Patents by Inventor Alain E. Vuillet

Alain E. Vuillet 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: 4927331
    Abstract: This invention relates to a blade for shrouded propeller, wherein: in plan, its aerodynamically active part presents a rectangular shape; and the maximum relative camber of the successive profiles constituting the aerodynamically active part of the blade increases from a value close to 0 to a value close to 0.04; the twist of the aerodynamically active part of the blade decreases from a first value close to 12.degree. to a second value close to 4.degree., then increases to a third value close to 4.5.degree.; and the maximum relative thickness of said successive profiles decreases from a value close to 13.5% to a value close to 9.5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Assignee: Aerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle
    Inventor: Alain E. Vuillet
  • Patent number: 4911612
    Abstract: This invention relates to a section for shrouded propeller blade, of which the relative thickness is included between 9% and 15%, wherein, the curvature of said section having a maximum value at the leading edge thereof, the upper surface line comprises three successive portions, such thatin the first portion, the curvature decreases rapidly from said maximum value at the leading edge to a value close to 20 at a first point of which the reduced abscissa is close to 1%;in the second portion, the curvature decreases more slowly from said value close to 20 at said first point up to a value close to 1 at a second point, of which the reduced abscissa is close to 25%; andin the third portion, the curvature is less than 1 between said second point and said trailing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignees: Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales, Aerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle
    Inventors: Anne-Marie Rodde, Joel Reneaux, Jean-Jacques Thibert, Alain E. Vuillet
  • Patent number: 4880355
    Abstract: The invention provides a rotary aircraft airfoil comprising an attachment for fixing to a hub, a current part having a leading edge and a trailing edge and whose profile has a chord of constant or evolutive length, and a tip which extends said current part outwardly and whose leading edge extends the leading edge of said current part rearwardly in a sweep, said tip being in addition downwardly slanted. This blade is remarkable in that the downward slant of said blade tip extends over the whole of the span of this tip and is continuous from the connection with the current blade part as far as the end edge of said tip so that said tip follows a curvature such that its extrados is convex and its intrados is concave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1989
    Assignees: Aerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle, Office National D'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales
    Inventors: Alain E. Vuillet, Jean J. Philippe, Andre Desopper