Patents Assigned to CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN AERONAUTIQUE ASBL-CENAERO
  • PROPULSION DEVICE HAVING UNDUCTED COUNTER-ROTATING AND COAXIAL ROTORS
    Publication number: 20140133982
    Abstract: A propulsion device including an unducted upstream propeller and a counter-rotating and coaxial downstream propeller. At least one blade of the upstream propeller is configured to generate a corotating secondary vortex for acting upstream of the downstream propeller to destabilize a blade tip vortex of the same at least one blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicants: CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN AERONAUTIQUE ASBL-CENAERO, SNECMA
    Inventors: Clement Marcel, Maurice Dejeu, Sebastien Pascal, Jerome Talbotec, Michael Leborgne, Ingrid Irene, Catherine Lepot