Patents Assigned to SAFRAN
  • Patent number: 11946436
    Abstract: An architecture for controlling and/or monitoring at least one actuator of a mobile cowl of a thrust reverser equipping a nacelle, the actuator being driven by at least one engine, includes at least one engine sensor to provide its control according to instructions, the architecture including an electronic control system to process at least one piece of information generated by the engine sensor and to calculate, using at least this same piece of information, the position of the mobile cowl of the thrust reverser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Hakim Maalioune, Alice Portalier, Julien Corbin
  • Patent number: 11945571
    Abstract: A piloting device arranged to be integrated in a pre-existing aircraft that includes original systems comprising both a flight control system and an autopilot system is distinct from and autonomous relative to the original systems and includes a positioning unit and a control unit. The positioning unit is arranged to produce positioning data for the pre-existing aircraft. The control unit is arranged to perform a geofencing function from the positioning data produced by the positioning unit and to produce an alternative piloting setpoint for the pre-existing aircraft. The alternative piloting setpoint is adapted to supplement both a manual piloting setpoint produced by a pilot of the pre-existing aircraft via the flight control system and also an autopilot setpoint produced by the autopilot system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Alexandre Guyamier, Julien Farjon, Nicolas Cadalen
  • Patent number: 11946743
    Abstract: Angular sensor with vibrating resonator includes a supporting structure, a first mass and a second mass which are concentric, and mechanical springs arranged symmetrically in pairs, the pairs themselves being arranged symmetrically with respect to one another. Each spring comprises a first elastic leaf and a second elastic leaf which are connected to one another by one end, the first elastic leaf of one of the springs of each pair being parallel to the second elastic leaf of the other of the springs of the same pair. The four elastic leaves of at least one pair comprise two adjacent pairs of leaves making an angle of approximately 45° between them. The sensor is not provided with electrostatic springs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Alain Jeanroy, Philippe Onfroy
  • Patent number: 11946385
    Abstract: A method for controlling the bending deformation of a turbomachine shaft at rest subjected to the residual heat of operation of the turbomachine, wherein the shaft is rotated at a rotation speed between 0.1 and 50 revolutions per minute depending on the bending deformation deflection of the shaft when the turbomachine is at rest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Clément Georges Henri Gorce, Emelian Charles François Vsevolod Evqueny Tichtchenko
  • Patent number: 11946955
    Abstract: A sensor is configured to sense the rate of change of a current in order to protect the bridge arms in a power module with power layers and measurement layers. The sensor includes at least three conductors (C1, C2, Cp) and coils. One end of each conductor is connected to a common node, while the other end of each conductor is used respectively as an electrical terminal. The at least three conductors are contained in the same plane, referred to as the primary plane, while each conductor has a plane of symmetry perpendicular to the primary plane, each plane of symmetry passing through the common node and the corresponding terminal. A first conductor and a second conductor are identical and positioned symmetrically relative to a third conductor, and at least one pair of coils is positioned symmetrically relative to a plane of symmetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: NL CONSEIL, SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER
    Inventor: Norbert Lartigue
  • Patent number: 11946387
    Abstract: A turbine blade, including a root, a vane including a leading edge and a trailing edge and a pressure-side wall and a suction-side wall, and including cooling vents at the trailing edge, this vane also including first and second serpentine circuits; each serpentine circuit including several ducts extending in the span direction, being connected to each other by angled portions; each serpentine circuit being supplied with air by its duct that is closest to the leading edge; and wherein the vents are supplied by the first and by the second serpentine circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Erwan Daniel Botrel, Kevin Yannick Garles, Laurent Patrick Robert Coudert
  • Patent number: 11947100
    Abstract: A telescope including a fastener plate, a primary mirror carried by a front face of the plate, and a secondary mirror held facing the primary mirror by a support, wherein the support includes a primary sleeve mounted around the primary mirror, a secondary sleeve mounted around the secondary mirror, and arms connecting the secondary sleeve to the primary sleeve, and in that the arms are curved towards the primary mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Charlotte Hoeltzel, Cédric Tacconi, Christophe Furui, Franck Seillier, Guillaume Anna
  • Patent number: 11946384
    Abstract: A compressor casing for a turbine engine, the casing comprising: a housing comprising a radially inner e surface; an upstream ferrule; and a downstream ferrule; each of the ferrules having a respective inner surface capable of defining an air stream, and each of the ferrules having an outer surface facing the inner surface of the housing, the ferrules being attached to the cantilevered housing and being axially arranged so as to be separated by an axial clearance. Additionally, a turbine engine comprising such a casing and a stage of variable-setting vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS SA
    Inventor: Morgan Vyvey
  • Patent number: 11945592
    Abstract: An aircraft propelled by at least one turbojet engine on which power can be bled or injected via a high-pressure and/or low-pressure turbine shaft and including at least one gas turbine to provide power transients, having a system for converting and transporting electrical energy wherein each of the high-pressure and/or low-pressure turbine shafts is connected to a first doubly-fed asynchronous machine delivering, a first three-phase AC voltage over an AC distribution grid and a second polyphase AC voltage for a first AC/DC bidirectional converter supplying a DC voltage over a DC distribution grid, at least one second DC/AC bidirectional converter connected to the DC distribution grid converting this DC voltage into a third polyphase AC voltage supplying at least one second doubly-fed asynchronous machine engaged with a rotation shaft of the gas turbine, the second doubly-fed asynchronous machine further delivering a fourth polyphase AC voltage over the AC distribution grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Hervé Salanne, Stéphane Petibon, Florent Rougier, René Meunier, Meriem Abdellatif
  • Patent number: 11946381
    Abstract: Stator structure (22) extending around an axis of the turbomachine and comprising: —a support (50) having an inner surface centred on the axis and—a flange (60) defining an air chamber (A2) and having an outer surface centred on the axis, the support (50) extending around the flange (60) such that the inner and outer surfaces are opposite to each other, the structure (22) defining an oil circuit and an air circuit which are formed by upstream channels (64, 65) and downstream channels (54, 55), —each upstream channel (64, 65) defining an outer opening in the outer surface, —each downstream channel (54, 55) defining an inner opening in the inner surface, each circuit being oriented between the outer and inner openings in a direction comprising a component radial to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Christophe Marcel Lucien Perdrigeon, Didier Gabriel Bertrand Desombre, Régis Eugène Henri Servant
  • Publication number: 20240102397
    Abstract: A turbine stator assembly including a guide vane assembly and a sealing ring bearing an abradable element of a dynamic sealing ring. The assembly includes pins secured to the sealing ring and cooperating with respective oblong openings formed in the guide vane assembly so as to allow a radial movement of the ring with respect to the guide vane assembly in order to compensate for differential thermal expansions. A seal is arranged so as to compensate for circumferential spaces between ring sectors forming the guide vane assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Patrick Jean Laurent SULTANA, Marc-Antoine Anatole GOT, Laurent Cédric ZAMAI
  • Publication number: 20240101264
    Abstract: An acoustic treatment panel including acoustic absorption cells each comprising a bottom wall, a porous inlet wall, an enclosure extending in an axial direction between the bottom wall and the inlet wall, and a first acoustic horn extending inside the enclosure between a first opening and a second opening that is smaller than said first opening, the first opening facing said inlet wall. Each cell comprises a second horn extending inside the enclosure in the first axial direction between a first opening of the second horn and a second opening of the second horn that is smaller than said first opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Georges Jean Xavier RIOU, Fernando GEA AGUILERA
  • Publication number: 20240102540
    Abstract: Rudder pedal and brake inceptor devices are described that utilize a straight-line mechanism and rotary joints to achieve straight line motion in a compact volume. The devices can include four or more bar linkages that translate forward motion of a pedal into a rotary motion of a common shaft, such that forward motion of one pedal causes the other pedal to retract while allowing for yaw motion control of the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Safran Electronics & Defense, Avionics USA, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Fleming, Andrew Wright
  • Publication number: 20240102513
    Abstract: A pin for a pinned joint includes a hollow body with a first and second end caps coupled to first and second ends, respectively. The body and the end caps at least partially define a cavity within the body, wherein at least one aperture extends through the hollow body. A main piston is slidably disposed within the cavity and divides the cavity into a first chamber proximate to the first end and a second chamber proximate to the second end and fluidly isolated from an environment around the body. A lubricant is disposed within the first chamber. The main piston moves toward the first end of the body when a pressure in the second chamber is greater than a pressure of the environment. Movement of the main piston toward the first end of the body discharges lubricant through the at least one aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicants: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS, SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Michael ELLIS, Aakash GOHIL, Graeme Peter Arthur KLIM
  • Publication number: 20240101249
    Abstract: An uplock for selectively retaining a capture pin of a movable element including a hook, a locking member, and a detector. The hook is movable between a release position and a retaining position. The locking member is movable between a locked position that immobilizes the hook and an unlocked position in which the hook is free. The detector detects whether the hook is in the retaining position and the capture pin is present in the hook. The detector includes a sensor associated with a single target which is movable between two positions The sensor emits a signal which is modified when the target passes from one of the positions to the other. The target is independently in kinematic interaction with the hook and the capture pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Vincent PASCAL, Ludovic DUFAY, Michel ARBENTZ
  • Patent number: 11939933
    Abstract: In a thrust reverser for an aircraft propulsion unit, the thrust reverser includes an internal fixed structure, a mobile cowl and blocking flaps. The thrust reverser also includes a first actuation mechanism that is configured to move the mobile cowl between a closing position and an opening position so as to cause the blocking flaps to move respectively between a retracted position and a deployed position, thus causing the thrust reverser to pass respectively between a full-thrust configuration and a thrust-reversal configuration. The thrust reverser also includes a second actuation mechanism that is configured to move the blocking flaps between the retracted position and a partially deployed position when the mobile cowl is in the closing position, so as to cause the thrust reverser to pass respectively between the full-thrust configuration and a reduced-thrust configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN NACELLES, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Denis Guillois, Florent Matthieu Jacques Nobelen, Luigi Bisanti
  • Patent number: 11941079
    Abstract: A method for assisting with the navigation of a fleet of vehicles including a main vehicle and a secondary vehicle that is mobile in relation to the main vehicle, the method including receiving relative movement data, acquired by one or more sensors, between the main vehicle and the secondary vehicle, estimating a navigation status of the fleet of vehicles by an invariant Kalman filter using the received data as observations, the navigation status including first variables representing a first rigid transformation linking a location mark associated with the main vehicle to a reference point, and second variables representing a second rigid transformation linking a location mark associated with the main vehicle to a location mark associated with the secondary vehicle, the invariant Kalman filter using, as an internal composition law, a law including a term-by term composition of the first rigid transformation and the second rigid transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Emmanuel Robert, Axel Barrau, Thomas Bernal
  • Patent number: 11939937
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a composite platform (30) for a fan of an aircraft turbine engine, wherein said platform comprises an elongate wall (32) and is configured to extend between two fan blades (3), said wall comprising an outer aerodynamic surface (32a) and an inner surface (32b), on which a fastening tab is located (34), said fastening tab being configured to be fixed to a fan disc (2). The invention is characterized in that it comprises the steps of: a) preparing fabrics or sheets which are pre-impregnated with a resin, b) depositing the fabrics or sheets in a mold, c) positioning a metal reinforcement (36) in the mold on the fabrics or sheets, the reinforcement being integrally formed with said fastening tab, d) depositing the fabrics or sheets on a part of the reinforcement, and e) closing and heating the mold for solidification of the assembly formed by the fabrics or sheets and the reinforcement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Matteo Minervino, Didier Fromonteil, Hervé Grelin, Damien Bruno Lamouche
  • Patent number: 11940017
    Abstract: A brake assembly is suitable for use with a vehicle wheel that has a rim rotatably mounted to an axle. The brake assembly includes a housing fixedly positioned relative to the axle and a plurality of disks disposed within the housing and fixedly positioned relative to the rim. A fluid is disposed within the housing and has a selectively variable viscosity. The viscosity of the fluid is selectively increased to increase a braking force applied to the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Safran Landing Systems Canada Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Kyle Schmidt
  • Patent number: D1020327
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN SEATS
    Inventors: Benjamin Foucher, José Bernardo De Morais, Bastien Bonnefoy, Olivier Cazalis, Laurent Ligonniere, Quentin Munier