Patents by Inventor Alain Jean Charles Chatel

Alain Jean Charles Chatel 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: 7419360
    Abstract: A rotor disk for a turbomachine, the disk carrying blades whose roots are retained in a peripheral groove of the disk, the groove including a window for inserting blade roots and a locking member that is a single elastically deformable piece and dimensioned to be received and retained in a notch of the groove while in its free state, and to be capable of being displaced to slide inside the groove while in a stressed and elastically deformed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Alain Jean Charles Chatel, Laurent Gilles Dezouche, Philippe Joly
  • Patent number: 6752598
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for immobilizing blades in the peripheral slot of a turbomachine disk. Said blades comprise roots of the hammer head type adapted to be introduced into said slot through a loading window and held in said slot by collaboration of shape with the sidewalls thereof. Said immobilizing device is adapted to be introduced into said slot through said loading window and comprises a locking element arranged in a space separating two adjacent blade roots. Said locking element is adapted to be raised up into a lock housing formed in the sidewalls of said slot under the action of a radial manipulating screw the head of which rests against the bottom of the slot, a radial clearance being provided between the bottom of the slot and the underside of the blade roots, and said screw head being restrained in a radially outward direction by said two adjacent blade roots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: SNECMA Moteurs
    Inventors: Bruno Antunes, Jean-Pierre Paul Henri Caubet, Alain Jean Charles Chatel, Laurernt Dezouche, Nicolas Smirr
  • Publication number: 20030123986
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for immobilizing blades in the peripheral slot of a turbomachine disk. Said blades comprise roots of the hammer head type adapted to be introduced into said slot through a loading window and held in said slot by collaboration of shape with the sidewalls thereof. Said immobilizing device is adapted to be introduced into said slot through said loading window and comprises a locking element arranged in a space separating two adjacent blade roots. Said locking element is adapted to be raised up into a lock housing formed in the sidewalls of said slot under the action of a radial manipulating screw the head of which rests against the bottom of the slot, a radial clearance being provided between the bottom of the slot and the underside of the blade roots, and said screw head being restrained in a radially outward direction by said two adjacent blade roots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURS
    Inventors: Bruno Antunes, Jean-Pierre Paul Henri Caubet, Alain Jean Charles Chatel, Laurernt Dezouche, Nicolas Smirr