Patents by Inventor Denis Guillois

Denis Guillois 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: 11939933
    Abstract: In a thrust reverser for an aircraft propulsion unit, the thrust reverser includes an internal fixed structure, a mobile cowl and blocking flaps. The thrust reverser also includes a first actuation mechanism that is configured to move the mobile cowl between a closing position and an opening position so as to cause the blocking flaps to move respectively between a retracted position and a deployed position, thus causing the thrust reverser to pass respectively between a full-thrust configuration and a thrust-reversal configuration. The thrust reverser also includes a second actuation mechanism that is configured to move the blocking flaps between the retracted position and a partially deployed position when the mobile cowl is in the closing position, so as to cause the thrust reverser to pass respectively between the full-thrust configuration and a reduced-thrust configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN NACELLES, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Denis Guillois, Florent Matthieu Jacques Nobelen, Luigi Bisanti
  • Patent number: 11685538
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion unit includes a turbojet engine, a lateral pylon connected to the fuselage of the aircraft, and a nacelle on the lateral pylon. The nacelle includes an upstream section having an air intake, a downstream section housing a reverse thrust device, and a middle section having two fan half-cowls surrounding a fan housing of the turbojet engine, and when said half-cowls are in a closed position defining an aerodynamic continuity between the upstream and downstream sections. The fan half-cowls include a maintenance half-cowl positioned under the horizontal median plane of the nacelle, able to move between the closed position and an open position allowing access to the turbojet engine for maintenance operations on the turbojet engine. The nacelle further includes at least one standby lock, designed to hold the maintenance half-cowl in a position intermediate to the closed and open positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventor: Denis Guillois
  • Patent number: 11486332
    Abstract: A nacelle for an aircraft turbofan includes a rear section including a thrust reversal device having an upper door and a lower door, the upper and lower doors being mobile in rotation between a stowed position in which they are aerodynamically continuous with the rest of the nacelle and a deployed position in which the upper and lower doors are able to redirect forward the core and bypass flows produced by the jet engine, each door being moved from one position to the other by at least one dedicated actuator. The opening angle (X) of the upper door in the deployed position is smaller than the opening angle (Y) of the lower door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventor: Denis Guillois
  • Publication number: 20220260038
    Abstract: In a thrust reverser for an aircraft propulsion unit, the thrust reverser includes an internal fixed structure, a mobile cowl and blocking flaps. The thrust reverser also includes a first actuation mechanism that is configured to move the mobile cowl between a closing position and an opening position so as to cause the blocking flaps to move respectively between a retracted position and a deployed position, thus causing the thrust reverser to pass respectively between a full-thrust configuration and a thrust-reversal configuration. The thrust reverser also includes a second actuation mechanism that is configured to move the blocking flaps between the retracted position and a partially deployed position when the mobile cowl is in the closing position, so as to cause the thrust reverser to pass respectively between the full-thrust configuration and a reduced-thrust configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Denis GUILLOIS, Florent Matthieu Jacques NOBELEN, Luigi BISANTI
  • Patent number: 11286880
    Abstract: A thrust reverser includes two thrust reverser elements movable between a retracted position in which the thrust reverser is inactive and a deployed position in which the thrust reverser is active, a cylinder for deploying the thrust reverser elements, and a single-acting cylinder for retracting the thrust reverser elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Pierre Caruel, Regis Giard, Denis Guillois, Philippe Vancon
  • Publication number: 20220042455
    Abstract: An air intake of a turbojet engine nacelle includes an air intake lip, an annular structure, a rear partition, and at least one acoustic attenuation structure. The annular structure includes at least a part of an outer fairing and an inner fairing joined to each other by the air intake lip. The rear partition is connected to the inner fairing. The acoustic attenuation structure is attached to the inner fairing of the annular structure. At least part of the outer fairing, the air intake lip and the inner fairing are integral with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Denis GUILLOIS, Fabienne QUENU, Anne MOUNIER, Franck Philippe Gérald ZAGANELLI
  • Publication number: 20210197985
    Abstract: A handling assembly of a propulsion assembly includes a frame which includes three radially spaced arms and is mobile in rotation about an axis transverse to a longitudinal axis of the handling assembly, and three branches for handling the nacelle, which are mounted transversally on the arms of the frame, extend along the longitudinal axis and include a working branch, which is movable between a rest position allowing a clearance with an inner wall of an air intake of the nacelle and a working position in which the working branch comes into contact with the inner wall, so as to exert a pressing force of the handling branches on the inner wall of the air intake. A method for handling a propulsion assembly using the handling assembly is also included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventor: Denis GUILLOIS
  • Publication number: 20200263634
    Abstract: A lock for a cowl of a thrust reverser borne by a nacelle includes a striker fixed on the cowl, a hook that is configured to engage the striker and is elastically returned towards engagement with the striker, and a support fixed on the nacelle and supporting a locking/unlocking component interposed between the hook and the support. The locking/unlocking component is configured to allow, on the one hand, the hook to move in relation to the support between a locking position, in which the hook is engaged with the striker and exerts a pressure thereon, and a unlocking position, in which the hook is disengaged from the striker or is simply in contact therewith, and to allow, on the other hand, the hook to tilt in order to disengage it from the striker or engage it therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Denis GUILLOIS, Loïc CHAPELAIN
  • Publication number: 20200031483
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion unit includes a turbojet engine, a lateral pylon connected to the fuselage of the aircraft, and a nacelle on the lateral pylon. The nacelle includes an upstream section having an air intake, a downstream section housing a reverse thrust device, and a middle section having two fan half-cowls surrounding a fan housing of the turbojet engine, and when said half-cowls are in a closed position defining an aerodynamic continuity between the upstream and downstream sections. The fan half-cowls include a maintenance half-cowl positioned under the horizontal median plane of the nacelle, able to move between the closed position and an open position allowing access to the turbojet engine for maintenance operations on the turbojet engine. The nacelle further includes at least one standby lock, designed to hold the maintenance half-cowl in a position intermediate to the closed and open positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventor: Denis GUILLOIS
  • Publication number: 20190353118
    Abstract: A thrust reverser includes two thrust reverser elements movable between a retracted position in which the thrust reverser is inactive and a deployed position in which the thrust reverser is active, a cylinder for deploying the thrust reverser elements, and a single-acting cylinder for retracting the thrust reverser elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Pierre CARUEL, Regis GIARD, Denis GUILLOIS, Philippe VANCON
  • Publication number: 20190331057
    Abstract: A nacelle for an aircraft turbofan includes a rear section including a thrust reversal device having an upper door and a lower door, the upper and lower doors being mobile in rotation between a stowed position in which they are aerodynamically continuous with the rest of the nacelle and a deployed position in which the upper and lower doors are able to redirect forward the core and bypass flows produced by the jet engine, each door being moved from one position to the other by at least one dedicated actuator. The opening angle (X) of the upper door in the deployed position is smaller than the opening angle (Y) of the lower door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventor: Denis GUILLOIS
  • Patent number: 10443542
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Corentin Hue, Rodolphe Denis, Denis Guillois, Sarah Tissot
  • Patent number: 10036349
    Abstract: An afterbody for a turbojet engine having a central axis, provided with a nozzle comprising two doors facing each other between two lateral beams. The doors pivot around axes defining a pivot direction, between a retracted position, in which a middle portion of the downstream edge of the doors forms the edge of the outlet section of the nozzle combined with the downstream edges of the two lateral beams, and a deployed position, in which the middle portions of the downstream edges of the pivoting doors come together so as to block the channel between the two lateral beams in order to reverse the thrust of the turbojet engine gases. The edge of the outlet section of the nozzle further having a crown of noise-reducing chevrons alternating with indentations and the afterbody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignees: SNECMA, AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Irwin Kernemp, Jonathan Langridge, Sébastien Pascal, Denis Guillois, Gérard Clere, Loïc Chapelain
  • Publication number: 20170022935
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: HUE Corentin, Rodolphe DENIS, Denis GUILLOIS, Sarah TISSOT
  • Publication number: 20160215728
    Abstract: An afterbody for a turbojet engine having a central axis, provided with a nozzle comprising two doors mounted facing each other between two lateral beams pivoting around axes defining a pivot direction, between a retracted position, in which a middle portion of the downstream edge of said doors forms the edge of the outlet section of the nozzle combined with the downstream edges of the two lateral beams, and a deployed position, in which said middle portions of the downstream edges of the pivoting doors come together so as to block the channel between the two lateral beams in order to reverse the thrust of the turbojet engine gases, the edge of the outlet section of the nozzle further having a crown of noise-reducing chevrons alternating with indentations and the afterbody wherein each noise-reducing chevron formed on the middle portion of the downstream edge of a pivoting door is opposite an indentation in the middle portion of the other pivoting door in the direction perpendicular to said pivot direction, t
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicants: SNECMA, AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Irwin Kernemp, Jonathan Langridge, Sébastien Pascal, Denis Guillois, Gérard Clere, Loïc Chapelain
  • Patent number: 9211956
    Abstract: Turbojet engine nacelle (1) comprising an air intake structure (4) able to channel a flow of air towards a fan of the turbojet engine, and a central structure (5) intended to surround said fan and to which the air intake structure is attached in such a way as to ensure aerodynamic continuity, the central structure comprising, on the one hand, a casing intended to surround the fan and, on the other hand, an outer structure, characterized in that the air intake structure comprises a longitudinal outer panel (40) incorporating an air intake lip (4a) and which may extend so far as to incorporate at least part of the outer structure of the central section and beyond, said longitudinal outer panel being translationally mobile between an operating position in which the outer panel ensures the aerodynamic continuity of the outside of the nacelle (1), and a maintenance position in which the outer panel (40) is set away from the outer structure of the central section and the air intake lip (4a) is set away from the inn
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Joret, Guy Bernard Vauchel, Denis Guillois, Stephane Beilliard
  • Patent number: 8839601
    Abstract: A door for a thrust reverser of a nacelle of an aircraft being pivotally amounted on a fixed structure of the nacelle, in particular, the door being fitted with deflectors deflecting air flow is disclosed. The deflectors are arranged at an upstream end of the door and mounted such that they can move in a deflection plane perpendicular to the plane of the door. Each deflector is associated at its ends with an articulation arm capable of rotating about a pivot axis perpendicular to the deflection plane, allowing the deflectors to move in a straight line in the deflection plane. The present disclosure also relates to a thrust reverser system including the door and a fixed structure on which the door is pivotally mounted between a closing position and an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Aircelle
    Inventors: Loic Chapelain, Denis Guillois
  • Patent number: 8783010
    Abstract: A thrust reverser with doors having at least one stationary structure is provided, on which at least one door is mounted pivoting between a closed position in which the door closes the reverser and makes up an outer cowling part, and an open position in which the door opens a passage in the stationary structure and can at least partially block a flow of air generated by a turbojet engine so as to reorient the door. The stationary structure includes at least two sets of cascade vanes that can be covered by the door when in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Aircelle
    Inventors: Denis Guillois, Laurent Albert Blin, Löic Chapelain
  • Publication number: 20130292490
    Abstract: A door for a thrust reverser of a nacelle of an aircraft being pivotally amounted on a fixed structure of the nacelle, in particular, the door being fitted with deflectors deflecting air flow is disclosed. The deflectors are arranged at an upstream end of the door and mounted such that they can move in a deflection plane perpendicular to the plane of the door. Each deflector is associated at its ends with an articulation arm capable of rotating about a pivot axis perpendicular to the deflection plane, allowing the deflectors to move in a straight line in the deflection plane. The present disclosure also relates to a thrust reverser system including the door and a fixed structure on which the door is pivotally mounted between a closing position and an open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Loic Chapelain, Denis Guillois
  • Publication number: 20110219783
    Abstract: Turbojet engine nacelle (1) comprising an air intake structure (4) able to channel a flow of air towards a fan of the turbojet engine, and a central structure (5) intended to surround said fan and to which the air intake structure is attached in such a way as to ensure aerodynamic continuity, the central structure comprising, on the one hand, a casing intended to surround the fan and, on the other hand, an outer structure, characterized in that the air intake structure comprises a longitudinal outer panel (40) incorporating an air intake lip (4a) and which may extend so far as to incorporate at least part of the outer structure of the central section and beyond, said longitudinal outer panel being translationally mobile between an operating position in which the outer panel ensures the aerodynamic continuity of the outside of the nacelle (1), and a maintenance position in which the outer panel (40) is set away from the outer structure of the central section and the air intake lip (4a) is set away from the inn
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Joret, Guy Bernard Vauchel, Denis Guillois, Stephane Beilliard