas RAILLARD, Cedrik DJELASSI
  • Patent number: 10830786
    Abstract: A processing method of an alternating signal produced by a variable reluctance sensor, including steps consisting of a raw window signal switching toward a low voltage level, respectively toward a high voltage level, calculation of a processed window signal using a value of the switching continuation duration calculated as a function of a value of shaft rotation speed, and based on the raw window signal, measurement of the shaft rotation speed, each switching of the processed window signal triggering the locking of the processed window signal, for a duration exactly equal to the switching continuation duration, so that the switches of the raw window signal are not translated into switches of the processed window signal during the locking, the processed window signal no longer being locked once the switching continuation duration has expired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventor: Cedrik Djelassi