Patents by Inventor Christian Fabre

Christian Fabre 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: 11572187
    Abstract: A pivoting connection device connecting at least two components and comprising an end fitting having first and second branches, an arm positioned between the first and second branches of the end fitting, a cylindrical axle connecting the end fitting and the arm and having, at one of the ends thereof, a first portion configured to expand radially, a cylindrical rod configured to be screwed into a tapped portion of the cylindrical axle, an insert fitted on the cylindrical rod and movable between a first position, in which the first portion is not expanded, and a second position, in which the first portion is expanded radially, and a nut configured to be screwed on the cylindrical rod to urge the insert into the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais, Paolo Messina, Thomas Bourdieu
  • Publication number: 20190359344
    Abstract: A pivoting connection device connecting at least two components and comprising an end fitting having first and second branches, an arm positioned between the first and second branches of the end fitting, a cylindrical axle connecting the end fitting and the arm and having, at one of the ends thereof, a first portion configured to expand radially, a cylindrical rod configured to be screwed into a tapped portion of the cylindrical axle, an insert fitted on the cylindrical rod and movable between a first position, in which the first portion is not expanded, and a second position, in which the first portion is expanded radially, and a nut configured to be screwed on the cylindrical rod to urge the insert into the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Christian FABRE, Alain BIGNOLAIS, Paolo MESSINA, Thomas BOURDIEU
  • Patent number: 10408253
    Abstract: A method and equipment for installing a tapped insert in a cylindrical bore, the equipment including a tool body comprising a threaded end portion, the threaded end portion being adapted to a threaded inner wall portion of a cylindrical body of the tapped insert; a screw of diameter lower than a diameter of an inner bore of the tool body, the comprising at one end a thread complementary to the inner tapped aperture of the core of the tapped insert; and a positioning ring installed to slide on the tool body, the tool body and the positioning ring comprising complementary sliding means adapted to enable relative sliding of the positioning ring on the tool body in a longitudinal direction and to maintain the positioning ring on the tool body in a defined longitudinal transverse section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais
  • Patent number: 10029827
    Abstract: A stopper for a tank having an opening includes a body which is provided to be fixed in the opening and which has a hole, a membrane which is fixed to the body and of which a portion completely blocks the hole, a core which is fixed to the portion of the membrane which blocks the hole, and stop means which are provided to permit a movement of the core between a blocking position which corresponds to the non-broken membrane which blocks the hole, and an open position which corresponds to the broken membrane which is spaced apart from the hole, and to keep the core fixedly joined to the body in an open position. The knowledge of the characteristics of the membrane enables the force from which the stopper opens to be known.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais
  • Patent number: 9624790
    Abstract: A locking system comprising a handle mounted such that it can rotate about an operating spindle, wherein the handle can move between a locked position and an unlocked position, a hook mounted on the handle and secured in rotation therewith, wherein the hook has a throat in which a latching point of a structure is designed to engage when the handle is in the locked position. The locking system comprises a key associated with the hook and by means of which it is possible to pass from the locked position to the unlocked position of the handle, wherein the key can be removed when the handle is in the locked position and cannot be removed when the handle is in the unlocked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais
  • Patent number: 9604728
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aircraft turbojet nacelle including a cowling assembly (60) made up of four covers (62, 64, 66, 68). Each cover extends in arcuate shape around part of the longitudinal axis of the nacelle, in symmetrical manner about a vertical plane (P) containing the axis. On either side of said plane, the cowling assembly comprises a top cover (62, 66) hinged at its top portion and a bottom cover (64, 68) hinged at its bottom portion. Access to the internal space (e) of the nacelle is obtained by moving the covers away from the longitudinal axis by pivoting them about their hinge axes. A top cover is less heavy for handling purposes than is a single cover of the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais
  • Patent number: 9587516
    Abstract: A locking system comprising a handle mounted such that it can rotate about an operating spindle, wherein the handle can move between a locked position and an unlocked position, a hook mounted on the handle and secured in rotation therewith, wherein the hook has a throat in which a latching point of a structure is designed to engage when the handle is in the locked position. The locking system comprises a key associated with the hook and by means of which it is possible to pass from the locked position to the unlocked position of the handle, wherein the key can be removed when the handle is in the locked position and cannot be removed when the handle is in the unlocked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais
  • Publication number: 20160208843
    Abstract: A method and equipment for installing a tapped insert in a cylindrical bore, the equipment including a tool body comprising a threaded end portion, the threaded end portion being adapted to a threaded inner wall portion of a cylindrical body of the tapped insert; a screw of diameter lower than a diameter of an inner bore of the tool body, the comprising at one end a thread complementary to the inner tapped aperture of the core of the tapped insert; and a positioning ring installed to slide on the tool body, the tool body and the positioning ring comprising complementary sliding means adapted to enable relative sliding of the positioning ring on the tool body in a longitudinal direction and to maintain the positioning ring on the tool body in a defined longitudinal transverse section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Christian FABRE, Alain BIGNOLAIS
  • Patent number: 9353559
    Abstract: A latching system for selectively securing together two components, such as the fan cowl doors of a nacelle of an aircraft, closed. The latching system generally includes an anchor and a latch. The latch has a handle movable from an open and a closed position. The handle is precluded from reaching the closed position unless the anchor and latch are secured. Also, the positioning of a keeper portion of the anchor may be adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais
  • Patent number: 9334895
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tapped insert for cylindrical plain bore (30) of a part A1 comprising a cylindrical body (10), characterized in that said cylindrical body (10) comprises an inner bore (11) of frusto-conical shape, and at least one longitudinal slot (12, 12?) extending into the cylindrical body (10) and communicating with said frusto-conical inner bore (11) and characterized in that the tapped insert also comprises a core (20) of frusto-conical shape complementary with said frusto-conical inner bore (11) of the cylindrical body (10), said core (20) comprising a inner tapped aperture (21), said cylindrical body (10) and said core (20) being such that said tapped insert can be holded in position and locked in said cylindrical bore (30) to equip said cylindrical bore with an inner taping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.A.S.
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais
  • Publication number: 20160101906
    Abstract: A stopper for a tank having an opening includes a body which is provided to be fixed in the opening and which has a hole, a membrane which is fixed to the body and of which a portion completely blocks the hole, a core which is fixed to the portion of the membrane which blocks the hole, and stop means which are provided to permit a movement of the core between a blocking position which corresponds to the non-broken membrane which blocks the hole, and an open position which corresponds to the broken membrane which is spaced apart from the hole, and to keep the core fixedly joined to the body in an open position. The knowledge of the characteristics of the membrane enables the force from which the stopper opens to be known.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.A.S.
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais
  • Publication number: 20150300061
    Abstract: A latching system for selectively securing together two components, such as the fan cowl doors of a nacelle of an aircraft, closed. The latching system generally includes an anchor and a latch. The latch has a handle movable from an open and a closed position. The handle is precluded from reaching the closed position unless the anchor and latch are secured. Also, the positioning of a keeper portion of the anchor may be adjustable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais
  • Publication number: 20150184544
    Abstract: A locking system comprising a handle mounted such that it can rotate about an operating spindle, wherein the handle can move between a locked position and an unlocked position, a hook mounted on the handle and secured in rotation therewith, wherein the hook has a throat in which a latching point of a structure is designed to engage when the handle is in the locked position. The locking system comprises a key associated with the hook and by means of which it is possible to pass from the locked position to the unlocked position of the handle, wherein the key can be removed when the handle is in the locked position and cannot be removed when the handle is in the unlocked position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais
  • Publication number: 20150184543
    Abstract: A locking system comprising a handle mounted such that it can rotate about an operating spindle, wherein the handle can move between a locked position and an unlocked position, a hook mounted on the handle and secured in rotation therewith, wherein the hook has a throat in which a latching point of a structure is designed to engage when the handle is in the locked position. The locking system comprises a key associated with the hook and by means of which it is possible to pass from the locked position to the unlocked position of the handle, wherein the key can be removed when the handle is in the locked position and cannot be removed when the handle is in the unlocked position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais
  • Patent number: 8991511
    Abstract: A fluid ejection device for example used as a fire extinguisher in which ejected fluid is an extinguishing agent in liquid or powdery form. The device includes: a cylinder shaped tank, split hermetically, perpendicular to its axis, into two chambers by a piston, slidable axially inside the tank; a first chamber, including a non-gaseous fluid, which communicates with an ejection port closed by a cap, which can open for a pressure greater than or equal to a defined pressure in the first chamber; a second pressurization chamber to be connected to a mechanism increasing pressure in the chamber; and a mechanism to link the piston to the tank in full fixity at a storage position, which mechanism can break and release the piston for axial translation at a pressure higher than or equal to a given pressure in the pressurization chamber, to cause the fluid to be ejected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais
  • Patent number: 8932016
    Abstract: A deicing device for propfan-type aircraft propulsion unit blades, wherein the propulsion unit includes a turbomachine that drives in rotation at least one rotor including a plurality of blades arranged around an annular crown moving with the blades, which forms with its outer wall part of an outer envelope of the propulsion unit, the outer envelope being subjected to atmospheric conditions outside the propulsion unit, the turbomachine generating a flow of hot gases that exit via an annular vein, which is concentric with the moving annular crown, and defined for part of its surface by the inner wall of the moving annular crown. The deicing device includes: a mechanism capturing thermal energy from the annular vein, within the moving annular part; a mechanism transferring thermal energy towards the rotor blades; and a mechanism distributing the thermal energy onto at least a part of the surface of the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Guillaume Bulin, Jean-Michel Rogero, Christian Fabre
  • Patent number: 8894034
    Abstract: A spigot-type fastener for an aircraft is to be interposed between the structure of the aircraft and an attachment structure of the aircraft engine. The fastener is to absorb the force generated by the engine along two orthogonal axes. The fastener includes a first part, a second part, a third part, and one or more strain gauges. One end of the first part is secured to the second part. One end of the second part is separated from the first part by a clearance. The opposite end of the second part fits into a recess of the third part via a protrusion, such that the force along both axes is transmitted by the first part to the third part by the second part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Airbis Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Rogero, Christian Fabre, Herve Magnin
  • Publication number: 20140334922
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aircraft turbojet nacelle including a cowling assembly (60) made up of four covers (62, 64, 66, 68). Each cover extends in arcuate shape around part of the longitudinal axis of the nacelle, in symmetrical manner about a vertical plane (P) containing the axis. On either side of said plane, the cowling assembly comprises a top cover (62, 66) hinged at its top portion and a bottom cover (64, 68) hinged at its bottom portion. Access to the internal space (e) of the nacelle is obtained by moving the covers away from the longitudinal axis by pivoting them about their hinge axes. A top cover is less heavy for handling purposes than is a single cover of the prior art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SAS)
    Inventors: Christian FABRE, Alain BIGNOLAIS
  • Publication number: 20140231660
    Abstract: A device for measuring, on an aircraft, the extinguishing agent concentration of a gaseous mixture. The device includes an ultraviolet radiation detector for generating an output signal that is a function of the concentration of the agent in the gaseous mixture and an electronic circuit for determining the concentration as a function of said output signal. The device includes a unit for sampling the gaseous mixture in at least one fire zone of said aircraft, and a measurement chamber passed through by the gaseous mixture and comprising a tranquilizing chamber, the detector being arranged in such a way as to measure the concentration of the agent in the gaseous mixture passing through the tranquilizing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais
  • Patent number: 8783372
    Abstract: A compact device for ejecting a fluid including two chambers separated by a separating element of piston type. One of the chambers contains the fluid intended to be ejected, the other chamber is a pressurization chamber, the pressurization of which can cause translational movement of the separating element and ejection of the fluid. The pressurization chamber includes a thimble capable of sealably separating the inside of the pressurization chamber from the side walls of the reservoir. Thus, a seal between two chambers is perfect and durable without degrading slidability of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Christian Fabre, Alain Bignolais