Patents Assigned to Techspace Aero, S.A.
  • Patent number: 8753074
    Abstract: A passive leakage device for an axial turbomachine, more particularly for a low-pressure compressor of an axial turbomachine, is adapted to reduce and/or eliminate the surging phenomenon within the machine. The passive leakage device includes an insert having a general cylindrical shape with a flange at one end and a bottom or membrane at the other end. The membrane comprises two cross-shaped notches, the notches being adapted to enable a deformation of the membrane under a pressure exceeding a predetermined threshold, so as to allow a leakage to go through the membrane. Several inserts are arranged through the wall of a compressor casing, distributed over one or several circumferences of the casing, facing one or several rows of rotor blades. In the case of a double-flow turbomachine, such as a jet engine, the beak for separating the primary and secondary flows is used to form a chamber for communication between the inserts and for compensation with the pressure present in the secondary flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventor: Frederic Vallino
  • Publication number: 20140161597
    Abstract: The present application relates to a splitter nose of an axial turbomachine designed to separate an annular flow into the turbomachine into a primary flow and a secondary flow for undergoing a thermodynamic cycle. The nose includes a de-icing device with a wall defining, at least partially, an annular channel. A hot oil stream created by the turbomachine circulates in this latter. The oil runs through the circular nose and de-ices it while itself getting cooled. The wall is located so as to form the leading edge of the said splitter nose. The wall is an open or closed strip such as a tube which can be fixed by bonding, welding or recessing. The present application also relates to a multi-flow turbomachine with splitter noses fitted with de-icing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventor: Frederick Thise
  • Publication number: 20140147262
    Abstract: The present application relates to a compressor stator of an axial turbomachine having an inner shell formed of a plurality of annular segments arranged end to end, a layer of abradable material applied on the inner face of the shell, and an annular array of blades connected to the shell. The stator has at least one strip located in the layer of abradable material and extending from either side of the junctions between two adjacent annular segments. The inner tips of the blades have hooks mating mechanically with the strip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventor: Herve Grelin
  • Publication number: 20140147265
    Abstract: The present application relates to the stator blades of an axial turbomachine intended to be fitted on a ferrule in an annular row of identical blades. Each blade includes a platform with opposed lateral edges and a means of attachment to the ferrule. The contour of the platform has, at each of the lateral edges, an angular profile designed to mate with the contiguous edge of the platform of an adjacent blade. This feature enables the angular position or pitch of the blade to be set. The present application also relates to a stator comprising the blade row. Mechanical clearances J1, J2 and J3 and the means of clamping cause an average angular orientation error. The blades are made with a compensatory angle to offset the angular orientation error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventor: Guy Biemar
  • Patent number: 8726507
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an air/fluid heat exchanger (1), said method comprising at least the following steps: a) on a first sheet metal plate (2), a plurality of tight folds are formed, said folds acting as fins (3), or, alternatively, the first sheet metal plate (2) comprising a first portion (2a) and a second portion (2b), tight folds (3) are formed only on the first portion (2a); said first sheet metal plate (2) or said first portion (2a) forming a sheet metal plate in the upper position; b) the tight folds (3) are opened on a portion across their height; c) the first sheet metal plate (2) obtained in step b) is placed on a second sheet metal plate (6), said second sheet metal plate (6) forming a sheet metal plate in the lower position, or, alternatively, the first portion (2a) obtained in step b) is folded on the second portion (2b), said second portion (2b) forming a sheet metal plate in the lower position, d) the tight portion of the folds (3) is brazed and the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventors: Denis Bajusz, Albert Cornet, Bruno Servais
  • Publication number: 20140133976
    Abstract: The present application relates to an axial turbomachine housing designed to channel a primary annular flow in the low-pressure compressor of the said turbomachine. The housing comprises a first shell and a second shell designed to be contiguous and coaxial. The first shell comprises a flange and a centering surface substantially cylindrical. The second shell comprises a flange and radial centering member designed to mate with the centering surface. The flange of the first shell includes cut-outs distributed along its circumference, and the centering member extends axially from the flange of the second shell through the said cut-outs to the centering surface where the two flanges are in contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventor: Christophe Remy
  • Patent number: 8708649
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbine engine rectifier stage comprising a plurality of fixed vanes connecting an inner ferrule support 19 to an outer ferrule support 14, said inner ferrule support and said outer ferrule support defining an aerodynamic vein and comprising a set of contiguously assembled sectors 20,15 respectively, the plurality of fixed vanes comprising so-called structural vanes 5 surrounding so-called non-structural or aero vanes 6 so as to form boxes 7, said structural vanes 5 being rigidly attached to the ends of the sectors of the inner ferrule support 20 by means of attachment elements 17 in order to impart increased stiffness to the boxes 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventors: Xavier Wery, Alain Derclaye, Enrique Penalver Castro
  • Publication number: 20140105748
    Abstract: The subject application relates to blade root wedging lock in a circumferential groove in a rotor such as the drum of an axial turbomachine compressor. The body (32) of the lock includes a solid portion (38) designed to be housed in the groove and having two opposite bearing surfaces (40) and at least one circumferential wedging surface (42). The body (32) further includes an upper portion (36) in the shape of an elongated generally vertical chamber designed to be flush with the upper surfaces of the platforms of adjacent blades when the lock is correctly positioned. This chamber (36) is truncated (44) so as to reduce its length in a direction perpendicular to the circumference, corresponding to the axis of rotation of the rotor. The lock can thus be accommodated in a narrow groove without decreasing the diameter of the clamping screw passing through the hole (34). The subject application also relates to a rotor and a turbomachine equipped with the lock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Techspace Aero S.A
    Inventor: Christophe Remy
  • Publication number: 20140079552
    Abstract: The invention relates to the design of rotor blades of an axial turbomachine compressor, especially the method of attaching the blades to the rotor. The blades comprise an aerofoil portion and a platform for attaching them to the rotor. The platform comprises, along the main axis of the blade, a first layer forming a surface bounding the fluid stream and skirting the aerodynamic surfaces and a second layer, underneath the first layer with respect to the aerodynamic surfaces, designed to be able to mate with the inner face of a wall of the rotor around an aperture in the rotor for the purpose of attaching it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventor: Eric Englebert
  • Patent number: 8676436
    Abstract: A monitoring method that includes calculating the autonomy of a lubrication system of an airplane engine and also providing for the diagnosis and prognosis of a plurality of problems and breakdowns of the engine and of its lubrication system by means of measurements taken by sensors arranged in the lubrication system. The method further comprises the step of calculating the status of the lubrication system at a given moment and calculating its evolution over time in order to determine the remaining lifetime before a breakdown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventors: Nicolas Raimarckers, Albert Cornet, Jacques Charlier, Marc Strengnart
  • Patent number: 8672636
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic method for manufacturing a stator or rotor blade preform for a turbine engine, comprising at least the following successive steps: a) a step for the helical braiding of a plurality of interlocked tubular braids (1), called nested braids, said step being conducted on braiding machines (2) placed in a row in a braiding direction; b) a step for flattening the nested braids (1); c) a step for stitching the nested braids (1) together in a direction perpendicular to the braiding direction; d) a step for winding the nested braids (1) on a transport mandrel (3); e) a step for cutting the nested braids (1) unwound from the transport mandrel (3), said cut being performed in a direction perpendicular to the braiding direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventor: Philippe Laurent
  • Patent number: 8636466
    Abstract: A ferrule of a stator with blades of an axial turbomachine consists of at least two segments having the general form of an arc of a circle and intended to be arranged end to end, so as to form the ferrule, where each segment contains on its outside a plurality of openings arranged at regular distances along the general arc of the circle of the segment, into each of which fits the end of a blade of the stator. Each end of a segment possesses a section of which the profile essentially corresponds with that of the end of the corresponding blade when the segment is placed on the blades of the stator, such that the joint between two adjacent segments corresponds with the profile of the corresponding blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-François Cortequisse
  • Patent number: 8601791
    Abstract: Setting in place of one or several coolers in the wall of a secondary flow of a bypass turbomachine. The wall extends from an intermediate casing toward a leading edge of a separator nose between a primary flow and the secondary flow. The wall includes a series of support arms attached to an intermediate casing, distributed over the perimeter of the wall and directed upstream. A series of surface air-oil heat exchangers forming wall segments are arranged end-to-end on the support arms, so as to form an annular wall. A shroud having a leading edge is arranged and fixed in the area of the upstream edges of the heat exchangers, so as to complete the wall. The support arms include hydraulic connectors connected to one another on each arm, adapted to cooperate with corresponding connectors in the area of the heat exchangers and in the area of the intermediate casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventors: Denis Bajusz, David Depaepe, Alain Derclaye, Régis Dupuy
  • Publication number: 20130236254
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting tool, more particularly to a monobloc carbide cutter comprising a rod shrunk within the body of the cutter and extending to the so-called front end of the cutter having cutting edges. The shrunken rod enables bending vibrations to be damped through friction. Each cutting edge is formed directly and continuously from the material of the rod and the material of the body. As those parts of the cutting edges formed in the material of the rod rotate at lower speeds than those parts formed in the material of the body, the material of the rod can have cutting speed performance lower than that of the material of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: TECHSPACE AERO S.A.
    Inventor: Eric Englebert
  • Patent number: 8491258
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a machine structural element from a molded composite material includes manufacturing of an abradable layer made integrally from the material of the element. The method consists in adding a filler material to the resin at the surface to be made abradable, the filler material being able to disintegrate, such as e.g. transitioning to vapor phase, during the heat treatment of polymerizing the resin in order to create porosity inside the layer. The porosity thus created provides the relevant surface with properties of abradability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventor: Laurent Schuster
  • Patent number: 8483902
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for calculating the oil consumption and autonomy associated with the lubrication system of an airplane engine during flights, preferably a turbine engine, on the basis of the measurement of the oil level in the tank of said lubrication system, allowing to manage the refills and maintenance and to detect either abnormal consumption or insufficient autonomy, characterized by at least one of the following methods: comparing different engines of the airplane and possibly a reference value, the engines used for said comparison being in more or less identical condition, in order to detect abnormal oil consumption; taking into account one or more interference effects that affect said oil level in the tank, these being linked at least to the thermal expansion in the tank, to the “gulping” and to the attitude and acceleration, in order to deduce the modification to the oil level due to a decrease in the total quantity of oil available as a result of said interference effect
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventors: Albert Cornet, Nicolas Raimarckers, Denis Bajusz
  • Publication number: 20130161546
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electromagnetic actuator. The actuator comprises a casing, a sleeve, coils, a permanent magnet, cores and a movable plunger. The present disclosure is unusual in that the sleeve is made of magnetic material. The sleeve enables a single component to mechanically and hydraulically isolate the plunger from the coils. The sleeve is also made of a material having a lower saturation induction than that of the materials used in other parts of the magnetic circuit. The actuator is also suitable for incorporation into a submerged cryogenic valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: TECHSPACE AERO S.A.
    Inventor: TECHSPACE AERO S.A.
  • Patent number: 8469662
    Abstract: Guide vane stage of a turbine engine comprising a series of fixed blades connecting an inner collar to an outer collar, characterized in that said fixed blades comprise attachment platforms with flat surfaces that co-operate with a plurality of juxtaposed flat facets, the flat facets being located on the inner face of the outer collar in order to ensure attachment with a contact of a flat/flat type between the fixed blades and the outer collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Techspace Aero S.A.
    Inventors: Rodolphe Lebrun, Alain Derclaye
  • Publication number: 20130129494
    Abstract: The invention relates to a casing, particularly of an axial turbomachine compressor. This casing comprises a support of cylindrical overall shape made of composite material, a metal ring fitted by bonding to the internal surface of the support, and a layer of abradable material fitted by plasma spray onto the internal surface of the metal ring. The metal ring is preferably made of stainless steel and is preferably perforated. The perforation allows better keying of the adhesive and allows the degassing thereof. The external surface of the metal ring is preferably sandblasted prior to bonding. Its internal surface is also preferably sandblasted prior to the plasma spraying of the abradable material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: TECHSPACE AERO S.A.
    Inventors: Georges Duchaine, Michel Philipet
  • Publication number: 20130108427
    Abstract: A segmented composite shell for an axial turbomachine compressor, each segment formed of a first polymeric material and comprises at least one working surface formed of a second polymeric material co-injected with the first polymeric material. The working surface can be a contact surface with a blade, wherein the working surface has a lipped profile and is made of an elastomeric material. The working surface can be the inner surface for bonding an abradable material, wherein the material can be silicone to facilitate the bonding of the abradable material to the silicone base. The working surface can be a lateral face of the shell that contacts a mating fixed surface, wherein the material can comprise Teflon so as to form a working surface with dry friction properties. Such features enable the shell to have additional technical features implemented directly during the injection moulding of the shell segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: TECHSPACE AERO S.A.
    Inventor: TECHSPACE AERO S.A.