Patents by Inventor Benoit Rodriguez

Benoit Rodriguez 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).

  • DISTRIBUTED PROPULSION WITH OFFSET PROPULSION MODULES
    Publication number: 20240133339
    Abstract: A propulsion unit including: a gas generator including a compressor, a combustion chamber, a turbine, at least two compressed-air propulsion modules, each propulsion module including: a fan, a compressed-air turbine configured to drive the rotation of the fan, a manifold allowing the respective turbines of the compressed-air propulsion modules to be supplied with compressed air, wherein the manifold is configured to collect and mix: at least a portion of the flow that has passed through the combustion chamber of the gas generator, typically as it leaves the turbine, and at least one bypass flow, the bypass flow being a flow of air which is not passed through the combustion chamber of the gas generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicants: INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DE L'AERONAUTIQUE ET DE L'ESPAC, SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Miguel Angel AGUIRRE, Sébastien DUPLAA, Bernard ROBIC, Benoit RODRIGUEZ, Nicolas Jérôme Jean TANTOT
  • Blade for a fan of a turbomachine, notably of the unducted fan type, corresponding fan and corresponding turbomachine
    Patent number: 9630704
    Abstract: A blade for a fan of a turbomachine, for example of unducted fan type, a corresponding fan, and a corresponding turbomachine. The blade includes a mechanism arranged, at a single location, to locally, as the fan rotates, disturb a distribution of flow around the blade so as to form two independent main vortices downstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignees: SNECMA, ONERA
    Inventors: Laurence Vion, Gregory Delattre, Laurent Jacquin, Benoit Rodriguez, Ronan Boisard, Biel Ortun, Fabrice Falissard
  • BLADE FOR A FAN OF A TURBOMACHINE, NOTABLY OF THE UNDUCTED FAN TYPE, CORRESPONDING FAN AND CORRESPONDING TURBOMACHINE
    Publication number: 20140301844
    Abstract: A blade for a fan of a turbomachine, for example of unducted fan type, a corresponding fan, and a corresponding turbomachine. The blade includes a mechanism arranged, at a single location, to locally, as the fan rotates, disturb a distribution of flow around the blade so as to form two independent main vortices downstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicants: ONERA, SNECMA
    Inventors: Laurence Vion, Gregory Delattre, Laurent Jacquin, Benoit Rodriguez, Ronan Boisard, Biel Ortun, Fabrice Falissard