Patents Assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
  • 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: 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: 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
  • 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: 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20240240567
    Abstract: A method for mounting an annular abradable element in an annular groove of a member of a turbomachine. The annular abradable element extends along an axis and includes a cellular structure, the groove opening out at the radially inner periphery of the member. The method includes the steps of stressing the abradable element in such a way as to deform it in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the non-deformed annular abradable element, with the aid of a device; positioning the deformed abradable element axially opposite the annular groove, inside the member; freeing the abradable element in such a way that it inserts itself into the groove and recovers its annular shape there.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Quentin Alexandre Da Silva, Bastien Gilbert Assouly
  • Publication number: 20240240574
    Abstract: Equipment for treating an annular component of an aircraft turbomachine includes a support of elongate shape along an axis. The support includes, at one of its ends, a mount configured to receive the component, which is intended to extend about the axis. A cover is configured to be mounted on the component and to cover an upstream end of this component. The cover includes an orifice oriented along the axis (X). A clamping member passes through the orifice and is configured to cooperate with the support and to fix the cover to the support. An annular masking gasket extends about the axis and is configured to be interposed between the mount and a downstream end of the component. The gasket has an annular groove configured to be a counter-form of the downstream end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Christelle MUTH-SENG, William DUARTE, Guillaume GAVA
  • Patent number: 12037915
    Abstract: The invention relates to a casing (3) of an aircraft turbomachine, said casing comprising: —an annular shell (9) extending around an axis A and made of a composite material comprising fibres which are woven and embedded in a resin, —an annular layer (4) made of abradable material extending inside the shell, around axis A, and obtained by spreading and polymerising a paste, and—support panels (10) which extend around axis A and are interposed between the shell and the abradable layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Ambroise Nicolas Marie Malfroy, Nicolas Francois Paul Broussais-Colella, Matthieu Patrick Jean Roger Perlin, Adrienne Retiveau-Leca
  • Patent number: 12037924
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a blade from composite material having an added metal leading edge for a gas turbine aeroengine includes producing a blade body from composite material including a blade root part, a shank part and an airfoil body part; manufacturing, via additive manufacturing, a leading edge extending in a longitudinal direction between a lower end present at the shank part of the composite material and an upper end present at the tip; bonding the manufactured leading edge onto the foremost edge portion of the airfoil body of the blade body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Guillaume Pascal Jean-Charles Gondre, Olivier Bazot, Matthieu Pierre Michel Dubosc
  • Patent number: 12037691
    Abstract: A method of compacting an anti-corrosive paint comprising metal particles and covering a mechanical part such as a turbine engine part, the method comprising a step of at least one spraying of solid ice particles on the part so as to densify and to make the paint electrically conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Léa Rébecca Gani
  • Patent number: 12037925
    Abstract: A turbine rotor includes a disc with cavities, a plurality of blades, each with a root received in one of the cavities, and an axial retention system including a first series and a second series of strips circumferentially distributed around an axis of the rotor, the first and the second series being axially superimposed and arranged such that at least two strips circumferentially adjacent to the first series are axially superimposed on a strip of the second series and each strip of the first and second series is arranged opposite a cavity of the disc so as to axially block the root of a blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Patrice Jean-Marc Rosset
  • Patent number: 12037922
    Abstract: A turbomachine blade includes a blading made of composite material with a fibrous reinforcement densified by a matrix and a metal leading edge formed by a metal foil, the foil having an intrados fin and an extrados fin which extend respectively over intrados and extrados faces of the blading by conforming to an airfoil of the blade, wherein the blade also includes at least one unidirectional fabric ply made of composite material on the leading edge between the blading and the metal foil, each unidirectional fabric ply extending at least partially over the intrados and extrados faces of the blading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Azalia Moradi, Bassem Ben Belgacem, Célia Iglesias Cano
  • Patent number: 12037947
    Abstract: A device for distributing at least one fuel flow for a circuit for supplying fuel to a combustion chamber of a turbo machine, in particular of an aircraft, the device including a rotating main body extending about a longitudinal axis, the main body including an internal flow duct for a first flow of fuel, extending through the main body along the axis, a first annular portion configured to form an outlet passage for a second flow of fuel, and including at least one orifice for the second flow of fuel to pass through, and an external annular groove in fluidic communication with the at least one orifice in the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Kevin Didier Pierre Le Normand, Frederic Brettes, Loic Pora
  • Publication number: 20240229709
    Abstract: A propulsion unit including: a gas generator including a compressor, a combustion chamber, a turbine, at least two compressed-air propulsion modules, each propulsion module including: a fan, a compressed-air turbine configured to drive the rotation of the fan, a manifold allowing the respective turbines of the compressed-air propulsion modules to be supplied with compressed air, wherein the manifold is configured to collect and mix: at least a portion of the flow that has passed through the combustion chamber of the gas generator, typically as it leaves the turbine, and at least one bypass flow, the bypass flow being a flow of air which is not passed through the combustion chamber of the gas generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicants: INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DE L'AERONAUTIQUE ET DE L'ESPAC, SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Miguel Angel AGUIRRE, Sébastien DUPLAA, Bernard ROBIC, Benoit RODRIGUEZ, Nicolas Jérôme Jean TANTOT
  • Publication number: 20240229662
    Abstract: A turbine engine nozzle extending about an axis and including a vane assembly mounted between an outer shroud and an inner shroud; and a position retaining device configured to be placed in an elastically prestressed state between the inner shroud and an inner platform of the vane assembly to apply a stress on the vane assembly towards the outer shroud. The contact between the inner shroud and the inner platform is obtained by one same surface of the position retaining device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Sébastien Serge Francis CONGRATEL, Aurélien GAILLARD, Matthieu Arnaud GIMAT, Clément JARROSSAY, David René Pierre LE CAIR
  • Publication number: 20240229657
    Abstract: The turbomachine subassembly comprises:—at least one tow-pressure nozzle ring, the nozzle ring comprising a root (38) integral with the nozzle ring;—a clamp (40) configured so as to fasten the root to a casing of the turbomachine; and—at least two pads (150) interposed between the root and the clamp, each pad being assembled in a form-fitting manner with one of either the root or the clamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Alice Marie CLEMENT, Paul GRANDIN, Clément MARCHAND, Vijeay PATEL, Mireya SANCHEZ GOMEZ
  • Publication number: 20240229723
    Abstract: A turbomachine including a low-pressure shaft, a stator supporting the low-pressure shaft by bearings including a rear bearing; an electrical machine located at a rear portion of the turbomachine and including a rotor disconnectably driven by the low-pressure shaft and a stator surrounding the rotor and attached to the stator of the turbomachine; the turbomachine includes a journal for supporting the rotor of the electrical machine, the journal including a shaft segment releasably attached to a rear end of the low-pressure shaft by extending the low-pressure shaft, a frame to which the rotor of the electrical machine is attached and which surrounds the shaft segment, and at least one bearing mounted between the frame and the shaft segment; and a sleeve that is axially movable about the low-pressure shaft and/or the shaft segment that is rotationally connected to the low-pressure shaft and the shaft segment
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Gilles Alain Marie CHARIER, Romain TRUCO, Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET
  • Publication number: 20240229671
    Abstract: A distributor for a turbine of a turbomachine. The distributor includes a radially inner platform, a blade and a root which is coated with a track made of an abradable material. According to the invention, the distributor includes a leakage gas reintroduction duct. The duct includes an inlet through the track made of an abradable material, an outlet opening through a downstream surface of the root, and a duct intermediate portion which extends from the inlet up to the outlet. The duct intermediate portion is orientated with a tangential component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jérôme Claude George LEMONNIER, Franck Davy BOISNAULT, Antoine Bruno VAN NOORT
  • Publication number: 20240229655
    Abstract: Assembly for a turbomachine blade, comprising: a fastener (9) defining a pocket (10) for receiving a blade root (11), and comprising two flanks defining between them a passage leading into the pocket (10) and forming stops preventing the root (11) from exiting from the pocket (10) via the passage, a shim (26a, 26b) adapted to be received in the pocket (10) with the root (11), the shim (26a, 26b) having a first support surface (28a, 28b) to bear on the root (11) and a second support surface (30a, 30b) opposite the first support surface (28a, 28b) to bear against the fastener (9), the support surfaces being fixed relative to each other and oriented such that movement of the shim (26a, 26b) in the pocket (10) relative to the fastener (9) varies the value of force exerted by the shim (26a, 26b) on the root (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Vivien Mickaël COURTIER, Christophe Paul JACQUEMARD, Vincent JOUDON