Patents Assigned to Turbomeca
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Publication number: 20160069209Abstract: A turbomachine air intake casing including an inner annular wall and an outer annular wall defining an air passage and at least two cleaning agent injection nozzles, wherein a first nozzle is directed towards the outer wall while a second nozzle is directed towards the inner wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: TURBOMECAInventors: Julien GIRARDOT, Pierre CHABANNE, Sylvain Jacque, Marie GOURDANT, Lionel SCUILLER
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Publication number: 20160053774Abstract: The invention relates to a vane (10) of a diffuser (5) for a radial or mixed-flow compressor (2) of an engine (1), including a leading edge (11) arranged facing a flow of gas, a trailing edge (12) being opposite the leading edge (11), a side upper surface wall (13) and a side lower surface wall (14) which connect the leading edge (11) to the trailing edge (12), and a profile including a curved line (15) having at least two points of inflection (I1, I2) between the leading edge (11) and the trailing edge (12). The invention also relates to a corresponding radial diffuser (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: TurbomecaInventors: Laurent Tarnowski, Nicolas Pascal Bulot
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Publication number: 20160024926Abstract: A turbine engine turbine ring, in particular for a helicopter, in which vibratory behavior is reduced. The turbine ring includes an essentially cylindrical support, and one or more sectors forming a circle configured to define a segment of an air passage, each sector being fastened to the support by an attachment device, wherein the attachment device includes a hook portion belonging to the support and projecting towards the sector, and a hook portion belonging to the sector and projecting towards the support, the hook portions of the support and of the sector being configured to co-operate in order to fasten the sector to the support, the ring further includes a damper device provided within the attachment device and stressed radially between a portion of the sector and a portion of the support so as to damp relative movements between the sector and the support.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: TURBOMECAInventors: Carole JAUREGUIBERRY, Manuel SILVA
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Publication number: 20160017817Abstract: A metering device for an engine fuel feed circuit, the device including a metering valve, and a pressure regulator device maintaining a constant pressure difference from downstream to upstream across the metering valve, wherein the metering valve includes a seat provided with an inlet orifice and an outlet orifice, a shutter arranged within the seat, and an actuator controlling the position of the shutter, and wherein, between the inlet orifice and the outlet orifice the shutter defines a passage of minimum section that is variable as a function of the position of the shutter along a stroke extending between a bottom abutment and a top abutment and passing via a threshold position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicant: TURBOMECAInventors: Stephen LANGFORD, Philippe Jean, Rene, Marie BENEZECH, Pierre SICAIRE, Rafael SAMSON
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Patent number: 9238975Abstract: A lubrication device including a bypass valve with an inlet connected to a feed circuit, a first outlet to be connected to elements to be lubricated, and a second outlet connected to a bypass circuit. The valve includes a valve member slidable between first and second positions, and separating a cavity into first and second chambers. The first chamber is connected to the inlet. In the first position, a fluid flow passage from the first chamber to the second chamber is open, and from the first chamber to the first outlet is closed. In the second position, a fluid flow passage from the first chamber to the first outlet is open, and from the first chamber to the second outlet is closed. At least in the second position, the valve member separates the chambers in substantially leaktight manner, while the second chamber remains in fluid flow communication with the second outlet.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: TURBOMECAInventors: Sebastien Detry, Yannick Cazaux, Olivier Pierre Descubes
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Patent number: 9239010Abstract: A fuel flowmeter for being fed by a pump including an inlet and an outlet, including: a metering valve including an inlet and an outlet, and arranged downstream from the outlet of the pump; a return circuit connecting the inlet of the metering valve to the inlet of the pump; and a pressure regulator device including: a movable valve member to close and open the return circuit, a pressure difference detection surface fastened to the valve member and axially separating a first chamber in communication with the inlet of the metering valve from a second chamber in communication with the outlet from the metering valve, a piston axially separating the second chamber from a third chamber connected to the outlet of the metering valve, and a channel putting the second chamber in communication with the third chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: TURBOMECAInventors: Philippe Jean Rene Marie Benezech, Bruno Facca, Ludovic Alexandre Leglise, Cedric Roger Zordan
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Publication number: 20150375312Abstract: The invention relates to the broaching of at least one slot (3) in a part such as a turbine rotor disk (4) or a turbomachine compressor disk, said slot (3) being machined by means of a broach (1) inclined at a broaching angle (a). Said broach (1) has an inter-tooth pitch (P) that is a sub-multiple of the length to be broached (L).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: TURBOMECAInventors: Sebastien Mandrile, Gilles Cazenave-Larroche, Cyril Vernault, Gilles Dessein, Jean Denape, Jean-Yves Paris
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Publication number: 20150377059Abstract: A method for monitoring a degree of clogging of the starting injectors of a turbine engine, which includes: a combustion chamber into which at least one starting injector supplied with fuel leads, the starting injectors being suitable for initiating the combustion in the chamber by igniting the fuel; and a turbine rotated by the gases resulting from the combustion of the fuel in the chamber, the method including the steps involving: the measurement, during a phase of starting the turbine engine, of the temperature of the exhaust gases at the outlet of the turbine; and the determination, from the changes over time in the temperature thus measured, of a degree of clogging of the starting injectors. A system for monitoring a degree of clogging capable of implementing the method, and a turbine engine including such a system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicant: TURBOMECAInventors: Nadir Christian DEBBOUZ, Philippe Patrick, Marc DE BARBEYRAC, Florian Arnaud, Jonathan ENGUEHARD, Francois Xavier, Marie FAUPIN, Fabien LAMAZERE
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Patent number: 9206859Abstract: A mechanical protection device including: a transmission shaft having a main axis of rotation and an element that is frangible under a torsional overload; a movable member secured to the transmission shaft to rotate about the main axis and configured to move radially outwards relative to the main axis from a first position to a second position; a spring urging the movable member towards the first position; and a tangential abutment configured to stop rotation of the movable member about the main axis when the movable member is in the second position. The movable member and the spring are calibrated so that from a predetermined trigger angular speed the movable member moves from the first position to the second position under effect of centrifugal force greater than prestress of the spring.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2012Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: TURBOMECAInventors: Olivier Pierre Descubes, Olivier Bedrine, Isabelle Germaine Claude Ladeveze, Jean-Michel Pierre Claude Py
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Patent number: 9194253Abstract: An assembly including a part for mounting at least one shaft bearing of a turbine engine and a support part that forms an abutment for the mounting part. The mounting part includes at least one channel through which engine gases pass, and connection parts that are capable of connecting the channel to an outer structure of the engine and to a housing holding the bearing. At least one of the connection parts is flexible so as to enable radial movement of the channel, an amplitude of the radial movement being limited by at least one of the elements of the mounting part coming onto an abutment supported by the support part. The support part extends longitudinally with regard to the direction of the rotational axis of the turbine engine so as to generate a turbine shroud that is configured to be positioned in alignment with a turbine wheel of the turbine engine.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: TURBOMECAInventors: Marc Maurice Dijoud, Jean-Luc Pierre Sahores, Jean-Maurice Casaux-Bic
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Publication number: 20150330402Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine engine comprising an air compression stage comprising at least one movable compressor wheel, an air inlet duct coupled to said air compression stage, a first sealing device, which is arranged between a front portion of the movable compressor wheel and the air inlet duct and comprising at least one seal, a channel for conveying the air compressed by the movable wheel and a second sealing device, which is arranged between a rear portion of the movable compressor wheel and the conveying channel and is configured to receive an airflow coming from the conveying channel, the turbine engine being remarkable in that the second sealing device is configured to allow some of the air passing therethrough to be bled and in that the bleed air is conveyed to the seal of the first sealing device so as to keep it under pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2013Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: TurbomecaInventors: Christophe Michel Georges Marcel Brillet, Pierre Chabanne, Julien Girardot, Lionel Scuiller
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Patent number: 9188338Abstract: A low-cost combustion chamber injector device that has sturdier construction and is safer for use. Parts are configured specifically to be nested, to dispense with welding between the cellular parts. The device for injecting a fuel-air mix includes, centered on a single axis, a swirl chamber including at least two annular air suction parts, a centering guide, and a retainer ring. The annular parts have cellular conduits connecting to axial inner and outer Venturi tubes. The parts are coaxially mounted, the inner part being configured to be self-centered in the outer part by engagement of the axial and radial walls and then, after assembly, the outer part is welded to the retainer ring and to the inner part in a single radial plane.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: TURBOMECAInventors: Patrick Berteau, Bernard Joseph Jean Pierre Carrere, Lorenzo Huacan Hernandez, Ludovic Andre Joel Naudot
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Publication number: 20150315965Abstract: A device and a method of temporarily increasing power of at least a first turbine engine is disclosed. The device includes a coolant liquid tank and a first injection circuit connected to the tank and leading to at least one injection nozzle suitable for being installed upstream from at least one compressor stage of the first turbine engine. This first injection circuit includes at least a first flow valve configured to open when a pressure exceeds a predetermined threshold compared with a downstream pressure from at least one compressor stage of a second turbine engine so as to enable the coolant liquid to flow towards the injection nozzle of the first injection circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2013Publication date: November 5, 2015Applicant: TURBOMECAInventors: Bertrand MOINE, Sophie HUMBERT, Patrice LABORDE, Laurent MINEL, Remy PRINCIVALLE
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Patent number: 9162304Abstract: A method for brazing parts having complex profiles, while enabling reproducible implementation conditions to be defined. The method adjusts a heat cycle during brazing by controlling and mapping heat, while taking emissivity coefficient of the material to be brazed into account. Further, a brazing station includes a power generator configured to supply a predetermined voltage to a transformer connected to a circuit forming a shape inductor, the circuit having an overall shape of the parts to be brazed. A pressure mechanism exerts a load on the parts to be brazed. A camera establishes a heat map. A laser-sighted infrared pyrometer measures the brazing temperature by radiation after parameterizing an emissivity coefficient, other parameters being fixed. A controller supplies a set power to the generator on the basis of the measured temperature.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: TURBOMECAInventor: Amanda Martin
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Patent number: 9163526Abstract: A turbomachine includes a compressor, a first shaft, a second shaft, a first turbine, and a second turbine. The first shaft carries at least one turbine wheel belonging to one of the elements selected from the first and second turbines. The second shaft carries at least one turbine wheel belonging to the other element selected from the first and second turbines. The first and second shafts are oriented substantially vertically in normal utilization situations of the turbomachine. The first shaft is held by a first single bearing while the second shaft is held by a second single bearing.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: TURBOMECAInventor: Frederic Batlle
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Patent number: 9163520Abstract: A turbine wheel having an axis of rotation and including: a disk having a periphery and a side face; a plurality of blades assembled on the disk, each blade having a blade root and a first hook oriented radially and defining a first groove that opens radially towards the axis of rotation of the turbine wheel. The disk includes a series of second hooks oriented radially and defining a second groove that opens radially towards the axis of rotation of the turbine wheel. An axial retaining ring for placing in the first and second grooves includes a tab for placing between two adjacent blade roots to limit movements of the ring in azimuth.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2010Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: TURBOMECAInventors: Damien Chauveau, Jean-Luc Sahores
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Publication number: 20150275681Abstract: Compression assembly for a turbine engine, in particular a turboshaft engine, said assembly comprising an air inlet duct capable of receiving an air flow, at least one air compression stage comprising at least one movable compressor wheel onto which the duct discharges, and a pre-rotation grille which is positioned in the air inlet duct upstream of the movable compressor wheel in order to adjust the speed of the air in said flow at the inlet of the movable wheel and comprises a plurality of variable-setting vanes, the assembly being characterized in that the pitch between two consecutive vanes of the grille is greater than the chord of one of the two vanes at a given height of the air duct, preferably in its upper part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2013Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: TURBOMECAInventors: Jean-François Escuret, Pierre Biscay, Guillaume Sevestre
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Publication number: 20150267544Abstract: A rotor-stator assembly for a gas turbine engine, the assembly including a rotor having a layer of ceramic material forming an abrasive coating deposited on its tip, the layer being constituted mainly by zirconia and possessing a void ratio less than or equal to 15%, and a stator arranged around the rotor and provided facing the tip of the rotor with a layer of ceramic material forming an abradable coating, the layer being constituted mainly by zirconia possessing a void ratio lying in the range 20% to 50% with pores having size less than or equal to 50 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2013Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: TURBOMECAInventors: Julien Gurt Santanach, Fabrice Crabos
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Publication number: 20150260106Abstract: A device for a turbomachine chamber injector, including a conduit having at least a first opening, and a second opening (4), a blocking system for blocking the conduit, making it possible to regulate the passage of fluids into the conduit, the blocking system being configured to allow fuel to flow from the first opening to the second opening only from a first pressure of the fuel, for the passage of a supply of fuel, and allow air to flow from the second opening to the first opening only from a second pressure of the air, for the passage of purge air, the second pressure being greater than the first pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2013Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: TURBOMECAInventor: Bernard Joseph Jean Pierre Carrere
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Publication number: 20150260406Abstract: A start-up injector for a turbine engine combustion chamber, said injector including a fuel injection circuit; and a fuel ignition circuit including a fuel injector supplied by the fuel injection circuit and a spark plug for igniting the injected fuel. The start-up injector also includes a partitioned enclosure including a first compartment in which the fuel is ignited by the spark plug and a second compartment separated from the first compartment by a thermally conductive partition; and a main combustion start-up circuit which includes at least one fuel injector supplied by the fuel injection circuit and opens into the second compartment of the enclosure such as to inject the fuel against the wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: TURBOMECAInventor: Bernard Carrere