Abstract: The turbine (1) has a rotor (2) with blades (4) arranged on a periphery of disks (5) in radial planes (3), and a tie rod (6) extending along slots (7) in the disks. An annular spacer (15, 15?) fixes a position of the tie rod relative to a center line (M) of the disks, and is arranged in a channel (10, 11). The spacer has through-openings, which are arranged radially relative to the tie rod or to its center line, and extend coaxially. The channel carries a cooling medium and is limited by a separating pipe (13, 14) radially outwards. The through-openings serve for flow of the medium.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 25, 2014
Date of Patent:
April 23, 2019
Assignee:
SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Inventors:
Maurice Guy Judet, Cecile Marie Emilienne Alirot, Alexandre Xavier Bossaert, Fabrice Marcel Noel Garin, Christian Michel Jacques Gosselin, Axel Sylvain Loic Thomas
Abstract: A refractory core (12) for fabricating a hollow turbine engine airfoil (10) using the lost-wax casting technique, the core comprising a main body (14) and at least one shell (16) connected to the main body (14) and defining a cavity (18) between the main body and the shell, the shell (16) being configured to come into contact with the airfoil (10) during fabrication.
Abstract: A fitting assembly includes a fitting with at least one a pocket. The pocket includes a web extending inward from a perimeter of the pocket, and the web has cutout that defines an inner edge. A stiffener is mounted within the pocket. The stiffener includes a lattice and a coupler that is configured to engage at least a portion of the web to mount the lattice to the fitting.
Abstract: Bypass turbine engine, comprising a gas generator surrounded by a nacelle and connected to the latter by tubular arms, a primary flow duct within the gas generator being externally delimited by a first annular casing of the gas generator, and a bypass flow duct of a secondary flow around the gas generator being internally delimited by a second annular casing of the gas generator and externally by a third annular casing of the nacelle, the second and third casings being connected together by at least some of the tubular arms, characterized in that it comprises at least one lubricant tank located in the annular space that extends between the first and second casings, and lubricant supply means of the tank or of each tank that comprise at least one supply line extending from the or each tank to at least one filler opening located at the level of the third casing, passing within at least one of said arms connecting the second and third casings.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 10, 2018
Publication date:
April 18, 2019
Applicant:
SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Inventors:
Frédéric Paul Eichstadt, Nicolas Maurice Hervé Aussedat, Bellal Waissi
Abstract: A method of fastening structural metal reinforcement on a portion of a gas turbine blade made of composite material and an injection mold for performing the method, the method including positioning the structural metal reinforcement in an injection mold, positioning the portion of the blade onto which the structural metal reinforcement is to be fastened in the injection mold, the portion of the blade and the structural metal reinforcement being positioned relative to each other in their final relative position while leaving between them a gap, injecting adhesive into the gap between the structural metal reinforcement and the portion of the blade onto which the structural metal reinforcement is to be fastened, and polymerizing the adhesive.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 3, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 16, 2019
Assignee:
SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Inventors:
Thierry Godon, Bruno Jacques Gerard Dambrine, Franck Bernard Leon Varin
Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine vane comprising a root and a blade including a median main plane having a longitudinal and radial main orientation, which is carried by the root, the blade including a leading edge located at an upstream longitudinal end, a trailing edge located at a longitudinal end downstream of the leading edge with respect to a gas stream flowing around the blade, a lower surface wall and an upper surface wall which are located laterally remote from each other and each connecting the leading edge to the trailing edge, and a top located at the free outer radial end of the blade, the blade further including a fin having a longitudinal main orientation which is carried by the lower surface side, which is located at the top of the blade, wherein the fin is radially inwardly offset with respect to the top of the blade.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 16, 2015
Date of Patent:
April 16, 2019
Assignee:
SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Inventors:
Erwan Daniel Botrel, Laurent Patrick Robert Coudert
Abstract: A compressor of an axial turbine engine comprising two rotors or contra-rotating drums, of which an inner rotor and an outer rotor are each provided with blade rows forming a regular alternating pattern. The inner rotor is provided with a radial annular junction fixed to the transmission shaft coming from a turbine. The outer rotor surrounds the inner rotor. The compressor also comprises a rotating bearing linked to the outer rotor and arranged axially level with the radial junction of the inner rotor so as to align the mechanical links axially. This alignment limits the effect of centrifugal force between the clearances between the blades and the walls of the rotors. A transmission with a pinion with a radial rotation axis allows the outer rotor to be driven by the inner rotor.
Abstract: A method for the management and maintenance of an aircraft including a zone with a high degree of security, a man-machine interface of the aircraft being included in the zone with a high degree of security and necessary for a maintenance operation to be performed by a maintenance operator on a device of the aircraft to be maintained placed outside the zone with a high degree of security. The method includes: connection of a first device to the high-security zone; connection of a second device to a third device; reception of the first device by the second device of the man-machine interface of the aircraft and transfer of information for display of the man-machine interface of the aircraft to the third device,; and connection of the second device to a server by means of the telecommunication network in order to obtain information from the server intended for the third device.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 16, 2017
Publication date:
April 11, 2019
Applicant:
SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE SAS
Inventors:
Cédric VERRAES, Emmanuel COUTURIER, Lionel ROBIN, Thomas MONOT
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a curved composite casing for a turbomachine, notably for a low-pressure compressor of an aircraft turbojet engine, includes the following sequence of steps: (a) draping a preform by automatic placement of carbon fibres on a concave form, referred to as a female form; (b) laying a glass-fibre ply on a convex form, referred to as a male form; (c) transferring the preform onto the convex form, covering the glass-fibre ply on the convex form. Step (b) laying includes a phase (?) of laying a metal strip and/or an epoxy profile on the convex form, then a phase (?) of covering the metal strip with the glass-fibre ply.
Abstract: A jet pump for a system for supplying fluid to a turbomachine. The jet pump includes an active fluid inlet pipe including a tube delimiting the inlet pipe, and a passive fluid inlet pipe that is fluidically separated from the active fluid inlet pipe by the tube. The active fluid inlet pipe includes at least one twisted blade that is positioned within the tube and is configured to make the active fluid rotate with respect to the axis of the tube.
Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a preform including a core and a sole. The method includes contour weaving the preform on a lap roller having a groove or an outgrowth allowing shape weaving of the core and the sole of the preform. At least one portion of the core and at least one portion of the sole include weft yarns which cross each other on common warp yarns.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 7, 2018
Publication date:
April 11, 2019
Applicant:
Safran Nacelles
Inventors:
Julien LORRILLARD, Bertrand DESJOYEAUX, Michel ROGNANT, Benjamin PROVOST
Abstract: A pitch actuating system for a turbomachine propeller including an actuator having a movable portion configured to be connected to propeller blades for displacement thereof in rotation with respect to the pitch axes of the blades. A first pitch control means for the blades includes a first transmission screw movable in rotation, a first nut traversed by said first transmission screw and configured to cooperate with the blades for their displacement, second means for feathering the blades, which comprise a second fixed transmission screw, a second nut traversed by said second transmission screw and movable in translation on said second nut, and wherein the system is configured so that a translational movement of the second nut causes a translational movement of the first transmission screw.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 18, 2017
Publication date:
April 11, 2019
Applicant:
SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Inventors:
Huguette De Wergifosse, Frédéric Brettes
Abstract: The invention relates to a computing unit, a switch connected to the computing unit, a user terminal connected to the switch in such a way that the computing unit, the switch and the user terminal form a communication system with a central architecture, and at least one communication system with a distributed architecture that is connected to the switch. The switch is designed to be used as an intermediate system for the communication system with the central architecture as well as for the communication system with the distributed architecture.
Abstract: A device for integrity testing a system for rapid reactivation of a turboshaft engine of a helicopter, includes a pneumatic turbine that is mechanically connected to the turboshaft engine and is supplied with gas, upon a command, by a pneumatic supply circuit such that it is possible to rotate the turboshaft engine and ensure that it is reactivated. The testing device has an apparatus configured to withdraw pressurized air from the turboshaft engine and a duct for conveying the withdrawn air to the pneumatic circuit for supplying the pneumatic turbine with gas. The device further includes a sensor for determining the rotational speed of the pneumatic turbine.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 21, 2015
Date of Patent:
April 9, 2019
Assignee:
SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
Inventors:
Romain Thiriet, Jean-Michel Bazet, Camel Serghine, Patrick Marconi, Jérôme Irigoyen, Stephen Langford
Abstract: An attachment system intended to equip a wall, the system including a nut intended to receive a screw of which the orientation is normal to the wall, the screw passing through an element such as an outer panel in order to attach the element to the wall. The attachment system comprises a socket having a threaded cylindrical outer face intended to be screwed into a hole passing through the wall and having dimensions greater than the dimensions of the fastener that the repair socket replaces, the socket carrying, in the central region of same, a nut receiving the screw.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 14, 2015
Date of Patent:
April 9, 2019
Assignee:
SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Inventors:
Yann Christophe Maurice Sarazin, Simon Pierre Claude Charbonnier, Patrick Jean-Louis Reghezza, Julien Roset
Abstract: A platform for a bladed wheel having a small hub-tip ratio, suitable for being fabricated out of composite material from a three-dimensionally woven fiber preform, the platform including a bottom wall, a top wall defining an air flow passage, and two side walls extending transversely between the bottom wall and the top wall, wherein the side walls extend longitudinally beyond the upstream end of the bottom wall. The platform further includes a fastener tab that is folded from the upstream end of the bottom wall.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 4, 2015
Date of Patent:
April 9, 2019
Assignee:
SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Inventors:
Roland Mortier, Sylvain Bourseaulx, Antoine Masson, Anne-Laure Ravier, Noemie Steenbakker
Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic connection device comprising a part with an opening for the throughflow of hydraulic fluid and a tubular rod with an end fitting, the end fitting of the rod being hydraulically connected to the opening for the throughflow of the fluid, wherein the opening and the end fitting of the rod each have a portion of surface which is shaped so as to allow a certain angular movement between the part and the rod, a seal being inserted between said two surface portions.
Abstract: The object of the present invention is to produce a metal part equipped with a protection system, particularly for turbine blades for aircraft engines, having a thermal barrier that is improved in terms of thermal properties, adhesion to the part and resistance to oxidation/corrosion. In order to achieve this, the method according to the invention produces in a single step, from specific ceramics, coating layers using SPS technology. According to one embodiment, a metal part is produced according to an SPS flash sintering method and comprises a superalloy substrate (22), a metal sub-layer (21), a TGO oxide layer (25) and the thermal barrier (23) formed by said method from at least two chemically and thermally compatible ceramic layers (2a, 2b). A first ceramic (2a), referred to as the inner ceramic, is designed to have a substantially higher expansion coefficient.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 13, 2018
Publication date:
April 4, 2019
Applicants:
SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, INSTITUT NATIONAL POL YTECHNIQUE DE TOULOUSE, UNIVERSITE PAUL SABATIER DE TOULOUSE
Inventors:
Juliette HUGOT, Mathieu BOIDOT, Daniel MONCEAU, Djar OQUAB, Claude ESTOURNES
Abstract: A bypass turbojet engine including a low pressure shaft supported by at least two low pressure bearings, a high pressure shaft supported by at least two high pressure bearings, a fan shaft supported by at least two fan bearings, a reduction system coupling the low pressure shaft, with the fan shaft, enclosures housing the low pressure bearings, the high pressure bearings, the fan bearings and the reduction system, and a lubrication assembly including a closed oil circuit configured to supply oil to the enclosures in order to cool the bearings and the reduction system and at most five recovery pumps configured to recover oil from the enclosures.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 15, 2017
Publication date:
April 4, 2019
Applicant:
Safran Aircraft Engines
Inventors:
Romain Guillaume CUVILLIER, Nils Edouard Romain BORDONI, Michel Gilbert Roland BRAULT, Sebastien Christophe CHALAUD, Guillaume Patrice KUBBIAK, Arnaud Nicolas NEGRI, Nathalie NOWAKOWSKI
Abstract: A propulsion unit of an aircraft including a turbine (15), at least one fan (10) with an axis offset relative to the axis of the turbine and a power transmission mechanism between the turbine and the fan. The power transmission mechanism includes a speed reducing gear (20) with an input and a movement output, the input being in the extension of the axis (16) of the turbine and the output connected to the fan.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 3, 2016
Date of Patent:
April 2, 2019
Assignee:
SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
Inventors:
Augustin Marc Michel Curlier, Sebastien Courtois