Patents Assigned to SAFRAN
  • 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: 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: 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
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 11938431
    Abstract: A component for a centrifugal deaerator for removing gas from a turbomachine air/oil mixture includes a structural part configured to delimit a duct for the flow of the air/oil mixture, and includes a circumferential enclosure for the centrifugal separation of the air/oil mixture, an axial inlet for the air/oil mixture, radial oil outlets, and an outlet for oil-free air. The component includes at least one cellular structure configured to filter the oil while allowing the air to pass and occupying at least a space in the duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Arnaud Nifenecker, Benjamin Fulleringer, Cédric Lempegnat, Samuel Jousselin, Pierre Gaymu, Cédric Georget, Rémi Lanquetin, Philippe Olharan
  • 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: 11939936
    Abstract: A cascade type thrust reverser device for a turbomachine of an aircraft, comprising a cascade including first partitions, second partitions intersecting the first partitions, and cavities, and a casing including a housing into which the cascade can be inserted in a first direction, the casing and the cascade being in relative translation with respect to one another in the first direction. The casing comprises a perforated wall intended to be in contact with an air flow and including orifices and wall strips with no orifices and intended to face the first walls of the cascade when the device is in a first position in which the cascade is entirely positioned in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Norman Bruno André Jodet, Jéremy Paul Francisco Gonzalez
  • 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: 11940008
    Abstract: Rolling-element bearing for a turbomachine of an aircraft, comprising an inner ring (3) defining a first raceway (112), and an outer ring (4) defining a second raceway (124), characterized in that the bearing has at least one loop circuit (21, 22) for forced recirculation of lubricant, this loop circuit comprising a first recirculation circuit (21) comprising at least one lubricant inlet (1200) located on the second raceway (124), and connected by at least one duct (120, 166) created in the outer ring (4) to at least one lubricant outlet (1661) which discharges into a second recirculation circuit (22) of the loop circuit (21, 22), this second recirculation circuit (22) comprising at least one duct (152, 1134, 1136; 1135, 1136) created in the inner ring (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN POWER UNITS
    Inventors: Serge Marie Gabriel Cot, Jean-Paul Salvador Lopez, Stephane Chevalier
  • Patent number: 11938846
    Abstract: A system for securing a passenger seat to a track can include a fitting coupled with or forming a portion of the passenger seat; a shear plunger coupled with the fitting including a shear plunger body defining a shear plunger locking surface; a guide pin assembly that may include a guide pin movable along a lift axis between a retracted state and an extended state and a locking member extending laterally from the guide pin that may travel in response to a movement of the guide pin from the retracted state to the extended state and may engage the shear plunger locking surface in response to a rotation of the guide pin in the extended state; and a quick install tool operable to raise and twist the guide pin assembly such that the locking member is held in tension against the shear plunger locking surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Charles Michael Parker, Romain Tranier, Reza Mansouri
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20240093616
    Abstract: An inner ring for supporting variable-pitch blades of an axial compressor stator of a turbomachine includes two or more ring sectors, assembled to form the inner ring, each ring sector including plural housings for receiving a pivot axis of one of the blades. At each junction plane between the ends of two successive ring sectors, an assembly pin and a cavity for receiving the assembly pin are engaged. The assembly pin is fixed on one end one of the two successive ring sectors and the cavity is formed at the end of the other of the two successive ring sectors. The cavity receives the assembly pin with a mounting clearance allowing a mounting by sliding fit, and the assembly pin is made of a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion greater than a coefficient of thermal expansion of a material constituting the successive ring sectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Nicolas Gérard Bénito CORNEC
  • Publication number: 20240093611
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fan blade (3) made of composite material the fibrous reinforcement of which comprises first strands (12) having a first stiffness, second strands (13) having a second stiffness and third strands (14) having a third stiffness lower than the first stiffness and greater than the second stiffness, the blade comprising a first portion (15) comprising only first strands (12), a second portion (16) comprising only second strands (13) and a third portion (17) which is located between the first and second portions (15, 16) and which comprises both first, second and third strands (12, 13, 14); there is a gradual transition of properties at the interface between the different portions (15, 16, 17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Carole Onja RAKOTOARISOA, Teddy FIXY, Guillaume Pascal Jean-Charles GONDRE, Julien Paul SCHNEIDER-DIE-GROSS
  • Publication number: 20240093638
    Abstract: A counter-rotating turbine for a turbine engine comprising an inner rotor having an inner drum to which is attached a plurality of inner impellers rotatably supported by a first shaft, an outer rotor comprising an outer drum to which is fastened a plurality of outer impellers rotatably supported by a second shaft coaxial with the first shaft, the outer rotor comprising a downstream impeller having a plurality of downstream moving blades extending between an outer shroud and an inner shroud, one upstream end of the outer shroud being attached downstream of said outer drum, the inner shroud being attached to the second shaft, at least one of the inner shroud and of the outer shroud comprising at least one flexible transition part configured to allow elastic deformation of said shroud in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Simon Jean-Marie Bernard COUSSEAU, Mathieu Patrick Henri DELALANDRE, Patrick Jean Laurent SULTANA, Laurent Cédric ZAMAI
  • Publication number: 20240093619
    Abstract: A turbine ring assembly extending around an axis, including a plurality of ring sectors made of ceramic matrix composite material forming a turbine ring and a ring support structure held by a turbine casing, each ring sector including a base from which an upstream tab and a downstream tab extend radially outward, spaced axially from one another, wherein the assembly also includes a cross-member mechanically connected to the ring support and including a first radial flange bearing against the upstream latching tabs of the ring sectors, and, for each ring sector, at least two transverse pins and a radial spring, each transverse pin passing through the upstream latching tab and the downstream latching tab of the ring sector and the ring support to hold the ring sector and the ring support secured to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jérôme Claude George LEMONNIER, Franck Davy BOISNAULT, Florian Armand Gabriel GAUDRY, Kévin Claude Luc BAUDY, Marion France CHAMBRE