Patents Assigned to Aerospatiale
  • Patent number: 12180565
    Abstract: A Nickel-based superalloy, whose composition includes, in percent by weight of the total composition: Chromium: 10.0-11.25; Cobalt: 11.2-13.7; Molybdenum: 3.1-3.8; Tungsten: 3.1-3.8; Aluminium: 2.9-3.5; Titanium: 4.6-5.6; Niobium: 1.9-2.3; Hafnium: 0.25-0.35; Zirconium: 0.040-0.060; Carbon: 0.010-0.030; Boron: 0.01-0.030; Nickel: remainder as well as unavoidable impurities; the composition being free of tantalum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN, OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Anne-Laure Rouffie, Jean-Michel Patrick Maurice Franchet, Didier Locq
  • Patent number: 12158081
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fairing element intended to be placed in a passage for flow of a fluid, in order to surround an obstacle which crosses the passage so that the fairing element guides the flow of the fluid on two opposite sides of the obstacle. The fairing element is designed such that the pressure of the flowing fluid is constant or approximately constant in an upstream part of the suction surface of the fairing element. A fairing element of this kind can be incorporated into a stator of a turbomachine, in particular of an aircraft turbomachine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES
    Inventor: Raphaël Barrier
  • Patent number: 12158379
    Abstract: A sensor for a system for measuring inertial heat flux includes a solid calorimetric element having a thermal conductivity of greater than or equal to approximately 100 W/(m·K) and an electrical conductivity of greater than or equal to approximately 105 S/m; a thermal insulation element partially covering said calorimetric element so as to define a first planar portion which is not covered by the calorimetric element and is configured to be exposed to the heat flux contained in the front face, and a second portion of the calorimetric element being thermally insulated from said heat flux. The sensor includes two wire-based conductive elements which pass through said calorimetric element and are arranged not to be in mechanical contact with one another but to be in electrical contact via said calorimetric element, the two wire-based conductive elements being made of two different thermoelectric materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Nicolas Pelletier, Christophe Corato
  • Patent number: 12112280
    Abstract: A method for box regularized particle filtering, used to predict a state of a system, is modified such that it can be implemented in a parallel manner. The modification concerns a step of redistributing state intervals and in particular a determination of a number of sub-intervals intended to replace each state interval. The method is particularly suitable for being implemented in a navigation system with measurement correlation, for example an aircraft navigation system using ground-correlation, and for being executed by a field-programmable or fixed-gate array circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Nicolas Merlinge, Clément Audebert, Karim Dahia, Bruno Herisse, Jean-Michel Allard
  • Patent number: 12097980
    Abstract: An engine device for an unmanned flying apparatus that provides good weight balance for the flying apparatus; cancels the gyroscopic effect; and has auto rotating propellers. The engine device includes a first cylinder and a second cylinder arranged horizontally and opposed to each other, and pistons within the cylinders advance and retract in opposite directions to each other; a first crankshaft and a second crankshaft arranged in the vertical direction, driven by the first cylinder and the second cylinder, respectively, and rotate in opposite directions; a first centrifugal clutch and a second centrifugal clutch rotate in opposite directions to each other; a final drive shaft transmitting rotational force to a gear mechanism comprising orthogonal transform gears, to rotate a propeller shaft; a one-way clutch arranged between the first crankshaft, the second crankshaft and the final drive shaft, and driven by both the first crankshaft and the second crankshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: ARASE AIZAWA AEROSPATIALE LLC
    Inventor: Kunio Arase
  • Patent number: 12072191
    Abstract: A box regularized particle filtering method implements a binary representation of numbers. This implementation can be used to determine a box division coordinate and/or to modify state intervals according to a fixed probability kernel, for example according to an Epanechnikov kernel. The method can be executed autonomously within a navigation system using measurement correlation, in particular on board an aircraft such as an airplane, a flying drone or any self-propelled airborne vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Nicolas Merlinge, Clément Audebert, Karim Dahia, Bruno Herisse, Jean-Michel Allard
  • Patent number: 12034211
    Abstract: An array antenna is formed from delay lines, and includes radiating elements which are individually connected to line patterns of the delay lines. Such an array antenna structure can be implemented by printed circuit technology and can be used to establish radio links for data communication between a mobile carrier, such as an aircraft, and a geostationary satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Juan Duran, Cédric Martel, Gaëtan Prigent, Olivier Pascal
  • Publication number: 20240167139
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of TiAl intermetallic foundry alloys. More particularly, it relates to such an alloy comprising: 44?Al?47 at. %; 0<Zr<2 at. %; 1?W?2 at. %; and only one of the following elements: 0.5?V?2 at. %; 0.5?Cr?2 at. %; 0<Nb<4 at. %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicants: SAFRAN, OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Pierre Jean Sallot, Zhao Huvelin, Mikael Perrut, Agnès Bachelier-Locq
  • Patent number: 11972595
    Abstract: A gas detector for revealing a target gas includes an image capturing unit with multiple optical channels, an image processing unit and a calculation unit. The image processing unit is adapted for deducing a value of a radiation transmission coefficient which relates to an analysis spectral band, and which is attributable to a quantity of the target gas present in a part of the field-of-view. Preferably multiple analysis bands are used in parallel. The calculation unit is adapted for deducing an evaluation of the quantity of the target gas based on the value of the radiation transmission coefficient which relates to each analysis band. Such a gas detector may have small dimensions, be easily transportable, including on board a drone, and can provide evaluation results for the quantity of the target gas in real-time or nearly real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES, TOTALENERGIES SE
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Foucher, Guillaume Druart
  • Patent number: 11959953
    Abstract: A device is suitable for revealing spatial variations in polarization of an electromagnetic radiation, in a form of localized temperature variations. The device includes a surface of a carrier which is electrically and thermally insulating, and includes an array of patterns which each consist of at least one rectilinear segment of a sensitive material, of which the orientation is variable within each pattern or between neighboring patterns. Such device may be used with a thermal camera to reveal, in infrared images, temperature variations which are localized at segments not perpendicular to a local direction of linear polarization of the radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES, CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES C N E S, UNIVERSITE TOULOUSE III—PAUL SABATIER, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE—CNRS
    Inventors: Daniel Prost, Maxime Romier, Daniel Belot, Patrice Simon, Kévin Brousse, Pierre-Louis Taberna
  • Patent number: 11801933
    Abstract: A device for detecting the approach of a vortex ring state for a rotary wing aerodyne, the detection device including a set of vibration sensors configured to be distributed in or on the aerodyne, and a data processing unit configured to receive in real time measurement data from the sensors, process the data in order to calculate in real time the vibration spectrum of the aerodyne, detect in real time, by vibration analysis, the approach of a vortex ring state as a function of the calculated vibration spectrum, and issue an alarm in the event of detection of the approach of a vortex ring state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: ETAT FRANÇAIS REPRÉSENTÉ PAR LE DÉLÉGUÉ GÉNÉRAL DE L'ARMEMENT, OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES (ONERA)
    Inventors: Laurent Binet, Stéphane Pezet, Marc Prunel
  • Patent number: 11790673
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for detecting cells having at least one anomaly in a cytological sample on the basis of at least one first digitised digitised-electron-microscopy image of the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Zehira Haddad, Stéphane Herbin, Adrien Chan-Hon-Tong
  • Patent number: 11757408
    Abstract: An electrical field detector includes an electromechanical oscillator, part of which is included of a piezoelectric element, a frequency measuring device which is coupled to the oscillator so as to measure the oscillation frequency, and an electrical masking assembly. The electrical masking assembly is arranged close to the piezoelectric element so that, during an use of the detector, the piezoelectric element moves by vibrating relative to the electrical masking assembly. A variable part of the piezoelectric element is thus exposed to the electrical field to be measured. A change in the oscillating frequency then forms an electrical field measurement result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Raphael Levy, Thomas Perrier, Pierre Lavenus, Jean Guerard, Vincent Gaudineau
  • Patent number: 11732588
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes a rotor and a stator, the stator having a plurality of profiled structures, each profiled structure being elongated in a direction of elongation in which the profiled structure has a length exposed to an airflow, and having a leading edge and/or a trailing edge, at least one of which is profiled and has, in said direction of elongation, serrations defined by a succession of peaks and troughs and having a geometric pattern transformed, over at least a part of said length exposed to the airflow, by successive scaling, via multiplicative factors, in the direction of elongation and/or transverse to the direction of elongation. The geometric pattern, as defined with reference to a radial distribution of the integral scale of the turbulence, evolves in a non-periodic manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Fernando Gea Aguilera, Raphaël Barrier, Mathieu Simon Paul Gruber, Cyril Polacsek, Hélène Dominique Jeanne Posson
  • Patent number: 11725261
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nickel-based superalloy comprising, in percentages by mass, 4.0 to 5.5% rhenium, 1.0 to 3.0 ruthenium, 2.0 to 14.0% cobalt, 0.3 to 1.0% molybdenum, 3.0 to 5.0% chromium, 2.5 to 4.0% tungsten, 4.5 to 6.5% aluminum, 0.50 to 1.50% titanium, 8.0 to 9.0% tantalum, 0.15 to 0.30% hafnium, 0.05 to 0.15% silicon, the balance being nickel and unavoidable impurities. The invention also relates to a single-crystal blade (20A, 20B) comprising such an alloy and a turbomachine (10) comprising such a blade (20A, 20B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: SAFRAN, OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Jérémy Rame, Virginie Jaquet, Joël Delautre, Jean-Yves Guedou, Pierre Caron, Odile Lavigne, Didier Locq, Mikael Perrut
  • Patent number: 11709087
    Abstract: An optical device for the contactless measurement of a liquid level contained in a storage device by an optical signal, the optical device including an optical unit fixedly positioned above the storage device and an electronic control unit capable of emitting an optical signal, dissociated from the optical unit and positioned at a distance from the optical unit. The optical unit includes a single channel for the emission and the reception of the optical signal. The optical unit is connected to the electronic control unit through an optical fibre capable of transmitting the optical signal emitted by the electronic control unit and an optical signal reflected by the liquid. The optical fibre has first and second optical cores that juxtapose each other such that at least a part of the optical signal emitted in the first optical core of the optical fibre is backscattered in the second optical core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignees: OFFICE NATIONAL D'ÉTUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES, ARCYS
    Inventors: Romain Ceolato, Nicolas Riviere
  • Patent number: 11703386
    Abstract: Disclosed is an instrument including a multipath, monolithic optical component, made up of a portion of a transparent material between two opposite faces of the component. One of the two faces of the component is formed by a first refracting surface, and the other face includes several second refracting surfaces which are juxtaposed. Each optical path of the component is formed by one of the second refracting surfaces in combination with a corresponding portion of the first refracting surface. One such component is suited for being part, within the instrument, of a detection module with multiple optical paths arranged in parallel, with a matrix photodetector shared by the optical paths. Such a detection module may be compact enough in order to be integrated into a cryostat cold screen, improving cooling thereof, and may be combined with an objective in order to form an instrument with multiple optical paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Guillaume Druart, Florence De La Barriere
  • Patent number: 11668196
    Abstract: A profiled structure for an aircraft or turbomachine is elongated in a direction in which the structure has a length exposed to an airflow and includes serrations defined by successive teeth and depressions. The serrations may be transverse to a leading edge and/or a trailing edge of the profiled structure and in the direction of elongation. Along the profiled leading edge and/or profiled trailing edge, the successive teeth and depressions may extend only over a part of the length exposed to the flow. The amplitude and/or spacing of the teeth may vary monotonically except for the few teeth nearest each end of the part, with a remaining part of the length being smooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Fernando Gea Aguilera, Raphaël Barrier, Mathieu Simon Paul Gruber, Cyril Polacsek, Hélène Dominique Jeanne Posson
  • Patent number: 11616304
    Abstract: An antenna (100) for emitting radiation from at least one electromagnetic traveling wave which propagates along a guide path is designed to reduce reflection of the traveling wave likely to occur at the end of the guide path. To this purpose, the guide path has at least one portion in the form of a spiral segment (11, 12), which is connected to another portion of the guide path in the form of a loop (13). Gain in the antenna's reflection coefficient can be obtained in this manner, which is effective in particular near a lower frequency limit of a transmission band of the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Cédric Martel, Jérôme Massiot, Olivier Pascal, Nathalie Raveu
  • Patent number: 11585927
    Abstract: A LIDAR-type device for a remote spectroscopy of a matter includes an optical emission channel that includes a laser source and an optical waves frequency generator to generate a first comb, a second comb, and a local comb. Each comb includes at least one stripe. A transmit telescope emits an emission signal. A reception channel includes a receive telescope that receives a signal reflected by the matter traversed by the emission signal and a detection system that detects a first beat signal of the at least one stripe of the local comb with the corresponding first stripe of the first reflected comb, a second beat signal of the at least one stripe of the local comb with the corresponding second stripe of the second reflected comb, and a third beat signal of the at least one first beat signal with the at least one second beat signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES, CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES
    Inventors: Philippe Hebert, Francois Lemaitre, Nicolas Cezard