Patents Assigned to SAFRAN
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Patent number: 11952908Abstract: A turbine for a turbomachine includes an annular row (20) of moving blades (20a) surrounded by a support ring (26) of abradable material (24) carried by a housing (10). The turbine also includes a distributor (30) mounted downstream of the moving blades (20a) and having an attachment mechanism with a radially outer spoiler (38) coming to bear radially inwards on a cylindrical wall (12) connected to housing (10). An annular wall (14) extends radially inwards from the cylindrical wall (12) and engages at its radially inner end in an annular groove (28) of the support ring (26), and in which a free annular space (40) is formed between a radially outer face (26b) of the ring (26) and the cylindrical wall (12).Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Rémy Miled Michel Haynau, Arnaud Lasantha Genilier, Nicolas Contini, Maria Goossens, Benoit Guillaume Silet
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Patent number: 11952909Abstract: An installation for pre-assembling the turbine stators of a turbine each formed of several juxtaposed sectors, includes: an input carriage for conveying sectors intended to form the turbine stators. Each sector includes side faces provided with slots and being associated with a given turbine stator; an output carriage having various trays, each associated with a turbine stator; an automated device for inserting sealing pads configured to interact with a sector conveyed by an automated convey pallet, comprising a robot arm for inserting sealing pads into the slots in a side face of the sector; and another robot arm for gripping a sector equipped with pads from a pallet and depositing it on the tray associated with the turbine stator to pre-assemble the turbine stator.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Enguerrand Frédéric De Agostini, Carlos Alves De Matos, Florian Chauvel, Baptiste Eparvier, Mathias Gagliardo, Abner Wysidi
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Patent number: 11953556Abstract: Methods for determining an operating state of a battery with respect to one or more use profiles include: a step of prior learning during which operational limits of the battery are defined depending on parameters of the battery; the operational limits defining an operational zone in which the battery carries out the one or more use profiles, and a non-operational zone in which the battery does not carry out the one or more use profiles; a step of determining the operating state of the battery for a given use profile in the course of which the parameters of the battery in operation are determined; and a comparison step in which the operational limits and the parameters of the battery are compared and the battery is positioned in the operational or non-operational zone.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWERInventor: Marie Sayegh
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Patent number: 11952126Abstract: Described are passenger seats having a seat frame and a seat bottom slidingly and pivotally attached to the seat frame that, when the passenger seats are reclined, are configured to articulate forward from an upright configuration of the passenger seat to a second seat position corresponding to a reclined configuration of the passenger seat. The seat bottom can include an aft articulating mechanism that defines a declining first path in an aft-to-forward direction to cause the aft end of the seat bottom to drop when the seat bottom articulates forward; and a forward articulating mechanism connected with the seat bottom near a forward end of the seat bottom that defines a second path shaped to cause the forward end of the seat bottom to move upward when the seat bottom articulates forward, such that the seat bottom tilts aft in response to articulating forward when the passenger seat is reclined.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLCInventors: Ty Parker, Christopher D. Stewart
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Patent number: 11952125Abstract: A movable close-out shroud suitably configured to substantially cover, partially block, or otherwise close out an articulating opening to a cavity, void, etc., of a first part, such as a passenger seat section. The close-out shroud is configured to move between a stored position and a close-out position.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN SEATS USA LLCInventor: Juan Francisco Lopez
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Patent number: 11952901Abstract: A turbomachine sealing ring has an axis of revolution and includes an annular support, an annular coating made of abradable material which is carried by the support, and an annular thermal protection plate which is carried by the support. The ring is divided into sectors and has a plurality of ring sectors disposed circumferentially next to one another about the axis. Each ring sector has a support sector, a coating sector, and a plate sector. Each plate sector ling includes a flat tab that is pressed against a face of the corresponding support sector and is fixed to this face by brazing. The tab is inserted into a through-slot in the support sector in order to improve its integrity in operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Etienne Gérard Joseph Canelle, Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Bruno Giardini
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Patent number: 11951694Abstract: A fibrous texture has the shape of a strip extending in a longitudinal direction over a determined length between a proximal portion and a distal portion and in a lateral direction over a determined width between a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge. The fibrous texture has a three-dimensional or multi-layer weaving between a plurality of layers of warp strands extending in the longitudinal direction and a plurality of layers of weft strands extending in the lateral direction, the fibrous texture including first and second longitudinal sections extending over a width from the first or second lateral edge smaller than the determined width of the fibrous texture along the lateral direction. The first and second longitudinal sections each include warp strands and weft strands constituted by carbon fibers. The fibrous texture further includes a third section present between the first and second sections.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Baptiste Leblon, Clémentine Arnold, Clément Bourolleau, Thomas Dupays, Serge Domingues
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Patent number: 11952904Abstract: A fan module for an aircraft turbomachine includes a fan with a disc carrying fan blades and a rotor of an electric machine. The rotor has an annular shape and is mounted coaxially downstream of the fan. The module further includes an annular support for the rotor with a downstream end fixed to the rotor and with an upstream end fixed to the fan disc. The support is fixed to the disc by shear bolts configured to break when a torque transmitted by the disc to the support exceeds a predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Romain Truco, Claire Marie Figeureu, Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse, Pierre-Alain Jean Philippe Reigner, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault
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Patent number: 11952964Abstract: A sealing joint for an aircraft turbojet engine nacelle includes a bead designed to be mounted in a joint support. The sealing joint is characterized in that the bead includes a retaining projection which extends in a direction substantially transverse to a longitudinal axis of the sealing joint, the retaining projection being designed to extend through the joint support when the sealing joint is mounted in the support thereof and/or a sealing lip which extends under the bead in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the sealing joint and which is designed to be compressed on the joint support when the sealing joint is mounted in the support thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Safran NacellesInventors: Cédric Renault, Arnaud Bonny
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Publication number: 20240110482Abstract: A method for repairing an end plate of a turbomachine rotor, the end plate including a crown having at least two collar fastening holes and at least one balancing-weight fastening hole located between the two collar fastening holes, each collar fastening hole being equipped with a crimped nut, the crown having a damaged portion between two collar fastening holes, the method including the steps of removing the two crimped nuts located on either side of the damage; removing the damaged crown portion, for example by machining; putting in place a strip in the form of a crown portion closing off the removed crown portion, the strip having at least one balancing-weight fastening hole and two mounting holes; fastening the strip to the crown with two crimped nuts, which penetrate the mounting holes, by crimping each nut in a collar fastening hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Jean-Hilaire LEXILUS, Cédric Nicolas BOT, Patrick Jean-Louis REGHEZZA
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Publication number: 20240110523Abstract: A turbojet includes in succession, from upstream to downstream in the flow direction of a primary air stream: a low-pressure casing, an intermediate casing, and a high-pressure casing that are longitudinally aligned and which jointly delimit an internal annular passage for the circulation of the air stream. The intermediate casing delimits a portion of the annular passage called a gooseneck and includes: an air discharge system able to extract air from the air stream circulating in a first zone of the gooseneck and to discharge it outside the passage, and an air extraction system able to extract air circulating in a second zone of the gooseneck for an air conditioning system, the second air extraction zone being located downstream of the first air extraction zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2021Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: SAFRANInventors: Nicolas Claude PARMENTIER, William Henri Joseph RIERA
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Patent number: 11945567Abstract: A one-piece fitting (56) for a stiffened panel (51) comprising a panel body (52) with a plurality of stiffeners (53, 54, 55) arranged thereon, the fitting comprising a fitting body (56) configured to be fastened, in use, to two or more of the stiffeners (53, 54, 55) so as to provide a junction to transfer load between the two or more stiffeners, wherein the fitting body further comprises an integral functional fitting (57) arranged for engagement with a component other than the stiffened panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Safran Nacelles LimitedInventors: Scott Lucas, Geoffrey Aubert
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Patent number: 11946436Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Safran NacellesInventors: Hakim Maalioune, Alice Portalier, Julien Corbin
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Patent number: 11945571Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSEInventors: Alexandre Guyamier, Julien Farjon, Nicolas Cadalen
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Patent number: 11945592Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SAFRANInventors: Jean-Philippe Hervé Salanne, Stéphane Petibon, Florent Rougier, René Meunier, Meriem Abdellatif
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Patent number: 11946381Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Christophe Marcel Lucien Perdrigeon, Didier Gabriel Bertrand Desombre, Régis Eugène Henri Servant
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Patent number: 11946384Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS SAInventor: Morgan Vyvey
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Patent number: 11946743Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSEInventors: Alain Jeanroy, Philippe Onfroy
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Patent number: 11946387Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Erwan Daniel Botrel, Kevin Yannick Garles, Laurent Patrick Robert Coudert
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Patent number: D1020327Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN SEATSInventors: Benjamin Foucher, José Bernardo De Morais, Bastien Bonnefoy, Olivier Cazalis, Laurent Ligonniere, Quentin Munier