Patents by Inventor Patrice Eneau

Patrice Eneau 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: 11913354
    Abstract: The invention relates to a movable turbomachine blade comprising at least one cooling circuit comprising at least one cavity extending radially between the root and the tip, at least one air intake opening at a radial end of the cavity, a plurality of first discharge slots arranged to open out along the trailing edge between the root and the tip, and a plurality of second discharge slots separate from the first discharge slots and arranged along the trailing edge between the root and the tip, the second discharge slots being offset axially upstream relative to the first discharge slots and each of the first discharge slots being radially offset relative to each of the second discharge slots, with no overlap between the first and second discharge slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Patrice Eneau, Michel Slusarz
  • Patent number: 11719102
    Abstract: A blade for a turbomachine, extending longitudinally between a base and an apex, comprising a lower surface wall, an upper surface wall, a leading edge and a trailing edge and comprising a plurality of internal ventilation cavities which form a cooling circuit of the blade, wherein at least one ventilation cavity is a ventilation cavity of a first type comprising at least one ascending portion which extends substantially longitudinally between the base and the apex, engaged with the lower surface wall and spaced from the upper surface wall, and at least one discharge portion which extends substantially transversely and which opens at the trailing edge via at least one port of the trailing edge, and wherein at least one ventilation cavity of the first type further comprises at least one descending portion which extends substantially longitudinally from the apex, engaged with the upper surface wall and spaced from the lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michel Slusarz, Patrice Eneau, Charlotte Marie Dujol
  • Patent number: 11499436
    Abstract: A turbine blade including a root carrying an impeller terminated by a tip in the form of a squealer tip. This impeller also includes a serpentine median circuit, including a first radial pipe collecting air at the root and that is connected by a first bend to a second radial pipe that is connected by a second bend to a third radial pipe, a cavity under the squealer tip running along the pressure side wall, extending from a central region of the tip to the trailing edge, and a radial central pipe collecting air at the root extending between at least two of the three pipes of the median circuit and directly supplying the cavity under the squealer tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Léandre Ostino, Pierre Guillaume Auzillon, Romain Pierre Cariou, Thomas Olivier Michel Pierre De Rocquigny, Patrice Eneau, Adrien Bernard Vincent Rollinger, Vianney Simon, Michel Slusarz, Ba-Phuc Tang
  • Publication number: 20220316344
    Abstract: The invention relates to a movable turbomachine blade comprising at least one cooling circuit comprising at least one cavity extending radially between the root and the tip, at least one air intake opening at a radial end of the cavity, a plurality of first discharge slots arranged to open out along the trailing edge between the root and the tip, and a plurality of second discharge slots separate from the first discharge slots and arranged along the trailing edge between the root and the tip, the second discharge slots being offset axially upstream relative to the first discharge slots and each of the first discharge slots being radially offset relative to each of the second discharge slots, with no overlap between the first and second discharge slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Patrice ENEAU, Michel SLUSARZ
  • Publication number: 20220268160
    Abstract: A blade for a turbomachine, extending longitudinally between a base and an apex, comprising a lower surface wall, an upper surface wall, a leading edge and a trailing edge and comprising a plurality of internal ventilation cavities which form a cooling circuit of the blade, wherein at least one ventilation cavity is a ventilation cavity of a first type comprising at least one ascending portion which extends substantially longitudinally between the base and the apex, engaged with the lower surface wall and spaced from the upper surface wall, and at least one discharge portion which extends substantially transversely and which opens at the trailing edge via at least one port of the trailing edge, and wherein at least one ventilation cavity of the first type further comprises at least one descending portion which extends substantially longitudinally from the apex, engaged with the upper surface wall and spaced from the lower
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michel SLUSARZ, Patrice ENEAU, Charlotte Marie DUJOL
  • Publication number: 20220205365
    Abstract: A turbine vane includes a root carrying a blade terminated by a squealer tip, the blade having intrados and extrados walls, a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a tip wall delimiting a bottom of the squealer tip, by which the intrados wall is connected to the extrados wall. The blade also includes: a serpentine median circuit, including a first radial pipe that collects air at the root and is connected by a first bend to a second radial pipe that is connected by a second bend to a third radial pipe; a cavity under the squealer tip running along the extrados wall and extending from a central region of the squealer tip to the trailing edge; and a central radial pipe collecting air at the root and extending between at least two of the three pipes of the median circuit and directly supplying the cavity under the squealer tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Léandre OSTINO, Pierre Guillaume AUZILLON, Michel SLUSARZ, Patrice ENEAU, Thomas Olivier Michel Pierre DE ROCQUIGNY, Romain Pierre CARIOU, Ba-Phuc TANG, Adrien Bernard Vincent ROLLINGER, Vianney SIMON
  • Publication number: 20220170371
    Abstract: An aircraft turbine engine blade includes at least one inner cavity for circulating a ventilation air flow and having a wall with first projecting elements oriented in a first direction and forming air flow disrupters, and at least a second projecting element oriented in a second direction different from the first direction. The second projecting element and at least one of the first projecting elements overlap each other in one area. At least one of the first projecting elements overlaps the second projecting element and has a height (H2, H4?) which is greater than that of the second projecting element in the area and greater than that of the other first projecting elements of the wall, in order to retain its disruptive function along the entire length thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michel SLUSARZ, Pierre Guillaume AUZILLON, Patrice ENEAU, Léandre OSTINO
  • Patent number: 11286788
    Abstract: In order to limit the air flow required to cool its blade member, a blade for an aircraft turbomachine turbine includes, in its blade member, a main passage configured to collect a main air flow from an air inlet and to circulate it in the blade member, and a side passage located between the main passage and the pressure-side wall, while being separated from the main passage, wherein the side passage is configured to collect a side air flow from the air inlet and to circulate it in the blade member, the main passage having at least three portions connected together end-to-end to form a coil, the side passage being located between each of these portions and the pressure-side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Leandre Ostino, Patrice Eneau, Charlotte Marie Dujol
  • Publication number: 20220025771
    Abstract: A turbine blade including a root carrying an impeller terminated by a tip in the form of a squealer tip. This impeller also includes a serpentine median circuit, including a first radial pipe collecting air at the root and that is connected by a first bend to a second radial pipe that is connected by a second bend to a third radial pipe, a cavity under the squealer tip running along the pressure side wall, extending from a central region of the tip to the trailing edge, and a radial central pipe collecting air at the root extending between at least two of the three pipes of the median circuit and directly supplying the cavity under the squealer tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicants: SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Léandre OSTINO, Pierre Guillaume AUZILLON, Romain Pierre CARIOU, Thomas Olivier Michel Pierre DE ROCQUIGNY, Patrice ENEAU, Adrien Bernard Vincent ROLLINGER, Vianney SIMON, Michel SLUSARZ, Ba-Phuc TANG
  • Patent number: 11187088
    Abstract: A turbine vane including at least one inner cavity including a plurality of deflectors which are carried by an inner face of the lower surface wall and by an inner face of the upper surface wall, wherein each deflector extends mainly in a transverse direction from the inner face of the lower surface wall or from the inner face of the upper surface wall, in the direction of the other one of the lower surface wall or the upper surface wall, and wherein the length of each deflector in the transverse direction is greater than half the transverse distance between the inner face of the lower surface wall and the inner face of the upper surface wall, on either side of the deflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michel Slusarz, Patrice Eneau
  • Patent number: 11035235
    Abstract: A turbine blade of a turbine engine such as a turbojet engine, comprising: a root supporting a blade and extending in a wingspan direction, ending in a vertex, the blade comprising a leading edge and a trailing edge, with a pressure side wall and a suction side wall separated from one another and connecting the leading edge (17) to the trailing edge, the blade also comprising: cooling ducts in which air collected at the blade root circulates; first and second inner side recesses running along the pressure side wall in order to form a heat shield spaced apart from one another along the pressure side wall; and at least one duct extending from the pressure side wall to the suction side wall between the first and second side recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Charlotte Marie Dujol, Sébastien Serge Francis Congratel, Patrice Eneau, Léandre Ostino, Michel Slusarz
  • Patent number: 10961856
    Abstract: A ceramic core used for fabricating a hollow turbine blade for a turbine engine by using the lost-wax casting technique and shaped to constitute the cavities of the blade as a single element, includes, in order to feed the insides of these cavities jointly with cooling air, core portions that are to form first and second lateral cavities and that are connected to a core portion that is to form at least one central cavity, firstly in the core root via at least two ceramic junctions, and secondly at various heights up the core via a plurality of other ceramic junctions of positioning that defines the thickness of the internal partitions of the blade, while also ensuring additional cooling air for predetermined critical zones of the first and second lateral cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN
    Inventors: Sylvain Paquin, Charlotte Marie Dujol, Patrice Eneau, Hugues Denis Joubert, Adrien Bernard Vincent Rollinger
  • Publication number: 20200300098
    Abstract: A turbine vane including at least one inner cavity including a plurality of deflectors which are carried by an inner face of the lower surface wall and by an inner face of the upper surface wall, wherein each deflector extends mainly in a transverse direction from the inner face of the lower surface wall or from the inner face of the upper surface wall, in the direction of the other one of the lower surface wall or the upper surface wall, and wherein the length of each deflector in the transverse direction is greater than half the transverse distance between the inner face of the lower surface wall and the inner face of the upper surface wall, on either side of the deflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michel SLUSARZ, Patrice Eneau
  • Patent number: 10767491
    Abstract: A turbine blade including a root bearing an aerofoil extending in a direction of span and ending in a tip, this aerofoil including a leading edge and a trailing edge which are connected by a pressure face wall and a suction face wall, the trailing edge including on the pressure face side cooling slots. The trailing edge includes one or more first slots close to the root, which are supplied via a lower cavity; one or more last slots near the tip which are supplied via an upper cavity; intermediate slots situated between the first slots and the last slots supplied with air via a downstream line set; and wherein the lower cavities and upper cavities and the downstream line set are supplied distinctly at the level of the root.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Patrice Eneau, Sebastien Serge Francis Congratel, Charlotte Marie Dujol, Philippe Picot
  • Patent number: 10689985
    Abstract: A turbine blade for a turbomachine such as a turboprop or a turbojet, the blade including a root, a vane carried by the root and extending in a spanwise direction, ending at a tip, the vane including a pressure-side wall and a suction-side wall spaced apart from each other, and at least one duct configured to collect cooling air at the root and to make same flow in the vane in order to cool same; holes and/or slots made in the walls of same in order to discharge the cooling air out of the vane; an upper inner cavity located at the tip of the vane in order to cool same; and wherein at least one of the ducts directly supplies the upper cavity with cooling air collected in the root.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Charlotte Marie Dujol, Patrice Eneau, Sebastien Digard Brou De Cuissart, Matthieu Jean-Luc Vollebregt
  • Publication number: 20200173290
    Abstract: In order to limit the air flow required to cool its blade member, a blade for an aircraft turbomachine turbine includes, in its blade member, a main passage configured to collect a main air flow from an air inlet and to circulate it in the blade member, and a side passage located between the main passage and the pressure-side wall, while being separated from the main passage, wherein the side passage is configured to collect a side air flow from the air inlet and to circulate it in the blade member, the main passage having at least three portions connected together end-to-end to form a coil, the side passage being located between each of these portions and the pressure-side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Leandre OSTINO, Patrice ENEAU, Charlotte Marie DUJOL
  • Patent number: 10662789
    Abstract: A turbine blade including a root, a vane extending in a spanwise direction, ending at a tip and including a leading edge and a trailing edge and a pressure-side wall and a suction-side wall, the vane further including at least one upstream duct configured to collect air at the root to cool the leading edge, discharging the air through holes passing through the wall of the leading edge; at least one downstream duct separate from the upstream duct and configured to collect air at the root to cool the trailing edge, discharging the air through holes passing through the pressure wall upstream from the trailing edge; an inner side cavity running along the pressure-side wall to form a heat shield insulating the downstream duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Charlotte Marie Dujol, Patrice Eneau
  • Publication number: 20190376394
    Abstract: A turbine blade of a turbine engine such as a turbojet engine, comprising: a root supporting a blade and extending in a wingspan direction, ending in a vertex, the blade comprising a leading edge and a trailing edge, with a pressure side wall and a suction side wall separated from one another and connecting the leading edge (17) to the trailing edge, the blade also comprising: cooling ducts in which air collected at the blade root circulates; first and second inner side recesses running along the pressure side wall in order to form a heat shield spaced apart from one another along the pressure side wall; and at least one duct extending from the pressure side wall to the suction side wall between the first and second side recesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Charlotte Marie DUJOL, Sébastien Serge Francis CONGRATEL, Patrice ENEAU, Léandre OSTINO, Michel SLUSARZ
  • Patent number: 10493520
    Abstract: A moulding unit for producing a turbomachine blade blank. The moulding unit has an upstream portion and a downstream portion. According to the invention, the moulding unit comprises a raised portion designed to form a downstream opening which, at the level of the trailing edge, passes through at least one of the side edges of the basin-like portion at the blade tip. The raised portion rigidly secures the upstream portion to the downstream portion and comprises a strengthening protuberance extending in the transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Matthieu Jean Luc Vollebregt, Charlotte Marie Dujol, Patrice Eneau, Coralie Geurard, Patrick Emilien Paul Emile Huchin
  • Patent number: 10337333
    Abstract: A turbine blade for a turbomachine, including a vane extending in a spanwise direction between a root and a tip, a first inner side cavity running along a pressure-side wall and a second inner side cavity running along a suction-side wall. The blade further includes at least one inner central duct configured to collect air intended to cool the vane. The central duct extends between the side cavities, being separated from the side cavities to be at least partially thermally isolated from the pressure-side wall and the suction-side wall. The side cavities communicate with each other in a junction region located downstream from the central duct, over a majority of a height of the central duct in the spanwise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Charlotte Marie Dujol, Patrice Eneau