Patents by Inventor Christophe CAPLAIN

Christophe CAPLAIN 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).

  • Shell for reducing overpressure in the vicinity of the upstream seal of a turbojet bearing housing
    Patent number: 11261754
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbojet bearing housing including a fixed envelope traversed by a rotor, this envelope including a cylindrical end surrounding a seal ensuring the leak tightness of the cylindrical end of the envelope with the rotor, this envelope being equipped with a shell screwed onto the cylindrical end thereof, this shell including radial channels emerging opposite the seal while being arranged so that an air stream traversing the seal towards the housing mainly comes from these radial channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Frédéric Patard, Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Philippe Pierre Vincent Bouiller, Christophe Caplain, Maxime Aurélien Rotenberg
  • SHELL FOR REDUCING OVERPRESSURE IN THE VICINITY OF THE UPSTREAM SEAL OF A TURBOJET BEARING HOUSING
    Publication number: 20200032672
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbojet bearing housing including a fixed envelope traversed by a rotor, this envelope including a cylindrical end surrounding a seal ensuring the leak tightness of the cylindrical end of the envelope with the rotor, this envelope being equipped with a shell screwed onto the cylindrical end thereof, this shell including radial channels emerging opposite the seal while being arranged so that an air stream traversing the seal towards the housing mainly comes from these radial channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Frédéric PATARD, Antoine Jean-Philippe BEAUJARD, Philippe Pierre Vincent BOUILLER, Christophe CAPLAIN, Maxime Aurélien ROTENBERG