Patents Assigned to SAFRAN
  • Patent number: 11169042
    Abstract: A pressure measurement device (1) comprising a housing (20) extending around an electronic card (30) provided with a pressure sensor (40); the housing (20) co-operating with a first face (31) of the electronic card (30) to define a first sealed volume (3); the housing (20) also co-operating with a second face (32) of the electronic card (30) that is opposite from the first face (31) to define a second sealed volume (4); the housing (20) including at least one first channel (24) putting the medium (5) outside the housing (20) into fluid flow communication with the first sealed volume (3); the electronic card (30) including at least one second channel (33) putting the first volume (3) into fluid flow communication with the second volume (4); and the connection between the housing (20) and the electronic card (30) being arranged to allow relative movement between the housing (20) and the electronic card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE, COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, SAFRAN, SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Jean-Christophe Riou, Eric Bailly
  • Patent number: 11168610
    Abstract: A constant-volume combustion system for a turbomachine includes a plurality of combustion chambers distributed in an annular manner about an axis defining an axial direction, each combustion chamber including an intake port and an exhaust port; a selective closure member rotationally movable about the axis with respect to the combustion chambers, the selective closure member including a ferrule facing the intake and exhaust ports of the combustion chambers, the ferrule containing at least one intake aperture intended to cooperate with the exhaust port of each chamber and at least one exhaust aperture intended to cooperate with the exhaust port of each chamber. Each intake aperture and each exhaust aperture are segmented by at least one segment extending in each aperture in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Matthieu Leyko, Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Eric Conete, Gautier Mecuson
  • Patent number: 11168567
    Abstract: A fibrous texture to form the fibrous reinforcement of a turbomachine blade made of composite material, the texture being made in one piece and having a three-dimensional weaving, and includes blade root, blade airfoil and blade support portions. The blade support portion includes a first area extending transversely from a first edge of the texture to form a leading edge and a second area extending transversely from the first area up to a second edge of the texture to form a trailing edge, the first area including warp yarns or strands made of second fibers different from the first fibers, the second fibers having an elongation at break greater than that of the first fibers, the first area having a first volume ratio in yarns or strands made of second fibers strictly greater than a second volume ratio in yarns or strands made of second fibers in the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Guillaume Pascal Jean-Charles Gondre, Thomas Alain De Gaillard
  • Patent number: 11167841
    Abstract: An aircraft undercarriage carrying at least two wheels (4) and for mounting on an aircraft structure to be movable between a deployed position and a retracted position, the undercarriage being characterized in that the wheels are rotatably mounted on axles (3) carried by arms (2) hinged to a bottom portion of a strut-leg (1) of the undercarriage, each arm being associated with a shock absorber (5) coupled firstly to the arm and secondly to a collar (6) that extends around the strut-leg and that is mounted to slide on the strut-leg between a high position in which the collar bears against an abutment (7) of the strut-leg when the undercarriage is in the deployed position and a low position into which the collar is taken when the undercarriage is moved from the deployed position to the retracted position, so as to bring the wheels closer together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Nicolas Antoni, Vincent Raimbault
  • Patent number: 11171250
    Abstract: A shielding element comprises a rigid substrate and at least one electrically conductive two-dimensional structure which is placed on one of the faces of the substrate. The substrate and the electrically conductive two-dimensional structure are such that the shielding element has optical-transmission and shielding-efficiency values at least one of which varies between two zones of the shielding element. Such a shielding element enables easier assembly of a detection system comprising multiple optical sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: Safran Electronics & Defense, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-CNRS, Universite de Rennes 1
    Inventors: Cyril Dupeyrat, Patrice Foutrel, Philippe Besnier, Xavier Castel, Yonathan Corredores
  • Patent number: 11172342
    Abstract: System and methods are described herein for automatically associating one or more passenger mobile devices with one or more specific wireless access points depending on each passenger location within the aircraft or other vehicle, and the status of each of the wireless access points including its functionality and load. In preferred embodiments, a tag can be captured or read by the passenger's device, which can then cause the passenger's device to connect with a specific wireless access point. In some embodiments, the passenger's device can also be automatically directed to a landing page, such as using a web browser of the passenger's device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Safran Passenger Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: Andreas Rochau
  • Patent number: 11168645
    Abstract: An actuation device for a thrust reverser includes thrust-reversal movable elements carried by a nacelle and displaceable between a retracted and deployed position. The actuating device includes two actuators mounted on the nacelle and connected to a motor and to the movable elements. The actuation device drives the movable elements in a retraction or deployment direction over a course of the actuators between the retracted and deployed position. The actuation device further includes locks for locking the movable elements in the retracted position and antideployment members associated with the actuators which allow free operation of the actuators in the direction of retraction and retain the actuators in the direction of deployment. The antideployment bodies further provide free operation of the actuators in the direction of deployment over part of the actuators stroke that corresponds to a shift from an over-retraction position to the retraction position of the movable elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: Safran Nacelles, Safran Electronics & Defense
    Inventors: Hakim Maalioune, Julien Corbin, Jean-Philippe Joignet, Julien Hautecoeur, Yvon Joncour, Jean-Michel Figuet
  • Patent number: 11168886
    Abstract: An injector nose for a turbomachine includes a primary fuel circuit terminated by a fuel ejection nozzle defining an injection axis (44), and a secondary fuel circuit (64) comprising a secondary fuel swirler (114) formed of swirler channels (112) opening into a terminal fuel ejection portion (68) of annular shape arranged around the fuel ejection nozzle. Each swirler channel (112) has a passage section which decreases in a direction going from an upstream end (111) to a downstream end (115) of the swirler channel (112). The reduction of the passage section of the swirler channels (112) makes it possible to increase the head loss between the inlet and the outlet of the secondary fuel swirler (114) and thus notably to accelerate the fuel within the secondary fuel swirler, while allowing lower fuel flow rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Christophe Chabaille, Clément Yves Emile Bernard, Sébastien Christophe Loval
  • Publication number: 20210341358
    Abstract: A positioning tool for an endoscopic inspection means for inspecting a manifold casing of an aircraft turbine engine includes an annular wall with through holes. The annular wall is surrounded by an annular manifold having at least one gas port emerging in an annular recess delimited between the manifold and the wall. The tool further includes a centering device configured to be engaged in the port and having a distal end configured to bear against the wall, and a proximal end configured to be held securely on an opening of the port. At least one mask is configured to be engaged in the port and to be positioned and secured on the centering device. The mask comprising includes an endoscopic inspection window for inspecting a zone to be inspected inside the port and/or the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Stéphane Polydore
  • Publication number: 20210340069
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a porous abradable coating includes: filling a mold with hollow glass or thermosetting polymer beads and a slurry; and sintering heat treatment to obtain a ceramic layer with pores. A maximum sintering temperature of the green body of the ceramic part is either higher than the melting temperature of the hollow glass beads so that at the end of the sintering heat treatment the hollow glass beads are melted, or higher than the decomposition temperature of the hollow thermosetting polymer beads so that at the end of the sintering heat treatment the hollow thermosetting polymer beads are decomposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Philippe Charles Alain LE BIEZ, Nicolas DROZ, Ludovic Philippe LIAIS, Serge Georges Vladimir SELEZNEFF
  • Publication number: 20210339877
    Abstract: Series hybrid propulsion unit including a gas turbine driving a mechanical shaft of an electric generator having n output phases and supplying an AC busbar, and a system for monitoring the speed of the gas turbine, the AC busbar supplying a plurality of AC distribution channels each composed of an electric rectifier and a battery sharing the power required to supply a DC bus, the DC bus in turn supplying a plurality of propulsion sub-channels composed of electric inverters supplying, under the monitoring of a control module, motors driving thrusters, further including a battery charger for charging the battery from the DC bus, a power management module delivering a power reference for the electric generator, and a hybridization rate management module monitoring the voltage of the DC bus, the battery being directly connected on the DC bus via a passive component and the electric rectifier being a passive converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Hervé SALANNE, Stéphane PETIBON, Florent ROUGIER
  • Publication number: 20210339874
    Abstract: A device for disconnection by a mechanical action includes at least one mechanical connection part, in particular a buckle held closed by spring action, linked to at least one triggering means via at least one connecting member, and a release lever configured to be triggered by application of a force according to a predefined opening direction. The disconnect device also includes at least one guide for the connecting member configured to redirect an effort applied on the triggering means, when opening is required, towards the mechanical connection part linked to the connecting member, according to the predefined opening direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN AEROSYSTEMS
    Inventors: Christian Gomis, Alexandre Tharreau
  • Publication number: 20210344280
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for controlling an assembly of at least two inverters (1a, 1b) in an electricity generating system with parallel inverters. The method comprises the implementation by at least one data processing unit (2a, 2b) of the steps: (a) for each inverter (1a, 1b) of the assembly, obtaining an input duty factor (PWMi) of an input signal (Si) received by the inverter (1a, 1b), (b) calculating a mean duty factor (PWMm) from the input duty factors (PWMi), (c) modulating and synchronising the input signal (Si) received by each inverter (1a, 1b) into an output signal (So) having an output duty factor (PWMo) corresponding to the mean duty factor (PWMm).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER
    Inventors: Ashvin JANKEE, Guillaume CAPRON, Frédéric PAILHOUX, Pascal MORIN, Sonia DHOKKAR
  • Publication number: 20210339485
    Abstract: Methods for manufacturing a turbomachine composite part, such as a fan blade, are provided. The composite part has a fibrous structure with a three-dimensional fibrous preform coated with a surface fibrous web, and which is embedded in a polymer matrix The methods include: forming the surface web in a cavity of a mold in order to shape it, wetting and forming the preform on the surface web in order to shape it, and closing the mold, drying the fibrous structure, and injecting thermosetting resin into the mold in order to form said polymer matrix. The surface web is wetted before and/or during the forming thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Sébastien Dunaud, Dominique Marie Christian Coupe, Olivier Foussard, Didier Payen, Adrien Touze
  • Patent number: 11161614
    Abstract: An aircraft that includes a fuselage having a floor, first and second outboard walls and an aisle, and a first seat and storage system that is positioned between the first outboard wall and the aisle. The first seat and storage system includes a seat that includes a seat back and a seat portion, and a storage assembly that includes a storage portion and an extension portion. The storage portion defines a storage interior and a storage opening and includes a cover that is movable between an open position and a closed position. The storage opening faces the aisle. The extension portion extends from the storage portion toward the first outboard wall. The storage assembly defines a top surface to which the seat is secured. The storage assembly defines an under seat cavity below a bottom surface of the extension portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN CABIN INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Schuttera, Mark Lyle Shurtleff, Bruce Tsukasa Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11162366
    Abstract: A rotor disc for a turbomachine, the disc extending circumferentially around an axis and including a plurality of cells configured to receive blade roots and each cell including an upstream radial wall configured to axially block the blade root in the cell, each cell being connected to an upstream surface of the disc by a ventilation channel of the cell, the ventilation channel including an inlet orifice which opens onto the upstream surface of the disc and an outlet orifice which opens into the cell. An assembly of such a disc, of a plurality of blades and of a downstream retaining ring and a turbomachine including such an assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Laurent Cédric Zamai, Benoit Guilhem Bruno Jeannin, Loïc Fabien François Villard
  • Patent number: 11161603
    Abstract: The invention relates to an architecture of a propulsion system of a multi-engine helicopter comprising turboshaft engines connected to a power transmission gearbox, characterised in that it comprises: at least one hybrid turboshaft engine (20) capable of operating in at least one standby mode during a stable cruise flight of the helicopter; at least two systems (30; 40) for controlling each hybrid turboshaft engine (20), each system (30; 40) comprising an electric machine (31; 41) connected to the hybrid turboshaft engine (20) and suitable for rotating the gas generator thereof, and at least one source (33; 43) of electrical power for said electric machine (31; 41), each reactivation system (30; 40) being configured such that it can drive said turboshaft engine (20) in at least one operating mode among a plurality of predetermined modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES, SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER
    Inventors: Philippe Vallart, Jean-Michel Bazet, Loïc Le Duigou
  • Patent number: 11161600
    Abstract: Methods of moving an aircraft undercarriage that is movable between a retracted position and a deployed position generally include: using a rotary electromechanical type drive actuator coupled to a portion of the aircraft undercarriage to raise it from the deployed position to the retracted position; disengaging the drive actuator during a descent of the undercarriage from the retracted position to the deployed position and using a hydraulic linear shock absorber coupled to a portion of the undercarriage to regulate the rate of descent and to absorb shock on arrival of the undercarriage in the deployed position; and neutralizing the shock absorber while raising the undercarriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Florent Fortier, Sébastien Dubois
  • Patent number: 11162551
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for attenuating vibrations of an aircraft wheel/brake assembly arising during braking, the brake comprising rotor discs (2b) rotationally driven with the wheel by means of bars (5) secured to the wheel and engaging in notches (3b) of the rotor discs, and stator discs (2a) which are kept rotationally immobile by means of tenons (5) secured to a torque tube (1) of the brake and engaged in notches (3a) of the stator discs, the notches having flanks that are protected by brackets (7). The method involves selecting bracket/tenon pair and/or bracket/bar pairs with a coefficient of friction less than or equal to 0.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Antoine Gatt, Abdelbasset Hamdi, Gilles Auregan, Jean-Frédéric Diebold
  • Patent number: 11160716
    Abstract: An exoskeleton structure includes a pelvis assembly, a first lower limb assembly, a second lower limb assembly and a back assembly. The exoskeleton structure includes pivot joints connecting each of the lower limb assemblies and the back assembly to the pelvis assembly and permitting movements of abduction or adduction of the lower limbs of the user, a relative movement of lateral inclination of the spine of the user with respect to the pelvis of the user, and a twisting movement of the spine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE, B-TEMIA INC.
    Inventors: Alexandre Belanger-Desbiens, Francisco Soucy, Sylvain Gagne, Nathaniel Zoso, Jordane Grenier