Patents by Inventor Stéphane FLIN

Stéphane FLIN 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: 9085369
    Abstract: An aircraft nacelle includes a cowling, an engine housed in an internal volume of the cowling, and at least one thrust reverser, an air passage duct being formed between an internal wall of the cowling and an external wall of the engine. The cowling includes a fixed cowling part and a moving cowling part that is translationally movable between a plurality of positions, at least one of the positions varying an air flow through the duct. The moving cowling part includes the at least one thrust reverser so that translational movement of the moving cowling part also allows the moving cowling part to switch from a position in which the at least one thrust reverser is retracted into a reverse-thrust position in which a bypass flow is deflected to generate a reverse thrust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Stephane Flin, Michael Galinier, Benoit Letay, Benjamin Saget
  • Patent number: 8701386
    Abstract: An aircraft nacelle in which a power plant with an outside surface is arranged, whereby the nacelle has an inside wall that with the outside surface of the power plant delimits a secondary annular pipe, at least one moving part so as to create at least one lateral opening, and a thrust reversal device that has at least one moving physical obstacle that can occupy a first retracted state in which it does not deflect the stream that circulates in the secondary pipe and another deployed state in which it at least partially deflects the stream that circulates in the secondary annular pipe toward the at least one side opening, characterized in that it includes a ring that is arranged in the secondary pipe, distant from the inside wall of the nacelle and the outside surface of the power plant that supports the at least one moving physical obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Benoit Letay, Benjamin Saget, Franck Lesieur, Stephane Flin
  • Publication number: 20120023900
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aircraft nacelle comprising a cowling, an engine housed in an internal volume of the cowling and at least one thrust reverser, an air passage duct (7) being formed between the internal wall of the said cowling and an external wall of the said engine (12). According to the invention, the said cowling comprises a fixed cowling part (2) and a moving cowling part (3) capable of translational movement between a plurality of positions, at least one of the said positions varying the air flow through the said duct (7), the said moving cowling part (3) comprising the said at least one thrust reverser so that translational movement of the said moving cowling (3) also allows the said moving cowling (3) to switch from a position in which the said at least one thrust reverser is retracted into a reverse-thrust position in which the bypass flow is deflected to generate a reverse thrust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Stephane FLIN, Michael Galinier, Benoit Letay, Benjamin Saget
  • Publication number: 20110127353
    Abstract: An aircraft nacelle in which a power plant with an outside surface (46) is arranged, whereby the nacelle has an inside wall (44) that with the outside surface (46) of the power plant delimits a secondary annular pipe, at least one moving part (52) so as to create at least one lateral opening (54), and a thrust reversal device that has at least one moving physical obstacle (56, 58) that can occupy a first retracted state in which it does not deflect the stream that circulates in the secondary pipe and another deployed state in which it at least partially deflects the stream that circulates in the secondary annular pipe toward the at least one side opening (54), characterized in that it includes a ring (50) that is arranged in the secondary pipe, distant from the inside wall (44) of the nacelle and the outside surface (46) of the power plant that supports the at least one moving physical obstacle (56, 58).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Benoît LETAY, Benjamin SAGET, Franck LESIEUR, Stéphane FLIN