Patents Assigned to SAFRAN
  • Patent number: 10501168
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hub for an unducted propeller (14) having variable-pitch blades (18) of a turbine engine, comprising two parallel annular side walls (34) between which are arranged rings (36) which are distributed angularly in a regular manner around a longitudinal axis (A) of the hub, which are connected to the annular side walls (34), and which comprise compartments (26) receiving bearings (32) having radial axes (R) for guiding in rotation roots (30) of blades of said propeller, said rings (36) being connected in pairs by connection means (40) which are arranged between the annular side walls (34) and which comprise substantially radial reinforcing partitions (42, 44, 46), characterised in that at least some of said reinforcing partitions (42, 44, 46) are connected to said annular side walls (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sebastien Emile Philippe Tajan, Charles-Henri Michel Marie Derrez, Caroline Adeline Herauville, Anthony Lafitte, Cyril Roger Yves Le Pecheur
  • Patent number: 10502143
    Abstract: The present application relates to an axial turbine engine with a turbine, a low-pressure compressor, and a fan. The turbine drives the compressor and the fan via a plurality of epicyclic reducing gears. The rotor of the compressor includes upstream a disc with a row of vanes and downstream a drum with a plurality of rows of vanes. The disc and the drum are connected to different parts of the epicyclic reducing gears, so as to be counter-rotating. The turbine engine includes a row of stator vanes arranged between two rows of rotor blades of the drum of the compressor, so as to straighten the flow and improve the efficiency. The turbine engine includes at least two epicyclic reducing gears, so that the vane rows of the drum turn faster than that downstream, which itself turns faster than the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS SA
    Inventor: Stéphane Hiernaux
  • Patent number: 10502081
    Abstract: A turbomachine bearing housing comprising a fixed wall, a rotating shaft, first and second seals between the wall and the shaft, and a chamber between the fixed wall and a stator element supplied with air via an opening close to the shaft. An air guide is arranged along the surface of the wall of the housing, outside same, such that at least a portion of the air exiting the guide passes between the first seal and the shaft, the air guide being supplied with air by an air intake separated radially from the shaft, the air from the air intake being at a higher pressure than at the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jérémy Lucien Jacques Bioud, Sébastien Bourget, Gaël Evain, Eddy Stéphane Joël Fontanel, Florence Irène Noëlle Leutard, Christophe Lima, Giuliana Elisa Rossi
  • Patent number: 10502088
    Abstract: A drive mechanism (10) for driving a first adjustment member (12) for adjusting the orientation of the blades (14) of a first turbomachine rectifier stage (16) and a second adjustment member (18) for adjusting the orientation of the blades (20) of a second turbomachine rectifier stage (22), which comprises a mechanism for simultaneously moving the two adjustment members (12, 18) in the turbomachine, characterised in that it comprises a single drive wheel (24) that simultaneously drives the first adjustment member (12) and the second adjustment member (18) and comprises two gear stages (26, 28) that are arranged between the drive wheel (24) and one or the other of the first adjustment member (12) and the second adjustment member (18) and that have different transmission ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Pierre-Alain Francis Claude Sebrecht
  • Patent number: 10502560
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optoelectronic measuring device having an electronic magnetic compass for determining an azimuthal alignment of the measuring device and a compensation unit, which is associated with the magnetic compass, for compensating for device-fixed interference fields, wherein the measuring device assumes at least two defined, repeatable operating states, has a different device-fixed interference field in each of the operating states, and the compensation unit carries out an initial compensation of the electronic magnetic compass in a first operating state of the measuring device, wherein the compensation unit has a detection unit for detecting a present operating state, a memory unit for storing a magnetic offset resulting from the different device-fixed interference fields between the first and a second operating state of the measuring device, and a computer unit for computing the azimuthal alignment of the measuring device depending on an ascertained operating state and based on the magnetic offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Safran Vectronix AG
    Inventors: Ivo Annen, Silvio Gnepf
  • Patent number: 10502082
    Abstract: A turbine ring assembly includes both a plurality of CMC ring sectors forming a turbine ring and a ring support structure, each ring sector having a portion forming an annular base that presents an outside face in the radial direction of the turbine ring, with first and second attachment tabs projecting therefrom in the radial direction, each attachment tab presenting an end that is free, each ring sector having third and fourth attachment tabs, each extending in the axial direction of the turbine ring between the free end of the first attachment tab and the free end of the second attachment tab. Each ring sector is fastened to the ring support structure by a bolt having a bolt head bearing against the ring support structure and a thread co-operating with tapping formed in a plate, the plate co-operating with the third and fourth attachment tabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Lucien Henri Jacques Quennehen, Sébastien Serge Francis Congratel, Clément Jean Pierre Duffau, Nicolas Paul Tableau
  • Publication number: 20190367176
    Abstract: An accumulator designed to damp the pressure waves of the hydraulic shocks originating in a downstream section of a duct is arranged inside the duct, with the opening of the accumulator pointing downstream. This results in excellent absorption of the pressure wave and protection of the circuit from possible accumulations of air, water or ice, there being no areas where the flow stagnates. Immersing the accumulator in the flow also makes it possible to ensure that the equipment is protected in the event of a fire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Loic PORA
  • Publication number: 20190366481
    Abstract: An optical device that is intended for laser treatment of internal surfaces of a covering part of the leading-edge type, including a collimator that is intended to be connected to a laser source via an optical fibre to produce a laser beam having a collimated and flat spatial pulse profile, a cylindrical lens that is configured to focus the laser beam along a spatial line that is transverse to the propagation of the laser beam thus forming a line-laser-beam, a reflecting optical component that is configured to be able to be introduced into the interior of the covering part and to uniformly reflect the line-laser-beam onto at least one internal surface of the covering part and in directions of incidence that are almost normal to at least one internal surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Magali Melanie COULAUD, Nicolas CUVILLIER, Mathieu Loic DUCOUSSO
  • Publication number: 20190368356
    Abstract: A vane configured to be placed with a plurality of identical vanes so as to form a vane wheel for an aeroengine, the vane wheel defining an axis, the vane having an airfoil presenting a leading edge and a trailing edge, the leading-edge curve describing the shape of the leading edge of the airfoil in a view perpendicular to the airfoil presenting at least one leading-edge undulation , said at least one leading-edge undulation extending over less than 30% of a length of the airfoil from the first end of the airfoil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Damien Bernard Emeric GUEGAN, Prasaad COJANDE, Pierre-Hugues Ambroise Maxime Victor RETIVEAU, Jonathan Evert VLASTUIN
  • Publication number: 20190368372
    Abstract: A bypass turbine engine is described. The engine includes a system for bleeding gas from a primary stream to a secondary stream. The system may include two coaxial rings extending one around the other. A perforated internal first ring may be situated at the level of an outer casing and may extend substantially in a continuation of the outer casing. A perforated external second ring may be mounted such that it slides circumferentially on the first ring between a first position in which the perforations of the rings do not communicate with one another and a second bleed position in which the perforations of the rings communicate with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Eric Pierre Georges Le Marechal, Xavier Jean Yves Alain Agneray, Thierry Georges Paul Papin, Mathieu Daniel Marie Van Gansen, Cédric Zaccardi
  • Publication number: 20190367170
    Abstract: A passenger seat assembly includes a seat support and an immobile seat shell mounted on the seat support. The seat shell can include a bench and a backrest. The bench includes a forward edge, an aft edge, and a top surface extending between the forward edge and the aft edge. The backrest can be connected to the aft edge of the bench and can extend in an upward direction from the top surface of the bench. In some cases, the backrest includes an upright portion connected to the bench and angled at a first angle with respect to the top surface of the bench, and a resting portion connected to the bench and angled at a second angle with respect to the top surface of the bench.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Victor Carlioz, Matthew Cleary, Hugo Jamson, Lito Karatsoli, Felix Lorsignol, Luke Miles
  • Publication number: 20190367162
    Abstract: An aircraft landing gear includes a strut leg, a bottom portion carrying at least one wheel and mounted to slide in the strut leg, and a plurality of elements such as power electric cables, signal-carrying electric cables, and hydraulic pipes extending toward the bottom portion along the strut leg and terminating at the bottom portion, all of the elements being flexible between a bottom end of the strut leg and the bottom portion of the landing gear. The landing gear includes a first movable support having a proximal end hinged to the bottom end of the strut leg, and a distal end carrying a rack for receiving and guiding the flexible elements. The landing gear also includes a second movable support having a distal end hinged to the bottom portion of the landing gear and a proximal end carrying a rack for receiving and guiding the flexible elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Pierre Pizana, Yvain Serignac
  • Publication number: 20190368740
    Abstract: An annular combustion chamber of a turbomachine is described. The combustion chamber has an axis of revolution and is delimited by coaxial internal and external annular walls joined upstream by a bottom of chamber substantially transverse to the walls. In some embodiments, the chamber includes at least one annular deflector placed in the chamber and substantially parallel to the bottom of chamber. The bottom of chamber may have openings adapted to be traversed by air for cooling the deflector. In some embodiments, the bottom of chamber and the deflector include mounting openings for mounting an annular row of injection devices for injecting a mixture of air and fuel into the chamber. At least a portion of the air for cooling the deflector is conveyed into the chamber through holes in the injection devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Patrice André Commaret, Haris Musaefendic, Romain Nicolas Lunel
  • Publication number: 20190366897
    Abstract: A passenger seat headrest includes a body and a side wing. The body includes a forward side, an aft side distal from the forward side, a first side extending between the forward side and the aft side, and a second side distal from the first side and extending between the forward side and the aft side. The side wing is pivotably connected to the first side of the body and is pivotable between a stowed position, at which the side wing is positioned against the forward side of the body, and a deployed position, at which the side wing is spaced apart from the forward side of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventor: Manon Kühne
  • Publication number: 20190368368
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for controlling a control valve (20) of a turbomachine operating at an engine speed at a cruise value (Vc) and oscillating around the cruise value (Vc) of same, the method being implemented by a calculation unit (40), and being characterised in that it comprises a step of determining a position control for the control valve (20), filtered of the oscillations of the engine speed around the cruise value (Vc).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Florian MACHE, Arnaud RODHAIN
  • Patent number: 10494997
    Abstract: A device for de-icing a splitter nose of an aviation turbine engine, the device including a splitter nose having an outer annular wall defining the inside of the bypass stream flow channel and an inner annular wall defining an inlet of the core stream flow channel, and an inner shroud mounted at its upstream end on the inner annular wall of the splitter nose and designed to have inlet guide vanes fastened thereto, the splitter nose and the inner shroud defining an annular volume. The device includes an annular deflector positioned inside the annular volume so as to subdivide the annular volume into a first annular cavity and a second annular cavity, the second annular cavity being defined between the annular deflector and the outer annular wall of the splitter nose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Damien Daniel Sylvain Lourit, François Marie Paul Marlin
  • Patent number: 10494102
    Abstract: The invention relates mainly to a seat module intended to be installed in an aircraft cabin, having a seat and a tray table that is movable between a folded position and a deployed position, wherein the tray table is also movable in translation and/or in rotation with respect to the seat in order to be moved from the deployed position to an offset deployed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Safran Seats
    Inventors: Christophe Ducreux, Charles Ehrmann, Benjamin Foucher
  • Patent number: 10498436
    Abstract: Method implemented in a system comprising a control station and at least one drone. Each data communication in said system between the control station and a drone taking place in the form of packets, each packet comprising a preamble and being transmitted in a form modulated according to a predefined modulation. The method comprises: using, in each packet communication from the control station to a drone, a so-called uplink preamble, orthogonal to the so-called downlink preamble, used in each packet communication from a drone to the control station; and, on reception of a modulated packet, determining whether said modulated packet has been transmitted in the context of an uplink or downlink communication according to a result of a convolution between said modulated packet with a reference preamble modulated according to the predefined modulation, said reference preamble corresponding to the uplink preamble or to the downlink preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventor: Eric Todeschini
  • Patent number: 10495312
    Abstract: An arrangement for an aircraft turbine engine combustion chamber including an injection system and a fuel injector is provided. The injection system includes an injector nozzle guide, the inner surface of which delimits an opening for centering the nozzle, which includes an outer casing. The arrangement further includes a sealing device between the inner surface of the guide and the outer casing. The sealing device includes a first part accommodated in a groove of the outer casing, the groove being delimited, in part, by a downstream delimiting surface, the first part having a first sealing surface and bearing axially against the downstream delimiting surface; and a second part having a second sealing surface bearing radially against the inner surface of the guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jose Roland Rodrigues, Christophe Chabaille
  • Patent number: 10494084
    Abstract: A control system for controlling the pitch of a propeller, the system including a propeller shaft, a blade swivel device having a rotary control element suitable for placing the blades in an angular position corresponding to a desired propeller pitch, and a transmission presenting an outlet member coupled in rotation with the rotary control element of the blade swivel device. The transmission includes a variable speed drive having drive, control, and outlet rotors that are coupled in rotation respectively with the propeller shaft, with a control member, and with the outlet member of the transmission. With the variable speed drive, the speed of rotation of the outlet member of the transmission is a predetermined function of the speeds of rotation not only of the propeller shaft, but also of the control member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Alain Pierre Garassino