Patents by Inventor Christophe Yvon Gabriel Tourne

Christophe Yvon Gabriel Tourne 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: 7524165
    Abstract: Control lever for the angular setting of a stator blade, comprising a first end intended to be fitted in a fixed manner on a blade pivot, a second end comprising a cylindrical pin for fitting on a control ring, and a flat intermediate part connecting the first and second ends having shapes and dimensions determined in order to increase the natural frequencies of the lever in flexion and in torsion above the vibratory frequencies of the turboshaft engine upstream of the lever and in order to retain the stiffness of the lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Sebastien Bourgoin, Christophe Follonier, Claude Robert Louis Lejars, Christophe Yvon Gabriel Tourne, Bruce Daniel Jean Pontoizeau, Nicolas Christian Triconnet
  • Patent number: 7284955
    Abstract: This present invention concerns an axial gas turbine engine compressor which includes a casing and a distributor wheel composed of a multiplicity of sectors in arcs of circles, with radial stator blades fixed to an external platform, characterized by the fact that the said platform is retained in the casing by two joints of the tongue and groove type, one upstream and the other downstream of the stator blades, the said downstream joint being formed between a transverse flange provided on the external platform and a flange provided on the casing, with a securing resource to create a tight joint between the two flanges. It is preferable that the securing resource should be a bolt. The invention provides for effective retention of the sector so as to prevent wear in the surfaces in contact. The solution is easy to implement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Guy Vieillefond, Christophe Yvon Gabriel Tourne, Bertrand Jean Joseph Marie Heurtel
  • Patent number: 7185499
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for passive control of the thermal expansion of the extension casing of a turbo-jet engine, said extension casing surrounding the casing of the high pressure compressor of the turbo-jet engine, and including a flange for attachment to an upstream flange of the casing of the combustion chamber. It is characterised in that at least one circumferential cavity is provided between both said flanges wherein circulates a gas flux tapped at the inlet of the combustion chamber. One uses thus a natural circulation generated by the differential pressure. Thanks to the device of the invention, the flange is passively controlled, and the stresses resulting from a differential expansion between the skin of the casing and its attachment flange are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: SNECMA Moteurs
    Inventors: Thomas Chereau, Thierry Jean-Maurice Niclot, Alain Raffy, Patrice Suet, Christophe Yvon Gabriel Tourne
  • Patent number: 5749660
    Abstract: A bearing assembly having dynamic drainage for lubrication oil which incls rings which are provided with races with a conical-shaped cross-section which the balls contact at pairs of side contact points. The central circumference of each ring is free; cooling oil drillings are drilled in it. This arrangement gives better oil circulation characteristics, thus improving the bearing efficiency and less heat is dissipated. Thus higher speed can be expected. The drillings responsible for drainage are inclined in the direction of rotation in order to facilitate drainage outside the roller bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Societe Nationale d'Etude de Contruction de Moteurs d'Aviation "Snecma"
    Inventors: Guy Franck Paul Dusserre-Telmon, Daniel Georges Plona, Christophe Yvon Gabriel Tourne