Patents by Inventor Jorge Carretero BENIGNOS

Jorge Carretero BENIGNOS 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).

  • Publication number: 20240116647
    Abstract: A component for an aircraft and an aircraft with such component. The component includes a heat source enclosed by a housing, heat exchanger, heat sink, at least one structural suspension element, and an air duct. Each structural suspension element is attached to an inner surface of the housing and supports one or more of the heat source within the housing. The heat sink is part of the housing and configured to guide air from an inside of the housing an outside of the housing. Each heat exchanger is thermally coupled to the heat source. Each heat exchanger is fluidly connected to the heat sink via an inlet line and a return line for a coolant. The air duct is configured to guide ambient air from the outside through the housing, past each of the at least one structural suspension element, and through the heat sink out of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Kristian Zimmermann, Christian Metzner, Uwe Beier, Jorge A. Carretero Benignos
  • Patent number: 11952134
    Abstract: An electric propulsion unit of an aircraft including a nacelle housing an electric power system, an electric motor and a cooling system for the electric power system; the nacelle including a central fairing, a front fairing which extends from the central fairing to a front end and a rear fairing which extends from the central fairing to a rear end. The front fairing includes a protrude positioned in a lower part of the front fairing, the protrude having a front face in a transverse plane, a main air inlet of the cooling system being positioned on the front face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: AIRBUS SAS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH, AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.
    Inventors: Jorge Carretero Benignos, Benedikt Bammer, Olivier Verseux, Maria Del Sagrario Juanas Fernandez, Jorge Molano Rembiasz, Thomas Scherer, Alexander Solntsev
  • Publication number: 20240027136
    Abstract: A heat exchanger module including: a hollow chamber having an inner volume configured through which flows a first fluid in fluidic communication with a source of the first fluid, and a fluid outlet; a hollow enclosure extending outwardly from a surface of the hollow chamber wherein the hollow enclosure includes an inner volume through which flows a second fluid that undergoes a phase change in an operative mode of the heat exchanger module, wherein the hollow enclosure is in fluidic communication with a source of the second fluid, and an enclosure root of the hollow enclosure is inserted in the hollow chamber extending into the inner volume such that in an operative mode a second fluid flowing through the hollow chamber from the inlet to the outlet bathes the outer surface of said enclosure root.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Esteban MARTINO GONZÁLEZ, Mario LINARES VILLEGAS, Lucía BAYONA REVILLA, Gareth MILBOURN, David JULLIEN, Jorge CARRETERO BENIGNOS
  • Publication number: 20230421015
    Abstract: An electric machine includes windings for creating electromagnetic fields and at least one fluid-tight internal housing. The group of windings is in an interior space of one of the at least one internal housing. Each of the at least one group of the windings includes at least two electric connecting sections for connecting the respective group of the windings to an external electrical circuit, wherein the at least two electric connecting sections reach from the interior space through a wall of the respective internal housing to outside the respective internal housing, wherein the at least one internal housing includes a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet, and wherein neighboring windings of the at least one group of the windings enclose gaps between each other, the gaps being in fluid communication with the respective coolant inlet and the coolant outlet to be flown through by a coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Frank HERMLE, Michael HOFMANN, Jorge A. CARRETERO BENIGNOS
  • Patent number: 11840962
    Abstract: An aircraft including a fuselage, a wing structure, at least one turbomachine running on hydrogen and generating thrust at a propulsion unit distant from the fuselage, at least one fuel tank positioned in the fuselage and configured to store hydrogen in the cryogenic state, at least one hydrogen supply device connecting the fuel tank and the turbomachine and including at least one pump positioned in the fuselage in the vicinity of the fuel tank, at least one hydrogen heating system positioned in the fuselage in the vicinity of the pump. This solution makes it possible to reduce a length of the complex double-walled pipes configured for carrying the hydrogen in the cryogenic state between the fuel tank and the hydrogen heating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: Airbus SAS, Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Lionel Czapla, Antoine Abele, Benjamin Thubert, Alexis Pissavin, Abhishek Verma, Alistair Forbes, Jorge A. Carretero Benignos, Benedikt Bammer
  • Publication number: 20230166847
    Abstract: A method for combined cooling and heating in an aircraft, the aircraft including an engine configured to use dihydrogen as fuel, the dihydrogen being stored in liquid form in a tank and being used in gas form in the engine, the dihydrogen being conveyed from the tank to the engine by a main pipe. The method includes the steps of branching off a part of the flow of dihydrogen in a bypass pipe, in parallel with a predefined segment of the main pipe, circulating a first heat transfer fluid in a first closed circuit, carrying out a first heat exchange between the first heat transfer fluid and the dihydrogen circulating in the bypass pipe and carrying out at least one secondary heat exchange. Each secondary heat exchange is carried out between the first heat transfer fluid and a working fluid used in the aircraft which needs to be cooled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Nandakumar DEVASIGAMANI, Darren PAGET, Jorge CARRETERO BENIGNOS
  • Publication number: 20230044493
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including a sealed housing and a body positioned inside the housing, the body including a stack of least one first assembly of first and second plates pressed against each other, between which flows a first fluid, and at least one second assembly of third and fourth plates pressed against each other, between which flows a second fluid, the first and second assemblies being arranged so that they transfer heat between the first and second fluids. This configuration limits the risk of leaks and mixing of the two fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Lionel CZAPLA, Jorge A. CARRETERO BENIGNOS
  • Publication number: 20230045036
    Abstract: An aircraft including a fuselage, a wing structure, at least one turbomachine running on hydrogen and generating thrust at a propulsion unit distant from the fuselage, at least one fuel tank positioned in the fuselage and configured to store hydrogen in the cryogenic state, at least one hydrogen supply device connecting the fuel tank and the turbomachine and including at least one pump positioned in the fuselage in the vicinity of the fuel tank, at least one hydrogen heating system positioned in the fuselage in the vicinity of the pump. This solution makes it possible to reduce a length of the complex double-walled pipes configured for carrying the hydrogen in the cryogenic state between the fuel tank and the hydrogen heating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Lionel CZAPLA, Antoine ABELE, Benjamin THUBERT, Alexis PISSAVIN, Abhishek VERMA, Alistair FORBES, Jorge A. CARRETERO BENIGNOS, Benedikt BAMMER
  • Publication number: 20230022291
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly for an aircraft, comprising a nacelle, a propulsion system housed in the nacelle and comprising a fairing, a rotary assembly that has a combustion chamber and is housed in the fairing, an exhaust nozzle delimited by a nozzle wall of the fairing, a fuel tank, a supply duct which connects the tank and the combustion chamber, and a heat exchanger system ensuring, during operation of the propulsion system, an exchange of heat energy between the hot combustion gases circulating in the nozzle and the colder fuel circulating in the supply duct by thermal radiation through the nozzle wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Jorge A. CARRETERO BENIGNOS, Lionel CZAPLA
  • Publication number: 20220355943
    Abstract: An electric propulsion unit of an aircraft including a nacelle housing an electric power system, an electric motor and a cooling system for the electric power system; the nacelle including a central fairing, a front fairing which extends from the central fairing to a front end and a rear fairing which extends from the central fairing to a rear end. The front fairing includes a protrude positioned in a lower part of the front fairing, the protrude having a front face in a transverse plane, a main air inlet of the cooling system being positioned on the front face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jorge CARRETERO BENIGNOS, Benedikt BAMMER, Olivier VERSEUX, Maria Del Sagrario JUANAS FERNANDEZ, Jorge MOLANO REMBIASZ, Thomas SCHERER, Alexander SOLNTSEV
  • Publication number: 20210351666
    Abstract: A cooling device for use in alternating magnetic fields include an evaporator part defining a first volume for evaporating a cooling medium contained therein, the evaporator part being made of an electrically and magnetically non-conductive material, and a condenser part defining a second volume for condensing the cooling medium contained therein, the condenser part being in fluid connection with the first volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Ludovic Ybanez, Lucien Prisse, Jorge A. Carretero Benignos, Jürgen Steinwandel, Michael Hofmann
  • Patent number: 10233839
    Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly in one embodiment includes an inlet, an outlet, and a core. The inlet is configured to accept a fluid to be cooled and the outlet is configured to provide an exit for a flow of the fluid that has been cooled. The core includes at least one passageway formed therein configured for passage of the fluid to be cooled from the inlet to the outlet. The core also includes a receiving surface configured to receive a cooling flow therethrough. The core is configured to direct the cooling flow to pass by at least a portion of the at least one passageway to cool the fluid. The core is comprised of a high temperature geopolymer composite material. The composite material may be configured for use at temperatures above about 300 degrees Celsius, and may have a thermal conductivity below about 20 Watts/(meter*degree Kelvin).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Jorge Carretero Benignos
  • Patent number: 9599410
    Abstract: A surface cooler includes a plate-like layer and a plurality of spaced-apart fins extending substantially perpendicular from an uppermost layer of the plate-like layer. The plurality of fins defining a plurality of air flow paths. The plurality of spaced-apart fins are configured to augment heat transfer of the surface cooler by increasing the turbulence levels of a fluid flowing through the airflow paths by promoting increased mixing with a resulting increase in the heat transfer coefficient of the surface cooler. A method of forming the surface cooler and an engine including the surface cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Joseph Antel, Jr., Carlos Enrique Diaz, Jorge Carretero Benignos
  • Patent number: 9151252
    Abstract: A combustion system is presented. The combustion system includes a hollow combustion chamber having a chamber head, chamber sidewalls, and a chamber bottom. Further, the combustion system includes a fuel injector coupled to the combustion chamber and configured to introduce a plurality of fuel droplets in the combustion chamber. Moreover, the combustion system includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on or about the combustion chamber such that an electromagnetic field is generated between the first electrode and the second electrode in response to an applied electric signal, and where the electromagnetic field is configured to control a trajectory of the plurality of fuel droplets within the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Yaru Najem Mendez Hernandez, Jorge Carretero Benignos, Joerg Hermann Stromberger, Sean Craig Jenkins
  • Publication number: 20150047367
    Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly in one embodiment includes an inlet, an outlet, and a core. The inlet is configured to accept a fluid to be cooled and the outlet is configured to provide an exit for a flow of the fluid that has been cooled. The core includes at least one passageway formed therein configured for passage of the fluid to be cooled from the inlet to the outlet. The core also includes a receiving surface configured to receive a cooling flow therethrough. The core is configured to direct the cooling flow to pass by at least a portion of the at least one passageway to cool the fluid. The core is comprised of a high temperature geopolymer composite material. The composite material may be configured for use at temperatures above about 300 degrees Celsius, and may have a thermal conductivity below about 20 Watts/(meter*degree Kelvin).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Jorge Carretero Benignos
  • Publication number: 20140090621
    Abstract: A combustion system is presented. The combustion system includes a hollow combustion chamber having a chamber head, chamber sidewalls, and a chamber bottom. Further, the combustion system includes a fuel injector coupled to the combustion chamber and configured to introduce a plurality of fuel droplets in the combustion chamber. Moreover, the combustion system includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on or about the combustion chamber such that an electromagnetic field is generated between the first electrode and the second electrode in response to an applied electric signal, and where the electromagnetic field is configured to control a trajectory of the plurality of fuel droplets within the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Yaru Najem Mendez Hernandez, Jorge Carretero Benignos, Joerg Hermann Stromberger, Sean Craig Jenkins
  • Publication number: 20140027102
    Abstract: A surface cooler comprises a plate-like layer and a plurality of spaced-apart fins extending substantially perpendicular from an uppermost layer of the plate-like layer. The plurality of fins defining a plurality of air flow paths. The plurality of spaced-apart fins are configured to augment heat transfer of the surface cooler by increasing the turbulence levels of a fluid flowing through the airflow paths by promoting increased mixing with a resulting increase in the heat transfer coefficient of the surface cooler. A method of forming the surface cooler and an engine including the surface cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: William Joseph ANTEL, JR., Carlos Enrique DIAZ, Jorge Carretero BENIGNOS