Patents Assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
  • Publication number: 20240093611
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fan blade (3) made of composite material the fibrous reinforcement of which comprises first strands (12) having a first stiffness, second strands (13) having a second stiffness and third strands (14) having a third stiffness lower than the first stiffness and greater than the second stiffness, the blade comprising a first portion (15) comprising only first strands (12), a second portion (16) comprising only second strands (13) and a third portion (17) which is located between the first and second portions (15, 16) and which comprises both first, second and third strands (12, 13, 14); there is a gradual transition of properties at the interface between the different portions (15, 16, 17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Carole Onja RAKOTOARISOA, Teddy FIXY, Guillaume Pascal Jean-Charles GONDRE, Julien Paul SCHNEIDER-DIE-GROSS
  • Patent number: 11933224
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel metering unit for an aircraft engine, comprising: —a metering member configured to receive a position control signal and to meter the feed of fuel to the engine depending on said position control; —a cutting member configured to cut the feed of fuel to the engine; and characterized in that the fuel metering unit also has a computer for protecting and cutting the engine, said protecting and cutting computer being configured to—detect an overspeeding state of the engine speed and—in response to the detection of an overspeeding state, to transmit a cutting control signal to a cutting control member contained in the cutting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Guilhem Alcide Auguste Foiret, Arnaud Bernard Clément Thomas Joudareff
  • Patent number: 11933230
    Abstract: An aircraft turbomachine having a longitudinal axis includes a high-pressure (HP) body, a low-pressure (LP) body, a fan, and a reduction gear having an epicyclic gear train. The turbomachine includes three modules: a first module having the LP turbine and the LP shaft, a second module having the LP compressor and a journal secured to the rotor of the LP compressor, and a third module having an input shaft of the reduction gear, this input shaft having an upstream end for coupling to a sun gear of the reduction gear and a downstream end comprising first splines that are oriented parallel to the axis and are configured to be engaged in second complementary splines of said second module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse, Olivier Belmonte
  • Patent number: 11933497
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air/fuel injection system for a turbomachine, comprising:—an injector comprising a duct and an injection nose, arranged inside said duct, which extends from upstream to downstream along a longitudinal axis;—a mixer device comprising a bowl comprising an annular inlet, forming the inlet of the mixer device, from which there extends a conical portion flared in the downstream direction, said mixer device being arranged downstream of the injection nose; the injection system being characterized in that the injector comprises an air-injection annulus extending from the duct and from which there extends a connection ring comprising a divergent portion, said ring being arranged externally around the annular inlet of the mixer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Nicolas Lunel, Haris Musaefendic
  • Patent number: 11933194
    Abstract: Fan or propeller vane (1) for an aircraft turbomachine, the vane being made from a composite material and comprising a blade (2) and a base (3), the base being formed by a longitudinal end (41) of a spar (4) which is formed by a fibrous reinforcement formed from threads woven in three dimensions and a portion (42) of which extends inside the blade (2), the blade (2) having an aerodynamic profile which is defined by a skin (5) which is formed by woven threads and which surrounds the portion of the spar, the spar (4) and the skin (5) being embedded in a polymerised resin, characterised in that the portion (42) of the spar comprises projecting longitudinal stiffening members (6) which together delimit spaces (8) for receiving longitudinal inserts (7) which are formed from a honeycomb material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Vivien Mickael Courtier, Teddy Fixy, Clement Pierre Postec, Eddy Keomorakott Souryavongsa
  • Patent number: 11933246
    Abstract: An aircraft turbojet engine extending along an X axis and comprising a blower configured to provide a reverse thrust and a nacelle comprising an air intake which comprises at least one deflection member movably mounted between a deployed position in which the deflection member projects from the inner wall or from the lip of the air intake in a radially inward direction of deployment facing the X axis or in a longitudinal direction of deployment with respect to the X axis, in order to allow a release of the reverse air flow from the inner wall to support the reverse thrust phase, and a retracted position in which the air intake has an aerodynamic profile so as to guide the internal air flow along the inner wall in order to support the thrust phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Daniel-Ciprian Mincu, Jean-Loïc Hervé Lecordix, Nicolas Joseph Sirvin, Frédéric Dautreppe, Anthony Binder, Eva Julie Lebeault
  • Patent number: 11931770
    Abstract: A process for coating an aircraft turbomachine component with an erosion-resistant coating, includes depositing the erosion-resistant coating by hot powder-coating on an aircraft turbomachine component made of an organic-matrix composite material or of a metallic material, the erosion-resistant coating including a polyurethane or silicone polymer, the polymer having a glass transition temperature of less than or equal to ?30° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Mathieu Julien Charlas
  • Patent number: 11933191
    Abstract: A coupling for a turbomachine, including a first and a second disc attached along an axis, and extending in majority respectively from a first and from a second side of a median plane normal to the axis, the first and the second discs being provided respectively with first and second teeth mutually engaging through the median plane to form a curvic connection. Several first teeth each include a first protuberance jutting out towards the axis while extending from the second side; several second teeth each include a second protuberance jutting out towards the axis of rotation while extending from the first side; the first protuberances are spaced apart from the second protuberances along the axis; at least one blocking member is brought to be supported against the first and second protuberances to block axially the first element relatively to the second element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Clement Raphael Laroche
  • Patent number: 11933181
    Abstract: An abradable coating for a turbomachine part, includes a matrix made of a first metal material and particles made of a second metal material that are dispersed in the matrix, the first metal material having a melting temperature greater than 900° C., the second metal material having a melting temperature at least 50° C. lower than the melting temperature of the first metal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Philippe Charles Alain Le Biez, Nicolas Droz, Lisa Pin, Serge Georges Vladimir Selezneff
  • Patent number: 11925986
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a turbine engine blade (16) including an active-surface wall (17) and a passive-surface wall (18) separated from one another, this blade (16) including a tip that has a closing wall grouping together the active-surface (17) and passive-surface (18) walls in the region of this tip to define the bottom (23) of a bathtub tip shape located at the tip of the blade, the method comprising a moulding step implementing a core defining the bathtub tip shape. According to the invention, there is a step of adding metal to the bottom (23) of the bathtub tip by means of a Direct Laser Additive Manufacturing (CLAD) method, to deposit material onto the bottom of the bathtub tip to form therein an inner partition (28) supported by the bottom thereof (23).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Matthieu Jean Luc Vollebregt, Coralie Guerard, Patrick Emilien Paul Emile Huchin
  • Patent number: 11927638
    Abstract: A method for detecting a hardware configuration of a device intended to be carried aboard an aircraft turbomachine and controlled by a two-channel protection calculator (8), comprising a power supply able to supply the device, a first measuring box (16) able to measure a first voltage Vs1 at the output of the device and a second measuring box (18) capable of measuring a second voltage Vs2 at the output of the device: a) Send a control voltage to the input of the equipment Vc; b) Measure the first voltage Vs1 and the second voltage Vs2; c) Infer the hardware configuration of the device from the values of the first and second voltages measured Vs1 and Vs2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jacques Paul Michel Gauvrit, Davy Philippe Masson
  • Patent number: 11927141
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for metering fuel in a fuel supply circuit of an aircraft engine, the circuit comprising a metering device for a fuel circuit of an aircraft engine comprising, downstream of a fuel pumping system and upstream of injectors: —a fuel inlet (E), —a metering device (FMV) and a cut-off device (HPSOV) arranged in series, —an adjustment valve (VR) arranged on a fuel recirculation branch, such that any excess fuel supplied by the pumping system is fed back into the fuel circuit, wherein at least one flow-metric sensor (WFM1) is arranged on the recirculation branch, a density value for the metered fuel is determined according to the sensor measurements and the metering device is controlled according to the fuel density value thus determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Arnaud Bernard Clément Thomas Joudareff, Loïc Pora
  • Patent number: 11927133
    Abstract: An acoustic attenuation liner includes a porous coating with a mesh structure, an acoustically absorbent material covered with the porous coating and having a first volume, and at least one cavity created between the acoustically absorbent material and the porous coating and which has a second volume, such as Vcav>3%, wherein the mesh structure has wires separating between them openings passing through the structure, some of which have, when flat, a minimum elementary surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Josselin David Florian Regnard, Norman Bruno André Jodet
  • Patent number: 11927107
    Abstract: A TRV-type turbine casing includes inner and outer annular shrouds that extend one inside the other and about the same axis and are connected together by arms. A tool for disassembling and moving the casing has a lower carriage for moving the tool, and an upper plate to be attached to the turbine casing. The plate is supported by the carriage and includes first members that cooperate with a first annular flange of one of the shrouds to support the casing and axially immobilize the casing relative to the tool. The plate further includes second members that cooperate with a second annular flange of the other shroud in order to prevent and/or guide the rotation of the casing about the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien Georges Cistac, Olivier Jean Caudron
  • Publication number: 20240077857
    Abstract: Method for checking the compliance of a workpiece, comprising the following steps: estimating a risk of non-compliance of characteristic on the basis of a law of probability associated with the characteristic; and verifying whether the estimated risk of non-compliance satisfies a decision criterion and, if so, declaring that the workpiece is compliant for characteristic; if not, measuring a value of the characteristic, determining whether or not the workpiece is compliant based on the measured value, and updating the law of probability associated with characteristic based on the measured value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN
    Inventors: Augustin Marie Michel DESCOQS, Julien Alexis Louis RICORDEAU, Quentin SULLI
  • Patent number: 11920494
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbomachine rotary-fan blade (2), comprising a body (20) made of a composite material, a metal reinforcement part (3) comprising a metal upstream nose (31), characterised in that the metal upstream nose (31) comprises, at least on the metal part (27b) of the blade tip, a recess (4) of longitudinally tapering thickness (AX), delimiting on the metal part (27b) over a height (H) at least one metal projection (5) with prescribed wear, which has a longitudinally tapering thickness and which is configured to detach at least partially in the presence of tangential friction in the second thickness direction (EP) against the metal part (27b), the recess (4) and the metal projection (5) with prescribed wear extending the first metal fin (32) and/or the second metal fin (33) and/or the upstream edge (22) of the body (20) made of composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Guillaume Pascal Jean-Charles Gondre, Thomas Alain De Gaillard, Pierre Jean Faivre D'arcier
  • Patent number: 11920606
    Abstract: Fuel pump for an aircraft engine, comprising an inducer and a centrifugal impeller fixed together and having an axis of rotation, an annular space spacing axially the inducer and the impeller, and two contact portions between the inducer and the impeller disposed radially outside the annular space, a first plenum chamber and a second plenum chamber, in which the inducer and the impeller are spaced axially from each other, each being disposed between the two contact portions, the plenum chambers being symmetrical to each other with respect to the axis of rotation and in fluid communication with the annular space, the centrifugal impeller comprising a plurality of axial balancing holes distributed about the axis of rotation and opening out into the annular space at one end, and into a downstream space of the impeller at the other end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Petar Dimitrov Tomov, Loïc Pora, Sébastien Christophe Loval
  • Patent number: 11920519
    Abstract: A fire resistance device intended to be placed between a mounting strut of a double-flow aircraft turbomachine and a connecting cowling equipping this turbomachine, the connecting cowling being intended to connect an upstream ring delimiting an inter-flow compartment, to an arm that extends radially across a secondary flow of the turbomachine. The device includes two contacting lips extending along different lines, of which a first lip with a C-shaped section is integrated within a contact structure, and a second lip including at its end a protruding blocking portion protecting the contact structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Bruno Alexandre Didier Jacon, Hervé Simonotti
  • Publication number: 20240068376
    Abstract: A turbine ring assembly having ring segments made of ceramic matrix composite material and each having first and second attachment tabs and a cavity for the circulation of air flow, a metal support having a first bracket and a second bracket bearing axially upstream against the second tab, a first metal flange arranged upstream of the first bracket and having an inner periphery bearing axially downstream against the first tab and an outer periphery fastened to the first bracket, and air passage orifices formed in the inner periphery of the first flange and/or in the second bracket, the orifices configured to ensure that the air flow passes from the cavity to the outside of the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Clément JARROSSAY, Aurélien GAILLARD, Pascal Cédric TABARIN, Arthur Paul Gabriel NIMHAUSER, Clément Emile André CAZIN
  • Patent number: 11913378
    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: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: 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