Patents by Inventor Michel R. Ayache

Michel R. Ayache 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: 4329113
    Abstract: A portion of the stator of a gas turbine known as turbine shroud, which is ituated radially opposite the mobile vanes of a turbine stage includes an "abradable" member supported by a first shell braced by a second shell and connected with turbine casing 2 by a thin, i.e. flexible, annular wall member embedded in a casing. Cooling air inflates the second shell so as to brace the exterior shell and circulates between the two shells so as to cool them and also cools the "abradable" member by impingement. The present invention is applicable to aviation turbojets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1982
    Assignee: Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation
    Inventors: Michel R. Ayache, Pierre A. Glowacki, Gerard M. F. Mandet
  • Patent number: 4320903
    Abstract: A labyrinth seal mounted between a shaft and the casing of a gas turbine combustion chamber, wherein the support of an abradable sealing surface in the seal which operates in conjunction with rapidly rotating fins is cooled by an upstream airflow parallel to the envelope surface of the extremities of such fins and opening into an upstream space. The cooling air is taken in from the casing by means of a conduit which is connected with an overflow valve tied to the gas turbine load. The invention is applicable to aviation turbojets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1982
    Assignee: Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation
    Inventors: Michel R. Ayache, Pierre A. Glowacki, Gerard M. F. Mandet
  • Patent number: 4231704
    Abstract: A device for moving air from the jet flow of an axial compressor of a gas rbine group, to be conducted along the axis of the group to the turbine to be cooled. The air is moved by a wheel having an outer rim serving as a brace between two adjacent compressor disks and centripetal blading which moves the air through openings formed in the rim, to accelerate it and discharge it into a space surrounding the axis of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1980
    Assignee: Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation
    Inventors: Michel R. Ayache, Jean-Claude L. Delonge, Daniel J. Marey
  • Patent number: 4222706
    Abstract: A turbine housing for a jet engine is provided with a ring of an abradable orous material. A supporting and mounting device consisting of a cylindricoconical monoblock having a conical internal jacket provides for the convection cooling of the external surface and a cylindrical jacket for cooling air is held over the abradable ring by means of a perforated ferrule integral with the rest of the device. The abradable ring carries transverse partitions to prevent axial leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1980
    Assignee: Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation
    Inventors: Michel R. Ayache, Pierre A. Glowacki, Gerard M. F. Mandet