Patents Assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
  • Patent number: 11851201
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine (1) extending along an axis (X), comprising a high-pressure body with a high-pressure compressor (4) coupled in rotation to a high-pressure turbine (6), and a low-pressure body including a low-pressure compressor (3) coupled in rotation to a low-pressure turbine (7), an upstream casing (14) located upstream of the high-pressure compressor (4), and means of suspension (12, 13) for the turbomachine (1), intended for attaching the turbomachine (1) to an aircraft pylon (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Quentin Matthias Emmanuel Garnaud, Guillaume Glemarec, Hervé Jean Albert Mouton, Guilhem Seize, Benoit Bernard René Leclerc
  • Patent number: 11852079
    Abstract: A pump that can be a gear pump that drives a rotating body of an aircraft turbine engine such as a fan shaft, is set in rotation always in the same direction, by virtue of a transmission including an oblique double gear formed by a toothed wheel on the same side as the rotating body and meshing with two pinions connected to a shaft driving the pump through free-wheels with identical driving directions, whereas the pinions have opposite directions of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Emmanuel Fabrice Marie Baret, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Franck Emmanuel Bosco, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse
  • Publication number: 20230407763
    Abstract: Stator structure (22) extending around an axis of the turbomachine and comprising: —a support (50) having an inner surface centred on the axis and —a flange (60) defining an air chamber (A2) and having an outer surface centred on the axis, the support (50) extending around the flange (60) such that the inner and outer surfaces are opposite to each other, the structure (22) defining an oil circuit and an air circuit which are formed by upstream channels (64, 65) and downstream channels (54, 55), —each upstream channel (64, 65) defining an outer opening in the outer surface, —each downstream channel (54, 55) defining an inner opening in the inner surface, each circuit being oriented between the outer and inner openings in a direction comprising a component radial to the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Christophe Marcel Lucien PERDRIGEON, Didier Gabriel Bertrand DESOMBRE, Régis Eugène Henri SERVANT
  • Publication number: 20230407797
    Abstract: An aircraft dual-flow turbine engine assembly includes: an internal shroud for externally delimiting a primary flow path of the turbine engine gases; an external shroud for internally delimiting a secondary flow path of the turbine engine gas; and at least one air discharge duct extending between the internal shroud and the external shroud, the air discharge duct opening into the secondary flow path through an outlet orifice equipped with discharge fins. At least some of the discharge fins are movably mounted so as to be able to be incidence-control between a propulsion position, and a reverse thrust position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Eva Julie LEBEAULT, Philippe Gérard CHANEZ
  • Publication number: 20230408567
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing an engine control unit of an aircraft uses a device having an autonomous and mobile electronic diagnostic unit and connecting means for connecting the unit to an engine control unit of an aircraft. The connecting means advantageously includes a single connection cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Yvan Jean-René BATTUT, Gwenael Thierry ESTEVE, Mathieu Jean Jacques SANTIN
  • Patent number: 11846200
    Abstract: A device for centring and rotationally guiding a turbomachine shaft includes a rolling-element bearing outer ring; a bearing support having a radially inner annular surface surrounding the outer ring; a connection structure connecting the outer ring to the bearing support and including an elastically deformable structure; a first cavity formed between the radially inner annular surface and the outer ring to receive a first damping fluid film; at least one second cavity formed between the bearing support and the connection structure which is arranged radially outside the radially inner annular surface to receive a second respective damping fluid film. Such an arrangement allows for the coexistence of damping fluid films having very different damping properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Alexandre Jean-Marie Tan-Kim
  • Patent number: 11846420
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for a turbomachine including an annular casing delimiting an inner volume of the combustion chamber and provided with a chimney extending to the outside of the inner volume and delimiting a passage for a penetrating part, and a bushing mounted floating on the chimney, further includes: a main air collection chamber open to the upstream arranged facing the downstream portion of the chimney; and a through-opening of the annular casing, connecting the inner volume to the main air collection chamber. The air collected by the main air collection chamber is injected into the inner volume via the through-opening and can cool an annular casing zone downstream of the chimney.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Julien Marc Matthieu Leparoux, Christophe Pieussergues
  • Patent number: 11846194
    Abstract: A set of compression stage(s) of a turbomachine, forming an annular fluid passage and comprising at least one annular stator platform and/or at least one annular rotor platform having an outer longitudinal profile inclined (ISi/IRi) inwards and upstream with respect to a nominal profile of the fluid stream, where the inclination (ISi/IRi) of the outer longitudinal profile of the or each of the annular platforms, relative to the nominal profile of the fluid stream, oscillates along the circumference of the annular platform or platforms, between a maximum value in front of the blades of the annular platform and a minimum value between each pair of adjacent blades of the annular platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michaël Franck Antoine Schvallinger, Mickael Cavarec
  • Patent number: 11846250
    Abstract: A turbofan aircraft propulsion assembly includes a retractable heat exchanger. The heat exchanger can be deployed in a secondary flow path of the propulsion assembly so as to cool a fluid circulating in a circuit of a transfer module of the heat exchanger using a secondary flow circulating in the secondary flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Alexandre Gérard François Couilleaux, Mathieu Lasne
  • Patent number: 11840994
    Abstract: The fuel injection conduits in a multipoint device surrounding a so-called pilot central injection device include tubes of circumferential orientation. By separating the injection conduits from each other, it is possible to attribute to them different head losses which compensate the differences in length that the fuel has to travel: a uniform flow of fuel may be hoped for, for each of the injection holes. The tubes are individual but joined to form a crown that is unitary or composed of two almost symmetrical unitary portions, which lends itself well to manufacture by addition of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien Alain Christophe Bourgois, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Haris Musaefendic
  • Publication number: 20230392519
    Abstract: An aircraft turbomachine module having two tubular casings equipped with first and second annular flanges assembled by studs received in the first flange and receiving nuts on the back of the second flange, each stud having an intermediate stretch of hexagonal shape cooperating with a locking plate. The locking plate can have a first orifice received on the intermediate stretch by at least two opposite walls, and a transverse body which is immobilized to prevent the rotation of the plate and that of the stud. Each plate can be fitted on two immediately adjacent studs and the body can have, for this purpose, a second orifice opposite the first orifice and which is received on an intermediate stretch of an immediately adjacent stud and cooperates with the intermediate stretch of hexagonal shape of the stud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas Daniel DELAPORTE, Antoine GIGUET, Mostafa BENBOUDA
  • Publication number: 20230392507
    Abstract: A blade comprising a blade body made of fiber-reinforced organic-matrix composite material and a leading edge shield made of a material having a better resistance to point impacts than the composite material of the blade body, the leading edge shield being assembled on the blade body and including a pressure side fin and an suction side fin connected by a thicker central part, the blade including an aerodynamic airfoil height and a chord length, the suction side fin having a first length projected onto the chord between 10 and 18% of the chord length, the first length being disposed between 70 and 80% of the aerodynamic airfoil height, a second length projected onto the chord between 18 and 26% of the chord length, the second length being disposed between 85 and 95% of the aerodynamic airfoil height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Charles-Henri Claude Jacky SULLET, Guillaume Pascal Jean-Charles GONDRE
  • Publication number: 20230392502
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a blade (3) of a fan (1), made of composite material, of a turbomachine. On a portion (15) of the blade (7) which extends from a lower limit (16) located at a predetermined distance (d) from the shank (6) of the blade equal to at least 80% of the predetermined height (h) to the top (11) of the blade (7), a dihedral angle (D) measured at at least one predefined point on the chord of the blade (3), located on the chord of the blade (3) at the upstream end (13a) of the nose (13) of the shield (12), is greater than or equal to ?3° and less than or equal to 0°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Guillaume, Pascal, Jean-Charles GONDRE, Stéphane, Roger MAHIAS, Olivier BAZOT, Guillaume, Claude, Robert BELMON, Charles-Henri, Claude, Jacky SULLET
  • Patent number: 11833628
    Abstract: A method of assembling a member and a cap of a vane using a tool which allows the application of a pressing force of the cap against the member during a step of polymerisation by heating a resin for bonding these components. To this end, the tool includes an inflatable bladder and a pocket which surrounds the bladder and the vane so that the inflated bladder applies the pressing force. The heating can be carried out by resistors which are mounted in the bladder and/or using a device for supplying external heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Steven Gérard Joseph Bienvenu, Clément René Roger Sirot
  • Patent number: 11834187
    Abstract: A drive unit includes an engine such as a turbofan engine and a nacelle which includes, on the outside around an annular stream of fresh air, starting from upstream, an air inlet, front side covers, a thrust reverser having reversal gratings and movable rear covers. The front side covers surround the reversal gratings of the thrust reverser when it is closed, and the movable rear covers retreat with said gratings to open the reverser. The engine includes lifting points that form heavy-duty attachment points intended to receive handling clevis for lifting and transporting the drive unit. The lifting points are two upper lifting points arranged on the engine, each on one side of the engine radially behind the front side covers above the horizontal diameter (D) of the drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: Safran Nacelles, Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Patrick Boileau, Bruno Beutin
  • Patent number: 11833614
    Abstract: An assembly of a device for three-dimensional printing by metal deposition comprising a conduit for guiding a metal wire and opening inside an enclosure under an inert atmosphere. The device has means for injecting an inert gas into the conduit of the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Terence Grall, Cédric Pierre Jacques Colas, Hugo Jean-Louis Sistach
  • Patent number: 11834765
    Abstract: A weaving installation includes a loom that receives a series of strands, and at least one device for measuring the diameter of a strand having a defined number of filaments. The device includes a diaphragm having an external ring forming a support on which a series of strips forming an iris are fixed. The strips are movable and allow a substantially circular space with variable dimensions to be defined at the center of the iris. The diaphragm is configured to adjust the dimensions of the space so as to allow a strand of the loom to pass through it, and to encircle the profile of the strand so as to allow the number of filaments in the strand to be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: François Charleux, Steven Gérard Joseph Bienvenu
  • Patent number: 11836057
    Abstract: A method detects and localizes a failure of a measurement acquisition channel in an acquisition system including two redundant acquisition channels for the measurement of a physical quantity in an environment. The method uses a processor with a memory storing a model including modeled values of the physical quantity based on measurements of other physical quantities in the environment. The method includes detecting a symptomatic error of a defective acquisition channel when a deviation between the measured values of the two channels reaches a detection threshold, waiting to let the acquisition system evolve for a certain period, and localizing the defective channel among the two channels, when the deviation of the values measured between the channels reaches a localization threshold different from the detection threshold. The localization is made from the comparison of the measured value of each of the channels with a modeled value of the physical quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien Jean Fernand Deneuve, Charles Ying
  • Publication number: 20230383698
    Abstract: A propulsion system includes a drive shaft that rotates about an axis, a fan, a fan shaft that drives the fan about the axis, a reduction mechanism coupling the drive and fan shafts, a compression section driven by the drive shaft, and an inlet channel that extends between the fan and the compression section. The inlet channel includes inner and outer ferrules delimiting an air inlet flow path, the inner ferrule having a minimum radius. The reduction mechanism includes two reduction stages including two or more planet gears circumferentially distributed around the axis, each planet gear including a first portion meshed with the drive shaft and a second portion meshed with the fan shaft and being mounted fixed with respect to the inner ferrule and having a maximum radius greater than the minimum radius such that the air inlet flow path extends partly between the two or more planet gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Caroline Marie FRANTZ, Gilles Alain Marie CHARIER, Matthieu Bruno Francois FOGLIA, Adrien Louis SIMON
  • Publication number: 20230383665
    Abstract: A bypass turbomachine is disclosed. The turbomachine includes a longitudinal axis having an upstream blower impeller and a downstream air-flow straightening assembly of a secondary annular passage delimited radially on the inside by a radially inner shroud and radially on the outside by a radially outer shroud, blades extending between the radially inner and outer shrouds and being attached at a first end portion to the radially inner shroud and at a second end portion to the radially outer shroud, the blades including a useful portion extending between the first and second end portions and defining a lower face and an upper face. For each blade, in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, each aerodynamically useful portion is bent into a C-shape in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Christophe Marcel Lucien Perdrigeon, Cédric Zaccardi, William Henri Joseph Riera