Patents Assigned to SAFRAN
  • Publication number: 20260162641
    Abstract: The invention relates to an acoustic attenuation structure comprising a lower multicellular structure and an upper multicellular structure, at least part of the cells of the upper multicellular structure opening out at least partially into one or several cells of the lower multicellular structure, the acoustic attenuation structure being characterized in that a hollow acoustic element having a shape gradually tapering between a base and a top is present in each cell of at least part of the lower multicellular structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 11, 2026
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Nicolas Pierre LANFANT, Jacky Novi MARDJONO, Hugues Laurent ALGLAVE, Marc VERSAEVEL, Patrick DUNLEAVY
  • Patent number: 12643296
    Abstract: A facility for pairing a metal shield to a leading edge of a preform made of composite material for the production of an aircraft turbine engine blade, the facility including a support configured to receive and hold the metal shield, —a movement hexapod which carries the support and is able to move the support along and about the three axes of an XYZ coordinate system, —an automaton which includes jaws and is configured to receive and hold the preform, and —a computing unit for controlling the hexapod and the automaton with a view to producing the pairing. The invention also relates to a method for pairing the metal shield to the leading edge of the preform made of composite material for the production of the aircraft turbine engine blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Thierry Patrick Chauvin, Benoit Bazin, Adrien Touze
  • Patent number: 12637740
    Abstract: A titanium alloy includes, in content by weight 4.0% to 5.0% aluminium; 3.50% to 4.50% tin; 1.0% to 4.0% zirconium; 2.0% to 5.25% molybdenum; 1.0% to 2.50% niobium; 0.10% to 0.25% silicon; 0.10% to 0.18% oxygen; the remainder being titanium and unavoidable impurities, the alloy further being such that the Aleq criterion, referred to as equivalent aluminium content by weight, is less than or equal to 8.5%, the Aleq criterion being defined as Aleq=[Al]+[Sn]/3+[Zr]/6+10*[O] where, [Sn], [Zr] and [O] are the contents by weight of aluminium, tin, zirconium and oxygen respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignees: SAFRAN, TIMET SAVOIE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE, OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Edern Menou, Jérome Delfosse, Yvon Millet
  • Publication number: 20260139601
    Abstract: Disclosed is a variable pitch vane for a turbomachine fan comprising a blade (60) and a root (62). The root (62) comprises a bulb (72) and a stalk (74) connecting the bulb (72) to the blade (60), the bulb (72) being connected to the stalk (74) by a neck (82) defining a local minimum of the cross-section of the root (62) along a plane orthogonal to the pitch axis. At least one segment of the root (62) including the neck (82) and at least a portion of the stalk (74) comprises a surface layer and an inner layer between the pitch axis and the surface layer, the inner layer having a stiffness strictly greater than the stiffness of the surface layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Bastien TRANQUART, Vincent JOUDON, Vivien Mickaël COURTIER, Rémi GRENÊCHE
  • Patent number: 12631455
    Abstract: A navigation assistance method for a mobile carrier including an inertial navigation unit, at least one inertial sensor, an estimation unit performing steps of: parametrization of a non-linear system configured to estimate a navigation state of the mobile carrier over a given time interval at an iteration n as a function of a kinematic model and/or measurements; linearization of the system so that the system expresses a navigation state at iteration n as a function of the state at iteration n?1 and a correction to this navigation state; estimating a first correction of a navigation state at iteration n; estimating a second correction of the navigation state at iteration n; determining a third correction by merging the first and second corrections; and correcting the navigation state at iteration n as a function of the third correction, the corrected state being used at iteration n+1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignees: SAFRAN, LA RECHERCHE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS—A.R.M.I.N.E.S.
    Inventors: Paul Chauchat, Axel Barrau, Silvère Bonnabel
  • Patent number: 12623310
    Abstract: A device for laser heating of a mechanical part of the turbine blade or turbine blade element type, including: one or more laser emitters, for respectively emitting at least a first laser radiation at a first predetermined power towards a first target area of the part and for emitting a second laser radiation at a second predetermined power towards a second target area of the part, different from the first target area, the second predetermined power being different from the first predetermined power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Damien Jonathan Julien Courapied, Guillaume Valentin Giamondo Marion
  • Patent number: 12623277
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignees: SAFRAN, COMMISSARIAT L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Mathieu Soulier, Richard Laucournet, Jacky Bancillon, Alexandre Montani, Mirna Bechelany, Virginie Jaquet, Amar Saboundji
  • Patent number: 12627247
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an operating setpoint for an electrical power source, receiving a measurement of a voltage of an electrical bus connecting the electrical power source to an electrical receiver, comparing the measurement of the voltage with a template having limits of change over time for the voltage, and controlling the electrical power source such that if the measurement of the voltage lies within the limits of the template, the electrical power source applies the operating setpoint, and if the measurement of the voltage lies outside the limits of the template, the electrical power source regulates the voltage so as to restore the voltage to within the limits of the template. The method is implemented by a controller of the electrical power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Florent Rougier, Victor Dos Santos, Anne Marie Lienhardt
  • Patent number: 12618371
    Abstract: The invention relates to a conditioning system (SC) for fuel (Q), which is configured to supply an aircraft turbine engine (M) with fuel (Q) from a cryogenic tank (R), the conditioning system (SC) comprising at least one first heat exchanger (31) configured to heat the flow of fuel (Q) to a circulation temperature (Te), at least one second heat exchanger (32) configured to heat the flow of fuel (Q) to an injection temperature (Ti), a distribution valve (4) configured to divide a direct fuel flow (Q1) and a recirculated fuel flow (Q2), configured to circulate in a recirculation branch (12) so as to reheat the main fuel flow (Qp) in the first heat exchanger (31) by means of the recirculated fuel flow (Q2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Samer Maalouf, Cyrille Marie Pierre-Alain Lambert
  • Publication number: 20260110310
    Abstract: A casing of a turbine engine compressor including an inner annular wall and an outer annular wall delimiting therebetween an annular cavity. The inner annular wall includes a plurality of slots hollowed out in the thickness of the wall, the slots being arranged next to one another in a circumferential direction and each extending in an axial direction. The casing further includes a sliding ring present in the annular cavity of the casing. The sliding ring is movable in the axial direction between an open position in which the slots in the inner annular wall of the casing open into the annular cavity and a closed position in which the sliding ring covers at least some slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Publication date: April 23, 2026
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Simon Pierre Michel MARTIN, Gabriel PEREZ, William Henri Joseph RIERA
  • Patent number: 12607552
    Abstract: A method for focusing acoustic waves on an interface between two layers of a multilayer structure includes providing laser means able to emit a laser beam toward an exterior surface of the multilayer structure to produce a longitudinal wave from the centre of a laser-beam spot projected onto the exterior surface and a transverse wave from the periphery of said spot, determining the distance between said interface and the exterior surface, determining one or more propagation velocities of each of the longitudinal wave and the transverse wave in the one or more layers passed through by said waves to reach said interface, and determining a radius of the laser-beam spot depending on the one or more propagation velocities and on said distance so that the time taken by the longitudinal wave to reach said interface is equal to three times the time taken by the transverse wave to reach said interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignees: SAFRAN, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, SORBONNE UNIVERSITE, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D'ARTS ET METIERS (ENSAM), CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL DES ARTS ET METIERS
    Inventors: Mathieu Loïc Ducousso, Edouardo Cuenca, François Coulouvrat, Laurent Berthe
  • Patent number: 12605903
    Abstract: A tracer strand for the weaving of a composite material part reinforcement, the tracer strand including one or more carbon yarns twisted with one or more yarns of a material having a color contrasting with the color of the carbon yarns, the yarns being twisted together according to a twist included between 10 turns per meter and 80 turns per meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignees: SAFRAN, ALBANY
    Inventors: Dominique Marie Christian Coupe, Yann Didier Simon Marchal, Brock Gilbertson
  • Patent number: 12607419
    Abstract: A plate heat exchanger, in particular for an aircraft turbo machine, between a first fluid and a second fluid, the first fluid being intended to circulate in a first direction and the second fluid being intended to circulate in a second direction different from the first direction, the heat exchanger having stacked stages for circulation of the first fluid, and profiled elements at the inlet and outlet of the stages, the profiled elements having a sawtooth-shaped cross-section and defining channels converging at the inlet of the stages and diverging at the outlet of the stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventor: Ephraim Toubiana
  • Publication number: 20260104242
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system comprising: a harness for a weaving loom and a device for monitoring the manufacture of a preform woven by the loom, the monitoring device comprising: a plurality of sensors, each sensor of the plurality of sensors being connected to one of the plurality of strings and being configured to measure a deformation of the string, the deformation being induced by a force exerted by the loom on the string to which the sensor is connected; and a processing unit connected to the plurality of sensors and configured to analyse the deformation so as to identify a manufacturing abnormality on at least one string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 16, 2026
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Pietro DEL SORBO, Bastien TRANQUART, Salah Eddine MERMOULI
  • Patent number: 12600098
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a vane made of composite material for a turbomachine, including the steps of three-dimensional fibre weaving and producing a fibrous preform, reinforcing an edge of the preform intended to form a leading edge of a blade of the vane, by integrating a metallic reinforcement on this edge, mounting the preform and the reinforcement in a mould, densifying the preform by a matrix to form the vane, wherein, prior to the integration of the reinforcement, the method includes a step of introducing at least one reinforcement support configured to be interposed between the reinforcement and the edge, and wherein at the densification step, the support is enveloped with the matrix to bond the edge and the reinforcement with a predefined and homogeneous minimum thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: William Albouy, Pierre-Antoine Bossan, Justine Delozanne, Pierre Francois Robin Geraud-Grosheny, Jerome Olhagaray, Marc Waris
  • Patent number: 12600488
    Abstract: A superconducting flux barrier electric machine, including one induced element and one inductor, the inductor including one superconducting induction coil and a rotary portion forming a rotor, and the induced element including one arrangement of electromagnetic coils coaxial with the superconducting induction coil, the rotor comprising superconducting pellets mounted radially inside the superconducting coil on an axis of rotation of the machine, where the electromagnetic coils are made of superconducting material and the induced element and the inductor are arranged in an assembly forming a cooling chamber provided with specific cooling means for the superconducting elements of the induced element and the inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignees: SAFRAN, UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE
    Inventors: Sabrina Siham Ayat, Alexandre Colle, Rémy Biaujaud
  • Patent number: 12589560
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a grid made of composite material for straightening an air flow for an aircraft turbine engine. The described method is based on the use of longitudinal members (301) which have recesses (303) to allow the penetration of connecting elements (304) into said recesses during the manufacture of the grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Nicolas Pierre Lanfant, Maximilien Eddie Farrands, Pierre Francois Robin Geraud-Grosheny
  • Patent number: 12590356
    Abstract: A nickel-based superalloy powder comprising, by mass percent, 14.00 to 15.25% chromium, 14.25 to 15.75% cobalt, 3.9 to 4.5% molybdenum, 4.0 to 4.6% aluminum, 3.0 to 3.7% titanium, 0 to 200 ppm carbon, the remainder consisting of nickel and unavoidable impurities. Component made from the powder and manufacturing process of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Sébastien Jean Richard, Jérémy Rame
  • Patent number: 12589859
    Abstract: This control device for a propulsion system, comprising means for calculating a blade-pitch setpoint of at least one propeller of the propulsion system, the calculation means using a performance predictive model of the propeller taking account of at least one flight speed for adapting a blade-pitch angle setpoint, is characterised in that the performance predictive model of the propeller is configured to use polar charts implemented in the form of a mathematical law.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2026
    Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Henri Yesilcimen, Anthony Binder, Panagiotis Giannakakis
  • Patent number: 12583147
    Abstract: A method for producing a bladed component for an aircraft turbine engine, this bladed component comprising including a blade which has a stacking axis and at least one longitudinal end of which is connected to a transverse platform, the method including the steps of: a) producing a fibrous preform, this preform including a first part that is intended to form a blade and at least one second part that is intended to form a platform, this second part of the preform including a disconnect that defines two stacked portions that are separated by a disconnect surface that is substantially parallel to the axis, b) folding the portions, respectively, on two opposing sides of the first part, and c) stiffening the preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Nicolas Pierre Lanfant, Sebastien Pautard