Patents by Inventor Benjamin Lacombe

Benjamin Lacombe 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: 12571324
    Abstract: An assembly for an aircraft turbo machine having a plurality of sectors made of a CMC and a plurality of sealing tongues which are mounted between the sectors. Each of these tongues include a first longitudinal edge engaged in a slot in a lateral edge of one of the sectors, and a second longitudinal edge engaged in a slot in a lateral edge of an adjacent sector. Each of the first and second edges have a rectilinear intermediate portion extending between two end portions of convex curved shape. The slots can have shapes complementary to these portions wherein contact of the tongue in the slot over the entire longitudinal extent of the tongue is ensured. An aircraft turbomachine can include at least one such assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Benjamin Lacombe, Maxime François Roger Carlin
  • Publication number: 20250163817
    Abstract: An assembly for an aircraft turbo machine having a plurality of sectors made of a CMC and a plurality of sealing tongues which are mounted between the sectors. Each of these tongues include a first longitudinal edge engaged in a slot in a lateral edge of one of the sectors, and a second longitudinal edge engaged in a slot in a lateral edge of an adjacent sector. Each of the first and second edges have a rectilinear intermediate portion extending between two end portions of convex curved shape. The slots can have shapes complementary to these portions wherein contact of the tongue in the slot over the entire longitudinal extent of the tongue is ensured. An aircraft turbomachine can include at least one such assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Benjamin LACOMBE, Maxime François Roger CARLIN
  • Patent number: 12115486
    Abstract: A porous ceramic structure intended to form the reinforcement of a ceramic matrix composite component, the structure having a connected porosity delimited by an internal surface which includes a plurality of first points, each first point being associated with a second point aligned with this first point along a normal to the internal surface taken at the first point, the structure being divisible into a plurality of unit volumes of a size less than or equal to 5 mm3 in each of which: a characteristic pore length, corresponding to the maximum of the distance separating each first point from its associated second point, is less than or equal to 0.5 mm; and a porosity ratio is greater than or equal to 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Lacombe, Gildas Garnier
  • Patent number: 12078356
    Abstract: A turbomachine subassembly including a first component forming a portion of a wall of a combustion chamber of the turbomachine and a second component forming a connecting member connecting the first component to a structural element of the combustion chamber, wherein the two components are made from materials having different coefficients of expansion, and wherein the two components are elements of revolution coaxial with a main axis A of the subassembly, and each including an annular radial wall, the radial walls facing one another and bearing against one another axially in a first direction, wherein the second component includes a plurality of clamping tabs, with the clamping tabs collaborating with the first component in order to produce an axial force causing the radial walls to bear against one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Patrick Olivier Duchaine, Amaury Benoit Jacques Paillard, Eric Conete, Benjamin Lacombe
  • Publication number: 20240044497
    Abstract: A turbomachine subassembly including a first component forming a portion of a wall of a combustion chamber of the turbomachine and a second component forming a connecting member connecting the first component to a structural element of the combustion chamber, wherein the two components are made from materials having different coefficients of expansion, and wherein the two components are elements of revolution coaxial with a main axis A of the subassembly, and each including an annular radial wall, the radial walls facing one another and bearing against one another axially in a first direction, wherein the second component includes a plurality of clamping tabs, with the clamping tabs collaborating with the first component in order to produce an axial force causing the radial walls to bear against one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Patrick Olivier DUCHAINE, Amaury Benoit Jacques PAILLARD, Eric CONETE, Benjamin LACOMBE
  • Patent number: 11608299
    Abstract: A method for producing a hollow part made of a ceramic matrix composite material. The method includes shaping a hollow fibrous preform. A core of oxidizable material is housed or inserted into the preform. The method also includes consolidating the preform and extracting the core by oxidising the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Ceramics
    Inventors: Matthieu Arnaud Gimat, Rémy Dupont, Maxime François Roger Carlin, Eric Philippe, Benjamin Lacombe
  • Publication number: 20220250992
    Abstract: A porous ceramic structure intended to form the reinforcement of a ceramic matrix composite component, the structure having a connected porosity delimited by an internal surface which includes a plurality of first points, each first point being associated with a second point aligned with this first point along a normal to the internal surface taken at the first point, the structure being divisible into a plurality of unit volumes of a size less than or equal to 5 mm3 in each of which: a characteristic pore length, corresponding to the maximum of the distance separating each first point from its associated second point, is less than or equal to 0.5 mm; and a porosity ratio is greater than or equal to 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin LACOMBE, Gildas GARNIER
  • Publication number: 20200270180
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a hollow part made of a ceramic matrix composite material comprising the steps of: shaping a hollow fibrous preform, a core of oxidizable material being housed or inserted into the preform (E1); consolidating said preform (E3, E4); and extracting the core by oxidising said core (E5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Safran Ceramics
    Inventors: Matthieu Arnaud Gimat, Rémy Dupont, Maxime François Roger Carlin, Eric Philippe, Benjamin Lacombe