Patents by Inventor Stephane Romani

Stephane Romani 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: 8955796
    Abstract: An aft aerodynamic fairing for a pylon for attaching an aircraft propelling assembly, including a caisson structure, a heat-shield floor, as well as a support structure for this floor comprising linking parts arranged to link two side edges of this floor to the caisson structure. The linking parts of each side edge of the floor are configured so as to allow travelling motion of the side edge relative to the caisson structure in a corresponding direction included in a plane orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the fairing. The linking parts form a sliding link between the floor and the caisson structure, reducing the stresses induced by the deformations of these elements in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Fabien Raison, Stephane Romani, Laurent Bell
  • Patent number: 8800917
    Abstract: An aircraft engine pylon aft aerodynamic fairing includes upper spars, transverse stiffening ribs, lower spars and a trailing edge where the upper spars and lower spars join together. In this fairing, a profiled structure is formed according to a profile open to the outside of the fairing. In a first end portion, the profiled structure comes to be enclosed between an end portion of the lower spars and the ends of at least one transverse stiffening ribs flush with the lower spars. This structure extends between the lower spars and the upper spars over a straight central portion inclined relative to the first end portion, and comes in a second end portion flush against a portion of the upper spars, parallel to the first end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Stephane Machado, Fabien Raison, Stephane Romani
  • Patent number: 8607453
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacture of a group of transverse internal stiffening ribs (46) for an aerodynamic fairing of an engine mounting device, including: production, for each rib (46), of a given rib preform (46a) by superplastic forming; and in respect of at least one of the ribs (46) of the group having a smaller size than that of the preform (46a), division of the latter into four preform parts (56a-56d) each incorporating one of the four corners of the quadrilateral formed by the preform, followed by the joining of the four parts to one another so as to obtain the rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: AIRBUS Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Stephane Machado, Fabien Raison, Stephane Romani
  • Patent number: 8579231
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacture of a stiffening transverse internal rib (46) for an aerodynamic fairing of an engine mounting device, including: the production of a rib preform by superplastic forming having an outline of a broadly quadrilateral shape, and a central opening (52) traversing this preform; the division of the preform into two parallel straight-line segments (56, 60), which are diagonally opposed, causing the separation into two half-parts (46a?, 46a?) of the rib preform; and fishplating of the two rib preform half-parts (46a?, 46a?) by bolting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: AIRBUS Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Stephane Machado, Fabien Raison, Stephane Romani
  • Publication number: 20110290935
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacture of a stiffening transverse internal rib for an aerodynamic fairing of an engine mounting device, including: the production of a rib preform by superplastic forming having an outline of a broadly quadrilateral shape, and a central opening (52) traversing this preform; the division of the preform into two parallel straight-line segments (56, 60), which are diagonally opposed, causing the separation into two half-parts (46a?, 46a?) of the rib preform; and fishplating of the two rib preform half-parts (46a?, 46a?) by bolting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Stephane Machado, Fabien Raison, Stephane Romani
  • Publication number: 20110290936
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacture of a group of transverse internal stiffening ribs (46) for an aerodynamic fairing of an engine mounting device, including: production, for each rib (46), of a given rib preform (46a) by superplastic forming; and in respect of at least one of the ribs (46) of the group having a smaller size than that of the preform (46a), division of the latter into four preform parts (56a-56d) each incorporating one of the four corners of the quadrilateral formed by the preform, followed by the joining of the four parts to one another so as to obtain the rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Stephane MACHADO, Fabien Raison, Stephane Romani