Patents Assigned to SAFRAN
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Publication number: 20250116971Abstract: System for controlling a device provided with at least one equipment item, the control system comprising at least one sensor capable of measuring operating quantities of the device, and two specific channels for measuring a redundant sensor for each equipment item, at least one embedded control means configured to determine a command intended for at least one equipment item as a function of the at least one measurement of the operating quantity of the device and a selected measurement of the controlled equipment item, the control system further comprising a calculating means configured to determine the selected measurement of the at least one controlled equipment item, by means of a Kalman filter observer, as a function of the at least one measurement of the operating quantity of the device and the measurements of the two specific channels for measuring a redundant sensor for the controlled equipment item.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2023Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Seif Eddine Benattia, Pierre Cabrera
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Publication number: 20250116202Abstract: A module including a device for changing the pitch of the vanes about the pitch axes thereof, the device including a hydraulic actuator capable of rotating about the longitudinal axis and configured to rotate the vanes about their pitch axes, a pump for supplying fluid to the hydraulic actuator, including a transmission shaft and a placed around the transmission shaft and rotating as one with the drive shaft, and an electric machine including a rotor rotating as one with the transmission shaft and a stator rotationally fixed relative to the longitudinal axis. The stator can be connected to a power supply cable passing through a passage provided in the third element of the speed reducing gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2022Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Caroline Marie FRANTZ, Bastien Pierre VERDIER, Jean Charles Olivier RODA
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Publication number: 20250118503Abstract: A contactor including a first electrical contact, a second electrical contact, and a movable bridge displaceable between a closed position and an open position, the contactor further including: a lower arc guide including a first portion connected to the first electrical contact, and a second portion connected to the second electrical contact, an upper arc guide including a first portion facing the first portion of the lower arc guide, a second portion facing the second portion of the lower arc guide, and a fuse connecting the first portion and the second portion of the upper arc guide.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2023Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWERInventors: Guillaume PRIEUR, Cecil BELTAN, Kévin ENOUF
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Publication number: 20250116203Abstract: The present invention relates to an assembly (12) for a turbomachine, comprising: —an outer casing (15) made of half-shells; —an inner casing (14); —a plurality of guide vanes (13) mounted between the outer casing (15) and the inner casing (14), —a structural casing comprising a flange (23) which is radially inside the inner casing (14); and—a system (24) for blocking the inner casing (14) on the structural casing, comprising a generally annular tab (25) fixed to one of the inner casing (14) and the structural casing and a complementary chute (26) fixed to the other of the inner casing (14) and the structural casing, the chute (26) being configured to receive the tab (25) and to block it along the axis (X) with respect to the structural casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2023Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Olivier BELMONTE, Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET
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Patent number: 12272190Abstract: A method for monitoring an aircraft component, including the following steps: receiving, from a video acquisition device, a video stream that represents at least one portion of the component; in the event that the realization of a predetermined condition is detected, extracting a portion of the video stream to form a sequence of interest; identifying, within the extracted sequence of interest, at least one image of interest; including a signature, obtained using each image of interest, with at least one predetermined signature from a library of signatures; and generating an anomaly detection signal if the result of the comparison meets a predetermined criterion.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Josselin Xavier Coupard, Alrick Patrick Michel Jacques Verrier
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Patent number: 12270658Abstract: A method of harmonizing a first inertial measurement unit and a second inertial measurement unit with each other includes the steps of: causing a control unit to compare the vectors measured by the inertial measurement units in order to determine a specific force difference and a rotation difference while taking account of the lever arms between the two measurement units; and causing the control unit to determine a harmonization value from the specific force difference and the rotation difference while taking account of the lever arms between the two measurement units. Navigation apparatus performs the method.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSEInventors: Emmanuel Robert, Philippe Elie, Pascal Agostini
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Patent number: 12270348Abstract: Discharge valve of an aircraft turbomachine, including a discharge gate intended to be mounted pivotably about an axis between a position for closing an air passage orifice and an open position of said orifice, the orifice being formed in an intermediate casing of the turbomachine, the discharge valve including a sealing device having a seal configured to be movably mounted on the intermediate casing and a movement system configured to move the seal between a first position in which the seal is intended to bear against the discharge gate when the gate is in a closure position, and a second position in which the seal is retracted with respect to the air passage orifice when the discharge gate is in an open position.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Azath Mohamed, Alexandre Branco, Thierry Georges Paul Papin, Virginie Martine Collin
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Patent number: 12270357Abstract: A method for controlling a turbojet engine thrust reverser during an aborted aircraft takeoff, the thrust reverser including doors movable between a stowed position, an overstowed position and a deployed position; door actuators to move the doors between the stowed, overstowed and deployed positions; a device for locking the doors in the stowed position, moveable between a locking position and an unlocking position; and a lock actuator to move the locking device between the locking and unlocking positions. The method includes decreasing the engine speed of the turbojet engine by following a setpoint value below a first engine speed threshold value at which the aerodynamic forces being exerted on the doors are equal to the forces developed by the door actuators; controlling the door actuators to bring the doors into the overstowed position; controlling the lock actuator to bring the locking device into the unlocking position.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Irène Bujon, Jean-Loïc Hervé Lecordix
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Patent number: 12269604Abstract: A defrosting and acoustic treatment device for an air intake lip of a turbojet engine nacelle includes an embossed acoustic structure that delimits a plurality of acoustic cells, each acoustic cell being delimited by an independent peripheral wall that allows a flow of de-icing air to flow around each acoustic cell.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Safran NacellesInventors: Virginie Emmanuelle Anne Marie Digeos, Patrick Boileau
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Patent number: 12269094Abstract: A method for manufacturing an aeronautical part utilizes injection molding. After injecting the prepared mixtures to obtain two green blanks, an assembly area of at least one of these two blanks is heated. The blanks are assembled and then debinding is carried out. A sintering treatment is then carried out.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Hugo Sistach, Cédric Pierre Jacques Colas, Terence Grall
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Patent number: 12270318Abstract: A blade made of a composite material, the blade including a fibrous reinforcement densified by an organic matrix and being provided, in an attachment zone, with a metal element, wherein the reinforcement includes, in at least one region of the attachment zone, a surface textile orientation adapted to the direction of mechanical stresses by having first skin threads that extend in a main mechanical stress direction and that are bonded to second skin threads transverse to the first threads, the first skin threads making up most of the surface area of the region of the attachment zone.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Pierre-Antoine Bossan, François Charleux
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Patent number: 12270312Abstract: A ventilation ring for a bearing support member of an aircraft turbine engine includes two or more tubular walls and one or more spacer walls. The two or more tubular walls extend opposite each other, and one or more of the tubular walls includes a main portion and a base, the base having a thickness greater than a thickness of the main portion. The one or more spacer walls connect the two or more tubular walls. The one or more spacer walls have one or more apertures extending into the base and a rim around the aperture. An entirety of the rim has a thickness greater than a thickness of the spacer wall at a distance from the rim.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Mickaël Voiron, Fabien Stéphane Garnier, Nicolas Ovaere
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Patent number: 12269780Abstract: A method for coating fibres includes coating short fibres having an average length less than or equal to 5 mm by chemical vapour deposition in a fluidised bed, the short fibres treated being made of ceramic material or carbon and being mixed with spacer particles distinct from the short fibres, the spacer particles having an average diameter greater than or equal to 20 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: SAFRAN CERAMICS, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUXInventors: Arnaud Delehouze, Eric Bouillon, Nathalie Dominique Bertrand, Alain Jean-Michel Guette, Armine El Mansouri
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Patent number: 12269394Abstract: Support (10) for holding a portable electronic device. The support includes a body (12) having an upper pivot location (18) relative to a passenger seat back, a support structure (22) coupled to the body and extendible below a lower edge of the body. The support structure is shaped to receive a lower edge of the portable electronic device and secure the portable electronic device to the body when the portable electronic device is received by the support structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLCInventors: Luis Eduardo Ornelas, Daniel Abraham Chavarria Garcia, Gerardo Terriquez, Teresa del Carmen Antillon, Andres Jimenez
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Patent number: 12270346Abstract: A method for monitoring a starting sequence of a turbomachine including a compressor provided with a rotor, a starter capable of rotating the rotor and a combustion chamber, the method including determining a bracketing of a time zone during which the ignition instant takes place, the bracketing being defined by, on the one hand, a lower limit corresponding to an event necessarily taking place before the ignition instant and an upper limit corresponding to an event necessarily taking place after the ignition instant; and determining between the lower limit and the upper limit, a break point in the variation with time of the measurement signal, this break point corresponding to an ignition instant of the air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Marion Marguerite Jedruszek, Jérôme Henri Noël Lacaille, Thomas Louis Gaston Dumargue
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Patent number: 12270307Abstract: A rotor of a turbine extending around a longitudinal axis includes a rotor disc bearing at its periphery one or more rotor blades, each blade including an airfoil provided at its radially outer end with a platform equipped with an upstream lip and a downstream lip, the platform having a front lateral edge and a back lateral edge with respect to the normal direction of rotation of the rotor about the longitudinal axis, and a suction face portion which extends from the front lateral edge to the suction face of the airfoil. The upstream lip and the downstream lip each includes sawtooth-shaped cut-outs such as to form a front tooth and a back tooth which are contiguous, in that the back tooth has a cutting edge and in that the front tooth of each lip is disposed on the suction face portion of the platform.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Julian Nicolas Girardeau, Benoit Guillaume Silet
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Publication number: 20250109723Abstract: A thrust reverser for an aircraft propulsion assembly, including at least one sealing membrane designed to deflect at least one portion of the secondary flow towards a set of cascades when the movable structure of the reverser is in the retracted thrust reversal position, the reverser also including a first flexible hook connecting a first end of the membrane to the fixed structure of the reverser, a second hook connecting a second end of the membrane to the fixed structure or to the movable structure, the second hook being fixed to the radially inner delimiting wall of the secondary vein, or guided by an internal guide fixed to the same radially inner delimiting wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLESInventors: Gina FERRIER, Patrick GONIDEC, Loïc CHAPELAIN (Deceased), Edouard Marie Gabriel RAMSTEIN, Patrick André BOILEAU
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Publication number: 20250112250Abstract: A component for a solid-oxide electrolyte fuel cell or electrolyser provided with an anticorrosion coating, as well as such a solid-oxide electrolyte fuel cell or electrolyser, the component including an electrically conductive substrate, and an anticorrosion coating deposited on at least one surface of the substrate, the anticorrosion coating including at least one main tantalum-nitride-based layer doped with one or more dopant elements chosen from the family of the transition metals or lanthanides.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicants: SAFRAN, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX, INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE BORDEAUXInventors: Marjorie Christine CAVARROC, Angéline Nadine Jeanne POULON, Fabrice Claude Michel MAUVY, Aurélie Corinne ACHILLE, Dominique Paul Abel MICHAU, Sébastien FOURCADE
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Patent number: 12263936Abstract: An aircraft thruster includes at least a first propeller provided with a plurality of radial blades extending about an axis of rotation of the said first propeller, which is driven in rotation by a first electric motor. An electrical supply of the first electric motor includes power circuits carried by a fairing of the thruster characterized in that the power circuits are arranged in an annular manner in an annular part integral with the fairing of the thruster, this annular part being arranged around the said first propeller.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: SAFRANInventors: Christelle Saber, Sébastien Merle, Sabrina Ayat
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Patent number: 12264625Abstract: An acoustic attenuation panel includes a cellular structure including a plurality of acoustic cells separated from one another by peripheral partitions, a perforated acoustic structure, the perforated acoustic structure and the cellular structure being formed in one piece in a first material, and a porous acoustic layer formed of a second material and fastened to a surface of the perforated acoustic structure by entangling the first material and the second material.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Safran NacellesInventors: Pierre Caruel, Bertrand Desjoyeaux, Bertrand Leroyer, Marc Versaevel, Laurent Georges Valleroy