Patents Assigned to SAFRAN
  • Publication number: 20250067111
    Abstract: The system for controlling the speed of movement of a sliding door for an aircraft comprises a means for electromagnetically braking the door including a transmission shaft and electromagnetic resistive means. The resistive means are autonomous and include a control law relating a first damping value to a first speed threshold of the speed of movement of the door, a second damping value to a second speed threshold of the speed of movement of the door, the resistive means applying on the transmission shaft the resistive torque equal to a first torque proportional to the first damping value when the speed of movement is higher than the first speed threshold, and applying the resistive torque equal to the sum of the first torque and of a second torque proportional to the second damping value when the speed of movement is higher than the second speed threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Daniel Hors, Aurélien Bellier
  • Publication number: 20250070630
    Abstract: Rotor of a rotary electric machine, comprising a body having two opposite lateral surfaces and a surface of revolution, two short-circuiting rings disposed in contact with each lateral surface of the body, and conductors disposed in slots formed on the surface of revolution of the body and each connected to the short-circuiting rings, characterised in that each conductor comprises at least one shoulder aligned with a lateral surface of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN VENTILATION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Claude Pendaries, Xavier Longere, Jacques Vincent, Samuel Bonnard
  • Publication number: 20250066033
    Abstract: An assembly includes an inner wall delimiting a cavity, the inner wall having a first surface facing the cavity, and a second surface opposite the first surface with respect to the cavity, and a sealing device attached to the second surface and including a sealing layer including a material expandable when an opening is formed in the inner wall, and a guide attached to the sealing layer so as to exert a stress on the sealing layer to control a direction of expansion of the material of the sealing layer. The sealing layer has a first face and a second face, and the guide includes a first film attached to the first face and a second film attached to the second face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN AEROSYSTEMS
    Inventors: Valerie BRIAND, Jorge Arturo SOTO PUENTE, Aurélien HERICHER
  • Publication number: 20250069831
    Abstract: A power contactor including: a fixed part; a movable part able to come into contact with the fixed part and to move between an open position and a closed position of the contactor, the movable part including at least one power contact; an auxiliary contact and a pyrotechnic actuator, the auxiliary contact and the pyrotechnic actuator being placed in parallel with the power contact, and the pyrotechnic actuator being configured to be triggered during a levitation of the contactor in such a way as to move the contactor into the open position; and a motor configured to actuate the movable part and to put it in contact with the fixed part characterized in that the power contact and the auxiliary contact are desynchronized in such a way that when the contactor is closed, the power contact comes into contact with the fixed part before the auxiliary contact
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER
    Inventors: Guillaume PRIEUR, Cecil BELTAN, Kévin ENOUF
  • Publication number: 20250065577
    Abstract: A method for producing a part, in particular a part made of composite material, in particular for a turbomachine, including at least: a step of producing a preform, during which a fibrous preform intended to form an outer skin of the part is produced; a step of producing a core, during which a rigid core, in particular a hollow rigid core, intended to form a framework of the part is produced; an insertion step, during which the rigid core is inserted into the fibrous preform, an injection step, during which a matrix is injected into the fibrous preform; and a heat-treatment step, during which polymerisation of the matrix is carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicants: SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Mattéo MINERVINO, Didier FROMONTEIL, Bénédicte LE BORGNE, Gurvan MOREAU
  • Publication number: 20250067200
    Abstract: An adapter is configured to be disposed on the inlet of an oil tank of an aircraft engine. The adapter includes a plug between the adapter and the exterior, and a flapper between the adapter and the oil tank. An adapter cavity located between them is set to negative pressure during flights. When the aircraft is back on the ground, this negative pressure has to be counteracted to open the plug, which can make the opening operation difficult. The adapter includes a lever that counteracts the negative pressure in the cavity of the adapter to allow easy opening of the plug with limited force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
    Inventors: Stéphane Alain Luc Ghislain BOUGELET, Charlotte Michelle Frédérique LAMBION
  • Publication number: 20250067196
    Abstract: An annular air intake lip for a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion assembly is provided. The annular lip can extend about an axis of revolution and include: an external annular wall, an internal annular wall, an upstream annular wall connecting the external and internal annular walls to define an annular cavity therebetween. At least part of the annular lip can include at least one heat transfer coating that is made from a carbon allotrope material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Virginie Emmanuelle Anne-Marie DIGEOS, Caroline COAT-LENZOTTI, Thierry Jacques Albert LE DOCTE
  • Publication number: 20250066026
    Abstract: This parachute comprising a canopy having a leading edge and a trailing edge opposite the leading edge, suspension lines each having a first end attached to the leading edge and a second end that is designed to bear a load, and a slider having through-elements for the suspension lines to pass through, said elements being connected to one another by attachment means, each of said through-elements being passed through by one of the suspension lines and being free to move in translation relative thereto, the slider being designed to slide along the suspension lines that pass through the through-elements in the direction from the first ends of said suspension lines towards their second ends under the effect of gravity and the force generated by the suspension lines spreading apart when the parachute starts a descent, tightening and spreading apart the suspension lines as the canopy inflates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventor: Ronan Chollou
  • Publication number: 20250069832
    Abstract: A power contactor including: a fixed part including two fixed elements; a moveable part able to come into contact with the fixed part and to move between an open position and closed position of the contactor, the moveable part including two switching elements and two conducting elements, and the distance between the fixed part and the two conducting elements being greater than the distance between the fixed part and the two switching elements in open position of the contactor, such that the switching elements come into contact with the fixed part before the conducting elements when the contactor changes from open position to closed position; and a motor configured to actuate and place the moveable part in contact with the fixed part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER
    Inventors: Kévin ENOUF, Guillaume PRIEUR, Cecil BELTAN
  • Patent number: 12234790
    Abstract: An air inlet of an aircraft propulsion unit comprising thrust reversal means configured to modify a bypass air flow circulating from upstream to downstream in a bypass duct into a reverse air flow circulating from downstream to upstream. The air inlet comprising an interior wall defining openings and, in each opening, a mobile member that comprises a covering wall and a deflecting wall and is mounted so as to pivot between a covering position, in which the covering wall obstructs the opening so as to guide the bypass air flow and promote a thrust phase, and a deflecting position, in which the deflecting wall obstructs the opening so as to separate the reverse air flow and promote a thrust reversal phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Ulrick Souveton
  • Patent number: 12234772
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for supplying fuel to a turbomachine. In some embodiments, a fuel circuit includes a pressurisation valve at an outlet of the system and a pump. The circuit may include a flow rate sensor arranged between the outlet of the pump and the pressurisation valve. In some embodiments, the flow rate sensor may include a sliding drawer, a restoring spring, and a sensor for detecting the position of said drawer in order to indicate the flow passing through the flow rate sensor. The system may include a device arranged to drive the pump with a controllable rotational speed and a control configured to control the device on the basis of a measurement supplied by the flow rate sensor, in such a way as to adapt the rotational speed of the pump shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Loïc Pora, Huguette De Wergifosse
  • Patent number: 12234737
    Abstract: A system for controlling discharge doors of a turbomachine includes: a ring and a device connecting the ring to each discharge door. The ring is made up of bars connected end-to-end by rotary links ensuring that a bar pivoting on itself causes the other bars to pivot on themselves, with each discharge door being connected to a corresponding bar in order to open or close when this bar pivots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Nicolas Claude Parmentier, Gabriel Perez
  • Patent number: 12235153
    Abstract: A system for controlling the activation/deactivation of an electromagnetic shielding screen of a porthole or a protective window of an optoelectronic equipment, which includes, a radiofrequency electromagnetic sensor, with a bandwidth adapted to a cut-off band of said shielding screen corresponding to a range of electromagnetic fields to be blocked, connected to a detector-rectifier with a sensitivity higher than a minimum value of the power of an electromagnetic field to be blocked by means of said shielding screen and a device for activating/deactivating said electromagnetic shielding screen, said detector-rectifier being configured, in the presence of the electromagnetic field with a power exceeding said minimum value, to activate said device for activating/deactivating the electromagnetic shielding screen by capturing the electromagnetic energy supplied by said electromagnetic fields with a power exceeding said minimum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE RENNES, SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Quentin Tricas, Patrice Foutrel, Philippe Besnier, Xavier Castel, Claire Le Paven
  • Publication number: 20250060446
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for estimating the direction of arrival of an electromagnetic wave at an antenna array (2), comprising the steps of: —estimating (202) a covariance matrix of signals acquired by the antenna array (2); —calculating (204) a normalised eigenvector of the covariance matrix; —correlating (205) the normalised eigenvector with a first reference table and a second reference table so as to produce a first correlation spectrum and a second correlation spectrum comprising correlation indices associated, respectively, with different directions of arrival; —constructing (312) a third reference table by linear combination of the first reference table and the second reference table with a polarisation component of the electromagnetic wave in the first direction and the second direction, respectively; —correlating (314) the normalised eigenvector with the third reference table so as to produce a third correlation spectrum comprising correlation indices associated with different directions of
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Pierre-Antoine GARCIA, Arnaud LILBERT, Alain Michel CHIODINI
  • Publication number: 20250058898
    Abstract: An electronic device for diagnosing the condition of a system of actuators of an aircraft turbine engine, the device being configured to be coupled to an electrical wiring harness of a turbine engine connecting a computer of a turbine engine to a system of actuators of the turbine engine, the device including a power supply block to power the device, a connection block configured to enable the connection of the device to the electrical wiring harness of the turbine engine to be diagnosed, a communication block configured to send information to a user and to receive instructions from the user, and a control block including a test signal transmission module and modules for measuring the signals received by the device in response to the test signals over a work cycle of the system of actuators of the turbine engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Patrick ARCOUËT, David PEREIRA, Hakim MAALIOUNE
  • Publication number: 20250059918
    Abstract: An aircraft turbomachine has a gas generator that includes, along a longitudinal axis (X), at least one compressor, a combustion chamber, and at least one turbine. The turbomachine further includes at least one duct for supplying liquid to at least one member chosen from an oil jet and a fuel injector. The duct (20) has rectilinear portions and bent portions and includes at least one region in which the liquid is liable to coke. The turbomachine also includes at least one turbulence element in the at least one region in the duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Benjamin Nicolas FULLERINGER, Alexandre DEBAT, Pierre-Marie FONTS, Olivier ROBERT
  • Patent number: 12228074
    Abstract: A fan module for an aircraft turbine engine includes a fan having variable pitch blades and an oil transfer device configured to provide a transfer of oil between a stator and a rotor. The oil transfer device includes a stator ring having internal oil ducts, a shaft inserted into the ring and having internal oil ducts, and an annular support of the ring configured to deform elastically to allow movements of the ring in the radial direction. A plain bearing is located between the ring and the shaft, and roller bearings are mounted between the ring and the shaft on either side of the plain bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Olivier Belmonte, Vincent François Georges Millier, Jean Charles Olivier Roda
  • Patent number: 12228035
    Abstract: A hybrid turbofan engine for an aircraft, comprising a fan, an electric motor/generator and a gas generator, the engine comprising, between the fan and a splitter that separates the flows, an internal wall for delimiting an air duct, situated upstream of inlet guide vanes of a primary duct, and, upstream of outlet guide vanes, an internal upstream wall for delimiting a secondary duct, the motor/generator having a stator carried by a stator support fixed to a stator part of the engine. According to the invention, a plurality of heat pipe for cooling the motor/generator are provided, each heat pipe having an evaporation section fixed to the stator support, and a condensation section fixed to the internal wall or the internal upstream wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Thierry Sibilli, Vincent François Georges Millier, Loïc Paul Yves Guillotel
  • Patent number: 12227293
    Abstract: Described is an adjustable friction slider assembly having a rail member and a carriage assembly moveably coupled to the rail member, the carriage assembly having a bracket member and a plurality of roller elements moveably coupled to the rail member and coupled to the bracket member using a plurality of attachment members, the plurality of roller elements comprising at least one adjustable roller element coupled to the bracket member using a moveable attachment member, wherein moving the moveable attachment member adjusts a friction between the plurality of roller elements and the rail member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Charles Michael Parker, Foek Nguyen Le
  • Patent number: 12228045
    Abstract: A method for repairing an end plate of a turbomachine rotor, the end plate including a crown having at least two collar fastening holes and at least one balancing-weight fastening hole located between the two collar fastening holes, each collar fastening hole being equipped with a crimped nut, the crown having a damaged portion between two collar fastening holes, the method including the steps of removing the two crimped nuts located on either side of the damage; removing the damaged crown portion, for example by machining; putting in place a strip in the form of a crown portion closing off the removed crown portion, the strip having at least one balancing-weight fastening hole and two mounting holes; fastening the strip to the crown with two crimped nuts, which penetrate the mounting holes, by crimping each nut in a collar fastening hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jean-Hilaire Lexilus, Cédric Nicolas Bot, Patrick Jean-Louis Reghezza