Patents by Inventor Thierry Cortes

Thierry Cortes 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: 9605594
    Abstract: A fuel injection device for an annular combustion chamber of a turbine engine, the device including a pilot circuit feeding an injector, a multipoint circuit feeding injection orifices formed in a front face of an annular chamber, and an annular ring mounted in the annular chamber and including fuel-passing orifices opening out into the injection orifices, each fuel-passing orifice formed in the annular ring including a zone of small section that is extended at least downstream or upstream by an orifice portion of increasing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Cortes, Laurent Bernard Cameriano
  • Patent number: 9383106
    Abstract: An annular combustion chamber for a turbomachine, including an external wall and an internal wall which are oriented substantially axially relative to the rotation axis of the turbomachine, the combustion chamber being closed upstream by a chamber end wall oriented substantially radially, the chamber being supplied with compressed air coming from a compressor via a nozzle, the output direction of which is offset radially relative to the mid-axis of the combustion chamber, the chamber end wall including cooling air supply holes inclined to the direction normal to the chamber end wall. The number of holes oriented radially in the direction opposite to that where the outlet of the nozzle is located is greater than the number of holes oriented radially in the direction of the outlet of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventor: Thierry Cortes
  • Publication number: 20130291546
    Abstract: A fuel injection device for an annular combustion chamber of a turbine engine, the device including a pilot circuit feeding an injector, a multipoint circuit feeding injection orifices formed in a front face of an annular chamber, and an annular ring mounted in the annular chamber and including fuel-passing orifices opening out into the injection orifices, each fuel-passing orifice formed in the annular ring including a zone of small section that is extended at least downstream or upstream by an orifice portion of increasing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Cortes, Laurent Bernard Cameriano
  • Publication number: 20130008166
    Abstract: An annular combustion chamber for a turbomachine, including an external wall and an internal wall which are oriented substantially axially relative to the rotation axis of the turbomachine, the combustion chamber being closed upstream by a chamber end wall oriented substantially radially, the chamber being supplied with compressed air coming from a compressor via a nozzle, the output direction of which is offset radially relative to the mid-axis of the combustion chamber, the chamber end wall including cooling air supply holes inclined to the direction normal to the chamber end wall. The number of holes oriented radially in the direction opposite to that where the outlet of the nozzle is located is greater than the number of holes oriented radially in the direction of the outlet of the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventor: Thierry Cortes
  • Patent number: 6976361
    Abstract: The invention relates to ventilating the confluence sheet of an afterburner chamber of an aviation turbomachine, including, upstream from the afterburner chamber: a diffuser defined by a confluence sheet disposed inside a casing, said casing and said confluence sheet defining between them an annular channel for a cold secondary flow, upstream fuel injectors being disposed at the inlet to said diffuser and flame-catchers being disposed downstream from said upstream injectors, said confluence sheet presenting, between the radial plane containing said upstream injectors and the radial plane situated at the rear ends of said flame-catchers two bends so as to flare downstream in order to slow down the primary flow F1 downstream from said upstream injectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Thierry Cortes, Alain Page, Sébastien Baboeuf, Jacques Roche
  • Publication number: 20050274114
    Abstract: The invention relates to ventilating the confluence sheet of an afterburner chamber of an aviation turbomachine, including, upstream from the afterburner chamber: a diffuser defined by a confluence sheet disposed inside a casing, said casing and said confluence sheet defining between them an annular channel for a cold secondary flow, upstream fuel injectors being disposed at the inlet to said diffuser and flame-catchers being disposed downstream from said upstream injectors, said confluence sheet presenting, between the radial plane containing said upstream injectors and the radial plane situated at the rear ends of said flame-catchers two bends so as to flare downstream in order to slow down the primary flow F1 downstream from said upstream injectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURS
    Inventors: Thierry Cortes, Alain Page, Sebastien Baboeuf, Jacques Roche