Patents Assigned to SAFRAN
  • Patent number: 11691751
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Loic Pora
  • Publication number: 20230203608
    Abstract: A method for treating a surface of a metallic part in particular of a turbomachine includes a step of shot-peening a surface of the metallic part using metallic beads and a step of cleaning the surface of the metallic part after the shot peening. The cleaning comprises step includes applying a magnetic cleaning paste to the surface of the metallic part in such a way as to remove any residues of metallic beads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Sonia VALENCIAN
  • Publication number: 20230202666
    Abstract: An aircraft nacelle air inlet comprising: a lip skin defining a curved surface of the inlet, the curved surface extending about a longitudinal axis of the inlet; a forward bulkhead; an inner barrel having a radially inner surface defining a surface of the inlet, a radially outer surface, and a sound attenuating layer arranged between the radially inner and radially outer surfaces; and a joining frame fixed to the lip skin and/or to the forward bulkhead. A first portion of the joining frame extends over at least a portion of the sound attenuating layer of the inner barrel and is fixed to the radially outer surface of the inner barrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles Limited
    Inventors: David Kirk, Graeme Hill, David Hebden, Simon Furmston
  • Publication number: 20230203963
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes a fan, a first casing with longitudinal axis X in which a motor shaft is rotated around the longitudinal axis X, a second casing surrounding and coaxial with the first casing, and a drive shaft connected to the motor shaft. The driveshaft is also connected to at least two electric machines via a power transmission angle gear device housed in a housing. The electric machines being intended are configured to take or inject power on the motor shaft. The housing has a coupling surface to which the two electric machines are coupled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Jordane Emile André PELTIER, Boris Pierre Marcel MORELLI
  • Publication number: 20230202669
    Abstract: An aircraft includes an engine, a fuel tank, a chamber, a system, and an introduction line. The chamber is located in the tank, occupies only a part of the tank, and includes a sensor for measuring a property of the fuel. The system injects fuel into the line. The introduction line introduces fuel from the injection system into the chamber. The introduction line includes a valve capable of preventing an introduction of fuel from the injection system into the chamber via the line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AEROSYSTEMS
    Inventors: Sylvain HAUZERAY, Gilles DELAITRE
  • Publication number: 20230203985
    Abstract: Counter-rotating turbine of a turbomachine extending about an axis of rotation and comprising an inner rotor having 5 at least one inner moving blade supported in rotation by a first shaft, an outer rotor rotating in an opposite direction to the inner rotor, and comprising at least one outer moving blade supported in rotation by a second shaft coaxial with the first shaft, the first 10 and second shafts extending axially from upstream to downstream of the turbine, the first shaft being guided in rotation by a first bearing disposed between the first shaft and an upstream casing of the turbine, and the second shaft being guided in rotation by a second bearing disposed between the second 15 shaft and said upstream casing of the turbine, the first bearing and the second bearing being disposed upstream of a first stage of the inner rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Olivier FORMICA, Romain TRUCO, Paul Ghislain Albert LEVISSE
  • Publication number: 20230202648
    Abstract: An aircraft undercarriage includes an upper element for connecting to an aircraft structure and a lower element carrying an axle. The lower element is mounted to be movable in translation relative to the upper element along a longitudinal axis, and a shock absorber is arranged to damp movements in translation of the lower element relative to the upper element. First and second portions of a spring are connected respectively to the upper element and to the lower element so that during movement in translation of the lower element relative to the upper element, the spring opposes any turning of the lower element relative to the upper element about said longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Nicolas ANTONI
  • Patent number: 11686745
    Abstract: An electric circuit for measuring a current flowing in a conductor comprising: 2×N coils, N being an integer greater than or equal to 2, connected in series together; and a common mode filtering element associated with each of the 2×N coils, each filtering element being placed in parallel with the associated coil and being able to accomplish common mode filtering of the 2×N coils, a core of the 2×N coils having a relative permeability less than 10, and among the 2×N coils, N coils being wound in a direction opposite to the winding direction of the N other coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER
    Inventor: Lionel Cima
  • Patent number: 11687190
    Abstract: A multitouch touch device (DIS) employing capacitive detection, including: a touch matrix array and a first voltage-generating source configured to generate, for each row and each column of the matrix array, a first input voltage having a first frequency leading to the generation of a first output voltage. The device also includes a second voltage-generating source for generating, for each intersection between at least two rows and two columns of the matrix array, a second input voltage having a second frequency different from the first frequency leading to the generation of a second output voltage. A processing circuit is configured to determine, depending on first and second reference values, whether the first and second output voltages are representative of a press and of its position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE COCKPIT SOLUTIONS
    Inventor: Laurent Chadirac
  • Patent number: 11686216
    Abstract: Turbomachine output bearing support extending according to an axial direction, said support being formed by one and the same piece and comprising an annular inner wall having an inner side and an outer side, an annular outer wall and a twist support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas Ovaere, Fabien Stéphane Garnier, Arnaud Lasantha Genilier, Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge
  • Patent number: 11686249
    Abstract: An aircraft turbine engine having a primary air flow path with low-pressure and high-pressure compressors, a secondary air flow path which is located around the primary path and runs coaxially thereto, the turbine engine including vanes distributed about a main axis of the turbine engine. A pressurized air circuit draws air between the low-pressure compressor and the high-pressure compressor or in the high-pressure compressor and supplies at least one component located close to a main axis of the turbine engine. The pressurized air circuit includes a heat exchanger between the stream of pressurized air and the stream of air flowing in the secondary path, the heat exchanger being arranged in at least one of the straightening vanes, where a heat exchanger pipe is arranged, the pipe having a pressurized-air inlet and a pressurized-air outlet that are located at the same radial end of the vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Catherine Pikovsky, Christophe Marcel Lucien Perdrigeon, Cédric Zaccardi
  • Patent number: 11686203
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fibrous texture intended to form the fibrous reinforcement of a turbine engine blade made of composite material, the texture being in a single piece and having a three-dimensional weave between a plurality of first fiber warp yarns or strands extending in a radial direction and a plurality of first fiber weft yarns or strands extending in a chord direction, the texture comprising a blade root portion and a blade airfoil portion extending between the blade root portion and a free end of the fibrous texture. The blade airfoil portion has a reinforced area in the vicinity of the free end of the texture comprising weft yarns or strands made of second fibers different from the first fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Frédéric Jean-Bernard Pouzadoux, Jérémy Guivarc'h, Thomas Alain De Gaillard
  • Patent number: 11685538
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion unit includes a turbojet engine, a lateral pylon connected to the fuselage of the aircraft, and a nacelle on the lateral pylon. The nacelle includes an upstream section having an air intake, a downstream section housing a reverse thrust device, and a middle section having two fan half-cowls surrounding a fan housing of the turbojet engine, and when said half-cowls are in a closed position defining an aerodynamic continuity between the upstream and downstream sections. The fan half-cowls include a maintenance half-cowl positioned under the horizontal median plane of the nacelle, able to move between the closed position and an open position allowing access to the turbojet engine for maintenance operations on the turbojet engine. The nacelle further includes at least one standby lock, designed to hold the maintenance half-cowl in a position intermediate to the closed and open positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventor: Denis Guillois
  • Patent number: 11686215
    Abstract: An assembly for a turbine of a turbine engine, including a casing and an annular duct surrounding the casing, which can be connected to a device for supplying cooling air, and having a radially inner annular wall provided with openings arranged opposite the casing in order to cool same by the impact of cooling-air jets. The casing has a plurality of axial grooves including first grooves and second grooves arranged in alternation, and the openings are distributed in a plurality of annular rows in which any pair of consecutive annular rows is such that the openings of one of the annular rows of the pair are centered relative to the first grooves while the openings of the other annular row of the pair are centered relative to the second grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Baptiste Marie Aubin Pierre Jouy, Adrien Moussette, Bertrand Guillaume Robin Pellaton, Loic Villard
  • Patent number: 11686205
    Abstract: An angular sector of a fixed blade ring of a turbomachine, in particular a stator or a guide vane assembly, includes, relative to the axis of said fixed blade ring, a radially outer platform, a radially inner platform, at least two blades extending between said platforms, and at least one block of abradable honeycomb material extending on the inside of the inner platform between transverse ends of the sector. The block of abradable material includes at least one transverse end wall shaped according to a toothed profile having at least one radially oriented tooth extending across an entire radial thickness of said block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Thomas Nolwenn Emmanuel Delahaye, Kamel Benderradji, Alain Marc Lucien Bromann, Liliana Gomes Pereira, Delphine Hermance Maxime Parent
  • Patent number: 11686255
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a mechanical reducer for an aircraft turbomachine including a central pinion, an outer crown, N planet pinions, where N?3, each planet pinion including a first stage meshing with the central pinion, and a second stage meshing with the outer crown, the method including the assembly marking, wherein N teeth of the central pinion are marked, and N pairs of teeth of the first stage of each planet pinion are marked, the N planet pinions each being marked identically, and the assembly of the mechanical reducer, so that the teeth of the pairs of marked teeth of the first stage of each planet pinion are disposed on either side of a marked tooth of the central pinion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Adrien Louis Simon, Dhafer Ghribi
  • Patent number: 11686247
    Abstract: An acoustic panel with a cellular core includes cells that are provided with one or more obstacles, each of the obstacles extending transversely in relation to the main axis of the associated cell so as to increase the length of the path (F) that sound waves travel through the cell. Methods enabling the production of such a panel implements steps of cutting, folding and bonding that are suitable for creating cells provided with such obstacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Bertrand Desjoyeaux, Marc Versaevel
  • Patent number: 11686274
    Abstract: A confluence structure of an aircraft bypass turbine engine which includes a confluence plate with a downstream end supported by a portion that is movable in the direction of the axis by a control mechanism which can optionally be adjusted in flight. A mobile portion of a sleeve delimiting the secondary stream on the outside, and an inner projection of the outer casing can also slide axially in certain embodiments. This provides a wide range of options for modifying the gas dilution and operating conditions of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Brice Marie Yves Emile Le Pannerer, Jean-François Cabre, Nicolas Camille Claude Curlier, Lucas Arthur Pflieger
  • Patent number: 11686217
    Abstract: An oil collector for a torque transmission device of an aircraft turbine engine, this oil collector being configured to collect sprayed oil, wherein it includes at least one wall formed at least in part by a mesh structure, and at least one recovery device located at one end of the wall and configured to recover the oil captured by the wall and intended to flow from this wall to the recovery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Boris Pierre Marcel Morelli, Xavier Roger Betbeder-Lauque, Mathieu Jean Charrier
  • Publication number: 20230192275
    Abstract: An aircraft undercarriage includes a leg for mounting on a structure of the aircraft so as to be movable between a deployed position and a retracted position, the undercarriage being fitted with a breaker strut including two hinged elements that are hinged together at a knee, with a first element for coupling to the structure of the aircraft and a second element for coupling to the undercarriage, a return member being arranged between the two elements to urge them towards a substantially aligned position that is defined by respective abutments. According to the invention, one of the strut elements incorporates a linear actuator having a slidable rod that is coupled to the other strut element by means of a link, the assembly being arranged in such a manner that moving the slidable rod of the actuator in a single direction causes, in succession, the elements of the strut to move out of alignment and the undercarriage to move from the deployed position to the retracted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Thomas KOANE-YANE