Patents Assigned to SNECMA Moteurs
  • Patent number: 7290769
    Abstract: A sealing device for sealing between two static portions of a turbomachine includes a brush gasket formed by a plurality of resilient bristles which are, at least in part, held in a housing. Each bristle has a main portion and a secondary portion interconnected by a bent portion. The secondary portion has a free end ensuring leaktight contact with a surface that is to be sealed of the other static portion. The sealing device further includes a flexible washer of bent section which has a free end bearing both against the free ends of the secondary portions of the bristles of the brush gasket, and against the surface that is to be sealed so that the free ends of the secondary portions of the bristles of the brush gasket are permanently in contact with the surface that is to be sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Daniel Plona, Guy Dusserre-Telmon
  • Patent number: 7287389
    Abstract: The invention relates to feeding a gas terminal with energy from a ship transporting liquefied gas while said liquefied gas is being transferred between a tank of the ship and a tank of the gas terminal, wherein a portion of the energy produced by the propulsion system of the ship is delivered to the gas terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventor: Damien Feger
  • Patent number: 7287383
    Abstract: The invention relates to a burner ring for turbofan jet engines. The ring includes an upstream annular envelope which forms a channel which is open axially in the downstream direction, and a manifold for injecting fuel into the channel. The ring includes multiple sectors connected together. Each sector has a fuel inlet which is connected to the fuel injection manifold. Part of the upstream annular envelope is in the core flow. Each sector has a connector which receives the fuel inlet and a ventilation duct which extends through the channel and upstream of the injection manifold. Each sector is fitted with an inlet for a bypass air, which air is then emitted by the ventilation duct to cool the injection manifold. A sector of downstream annular envelope is arranged downstream of the injection manifold to protect this manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: SNECMA Moteurs
    Inventors: Jacques Bunel, Jacques Roche, Bien-Aimé Rakotondrainibe, Stéphane Touchaud
  • Patent number: 7287955
    Abstract: A clearance control device for controlling clearance between rotary blade tips and a stationary bushing of a gas turbine having a casing that is provided with at least two annular ridges, the clearance control device including a circular tuning unit that includes air circulation means for circulating air, said means being made up of at least three ducts; air supply means for supplying air to the air flow ducts; and air discharge means for discharging air on the ridges in order to modify the temperature, the air discharge means for each duct being made up of at least one top row having a number N of perforations disposed facing one of the side faces of the ridges and of at least one bottom row having a number 2N of perforations disposed facing a connection radius that connects the ridges to the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Denis Amiot, Anne-Marie Arraitz, Thierry Fachat, Alain Gendraud, Pascal Lefebvre, Delphine Roussin-Moynier
  • Patent number: 7281892
    Abstract: A control lever for the pitch angle of a blade in a turbomachine, said lever having a first end intended to be mounted on a blade pivot so as to rotate it and a second end comprising a cylindrical peg for mounting on a control annulus, this peg being fixed by crimping of one of its ends in an orifice of the second end of the lever and comprising an annular flange to which is applied the second end of the lever, wherein stress distribution means are interposed between the second end of the lever and the crimped end of the peg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Claude Lejars, Bruce Pontoizeau, Richard Staessen, Nicolas Triconnet
  • Publication number: 20070237971
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composite target in the form of a bar made of ceramic powders and designed to be evaporated under an electron beam, the target comprising zirconia and at least one zirconia stabilizer. In characteristic manner, said target is wherein said zirconia stabilizer is at a molar content lying in the range 2% to 30% and wherein said zirconia is formed by more than 90% of a monoclinic phase. The invention is applicable to fabricating a ceramic thermal barrier of low thermal conductivity and high thermomechanical strength formed by evaporation under an electron beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2004
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicants: SNECMA MOTEURS, SNECMA SERVICES
    Inventors: Bertrand Saint-Ramond, Andre Malie, Christophe Chaput, Isabelle Porte, Cyrille Delage
  • Patent number: 7278827
    Abstract: A turbine blade of a turbomachine, having at least a bottom platform connected to the base of the blade by a bottom connection zone, and a cooling circuit consisting of at least one cooling cavity, of a plurality of evacuation slots arranged along the trailing edge of the blade, said blade having a bottom evacuation slot that is disposed near the blade base, the bottom evacuation slot including an end wall provided with an opening that opens into the cavity, a setback wall, a bottom wall disposed beside the blade base, a bottom edge formed between the setback wall and the bottom wall, and a bottom shoulder formed between the bottom wall and the bottom connection zone, both the bottom edge of the bottom evacuation slot and the bottom shoulder of the bottom evacuation slot having respective right sections of substantially rounded shape, thereby avoiding any protruding angles between the opening of said slot and the bottom connection zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Jacques Boury, Maurice Judet, Jacky Tabardin
  • Patent number: 7267301
    Abstract: An aircraft engine includes a mounting attached to an aircraft structure and transmitting forces between an engine casing and the aircraft structure. The mounting includes a fail safe assembly with a safety clevis with two lugs and a tab arranged between the two lugs. Either the clevis or the tab is fixed to an element of the engine casing and the other tab or clevis is fixed to the structure. A safety hinge pin is perpendicular to the axis of the engine and passes through the tab and the clevis, the two lugs and the tab being parallel to the engine axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventor: Sebastien Dron
  • Patent number: 7264441
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hybrid cycle HP compressor (104) for a turbine engine, comprising in particular a first rotor wheel (16), a first rectifier (118) and a second rotor wheel (20), as well as a separation slot (22) fitted between the first rectifier and the second rotor wheel in order to supply the turbine engine with a secondary air flux. According to the invention, the first rectifier is a double grid rectifier comprising a grid of vanes upstream (30) as well as a grid of vanes downstream (34), these upstream and downstream vane grids being associated respectively with variable setting systems upstream and downstream (38,40) controlled in autonomous manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: SNECMA Moteurs
    Inventor: Claude Loudet
  • Patent number: 7261784
    Abstract: The method of the invention enables a coating to be made on at least one face to be protected of a metal substrate and/or article in order to improve its performance in terms of resistance to wear by friction, in particular at high temperature. The method comprises the following steps: providing a flexible sheet derived from at least one plate obtained by the technique of casting a strip by silkscreen printing from a viscous material made of a binder and a metal powder of a superalloy; cutting said flexible sheet to the dimensions of said face to be protected of a metal substrate and/or article in order to constitute a preform; placing said preform on said face to be protected of a metal substrate and/or article; and raising the assembly to a temperature enabling a coating to be formed by establishing a bond between said preform and said face to be protected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventor: Claude Mons
  • Patent number: 7255260
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an assembly including a stack of at least two primary parts, the primary parts being joined together around their periphery with the exception of a place forming a passage so as to define between the two of them a cavity, and the primary parts having, facing the cavity, at least one face that is covered, in a pattern, with a stop-off product containing a binder that can be thermally degraded, and a sealed reservoir having an open end, the end being joined in a sealed manner to the passage in the stack so as to allow communication between the internal space of the reservoir and the cavity, the reservoir being placed under a partial vacuum, this being produced so as to be non-deformable at the temperature and at the pressure at which the diffusion bonding of the said stack takes place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Franchet, Patrick Gesmier
  • Patent number: 7241112
    Abstract: The composite turbomachine blade of the present invention comprises a preform made of yarns or fibers woven in three dimensions and a binder maintaining the relative disposition between the yarns of the preform. Said preform is made up of warp yarns and of weft yarns, the direction of the warp yarns forming the longitudinal direction of the preform. In characteristic manner, said preform comprises at least a first portion made using a first weave forming the airfoil of the blade, and a second portion made using a second weave forming the root of the blade, and the first and second portions are united by a transition zone in which the first weave is progressively modified to end up with the second weave, thereby obtaining a reduction at least in the thickness of the blade between the second portion and the first portion. The invention is applicable to making a fan blade for a turbojet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: SNECMA Moteurs
    Inventors: Bruno Dambrine, Olivier Molinari, Dominique Coupe
  • Patent number: 7241961
    Abstract: A TIG welding method of welding a first part with a first wall and an end edge to a second part with a second wall and an edge along a junction surface between said edges and along which the first wall forms a salient angle with the second wall. The TIG welding electrode is moved along the junction surface to weld the first part to the second part. The electrode being aligned on the side of the salient angle at an angle (?) with respect to the first wall smaller than 180° and with the longitudinal axis of the electrode running through the re-entrant angle associated with the salient angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: SNECMA Moteurs
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Duret, Pascal Guerniou
  • Patent number: 7237959
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary shaft arrangement carrying equipment at one end and extending rearwards from the equipment, the shaft (1) being supported by a first bearing (2) behind the equipment, and by a second bearing (3) behind the first bearing (2), the first bearing (2) being carried by a casing (4) surrounding the shaft (1) and extending rearwards from the first bearing (2) to a stator structure (5) to which the casing (4) is fastened by screws (6) that extend parallel to the shaft (1) and that are fusible in traction, the arrangement being characterized by the fact that the second bearing (3) is disposed with radial clearance (J) in a bore (7) of an annular support (8) secured to the stator structure (5), and is fastened to said annular support (8) by screws (9) that are parallel to the shaft (1) and that are fusible in shear, whereby the second bearing (3) can bear against said support (8) in the event of said screws (9) rupturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Gael Bouchy, Bertrand Jean-Joseph Marie Heurtel, Eric Jean Masson, Bien-Aime Rakotondrainibe, Pierre Pandelakis, Daniel Martin, Patrick Morel, Henry Souyeaux
  • Patent number: 7237378
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine (1) for an aircraft comprising a gas generator (4) designed such that hot gases are ejected from a combustion chamber (28) towards the upstream side of the turbomachine, and also comprising a plurality of hollow mixer struts (40) connected to an output (36) from the gas generator through which hot gases can pass, each mixer strut comprising an output mixer portion (40c) located inside the annular fan duct (8) so as to mix the secondary air and the hot gases ejected by these output mixer portions towards the downstream side of the turbomachine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventor: Alain Marie Joseph Lardellier
  • Patent number: 7234920
    Abstract: A turbine stator casing comprising a jacket and fastener hooks for fastening a turbine distributor nozzle, the hooks projecting from the inside face of the jacket, said jacket being made of a first alloy by hot isostatic compression using metal powder, said fastener hooks being made out of a second alloy that is more refractory than the first, and being secured to said jacket by diffusion welding during the hot isostatic compression. The casing also comprises inserts passing through the fastener hooks and through said jacket. These inserts, which are likewise secured to the jacket by diffusion welding, serve during manufacture of the casing to fasten the hooks to a mold portion inside which the jacket is formed. The invention is applicable to the turbines of airplane turbojets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: SNECMA Moteurs
    Inventors: Sébastien Imbourg, Claude Mons, Philippe Pabion, Jean-Iuc Soupizon
  • Patent number: 7217100
    Abstract: A device for holding an annular end plate against a radial face of a rotor disc, the disc having in the radial face an annular recess behind a collar extending radially outwards, and the end plate having, in its radially inner part, an annular base bearing against the radially outer wall of the recess and a foot extending radially inwards in the recess from the base, the device including a split annular retaining ring disposed in the recess. The ring is constituted by a snap ring interposed axially between the foot of the end plate and the collar and the peripheral surface of which butts against the base, the peripheral surface and the collar comprising, when joined, notches, which open radially outwards and are intended to receive compression tools for the snap ring, which tools retract into the contour of the collar during the assembly or disassembly of the end plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Kamel Benderradji, Marc Marchi
  • Patent number: 7214030
    Abstract: The system enables an increase in the guidance length of the outer pivot of the vane, so that the bushing can be extracted without needing to open the stator casing. It mainly includes a bushing placed inside a bossing of the stator, the length of which is greater than the length of the bossing projecting outwards from the bossing. Thus, the contact length of the outer pivot is prolonged. The bushing is terminated at its end by a gripping hook to enable extraction of the bushing by means of a claw. It is advantageously also provided with a positioning edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Arilla, Pierre-Yves Maillard, Alain Marc Lucien Bromann
  • Patent number: 7213393
    Abstract: A device for supplying cooling air to a hollow flap of an exhaust nozzle in a turbojet engine. The device includes a tube connecting the hollow flap to a cooling air source. The tube comprises at least one telescopic portion and at least one ball-joint connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Guy Lapergue, Raphael Curtelin, Didier Feder
  • Patent number: 7214034
    Abstract: A system for controlling a leakage zone under platforms of blades of a turbomachine blade-wheel by liners having edges that flare radially inwards, and that are disposed in inter-blade cavities defined by the platforms, by upstream and downstream radial walls of the blades and by the periphery of the wheel disk. One of the flared edges, upstream or downstream, presents an elastic zone bearing on an inclined surface of the adjacent radial wall relative to a radial plane, such that the liner tends to move axially towards the radial wall facing, under action of centrifugal forces, to improve sealing in the zone, and so that when the wheel stops, the elastic zone moves radially inwards, the liner pivoting around an axis distant from the elastic zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Chantal Giot, Marc Marchi, Christian Gosselin, Eric Bil