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).

  • Patent number: 11111880
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventor: Thomas Sauvalle
  • Patent number: 10655563
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: 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
  • Publication number: 20190257267
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventor: Thomas SAUVALLE
  • Publication number: 20180149113
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Thierry Surply, Alain Porte, Patrick Oberle, Eric Haramburu, Thomas Sauvalle, Benoit Letay, Frédéric Piard, Vincent Billerot, Franck Oundjian
  • Publication number: 20180106216
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Nicolas JOLIVET, Franck OUNDJIAN, Frédéric PIARD, Vincent BILLEROT, Benoit LETAY, Patrick OBERLE, Thomas SAUVALLE, Thierry SURPLY, Alain PORTE
  • Patent number: 8666566
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Eric Peyrucain, Andre Bourdais, Thomas Sauvalle
  • Patent number: 8335790
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Thomas Sauvalle, Eric Peyrucain, André Bourdais
  • Patent number: 8219307
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Laurent Valex, André Bourdais, Thomas Sauvalle, Eric Peyrucain
  • Publication number: 20120041951
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Thomas Sauvalle, Eric Peyrucain, André Bourdais
  • Publication number: 20100145605
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SAS)
    Inventors: Laurent Valex, André Bourdais, Thomas Sauvalle, Eric Peyrucain
  • Publication number: 20080119972
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: AIRBUS FRANCE
    Inventors: Eric PEYRUCAIN, Andre BOURDAIS, Thomas SAUVALLE