Patents Assigned to Safran Transmission Systems
  • Patent number: 12286890
    Abstract: A gutter for recovering lubrication oil, particularly for a mechanical reducer, comprising un corps principal comprising an annular main body around a central axis, and a deflector attached to the main body and configured to allow the evacuation of the oil radially from an inner cavity of the main body toward the outside of the gutter, the deflector comprising a main sleeve disposed in the extension of the main body, and an evacuation channel configured to deflect oil from the main sleeve and having a curved shape such that a first end of the evacuation channel, communicating with the inner cavity, is tangent to the main body, and a second end of the evacuation channel is directed outward with respect to the annular main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Juan-Luis Marcos Izquierdo, Mohamed Bouyakoub, Antoine Jacques Marie Pennacino, Jérémy David Seban, Jordane Emile André Peltier
  • Patent number: 12286887
    Abstract: Turbomachine including: a fan arranged along a longitudinal axis of the turbomachine, a primary duct able to channel a primary air flow from the fan through a compressor, a combustion chamber and a turbine of the turbomachine, an annular nacelle surrounding the fan so as to delimit a secondary duct able to channel a secondary air flow from the fan the temperature of which is less than that of the primary air flow of the fan, the secondary air flow extending around the primary air flow of the fan and, engine support arms arranged around the longitudinal axis between the annular nacelle and a hub which delimits the primary and secondary ducts characterized in that it also includes an electrical energy generation device mounted facing or so as to be able to be arranged facing one of the support arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Boris Pierre Marcel Morelli, Matthieu Bruno François Foglia, Clément Raucoules, Jean-Pierre Serey
  • Patent number: 12259038
    Abstract: A mechanical part for an aircraft turbomachine is made of metal and includes at least one profiled surface configured to ensure an oil flow during operation. The surface has a hydrophobic and/or lipophobic coating or a surface texturing rendering the surface hydrophobic and/or lipophobic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Juan-Luis Marcos Izquierdo
  • Patent number: 12221931
    Abstract: An aircraft turbomachine including a mechanical reduction gear including one sun gear, a ring gear, planet gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear, each planet gear including a first toothing for meshing with the sun gear, and a second toothing for meshing with the ring gear, the first toothing of each planet gear having a diameter greater than that of the second toothing of the planet gear, and a planet carrier, wherein the sun gear is coupled to a first rotor shaft of the turbomachine, the planet carrier is coupled to a second rotor shaft of the turbomachine, the ring gear is fixed to a stator of the turbomachine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Guillaume Pierre Mouly, Guillaume Julien Beck, Jordane Emile Andre Peltier, Jean-Pierre Serey, Adrien Louis Simon
  • Patent number: 12209652
    Abstract: A mechanical part for an aircraft turbomachine, the mechanical part being made of metal and comprising at least one profiled surface configured to ensure an oil flow during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Juan-Luis Marcos Izquierdo
  • Publication number: 20250027454
    Abstract: A sun gear for a mechanical gearbox of an aircraft turbomachine, the sun gear having an annular shape around an axis and including an internal annular part having at its internal periphery coupling grooves, an external annular part having at its external periphery at least one meshing tooth, the external part extending around the internal part, and an annular veil connecting the internal and external parts. At least one of the internal and external parts can include two independent rings, each having grooves or teeth, and the veil can have two annular branches connected respectively to the two rings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Patrice Jocelyn Francis GEDIN, Guillaume Julien BECK, Loïc FRANCOIS, Boris Pierre Marcel MORELLI, Jordane Emile André PELTIER, Antoine Jacques Marie PENNACINO, Adrien Louis SIMON
  • Patent number: 12203539
    Abstract: An accessory gearbox houses at least one gear train with a series of pinions. The casing has two substantially flat and opposite parallel side walls between which are mounted support shafts for each of the pinions, each of which receives accessories, and which define in the enclosure an internal volume surrounding a shaft supporting at least one hybridization pinion. The gearbox receives at least one electric machine having a rotor and a stator, wherein the rotor of the electric machine is supported by the shaft supporting the hybridization pinion of the gear train, and the stator extends around the rotor in the internal volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Clément Falguiere, Clément Romain Aimé Cadet, Florian Pierre-Yves Chaput, Raphaël Clément Stéphane Martin
  • Publication number: 20250003350
    Abstract: Turbomachine including: a fan arranged along a longitudinal axis of the turbomachine, a primary duct able to channel a primary air flow from the fan through a compressor, a combustion chamber and a turbine of the turbomachine, an annular nacelle surrounding the fan so as to delimit a secondary duct able to channel a secondary air flow from the fan the temperature of which is less than that of the primary air flow of the fan, the secondary air flow extending around the primary air flow of the fan and, engine support arms arranged around the longitudinal axis between the annular nacelle and a hub which delimits the primary and secondary ducts characterized in that it also includes an electrical energy generation device mounted facing or so as to be able to be arranged facing one of the support arms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Boris Pierre Marcel MORELLI, Matthieu Bruno François FOGLIA, Clément RAUCOULES, Jean-Pierre SEREY
  • Patent number: 12163477
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an assembly for an aircraft turbomachine, having a speed reduction gear comprising an input pinion connected to a power shaft of the turbomachine and an output pinion connected to a propeller shaft of the turbomachine. According to the disclosure, the assembly includes two electric machines which are each configured to provide electrical power to the propeller shaft or to draw mechanical power from the propeller shaft, each electric machine comprising a rotor and a stator, the stator configured to be connected to a casing of the turbomachine. The speed reduction gear can include two substantially parallel intermediate transmission lines configured to transmit the torque from the input pinion to the output pinion, each rotor being driven in rotation respectively by a pinion of an intermediate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Maxime Fernandez, Yohan Douy, Boris Pierre Marcel Morelli, Jordane Emile André Peltier
  • Patent number: 12152494
    Abstract: A plain bearing for a mechanical reducer for a turbomachine is integrally formed and includes a cylindrical body. The cylindrical body has an external cylindrical guide surface, a first axial mounting extension, a first circumferential edge extending around the first extension, a second axial mounting extension, and a second circumferential edge extending around the second extension. The plain bearing further includes an attachment cover connected to the first axial extension and extending axially opposite said first edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Bálint Pap, Cyrille Casteloot
  • Patent number: 12140220
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lubricating oil deflector for a speed reduction gear of a turbomachine, the deflector comprising a body having a first end intended to be disposed facing a sun gear of the reduction gear, the first end being configured to receive oil from the sun gear and an opposite second end configured to discharge the oil from the body, the body including two side faces each intended to be disposed facing a planet gear of the reduction gear and each connecting the first and second ends together, the body including at least one inner oil guide channel that opens out at the first end and at the second end and is configured to discharge the oil by gravity through the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Juan-Luis Marcos Izquierdo
  • Patent number: 12123490
    Abstract: A planet carrier for a mechanical gearbox of a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, the planet carrier being formed in a single piece and comprising two annular flasks connected by material bridges and together defining housings configured to receive planet gears, the flasks comprising orifices for mounting the planet gears which are oriented axially and which open into the housings. One of the flasks can include at least one thinning around its orifices, the at least one thinning defining a minimum thickness of material in the axial direction which is less than a minimum thickness of the other flask around each of its orifices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Safran Transmission Systems
    Inventor: Guillaume Pierre Mouly
  • Patent number: 12123479
    Abstract: A planet carrier for a speed reducer of an aircraft turbomachine, the planet carrier including a cage carrier and a cage. The cage can have two parts: a first part having a wall and bridges, these bridges projecting axially from a face of this wall and including first axial ends connected to this face and second free axial ends; and a second part having another of the walls, this other wall including a face to which the free ends of the bridges are applied. The two parts of the cage can be attached together by screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Safran Transmission Systems
    Inventors: Guillaume Pierre Mouly, Guillaume Julien Beck, Patrice Julien Ptaszynski, Jean-Pierre Serey, Adrien Louis Simon
  • Patent number: 12110845
    Abstract: A propulsion system includes a drive shaft movable in rotation about an axis of rotation, a low-pressure compressor driven in rotation by the drive shaft, the low-pressure compressor having a mean radius, a fan shaft, a fan driven in rotation by the fan shaft, a reduction mechanism coupling the drive shaft and the fan shaft, having a reduction ratio, and an inlet channel which extends between the fan and the low-pressure compressor, the inlet channel having an inlet adjacent to the fan and an outlet opposite the inlet and adjacent to the low-pressure compressor, the inlet having a mean radius. A first ratio between a ratio of a mean radius of the inlet channel and the mean radius of the low-pressure compressor, and the reduction ratio of the reduction mechanism, is strictly less than 0.35.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Maeva Daphné Gros-Borot, Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Matthieu Bruno François Foglia, Caroline Marie Frantz, Adrien Louis Simon
  • Patent number: 12104495
    Abstract: A drive assembly for a mechanical reducer for a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, includes planet gears, a planet carrier having at least one transverse wall, plain bearings for guiding the planet gears in rotation, and an oil supply circuit for the plain bearings. The planet carrier has collars for attaching the planet gears to the at least one transverse wall, and each of the planet gears includes at least one external cylindrical surface for forming an oil film with an internal cylindrical surface portion of each of the collars for forming said oil film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Bálint Pap, Clément Jarroux, Guillaume Pierre Mouly, Pierre-Damien Tune
  • Patent number: 12103709
    Abstract: A pre-assembly method for an aircraft turbomachine, including preliminarily assembling, outside the turbomachine, the following components with each other: a reduction gear configured to transmit a rotation between at least two rotors of the turbomachine while modifying the speed and torque ratio from one to the other of the at least two rotors, a shaft kinematically coupled to the reduction gear and configured to be kinematically coupled to one of the at least two rotors, a bearing support, and at least one bearing mounted on the bearing support and configured to rotatably support the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Adrien Louis Simon, Guillaume Julien Beck, Yohan Douy, Jordane Emile André Peltier, Jérémy David Seban
  • Patent number: 12098765
    Abstract: A power transmission system for an aircraft turbine engine including a speed reducer including a ring gear that is able to rotate about an axis X, formed from half-rings having annular flanges clamped together by first fastener. The reducer includes an annular channel for recovering centrifuged oil, having a U-shaped cross section, extending around the flanges, this channel being formed by an axial assembly of at least two parts and forming a fairing for the flanges and the first fastener intended to limit aerodynamic disturbances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Juan-Luis Marcos Izquierdo, Melody Elisabeth Laurent Cailler, Patrice Jocelyn Francis Gedin, Jean-Pierre Serey
  • Patent number: 12078126
    Abstract: An aero-propulsion system includes a drive shaft, a low-pressure compressor, a fan shaft driving a fan, a reduction device that couples the drive shaft and the fan shaft, and an inlet channel which extends between the fan and the low-pressure compressor, the inlet having a predetermined mean radius, a ratio between a mean radius of the inlet channel and the mean radius of the low-pressure compressor, on the one hand, and the reduction ratio of the reduction mechanism, on the other hand, being less than 0.35.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Maeva Daphné Gros-Borot, Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Matthieu Bruno François Foglia, Caroline Marie Frantz, Adrien Louis Simon
  • Patent number: 12072016
    Abstract: A gutter for recovering lubrication oil, particularly for a mechanical reducer of an aircraft turbomachine, annular around a central axis, and comprising a first radial wall extending radially with respect to the central axis, an inclined wall extending from a radially outer end of the first radial wall, a guide portion having an overall U shape extending from one end of the inclined wall, and a second radial wall extending radially outward with respect to the central axis from one end of the guide portion, a space delimited by the first radial wall, the second radial wall and the inclined wall forming an oil intake chamber, and a space delimited by the guide portion and the second radial wall forming an oil evacuation cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Juan-Luis Marcos Izquierdo, Mohamed Bouyakoub, Jordane Emile André Peltier, Anthony Cuffaro, Antoine Jacques Marie Pennacino, Jérémy David Seban
  • Patent number: 12072002
    Abstract: A ring gear for an aircraft mechanical gearbox, the ring gear having an annular shape about an axis and having an internal toothing at its internal periphery, an external annular flange or splines at its external periphery, and an annular web extending between the internal toothing and the external flange or splines. The web can include an annular row of arms which are distributed about the axis, these arms connecting the internal toothing to the external flange or splines and being formed in a single piece with the internal toothing and the external flange or splines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Safran Transmission Systems
    Inventors: Loïc Francois, Boris Pierre Marcel Morelli, Florent Lejeune