Patents by Inventor Arnaud Georges NIFENECKER

Arnaud Georges NIFENECKER 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: 11965440
    Abstract: A part for a centrifugal breather for an air/oil mixture of a turbomachine is configured to rotate about a longitudinal axis of symmetry. The breather forms an annular chamber for centrifugal separation of said mixture. The chamber includes mesh structure that takes up at least one space in a duct which closes communication between an axial inlet and an internal radial outlet. The mesh structure is formed by the spatial repetition of the material or of the space of a single pattern produced by the interconnection of simple shapes. The pattern is designed such that the spaces between the materials paths passing through the materials in at least three dimensions of space forming a trihedron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Arnaud Georges Nifenecker, Benjamin Nicolas Fulleringer, Cédric Jean Daniel Plaino, Xavier Roger Betbeder-Laüque
  • Patent number: 11925888
    Abstract: A component for a centrifugal degasser for an air/oil mixture of a turbomachine is disclosed. The degasser rotates about an axis of symmetry, forming an annular chamber for centrifugal separation of the mixture. The chamber forms a fluid passage duct, one inlet of which is oriented axially for supplying the chamber with the mixture, and a first outlet of which is oriented radially inwards for discharging the deoiled air separated from the mixture. The chamber also includes at least one second oil outlet oriented radially outwards and intended to discharge the oil separated from the mixture to the outside of the degasser. The chamber has longitudinal walls passing radially therethrough, at least one of the surfaces of the longitudinal walls having surface structures and/or corrugations arranged to form obstacles to a flow of the mixture along the surface of the longitudinal walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Arnaud Georges Nifenecker, Benjamin Nicolas Fulleringer, Nicolas Maurice Marcel Herran
  • Publication number: 20240053213
    Abstract: An assembly for measuring a torque transmitted between a first member and a second member of a turbomachine includes a pinion having a first annular portion and a second annular portion joining together at a connecting portion carrying a gearing of the pinion, said first and second annular portions extending axially in opposite directions, from the connecting portion. The pinion also includes an axial power shaft with a first area coupled to the first annular portion, and a second area for coupling to the second member, and a device for measuring the torsion between the first and second areas. The device includes a first phonic wheel on the power shaft, a second phonic wheel equipping the second annular portion of the pinion and axially aligned with the first phonic wheel, and an acquisition means axially aligned with and opposite to the first phonic wheel and the second phonic wheel and outputting a signal representative of an angular variation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Nicolas FULLERINGER, Rémi Joseph LANQUETIN, Arnaud Georges NIFENECKER
  • Publication number: 20230264267
    Abstract: A circular modular tray for the additive manufacturing of a part with an axis of revolution on a powder bed, characterised in that it consists of an assembly of modules that are concentrically coupled along a contiguous axis in a radial direction, the modules including an annular peripheral module and a circular central module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Arnaud Georges NIFENECKER, Jérémi Christophe Benjamin ADOR, Frédéric AYCAGUER, Frédéric Jacques DUFAU, Gilles Gaston Jacques GOUIN
  • Publication number: 20230173584
    Abstract: A modular tray, for the additive manufacturing of a part with an axis of revolution on a powder bed, includes: a shaft-mounted circular module including a shaft provided with a circular tray at one of the ends thereof, the shaft and the circular tray being concentric; and a main support module including, in one face, a cavity configured for receiving the shaft-mounted circular module, the shaft being completely inserted in the cavity. The assembly of the shaft-mounted circular module and of the main support module define a planar top surface that is at least partly formed by the circular tray of the shaft-mounted circular module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicants: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Arnaud Georges NIFENECKER, Jérémi Christophe Benjamin ADOR, Frédéric AYCAGUER, Frédéric Jacques DUFAU, Gilles Gaston Jacques GOUIN, Jean-Pierre WILMES, Werner ARGUEL
  • Publication number: 20220249995
    Abstract: A component for a centrifugal degasser for an air/oil mixture of a turbomachine is disclosed. The degasser rotates about an axis of symmetry, forming an annular chamber for centrifugal separation of the mixture. The chamber forms a fluid passage duct, one inlet of which is oriented axially for supplying the chamber with the mixture, and a first outlet of which is oriented radially inwards for discharging the deoiled air separated from the mixture. The chamber also includes at least one second oil outlet oriented radially outwards and intended to discharge the oil separated from the mixture to the outside of the degasser. The chamber has longitudinal walls passing radially therethrough, at least one of the surfaces of the longitudinal walls having surface structures and/or corrugations arranged to form obstacles to a flow of the mixture along the surface of the longitudinal walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Arnaud Georges NIFENECKER, Benjamin Nicolas FULLERINGER, Nicolas Maurice Marcel HERRAN
  • Publication number: 20220205523
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pinion for a gear train of an aircraft turbine engine, the pinion comprising: —a cylindrical body (2) extending along an axis and configured to engage with a shaft received in the cylindrical body, —a rim (4) concentric with the cylindrical body, —a web (3) defined axially by a front wall (32) and a rear wall (33) and extending radially from the cylindrical body to the rim, each of the front and rear walls having a density, the pinion comprising a cross-linked structure (5) around the cylindrical body between the front wall and the rear wall, the cross-linked structure comprising a unit cell repeated along three axes of a three-dimensional coordinate system, a density of the unit cell being strictly less than each of the densities of the front and rear walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Rémi Joseph LANQUETIN, Arnaud Georges NIFENECKER, Antoine LAHITTETE
  • Publication number: 20210231034
    Abstract: A part for a centrifugal breather for an air/oil mixture of a turbomachine is configured to rotate about a longitudinal axis of symmetry. The breather forms an annular chamber for centrifugal separation of said mixture. The chamber includes mesh structure that takes up at least one space in a duct which closes communication between an axial inlet and an internal radial outlet. The mesh structure is formed by the spatial repetition of the material or of the space of a single pattern produced by the interconnection of simple shapes. The pattern is designed such that the spaces between the materials paths passing through the materials in at least three dimensions of space forming a trihedron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Arnaud Georges NIFENECKER, Benjamin Nicolas FULLERINGER, Cédric Jean Daniel PLAINO, Xavier Roger BETBEDER-LAÜQUE