Patents Assigned to SAFRAN
  • Patent number: 11619169
    Abstract: A matrix for exchanging heat between a first fluid and a second fluid, in particular for an air-oil application in a turbine engine, includes an envelope defining a flow path of the first fluid and a network extending into the flow path and in which the second fluid flows. Along the axis defined by the curvature of the matrix, the dimensions of the envelope vary circumferentially (T(A)) and radially (R(A)). The matrix may be used with a heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS SA
    Inventors: David Weicker, Roel Vleugels, Nicolas Fellin
  • Patent number: 11619478
    Abstract: Methods for the dimensional inspection of a turbomachine component to be inspected are provided. The turbomachine component includes a first surface delimited by a second peripheral surface substantially transverse to the first surface and a profile defined by a numerical theoretical model with a theoretical surface corresponding to the first surface, the first surface having larger dimensions than the second peripheral surface. The method includes determining theoretical points on the theoretical surface of the numerical theoretical model; calibrating calibration points on the first surface of the component to be inspected; calculating an offset axis for each theoretical point with respect to a corresponding calibration point; and acquiring control points on the second peripheral surface of the component to be inspected from the offset axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Roger Georges Cousin, Arnaud Alexandre Vincent
  • Patent number: 11618421
    Abstract: A method of controlling a braking device includes receiving a braking torque instruction, on the basis of the received braking torque instruction, setting a first braking torque set point for a first brake and a second braking torque set point for a second brake, measuring a first value of a first parameter representative of the first braking torque and modifying the first braking torque set point as a function of the first value with the aid of a first servocontrol loop, and measuring a second value of a second parameter representative of the second braking torque and modifying the second braking torque set point as a function of the second value with the aid of a second servocontrol loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Lestage, Emmanuel Brun, Tiphaine Graillat
  • Patent number: 11619275
    Abstract: An aircraft braked wheel comprising a rim integral with a hub for rotationally mounting thereof on an axle of the aircraft along an axis of rotation, the wheel being equipped with a heat shield (11) extending opposite an inner face of the rim to protect the rim from the thermal radiation generated by a stack of discs extending inside the rim, characterized in that the heat shield has a face facing the discs (15) which has longitudinal ribs (16) extending in operation parallel to the axis of rotation of the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Maxime Brodard, Jean-Baptiste Robin
  • Patent number: 11619176
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion unit is described. The unit may include a gas generator with a fan surrounded by a casing. A nacelle may extend around the casing and define an annular compartment with the casing wherein some equipment may be housed. An air inlet may be configured so a ventilation air flow penetrates inside the compartment. An air outlet may be configured so a ventilation air flow is evacuated from the compartment. The propulsion unit may also include an air flow adjustment regulator. The air flow adjustment regulator may be configured to maintain a nominal value of the ventilation air flow circulating through at least one of the air inlet and of the air outlet under nominal operating conditions, and to reduce the value of this ventilation air flow when a fire is detected inside the compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Eric Cerutti, Morgan Balland, Abdelkader Benyahia, Loïc Jeunesse
  • Patent number: 11619191
    Abstract: A turbofan propulsion assembly includes a thrust reverser with movable flaps. The propulsion assembly further includes an engine and a nacelle surrounding the engine, and the nacelle includes a thrust reverser with sliding cowls and thrust reverser flaps, and an inner structure. The portion of the inner structure positioned perpendicular to the thrust reverser flaps includes two halves that can open toward the exterior of the nacelle cowls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignees: Safran Nacelles, Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Quentin Garnaud, Guillaume Glemarec, Patrick Boileau, Ludovic Toupet
  • Patent number: 11619380
    Abstract: A constant volume combustion system includes at least one combustion chamber having at least one admission port and an exhaust port. The system also includes at least one elastically deformable tongue made of ceramic matrix composite material forming an air admission valve, the tongue being present inside the chamber and being positioned facing the admission port, the tongue having a first end that is stationary relative to an inside wall of the chamber and a second end, opposite from the first end, the second end being free and movable relative to the inside wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Eric Conete, Gautier Mecuson, Matthieu Leyko
  • Patent number: 11619141
    Abstract: A lubricating oil circuit of a turbomachine includes a distribution valve that distributes an oil flow rate among a first heat exchanger and a bypass duct, connected to an oil duct, which is connected to an heat exchanger positioned against a turbomachine fuel passage duct, and includes a gearbox of a rotation speed reducer that lowers a rotational speed of a first rotary fan shaft of the turbomachine relative to a rotational speed of a second low-pressure compressor rotary shaft of the turbomachine or of a second low-pressure turbine rotary shaft of the turbomachine, and a regulation device. The regulation device includes a local regulation loop that generates an oil flow rate distribution control signal and regulates an oil temperature of the oil duct on a temperature setpoint, and a global regulation loop that generates the temperature setpoint as a function of the temperature and of the temperature setpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Christophe Marc Alexandre Le Brun, Sébastien Jean Fernand Deneuve
  • Patent number: 11618071
    Abstract: A core for the foundry of an aeronautical part such as a turbine blade, the core being intended to be disposed in an inner housing defined by a mold, the core comprising a body intended to form the internal shape of the turbine blade, an impact portion, disposed on at least a portion of the periphery of the body so as to break a fluid jet when filling the inner housing with the fluid, the impact portion comprising a top and at least one deflection wall converging towards the top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Adrien Bernard Vincent Rollinger, Ramzi Bohli, Ngadia Taha Niane, Alain Armel Le Hegarat, Romain Pierre Cariou, David Grange, Didier Maurice Marceau Guerche
  • Publication number: 20230102913
    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: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Adrien Louis SIMON, Dhafer GHRIBI
  • Publication number: 20230094203
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a pitch angle of the vanes or blades of a propellant body of a turbine engine, comprising generating a pitch command (ifinal) according to a rotational speed of the propeller (XNmes) and a speed setpoint (XNcons), the method comprises a nominal regulating chain (13), wherein the pitch command is further generated according to a value of a pitch angle (?mes) of the vanes or blades of the propellant body, and an off-nominal regulating chain (16), wherein the pitch command is generated independently of a value of a pitch angle of the vanes or blades of the propellant body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien Jean Fernand DENEUVE, Charles YING
  • Publication number: 20230102713
    Abstract: A composite platform for an aircraft turbine engine fan includes a wall of elongate shape that is configured to extend between two fan blades. The wall has an aerodynamic external face and an internal face on which is disposed a fixing tab configured to be fixed to a fan disc. A method for manufacturing the composite platform includes the steps of: a) producing a preform by three-dimensionally weaving of fibers, b) unbinding some of the fibers of the preform to detach at least one longitudinal layer of fibers from the rest of the preform, c) inserting a metal reinforcement between this layer and the rest of the preform, and d) injecting a resin into the preform so as to form said wall and secure the reinforcement to this wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Matteo MINERVINO, François CHARLEUX, Didier FROMONTEIL
  • Publication number: 20230100288
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for calibrating a receiver comprising a plurality of analog reception channels each including an antenna element of a multi-element antenna, the plurality of analog reception channels comprising a reference channel, the method comprising determining (E1-E4) and correcting (E5), for each analog reception channel other than the reference channel, a phase shift with the reference channel, said determination comprising: calculating (E1) an observed covariance matrix (RZZt,e) representative of the covariance between samples (Zte), collected in parallel on each of the analog reception channels over a period of time, of one or more incident reference radio signals on the multi-element antenna, obtaining (E2) an estimate () of a reference covariance matrix representative of the covariance between samples of said incident radio signal(s) which would be collected in parallel on each of the analog reception channels over the period of time in the absence of phase shift between the an
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventor: Alain Michel CHIODINI
  • Publication number: 20230094700
    Abstract: A method for navigating a carrier using a Kalman filter estimating a navigation state of a carrier, comprising: obtaining, from a signal transmitted by the satellite and subsequently received by the carrier, a delta range measured between the carrier and a satellite and another measured kinematic datum which is associated with the satellite, generating, from position data for the carrier and the satellite in the navigation state, an estimated delta range between the carrier and the satellite, calculating, using the delta ranges, a delta range innovation associated with the satellite, carrying out a test on the delta range innovation, the test result indicating whether or not the signal was a multi-path signal, using, by means of the filter, the kinematic datum as an observation to update the navigation state provided that the test result indicates that the signal was not a multi-path signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Safran Electronics & Defense
    Inventors: Loïc DAVAIN, Kévin HONORE, Clément MISANDEAU
  • Publication number: 20230096412
    Abstract: A method (100) for characterising processing differences between analog channels, the method comprising injecting (102) three analog signals into a first analog channel and a second analog channel, digitising (104) these signals so as to obtain digital signals xk, xl and yl having N samples, estimating (106) parameters ?k,l and ?k,l from the digital signals, where ?k,l is a ratio between an amplitude of the first analog signal at the output of the first analog channel and an amplitude of the second analog signal at the output of the second analog channel, and where ?k,l is a difference between a phase shift induced by the first analog channel in the first analog signal and a phase shift induced by the second analog channel in the second analog signal, the estimation comprising the application of a least squares method in order to determine values of the parameters ?k,l and ?k,l minimising the following quantity: ? n = 1 N ( x k ( n ) - ? k , l ( cos ? ( ? k , l ) ? x l ( n
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventor: Alain Michel CHIODINI
  • Patent number: 11614051
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for using an aircraft turbojet engine comprising an air inlet comprising a plurality of rectifier vanes, each rectifier vane being mounted such that it can move between a retracted position to assist the thrust phase and a deployed position in which the rectifier vane protrudes from the inner wall in a radially inward direction in order to rectify the reverse air flow of the inner wall to assist a thrust-reverse phase, in which method at least one rectifier vane is in the retracted position during a turbojet engine thrust phase, the method comprising, during a thrust-reverse phase of the turbojet engine, a step of moving the rectifier vane to the deployed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Anthony Binder, Daniel-Ciprian Mincu
  • Patent number: 11612970
    Abstract: A device for assembling a turbine engine is configured for centering a shaft of a second module relative to a longitudinal axis of a hollow hub placed in front of a first module, the first module including a longitudinal cavity opening at the front into the hollow hub and passing through the first module until a rear end, the shaft configured to be inserted into the longitudinal cavity. The device includes a centering element and a guiding tube. The centering element is configured to be placed in the hollow hub. The guiding tube is configured to enter into at least one portion of the longitudinal cavity of the first module. The device is arranged so that the guiding tube slides inside the centering element. The invention also relates to the assembly formed by the device and a calibration jig, as well as an assembly method using same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Thierry Fernand Gastal, Morgan Bryan Antony Creuset, Eric Louis Charles Petit
  • Patent number: 11614234
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for a turbine engine, in particular for an aircraft turbojet engine or turboprop engine. The combustion chamber includes a radially outer annular shroud, a radially inner annular shroud coaxial with the radially outer shroud, and an end wall connecting the radially outer shroud and the radially inner shroud. The combustion chamber further includes a first annular sealing member coaxial with said radially inner and outer shrouds. The first annular sealing member is radially interposed between the end wall and the radially outer shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Dan-Ranjiv Joory, Patrice André Commaret, Romain Nicolas Lunel
  • Patent number: 11614329
    Abstract: A method of monitoring at least first and second inertial measurement units, the first inertial measurement unit and the second inertial measurement unit being connected to the same electronic processor circuit and being arranged to determine both a specific force vector in an accelerometer measurement reference frame and also rotation data concerning turning of the accelerometer measurement reference frame relative to an inertial reference frame; the electronic processor circuit performs the steps of projecting the specific force vectors into an inertial reference frame by using the rotation data; comparing the two specific force vectors as projected into said reference frame with each other in order to determine a difference between them; and monitoring variation in this difference over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Philippe Elie, Etienne Brunstein, Fabrice Delhaye
  • Patent number: 11614033
    Abstract: An engine assembly for an aircraft including a bypass turbomachine as well as a turbomachine attachment pylon including an air-oil exchanger system arranged in an inter-ducts compartment between the flow ducts, the compartment being delimited radially on the outside by an inter-ducts cowling, the exchanger system being supplied with air from a secondary flow duct of the turbomachine delimited radially on the inside by the inter-ducts cowling, and the exchanger system being supported by a support arranged in the inter-ducts compartment, this support being mechanically connected to the attachment pylon by connecting means passing through the inter-ducts cowling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Antoine Elie Hellegouarch, Marc Patrick Tesniere