Patents Assigned to SAFRAN CERAMICS
  • Publication number: 20240133306
    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: April 25, 2024
    Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Sébastien Serge Francis CONGRATEL, Aurélien GAILLARD, Matthieu Arnaud GIMAT, Clément JARROSSAY, David René Pierre LE CAIR
  • Patent number: 11965433
    Abstract: A turbomachine turbine nozzle extending around a central axis, including at least one radially outer shroud, at least one radially inner shroud, and at least one blade made of ceramic matrix composite material, distinct from the radially inner shroud and from the radially outer shroud, and extending radially between the radially inner shroud and the radially outer shroud, the blade being hollow and including a cavity opening at a radially inner end and at a radially outer end of the blade, the nozzle including at least one tubular mast arranged in the cavity of the blade and allowing routing the ventilation air passing through the cavity of the blade, the mast including a radially outer end attached to the radially outer shroud, and a radially inner end cooperating with a radial flange for positioning the radially inner shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Antoine Claude Michel Etienne Danis, Clément Jarrossay, Lucien Henri Jacques Quennehen, Nicolas Paul Tableau, Matthieu Arnaud Gimat
  • Patent number: 11958784
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a turbomachine blade made of ceramic matrix composite component includes at least a structural part and a functional part secured to the structural part, the method including obtaining an assembly including a first preform of the functional part that is mounted on a second preform of the structural part or on the structural part, the first preform including a fibrous reinforcement of short fibres, and the second preform or the structural part comprising a woven fibrous reinforcement, and densification of the first preform of the assembly by infiltration with a molten composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Arnaud Delehouze, Eric Bouillon, Gildas Garnier, Clément Marie Benoît Roussille
  • Patent number: 11959440
    Abstract: An annular or semi-annular acoustic attenuation structure includes an inner skin and an outer skin, defining between them an annular or semi-annular volume, and a plurality of partitions extending in the space in a radial direction perpendicular to the inner and outer skins and in a circumferential direction. The inner and outer skins and the partitions are made of composite material including a fibrous reinforcement densified by a matrix. The fibrous reinforcement of each partition includes yarns or fibers extending into the fibrous reinforcement of at least one of the inner or outer skins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Eric Bouillon, Eric Conete
  • Patent number: 11959437
    Abstract: An assembly for a turbomachine nozzle having a longitudinal axis (X) includes an exhaust cone with an annular outer wall for guiding a primary air flow and an annular chamber placed radially inside said annular outer wall. The annular chamber includes an annular inner wall placed radially inside the annular outer wall of the exhaust cone. An exhaust case is placed upstream of the ejection cone. A connecting member is interposed longitudinally between the exhaust case and the exhaust cone and fastened to the exhaust case and to the annular inner wall. The assembly further includes elastic means configured to deform radially and prestressed radially between the annular outer wall and the connecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN NACELLES, SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Joret, Vincent Devanlay, Fabien Bravin, Thomas Vandellos
  • Patent number: 11932942
    Abstract: A process for depositing a coating on a continuous fibre of carbon or silicon carbide from a precursor of the coating, includes heating a segment of the fibre in the presence of the coating precursor in a microwave field so as to bring the surface of the segment to a temperature allowing the coating to form on the segment from the coating precursor, wherein the segment of fibre is in the presence of a supercritical phase of the precursor of the coating in the reactor and the coating is formed by supercritical phase chemical deposition in the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN CERAMICS, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
    Inventors: Arnaud Delehouze, Eric Bouillon, Adrien Delcamp, Cédric Descamps
  • Patent number: 11932399
    Abstract: A sandwich panel for an aircraft turbojet nacelle includes an outer skin in contact with an air flow, an inner skin opposed to the outer skin, and an intermediate system comprising partitions connecting the inner and outer skins so as to form cells, the inner skin of at least one cell having at least one corrugation configured to allow the materials making up the sandwich panel to deform in the event of thermal variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: Safran Nacelles, Safran Ceramics
    Inventors: Bertrand Desjoyeaux, Davi Silva De Vasconcellos, François Taillard, Florent Bouillon
  • Publication number: 20240053016
    Abstract: A combustion module for a turbomachine is provided and includes an annular casing extending about a longitudinal axis; an annular combustion chamber located inside the casing and comprising coaxial annular walls connected to one another by an annular chamber dome, the walls and the chamber dome consisting of at least two annular envelopes, which are made of a ceramic-matrix composite material. The module can include anti-disengagement devices to keep the annular edges pressing axially against one another and fuel injectors borne by the casing and engaged in apertures of one of the envelopes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventor: Julien André Roger MATEO
  • Patent number: 11897816
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a part made of a ceramic matrix composite material, includes coating an outer surface of a porous preform with a layer of a fugitive material to form a model of the part to be obtained, the fugitive material being wax or resin, the fugitive material layer in the model not exceeding the highest peak of surface undulations of the preform, and ceramic and/or carbon particles being present in the porosity of the preform, coating the model formed with a ceramic powder composition, heat treating the coated model to remove the fugitive material and form a ceramic shell mold by sintering of the ceramic powder composition, introducing a molten composition including silicon into the shell mold to obtain the part in the shell mold, the molten composition infiltrating the porosity of the preform to form the ceramic matrix, and separating the shell mold from the part obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN CERAMICS, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michaël Podgorski, Bruno Jacques Gérard Dambrine, Emilie Chantal Gisèle Mendez, Wen Zhang, Yvan Rappart, Charles Leleu
  • Publication number: 20240044497
    Abstract: A turbomachine subassembly including a first component forming a portion of a wall of a combustion chamber of the turbomachine and a second component forming a connecting member connecting the first component to a structural element of the combustion chamber, wherein the two components are made from materials having different coefficients of expansion, and wherein the two components are elements of revolution coaxial with a main axis A of the subassembly, and each including an annular radial wall, the radial walls facing one another and bearing against one another axially in a first direction, wherein the second component includes a plurality of clamping tabs, with the clamping tabs collaborating with the first component in order to produce an axial force causing the radial walls to bear against one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Patrick Olivier DUCHAINE, Amaury Benoit Jacques PAILLARD, Eric CONETE, Benjamin LACOMBE
  • Publication number: 20240018054
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing a part made from CMC for improving control of the step of densifying the part, and intermediate part for implementing said method, the intermediate part comprising a reinforcement, a matrix comprising a ceramic material, and at least one insert, which is made from a material different from that of the reinforcement and the matrix and which is designed to promote migration of liquid silicon within the intermediate part during a step of densifying the intermediate part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicants: SAFRAN CERAMICS, IRT ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPERY
    Inventors: William ROS, Simon Lucien René THIBAUD, Maxime BOX, Christophe HIRONDELLE
  • Patent number: 11867091
    Abstract: A nozzle for a turbomachine turbine. The nozzle includes blades made of ceramic matrix composite material, and at least one metal liner passing through a respective blade. The liner is connected in a sealed manner to a metal internal shroud so as to guide a ventilation fluid through the blade. The nozzle can be configured to maintain effective sealing in spite of the different thermal expansions of the blade and of the internal shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Clément Jarrossay, Sébastien Serge Francis Congratel, Aurélien Gaillard, David René Pierre Le Cair, Matthieu Arnaud Gimat
  • Patent number: 11866373
    Abstract: A method for coating fibers, includes desizing sized short fibers having an average length less than or equal to 5 mm, the short fibers being made of ceramic material or carbon, sieving the desized short fibers in order to separate them from any agglomerates of sized short fibers still present, introducing the desized and sieved short fibers into a reactor, and coating the short fibers in the reactor by chemical vapor deposition in a fluidized bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, SAFRAN CERAMICS, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
    Inventors: Arnaud Delehouze, Eric Bouillon, Amine El Mansouri, Nathalie Dominique Bertrand, Alain Jean-Michel Guette
  • Publication number: 20240003315
    Abstract: An assembly for a turbomachine nozzle having a longitudinal axis (X) includes an exhaust cone with an annular outer wall for guiding a primary air flow and an annular chamber placed radially inside said annular outer wall. The annular chamber includes an annular inner wall placed radially inside the annular outer wall of the exhaust cone. An exhaust case is placed upstream of the ejection cone. A connecting member is interposed longitudinally between the exhaust case and the exhaust cone and fastened to the exhaust case and to the annular inner wall. The assembly further includes elastic means configured to deform radially and prestressed radially between the annular outer wall and the connecting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicants: SAFRAN NACELLES, SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe JORET, Vincent DEVANLAY, Fabien BRAVIN, Thomas VANDELLOS
  • Patent number: 11858859
    Abstract: A method for treating a carbon or ceramic yarn includes forming a coating on the yarn in a reaction zone of a reactor by heating a segment of the yarn in the presence of a gas phase in a microwave field, wherein the gas phase includes a mixture of a diluent gas and a coating precursor in the vapor state, and wherein the gas phase is formed at least by introducing the diluent gas into the reactor and mixing the introduced diluent gas with the coating precursor in the reactor before the reaction zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN CERAMICS, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
    Inventors: Arnaud Delehouze, Pierre Fenetaud, Sylvain Lucien Jacques
  • Publication number: 20230406780
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing a turbomachine blade made of ceramic-matrix composite material comprising an airfoil and a platform, producing a first fibrous preform, the first fibrous preform forming an airfoil preform, producing a second fibrous preform comprising a housing, the second fibrous preform forming a platform preform, producing a strand of ceramic fibers, consolidating the fibrous preforms and the strand of ceramic fibers to form consolidated preforms and a consolidated strand, assembling the consolidated preforms by engagement and cooperation of the first consolidated preform in the housing, the consolidated strand being interposed between the first consolidated preform and the second consolidated perform, co-densifying the assembly to form the turbomachine blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventor: Eric CONETE
  • Patent number: 11828195
    Abstract: A woven fibrous preform of a hollow aerodynamic profile of a turbomachine vane or blade, has a non-interlinked trailing edge and a draping of two 3D woven fibrous textures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Clément Marie Benoît Roussille, Matthieu Arnaud Gimat, Julien André Roger Mateo
  • Patent number: 11827517
    Abstract: A method for recycling a carbonaceous by-product obtained during the manufacture of a part made of carbon/carbon composite material including pyrolysis of the carbonaceous by-product so as to obtain a carbonaceous residue; forming a gas phase comprising a hydrocarbon from the carbonaceous residue; separating the hydrocarbon from the remainder of the gas phase; introducing the hydrocarbon separated in this way into a reaction chamber, and forming pyrolytic carbon in the reaction chamber from the hydrocarbon introduced by infiltration or chemical vapor deposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Jean-François Daniel René Potin, Laurent Maisse
  • Patent number: 11821387
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly for an aircraft turbomachine, comprising a central element (1) for the ejection of gas, and a connecting flange (9) interposed between, upstream, a gas outlet (22a) made of metal for a turbomachine, and, at the downstream end, the central element (1). The connecting flange comprises an annular portion (9a) and flexible tabs (11) having axially: a first end (111a) where the tab is connected to the said annular portion, and a second free end (111b), projecting radially inwardly with respect to the first end and to which said tab is attached with the central element (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Eric Conete, Benoit Carrere
  • Patent number: 11814325
    Abstract: A method for coating a ceramic matrix composite part with an environmental barrier, the method including a) applying, to a surface of the part, a coating composition including a first powder of a rare earth silicate and a second powder including boron, the coating composition having a ratio R=[mass of the second powder]/[mass of the first powder] of between 0.1% and 5%, and b) sintering the first and second powders to obtain the environmental barrier on the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Simon Arnal, Lisa Pin