Patents Assigned to SAFRAN
  • Publication number: 20240245282
    Abstract: An inspection tool configured to be fitted to an endoscope includes a body with an attachment portion configured to be attached to one end of the endoscope, and an opening. The tool further includes a transparent element with at least one visual reference mark having a calibrated dimension, wherein the transparent element is mounted at the opening in the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Bertrand Hunald CARPUAT, Jessica LESLOURDY
  • Publication number: 20240246140
    Abstract: A method includes coating of one or more zones of the refractory alloy part, using a treatment composition including one or more types of preceramic polymer, a solvent and one or more active fillers, and heat treating the coated refractory alloy part, the heat treatment allowing to partially convert the preceramic polymer to form a ceramic layer, the active filler forming on a surface of the refractory alloy part, one or more ternary alloys and forming a continuous layer between the surface of the refractory alloy part and the ceramic layer obtained by conversion. The heat treatment forms a continuous layer of the ternary alloy. The treatment composition includes, relative to the total weight of the treatment composition, a weight proportion of between 40% and 66% of the one or more active fillers, and an active filler/preceramic polymer weight ratio is greater than or equal to 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicants: SAFRAN, COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Mathieu SOULIER, Richard LAUCOURNET, Jacky BANCILLON, Alexander MONTANI, Mirna BECHELANY, Virginie JAQUET, Amar SABOUNDJI
  • Publication number: 20240250585
    Abstract: Aircraft electric propulsion system including: a motor including a hollow rotor, and a power and control electronics device, in which the power and control electronics device includes at least two ring-shaped electrical tracks each including at least two inverters, the inverters being connected to each other in parallel, wherein the electrical tracks delimit a hollow circular part of the power and control electronics device, the hollow circular part being placed in the axis of the hollow rotor of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER
    Inventors: Samir NEHME, Vincent CHAPERON, Sonia DHOKKAR, Raïs M'FUMU AMBIL
  • Patent number: 12044168
    Abstract: Disclosed is an air intake of a turbine engine nacelle extending along an axis in which a flow of air circulates from upstream to downstream, the air intake extending annularly about the axis, the air intake having a movable upstream portion and a stationary downstream portion, at least one controllable movement member for moving the movable upstream portion between a retracted position and an extended position in order to enable circulation of an air flow passing between the movable upstream portion and the stationary downstream portion, at least one de-icing circuit having at least one circulation channel fluidically connecting the movable upstream portion and a hot air source, the circulation channel having at least one non-telescopic upstream pipe and at least one telescopic downstream member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Hazem Kioua, Pierre Charles Caruel, Jean-Philippe Joret, Charles-Antoine Lampaert
  • Patent number: 12043389
    Abstract: The present invention provides an aircraft passenger accommodation unit comprising a seat, a shell that allows a passenger egress between an aisle and the seat through an opening, and a door assembly comprising a door slidable with respect to the shell between a retracted position and an extended position, a slide track attached to the shell, a slide runner for sliding along the slide track, and a connection mechanism for selectively connecting the door to the slide runner, wherein the door has a first sliding mode in which the connection mechanism connects the door to the slide runner and wherein the slide runner slides along the slide track, and a second sliding mode in which the connection mechanism does not connect the door to the slide runner and wherein the door slides in relation to the slide track. The invention also provides a door arrangement and associated methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Safran Seats GB Limited
    Inventor: Paul John Wills
  • Patent number: 12044141
    Abstract: A disclosed method is suitable for repairing a blade of a turbomachine rotor, particularly a turbomachine fan, that includes a vane made from an organic-matrix composite and a metallic shield that is bonded to a leading edge of the vane and has a damaged region. The method includes steps of resetting the leading edge of the vane cooling the entire vane, followed by a step of refilling the damaged region by adding a metallic material to this damaged region and melting the material using a laser, and a step of tailoring the damaged region by machining the molten material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien Maurice Lucien Charpentier, Sébastien Jean François Rix
  • Patent number: 12042849
    Abstract: A casting ring having a first section made of a heat-conductive material and a second section made of a MAX phase alloy material, and a method for obtaining a product made of titanium alloy or a titanium-aluminum intermetallic compound by plasma torch melting, the alloy having an oriented structure, the method including heating the molten alloy surface in the casting ring with a plasma torch; cooling a cold zone of the casting ring over a length L1, the cooling forming a semi-solid crown of alloy; heating a hot zone of the casting ring over a length L2, thereby forming a solidification front, the flatness of which relative to a plane perpendicular to a drawing direction is less than 10°; and drawing the solidified alloy at a speed of more than 10?4 m/s in the drawing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Safran
    Inventor: Pierre Jean Sallot
  • Patent number: 12044193
    Abstract: A thrust reverser including doors and at least one flexible deflector obstructing a lateral opening of the thrust reverser when the doors are open. Such a deflector allows better controlling the airflows in thrust reverser configuration and maximizing the counter-thrust force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Sebastien Laurent Marie Pascal, Patrick Gonidec, Alexandre Phi, Paul Ferrey
  • Patent number: 12044137
    Abstract: Lubrication module for at least one lubrication station of a turbomachine, the lubrication module comprising at least one positive displacement pump including a pump body delimiting a main chamber configured to be in fluid communication with a main lubrication circuit and an auxiliary chamber configured to be in fluid communication with an auxiliary lubrication circuit, and a piston movably mounted in the pump body between an inactive configuration and an active configuration, the piston being configured to perform, in the active configuration, a pumping movement between a top dead center and a bottom dead center by cooperation with a cam of a shaft of the turbomachine and, in the inactive configuration, not to cooperate with the cam of the shaft of the turbomachine, the positive displacement pump including a return element configured to return the piston to the active configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Abdallah Badidi
  • Patent number: 12044305
    Abstract: A planetary reduction gear (10) for an aircraft turbine engine, said reduction gear comprising a rotatable sun gear, a rotatable ring gear (9) and satellite gears meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear and carried by a planet carrier intended to be fixed to a stator, the reduction gear further comprising an annular trough for recovering and channelling lubrication oil that is mounted around the ring gear, characterised in that the reduction gear further comprises an annular deflector (22) fixed to the ring gear and configured to route the oil exiting radially towards the outside of the ring gear up to the trough by virtue of centrifugal forces, the trough comprising an annular chamber (18) which is axially remote relative to a median plane (P) substantially passing through the centre of the ring gear, and an annular duct (20) located on a side of said chamber and emerging in said chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Christophe Paul Jacquemard, Didier Gabriel Bertrand Desombre
  • Patent number: 12042847
    Abstract: A method for making a wax model for the manufacture of a part, the part including at least one cavity, the method including: arranging at least two core elements made of a ceramic material into a wax mold, the core elements having at least partially a shape complementary to the cavity of the part to be manufactured, and injecting wax into the wax mold, around the core elements, so as to form the wax model, the two core elements being assembled prior to the injection of wax by at least one staple, the staple including a central portion from which two branches extend, each branch being fitted into an orifice formed in one of the core elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Didier Maurice Marceau Guerche, Joseph Toussaint Tami Lizuzu
  • Patent number: 12044410
    Abstract: A combustion assembly for a gas turbine includes a flame tube and a fuel supply including a flow rate limiter supplying an injector. The flow rate limiter and the fuel injector are formed in one piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas Roland Guy Savary, Christophe Lailhacar, Olivier Lamaison, Stéphane Lavignotte
  • Patent number: 12043404
    Abstract: A hybrid propulsion chain for an aircraft, the hybrid propulsion chain comprising a plurality of propulsion rotors connected to an electrical distribution module by a plurality of electrical connections, the electrical distribution module being connected, on the one hand, to a non-propulsion turbine engine via an electrical generation system and, on the other hand, to an electric battery, each propulsion rotor comprising a stator member and at least one rotor shaft which is configured to be rotated with respect to the stator member when the stator member is electrically powered, the hybrid propulsion chain comprising an auxiliary mechanical drive system mechanically connected to the non-propulsion turbine engine, the auxiliary mechanical drive system comprising a plurality of mechanical connections for mechanically rotating at least one rotor shaft of each propulsion rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Camel Serghine, Thomas Klonowski, Lois Pierre Denis Vive
  • Patent number: 12044566
    Abstract: A measuring device including a measuring equipment that is configured to be optically interrogated by a measuring instrument with first optical signals in a first wavelength range, and a connecting optical fibre for optically connecting a measuring equipment to a measuring instrument. The connecting optical fibre includes at least a first optical core that is multimode in the first wavelength range and a second optical core that is single-mode in a second wavelength range. The connecting optical fibre includes at least one first segment of functionalised optical fibre that is such as to exhibit, at the second wavelength, and optical property that varies with an environmental parameter of the connecting optical fibre. The invention also relates to a measuring assembly and to an apparatus that includes such a measuring assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Nassim Salhi, Minh Chau Phan Huy, Ioannis Stasinopoulos
  • Publication number: 20240240012
    Abstract: A composition formed of an epoxy resin incorporating a fire retardant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Safran Cabin Inc.
    Inventors: Bhaskar Biswas, Jack V. Lally
  • Publication number: 20240239025
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relates to an acoustic metamaterial, as well as to a method for manufacturing the same. The acoustic metamaterial includes a plurality of channels or columns each having the same cross-section with a hydraulic radius between 5 and 300 ?m, which channels or columns are arranged with a periodic spacing between 2 and 600 ?m. This results in a highly dense network that can provide optimal acoustic absorption and/or impedance over a wide frequency range. The method for manufacturing the same includes additive manufacturing with a plurality of consecutive material deposition steps to form, in each step, a layer comprising a plurality of periodically repeated cells separated by walls. The layers deposited in the consecutive material deposition steps are stacked with their respective cells aligned to form channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DU MANS
    Inventors: Josué COSTA BAPTISTA, Edith-Roland FOTSING, Annie ROSS, Jacky Novi MARDJONO, Jean BOULVERT, Daniel THERRIAULT
  • Publication number: 20240240573
    Abstract: A turbomachine fan module includes a fan shaft and a lubrication chamber traversed axially by at least part of the fan shaft. The module further includes at least one first bearing configured to support and guide the fan shaft in rotation. The fan shaft has a first tubular part closed by a cover, wherein the first tubular part has a distal end and a proximal end that are opposite each other along a longitudinal axis X and an annular squealer cavity, formed in an inner surface of the fan shaft, between the distal end and the proximal end. The cover has a body extending along the longitudinal axis X and mounted in the first tubular portion so as to cover and sealingly close the annular squealer cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Olivier FORMICA
  • Publication number: 20240240599
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly including an actuator connected to an outer casing of a turbomachine by a connecting structure. The connecting structure is fastened in line with a structural arm connecting the outer casing to a hub of the turbomachine, with a common fastening device, with the result that the arm can withstand loading forces of the actuator while relieving the outer casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventor: Patrick André BOILEAU
  • Publication number: 20240241297
    Abstract: A multispectral filter with a filtering array for a sensor with an array of elementary sensors, said filtering array comprising an elementary pattern formed of an arrangement of N elementary cells capable of filtering central wavelengths ?1, . . . , ?k, . . . , ?N, the position of the central wavelengths in the elementary pattern being determined so that: each wavelength being associated with an integer e1, . . . , ek, . . . , eN, selected so that each of the products e1x ?1, . . . , ekx ?k, . . . , eNx ?N is substantially constant, each central wavelength ?k is positioned at ek positions in the elementary pattern so that the maximum ratio between the distance between two proximal positions of said central wavelength and the associated central wavelength is minimal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventor: Arnaud DAVENEL
  • Publication number: 20240239474
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pitch change mechanism for a turbine engine propeller (10) comprising: — an electric machine (29) fixedly mounted on a stator portion of the turbine engine and comprising an actuator shaft (21); — an axial piston hydraulic pump (20) suitable for pressurising a hydraulic fluid, the hydraulic pump comprising a body (22) driven by the propeller (10); a barrel (23) housing a set of pistons (24) each comprising a sliding block (25); and a plate (26) that is tilted with respect to the axis of rotation, each sliding block bearing on the plate, one of the plate (26) and the barrel (23) being fixedly connected to the stator portion of the turbine engine and the other of the plate (26) and the barrel (23) being fixed to the actuator shaft (21) for conjoint rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventor: Huguette DE WERGIFOSSE