Patents Assigned to SAFRAN
  • Publication number: 20240384660
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbomachine element (1), comprising at least one blade (2) obtained by additive manufacturing, the blade (2) having a skin (4) and an internal lattice (6) allowing air circulation in the blade (2) and having an additive manufacturing support function for the skin (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Safran Helicopter Engines
    Inventors: Sylvain Pierre VOTIE, Denis Daniel Jean BOISSELEAU, Xavier Roger BETBEDER-LAÜQUE
  • Publication number: 20240383600
    Abstract: A method for unlocking a door of an aircraft landing gear movably mounted between an open position and a closed position includes, during a first sequence of opening the door that is locked in the closed position by a first attachment housing and a second attachment housing, controlling a first unlocking actuator to deactivate the first attachment housing, waiting a first waiting time greater than a time necessary for the door to initiate a passage from the closed position to the open position, so as to enable a detector to detect the door starting to open, detecting the door starting to open by the detector and whether there is a failure of the second attachment housing, and controlling a second unlocking actuator to deactivate the second attachment housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Jérôme FRAVAL
  • Publication number: 20240383611
    Abstract: A method of control of a power generation and control system of an aircraft including: a hybrid propulsion system including an electrical network and a propulsive energy source, at least one non-propulsive energy source, a control unit of the hybrid propulsion system, and an overall aircraft power control unit, characterized in that the method includes: the determination of an operability limit of the propulsive energy source, the monitoring of the operability of the propulsive energy source by the control unit of the hybrid propulsion system, and the control of a power generated by the propulsive energy source by the overall aircraft power control unit when the operability of the propulsive energy source is less than said determined operability limit or the control of a power generated by the propulsive energy source by the control unit of the hybrid propulsion system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Damien Jacques Arthur BONHOMME, Victor DOS SANTOS, Ana TRUC-HERMEL, Guillaume François Daniel BIDAN
  • Publication number: 20240384383
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing a nickel-based alloy product, including: a step of supplying an ingot of a nickel-based alloy including at least one intermetallic phase, a first forging step of forging the ingot, during which the true strain rate is less than 1 s?1, a second forging step of forging the ingot, during which the true strain rate is greater than 1 s?1, and a step of static recrystallisation, after the second forging step, during which the ingot is exposed to a temperature of between 1000 and 1055° C. for a duration of between 30 minutes and 10 hours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Maxime Eric VINCENT, Laurent FERRER
  • Publication number: 20240384655
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling-air injection casing (2) for cooling a bladed rotor disc of a turbine, in particular a high-pressure turbine, of a turbomachine, this casing extending around a longitudinal axis (X-X?) and being traversed by at least one channel (20) forming an air injector, the channel (20) comprising an inlet mouth (201) and an outlet mouth (202).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Jérôme Claude George LEMONNIER, Franck Davy BOISNAULT, Antoine Bruno VAN NOORT
  • Patent number: 12150174
    Abstract: A method and a system for transmitting data in a carrier sense multiple access wireless network wherein a plurality of data transmission devices send respectively at least one data frame at different moments from each other. Each transmission device, when it is initialised: loads the final value of a first, second and third counter, triggers the second counter as from its initial value, triggers, when the second counter has arrived at its final value, the first, triggers, when the first counter has arrived at its final value, the third counter, which is reinitialised to its initial value and retriggered whenever the presence of data is detected on the radio medium, transfers at least one data frame when the third counter has arrived at its final value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Patrice Toillon, Thiebault Jeandon, Cédric Moreau
  • Patent number: 12146445
    Abstract: A method and system control the thrust of an aircraft turbomachine having a high bypass ratio by direct action on a variable-pitch system. The variable-pitch system varies the pitch of the vanes of a stator of a low-pressure compressor for the open-loop control of the thrust of the turbomachine. The method also provides closed-loop control of the pitch of the blades of a propeller based on a rotational speed of the propeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
    Inventor: Rémy Henri Pierre Princivalle
  • Patent number: 12149150
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a superconducting pellet for a superconducting electrical machine, the superconducting pellet having a circumferential wall, the circumferential wall having: a first border, a second border opposite the first border, an inner face connecting the first border to the second border, an outer face opposite the inner face, and a cavity formed between the first border and the second border and defined by the inner face, and an additional wall which covers the first border or is flush with the first border so as to at least partially cover the cavity, or extends from the inner face at a distance from the first border and the second border so as to divide the cavity into two portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN, UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE
    Inventors: Sabrina Siham Ayat, Alexandre Colle, Rémy Biaujaud
  • Patent number: 12146420
    Abstract: An aircraft turbine engine blade includes at least one inner cavity for circulating a ventilation air flow and having a wall with first projecting elements oriented in a first direction and forming air flow disrupters, and at least a second projecting element oriented in a second direction different from the first direction. The second projecting element and at least one of the first projecting elements overlap each other in one area. At least one of the first projecting elements overlaps the second projecting element and has a height (H2, H4?) which is greater than that of the second projecting element in the area and greater than that of the other first projecting elements of the wall, in order to retain its disruptive function along the entire length thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michel Slusarz, Pierre Guillaume Auzillon, Patrice Eneau, Léandre Ostino
  • Patent number: 12145204
    Abstract: A broaching tool includes at least one cutting zone with a cutting face that contacts a workpiece to remove material from the workpiece. At least one cavity corresponds to the cutting zone and is arranged to receive the removed material. A plurality of lubrication channels are supplied with lubricant, each lubrication channel having an inlet opening arranged to receive the lubricant and at least one outlet opening which opens into the cavity. The distance between the outlet openings of two consecutive lubrication channels varies further from the cutting face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Vincent Chomienne, Mickael Rancic
  • Patent number: 12145737
    Abstract: The invention relates to an engine control device comprising a first control channel (V1) and a second control channel (V2), each control channel comprising a first sensor (CAV1, CAV2) and a second sensor (CBV2, CBV2), each configured to provide, respectively, a first measurement (A) and a second measurement (B) to each channel, each of the channels having an active or passive state defining an active channel (V1) or a passive channel (V2), the active channel (V1) being designed to control at least one actuator (ACT) of the engine while the passive channel (V2) is designed to take over for the active channel if the latter fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Christophe Pierre Georges Martin, Sébastien Jacques François Michel Soulie
  • Patent number: 12145748
    Abstract: A method for the non-destructive inspection of an aeronautical component having a step of obtaining a plurality of digital images of a unit area of the aeronautical component, a step of estimating a characteristic image representative of the unit area, each pixel of the characteristic image having a characteristic vector, a step of dividing the characteristic image into a plurality of micro prediction zones, a step of comparing the characteristic vector of each pixel in each micro prediction zone with a previously estimated local statistical model of the micro prediction zone, the local model of a micro prediction zone being obtained by means of a learning algorithm from characteristic vectors of pixels in a micro learning zone of the annotated characteristic image which includes the micro prediction zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventor: Alexis Reynald Paul Huck
  • Patent number: 12145718
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aircraft undercarriage provided at its bottom end with a rocker arm (2) carrying at least two axles (4, 5), including one in front of a hinge between the rocker arm and the undercarriage and the other behind said hinge. According to the invention, one of the axles is fitted with one or more braked wheels (6) and the other axle is fitted with one or more motor-driven wheels (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Jean-Yves Ravel
  • Publication number: 20240376902
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fan blade (3) of a turbomachine (15) comprising a structure (4) made of composite material having, within the root (5) and/or the stilt (6) of the blade, a first layer (11) comprising the lower face (16) and having a first thickness (E1) of between 10% and 25% of the total thickness (E), a second layer (12) comprising the suction face (17) and having a second thickness (E2) of between 10% and 25% of the total thickness (E), and a central layer (13) extending between the first layer (11) and the second layer (12), the shortening of the warp strands (9) in the first and second layers (11, 12) being greater than the shortening of the warp strands (9) in the central layer (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Guillaume Pascal Jean-Charles GONDRE, Nicolas Paul TABLEAU, Julien Paul SCHNEIDER-DIE-GROSS
  • Publication number: 20240376937
    Abstract: A system couples a driving shaft and a driven shaft in rotation and without play. The driving shaft includes a tubular end with at least one internal longitudinal groove receiving the driven shaft and having at its end a projecting cylindrical transverse pin configured to engage in the groove. A return spring for the pin urges the pin without play against a longitudinal edge of the groove. The spring includes a first helical section for fastening to the driven shaft and threaded by screwing through the pin. A second section of the spring bears on the pin, and a third elastic return section of the spring acts elastically on the second section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Bertrand SEVAGEN, Franck ALEXANDRE, Etienne MERLET
  • Publication number: 20240375345
    Abstract: An extrusion head for additive manufacturing includes an enclosure defining a supply chamber. The enclosure includes at least one inlet port opening into the supply chamber and configured to receive a material to be extruded under pressure and a plurality of extrusion nozzles. Each nozzle is in communication with the supply chamber and opens onto the exterior of the enclosure via an outlet orifice. The nozzles of the plurality of nozzles are arranged adjacent to one another with a determined spacing between each nozzle outlet orifice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Nicola PICCIRELLI, Benoît BAZIN, Daniel THERRIAULT, Thierry LAFRANCE, Francis TRUDEAU LALONDE
  • Publication number: 20240377341
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for non-destructively testing a part by means of transmission radiography, which method comprises the following steps of acquiring N projections (P(n)) of the part, generating calculated N images (P(n)) of the part, estimating, by successive iterations, the vector p from an initial vector p=pini and the vector c from an initial vector c=cini and/or the parameter vector a from an initial vector ?=?ini, by minimising the sum of the squared differences between the projections (P(n)) and the images (P(n)), processing the projections (P(n)) and/or the images (P(n)), identifying defects in the part by comparing the processed projections (P(n)) and the processed images (P(n)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicants: SAFRAN, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS), ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS-SACLAY
    Inventors: Cédric FRAGNAUD, Stéphane ROUX, Julian BETANCUR
  • Patent number: 12139275
    Abstract: Techniques and methodologies for servicing a shock strut are provided that account for the variability in gas solubility of the shock strut while in-service. These examples incorporate knowledge of the shock strut's stoke history in order to estimate/predict the amount of gas in solution, its percentage saturation, etc. This may permit a more refined knowledge of the true servicing state of the shock strut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: Safran Landing Systems Canada Inc., Safran Landing Systems
    Inventors: Robert Kyle Schmidt, Jon Smith
  • Patent number: 12139259
    Abstract: Described are passenger seat bottom assemblies that include a layered seat bottom assembly formed of a first face sheet, a lightweight core layer, and a second face sheet bonded together, preferably in a flat or substantially flat arrangement. The core layer can be a honeycomb structure, e.g. a metal or aluminum honeycomb, or a foam, that confers a high strength and stiffness to the seat bottom assembly with minimal forming and minimal weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN SEATS USA LLC
    Inventors: Reza Mansouri, Romain Tranier, Charles Michael Parker, Gokul Ramarathnam
  • Patent number: 12143044
    Abstract: An electrical assembly for an aeronautical turbomachine, including an electric machine configured to be disposed in a turbomachine and comprising a stator and a rotor comprising magnets, the assembly including a short-circuit detecting means, a hot air injecting means configured to draw hot air off the turbomachine at a temperature greater than the temperature of demagnetization of the magnets of the rotor, and to inject the drawn hot air onto the magnets of said rotor when the short-circuit detecting means detects the presence of a short-circuit in the electric machine, and a cool air injecting means, configured to draw cool air off the turbomachine and to inject it into an inner chamber of the turbomachine, the temperature of the cool air drawn by the cool air injecting means being less than the temperature of the hot air drawn by the hot air injecting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventor: Nawal Jaljal