Patents by Inventor Sylvain Paquin

Sylvain Paquin 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).

  • Publication number: 20240018872
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a vane (11) of a turbine engine comprising a pressure-face wall (14) and a suction-face wall (15) spaced apart from one another, this vane (11) comprising a tip (S) with: a bottom wall (18) extending from the pressure-face wall (14) to the suction-face wall (15), each of which comprises a free edge (19, 21) extending beyond this bottom wall (18) to delimit, together with this bottom wall (18), a squealer shape (B); a partition wall (22) extending from the pressure-face wall (14) to the suction-face wall (15) and spaced apart from the bottom wall (18) to delimit, together with this bottom wall (18), a cavity (C) under the squealer tip; the method including: a moulding step to form at least the pressure-face wall (14), the suction-face wall (15) and the partition wall (22); —a step of forming the bottom wall (18) using an additive manufacturing method by adding metal material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Leandre OSTINO, Romain Pierre CARIOU, Filippo PAGNONI, Sylvain PAQUIN, Adrien Bernard Vincent ROLLINGER
  • Patent number: 11299990
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine turbine vane comprising a root having a blade (12) comprising a leading edge (16) and a trailing edge (17) and a lower surface wall (14) and an upper surface wall (13), as well as: a manifold for cooling (18) the leading edge (16); a supply line (19) for collecting air from the root and supplying the manifold (18); a side cavity (23) extending along the upper surface wall (13) and supplied with air from the root, to form a heat shield facing the supply line (19); and a circuit forming a trombone comprising a middle portion (24) extending along the supply line (19) and extending laterally to the upper surface wall (13), the middle portion (24) being supplied by the supply line at the tip of the blade (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Sylvain Paquin, Adrien Bernard Vincent Rollinger
  • Patent number: 11248468
    Abstract: Aviation turbine blade (10) extending in the radial direction from a blade root (14) as far as an upper partition wall (26), said blade (10) comprising a plurality of inner cavities (C1-C10) defining at least one cooling circuit, each of said inner cavities (C1-C10) being defined by walls among inner walls (40, 42), a lower surface wall (22), an upper surface wall (24), the blade root (14) and the upper partition wall (26), said blade (10) being characterized in that it comprises at least one reinforcing beam (50, 60) disposed inside one of the inner cavities (C3, C8), and connecting the blade root (14) to the upper partition wall (26), said reinforcing beam (50, 60) is not connected to the inner walls (40, 42), the lower surface wall (22) and the upper surface wall (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Sylvain Paquin, Romain Pierre Cariou, Thomas Michel Flamme, Adrien Bernard Vincent Rollinger
  • Patent number: 11236617
    Abstract: Blade for a turbine, comprising a blade root and an airfoil (13) extending radially outwards from the blade root (12), the airfoil (13) comprising a first internal cooling circuit including an intrados cavity (33, 36) extending radially along the intrados wall (16) and a first inner wall (47, 45) arranged between the intrados wall (16) and the extrados wall (18), an extrados cavity (34, 37) extending radially along the extrados wall (18) and a second inner wall (47, 43) arranged between the intrados wall (16) and the extrados wall (18). The first cooling circuit includes one inner through cavity (35, 38) defined between two through walls (59, 57, 55, 53) each extending between the intrados wall (16) and the extrados wall (18). The intrados cavity (33, 36), the extrados cavity (34, 37) and the inner through cavity (35, 38) are fluidly connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Thomas Michel Flamme, Romain Pierre Cariou, Sylvain Paquin, Adrien Bernard Vincent Rollinger
  • Patent number: 11073025
    Abstract: An aviation turbine blade (10) includes at least a first lower surface cavity (C2) and a first upper surface cavity (C3), each adjacent to a first through-cavity (C1) and a second through-cavity (C4), the first upper surface cavity (C3) being adjacent to the upper surface wall (24), the first lower surface cavity (C2) being adjacent to the lower surface wall (22), each of the first and second through-cavities (C1, C4) extending from the lower surface wall (22) as far as the upper surface wall (24), the second through-cavity (C4) including a first inner wall (P1) extending from the upper surface wall (24) as far as the first through-cavity (C1), and a second inner wall (P2) extending from the lower surface wall (22) as far as the first through-cavity (C1). The first (P1) and second (P2) inner walls are not connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Sylvain Paquin, Romain Pierre Cariou, Thomas Michel Flamme, Adrien Bernard Vincent Rollinger
  • 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
  • Patent number: 10844733
    Abstract: An aviation turbine blade extending in the radial direction and presenting a pressure side and a suction side, including a plurality of pressure side cavities extending radially at the pressure side of the blade, a plurality of suction side cavities extending radially at the suction side of the blade, and at least one central cavity located in the central portion of the blade and surrounded by pressure side cavities and by suction side cavities, the blade further including a plurality of cooling circuits, in which at least a first cooling circuit comprises: a first cavity and a second cavity, the first and second cavities communicating with each other at a radially inner end and at a radially outer end of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Adrien Bernard Vincent Rollinger, Romain Pierre Cariou, Thomas Michel Flamme, Sylvain Paquin
  • Publication number: 20200157948
    Abstract: An aviation turbine blade (10) includes at least a first lower surface cavity (C2) and a first upper surface cavity (C3), each adjacent to a first through-cavity (C1) and a second through-cavity (C4), the first upper surface cavity (C3) being adjacent to the upper surface wall (24), the first lower surface cavity (C2) being adjacent to the lower surface wall (22), each of said first and second through-cavities (C1, C4) extending from the lower surface wall (22) as far as the upper surface wall (24), the second through-cavity (C4) including a first inner wall (P1) extending from the upper surface wall (24) as far as the first through-cavity (C1), and a second inner wall (P2) extending from the lower surface wall (22) as far as the first through-cavity (C1). The first (P1) and second (P2) inner walls are not connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Sylvain PAQUIN, Romain Pierre CARIOU, Thomas Michel FLAMME, Adrien Bernard Vincent ROLLINGER
  • Publication number: 20200149405
    Abstract: Blade for a turbine, comprising a blade root and an airfoil (13) extending radially outwards from the blade root (12), the airfoil (13) comprising a first internal cooling circuit including an intrados cavity (33, 36) extending radially along the intrados wall (16) and a first inner wall (47, 45) arranged between the intrados wall (16) and the extrados wall (18), an extrados cavity (34, 37) extending radially along the extrados wall (18) and a second inner wall (47, 43) arranged between the intrados wall (16) and the extrados wall (18). The first cooling circuit includes one inner through cavity (35, 38) defined between two through walls (59, 57, 55, 53) each extending between the intrados wall (16) and the extrados wall (18). The intrados cavity (33, 36), the extrados cavity (34, 37) and the inner through cavity (35, 38) are fluidly connected in series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Thomas Michel FLAMME, Romain Pierre CARIOU, Sylvain PAQUIN, Adrien Bernard Vincent ROLLINGER
  • Publication number: 20200040741
    Abstract: Aviation turbine blade (10) extending in the radial direction from a blade root (14) as far as an upper partition wall (26), said blade (10) comprising a plurality of inner cavities (C1-C10) defining at least one cooling circuit, each of said inner cavities (C1-C10) being defined by walls among inner walls (40, 42), a lower surface wall (22), an upper surface wall (24), the blade root (14) and the upper partition wall (26), said blade (10) being characterized in that it comprises at least one reinforcing beam (50, 60) disposed inside one of the inner cavities (C3, C8), and connecting the blade root (14) to the upper partition wall (26), said reinforcing beam (50, 60) is not connected to the inner walls (40, 42), the lower surface wall (22) and the upper surface wall (24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Sylvain PAQUIN, Romain Pierre CARIOU, Thomas Michel FLAMME, Adrien Bernard Vincent ROLLINGER
  • Publication number: 20190211693
    Abstract: An aviation turbine blade extending in the radial direction and presenting a pressure side and a suction side, including a plurality of pressure side cavities extending radially at the pressure side of the blade, a plurality of suction side cavities extending radially at the suction side of the blade, and at least one central cavity located in the central portion of the blade and surrounded by pressure side cavities and by suction side cavities, the blade further including a plurality of cooling circuits, in which at least a first cooling circuit comprises: a first cavity and a second cavity, the first and second cavities communicating with each other at a radially inner end and at a radially outer end of the blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Adrien Bernard Vincent ROLLINGER, Romain Pierre CARIOU, Thomas Michel FLAMME, Sylvain PAQUIN
  • Publication number: 20190093485
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine turbine vane comprising a root having a blade (12) comprising a leading edge (16) and a trailing edge (17) and a lower surface wall (14) and an upper surface wall (13), as well as: a manifold for cooling (18) the leading edge (16); a supply line (19) for collecting air from the root and supplying the manifold (18); a side cavity (23) extending along the upper surface wall (13) and supplied with air from the root, to form a heat shield facing the supply line (19); and a circuit forming a trombone comprising a middle portion (24) extending along the supply line (19) and extending laterally to the upper surface wall (13), the middle portion (24) being supplied by the supply line at the tip of the blade (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Sylvain PAQUIN, Adrien Bernard Vincent ROLLINGER
  • Publication number: 20180073373
    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: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicants: SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sylvain PAQUIN, Charlotte Marie DUJOL, Patrice ENEAU, Hugues Denis JOUBERT, Adrien Bernard Vincent ROLLINGER
  • Patent number: 7513739
    Abstract: A moving blade for a turbomachine, the central portion of the blade including a pressure-side cooling circuit and a suction-side cooling circuit. The pressure-side circuit comprises at least first and second pressure-side cavities extending from the pressure side of the blade to a central wall, a central cavity extending from the pressure side to the suction side of the blade, and outlet orifices opening out from the central cavity and into the pressure-side face of the blade. The suction-side circuit comprises at least first and second suction-side cavities extending radially from the suction side of the blade to the central wall, a central cavity extending across the blade from the pressure side to the suction side, and outlet orifices opening out from the central cavity and into the pressure-side face of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Snecma
    Inventors: Jacques Auguste Amedee Boury, Patrice Eneau, Sylvain Paquin
  • Publication number: 20070116570
    Abstract: A moving blade for a turbomachine, the central portion of the blade including a pressure-side cooling circuit and a suction-side cooling circuit. The pressure-side circuit comprises at least first and second pressure-side cavities extending from the pressure side of the blade to a central wall, a central cavity extending from the pressure side to the suction side of the blade, and outlet orifices opening out from the central cavity and into the pressure-side face of the blade. The suction-side circuit comprises at least first and second suction-side cavities extending radially from the suction side of the blade to the central wall, a central cavity extending across the blade from the pressure side to the suction side, and outlet orifices opening out from the central cavity and into the pressure-side face of the blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Boury, Patrice Eneau, Sylvain Paquin