Patents by Inventor Ba-Phuc TANG

Ba-Phuc TANG 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).

  • Publication number: 20170226875
    Abstract: A mobile vane for a turbine engine, including a root designed to be inserted into a receiving element of a rotor disk for a turbine engine, a platform carried by the root, and a blade extending from the platform. The platform includes an upstream edge. The upstream edge includes a lug for engaging in a locking notch of the disk in such a way as to hold the vane axially in relation to the disk, according to the longitudinal direction of the receiving element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jean-Baptise Vincent DESFORGES, Damien Bernard QUELVEN, Maurice Guy JUDET, Ba-Phuc TANG
  • Patent number: 9638049
    Abstract: A turbine engine blade includes an airfoil connected by a platform to a middle radial wall extending axially and prolonged radially inwards by a blade root that is mountable in a slot of a disk, and the platform and the middle radial wall defining two lateral cavities situated on either side of the middle radial wall and opening out circumferentially to receive scaling members. The cavities are open downstream with two fins projecting on either side of the middle radial wall at downstream end of the middle radial wall, the fins coming to bear against two adjacent teeth of the disk between which the slot is formed. The downstream end of the middle radial wall includes a setback extending between at least one rib of the platform and the fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Raphael Dupeyre, Damien Alquier, Sebastien Congratel, Guillaume Klein, David Mathieu, Ba-Phuc Tang, Denis Gabriel Trahot
  • Patent number: 9567861
    Abstract: A turbomachine vane for cooperating with a vane retention disk including a plurality of peripheral teeth, the vane including a shank including a neck and a bulb for cooperating with a socket of the disk so as to radially hold the shank in the socket, the socket being a space bounded by two successive teeth of the disk, a pole on top of the neck, including two side walls facing the active surface side of the vane and two side walls facing the passive surface side of the vane, each wall having a rib at a lower end of the pole, the rib extending in the direction of the side wall facing the wall and providing a function of holding the vane when the vane is retained in the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Sebastien Congratel, Raphael Dupeyre, Guillaume Klein, David Mathieu, Ba-Phuc Tang, Denis Gabriel Trahot
  • Publication number: 20160129497
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blade preform (46) including a strut connecting a plat-form (16) to a blade root portion (14) extending longitudinally in an upstream-downstream direction, an upstream web (26) and a downstream (28) web, which each extend in a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the blade root and are formed at the upstream and downstream ends of the strut. The upstream (26) and downstream (28) webs connect the upstream and downstream ends of the plat-form (16) to the upstream and downstream ends of the blade root (14). According to the invention, the blade root (14) extends in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the blade root over a distance smaller than that of the upstream and downstream webs (26, 28) and the side edges (40) of each web (26, 28) are extended by walls that converge (44) at the flanks of the blade root.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Snecma
    Inventors: Sébastien Serge Francis Congratel, Raphaël Jean Philippe Dupeyre, Guillaume Klein, David Mathieu, Ba-Phuc Tang
  • Publication number: 20160016227
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a rotor vane (10) for a turbomachine, comprising a step consisting in producing a rough casting, the heel of which has a downstream lip (121) with a transverse increased thickness (130) such that the lip has an upstream surface (134) substantially parallel to the above-mentioned axis, said method comprising an additional step of machining said increased thickness so that the downstream lip has an upstream surface (138) inclined in relation to the above-mentioned axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Guillaume Klein, Josserand Bassery, Sebastien Congratel, Raphael Dupeyre, David Mathieu, Ba-Phuc Tang
  • Publication number: 20150023793
    Abstract: A turbomachine rotor blade presenting an outer part (314) at its distal end (310B), the outer part comprising a platform (320) defining the outside surface of the passage for gas passing through the turbomachine and presenting first (351) and second opposite side edges; and upstream and downstream sealing wipers (331, 332) extending outwards from said platform (320), each wiper extending between two lateral faces (331L, 332L) situated respectively at the first (351) and second side edges. The lateral faces (331L, 332L) of the upstream and downstream wipers (331, 332) are covered at least in part in an anti-wear material (360).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Slim Bensalah, Arnaud Negri, Sebastien Digard Brou De Cuissart, Guillaume Klein, Ba-Phuc Tang, David Mathieu, Sibylle Doremus
  • Publication number: 20140308134
    Abstract: A turbomachine vane for cooperating with a vane retention disk including a plurality of peripheral teeth, the vane including a shank including a neck and a bulb for cooperating with a socket of the disk so as to radially hold the shank in the socket, the socket being a space bounded by two successive teeth of the disk, a pole on top of the neck, including two side walls facing the active surface side of the vane and two side walls facing the passive surface side of the vane, each wall having a rib at a lower end of the pole, the rib extending in the direction of the side wall facing the wall and providing a function of holding the vane when the vane is retained in the disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Sebastien Congratel, Raphael DUPEYRE, Guillaume KLEIN, David MATHIEU, Ba-Phuc TANG, Denis Gabriel TRAHOT
  • Publication number: 20140294587
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine engine blade (1) comprising an airfoil (2) connected by a platform (3) to a middle radial wall (4) extending axially and prolonged radially inwards by a blade root (5) for mounting in a slot (6) of a disk (7), the platform (3) and said middle wall (4) defining two lateral cavities (16) situated on either side of said middle wall (4) and opening out circumferentially for the purpose of receiving sealing members. Said cavities (16) are open downstream with two fins (21) projecting on either side of said middle wall (4) at its downstream end, said fins (21) coming to bear against two adjacent teeth (19) of the disk (7) between which the slot (6) is formed. The downstream end (22) of the middle wall (4) including a setback (24) extending between said rib (20) and the fins (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Raphael DUPEYRE, Damien ALQUIER, Sebastien CONGRATEL, Guillaume KLEIN, David MATHIEU, Ba-Phuc TANG, Denis Gabriel TRAHOT