Patents Assigned to SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
  • Patent number: 11827374
    Abstract: In the field of multi-rotor rotary-wing aircraft a propulsion system for such an aircraft includes a reconfigurable electric network for supplying the electric motors driving the rotors. The system includes: a supply source, a supply bus connected to the supply source, at least four drive units each including an electric motor and its control circuit, and an electrical ring network including: an electrical line which is interrupted at each drive unit and whose ends are connected to the supply bus, and, for each drive unit, a first switch and a second switch that are connected between the control circuit and the electrical line, on either side of the interruption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER, SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES, SAFRAN POWER UNITS, SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Thomas Klonowski, Thomas Barraco, Camel Serghine
  • Patent number: 11828192
    Abstract: A lattice formed of entwined links in a cavity encased by the external skin of a blade and provided with parts of low mechanical strength referred to as breakable, which are capable of rupturing when sufficient loads are applied thereto during operation of the blade. This arrangement, which concentrates the ruptures at given locations, will leave the rest of the lattice intact and therefore will not hamper or will scarcely hamper its properties of heat evacuation by conduction or convection or pressure loss, if for example ventilation air passes through it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Laurence Vial, Sylvain Pierre Votie, Denis Daniel Jean Boisseleau
  • Publication number: 20230366354
    Abstract: Disclosed is a turbomachine, comprising a gas generator (13) equipped with a first shaft (18), at least one reversible electrical machine (11), a free turbine (12) provided with a second shaft (17) and caused to rotate by a gas flow generated by the gas generator (13), an accessory gear box (14) and at least one accessory (15, 16). Said at least one electrical machine (11) is mechanically coupled to said second mechanical shaft (17) via the accessory gear box (14) during all phases of operation of the turbomachine (10), the accessory gear box (14) is coupled to the at least one accessory (15, 16) and the turbomachine (10) further comprises a single mechanical coupling means (20) for mechanically coupling said first mechanical shaft (18) to the accessory gear box (14) in a first configuration and mechanically uncoupling said first mechanical shaft (18) from the accessory gear box (14) in a second configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Loïs Pierre Denis VIVE, Thomas DROUIN, Olivier BEDRINE
  • Patent number: 11817650
    Abstract: A connection includes a widened reinforcement harness which comprises a reinforced harness, a non-deformable ferrule and a reinforcement portion which has a greater diameter than the reinforcement of the harness, the non-deformable ferrule being arranged around the harness with the reinforcement of the harness folded on the outer side of the non-deformable ferrule, a first end of the reinforcement portion being attached around the folded portion of the reinforcement of the harness, the connection further comprising an integrated coupling connector, a second end of the reinforcement portion of the widened reinforcement harness being attached to a section of the integrated coupling connector. This connection is particularly advantageous for the small harness, wherein the reinforcement of the harness has a diameter which is too small to surround the section of an integrated coupling connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Samuel Joël Raphaël Corneteau, Jean-Marc Gérard Mounolou, Cyril Jean-Noël Gabriel Vasquez
  • Patent number: 11808179
    Abstract: Turbomachine hollow blade (11) comprising at least one vane (14) having lateral walls (15) which are intended to guide a flow in a flow path around the vane and which are fixed to a first platform (12) at a first longitudinal end of the vane (14), the vane (14) further comprising an internal cavity between the lateral walls (15), which cavity is intended for passing a vane-cooling fluid, with a fluid inlet opening (19) opening through said first platform (12), characterized in that a gyroid surface network (18) fills at least part of the cavity, being arranged therein so as to guide the cooling fluid, and is in contact with at least part of the lateral walls (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Laurence Vial, Bruno Frelon, Jérôme Beugniez, Yann Bellot
  • Patent number: 11788424
    Abstract: Sealing ring for a wheel of an aircraft turbomachine turbine, the ring having an annular body extending around an axis of revolution and including an outer surface and an inner surface which is coated with an annular layer of an abradable material, the ring further including an annular wall extending around the annular body and at a radial distance from the body, the annular wall including openings through which cooling air flows by impact on the outer surface, wherein the body and the wall are integrally formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Thomas Louis Guedot, Fabien Hourquet, Eloi Duflos, Patrice Postel
  • Publication number: 20230323787
    Abstract: Disclosed is a turbogenerator, in particular for an electrically-driven rotary wing aircraft, comprising a gas generator equipped with a first shaft, at least one reversible electrical machine, and a free turbine provided with a second shaft and caused to rotate by a gas flow generated by the gas generator. The second shaft is coupled to the at least one electrical machine during all phases of operation of the turbomachine, and the turbomachine further comprises a single mechanical coupling means for coupling the first mechanical shaft to the second mechanical shaft when the electrical machine is operating in motor mode and mechanically uncoupling the first mechanical shaft from the second mechanical shaft when the electrical machine is operating in generator mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Loïs Pierre Denis VIVE, Thomas DROUIN, Olivier BEDRINE
  • Publication number: 20230323788
    Abstract: A turbomachine, particularly for a rotary-wing aircraft, including a gas generator provided with a rotary shaft, a first reversible electric machine, a power turbine rotationally driven by a stream of gas generated by the gas generator, at least one accessory from among an oil pump and a fuel pump, an accessory gearbox comprising a gear train configured to drive said at least one accessory, and a second electric machine. The second electric machine is reversible, said first electric machine is mechanically coupled to the gas generator, the accessory gearbox and the second electric machine are mechanically coupled to the power turbine, and the turbomachine is devoid of any kinematic coupling between the gear train of the accessory gearbox and the shaft of the gas generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Loïs Pierre Denis VIVE, Olivier BEDRINE, Thomas DROUIN
  • Publication number: 20230318416
    Abstract: A method for protecting coils from excessive heating in an aircraft electrical machine comprising a stator (12) and a rotor (14) configured to be rotationally driven with respect to one another, the stator including a plurality of notches (120) receiving one and the same plurality or otherwise of coils, the method including the following successive steps: inserting an electrical insulator (16) into the notches or onto the teeth of the stator, installing the coils (18) in the notches or on the teeth of the stator, casting a phase change material (20) in the notches or on the teeth equipped with the coils, the electrical insulator forming a casting mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicants: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES, SAFRAN
    Inventors: Camel SERGHINE, Thomas KLONOWSKI, Pierre Gabriel Marie QUINIO, Sabrina Siham AYAT, Eric ROULAND, Sébastien YON, Albert MUTABAZI
  • Patent number: 11777370
    Abstract: An aeronautical turbogenerator for hybrid electric propulsion includes a heat engine and an electrical generator coupled mechanically to the heat engine and including a rotor and a stator, the rotor extending in an axial direction and including a common magnetized rotor yoke comprising a plurality of permanent magnets defining at least three axially distributed movable annular rings, the stator including a magnetic stator yoke comprising a plurality of electrical windings defining axially and/or circumferentially distributed stationary sectors, at least two stationary sectors, one of which covers axially at least two movable annular rings, being arranged angularly so as not to mutually coincide and thus deliver at least two distinct and independent voltage levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES, SAFRAN
    Inventors: Loïs Pierre Denis Vive, Christophe Ludovic Jean-Claude Viguier
  • Patent number: 11746657
    Abstract: The invention concerns a turbomachine rotor (1), characterised in that it comprises a threaded or tapped part (3, 6) and a damping nut (8) screwed onto the threaded or tapped part (3, 6) so as to allow the threads of the nut (8) and of the threaded or tapped part (3, 6) to rub against each other in the event of vibration of the rotor (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Alexandre Auduberteau, Julien Fabrice Girardot, Pierre Chabanne
  • Patent number: 11732893
    Abstract: A device for supplying fuel to a combustion chamber of a gas generator includes an injection wheel (14) for injecting fuel into the combustion chamber (18),—a fuel supply rail (20) including an internal fuel circuit (30) with a fuel outlet means (32) supplying fuel to an annular spray chamber (24) formed between the rail (28, 44, 48, 52, 56) and the injection wheel (14),—at least one dynamic annular seal (26) adapted to provide a seal between an annular face (34) of the fuel supply rail (28, 44, 48, 52, 56) and the injection wheel (14), wherein the internal fuel circuit (30) of the fuel supply rail includes an annular fuel flow part arranged radially at the dynamic annular seal (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Patrick Olivier Duchaine, Guillaume Thierry Cottin
  • Publication number: 20230258129
    Abstract: Hybrid turbomachine comprising an electric generator, a gas generator equipped with an air inlet and with an exhaust and an acoustic monitoring system comprising a control unit and a plurality of loudspeakers. At least a first loudspeaker is disposed on the electric generator, and/or at least a second loudspeaker is disposed on the air inlet of the gas generator, and/or at least a third loudspeaker is disposed on the exhaust of the gas generator. The control unit of the acoustic monitoring system is mounted on the electric generator and is configured to make an AC-DC electrical conversion of the electromotive force of the electric generator into an adjustable DC voltage intended to be distributed to loads or to energy storage means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicants: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES, SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER, SAFRAN POWER UNITS
    Inventors: Romain Jean Gilbert THIRIET, Eric Jean-Louis BOUTY, Denis Antoine Julien REAL, Valéry CHAU
  • Publication number: 20230258337
    Abstract: A gas turbomachine combustion chamber includes bridges extending side by side to connect in one piece a radially inner wall and a radially outer wall towards a free end of the radially inner wall. The bridges, inner wall, and outer wall have an additive layer structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Didier AUTRET, Thomas Sebastien Alexandre GRESY, Stéphane LAVIGNOTTE, Nicolas Roland Guy SAVARY
  • Publication number: 20230249812
    Abstract: A propulsion unit with a propeller includes a nacelle; a propeller rotatably mounted in the nacelle by means of a hub. The propeller has blades mounted in a blade cuff that is pivotable about a pitch axis relative to the hub. Each blade is pivotable relative to the cuff about a folding axis. A folding device includes an actuator for folding the blades. The folding device includes a control member rotationally affixed to the blade cuff and driven by the actuator. A connecting rod is pivotably mounted, on the one hand, on a root of the associated blade and, on the other hand, on the movable control member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Robert Guy BESSE, Camel SERGHINE
  • Publication number: 20230234696
    Abstract: A propulsion unit with a propeller is provided, having a nacelle and a propeller rotatably mounted in the nacelle by a hub. The propeller includes blades mounted in a blade cuff pivotable about a pitch axis relative to the hub, each blade being pivotable relative to the cuff about a folding axis. The propulsion unit can further include a folding device that comprises an actuator for folding the blades. The folding device can include a control member rotationally affixed to the blade cuff and driven by the actuator, and a connecting rod pivotably mounted, on the one hand, on a root of the associated blade and, on the other hand, on the movable control member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Robert Guy BESSE, Camel SERGHINE
  • Publication number: 20230220779
    Abstract: An aircraft turbomachine having a centrifugal compressor, an annular combustion chamber, an annular casing extending around the chamber and delimiting an annular space (E) in which the chamber is situated, and a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger can include a first circuit supplied with exhaust gas from the turbomachine, and a second circuit connected by first and second volutes respectively to an outlet of the compressor and to the annular space. The first and second volutes can be positioned at an axial distance from one another, and the second volute is can be connected to the annular space by a straightener which is situated at least in part outside the casing and which is integrated into an annular connecting pipe which connects the second volute to this casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Bernard Claude PONS, Alphonse PUERTO, Laurent Pierre TARNOWSKI, Loïs Pierre Denis VIVE
  • Patent number: 11698188
    Abstract: A flat-jet fuel injector for an aircraft turbine engine, comprising a body having a generally elongate shape having a longitudinal axis A, the body comprising a main pipe having a generally elongate shape having a longitudinal axis B substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis A, the two longitudinal ends of the main pipe being connected directly and respectively to longitudinal ends of two secondary pipes having a generally elongate shape having a longitudinal axis C at least substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis A, and being configured to form, respectively, two separate fuel flow inlets intended to meet substantially at the middle of the main pipe which comprises at least one ejection slot for ejecting the fuel jet, wherein at least one of the main and secondary pipes defines a flow area, at least one geometric parameter of which, such as the shape or a dimension, varies along the pipe and/or is different from the same geometric parameter defined by a flow area of another of the pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Helicopter Engines
    Inventors: Denis Chanteloup, Thomas Lederlin, Guillaume Mauries, Simon Meilleurat
  • Publication number: 20230213399
    Abstract: A hydraulic torque measurement device for an aircraft engine unit includes a hermetically sealed enclosure having a rigid wall and a deformable wall that define an internal volume. The device further includes at least one pressure measuring element capable of measuring the pressure prevailing in the internal volume. The hydraulic torque measuring device allows a service state in which the internal volume is filled exclusively with an incompressible liquid, and in which the deformable wall is configured to be subjected to a pressure force. In some embodiments, the hydraulic torque measurement device is suitable for use with a gearbox.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventor: Laurent Louis Sylvain HOUSSAYE
  • Publication number: 20230193779
    Abstract: A method for quickly stopping the propulsion rotor of a helicopter after landing, comprising, following a request for quickly stopping the engine by a helicopter pilot, the following steps managed by the control unit of the turbomachine: Detecting the absence of the thermal stabilization phase of the gas generator of at least one turbomachine, controlling an extinction of the combustion chamber of the gas generator of at least one turbomachine, maintaining the rotation of the gas generator of which the combustion chamber is extinguished by means of said at least one electrical machine to ventilate the gas generator and stopping the main rotor of the helicopter by means of a mechanical brake.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Olivier BEDRINE, Jean Michel Frédéric Louis BAZET, David CAZAUX