Patents Assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
  • Patent number: 11813745
    Abstract: Mobile robot for inspecting a turbomachine comprising at least a measuring device and a body including an assembly of at least three rigid segments each having two opposite longitudinal ends, the longitudinal ends of each segment being equipped with a hinge including a ball joint, each ball joint comprising a motorized wheel mounted therearound, the measuring device being mounted on a ball joint located at one end of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Thomas Jean Michel Lepage
  • Patent number: 11815027
    Abstract: The invention relates to a firewall (112) for a turbomachine (100) auxiliary arm (106). This firewall (112), which has one or more through openings (180) in a thickness direction (Z) of the firewall (112), comprises a fixed portion (120) and a first removable portion (130) extending, in a width direction (Y), orthogonal to said thickness direction (Z), from at least one adjacent opening among the through openings (180), to a first outer edge (190) of the firewall (112). To open this firewall (112) in order to allow access to one or more ducts and/or electrical cables (111) received in the through openings (180), the first removable portion (130) can be dismantled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Harold Patrice Pou, Frédéric Dautreppe, Bertrand Romain Adrien Dufour, Frédéric Jacques Eugène Goupil
  • Patent number: 11815034
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for supplying fuel to a turbomachine. In some embodiments, the system includes a pump, a hydromechanical group, a drive device positioned to drive the pump, and a branch comprising actuators for controlling variable geometry. In some embodiments, the system regulates a fuel flow rate based at least in part on a flow rate set point value. In some embodiments, the system may include a flow rate sensor. A flow rate loop may be arranged to determine a pressure set point value at the outlet of the pump according to the flow rate set point value and a measurement supplied by the flow rate sensor. In some embodiments, a pressure sensor may be positioned in the fuel circuit at the outlet of the pump. In further embodiments, a pressure loop may control the speed of the drive device based at least on a difference between a pressure measurement supplied by the pressure sensor and the pressure set point value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Huguette De Wergifosse, Loïc Pora, Eric De Wergifosse
  • Patent number: 11814982
    Abstract: A rotor vane for an aircraft turbine engine includes a blade extending between an inner platform and an outer platform which carries at least one projecting lip. The blade has a lower surface and an upper surface, and the outer platform includes, on the side of the lower and upper surfaces, lateral edges configured to cooperate in a form-fitting manner with complementary lateral edges of adjacent vanes. Each of the lateral edges has an anti-wear coating, and one of the lateral edges forms a hollow tip (P) with a bowl configured to receive the coating and further including a first concave cylindrical surface portion, the geometric dimensions of which are optimized to limit the risk of cracks appearing when the coating is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Mallat-Desmortiers, Peter Shamma Jeanty, Eric Jacques Delcoigne, Edouard Emmanuel Garreau, Thomas Tsassis, Samuel Laurent Noël Mathieu Juge, Lucas Geoffrey Desbois
  • Publication number: 20230358143
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fan blade of a turbomachine comprising a structure made of composite material comprising a fibrous reinforcement obtained by three-dimensional weaving of strands and a matrix in which the fibrous reinforcement is embedded, which comprises a first portion forming the suction-side wall and a second portion forming the pressure-side wall, the strands of the fibrous reinforcement comprising first strands comprising carbon or aramid fibres, the Young's modulus of which is greater than 250 GPa, and second strands produced from a viscoelastic material and having a Young's modulus less than 10 GPa, the first portion comprises uniquely first strands whereas the second portion comprises second strands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Clément Pierre POSTEC, Thomas Alain DE GAILLARD, Guillaume Pascal Jean-Charles GONDRE, Pierre-Antoine Gérard Joseph BARBIER
  • Publication number: 20230361699
    Abstract: An actuating device of a pump of a fuel pumping system of an engine, including a motor, a generator, an inverter, a switching member and a control member, the motor including a first rotor coupled to the pump and a first stator including at least one input stator winding, the generator including a second rotor coupled to a drive shaft of the engine, and a second stator including at least one output stator winding, the control member being configured to control the switching member in order to selectively connect each input stator winding: to a corresponding output stator winding if a speed of the engine is higher than or equal to a predetermined speed; to a corresponding output of the inverter, otherwise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Huguette DE WERGIFOSSE, Clément DUPAYS
  • Patent number: 11808212
    Abstract: A drive shaft of an aircraft turbine engine includes a first portion and a second portion, and connecting means connecting the first and second portions and being configured to transmit a torque from the second portion to the first portion. The connecting means has at least one bellows with a first section having a diameter greater than the diameters of the first and second portions and second sections flanking the first section. The first section includes at least one fusible section with at least one through-hole and being configured to break when the value of a torque applied to the first portion exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Arnaud Nicolas Negri, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Romain Guillaume Cuvillier
  • Patent number: 11808171
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blade of a fan of a turbomachine, comprising a structure made from composite material, including a fibrous reinforcement obtained by means of the three-dimensional weaving of strands and a matrix in which the fibrous reinforcement is embedded,—the fibrous reinforcement comprising a first portion forming the leading edge and a second portion forming all or part of the trailing edge,—the strands of the fibrous reinforcement comprising first strands having a predetermined elongation at break and second strands having an elongation at break higher than that of the first strands, the first portion comprising all or some of the first strands while the second portion comprises all or some of the second strands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Paula Salas De Los Rios, Thomas Alain De Gaillard, Teddy Fixy
  • Patent number: 11808456
    Abstract: A combustion chamber includes a bottom wall having at least one opening, at least one sleeve mounted upstream of the bottom wall and fixed to the bottom wall, a closing ring defining an annular groove with the sleeve and fixed to the sleeve, and at least one air and fuel injection system having an axis, mounted in the opening of the bottom wall. The injection system has an annular flange extending radially with respect to the axis and is mounted in the groove with radial clearance. A baffle is situated downstream of the bottom wall and is fixed to the sleeve and/or to the bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, William Louis Rodolphe Dousse, Benjamin Frantz Karl Villenave
  • Patent number: 11808217
    Abstract: A method for regulating the temperature of the exhaust gases of a turbomachine, the method including regulation of the injection of fuel into a combustion chamber of the turbomachine so that the turbomachine generates a target thrust; regulation of the injection of mechanical power by an electric motor onto a shaft driven in rotation by a turbine, the electric motor being activated when a clearance between a casing and the blades of the turbine exceeds a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Guillaume Cuvillier, Pierre Cabrera
  • Patent number: 11808170
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbomachine assembly, comprising: a casing (10), a first rotor (12) which is movable in rotation with respect to the casing (10) about a longitudinal axis (X-X), and comprising: *a disk (120), and *a plurality of blades (122) capable of flapping with respect to the disk (120) during a rotation of the first rotor (12) with respect to the casing (10), a second rotor (140) which is movable in rotation with respect to the casing (10) about the longitudinal axis (X-X), and a damper (2) which is configured to damp a displacement of the first rotor (12) with respect to the second rotor (140) in a plane orthogonal to the longitudinal axis (X-X), the displacement being caused by a flapping of at least one blade (122) among the plurality of blades (122), the damper (2) comprising: o a first bearing part (21): *bearing against the first rotor (12), and *being configured to apply a first centrifugal force (C1) to the first rotor (12), o a second bearing part (22): *bearing against the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Philippe Gérard Edmond Joly, Romain Nicolas Lagarde, Jean-Marc Claude Perrollaz, Laurent Jablonski, François Jean Comin, Edouard Antoine Dominique Marie De Jaeghere, Charles Jean-Pierre Douguet
  • Patent number: 11808160
    Abstract: A sub-assembly of a turbine engine including a shaft, a bearing for guiding an axial end of the shaft, a nut which is screw-connected to the end of the shaft and a member for blocking the rotation of the nut in relation to the end of the shaft, wherein the member for blocking the nut includes a first section bearing a plurality of flexible tabs, one end of each tab of which cooperates with a radially inner annular wall of the end of the shaft and includes a second section which cooperates with the nut, characterised in that the second section of the blocking member is screw-connected to the nut and the features of the thread between the blocking member and the nut are different from the features of the thread between the nut and the end of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Nicolas Lagarde, Marie-Charline Stéphanie Charbonnier, Jean-Marc Claude Perrollaz, Lilian Yann Dumas
  • Patent number: 11808662
    Abstract: A device for measuring the characteristics of an air flow in an annular passage of a turbo-machine. The device includes a rod which extends along a first axis and carries means for measuring air flow characteristics. The rod also sealingly engages and slides in a first tubular part extended by a second tubular part. The second tubular part sealingly passes along the first axis through a slider mounted in a slide for sliding along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. The rod engages the second tubular part with an annular clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Verniau, Gilles Polo Filisan, Adnan Sozuan, Simon Paris
  • Patent number: 11808172
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine engine vane including a blade extending along a radial axis and a first cooling circuit arranged inside the blade, the first cooling circuit including a first cavity and a second cavity disposed downstream of the first cavity in a direction of circulation of a coolant in the blade, the first and second cavities radially extending inside the blade and being at least partly separated by a first radial partition having a radially internal free end, which at least partly demarcates a first coolant passage connecting the first and second cavities. According to the invention, the radially internal free end is enlarged by having a general transverse section substantially in the form of a keyhole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: Safran, Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Romaine Pierre Cariou, Vianney Simon, Myriam Pelleterat De Borde, Adrien Bernard Vincent Rollinger
  • Patent number: 11808167
    Abstract: A turbine engine blade includes an airfoil with a pressure-side wall and a suction-side wall which are connected upstream by a leading edge and downstream by a trailing edge. A cooling circuit has an internal cavity extending inside the airfoil and a plurality of outlet openings, each oriented substantially along a longitudinal axis X. Each outlet opening communicates with the cavity and is arranged in the vicinity of the trailing edge. A calibration device is arranged in the cavity and provided with calibration conduits arranged substantially opposite the outlet openings. The calibration conduits each include an oblong transverse section which is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN
    Inventors: Jérémy Jacques Attilio Fanelli, Romain Pierre Cariou, Vianney Simon, Ba-Phuc Tang
  • Patent number: 11808286
    Abstract: A jet pump for a system for supplying fluid to a turbomachine. The jet pump includes an active fluid inlet pipe including a tube delimiting the inlet pipe, and a passive fluid inlet pipe that is fluidically separated from the active fluid inlet pipe by the tube. The active fluid inlet pipe includes at least one twisted blade that is positioned within the tube and is configured to make the active fluid rotate with respect to the axis of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Philippe Vertenoeuil
  • Patent number: 11808169
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an assembly for a turbomachine, comprising: a first rotor; a second rotor, and a damper (2) configured to damp a displacement of the first rotor relative to the second rotor, the damper comprising: a first portion (21) bearing against the first rotor and having a first thickness, a second portion (22) bearing against the second rotor and having a second radial thickness, and a third portion (23) connecting the first portion (21) to the second portion (22) and having a third radial thickness, wherein the third radial thickness is greater than at least one of the first radial thickness and the second radial thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Philippe Gérard Edmond Joly, Romain Nicolas Lagarde, Jean-Marc Claude Perrollaz, Laurent Jablonski, François Jean Comin, Edouard Antoine Dominique Marie De Jaeghere, Charles Jean-Pierre Douguet
  • Patent number: 11808165
    Abstract: An aircraft turbomachine rotor has a rotor disc extending transversely with respect to a longitudinal axis X, a plurality of blades, and a damping device. The damping device having: a support ring arranged transversely with respect to the longitudinal axis X and mounted on the outer periphery of the rotor disc, and has a plurality of damping members that are attached to the support ring and project upstream from the support ring, each damping member being configured to extend at least under a platform of a blade so as to exert a radially outward force to dampen the radial movement of the blade when the turbomachine is in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Nicolas Gérard Bénito Cornec
  • Patent number: 11807376
    Abstract: The invention relates to the rating (S) of a propulsion unit (2) comprising a main engine (3) providing main thrust assisted by an auxiliary engine (4) providing auxiliary thrust, according to the following steps: (i) determining (S1) a distribution between the main thrust and the auxiliary thrust so as to obtain the takeoff thrust of the propulsion unit, the auxiliary thrust making a 5% to 65% contribution to the takeoff thrust, (ii) depending on the distribution determined for the takeoff condition, determining (S2) distribution between the main thrust and the auxiliary thrust so its to obtain the top of climb thrust of the propulsion unit, the auxiliary thrust making at most 70% contribution to the top of climb thrust, and (iii) rating (S3) the propulsion unit (2) in such a way that the main thrust of the main engine (3) determined fir the takeoff condition corresponds to the maximum thrust likely to be achieved by the main engine (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Pascal Charles Edouard Coat, Jean-François Endy Bersot, Stephane Orcel, Nicolas Jerome Jean Tantot
  • Publication number: 20230349323
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly for a turbomachine, comprising: —a nacelle comprising an inlet lip which defines an air inlet, and—a device for modifying the geometry of the air inlet, comprising: —a first spout, and—a second spout, the first spout and the second spout being translatably movable in relation the nacelle between: —a first configuration, in which the first spout forms the inlet lip and the second spout extends inside the nacelle, and—a second configuration, in which the first spout extends away from the inlet lip, and the second spout forms the inlet lip so as to define an air flow channel between a downstream surface of the first spout and an upstream surface of the second spout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicants: INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DE L AERONAUTIQUE ET DE L ESPACE, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas Jérôme Jean TANTOT, Xavier CARBONNEAU, Philippe Gérard CHANEZ, Nicolas GARCIA ROSA, Alejandro MARTIN PLEGUEZUELO, Nicolas Joseph SIRVIN