Patents by Inventor Thomas Sauvalle
Thomas Sauvalle 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).
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Patent number: 11111880Abstract: A nacelle comprising a fixed structure, a fixed cowl, a mobile cowl, and a motor arrangement to translationally displace the mobile cowl from a closed to an open position on the fixed structure. The nacelle comprises a window delimited between the fixed and mobile cowls and open between a secondary turbojet and the outside, a thrust-reversing door rotationally mobile about a rotational axis between retracted and active positions, and a driving mechanism which coordinates and defers the switch from the retracted to the active position with the switch from the closed to the open position. The driving mechanism comprises two connecting rods rotationally mobilely mounted on the fixed structure and bearing a wheel, a mobile cowl groove which slidingly receives the wheel, a guide integral to the thrust-reversing door, and a runner rotationally mobilely mounted between the connecting rods, as well as mounted to slide along the guide.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SASInventor: Thomas Sauvalle
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Patent number: 10655563Abstract: A nacelle has a fixed cowl and a mobile cowl, which is movable along a translation path between closing and opening positions, a window delimited by the fixed cowl and the mobile cowl and open between an airflow and exterior of the nacelle, a reverser flap rotatably mounted to move between closed and open positions, and a drive mechanism configured to control passage of the reverser flap between the closed and open positions as the mobile cowl moves between the closed and open positions. From the closing/closed positions, the drive mechanism assures a translation of the mobile cowl and a rotation of the reverser flap toward their respective opening/open positions. From the open/opening positions, the drive mechanism assures a rotation of the reverser flap and a translation of the mobile cowl toward their respective closed/closing position. In some embodiments, the nacelle further includes an additional, or second, flap.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignees: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.), Airbus (S.A.S.)Inventors: Thierry Surply, Alain Porte, Patrick Oberle, Eric Haramburu, Thomas Sauvalle, Benoit Letay, Frédéric Piard, Vincent Billerot, Franck Oundjian
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Publication number: 20190257267Abstract: A nacelle comprising a fixed structure, a fixed cowl, a mobile cowl, and a motor arrangement to translationally displace the mobile cowl from a closed to an open position on the fixed structure. The nacelle comprises a window delimited between the fixed and mobile cowls and open between a secondary turbojet and the outside, a thrust-reversing door rotationally mobile about a rotational axis between retracted and active positions, and a driving mechanism which coordinates and defers the switch from the retracted to the active position with the switch from the closed to the open position. The driving mechanism comprises two connecting rods rotationally mobilely mounted on the fixed structure and bearing a wheel, a mobile cowl groove which slidingly receives the wheel, a guide integral to the thrust-reversing door, and a runner rotationally mobilely mounted between the connecting rods, as well as mounted to slide along the guide.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventor: Thomas SAUVALLE
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Publication number: 20180149113Abstract: A nacelle has a fixed cowl and a mobile cowl, which is movable along a translation path between closing and opening positions, a window delimited by the fixed cowl and the mobile cowl and open between an airflow and exterior of the nacelle, a reverser flap rotatably mounted to move between closed and open positions, and a drive mechanism configured to control passage of the reverser flap between the closed and open positions as the mobile cowl moves between the closed and open positions. From the closing/closed positions, the drive mechanism assures a translation of the mobile cowl and a rotation of the reverser flap toward their respective opening/open positions. From the open/opening positions, the drive mechanism assures a rotation of the reverser flap and a translation of the mobile cowl toward their respective closed/closing position. In some embodiments, the nacelle further includes an additional, or second, flap.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Inventors: Thierry Surply, Alain Porte, Patrick Oberle, Eric Haramburu, Thomas Sauvalle, Benoit Letay, Frédéric Piard, Vincent Billerot, Franck Oundjian
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Publication number: 20180106216Abstract: A nacelle for a ducted fan turbojet engine comprising an engine. The nacelle comprises a fixed cowl, an upstream wall bounding off, with the engine, a working section for a secondary flow, a movable cowl with an interior wall and an exterior wall, and movable in translation between a closing position where the exterior wall adjoins the fixed cowl and the interior wall prolongs the upstream wall, and an opening position where the exterior wall is distant from the fixed cowl so as to open a window and the interior wall is distant from the upstream wall, an inverter flap between the interior wall and the exterior wall mounted to be free in rotation about an axis of rotation situated on the interior wall and a drive mechanism for moving the movable cowl.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Inventors: Nicolas JOLIVET, Franck OUNDJIAN, Frédéric PIARD, Vincent BILLEROT, Benoit LETAY, Patrick OBERLE, Thomas SAUVALLE, Thierry SURPLY, Alain PORTE
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Patent number: 8666566Abstract: The invention relates to an aircraft control system containing several aircraft control computers (14, 16, 18, 20) for said aircraft, said system having at least one server (10) which: contains at least one aeronautical data base (12); is connected to at least one subassembly of said control computers through data transmission links (26a, 26b, 26c, 26d); is able to supply information from said at least one aeronautical data base to the computers of said control computer subassembly, said at least one server being able to supply information from said at least one aeronautical data base to a computer of said control computer subassembly, in a period of time less than a predetermined duration, upon request from said computer, when said information is not available in a local data base of said computer.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2007Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Eric Peyrucain, Andre Bourdais, Thomas Sauvalle
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Patent number: 8335790Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for transmitting to a user system (3) geographical data that is stored, using a unit-surface sorting, in the database (4) of a provider system (2).Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)Inventors: Thomas Sauvalle, Eric Peyrucain, André Bourdais
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Patent number: 8219307Abstract: An aircraft navigation aid device includes at least one flight management system, an airport navigation aid unit which is incorporated in this flight management system, and a common interface unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2008Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Laurent Valex, André Bourdais, Thomas Sauvalle, Eric Peyrucain
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Publication number: 20120041951Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for transmitting to a user system (3) geographical data that is stored, using a unit-surface sorting, in the database (4) of a provider system (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2008Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: Airbus Operations (SAS)Inventors: Thomas Sauvalle, Eric Peyrucain, André Bourdais
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Publication number: 20100145605Abstract: Aircraft navigation aid device. The device (1) comprises at least one flight management system (2), airport navigation aid means (4) which are incorporated in this flight management system (2), and common interface means (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2008Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SAS)Inventors: Laurent Valex, André Bourdais, Thomas Sauvalle, Eric Peyrucain
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Publication number: 20080119972Abstract: The invention relates to an aircraft control system containing several aircraft control computers (14, 16, 18, 20) for said aircraft, said system having at least one server (10) which: contains at least one aeronautical data base (12); is connected to at least one subassembly of said control computers through data transmission links (26a, 26b, 26c, 26d); is able to supply information from said at least one aeronautical data base to the computers of said control computer subassembly, said at least one server being able to supply information from said at least one aeronautical data base to a computer of said control computer subassembly, in a period of time less than a predetermined duration, upon request from said computer, when said information is not available in a local data base of said computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Applicant: AIRBUS FRANCEInventors: Eric PEYRUCAIN, Andre BOURDAIS, Thomas SAUVALLE