Patents Assigned to SNECMA
  • Patent number: 10006539
    Abstract: The epicyclic reduction gear comprises a planetary input shaft, planet gears meshing around said shaft and supported by a planet carrier, and two transverse sides. According to the invention, the reduction gear comprises at least one fluid transfer pipe suitable for being connected to a fluid supply source and passing through the planet carrier, being linked in rotation to same, from a first of said transverse sides of the reduction gear to a second of said transverse sides of the latter in order to open on the outside of the reduction gear and dispense the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Augustin Curlier, Tewfik Boudebiza, Gilles Alain Charier
  • Patent number: 10006305
    Abstract: Tooling for removing sand from a turbine engine, such as an airplane turbojet, the tooling including at least one endoscopic display device including a display and a duct having light guide and image transmission device mounted therein, a suction device having a suction device connected to a suction duct fastened to the duct of a display device, and a plasma jet generator device including a plasma torch connected to gas supply and electricity power supply suitable for operating the plasma torch, the plasma torch being fastened to the duct of an above-mentioned display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Gerard Derrien, Sebastien Wilk
  • Patent number: 10006307
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbine engine casing (1), in particular a turbojet exhaust casing, including at least one hoop (2) and at least one flange (3, 4) at least partially defining one end of said hoop (2), and at least one cap (5) positioned at least partially on the outer surface of the hoop (2), said cap (5) including a bore (6) capable of receiving an element for fastening the casing (1) to a bracket, the flange including an access cut-out (7a) substantially coaxial with the bore (6) of said at least one cap (5), said access cut-out (7a) enabling access to the bore (6), the access cut-out (7a) being provided at a release cut-out (7b) which is wider than the flange (3, 4) and constitutes a recess on said release cut-out (7b). The invention also relates to a turbine engine including a casing (1) and to a method for machining the latter according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Benoit Debray, Gregory Ghosarossian-Prillieux, Mario De Sousa, Nicolas Pommier, Frederic Noel
  • Patent number: 10001027
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine engine comprising a fixed structure (7), a fan (1) rotor (3), having an axis (XX) of rotation, and emergency braking means (12, 13) of the rotor (3), in particular in the event of the loss of a blade of the fan (1), characterized in that said emergency braking means (12, 13) comprise a first (18) and a second (22) member supported by the fixed structure (7), said members (18, 22) respectively being configured so as to interact frictionally with a first (20) element which is complementary to the rotor (3), by forming a stop of the rotor (3) towards the rear along the axis (XX), and a second (24) element which is complementary to the rotor (3), by forming a stop of the rotor (3) towards the front along the axis (XX), when the emergency braking means (12, 13) are active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Alexandre Jean-Marie Tan-Kim
  • Patent number: 10002209
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for modelling a part (1), the method being characterized in that it comprises implementing, using data processing means (11) of a piece of equipment (10), steps of: (a) parameterizing a curve of class C1 representing the value of a physical quantity characterizing said part (1) as a function of a position along at least one portion of the part (1), the curve being defined by: a. two end points (PCU0, PCUK) defining the extent of said portion of the part (1); b. at least one intermediate point PCUi, i?[[1,K?1]]) located between the two end points (PCU0, PCUK); c. at least two Bezier curves connected to said intermediate point; the parameterization being carried out using one or more parameters defining said intermediate point; (b) determining optimized values for said parameters of said curve; and (c) returning the determined values to an interface (13) of said piece of equipment (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Damien Joseph Cellier, Vincent Paul Gabriel Perrot
  • Publication number: 20180163740
    Abstract: A compressor shroud for an aircraft turbine engine, the shroud being arranged between two bladed rotary wheels and radially in line with a deflector, the shroud including a sealing device including one or more sealing elements, including a downstream end sealing element on which, projecting downstream, an air entraining and diverting structure is provided, designed to axially divert the discharge air issuing from the end sealing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Christophe SCHOLTES, Antoine Robert, Alain BRUNET, Kevin Eugene, Henri GIBOUDEAUX, Hadrien Paul, Alexandre MAGE
  • Publication number: 20180163965
    Abstract: The invention relates to an annular combustion chamber in a turbine engine, comprising two coaxial walls of revolution, one an internal wall (12) and the other an external wall (14), between which emerge fuel injectors (19) each engaged in centring means (36) which are moveable in the radial direction in support means (38), the chamber also comprising means (50, 68) of axial retention in the upstream direction of the centring means. According to the invention, the means of axial retention in the upstream direction are removably fixed to at least one of the internal (12) or external (14) walls of revolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Brice Le Pannerer, Laurent Bernard Cameriano, Pierre-François Simon Paul Pireyre
  • Patent number: 9995156
    Abstract: A turbomachine vane including a plurality of vane sections stacked along a radial axis, each vane section extending along a longitudinal axis between a leading edge and a trailing edge, and along a tangential axis between an active surface and a passive surface, the vane sections being distributed according to longitudinal and tangential distribution laws defining positioning of respective centers of gravity thereof in relation to the longitudinal and tangential axes according to a height of the vane extending from a foot of the vane to a top thereof. Each of the longitudinal and tangential distribution laws involves a change in direction of the slope at between 90% and 100% of the height of the vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Laurent Jablonski, Hanna Reiss, Jerome Talbotec, Sandrine Quevreux
  • Patent number: 9995219
    Abstract: A turbine engine wall having a cold side and a hot side and including a plurality of cooling orifices for enabling air flowing on the cold side of the wall to penetrate to the hot side at least some of the cooling orifices being plugged by a plugging material so as to define a minimum level of porosity for the wall corresponding to putting the turbine engine into service, and the plugged cooling orifices being suitable for being unplugged progressively throughout the lifetime of the turbine engine in order to define a maximum level of porosity for the wall corresponding to an end of lifetime for the turbine engine, the plugging being performed by alternating at least one of the following rows or lines: circumferential rows, axial rows, diagonal lines, so as to lie in the range one-third to one-half of the maximum porosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Francois Leglaye, Sylvain Oblaza, Patrick Lutz
  • Patent number: 9995176
    Abstract: The device (20) comprises two outer and inner concentric rings (22, 23), one of which is connected to an oil supply from one of the repositories, the other ring being connected to the other repository, the oil flowing between said rings, and bearings between the rings in order to change repositories between the two rings. According to the invention, the device (20) further comprises a flexible means (31) forming a shock absorber, provided between a first of said rings and an intermediate ring (41) that is separated from a second of said rings by said bearings (25), said flexible means (31) defining a deformable sealed chamber (32) in which oil travels between the two repositories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Jérémy Phorla Lao
  • Publication number: 20180156047
    Abstract: The shank of a blade includes a first side and a second side provided with a depression. By concentrating this depression on a single side, a shank that is more rigid and resistant with an equal lightening is obtained, with the stress concentrations depending on the depth of the depression but being absent from first flat side. The vibrations and bending deformations are also reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Marco NUCCI, Damien MERLOT, Jacky RODRIGUEZ
  • Patent number: 9988937
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to a hydraulic and electrical interface ring for a turbine engine, characterized in that said ring comprises fluid transfer pipes which axially pass therethrough and having axial ends that form axial interlocking means, the supporting means of at least one electrical device, and at least one electrical linking connector of the device, said connector being configured to engage by axial interlocking with a complementary electrical connector of another part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Augustin Curlier, Olivier Belmonte
  • Patent number: 9989015
    Abstract: A stage of a space launcher including an engine core, a tank secured above the engine core, and a nozzle including a first deployable nozzle section secured below the engine core, the nozzle further including a second and a third section configured to be situated extending from each other when the nozzle is in a deployed propulsion configuration. The stage further includes a structure for temporarily supporting nozzle sections mounted on the tank, configured to change the nozzle to a configuration for accessing the engine core wherein the nozzle sections are inserted into each other, with the third section bearing against a lower support of the temporary structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Condaminet, Guy Lecompte, Philippe Matura
  • Patent number: 9988982
    Abstract: A turbine engine has inner and outer annular covers containing an annular combustion chamber and an annular nozzle. The combustion chamber is held in position inside the outer annular cover between two radial holder rings that are nested at least in part one within the other and that have their radially outer first ends secured to the outer annular cover by fasteners and their radially inner second ends in the form of combs holding in position between them a transverse rim of the annular combustion chamber so as to enable a cooling stream to flow towards the annular nozzle and so as to hold the annular combustion chamber axially while leaving it free to move at least radially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventor: Frederic Delaunay
  • Patent number: 9987781
    Abstract: The invention relates to equipment (1) for manufacturing a part (2) by injection moulding, including: a first cavity (10), a second cavity (20), and a supporting element (30), shaped such as to hold the part (2) in position in the equipment, and defining, together with the cavities (10, 20), an inner space of the equipment, the holding element (30) as well as the first cavity (10) and/or the second cavity (20) being movable relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: SAFRAN, SNECMA
    Inventors: Florian Tellier, Olivier Foussard
  • Patent number: 9988158
    Abstract: A DC electrical generation system for an aircraft propelled by a turbine engine, such as a turbojet, includes at least one electrical energy storage capacity, at least one generator driven mechanically by a rotation shaft of the turbine engine and electrical connections between the electrical energy storage capacity, the generator and the aircraft equipment for powering the above-mentioned equipment with DC current, also including at least one alternative for supplying DC current to the equipment, which are autonomous in relation to any mechanical driving by a rotation shaft of the turbine engine, and a device that can cut-off power to the generator(s) and simultaneously activate the alternative current supply. The power cut-off device for triggering power cut-off and activating the alternative current supply is controlled by a control or operating parameter of the turbine engine. The alternative current supply is preferably formed by one or more supercapacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Arnaud Lebrun, Thomas Lepage, Darragh McGrath
  • Patent number: 9988942
    Abstract: A support for carrying a tube for discharging oil-laden air from a turbine engine, the support including a radially inner annular portion for mounting around the tube, and fins extending outwards in a radial plane from the annular portion, each fin forming an angle relative to the radial direction. The fins have fastener zones at their outer peripheries, the fastener zones being inclined in the axial direction of the support so as to be suitable for fastening to an exhaust cone of the turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Patrick Sultana, Boucif Bensalah, Yannick Durand, Olivier Renon
  • Patent number: 9989256
    Abstract: An injection system for a turbine engine combustion chamber is provided. The injection system includes a first annular deflector surrounded by the bowl of the injection system and extending in the downstream direction from the downstream transverse surface that delimits the downstream side of the swirler. The first deflector has a free downstream end offset in the upstream direction from a downstream end of the bowl, so as to guide an air film output from the first orifices formed through the bowl. The internal radius of the cross section of the first annular deflector increases from the downstream transverse surface as far as the downstream end of the first annular deflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Denis Jean Maurice Sandelis, Romain Nicolas Lunel
  • Patent number: 9982603
    Abstract: Assembly comprising, on a turbomachine:—a combustion chamber (30) having a longitudinal axis (30a) and comprising: internal and external longitudinal walls (90) having a first opening (90a) substantially transverse to said axis (30a), an outer casing (110) having a second opening (110a) likewise substantially transverse to said axis (30a),—a turbomachine sparkplug (150),—a device (130) for radially securing the sparkplug (150), which device (130) comprises a sparkplug adapter (160) fixed toward a first end to the outer casing (110), facing the second opening (110a) and through which adapter and casing the sparkplug (150) in question passes, and a sparkplug guide (190) kept in contact with the external longitudinal wall (90), facing the first opening (90a) and through which the sparkplug (150) passes to emerge in the combustion chamber (30), the sparkplug (150) and the sparkplug guide (190) each having a screw thread (103, 105), the screw threads (103, 105) being screwed together so as to stabilize the sparkpl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Pierre-François Simon Paul Pireyre, Francois Leglaye, David Gino Stifanic
  • Patent number: 9982551
    Abstract: A system for sealing an oil chamber from an adjoining exterior volume, and a turbo-machine including a sealing system. The system for sealing the oil chamber from the adjoining exterior volume, both of which are delimited by a mobile rotor in rotation about an axis and a part, fixed or mobile, includes: a first seal arranged between the rotor and the part; a second seal that is mounted between the rotor and the part and which is offset longitudinally relative to the first seal, to form with the first seal a sealing chamber delimited by the rotor, the part, and the two seals; and a mechanism for supplying gas to the sealing chamber, such that the gas can be compressed when the rotor begins to rotate, the chamber communicating with the oil chamber and/or the adjoining exterior volume via the first and second seals alone, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Dominik Igel, Delphine Leroux