Abstract: A turbomachine separator including a device for de-icing the turbomachine separator, and a distribution element, wherein the separator is formed by an inner ferrule and an outer ferrule, wherein the inner ferrule is fitted with a first mounting flange and a second mounting flange, the de-icing device including an internal air supply duct, able to inject air into the separator, wherein the internal supply duct is connected to an air inlet, wherein the air inlet forms a projection external to the de-icing device, allowing a flexible connection with a tube of the distribution element for conveying hot air, a first fastener constructed and arranged to be attached to the first mounting flange; and a second fastener constructed and arranged to be attached to the second mounting flange.
Abstract: A combustion chamber including a diverging portion. The combustion chamber extends along a longitudinal axis and includes a fluid injection system from which there extends in a downstream direction a wall presenting a throat and a diverging portion situated downstream from the throat. The chamber further includes a tubular element surrounding the wall at least in part and configured to take up most of forces generated during operation of the chamber on the downstream end of the wall to transfer the forces to a structure situated upstream from the chamber.
Abstract: A system for monitoring a set of components of a device, including: a detecting system including a set of agents for detecting anomalies, with each agent receiving measurements on physical parameters relating to a sub-set of components of a device and delivering an initial distribution of the probability of an anomaly; an acquiring system which receives feedback information and the initial distributions of the probability of an anomaly from the agents; an emerging system which iteratively emerges current distributions of the probability of an anomaly, with the current distributions of the probability of an anomaly converging towards a set of optimum distributions of the probability of an anomaly; and a synthesizing system which synthesizes optimum distributions of the probability of an anomaly relating to at least one sub-set of interest of components of the device in order to extract the risks of an anomaly specific to the sub-set of interest.
Abstract: The invention relates to a device for locking a nut (13) in a tightened position on a rotary shaft (12), said rotary shaft (12) being hollow at least at one end (14). The locking device comprises a plurality of outer notches (16) formed in a face of the nut (13), said outer notches (16) extending parallel to a longitudinal axis (X) of the nut (13), a plurality of inner notches (15) formed in the end (14) of the rotary shaft (12), said inner notches (15) extending parallel to a longitudinal axis (X) of the rotary shaft (12), and a ring (18) suitable for being installed inside said end (14) of the rotary shaft (12) and presenting at least one first radial finger (19) for being received both in one of the inner notches (15) and in one of the outer notches (16) with the nut (13) being in a tightened position and the two notches (15, 16) housing said first radial finger (19) being at least partially in alignment in a radial direction.
Abstract: A two stage pump (2?, 4?), where the high pressure stage (4?) is a gear pump (11, 12), comprises a driving of the other stage (2?) by a support shaft (74), mounted in the driven pinion (12), the shaft (74) being driven by the drive shaft (21), by means of a pair of toothed wheels (77, 79) adjacent to the rest of the stage (4?), which can allow different rotation speeds between the two stages (2?, 4?). The support shaft (74) may be supported by stops and hydrodynamic bearings, directly integrated and lubricated in the driven pinion, which make the design lighter and more compact. The shaft (74) and the toothed wheels (77, 79) ingeniously transmit the loads from the stage (2?) to the stage (4?) in such a way as to cancel out the usual hydraulic loads, stemming from pressure, and mechanical, forces stemming from rotational drivings on the driven pinion (12).
Abstract: A method for monitoring a locking system includes N locks, each lock being monitored by two locking sensors, each locking sensor being capable of indicating if the lock that it monitors is in a locked or unlocked state, each locking sensor being able to be in a valid or invalid status, the method including determining the state of the locking system on the basis of the state of the locks detected by the locking sensors; determining a reliability level associated with the state of the locking system on the basis of the number of valid locking sensors monitoring the locks that are in the same state as the locking system.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 16, 2014
Date of Patent:
September 5, 2017
Assignee:
SNECMA
Inventors:
Gabriel Allut, Mohamed Bozetine, Antoine Olivier François Colin, Barbara-Ann Piquet
Abstract: A tool and method for loosening, for example, a nut connecting an HP rotor to an intermediate housing of a twin-shaft turbojet engine and forward fan including an LP turbine module, an HP module with an upstream journal of the HP rotor, and an intermediate housing with a support bearing of the HP rotor journal. The journal is held in the bearing by the connecting nut. The method includes inserting the tool for loosening the connecting nut after having cleared access to the nut. The loosening tool includes a tube and a plurality of fingers retractable between a position in which they are housed in the tube and a position in which they are deployed radially. The tool is installed with the retractable fingers deployed and in contact with all of teeth of the nut, and an unscrewing rotational torque is then applied to the tool.
Abstract: The invention relates to a method of fabricating a bath of electrolyte for plating a platinum-based metal underlayer on a metallic substrate, comprising: a) providing a first system having ligands and amine functional groups, the first system being constituted by an aqueous solution of an amino ligand comprising at least one compound X—(NH2)n, where X belongs to the group constituted by (CH3, CH3—CH2, CH3—(CH2)m), or NH3 or an xP?(NH4)+p salt where x is an acid radical belonging to the group constituted by (PO43?, HPO42?, H2PO4?, HPO42?and H2PO4?, SO42?, HSO4?, H2SO4, HSO4?, and H2SO4, CH3COO?, CH3COOH, and CH3COO?), or H2SO4, or CH3COOH, and where n, m, and p are non-zero integers; b) providing a second system forming a buffer system; c) providing a third system providing a metallic salt, and constituted by an aqueous solution of platinum; d) providing a fourth system suitable for imparting the conduction property to the medium; and e) mixing together the four systems so as to obtain the electrolyte bath.
Abstract: A device for connecting a fixed turbine engine portion and a distributor foot of a turbine engine turbine is provided. The device includes a ring-shaped body adapted so as to be connected and secured to the fixed turbine engine portion, and two ring-shaped upstream and downstream brackets secured to the body, both brackets being adapted so as to clamp the foot of the distributor. At least one bracket is interrupted by forming an expansion or retraction slot, the slot allowing an expansion of the bracket tending to close the slot or retraction of the bracket tending to further open the slot, under the effect of a difference in internal temperatures of the device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 1, 2014
Date of Patent:
September 5, 2017
Assignee:
SNECMA
Inventors:
Eric Schwartz, Fabien Garnier, Helene Condat, Renaud Gabriel Constant Royan, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard
Abstract: A valve for regulating the temperature of an oil flow, includes a first inlet channel, a second inlet channel and an outlet channel, the second inlet channel and the outlet channel being capable of cooperating with a temperature regulator. One of the inlet channels includes an oil flow regulator controlled by a computer by generation of an electrical set value respecting a control law configured within the computer, the control law being slaved by an oil flow temperature sensor, the electrical set value controlling opening and closing of the regulator, the regulation law generating an alternation of open and closed states of the flow regulator so as to achieve a required average temperature of the oil flow over a given period.
Abstract: The invention provides a test bench for characterizing a flow of a two-phase fluid, the test bench comprising a fluid tank, a first pump suitable for taking fluid from the tank and for feeding first and second lines connected in parallel, each line being provided in succession, from upstream to downstream in the flow direction of the fluid, with: injection means for injecting air into the fluid; measurement means suitable for providing information about the proportion of the vapor phase relative to the liquid phase of the fluid; and a second pump or a Venturi.
Abstract: A device for axial locking of a moving part in rotation with respect to a reference part, includes a downstream locking wedge provided with lugs laid out such that the downstream locking wedge can be placed in: a first angular position in which the downstream locking wedge may be translated axially with respect to the moving part, a second angular position in which the lugs axially immobilize the downstream locking wedge with respect to the moving part; an upstream locking wedge able to prevent the rotation of the downstream locking wedge with respect to the moving part; and a stop segment able to immobilize axially the upstream locking wedge against the downstream locking wedge.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 24, 2014
Date of Patent:
August 29, 2017
Assignee:
SNECMA
Inventors:
Olivier Lefebvre, Philippe Bourdin, Marc Jolly
Abstract: An engine control device having a calculator for calculating a pitch setpoint for at least one propeller of the engine, the calculator taking account at least of a flight speed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 15, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 29, 2017
Assignee:
SNECMA
Inventors:
Nicolas Jerome Jean Tantot, Thierry Brichler
Abstract: Oil and fuel circuits in a turbine engine, the circuits including a main oil/fuel heat exchanger passing flows of oil and fuel for cooling the oil, an oil/air heat exchanger mounted in the oil circuit and having a flow of cooling air passing therethrough, a bypass pipe connected between an oil inlet and outlet of the oil/air heat exchanger, a valve for controlling passage of the oil flow through the bypass pipe and the oil/air heat exchanger, and a secondary oil/fuel heat exchanger mounted in the bypass pipe.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 14, 2012
Date of Patent:
August 22, 2017
Assignee:
SNECMA
Inventors:
Sebastien Gameiro, Olivier Robert Michel Delepierre-Massue
Abstract: A variable geometry suspension structure for suspending a turboprop from a structural element of an aircraft, the structure including a rear cradle for fastening to a structural element of an aircraft and a front cradle for supporting a front portion of the turboprop, the front cradle being connected to the rear cradle, firstly via a pivot connection configured to enable the front cradle to tilt vertically relative to the rear cradle, and secondly by a return spring configured to prevent the front cradle from tilting while thrust from the turboprop is below a predetermined threshold.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 15, 2014
Date of Patent:
August 22, 2017
Assignee:
SNECMA
Inventors:
Antoine Hellegouarch, Mathieu Ange Poisson, Francois Gallet
Abstract: A method of fabricating a part covered in an abradable coating (55), the method comprising the following steps: a blank (10) for the part, the blank having a housing (20) opening out into the surface (15) of the blank (10); filling the housing (20) with an abradable material in powder form; and hot rolling the blank (10) and the abradable material together so as to sinter the abradable material and cause it to adhere to the blank, in order to obtain an abradable coating (55).
Abstract: A turbine wheel in a turbine engine is provided. The wheel includes a disk having a plurality of blades with roots that are axially engaged and radially retained in longitudinal slots in the outer periphery of the disk, the blades having platforms that extend circumferentially end to end and that are radially facing longitudinal teeth of the disk that define the slots. Protection members for protecting the flanks of the slots and made out of sheet metal are mounted on the teeth of the disk and held thereon by co-operating shapes, the protection members bear radially against the platforms of the blades in order to oppose circumferential tilting of the blades, and at least partially close the radial gaps between the teeth and the platforms of the blades.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 4, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignee:
SNECMA
Inventors:
Amaury Roussely-Rousseau, Son Le Hong, Jean-Pierre Mareix
Abstract: A foundry method of casting monocrystalline metal parts, the method including at least casting a molten alloy into a cavity of a mold through at least one casting channel in the mold, subjecting the alloy to heat treatment, and removing the mold, and wherein the heat treatment is performed before an end of mold removal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 6, 2012
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignee:
SNECMA
Inventors:
Celine Yanxi Chan, Benoit Georges Jocelyn Marie, David Locatelli
Abstract: A device for controlling positioning of variable-geometry equipment of a turbomachine, including a computer, an actuator of variable geometry driven by the computer, and a drive train, the actuator including moving parts including a sensor for measuring its elongation, the drive train being connected at one of its ends to a point of attachment of the moving parts and at another end to a point of attachment of the equipment, the point of attachment moving under action of the actuator along a travel limited by an end stop and the drive train being elastically deformable under the action of the actuator when the point of attachment is against the end stop. An elongation instruction supplied by the computer to the moving parts is defined as a difference with respect to the value of the elongation of the moving parts that corresponds to contact between the point of attachment and the end stop.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 23, 2010
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignee:
SNECMA
Inventors:
Bruno Robert Gaully, Jean-Albert Paul Marc Robert
Abstract: A cooling device for the casing of a jet engine, includes a cooling tube and a supporting device, the supporting device including an attachment plate and an attachment clamp, the attachment clamp including a clamp body surrounding the cooling tube and an attachment element attached to the attachment plate, wherein the attachment plate includes: an opening; and an attachment tab secured to the main wall of the attachment plate and arranged on at one portion of the periphery of the opening, the attachment clamp passing through the opening, and the attachment element of the attachment clamp being attached to the attachment tab.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 25, 2014
Date of Patent:
August 15, 2017
Assignee:
SNECMA
Inventors:
Arthur Cohin, Baghdad Achbari, Audrey Charrie, Aurélien René-Pierre Massot