Patents Assigned to SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
  • Patent number: 12264598
    Abstract: A sub-assembly for a low-pressure compressor of an aircraft turbine engine includes a straightener provided with cantilevered vanes and a rotor hub having a cavity covered by an inner shroud opposite the vanes. Orifices are made in the inner shroud to allow an air flow to circulate in the downstream to upstream direction of the low-pressure compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
    Inventor: Stéphane Hiernaux
  • 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: 20250035039
    Abstract: A system for cooling oil in an aircraft turbine engine includes an intermediate support casing configured to be located between a low-pressure compressor and a high-pressure compressor of the aircraft turbine engine. The system further includes a heat exchanger for cooling the oil by heat exchange with air. The heat exchanger is at least partially integrated into the intermediate support casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicants: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS, GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Xavier VANDENPLAS, Bruno SERVAIS
  • Patent number: 12209594
    Abstract: A turbomachine of the type with an unducted fan, comprising: a separation nozzle splitting an air flow into a primary flow and a secondary flow; a compressor compressing the primary flow; and an air/oil heat exchanger; wherein the exchanger is positioned in a channel through which a tertiary flow passes, the tertiary flow being drawn from the secondary flow upstream of the exchanger and meeting at least one annular row of rotor blades of the compressor downstream of the exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: Safran Aero Boosters, General Electric Company
    Inventor: Rémy Henri Pierre Princivalle
  • Patent number: 12209512
    Abstract: A group of stator vanes for a row of stator vanes of a stage of a turbomachine compressor, the vanes of the group of stator vanes being close together and affording easy assembly. The group of stator vanes include a platform of a first vane having an aperture for accommodating the head of a second vane, the outer surface of the platform of the first vane being in contact with the inner surface of the platform of the second vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
    Inventors: Théo Robin Thomas Bour, Christophe Joseph Richard Gillain Remy
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20240328354
    Abstract: A system for cooling oil in an aircraft turbine engine includes an intermediate support casing configured to be located between a low-pressure compressor and a high-pressure compressor of the aircraft turbine engine. The system further includes a heat exchanger for cooling the oil by heat exchange with air, wherein the heat exchanger is at least partially integrated into the intermediate support casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
    Inventors: Xavier VANDENPLAS, Bruno SERVAIS
  • Publication number: 20240240578
    Abstract: Module (60) for attracting and detecting ferromagnetic debris in an oil flow from a turbomachine, the module (60) comprising: a permanent magnet (62); a bar (64), the bottom (66) of which extends radially and is wound around a coil (70). The coil (70) is able to detect the magnetic field generated by the magnet (62) and in particular its variations when a ferromagnetic particle comes into the vicinity of the magnet (62).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
    Inventors: Nicolas Oscar Louis Ghislain RAIMARCKERS, Aurélien Guy Edmond Raoul MEUNIER, Samuel JOTTRAND
  • Publication number: 20240229659
    Abstract: A sub-assembly for a low-pressure compressor of an aircraft turbine engine includes a straightener provided with cantilevered vanes and a rotor hub having a cavity covered by an inner shroud opposite the vanes. Orifices are made in the inner shroud to allow an air flow to circulate in the downstream to upstream direction of the low-pressure compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
    Inventor: Stéphane HIERNAUX
  • Publication number: 20240183279
    Abstract: A group of stator vanes for a row of stator vanes of a stage of a turbomachine compressor, the vanes of the group of stator vanes being close together and affording easy assembly. The group of stator vanes include a platform of a first vane having an aperture for accommodating the head of a second vane, the outer surface of the platform of the first vane being in contact with the inner surface of the platform of the second vane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
    Inventors: Théo Robin Thomas BOUR, Christophe Joseph Richard Gillain REMY
  • Patent number: 11986914
    Abstract: A system for disengaging a drive shaft from a bearing support. An assembly formed by the drive shaft and the bearing support is placed above a cylinder, which pushes on the drive shaft by passing by the central hole of the bearing support. The bearing support is driven upwards, but is blocked by a first and a second force transfer device, which allows the drive shaft to be disengaged from the bearing support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Safran Aero Boosters
    Inventors: Amaury Marechal, Colin Arnaud Felix Dhalluin, Jerome Nadaud
  • Patent number: 11980934
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a turbine engine vane a root connected to a blade extending in a longitudinal direction includes the steps of providing a root; and providing mold with a first cavity and a second cavity that together define a recess in which the vane is formed. The recess includes a first space in which the blade is formed and a second space in which the root is formed. The method further includes the steps of providing aluminum strips; positioning a fibrous reinforcement; arranging the vane root in the second space; and injecting a foam comprising aluminum or injecting an aluminum alloy into the first space of the recess of the mold such that the foam impregnates the fibrous reinforcement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
    Inventors: Yann Jean-Pierre Lefaux, Pierre Jean Sallot
  • Publication number: 20240133304
    Abstract: A sub-assembly for a low-pressure compressor of an aircraft turbine engine includes a straightener provided with cantilevered vanes and a rotor hub having a cavity covered by an inner shroud opposite the vanes. Orifices are made in the inner shroud to allow an air flow to circulate in the downstream to upstream direction of the low-pressure compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
    Inventor: Stéphane HIERNAUX
  • Publication number: 20240117747
    Abstract: A stator vane assembly for a compressor of an aircraft turbine engine includes an inner shroud, an outer shroud and stator vanes. The stator vanes are attached only to the inner shroud and are in non-immobilizing mechanical contact with the outer shroud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
    Inventors: Théo Robin Thomas BOUR, Matthieu Edouard Henri DROELLER, Christophe Joseph Richard Gillain REMY
  • Patent number: 11946384
    Abstract: A compressor casing for a turbine engine, the casing comprising: a housing comprising a radially inner e surface; an upstream ferrule; and a downstream ferrule; each of the ferrules having a respective inner surface capable of defining an air stream, and each of the ferrules having an outer surface facing the inner surface of the housing, the ferrules being attached to the cantilevered housing and being axially arranged so as to be separated by an axial clearance. Additionally, a turbine engine comprising such a casing and a stage of variable-setting vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS SA
    Inventor: Morgan Vyvey
  • Publication number: 20240075586
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sandblasting mask (50) as well as its use for the sandblasting of blade tips in a method comprising a step of positioning a plurality of sandblasting masks (50), each blade passing through an opening (58) of a mask and each blade tip extending projecting from the respective mask, the masks being assembled two by two preferably without play; and a step of sandblasting the protruding blade tips of the masks. The masks (50) are preferably produced by plastic additive manufacturing and coated with a polyurea-based coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
    Inventors: Matthieu Edouard, Henri DROELLER, Michael Leon, Josephe TRAFALSKI, Kevin Francois, Michel MALAISE
  • Patent number: 11920481
    Abstract: A turbomachine compressor module, comprising an annular array of structural arms defining inter-arm spaces between two circumferentially adjacent arms; and an annular array of stator vanes with variable orientation about a respective axis (A) and disposed at least partially within the inter-arm spaces. The arms are provided with flaps pivotable about a respective axis (B). Also, a turbomachine provided with such a module and a row of rotor blades directly downstream of the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS SA
    Inventor: Cédric Carl Nathan Cracco
  • Patent number: 11898468
    Abstract: A sub-assembly for a low-pressure compressor of an aircraft turbine engine includes a straightener provided with cantilevered vanes and a rotor hub having a cavity covered by an inner shroud opposite the vanes. Orifices are made in the inner shroud to allow an air flow to circulate in the downstream to upstream direction of the low-pressure compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
    Inventor: Stéphane Hiernaux
  • Publication number: 20240009784
    Abstract: A system for disengaging a drive shaft from a bearing support. An assembly formed by the drive shaft and the bearing support is placed above a cylinder, which pushes on the drive shaft by passing by the central hole of the bearing support. The bearing support is driven upwards, but is blocked by a first and a second force transfer device, which allows the drive shaft to be disengaged from the bearing support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
    Inventors: Amaury MARECHAL, Colin Arnaud Felix DHALLUIN, Jerome NADAUD
  • Patent number: 11858061
    Abstract: A tooling holds a blade during friction welding to a rotor element. The tooling includes a fixed jaw having a central part; two arms separated by a distance d for receiving at least one portion of the blade; and a fixed jaw body with bearing surfaces and a bore for receiving at least one portion of the blade. The bearing surfaces are configured to come into contact with the blade. A movable jaw includes a movable bearing surface that comes into contact with the blade, and pressure means that moves the movable jaw towards the fixed jaw body to press the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS
    Inventor: Bruno Henri Marcel Vreuls