Patents by Inventor Richard COMBROUZE

Richard COMBROUZE 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: 9517536
    Abstract: A device for repairing a damaged zone in a first cavity, with a first diameter, of an intermediate layer interposed between two layers that have a second cavity with a second diameter smaller than the first diameter. The device includes a stop that forms an abutment at the interface between the first cavity and one of the second cavities, a ring having a deformable corrugated shape, an initial inside diameter, an initial outside diameter smaller than the second diameter, and being positioned in the first cavity, a deformation element having an elastically variable outside diameter initially smaller than the initial inside diameter of the ring, and a tool being able to increase the outside diameter of the deformation element so that it deforms the ring in the first cavity in order to reduce the difference between the first and second diameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SAS)
    Inventors: Nicolas Boulet, Richard Combrouze, Julien Astruc
  • Publication number: 20140230213
    Abstract: A device for repairing a damaged zone in a first cavity, with a first diameter, of an intermediate layer interposed between two layers that have a second cavity with a second diameter smaller than the first diameter. The device includes a stop that forms an abutment at the interface between the first cavity and one of the second cavities, a ring having a deformable corrugated shape, an initial inside diameter, an initial outside diameter smaller than the second diameter, and being positioned in the first cavity, a deformation element having an elastically variable outside diameter initially smaller than the initial inside diameter of the ring, and a tool being able to increase the outside diameter of the deformation element so that it deforms the ring in the first cavity in order to reduce the difference between the first and second diameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Nicolas Boulet, Richard Combrouze, Julien Astruc
  • Patent number: 8707834
    Abstract: A device for repairing defects in an internal layer of a structure, for example, an aircraft. The device includes a cylindrical body which rotates around its axial direction, a movement conversion device housed in the cylindrical body and assembled such that it is able to move in the axial direction, a configuration device able to cause the displacement of the conversion device by an axial traveling motion, and a cutting element coupled to the cylindrical body and to the conversion device such that the cutting element is able to be made to rotate by the cylindrical body and to be made to move with a radial displacement by the conversion device between a folded position and a deployed position through an opening defined in the cylindrical body in order to machine the internal layer with a cut which depends on the axial displacement of the conversion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Nicolas Boulet, Laurent Barizza, Richard Combrouze
  • Publication number: 20120321398
    Abstract: A device for repairing defects in an internal layer of a structure, for example, an aircraft. The device includes a cylindrical body which rotates around its axial direction, a movement conversion device housed in the cylindrical body and assembled such that it is able to move in the axial direction, a configuration device able to cause the displacement of the conversion device by an axial traveling motion, and a cutting element coupled to the cylindrical body and to the conversion device such that the cutting element is able to be made to rotate by the cylindrical body and to be made to move with a radial displacement by the conversion device between a folded position and a deployed position through an opening defined in the cylindrical body in order to machine the internal layer with a cut which depends on the axial displacement of the conversion device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (Societe par Actions Simplifiee)
    Inventors: Nicolas BOULET, Laurent BARIZZA, Richard COMBROUZE