Patents Assigned to Safran Transmission Systems
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Patent number: 11686255Abstract: A method for manufacturing a mechanical reducer for an aircraft turbomachine including a central pinion, an outer crown, N planet pinions, where N?3, each planet pinion including a first stage meshing with the central pinion, and a second stage meshing with the outer crown, the method including the assembly marking, wherein N teeth of the central pinion are marked, and N pairs of teeth of the first stage of each planet pinion are marked, the N planet pinions each being marked identically, and the assembly of the mechanical reducer, so that the teeth of the pairs of marked teeth of the first stage of each planet pinion are disposed on either side of a marked tooth of the central pinion.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Adrien Louis Simon, Dhafer Ghribi
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Patent number: 11674592Abstract: A planet carrier (213) for a speed reducer (210) of a turbomachine (1), this planet carrier (213) having a main axis X and comprising: a cage carrier (222) comprising an annular row of axial fingers (282) about the axis X, which comprises first connection elements, and a cage (220) comprising at its periphery housings (280) and second connection elements which are mounted in said housings and which cooperate with the first connection elements to form connections between the cage carrier (222) and the cage (220), which allow at least one degree of freedom, characterised in that the cage (220) comprises two shells (220a, 220b) which are axially assembled to each other, said first or second connection elements comprising broaches (288) oriented radially with respect to said axis X and passing through radial orifices (220a, 220a2, 220b1, 220b2) of said shells (220a, 220b).Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Guillaume Pierre Mouly, Jean-Pierre Serey
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Publication number: 20230173584Abstract: A modular tray, for the additive manufacturing of a part with an axis of revolution on a powder bed, includes: a shaft-mounted circular module including a shaft provided with a circular tray at one of the ends thereof, the shaft and the circular tray being concentric; and a main support module including, in one face, a cavity configured for receiving the shaft-mounted circular module, the shaft being completely inserted in the cavity. The assembly of the shaft-mounted circular module and of the main support module define a planar top surface that is at least partly formed by the circular tray of the shaft-mounted circular module.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicants: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Arnaud Georges NIFENECKER, Jérémi Christophe Benjamin ADOR, Frédéric AYCAGUER, Frédéric Jacques DUFAU, Gilles Gaston Jacques GOUIN, Jean-Pierre WILMES, Werner ARGUEL
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Publication number: 20230160345Abstract: An arrangement for an aircraft turbine engine, including a shaft and a follower element rotatably coupled to the shaft by a spline connection, the arrangement including upstream and downstream connections for radially centring the follower element relative to the shaft; means for spraying a lubricant into a collection cavity; a passage for receiving lubricant, which passage opens into the collection cavity and into a cavity for lubricating the splines which is partially defined by the upstream and downstream radial centring connections; and a passage for discharging lubricant, which passage opens into the cavity for lubricating the splines and outside the arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2021Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Matthieu Bruno François FOGLIA, Serge René MORREALE, Adrien Louis SIMON
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Publication number: 20230133871Abstract: An aircraft turbine engine includes a turbine shaft having a first axis of rotation, a propulsion propeller having a second axis of rotation parallel to and spaced from the first axis, and a mechanical reduction gear coupled to the turbine shaft and rotating the propeller. The reduction gear has a sun gear connected to the turbine shaft, a ring gear, and at least two planet gears, each including a first external toothing that is meshed with an external toothing of the sun gear. A second external toothing is located within the ring gear and is meshed with an internal toothing of the ring gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Paul Ghislain Albert LEVISSE, Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Guillaume Pierre MOULY, Patrice Jocelyn Francis GEDIN, Olivier BELMONTE
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Patent number: 11635028Abstract: A lubricating oil distributor for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbomachine, in particular of an aircraft, includes a body of generally annular shape around an axis X and includes first and second independent oil circuits. The first oil circuit has a first oil inlet connected by a first chamber to several oil outlets distributed on the body around the axis X. The second oil circuit has a second oil inlet connected by a second chamber to several oil outlets distributed on the body around the axis X. The first and second chambers extend circumferentially around the axis X at different diameters, wherein the first and second oil circuits are formed in the body and are respectively a recovery circuit and an oil supply circuit for toothing of the reduction gear.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventor: Adrien Louis Simon
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Publication number: 20230102913Abstract: A method for manufacturing a mechanical reducer for an aircraft turbomachine including a central pinion, an outer crown, N planet pinions, where N?3, each planet pinion including a first stage meshing with the central pinion, and a second stage meshing with the outer crown, the method including the assembly marking, wherein N teeth of the central pinion are marked, and N pairs of teeth of the first stage of each planet pinion are marked, the N planet pinions each being marked identically, and the assembly of the mechanical reducer, so that the teeth of the pairs of marked teeth of the first stage of each planet pinion are disposed on either side of a marked tooth of the central pinion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Adrien Louis SIMON, Dhafer GHRIBI
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Patent number: 11608785Abstract: A mechanical reduction gear of a turbomachine, in particular of an aircraft. The reduction gear includes a sun gear, a ring gear surrounded by a ring gear carrier, and planet gears meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear. The ring gear carrier includes an axial abutment on which the ring gear is configured to bear, and helical external splines which are engaged in complementary internal splines of the ring gear carrier and which are configured to cooperate by sliding with the internal splines so as to force the ring gear to be held against the abutment in operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Adrien Louis Simon, Simon Loic Clement Lefebvre
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Patent number: 11591972Abstract: A mechanical gearbox for an aircraft turbomachine includes a sun gear having an axis (X) of rotation, a ring gear around the sun gear, and planet gears meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear. Each planet gear has a first toothing meshed with the sun gear and a second loathing meshed with the ring gear. The first toothing includes a series of upstream teeth and a series of downstream teeth located on either side of a plane (H) perpendicular to the axis (X) of rotation of the sun gear. The second toothing includes a series of upstream teeth and a series of downstream teeth located on either side of the plane (H) and separated from one another by the first toothing, these teeth being parallel to one another and to the axis (Y) of rotation of the planet gear.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Guillaume Julien Beck, Dhafer Ghribi, Simon Loïc Clément Lefebvre, Quentin Pierre Henri Pigott, Adrien Louis Simon
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Publication number: 20230051474Abstract: A splined shaft includes splines evenly distributed over the periphery, wherein the splines being spaced apart from each other. At least one portion of the splines are spaced apart by a modified pitch p with respect to the nominal pitch pn of the splines. The ratio of the absolute value of the difference between the modified pitch and the nominal pitch, to the nominal pitch, i.e. |pn?p|/pn, is different from zero, for example between 0.5 and 5%.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Juan-Luis MARCOS IZQUIERDO, Quentin Pierre Henri PIGOTT
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Patent number: 11578664Abstract: An oil collector for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, the reduction gear including a body having two opposite lateral faces configured to extend in part around planet gears of the reduction gear, the collector further including an internal oil circulation cavity connected firstly to oil inlets located on the faces, and on the other hand to at least one oil outlet, characterised in that at least one of the faces comprises includes columns and rows of several inlets each having a recess with a progressively increasing cross-section, each recess being delimited by walls, at least some of the walls having a hydrodynamic profile.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Mathieu Jean Charrier, Boris Pierre Marcel Morelli, Jean-Pierre Serey
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Publication number: 20230019277Abstract: A propulsion system includes a drive shaft, a fan, a fan shaft, and a reduction device coupling the drive and fan shafts. The reduction device includes a first reduction stage and a second reduction state, and include a sun gear, centered on an axis of rotation of the drive and fan shafts and driven in rotation by the drive shaft, a ring gear, coaxial with the sun gear and that drives the fan shaft in rotation about the axis, and planet gears distributed circumferentially about the axis between the sun and ring gears, each planet gear including a first portion which is meshed with the sun gear and a second portion which is meshed with the ring gear, a diameter of the first portion being different from a diameter of the second portion, and an oil transfer bearing positioned between the fan and the reduction device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Caroline Marie FRANTZ, Gilles Alain Marie CHARIER, Maeva Daphné GROS-BOROT, Matthieu Bruno François FOGLIA, Adrien Louis SIMON
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Patent number: 11555454Abstract: A triple-flow turbomachine for an aircraft, including a power transmission module including a torque input connected to a turbine shaft, a first torque output of a gearbox connected to a main shaft for rotatably driving a main fan propeller, and a second torque output of a planet gear connected to a secondary shaft for rotatably driving a secondary fan propeller. The planet gear is independent of the gearbox and arranged downstream of the gearbox.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventor: Guillaume Pierre Mouly
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Publication number: 20230007929Abstract: A propulsion system includes a drive shaft movable about an axis of rotation, a fan, a fan shaft that drives the fan, and a reduction device coupling the drive shaft and the fan shaft. The reduction device has first and second reduction stages and includes a sun gear, centered on the axis and driven by the drive shaft, a ring gear that is coaxial with the sun gear and that drives the fan shaft about the axis, and planet gears distributed circumferentially about the axis between the sun gear and the ring gear. Each planet gear includes a first portion meshed with the sun gear and a second portion meshed with the ring gear. A diameter of the first portion is different from a diameter of the second portion, and the first portion of the planet gears extend between the second portion of the planet gears and the fan.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: January 12, 2023Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Caroline Marie FRANTZ, Gilles Alain Marie CHARIER, Adrien Louis SIMON
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Patent number: 11549582Abstract: A mechanical gearbox for aircraft includes a sun gear with an external toothing, a ring gear with an internal toothing, and planet gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear and which each have a first toothing of average diameter D32 meshed with the toothing of the sun gear, and a second toothing of average diameter D28, different from D32, meshed with the internal toothing of the ring gear. The planet gears are guided by hydrodynamic bearings which each include a first smooth guiding surface extending at least partly under the first toothing, and a second smooth guiding surface extending at least partly under the second toothing.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Adrien Louis Simon, Guillaume Pierre Mouly, Bálint Pap
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Patent number: 11542832Abstract: A device for lubricating and cooling a turbomachine rolling bearing is at least partially annular. The device comprises a first duct and a second duct inclined with respect to the first duct. The first duct is configured to be in thermal contact with an outer ring of the rolling bearing that at least partially surrounds same. The second duct is fluidically connected to the first duct. The first duct is configured to circulate the lubricant for cooling the outer ring, towards a discharge outlet of the lubricant. The second duct is configured to eject the lubricant through a lubrication outlet towards the rolling bearing.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Lionel Bauduin, Othmane Ez-Zahraouy
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Publication number: 20220412270Abstract: An assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a casing centered on a longitudinal axis and including an upstream portion, a central portion and a downstream portion arranged successively along the longitudinal axis, an attachment system include plural tie rods, and an accessory gearbox arranged within a space delimited axially by the upstream portion and the downstream portion and radially by the central portion, the accessory gearbox being solely attached to the upstream portion or solely attached to the downstream portion by the attachment system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Florian Pierre-Yves CHAPUT, Fanélie Violaine DREVON, Thomas Marie Joseph DE DREUILLE DE LONGEVILLE, Quentin Pierre Henri PIGOTT
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Publication number: 20220412454Abstract: A planet carrier for a speed reduction gear of a turbomachine has a main axis X and includes a cage carrier with an annular row of axial fingers around the axis X, which carry first connecting elements. The carrier further includes a cage having at its periphery housings and second connecting elements that are mounted in the housings and that cooperate with the first connecting elements to form connections between the cage carrier and the cage, which allow at least one degree of freedom. The cage comprises two shells that are axially fastened to each other and separated from each other by a plane. The housings are formed respectively in the shells.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventor: Guillaume Pierre MOULY
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Publication number: 20220390005Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventor: Juan-Luis MARCOS IZQUIERDO
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Patent number: 11512647Abstract: A planet-carrier cage is provided for a turbomachine speed reducer having a planetary gear set. The cage contains a central sun gear and an annular row of planet gears arranged around the sun gear axis and engaging both the sun gear and an internal gear that surrounds the cage. A periphery of the cage has axial receiving elements configured to receive axial fingers secured to a cage carrier of the speed reducer. Each receiving element is penetrated by a radial spindle that guides the rotation of a connection means, such as a swivel joint or a bearing, which is supported by the fingers. The spindles include means for projecting lubricating oil into regions in which the planet gears mesh with the internal gear.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventor: Jean-Charles Michel Pierre Di Giovanni