Patents by Inventor Alain Fournier

Alain Fournier 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: 4801112
    Abstract: The aircraft propulsive unit having on the one hand, a fixed central structure in the axis of which is housed a gas generator whose nozzle delivers a hot jet and, on the other hand, an upstream fan or blower concentric with the gas generator and rotating inside an annular channel defined by the fixed structure and by a peripheral cowling or fairing with double wall carried by the fixed structure, the blower providing the forced circulation of a cold flow in the channel for improving the performance of the power unit, the fairing being formed of two parts, the upstream one of which is fixed and surrounds the blower, whereas the downstream one is mobile and slides parallel to the axis x--x' of the generator, the propulsive power unit further having a system for reversing the thrust of the cold flow which is formed of pivoting doors having respectively external and internal walls which, in the retracted position of the doors, are aligned respectively with the external and internal walls of the fairing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1989
    Assignee: Societe de Construction des Avions Hurel-Dubois
    Inventors: Alain Fournier, John F. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 4671460
    Abstract: The invention provides a thrust inverser for a jet engine comprising doors 5-6 pivotably mounted at 14 on two beams diametrically opposite with respect to the gas discharge channel 2. The mechanism for operating the doors is entirely contained in the closed caisson formed by one of the beams 3, this mechanism comprising an actuating cylinder 15 driving a transmission piece 21 suspended from the beam 3, the transmission piece being coupled to two links 28 pivotably secured to the doors 5 and 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1987
    Assignee: Societe de Construction des Avions Hurel-Dubois
    Inventors: John F. Kennedy, Alain Fournier
  • Patent number: 4410152
    Abstract: The engine is of the type having a central body surrounded by a casing defining therebetween a duct for the passage of the flux. The casing comprises a fixed upstream section extended downstream by means in which are housed jacks; a downstream section movable axially to which are fixed the rods of the jacks; and an intermediate section formed of swinging doors mounted between the beams and hinged thereto by lateral pivots, each door being coupled to the mobile downstream section by means of a hinged link so that the movement of the downstream section causes the doors to swing. This type of reverser is designed more especially for turbo-fan engines having a lateral nacelle configuration in which the whole of the flux flows in the annular duct between the central body and the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1983
    Assignee: Society De Construction Des Avions
    Inventors: John F. Kennedy, Alain Fournier