Patents by Inventor Vasiliki Iliopoulou

Vasiliki Iliopoulou 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: 9957973
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a subsonic rotor and/or stator blade profile of an axial turbomachine compressor, such as a turbojet. The blade comprises a leading edge with an S-shaped lateral profile in its mid-plane. Specifically, the profile includes, from its inner end to the outer end, a first convex portion including the foremost point of the blade, and a second concave portion including the rearmost area of the blade. This profile enables the fluid flow between 20% and 80% of the blade's length to be redistributed. This so-called “sweep” profile increases the performance of the stage with such blades because it reduces blade tip vortex losses as well as secondary losses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Safran Aero Boosters SA
    Inventor: Vasiliki Iliopoulou
  • Patent number: 9488179
    Abstract: A turbine engine compressor including a casing having its inside wall defining an aerodynamic reference surface for a gas-passing passage and in which a rotor wheel having radial blades is mounted. A circumferential trench is formed in the inside wall of the casing. Its shape is defined from upstream to downstream by three surfaces, respectively an upstream surface, a middle surface, and a downstream surface, which surfaces are substantially conical. The upstream surface extends upstream from the leading edges of the blades. The middle surface is substantially parallel to the aerodynamic reference surface. The downstream surface extends downstream at least as far as the trailing edges of the blades. The junction between the middle and downstream surfaces is in a range of 30% to 80% or 50% to 65% of the axial length of the blades starting from their leading edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Vincent Paul Gabriel Perrot, Agnes Pesteil, Lieven Baert, Vasiliki Iliopoulou
  • Patent number: 9200638
    Abstract: A rotor of a turbomachine compressor, including a bladed rotor disk fitted at its radially external end with a wall forming the inner end of an annual flow channel of a primary gas flow, and formed from multiple angular sectors, each of which is delimited between two blades of the disk which are consecutive in a circumferential direction and includes a bulging portion which is convex in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction, together with, upstream from the bulging portion, a troughed portion which is concave in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction and which has a base which is roughly punctiform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignees: SNECMA, CENAERO
    Inventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Alexandre Franck Arnaud Chartoire, Vasiliki Iliopoulou, Ingrid Lepot, Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht
  • Publication number: 20140356154
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a subsonic rotor and/or stator blade profile of an axial turbomachine compressor, such as a turbojet. The blade comprises a leading edge with an S-shaped lateral profile in its mid-plane. Specifically, the profile includes, from its inner end to the outer end, a first convex portion including the foremost point of the blade, and a second concave portion including the rearmost area of the blade. This profile enables the fluid flow between 20% and 80% of the blade's length to be redistributed. This so-called “sweep” profile increases the performance of the stage with such blades because it reduces blade tip vortex losses as well as secondary losses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventor: Vasiliki Iliopoulou
  • Publication number: 20130156559
    Abstract: A turbine engine compressor including a casing having its inside wall defining an aerodynamic reference surface for a gas-passing passage and in which a rotor wheel having radial blades is mounted. A circumferential trench is formed in the inside wall of the casing. Its shape is defined from upstream to downstream by three surfaces, respectively an upstream surface, a middle surface, and a downstream surface, which surfaces are substantially conical. The upstream surface extends upstream from the leading edges of the blades. The middle surface is substantially parallel to the aerodynamic reference surface. The downstream surface extends downstream at least as far as the trailing edges of the blades. The junction between the middle and downstream surfaces is in a range of 30% to 80% or 50% to 65% of the axial length of the blades starting from their leading edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Vincent Paul Gabriel Perrot, Agnes Pesteil, Lieven Baert, Vasiliki Iliopoulou
  • Publication number: 20120201692
    Abstract: A rotor of a turbomachine compressor, including a bladed rotor disk fitted at its radially external end with a wall forming the inner end of an annual flow channel of a primary gas flow, and formed from multiple angular sectors, each of which is delimited between two blades of the disk which are consecutive in a circumferential direction and includes a bulging portion which is convex in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction, together with, upstream from the bulging portion, a troughed portion which is concave in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction and which has a base which is roughly punctiform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicants: CENAERO, SNECMA
    Inventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Alexandre Franck Arnaud Chartoire, Vasiliki Iliopoulou, Ingrid Lepot, Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht