Patents Assigned to SAFRAN
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Publication number: 20250069832Abstract: A power contactor including: a fixed part including two fixed elements; a moveable part able to come into contact with the fixed part and to move between an open position and closed position of the contactor, the moveable part including two switching elements and two conducting elements, and the distance between the fixed part and the two conducting elements being greater than the distance between the fixed part and the two switching elements in open position of the contactor, such that the switching elements come into contact with the fixed part before the conducting elements when the contactor changes from open position to closed position; and a motor configured to actuate and place the moveable part in contact with the fixed part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWERInventors: Kévin ENOUF, Guillaume PRIEUR, Cecil BELTAN
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Publication number: 20250067196Abstract: An annular air intake lip for a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion assembly is provided. The annular lip can extend about an axis of revolution and include: an external annular wall, an internal annular wall, an upstream annular wall connecting the external and internal annular walls to define an annular cavity therebetween. At least part of the annular lip can include at least one heat transfer coating that is made from a carbon allotrope material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLESInventors: Virginie Emmanuelle Anne-Marie DIGEOS, Caroline COAT-LENZOTTI, Thierry Jacques Albert LE DOCTE
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Publication number: 20250069831Abstract: A power contactor including: a fixed part; a movable part able to come into contact with the fixed part and to move between an open position and a closed position of the contactor, the movable part including at least one power contact; an auxiliary contact and a pyrotechnic actuator, the auxiliary contact and the pyrotechnic actuator being placed in parallel with the power contact, and the pyrotechnic actuator being configured to be triggered during a levitation of the contactor in such a way as to move the contactor into the open position; and a motor configured to actuate the movable part and to put it in contact with the fixed part characterized in that the power contact and the auxiliary contact are desynchronized in such a way that when the contactor is closed, the power contact comes into contact with the fixed part before the auxiliary contactType: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2023Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWERInventors: Guillaume PRIEUR, Cecil BELTAN, Kévin ENOUF
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Patent number: 12234790Abstract: An air inlet of an aircraft propulsion unit comprising thrust reversal means configured to modify a bypass air flow circulating from upstream to downstream in a bypass duct into a reverse air flow circulating from downstream to upstream. The air inlet comprising an interior wall defining openings and, in each opening, a mobile member that comprises a covering wall and a deflecting wall and is mounted so as to pivot between a covering position, in which the covering wall obstructs the opening so as to guide the bypass air flow and promote a thrust phase, and a deflecting position, in which the deflecting wall obstructs the opening so as to separate the reverse air flow and promote a thrust reversal phase.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventor: Ulrick Souveton
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Patent number: 12235153Abstract: A system for controlling the activation/deactivation of an electromagnetic shielding screen of a porthole or a protective window of an optoelectronic equipment, which includes, a radiofrequency electromagnetic sensor, with a bandwidth adapted to a cut-off band of said shielding screen corresponding to a range of electromagnetic fields to be blocked, connected to a detector-rectifier with a sensitivity higher than a minimum value of the power of an electromagnetic field to be blocked by means of said shielding screen and a device for activating/deactivating said electromagnetic shielding screen, said detector-rectifier being configured, in the presence of the electromagnetic field with a power exceeding said minimum value, to activate said device for activating/deactivating the electromagnetic shielding screen by capturing the electromagnetic energy supplied by said electromagnetic fields with a power exceeding said minimum value.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE RENNES, SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSEInventors: Quentin Tricas, Patrice Foutrel, Philippe Besnier, Xavier Castel, Claire Le Paven
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Patent number: 12234737Abstract: A system for controlling discharge doors of a turbomachine includes: a ring and a device connecting the ring to each discharge door. The ring is made up of bars connected end-to-end by rotary links ensuring that a bar pivoting on itself causes the other bars to pivot on themselves, with each discharge door being connected to a corresponding bar in order to open or close when this bar pivots.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: SAFRANInventors: Nicolas Claude Parmentier, Gabriel Perez
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Patent number: 12234772Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for supplying fuel to a turbomachine. In some embodiments, a fuel circuit includes a pressurisation valve at an outlet of the system and a pump. The circuit may include a flow rate sensor arranged between the outlet of the pump and the pressurisation valve. In some embodiments, the flow rate sensor may include a sliding drawer, a restoring spring, and a sensor for detecting the position of said drawer in order to indicate the flow passing through the flow rate sensor. The system may include a device arranged to drive the pump with a controllable rotational speed and a control configured to control the device on the basis of a measurement supplied by the flow rate sensor, in such a way as to adapt the rotational speed of the pump shaft.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Loïc Pora, Huguette De Wergifosse
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Publication number: 20250059918Abstract: An aircraft turbomachine has a gas generator that includes, along a longitudinal axis (X), at least one compressor, a combustion chamber, and at least one turbine. The turbomachine further includes at least one duct for supplying liquid to at least one member chosen from an oil jet and a fuel injector. The duct (20) has rectilinear portions and bent portions and includes at least one region in which the liquid is liable to coke. The turbomachine also includes at least one turbulence element in the at least one region in the duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINESInventors: Benjamin Nicolas FULLERINGER, Alexandre DEBAT, Pierre-Marie FONTS, Olivier ROBERT
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Publication number: 20250060446Abstract: The invention relates to a method for estimating the direction of arrival of an electromagnetic wave at an antenna array (2), comprising the steps of: —estimating (202) a covariance matrix of signals acquired by the antenna array (2); —calculating (204) a normalised eigenvector of the covariance matrix; —correlating (205) the normalised eigenvector with a first reference table and a second reference table so as to produce a first correlation spectrum and a second correlation spectrum comprising correlation indices associated, respectively, with different directions of arrival; —constructing (312) a third reference table by linear combination of the first reference table and the second reference table with a polarisation component of the electromagnetic wave in the first direction and the second direction, respectively; —correlating (314) the normalised eigenvector with the third reference table so as to produce a third correlation spectrum comprising correlation indices associated with different directions ofType: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2022Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSEInventors: Pierre-Antoine GARCIA, Arnaud LILBERT, Alain Michel CHIODINI
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Publication number: 20250058898Abstract: An electronic device for diagnosing the condition of a system of actuators of an aircraft turbine engine, the device being configured to be coupled to an electrical wiring harness of a turbine engine connecting a computer of a turbine engine to a system of actuators of the turbine engine, the device including a power supply block to power the device, a connection block configured to enable the connection of the device to the electrical wiring harness of the turbine engine to be diagnosed, a communication block configured to send information to a user and to receive instructions from the user, and a control block including a test signal transmission module and modules for measuring the signals received by the device in response to the test signals over a work cycle of the system of actuators of the turbine engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: February 20, 2025Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLESInventors: Patrick ARCOUËT, David PEREIRA, Hakim MAALIOUNE
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Patent number: 12228045Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Jean-Hilaire Lexilus, Cédric Nicolas Bot, Patrick Jean-Louis Reghezza
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Patent number: 12231073Abstract: A propulsion channel for aircraft at least one first dual-fed polyphase asynchronous rotating electric machine configured to be mechanically coupled to a turbine engine. The propulsion channel further includes at least one second polyphase rotating electric machine electrically coupled to the first asynchronous rotating electric machine, and a control and storage module configured to control the first polyphase asynchronous rotating electric machine. The module is connected to the first dual-feed polyphase asynchronous rotating electric machine as well as to the at least second polyphase rotating electric machine. The at least second polyphase rotating electric machine includes a polyphase synchronous rotating electric machine with permanent magnet.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SAFRANInventors: Christophe Ludovic Jean-Claude Viguier, Stéphane Petibon, Florent Rougier
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Patent number: 12228074Abstract: A fan module for an aircraft turbine engine includes a fan having variable pitch blades and an oil transfer device configured to provide a transfer of oil between a stator and a rotor. The oil transfer device includes a stator ring having internal oil ducts, a shaft inserted into the ring and having internal oil ducts, and an annular support of the ring configured to deform elastically to allow movements of the ring in the radial direction. A plain bearing is located between the ring and the shaft, and roller bearings are mounted between the ring and the shaft on either side of the plain bearing.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Olivier Belmonte, Vincent François Georges Millier, Jean Charles Olivier Roda
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Patent number: 12227295Abstract: A seat leg assembly for a passenger seat, the seat leg assembly including: a seat leg member comprising a unitarily formed fitting member; and a plurality of stud members coupleable to the fitting member, wherein each of the plurality of stud members is formed of a material having an ultimate strength of at least 75 KSI.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLCInventor: Reza Mansouri
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Patent number: 12228664Abstract: The invention relates to a method for locating a transmitter, which is implemented in a processing unit of a processing station of a locating system.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN DATA SYSTEMSInventors: Baptiste Guillot, Yann Picard
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Patent number: 12228035Abstract: A hybrid turbofan engine for an aircraft, comprising a fan, an electric motor/generator and a gas generator, the engine comprising, between the fan and a splitter that separates the flows, an internal wall for delimiting an air duct, situated upstream of inlet guide vanes of a primary duct, and, upstream of outlet guide vanes, an internal upstream wall for delimiting a secondary duct, the motor/generator having a stator carried by a stator support fixed to a stator part of the engine. According to the invention, a plurality of heat pipe for cooling the motor/generator are provided, each heat pipe having an evaporation section fixed to the stator support, and a condensation section fixed to the internal wall or the internal upstream wall.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Thierry Sibilli, Vincent François Georges Millier, Loïc Paul Yves Guillotel
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Patent number: 12228245Abstract: Leaks in an oil lubrication circuit, in particular through a heat exchanger communicating with another circuit, are measured by the movements of a piston that is sensitive to variations in flow rates and pressure drops at two calibrated ports on either side of the predicted location of the leak. In one intended application, the second circuit contains overpressurised fuel which is used to constantly cool the oil.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Thibault Maxime Adrien Mallet, Nicolas Andrea Fabbro
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Patent number: 12227302Abstract: An autonomous impact detection device includes at least one impact detector; at least one wireless transmission device configured to transmit the information collected by the impact detector; at least one energy storage device configured to supply the impact detector and the wireless transmission device with energy; at least one Seebeck module configured to supply the storage device with energy when a temperature gradient is applied thereto; the wireless transmission device being configured to supply the storage device with energy when the temperature gradient to which the Seebeck module is exposed is not sufficient.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignees: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER, SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSEInventors: Nicolas Fanton, Serge Thierry Roques, Emmanuel Couturier, Nicolas Paris
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Patent number: 12231020Abstract: The present invention relates to a superconducting electric machine (1) comprising an inductor (3) having: —superconducting pellets (7) circumferentially distributed about an axis (X) of the electric machine (1), —an armature (2) comprising coils (5), each coil (5) having a circumferential radially inner edge (10) and a circumferential radially outer edge (9), and—at least one flow barrier (12, 12?) extending circumferentially with respect to the axis (X), each flow barrier (12) extending between the superconducting pellets (7) and the armature (2) so as to at least partially cover at least one of the radially outer edge (9) and the radially inner edge (10) of all or part of the coils (5) of the armature (2).Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignees: SAFRAN, UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINEInventors: Sabrina Siham Ayat, Rémi Luc Stéphane Dorget, Benjamin Daguse
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Patent number: 12227293Abstract: Described is an adjustable friction slider assembly having a rail member and a carriage assembly moveably coupled to the rail member, the carriage assembly having a bracket member and a plurality of roller elements moveably coupled to the rail member and coupled to the bracket member using a plurality of attachment members, the plurality of roller elements comprising at least one adjustable roller element coupled to the bracket member using a moveable attachment member, wherein moving the moveable attachment member adjusts a friction between the plurality of roller elements and the rail member.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLCInventors: Charles Michael Parker, Foek Nguyen Le