Patents Assigned to Safran Transmission Systems
  • Publication number: 20240191793
    Abstract: A gutter for recovering lubrication oil, particularly for a mechanical reducer of an aircraft turbomachine, annular around a central axis, and comprising a first radial wall extending radially with respect to the central axis, an inclined wall extending from a radially outer end of the first radial wall, a guide portion having an overall U shape extending from one end of the inclined wall, and a second radial wall extending radially outward with respect to the central axis from one end of the guide portion, a space delimited by the first radial wall, the second radial wall and the inclined wall forming an oil intake chamber, and a space delimited by the guide portion and the second radial wall forming an oil evacuation cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Juan-Luis MARCOS IZQUIERDO, Mohamed BOUYAKOUB, Jordane Emile André PELTIER, Anthony CUFFARO, Antoine Jacques Marie PENNACINO, Jérémy David SEBAN
  • Publication number: 20240191635
    Abstract: A gutter for recovering lubrication oil, particularly for a mechanical reducer, comprising un corps principal comprising an annular main body around a central axis, and a deflector attached to the main body and configured to allow the evacuation of the oil radially from an inner cavity of the main body toward the outside of the gutter, the deflector comprising a main sleeve disposed in the extension of the main body, and an evacuation channel configured to deflect oil from the main sleeve and having a curved shape such that a first end of the evacuation channel, communicating with the inner cavity, is tangent to the main body, and a second end of the evacuation channel is directed outward with respect to the annular main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Juan-Luis MARCOS IZQUIERDO, Mohamed BOUYAKOUB, Antoine Jacques Marie PENNACINO, Jérémy David SEBAN, Jordane Emile André PELTIER
  • Publication number: 20240191779
    Abstract: A ring gear for an aircraft mechanical gearbox, the ring gear having an annular shape about an axis and having an internal toothing at its internal periphery, an external annular flange or splines at its external periphery, and an annular web extending between the internal toothing and the external flange or splines. The web can include an annular row of arms which are distributed about the axis, these arms connecting the internal toothing to the external flange or splines and being formed in a single piece with the internal toothing and the external flange or splines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Loïc FRANCOIS, Boris Pierre Marcel MORELLI, Florent LEJEUNE
  • Patent number: 12000344
    Abstract: An aircraft turbine engine includes a turbine shaft having a first axis of rotation, a propulsion propeller having a second axis of rotation parallel to and spaced from the first axis, and a mechanical reduction gear coupled to the turbine shaft and rotating the propeller. The reduction gear has a sun gear connected to the turbine shaft, a ring gear, and at least two planet gears, each including a first external toothing that is meshed with an external toothing of the sun gear. A second external toothing is located within the ring gear and is meshed with an internal toothing of the ring gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Guillaume Pierre Mouly, Patrice Jocelyn Francis Gedin, Olivier Belmonte
  • Patent number: 11988153
    Abstract: An assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a casing centered on a longitudinal axis and including an upstream portion, a central portion and a downstream portion arranged successively along the longitudinal axis, an attachment system include plural tie rods, and an accessory gearbox arranged within a space delimited axially by the upstream portion and the downstream portion and radially by the central portion, the accessory gearbox being solely attached to the upstream portion or solely attached to the downstream portion by the attachment system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Florian Pierre-Yves Chaput, Fanélie Violaine Drevon, Thomas Marie Joseph De Dreuille De Longeville, Quentin Pierre Henri Pigott
  • Patent number: 11988136
    Abstract: A turbomachine having a contrarotating turbine for an aircraft, the turbomachine including a contrarotating turbine of which a first rotor is configured to rotate in a first direction of rotation and is connected to a first turbine shaft, and a second rotor configured to rotate in an opposite direction of rotation and connected to a second turbine shaft. The first rotor includes turbine wheels interleaved between turbine wheels of the second rotor, the turbomachine further including a planetary-type epicyclic mechanical reduction gear which has a sun gear driven in rotation by the second shaft, a ring gear driven in rotation by the first shaft, and a planet carrier attached to a first stator casing of the turbomachine located upstream of the contrarotating turbine with respect to a direction of flow of gas in the turbomachine. The turbomachine includes bearings for guiding the first and second shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse, Olivier Belmonte, Romain Truco, Olivier Formica, Fabrice Joel Luc Chevillot, Clement Paul Rene Niepceron
  • Patent number: 11976786
    Abstract: An oil restrictor for emergency lubrication of a component for an aircraft turbine engine includes a metal cylindrical body having a longitudinal axis and configured to be housed in and shrink-fitted into a cylindrical bore of a part of the turbine engine. The restrictor further includes an integrated oil circuit enabling oil to pass through the restrictor along the axial extent thereof. The body is a one-piece body, and the circuit has at least two oil channels recessed on an outer cylindrical surface of the body and extending around and/or along the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Alexis Claude Michel Dombek, Patrice Jocelyn Francis Gedin
  • Patent number: 11970983
    Abstract: An arrangement for an aircraft turbine engine, including a shaft and a follower element rotatably coupled to the shaft by a spline connection, the arrangement including upstream and downstream connections for radially centring the follower element relative to the shaft; means for spraying a lubricant into a collection cavity; a passage for receiving lubricant, which passage opens into the collection cavity and into a cavity for lubricating the splines which is partially defined by the upstream and downstream radial centring connections; and a passage for discharging lubricant, which passage opens into the cavity for lubricating the splines and outside the arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Matthieu Bruno François Foglia, Serge René Morreale, Adrien Louis Simon
  • Patent number: 11959418
    Abstract: An impeller (230) for a planet carrier of a planetary gear speed reducer of a turbomachine, is configured intended to be rotatably secured to the planet carrier and to be rotated about an axis A of the speed reducer. The impeller has an annular shape about the axis and includes lubrication means (43, 45, 238), in particular for lubricating bearings of planet gears of the speed reducer. The lubrication means include an annular cavity (238) situated at the inner periphery of the impeller. The impeller includes an inner peripheral wall (246) closing the cavity (238) in the radial direction, and the impeller includes an annular port (248) that extends around the axis and that opens in the axial direction into the cavity in order to supply it with lubricating oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Guillaume Patrice Kubiak, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Romain Guillaume Cuvillier, Simon Loïc Clément Lefebvre, Emmanuel Pierre Dimitri Patsouris, Didier Jean-Louis Yvon
  • Publication number: 20240093773
    Abstract: An accessory gearbox houses at least one gear train with a series of pinions. The casing has two substantially flat and opposite parallel side walls between which are mounted support shafts for each of the pinions, each of which receives accessories, and which define in the enclosure an internal volume surrounding a shaft supporting at least one hybridization pinion. The gearbox receives at least one electric machine having a rotor and a stator, wherein the rotor of the electric machine is supported by the shaft supporting the hybridization pinion of the gear train, and the stator extends around the rotor in the internal volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Clément FALGUIERE, Clément Romain Aimé CADET, Florian Pierre-Yves CHAPUT, Raphaël Clément Stéphane MARTIN
  • Publication number: 20240092480
    Abstract: A device for driving at least one wheel of an aircraft landing gear is provided. The device includes at least one wheel having a rim, an electric motor having a shaft, and a mechanical transmission system for mechanical transmission between the shaft of the motor and the rim. The mechanical transmission system includes a mechanical reduction gear. The mechanical reduction gear includes a sun gear secured in rotation to the shaft and having an external toothing, a stationary ring gear with internal toothing, a movable ring gear secured in rotation to the rim and having an internal toothing, and planet gears that are meshed with the sun gear and each have two external toothing meshed respectively with the toothing of the stationary and movable ring gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Maxime Fernandez, Yohan Douy, Loïc Francois, Boris Pierre Marcel Morelli, Jordane Emile André Peltier
  • Patent number: 11933229
    Abstract: Speed reduction gear for an aircraft turbomachine. The reduction gear has a main axis and planet carrier having a cage and a cage carrier, a sun gear located in the cage and centred on the main axis, an annular row of planet gears arranged around the main axis and the sun gear and meshed with the sun gear, and a ring gear arranged around the axis and the cage and meshed with the planet gears. The cage and the cage carrier are connected to each other by connections whose bending flexibility is optimised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Patrice Julien Ptaszynski, Antoine Jacques Marie Pennacino, Boris Pierre Marcel Morelli
  • Publication number: 20240084876
    Abstract: A planet carrier for a speed reducer of an aircraft turbomachine, the planet carrier including a cage carrier and a cage. The cage can have two parts: a first part having a wall and bridges, these bridges projecting axially from a face of this wall and including first axial ends connected to this face and second free axial ends; and a second part having another of the walls, this other wall including a face to which the free ends of the bridges are applied. The two parts of the cage can be attached together by screws.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Guillaume Pierre MOULY, Guillaume Julien BECK, Patrice Julien PTASZYNSKI, Jean-Pierre SEREY, Adrien Louis SIMON
  • Publication number: 20240084711
    Abstract: A plain bearing for a mechanical reducer for a turbomachine is integrally formed and includes a cylindrical body. The cylindrical body has an external cylindrical guide surface, a first axial mounting extension, a first circumferential edge extending around the first extension, a second axial mounting extension, and a second circumferential edge extending around the second extension. The plain bearing further includes an attachment cover connected to the first axial extension and extending axially opposite said first edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Bálint PAP, Cyrille CASTELOOT
  • Publication number: 20240084712
    Abstract: A drive assembly for a mechanical reducer for a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, includes planet gears, a planet carrier having at least one transverse wall, plain bearings for guiding the planet gears in rotation, and an oil supply circuit for the plain bearings. The planet carrier has collars for attaching the planet gears to the at least one transverse wall, and each of the planet gears includes at least one external cylindrical surface for forming an oil film with an internal cylindrical surface portion of each of the collars for forming said oil film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Bálint PAP, Clément JARROUX, Guillaume Pierre MOULY, Pierre-Damien TUNE
  • Patent number: 11927215
    Abstract: A clevis, particularly for a turbomachine includes a body that is attachable to a casing and at least one aperture for fitting a hinge pin. The body is formed in one piece and includes, about the at least one aperture, a honeycomb-type annular portion. The annular portion acts as a vibration filter and has a compressive and/or flexural strain capacity greater than that of the rest of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Simon Pierre Mathieu Mabire
  • Patent number: 11927262
    Abstract: Lubrication device for a turbomachine reduction gear, the device comprising an annular lubricating oil collecting cup delimited by a first wall and a second wall, said cup being divided by internal walls extending between the first wall and the second wall so as to define a plurality of angular sectors forming oil collection basins, the basins being circumferentially adjacent around the axis and comprising lubricating oil outlets, characterized in that one or more of said internal walls have openings allowing oil to pass between the circumferentially adjacent basins, characterized in that said openings (58) are formed in one or more of said internal walls so as to define one or more rows of openings in said one or more internal walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Bálint Pap, Patrice Jocelyn Francis Gedin, Antoine Jacques Marie Pennacino
  • Patent number: 11927139
    Abstract: A splined shaft includes splines evenly distributed over the periphery, wherein the splines being spaced apart from each other. At least one portion of the splines are spaced apart by a modified pitch p with respect to the nominal pitch pn of the splines. The ratio of the absolute value of the difference between the modified pitch and the nominal pitch, to the nominal pitch, i.e. |pn?p|/pn, is different from zero, for example between 0.5 and 5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Juan-Luis Marcos Izquierdo, Quentin Pierre Henri Pigott
  • Patent number: 11913385
    Abstract: A propulsion system includes a drive shaft that rotates about an axis, a fan, a fan shaft that drives the fan about the axis, a reduction mechanism coupling the drive and fan shafts, a compression section driven by the drive shaft, and an inlet channel that extends between the fan and the compression section. The inlet channel includes inner and outer ferrules delimiting an air inlet flow path, the inner ferrule having a minimum radius. The reduction mechanism includes two reduction stages including two or more planet gears circumferentially distributed around the axis, each planet gear including a first portion meshed with the drive shaft and a second portion meshed with the fan shaft and being mounted fixed with respect to the inner ferrule and having a maximum radius greater than the minimum radius such that the air inlet flow path extends partly between the two or more planet gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Caroline Marie Frantz, Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Matthieu Bruno François Foglia, Adrien Louis Simon
  • Publication number: 20240043134
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly for an aircraft comprising at least two electric motors configured to be disposed in a wing of the aircraft and each comprising a rotor having a motor shaft movable about a motor axis, at least one propeller borne by a propeller shaft movable about a propeller axis and mechanically coupled to the motor shaft of the at least two electric motors, the propeller axis being perpendicular to the motor axis of the at least two electric motors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Clément RAUCOULES, Boris Pierre Marcel MORELLI, Jordane Emile André PELTIER