Patents Assigned to SAFRAN NACELLES
  • Publication number: 20220332065
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for repairing a damaged thermal protection covering a nacelle structure for an aircraft turbojet engine by adding a repair thermal insulation blanket as well as a repair sheet onto the damaged part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Erika CAVELIER, Julien HELIN
  • Publication number: 20220333549
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for an aircraft propulsion assembly, this reverser including a mobile annular external structure, a single actuator for controlling the position of this mobile external structure and a device for guiding the mobile external structure when changing its position. The actuator and the guiding device are housed in a fairing of a pylon of the propulsion assembly to a wing or fuselage of the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Pierre Charles CARUEL, Fabien CHARLIAC, Fabien BRAVIN, Loïc CHAPELAIN
  • Publication number: 20220333550
    Abstract: A position sensor for an aircraft nacelle thrust reverser door for an aircraft turbojet engine includes a target to be detected, a detector having a detection range and including a detection head configured to detect the target when it enters its detection range, and a target guide configured to guide the target in order to position it in the detection range of the detector. The detector is stationary relative to the target guide. In one form, the target is intended to be positioned on the door, and the detector and the target guide are intended to be positioned on a stationary structure of the thrust reverser. In another form, the target is intended to be positioned on a stationary structure of the thrust reverser, and the detector and the target guide are intended to be positioned on the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Alexis LONCLE, Laurent Georges VALLEROY
  • Patent number: 11473225
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a preform including a core and a sole includes contour weaving the preform on a lap roller having a groove or an outgrowth allowing shape weaving of the core and the sole of the preform. At least one portion of the core and at least one portion of the sole include weft yarns which cross each other on common warp yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Julien Lorrillard, Bertrand Desjoyeaux, Michel Rognant, Benjamin Provost
  • Patent number: 11472133
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fibrous tubular structure including lobes, in which fibers are draped/deposited on a mandrel having a shape corresponding to that of the fibrous structure, includes draping/deposition carried out such that at least one group of fibers has a same orientation with respect to the axis (A) of said fibrous structure, then, the fibers having been draped over an angular sector less than the total periphery of the mandrel, one of the ends of the fibrous structure is separated from the mandrel in order to allow the continuation of the draping on the same mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Bertrand Desjoyeaux, Davi Silva De Vasconcellos, Benjamin Provost
  • Publication number: 20220324129
    Abstract: The disclosure relates in particular to a method of cutting one or more draping elements in a strip of material comprising a fabric layer comprising a film on at least one face. Each draping element is delimited along a determined outline comprising at least one angle, each draping element being cut by means of a cutting blade. At each angle of the outline, the fabric layer and each one film are cut along a curve so as to obtain one or more draping elements without overcutting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Boris HAUCOURT, Hugo BOISTELLE, Benjamin PERSYN, Eric PILLON, Yanhaël LABAT
  • Publication number: 20220325681
    Abstract: A structural and/or acoustic panel including an inner skin, an outer skin, a honeycomb structure and at least one sealing flange. The sealing flange has a U-shaped section directed toward the honeycomb structure and is clamped with the honeycomb structure between the inner and the outer skins. A method for manufacturing such a panel by soldering the component elements thereof is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Tony MIOSSEC, Philippe BIENVENU, Emilie BEMONT
  • Publication number: 20220314558
    Abstract: Tooling for manufacture of an apertured element made of a composite material includes first and second sole plates and tooling elements. Each sole plate is configured to be placed on either side of the apertured element to be manufactured. The tooling elements are placed between the first and second sole plates. The tooling elements include at least one core and peripheral bars. The core is configured to delimit a cell of the apertured element to be manufactured. The core is movable in translation along the first and second sole plates. The peripheral bars are placed on a periphery of the core and configured to delimit the apertured element to be manufactured. At least one peripheral bar is movable in translation along the first and second sole plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Bertrand DESJOYEAUX, Mickaël SOREL, Franck MAZE, Géraldine OLIVEUX
  • Publication number: 20220316427
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for a turbojet aircraft nacelle includes a fixed structure, a movable structure and an actuator. The actuator extends along a main axis and is connected by a first connection to the fixed structure and by a second connection to the movable structure for the deployment of the movable structure between a direct jet position and a reverse jet position. The actuator is also connected to the fixed structure by a third connection arranged longitudinally between the first connection and the second connection. An axis of the third connection is radially eccentric from the main axis and the third connection allows a predetermined displacement of the actuator with respect to the fixed structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Xavier CAZUC, Vincent DUTOT, Sébastien Laurent Marie PASCAL, Stephane RIQUIER, Patrick André BOILEAU, Fabien JOURDAN
  • Publication number: 20220316426
    Abstract: A door for a thrust reverser of a propulsion assembly, the door being provided with a flexible baffle. The baffle is configured to change state by moving from a folded position to an unfolded position, and vice versa, depending on the configuration of the reverser. When the reverser is in reverse jet configuration, the door is open and the baffle is in an unfolded position in order to direct a flow of gas upstream of the propulsion assembly, thus generating a counter-thrust. When the reverser is in direct jet configuration, the door is closed and the baffle is in a folded position so as to cancel or minimise interference caused by the baffle in the flow of gas passing through the propulsion assembly and thus generating a thrust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Gerard CLERE, Alexandre PHI
  • Publication number: 20220307446
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for an aircraft propulsion assembly, this reverser including an outer structure movable between a closed position and an open position of two primary latches configured to lock the movable outer structure in the closed position. The movable outer structure includes an output end that is oblique with respect to the longitudinal central axis so as to orient the thrust laterally. In order to compensate the tilting moment of the movable outer structure, which results from this lateral orientation of the thrust, the primary latches are offset with respect to a median longitudinal plane passing through the longitudinal central axis of the reverser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Pierre Charles CARUEL, Fabien CHARLIAC, Fabien BRAVIN, Loïc CHAPELAIN
  • Patent number: 11454194
    Abstract: A nacelle for a bypass turbojet engine includes a cascade thrust reverser provided with reversal cascades arranged around an annular stream of fresh air, beneath front cowls. The cascades move backward with movable rear cowls, opening side passages in the annular stream, which receive the cascades for directing the fresh air flow forward, the bypass turbojet engine. The bypass turbojet engine includes fixing points, and the nacelle includes outer hatches closing openings of the front cowls, which are arranged radially outside the fixing points for access thereto, each hatch opening including a contour with edges of two front cowls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Patrick Boileau, Pierre Caruel
  • Publication number: 20220298990
    Abstract: An exterior nozzle member for a turbomachine extending along an axis oriented from upstream to downstream and comprising a primary duct configured to conduct a primary flow, an annular cavity of axis and a turbine, said exterior nozzle member comprising: an acoustic attenuation panel formed by an acoustic attenuation structure on which there are mounted an interior wall and an exterior wall facing the primary duct and the annular cavity, respectively, a nozzle flange connected to the panel and comprising an upstream end configured to be connected to a turbine casing flange and a sealing member connected to the panel and comprising an interior longitudinal branch extending radially inside the nozzle flange in order to thermally protect it from the primary flow, the nozzle flange being made of a first material and the sealing member being made of a second material, the first material having a coefficient of thermal expansion greater than that of the second material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Olivier Chapelle, Dimitri Kostin, Clotaire Beauvais
  • Publication number: 20220297818
    Abstract: An acoustic panel for an aircraft comprising: a sound attenuating sheet having a plurality of cavities, a sound attenuating sheet having a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface and an end surface connecting the first and second surfaces, a first sheet extending over at least a portion of the first surface and over the end surface, and a second sheet extending over the second surface and the end surface, wherein the first and the second sheets are connected such that a tensile force can be transferred therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles Limited
    Inventors: Dave Kirk, Graeme Hill, Dave Hebden, Simon Furmston
  • Publication number: 20220290632
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for an aircraft propulsion unit, of the type having a mobile cowl able to move between a closed position that allows the propulsion unit to generate thrust and an open position that allows the propulsion unit to generate a reverse-thrust for slowing the aircraft. The reverser includes braking elements such as a slot and a peg respectively integral with a fixed part of the reverser and with the mobile cowl. These braking elements are configured to cooperate with one another by sliding, with friction, when the mobile cowl effects an overtravel, beyond the open position, so as to generate a braking force that opposes this movement. In one preferred embodiment, the slot for this purpose includes a restriction in section along the direction of travel of the mobile cowl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Fabien CHARLIAC, Benjamin BREBION, Thomas MARLAY, Antoine CORDIEZ
  • Publication number: 20220290633
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for an aircraft propulsion unit, this reverser including a fixed structure and a mobile external structure able to move between a closed position and an open position so as to cause the reverser to transition respectively between a direct-jet configuration and a reverse-jet configuration. The reverser includes, on the one hand, one or more actuators configured to move the mobile external structure between the closed position and the open position. The reverser includes, on the other hand, at least one initiator configured to apply to the mobile external structure a force that initiates a closure travel in which the mobile external structure is moved from the open position towards the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Pierre Charles CARUEL, Fabien CHARLIAC, Benjamin BREBION, Thomas MARLAY, Fabien BRAVIN
  • Patent number: 11427299
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cell structure for an acoustic attenuation device for a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion assembly. This cell structure includes lateral partitions forming channels that each extend between a first end and a second end and skin elements arranged so that each channel is at least partly closed at the first end thereof by at least one skin element. Each skin element is connected to a respective lateral partition and can move relative to the other lateral partitions. A continuous skin can be assembled on this cell structure so as to at least partly close the channels at the second end thereof and to thus form an acoustic attenuation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignees: Safran Nacelles, Safran Ceramics
    Inventors: Bertrand Desjoyeaux, Davi Silva De Vasconcellos, Florent Bouillon, Arnaud Delehouze
  • Patent number: 11428190
    Abstract: A grid-type thrust reverser for a turbojet engine includes a moving O-shaped thrust reverser body that is generally cylindrical in shape around a longitudinal central axis (A) and includes an inner wall configured to delimit a cold air stream, with an inner structure that surrounds the turbojet engine, the movable thrust reverser body being mounted so as to be able to slide along the longitudinal central axis (A) between a direct jet position in which the outer cowl covers the thrust reverser grids, and a thrust-reversal position in which the outer cowl uncovers the thrust reverser grids. The movable thrust reverser body includes a first half-portion and a second half-portion that are mounted so as to each pivot about a longitudinal pivot axis (B), between a closed position and an open gullwing position for removing the turbojet engine, via the cradle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Loïc Grall, Alexis Heau, Benjamin Brebion, Sébastien Michel Thierry Guillemant, Mélody Seriset, Patrick Boileau
  • Publication number: 20220267019
    Abstract: Disclosed is an air intake of an aircraft turbine engine nacelle having a lip, a downstream portion and an internal partition separating the lip and the downstream portion, the lip delimiting an annular recess, the downstream portion having a downstream inner wall and a downstream outer wall, the air intake having an injection channel for injecting a hot air stream into the annular recess, a passage opening formed in the internal partition, an outlet opening formed in the downstream outer wall and a discharge channel for discharging the hot air stream mounted in the downstream portion and having a first end connected to the internal partition, a second end connected to the downstream outer wall and a main body having at least one flexible portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Alexis Yves-Marie Loncle, Laurent Georges Valleroy
  • Publication number: 20220250767
    Abstract: An acoustic attenuation panel includes a cellular structure including a plurality of acoustic cells separated from one another by peripheral partitions, a perforated acoustic structure, the perforated acoustic structure and the cellular structure being formed in one piece in a first material, and a porous acoustic layer formed of a second material and fastened to a surface of the perforated acoustic structure by entangling the first material and the second material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Pierre CARUEL, Bertrand DESJOYEAUX, Bertrand LEROYER, Marc VERSAEVEL, Laurent Georges VALLEROY