Patents by Inventor Benoit Picard

Benoit Picard 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).

  • RIM-ROTOR TURBINE SEALING AND COOLING ARRANGEMENT
    Publication number: 20250137381
    Abstract: An assembly may include a rim-rotor turbine having a hub adapted to be mounted or connected to a rotating shaft, a rim-rotor, the rim-rotor having a cooling ring defining at least one cooling channel, and a plurality of blades with each of the plurality of blades contacting the rim-rotor. A stator vane assembly is positioned upstream of the rim-rotor turbine, and has an outer shroud defining a main flowpath aligned with the plurality of blades of the rim-rotor turbine and configured to direct hot gas toward the plurality of blades of the rim-rotor turbine, and vanes in the main flowpath. A cooling guide vane assembly has an inner shroud defining a cooling flowpath aligned with the cooling ring of the rim-rotor turbine and configured to direct cooling gas toward the cooling ring of the rim-rotor turbine, and vanes in the cooling flowpath.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Benoit PICARD, Jean-Sébastien PLANTE, Mathieu PICARD, Antoine GAUVIN-VERVILLE, Louis-Philippe JEAN
  • Temperature barrier coating for rim-rotor
    Patent number: 11879358
    Abstract: A rim-rotor assembly has an annular structure including a composite rim and a hub. Blades project from the hub, tips of the blades contacting the annular structure, the blades configured to be loaded in compression against the annular structure. A thermal barrier is in the annular structure, the thermal barrier defining at least part of a radially inward surface of the annular structure. The tips of the blades contact the thermal barrier, the thermal barrier being a thermal barrier coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: EXONETIK TURBO INC.
    Inventors: Benoit Picard, Jean-Sebastien Plante, Mathieu Picard
  • TEMPERATURE BARRIER COATING FOR RIM-ROTOR
    Publication number: 20220381149
    Abstract: A rim-rotor assembly has an annular structure including a composite rim and a hub. Blades project from the hub, tips of the blades contacting the annular structure, the blades configured to be loaded in compression against the annular structure. A thermal barrier is in the annular structure, the thermal barrier defining at least part of a radially inward surface of the annular structure. The tips of the blades contact the thermal barrier, the thermal barrier being a thermal barrier coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Benoit PICARD, Jean-Sebastien PLANTE, Mathieu PICARD
  • High temperature ceramic rotary turbomachinery
    Patent number: 11208893
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to rotary turbomachinery methods and integrated processes requiring high-energy efficiency. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to rim-rotor configurations enabling long-term survival under conditions of either high temperature or oxidation resistance or saturated fluid abrasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SOCPRA SCIENCES ET GENIE S.E.C.
    Inventors: Jean-Sébastien Plante, Mathieu Picard, Alexandre Landry-Blais, Hugo Fortier-Topping, Michael Gurin, Céderick Landry, Patrick Dubois, Luc G. Frechette, Benoit Picard
  • HIGH TEMPERATURE CERAMIC ROTARY TURBOMACHINERY
    Publication number: 20190323354
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to rotary turbomachinery methods and integrated processes requiring high-energy efficiency. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to rim-rotor configurations enabling long-term survival under conditions of either high temperature or oxidation resistance or saturated fluid abrasion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Jean-Sebastien PLANTE, Mathieu PICARD, Alexandre LANDRY-BLAIS, Hugo FORTIER-TOPPING, Michael GURIN, Cederick LANDRY, Patrick DUBOIS, Luc FRECHETTE, Benoit PICARD
  • High G-field Combustion
    Publication number: 20170234543
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to high g-field combustion methods and integrated processes requiring high-energy efficiency and low NOx emissions to maximize fuel productivity and integrated process production output. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to the combustor having a g-field greater than 100,000 g's in an isothermal configuration by achieving concurrent combustion and expansion with the high g-field combustor in a rim-rotor turbomachine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Ceragy Engines Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Sébastien Plante, Mathieu Picard, Alexandre Landry-Blais, Hugo Fortier-Topping, Michael Gurin, Céderick Landry, Patrick Dubois, Luc Frechette, Benoit Picard
  • High Temperature Ceramic Rotary Turbomachinery
    Publication number: 20170074102
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to rotary turbomachinery methods and integrated processes requiring high-energy efficiency. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to rim-rotor configurations enabling long-term survival under conditions of either high temperature or oxidation resistance or saturated fluid abrasion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Ceragy Engines Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Sébastien PLANTE, Mathieu Picard, Alexandre Landry-Blais, Hugo Fortier-Topping, Michael Gurin, Céderick Landry, Patrick Dubois, Luc G. Frechette, Benoit Picard