Patents by Inventor Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel

Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel 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: 11971174
    Abstract: A turbomachine has the upstream portion of the annular combustion chamber is fixed to the outer housing via individual pins with a swivel connection. The swivel connection is established between the pin and a part of the outer housing. The pin is slidable radially, or with a radial component, by a slide established between the pin and a tubular part of the outer annular shroud and/or the annular wall of the chamber bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Dan-Ranjiv Joory, Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Benjamin Frantz Karl Villenave
  • Patent number: 11952901
    Abstract: A turbomachine sealing ring has an axis of revolution and includes an annular support, an annular coating made of abradable material which is carried by the support, and an annular thermal protection plate which is carried by the support. The ring is divided into sectors and has a plurality of ring sectors disposed circumferentially next to one another about the axis. Each ring sector has a support sector, a coating sector, and a plate sector. Each plate sector ling includes a flat tab that is pressed against a face of the corresponding support sector and is fixed to this face by brazing. The tab is inserted into a through-slot in the support sector in order to improve its integrity in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Etienne Gérard Joseph Canelle, Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Bruno Giardini
  • Patent number: 11808456
    Abstract: A combustion chamber includes a bottom wall having at least one opening, at least one sleeve mounted upstream of the bottom wall and fixed to the bottom wall, a closing ring defining an annular groove with the sleeve and fixed to the sleeve, and at least one air and fuel injection system having an axis, mounted in the opening of the bottom wall. The injection system has an annular flange extending radially with respect to the axis and is mounted in the groove with radial clearance. A baffle is situated downstream of the bottom wall and is fixed to the sleeve and/or to the bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, William Louis Rodolphe Dousse, Benjamin Frantz Karl Villenave
  • Patent number: 11802512
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combustion chamber for a gas turbine engine, in which two openings extend through a metal wall (58) and a wall made of a refractory material (16). A device (76) guides a spark plug (48) in said two orifices, the guiding device comprising a metal flange (80) and a floating ring (82), the flange being shrunk onto or welded to the metal wall (58).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, William Louis Rodolphe Dousse, Dan-Ranjiv Joory, Benjamin Frantz Karl Villenave
  • Publication number: 20230175412
    Abstract: A turbomachine sealing ring has an axis of revolution and includes an annular support , an annular coating made of abradable material which is carried by the support, and an annular thermal protection plate which is carried by the support. The ring is divided into sectors and has a plurality of ring sectors disposed circumferentially next to one another about the axis. Each ring sector having has a support sector, a coating sector, and a plate sector. Each plate sector having includes a flat tab that is pressed against a face of the corresponding support sector and is fixed to this face by brazing. The tab is inserted into a through-slot in the support sector in order to improve its integrity in operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Etienne Gérard Joseph CANELLE, Jacques Marcel Arthur BUNEL, Bruno GIARDINI
  • Publication number: 20230151770
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combustion chamber for a gas turbine engine, in which two openings extend through a metal wall (58) and a wall made of a refractory material (16). A device (76) guides a spark plug (48) in said two orifices, the guiding device comprising a metal flange (80) and a floating ring (82), the flange being shrunk onto or welded to the metal wall (58).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur BUNEL, William Louis Rodolphe DOUSSE, Dan-Ranjiv JOORY, Benjamin Frantz Karl VILLENAVE
  • Patent number: 11614234
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for a turbine engine, in particular for an aircraft turbojet engine or turboprop engine. The combustion chamber includes a radially outer annular shroud, a radially inner annular shroud coaxial with the radially outer shroud, and an end wall connecting the radially outer shroud and the radially inner shroud. The combustion chamber further includes a first annular sealing member coaxial with said radially inner and outer shrouds. The first annular sealing member is radially interposed between the end wall and the radially outer shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Dan-Ranjiv Joory, Patrice André Commaret, Romain Nicolas Lunel
  • Patent number: 11534962
    Abstract: A method for obtaining, by additive manufacture, a component including at least one recess, this method including: a step of forming, by additive manufacture, a one-piece blank component, in which the at least one recess contains a support including a core in the form of a block of material and cellular elements that connect the core to the recess; and a step of detaching the support from the rest of the blank component in order to expose the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas Ovaere, Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Thomas Gricourt, Paul André Somazzi, Sylvain Zambelli
  • Patent number: 11480340
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides devices for guiding an element in a combustion chamber wall opening. Between the welds or brazes joining a bushing with a cup and the trajectory of the ring edge, an intermediate space is reserved in an internal annular groove for said welds or brazes to protrude into, so that said welds or brazes lie outside the trajectory of the ring edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Alexandre Eric Lefebvre
  • Patent number: 11408303
    Abstract: A bearing support for an aircraft engine, manufactured, in one piece, by powder-bed additive manufacturing from a manufacturing platform, including a cylindrical element including an annular stiffener with a cross-section that changes along its circumference, this stiffener being formed with alternating portions having a ?-shaped cross-section, needing to be supported during the manufacture, and portions having a Y-shaped cross-section that are not supported during the manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas Ovaere, Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Thomas Gricourt, Paul André Somazzi, Sylvain Zambelli
  • Publication number: 20220196243
    Abstract: A turbomachine has the upstream portion of the annular combustion chamber is fixed to the outer housing via individual pins with a swivel connection. The swivel connection is established between the pin and a part of the outer housing. The pin is slidable radially, or with a radial component, by a slide established between the pin and a tubular part of the outer annular shroud and/or the annular wall of the chamber bottom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Dan-Ranjiv JOORY, Jacques Marcel Arthur BUNEL, Benjamin Frantz Karl VILLENAVE
  • Patent number: 11333358
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for a gas turbomachine. The combustion chamber comprising inner and outer walls, a chamber bottom, and a heat shield arranged downstream of the chamber bottom, to protect it thermally. The inner and outer walls and the heat shield form a one-piece unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, William Louis Rodolphe Dousse, Dan Ranjiv Joory, Benjamin Frantz Karl Villenave
  • Patent number: 11280494
    Abstract: An assembly for a combustion chamber of a turbomachine. The assembly comprises an annular shell extending along a longitudinal axis, the shell having an inner wall intended to be turned towards a furnace of the combustion chamber and an outer wall opposite the inner wall and a projecting element extending radially from an area of the outer wall. The shell has at least one deflector projecting from the outer wall and located downstream of the projecting element with respect to a direction of gas flow along the outer wall, oriented along the longitudinal axis. The deflector extends circumferentially. Perforations are provided axially between the projecting element and the or each deflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Pierrick Bernard Jean
  • Patent number: 11248793
    Abstract: A gas turbo machine having a combustion chamber. The combustion chamber includes a chamber bottom having an upstream wall and a downstream wall extending between inner and outer annular walls. Each upstream and downstream walls each having openings for mounting fuel injection devices for injecting fuel through said openings. The downstream wall is sectorised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Dan-Ranjiv Joory
  • Publication number: 20220018543
    Abstract: A combustion chamber includes a bottom wall having at least one opening, at least one sleeve mounted upstream of the bottom wall and fixed to the bottom wall, a closing ring defining an annular groove with the sleeve and fixed to the sleeve, and at least one air and fuel injection system having an axis, mounted in the opening of the bottom wall. The injection system has an annular flange extending radially with respect to the axis and is mounted in the groove with radial clearance. A baffle is situated downstream of the bottom wall and is fixed to the sleeve and/or to the bottom wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: JACQUES MARCEL ARTHUR BUNEL, WILLIAM LOUIS RODOLPHE DOUSSE, BENJAMIN FRANTZ KARL VILLENAVE
  • Patent number: 11085640
    Abstract: A method for producing an annular combustion chamber of a turbojet using CMC. For this, a shaping tool with movable slides is used and said chamber is produced around the tool, thereby producing a fibrous preform of which the shape is consolidated by drape moulding on the tool and pyrolysis, which is then densified by CVI. Several slides have back drafts, at least one other of such slides having a draft or neither a draft nor a back draft. Then, the slides are removed in a predetermined order imposed by the back drafts and the relative positions of the slides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Sanfran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, William Louis Rodolphe Dousse, Dan Ranjiv Joory, Benjamin Frantz Karl Villenave
  • Patent number: 11047259
    Abstract: The thermal shrinkage of a casing (2) to regulate as best as possible the internal play between the rotor and the stator is carried out by a ring (4) fixed onto the skin (2) rather than by a circular ramp at a distance therefrom. The ring (4) comprises, between a collection box (8) and the skin (2), a foraminous plate (7), placed on an opening of the box (8) parallel to the skin (2) and at a short distance, in order to impose invariable and known ventilation conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Etienne Gérard Joseph Canelle, Emeric Christian Amaury D'Herbigny, Pierrick Bernard Jean
  • Publication number: 20210140639
    Abstract: A gas turbo machine having a combustion chamber. The combustion chamber includes a chamber bottom having an upstream wall and a downstream wall extending between inner and outer annular walls. Each upstream and downstream walls each having openings for mounting fuel injection devices for injecting fuel through said openings. The downstream wall is sectorised.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Dan-Ranjiv Joory
  • Publication number: 20210131666
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides devices for guiding an element in a combustion chamber wall opening. Between the welds or brazes joining a bushing with a cup and the trajectory of the ring edge, an intermediate space is reserved in an internal annular groove for said welds or brazes to protrude into, so that said welds or brazes lie outside the trajectory of the ring edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Alexandre Eric Lefebvre
  • Patent number: 10920619
    Abstract: A part for a turbine engine, the part having a general annular shape about an axis of revolution, this part including a first annular shrink-fitted mounting flange and comprising an annular row of orifices for the passage of screws, this part being made by casting and including protruding pads required for the control and the manufacture of the part by casting, wherein the pads are located on the flange and in that each comprises a thread configured to engage with an extraction screw of the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Etienne Gerard Joseph Canelle, Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Faouzi Aliouat