Patents by Inventor Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre

Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9017028
    Abstract: A turbine engine including two contrarotating unducted propellers of an upstream propeller and a downstream propeller, with a power turbine mounted axially between the two propellers, the turbine including an outer rotor constrained to rotate with the upstream propeller and an inner rotor driving rotation of an inlet shaft of a step-down gearbox, the gearbox includes an outlet shaft driving rotation of the rotor of the upstream propeller and an outlet shaft driving rotation of the downstream propeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Snecma
    Inventor: Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre
  • Publication number: 20150011354
    Abstract: A transmission to drive two propellers (2, 3) through a single shaft (5) comprises several, generally three planetary gear systems (26, 27 and 28), each of which comprises one principal element (30 and 31 , 36 and 37, 44) directly supported on fixed surrounding structures (32, 38, 45) that resist cantilever forces, support the rotating bodies and carry fluid and electrical cable ducts to control the operation of the downstream propeller (3) elsewhere than through the central shaft of the machine in which the volume is reduced. Application particularly to aircraft driven by two counter-rotating propellers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventor: Adrien Jacques Philippe FABRE
  • Publication number: 20140341739
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of aerial propellers, in particular the field of variable-pitch propellers, specifically for unducted fans. More specifically, the invention relates to a pivot (15) for a blade (14) of a propeller (3a, 3b), the pivot including at least a proximal portion (15a) made of metal and suitable for being retained in a radial orifice of a propeller hub, while being capable of turning in said orifice about a longitudinal axis (Z) of the pivot (15), and a distal portion (15b) including a receptacle (20) suitable for retaining a blade root, and at least one arm (17) of organic matrix composite material extending laterally relative to said longitudinal axis (Z) and supporting a flyweight (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Sebastien TAJAN, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Christophe Jacquemard, Adrien Laurenceau, Romain Boudier
  • Patent number: 8801385
    Abstract: A vibration-damping device for a turbomachine blade including a blade root configured to be inserted into a pocket of a carrier disk of a bladed wheel, the device configured to be positioned between the blade root and a retaining wall of the pocket. The device includes at least one shim including an assembly of layers of rigid materials and of viscoelastic materials, and including two portions, each forming a lateral branch which can be inserted along one of the two retaining walls, the two lateral branches being connected to one another, so as to constitute a single part, by a third portion forming a shim bottom of rigid material. At least one layer of viscoelastic material is positioned between two layers of rigid materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventor: Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre
  • Patent number: 8801384
    Abstract: An airfoil attachment including a support and flanks rising on it to delimit a broach compartment designed to receive and hold an airfoil root is provided. The flanks are machined so as to separate the portions and prevent a complete break of a flank and detachment of the airfoil when a crack develops because the crack is stopped by one of the notches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Jean-Noel Mahieu, David Marsal
  • Patent number: 8651821
    Abstract: This blade attachment device comprises a shell (28) installed around an outer collar (23) of the pivot (15) of the blade (27) and capable of rotating by an angle sufficient for cleats (30, 31) to close the ends of the pivot groove and retain the root of the blade (27) in it, and mobile shims that cooperate to retain the root in the groove. Application to aircraft engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Daniel Bernard Dao, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Alain Paul Madec
  • Publication number: 20130094943
    Abstract: An unducted fan of variable-pitch blades including roots engaged from outside in respective radial housings of an annular rotor element and guided to turn about their respective axes by pairs of rolling bearings, one of which is carried by an annular segment of a cylindrical skirt mounted in a groove of the annular body and by a locknut screwed onto the cylindrical skit. The bearing is covered externally by a ring including outer dog-clutch teeth co-operating with inner dog-clutch teeth of the housing to hold the ring axially in the housing. A blocking mechanism is engaged between the teeth of the housing and the teeth of the ring preventing the ring from turning and preventing the ring from being withdrawn axially from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Michel Andre Bouru, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Laurent Jablonski, Jean-Noel Mahieu
  • Patent number: 8382442
    Abstract: Controllable pitch blade non-ducted propeller for a jet engine, comprising a rotor member comprising radial housing for mounting blade support plates, each plate being attached in a ring centered and guided in rotation in a housing of the rotor member and comprising external toothing engaged and locked in internal toothing of the ring, to withstand the centrifugal forces to which the propeller blades are subjected in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Michel Andre Bouru, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gerard Edmond Joly
  • Patent number: 8147200
    Abstract: A wheel of a turbine engine such as an airplane turbojet is disclosed. The wheel includes a disk having blades and at least one ring of a metal matrix composite material mounted on the disk in order to take up centrifugal forces during operation. The wheel further includes at least one annular flange formed by sections arranged end-to-end and each including a radially internal annular portion applied on a flank of the disk and a radially external portion coming into contact with the ring in order to ensure the axial holding of the latter on the disk, and a device for radially holding flange sections on the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventor: Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre
  • Publication number: 20110217172
    Abstract: Airfoil attachment comprising a support (3) and flanks (13, 14) rising on it to delimit a broach compartment (15) designed to receive and hold an airfoil root. The flanks (13, 14) are machined (21, 22) so as to separate the portions (23, 24 and 25) and prevent a complete break of a flank and detachment of the airfoil when a crack develops because the crack is stopped by one of the notches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Adrien Jacques Philippe FABRE, Jean-Noël MAHIEU, David MARSAL
  • Publication number: 20110206530
    Abstract: A vibration-damping device for a turbomachine blade including a blade root configured to be inserted into a pocket of a carrier disk of a bladed wheel, the device configured to be positioned between the blade root and a retaining wall of the pocket. The device includes at least one shim including an assembly of layers of rigid materials and of viscoelastic materials, and including two portions, each forming a lateral branch which can be inserted along one of the two retaining walls, the two lateral branches being connected to one another, so as to constitute a single part, by a third portion forming a shim bottom of rigid material. At least one layer of viscoelastic material is positioned between two layers of rigid materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventor: Adrien Jacques ,Philippe Fabre
  • Publication number: 20110110781
    Abstract: This blade attachment device comprises a shell (28) installed around an outer collar (23) of the pivot (15) of the blade (27) and capable of rotating by an angle sufficient for cleats (30, 31) to close the ends of the pivot groove and retain the root of the blade (27) in it, and mobile shims that cooperate to retain the root in the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Daniel Bernard Dao, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Alain Paul Madec
  • Publication number: 20100239421
    Abstract: Controllable pitch blade non-ducted propeller for a jet engine, comprising a rotor member comprising radial housing for mounting blade support plates, each plate being attached in a ring centered and guided in rotation in a housing of the rotor member and comprising external toothing engaged and locked in internal toothing of the ring, to withstand the centrifugal forces to which the propeller blades are subjected in operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Eric Jacques BOSTON, Michel Andre Bouru, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gérard Edmond Joly
  • Publication number: 20090104036
    Abstract: Wheel (10) of a turbine engine such as an airplane turbojet, including a disk (12) having blades (14) and at least one ring of a metal matrix composite material (20, 22) mounted on the disk (12) in order to take up centrifugal forces during operation, the wheel further including at least one annular flange (28, 30) formed by sections arranged end-to-end and each including a radially internal annular portion applied on a flank (36, 38) of the disk (12) and a radially external portion coming into contact with the ring (20, 22) in order to ensure the axial holding of the latter on the disk (12), and means (32, 34, 40, 42) for radially holding flange sections on the disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventor: Adrien Jacques Philippe FABRE