Patents by Inventor Alain Dominique Gendraud
Alain Dominique Gendraud 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).
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Patent number: 8961117Abstract: A turbine stage of a turbine engine, the stage including a rotor wheel mounted inside a sectorized ring carried by an outer casing, the outer casing including at least a circumferential rim housed in an annular cavity to attach a downstream end of the ring sector. A bottom wall of the annular cavity of the ring sector remains radially spaced apart from the circumferential rim of the outer casing to provide a thermally insulating space between them and includes a radial positioning mechanism acting on the circumferential rim.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: SnecmaInventors: Fabrice Marcel Noel Garin, Alain Dominique Gendraud, Gilles Jeannin, Sebastien Jean Laurent Prestel
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Publication number: 20140308133Abstract: A rotor wheel for a turbine engine, such as an airplane turboprop or turbojet, the rotor wheel including a rotor disk including teeth at its outer periphery defining slots for axially mounting and radially retaining blade roots. An annular lip includes an annular rim extending axially downstream from and radially towards an inside of a radial retaining mechanism formed to project axially from an upstream face of the disk, and a sealing mechanism is arranged radially inside the annular lip and upstream ends of platforms of the blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2012Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Alain Dominique Gendraud, Fabrice Marcel Noel Garin, Romain Nicolas Lunel
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Patent number: 8858169Abstract: An assembling of a guide vane assembly of a turbomachine turbine, formed by an annular row of stationary flow-stabilizing vanes. An outer edge of the guide vane assembly is axially bearing on a line of an external casing of the turbine and an inner edge of the guide vane assembly is in axial sliding connection with the line of the internal casing of the turbine, the axial sliding connection allowing the inner edge to be free along the motor axis with the axial stop being achieved by the axial bearing of the outer edge of the vane.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Mathieu Dakowski, Alain Dominique Gendraud
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Publication number: 20140294597Abstract: A turbomachine assembly in which a foil is configured to cover mainly one of bulbs of a disc and to be held, radially with respect to the disc, by the bulb of the disc and a pocket for a blade that can collaborate therewith, when these two are effectively collaborating, and the bulb of the disc includes at least one longitudinal cavity configured to form, with the foil, when the foil is covering the bulb of the disc, a secondary passage through which a secondary cooling air flow can pass.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Emmanuel Da Costa, Alain Dominique Gendraud, Renaud Martet, Josselin Sicard, Bruno Andre, Jean Varin
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Patent number: 8734100Abstract: A turbine stage for a turbomachine, the stage comprising a rotor wheel mounted inside a sectorized ring carried by an outer casing, and a sectorized nozzle fastened to the casing downstream from the wheel, each ring sector having a downstream end that is held bearing radially outwards against a cylindrical rail of the casing by means of the nozzle, the casing rail including an annular row of through radial notches reducing the areas for heat exchange by conduction both between the casing and the ring sectors and between the casing and the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Fabrice Marcel Noel Garin, Alain Dominique Gendraud, Thierry Lequitte, Sebastien Jean Laurent Prestel
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Patent number: 8721277Abstract: A unit locking a ring sector attachment device onto an aircraft turbomachine casing, the unit including two clamping arms connected to each other at their aft ends by a connecting arm extending approximately parallel to the general direction between the two clamping arms. The unit also includes a passage enabling gripping of the unit on each side of a fictitious median plane orthogonal to the circumferential direction, each passage being formed in the connecting arm, extending along a direction line approximately parallel to the direction between the arms.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2009Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: SNECMAInventor: Alain Dominique Gendraud
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Publication number: 20140105732Abstract: A turbine for a gas turbine engine comprising at least one turbine stator and one turbine rotor, said turbine stator comprising at least one inner annular platform, said inner platform comprising a radial wall delimiting at least one cavity between the turbine stator and the turbine rotor, wherein the turbine rotor comprises at least one elongate element positioned substantially axially and defining a sealing baffle in said cavity, and in that the turbine stator comprises at least one element made of abradable material designed to engage with said elongate element of the turbine rotor so as to form a labyrinth seal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Florent Pierre Antoine LUNEAU, Alain Dominique Gendraud, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard, Sebastien Jean Laurent Prestel
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Patent number: 8662828Abstract: A high pressure turbine of a turbomachine such as a turbojet, in which a control box of radial clearances of rotating blades are provided. An annular element including a determined flexibility has one end fixed to an annular support and the other end supported by a simple axial bearing with a given pressure on the upstream side of the control box. Thus, disturbing vibration loads are prevented at the attachment points of the control box with the external casing of turbines, thereby also eliminating the risk of cracks occurring.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2009Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Alain Dominique Gendraud, Delphine Roussin-Leroux, Jean-Luc Le Strat, Pascal Tatiossian
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Publication number: 20130078101Abstract: An interface element to be mounted between a blade root and a blade root housing provided in a turbine disc of a gas turbine engine to limit wear between the root and the housing. The interface element includes: a base, configured to be aligned with a lower part of the root; and first and second upper side walls connected to the base and configured to surround the blade root up to an upper portion thereof, the first upper side wall including at least one ventilation opening to allow a flow of cooling air flowing through the rotor disc housing to flow over the upper portion of the root via the ventilation opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2011Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Fabrice Marcel Noel Garin, Alain Dominique Gendraud, Thierry Lequitte, Romain Nicolas Lunel
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Patent number: 8403636Abstract: A turbine stage in a turbomachine including ring sectors arranged about a turbine impeller, and an annular support supporting the ring sectors and attached to a turbine casing is disclosed. The annular support is able to be deformed elastically in the radial direction to cushion at least a portion of the deformations of the turbine casing in operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Mathieu Dakowski, Claire Dorin, Alain Dominique Gendraud, Vincent Philippot
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Publication number: 20120288362Abstract: A turbine stage of a turbine engine, the stage including a rotor wheel mounted inside a sectorized ring carried by an outer casing, the outer casing including at least a circumferential rim housed in an annular cavity to attach a downstream end of the ring sector. A bottom wall of the annular cavity of the ring sector remains radially spaced apart from the circumferential rim of the outer casing to provide a thermally insulating space between them and includes a radial positioning mechanism acting on the circumferential rim.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2010Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Fabrice Marcel Noel Garin, Alain Dominique Gendraud, Gilles Jeannin, Sebastien Jean Laurent Prestel
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Publication number: 20120134788Abstract: The invention relates to a low pressure turbine (1) of a turbomachine comprising a nozzle (62) belonging to an upstream stage (20B) and a nozzle (162) belonging to a downstream stage (20C), the nozzle (62) forming segments (62a) having an external structure (66) comprising: a tab (76) bearing radially on a hook (79) fixed to the case, a tab (85) bearing radially on a reaming (87) in the case, the tabs (76, 85) delimiting an annular upstream cooling air circulation cavity (91), a contact surface (84) extending in the downstream direction from the tab (85) and lined with an abradable element (86) on the inside, the contact surface comprising a downstream end (92) bearing axially on the nozzle (162) and bearing radially on a stop (93) of the case, the contact surfaces (84) delimiting an annular downstream cooling air circulation cavity (94) communicating with cavity (91).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2011Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Jean-Claude Christian TAILLANT, Alain Dominique Gendraud
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Patent number: 8133018Abstract: A high-pressure turbine of a turbomachine, including at least one upstream guide vane element and an impeller mounted so as to rotate inside ring sectors attached to an annular support which is suspended from an outer casing, the upstream guide vane element including, at its radially inner end, a mechanism for attachment to an inner casing and, at its radially outer end, a mechanism for pressing axially on a fixed element of the turbine that is suspended from the outer casing independently of the annular support for attachment of the ring sectors.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Mathieu Dakowski, Claire Dorin, Alain Dominique Gendraud, Vincent Philippot
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Publication number: 20120027572Abstract: A turbine ring assembly includes a ring support structure and a plurality of ring sectors, each including a single piece of ceramic matrix composite material. Each ring sector includes a first portion forming an annular base with an inside face defining an inside face of the turbine ring and an outside face from which there extends two tab-forming portions including ends that are engaged in housings in the ring support structure. The ring sectors present a section that is substantially ?-shaped and the ends of the tabs are held without radial clearance by the ring support structure. The tabs can have a free length in meridian section that is not less than three times their mean width.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicants: SNECMA PROPULSION SOLIDE, LE HAILLAN, SNECMAInventors: Franck Roger Denis Denece, Alain Dominique Gendraud, Georges Habarou, Hubert Illand, Damien Bonneau
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Patent number: 8100635Abstract: A turbine stage in a turbine engine, including a wheel with blades rotating inside a sealing ring held by a casing of the turbine, and an annular thermal protection sheet mounted between the casing and the sealing ring is disclosed. The annular thermal protection sheet is formed by a plurality of curved plates mounted end-to-end and attached by pins to the casing.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2008Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Mathieu Dakowski, Claire Dorin, Alain Dominique Gendraud, Nicolas Pommier
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Publication number: 20110318170Abstract: A turbine stage for a turbomachine, the stage comprising a rotor wheel mounted inside a sectorized ring carried by an outer casing, and a sectorized nozzle fastened to the casing downstream from the wheel, each ring sector having a downstream end that is held bearing radially outwards against a cylindrical rail of the casing by means of the nozzle, the casing rail including an annular row of through radial notches reducing the areas for heat exchange by conduction both between the casing and the ring sectors and between the casing and the nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Fabrice Marcel Noël GARIN, Alain Dominique GENDRAUD, Thierry LEQUITTE, Sebastien Jean Laurent PRESTEL
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Publication number: 20110229314Abstract: An assembling of a guide vane assembly of a turbomachine turbine, formed by an annular row of stationary flow-stabilizing vanes. An outer edge of the guide vane assembly is axially bearing on a line of an external casing of the turbine and an inner edge of the guide vane assembly is in axial sliding connection with the line of the internal casing of the turbine, the axial sliding connection allowing the inner edge to be free along the motor axis with the axial stop being achieved by the axial bearing of the outer edge of the vane.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2009Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Mathieu Dakowski, Alain Dominique Gendraud
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Publication number: 20110121150Abstract: A unit locking a ring sector attachment device onto an aircraft turbomachine casing, the unit including two clamping arms connected to each other at their aft ends by a connecting arm extending approximately parallel to the general direction between the two clamping arms. The unit also includes a passage enabling gripping of the unit on each side of a fictitious median plane orthogonal to the circumferential direction, each passage being formed in the connecting arm, extending along a direction line approximately parallel to the direction between the arms.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: SNECMAInventor: Alain Dominique Gendraud
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Publication number: 20110076135Abstract: A high pressure turbine of a turbomachine such as a turbojet, in which a control box of radial clearances of rotating blades are provided. An annular element including a determined flexibility has one end fixed to an annular support and the other end supported by a simple axial bearing with a given pressure on the upstream side of the control box. Thus, disturbing vibration loads are prevented at the attachment points of the control box with the external casing of turbines, thereby also eliminating the risk of cracks occurring.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Alain Dominique Gendraud, Delphine Leroux, Jean-Luc Le Strat, Pascal Tatiossian
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Publication number: 20110056055Abstract: A locking member for a device used to fasten ring sectors on a casing of an aircraft turbine engine, wherein the member includes two clamping arms connected together at the rear end thereof by a connection arm extending substantially parallel to the general spacing direction between the two clamping arms. The member includes, on either side of a virtual median plane orthogonal to the circumferential direction, a passage for gripping the member, each passage being formed through the connection arm, emerging in an inter-arm space.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2009Publication date: March 10, 2011Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Alain Dominique Gendraud, Erwan Daniel Botrel