Patents by Inventor Clément Dupays

Clément Dupays 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: 12212275
    Abstract: An actuating device of a pump of a fuel pumping system of an engine, including a motor, a generator, an inverter, a switching member and a control member, the motor including a first rotor coupled to the pump and a first stator including at least one input stator winding, the generator including a second rotor coupled to a drive shaft of the engine, and a second stator including at least one output stator winding, the control member being configured to control the switching member in order to selectively connect each input stator winding: to a corresponding output stator winding if a speed of the engine is higher than or equal to a predetermined speed; to a corresponding output of the inverter, otherwise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Huguette De Wergifosse, Clément Dupays
  • Patent number: 12123360
    Abstract: In an electromechanical actuation chain for controlling the movement of mobile loads of an aircraft turbine engine, from a control unit, one or more of these mobile loads being actuated by an electromechanical actuator, there is provided for control of this movement a single Ethernet controller having deterministic control that uses an Ethernet bus to control a set of converters acting selectively on the electromechanical actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas Bertrand Georges De Blois, Clément Dupays
  • Patent number: 12097965
    Abstract: An electric architecture for a twin-engined, hybrid thermal/electric propulsion aircraft and, for each turboshaft which includes a high-voltage DC propulsive electric distribution network, a non-propulsive electric distribution network which is connected to loads of the aircraft, and an electric distribution network which is connected to loads of an electrified control system of the turboshaft engine, and wherein power supply sources are shared for these different networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER
    Inventors: Philippe Delbosc, Clement Dupays, Anne Lienhardt, Benoit Michaud, Cyrille Gautier, Anthony Gimeno
  • Patent number: 12071893
    Abstract: A turbomachine comprising a cone positioned at an upstream end and secured in rotation to the low-pressure shaft, a system for deicing said cone, comprising resistive heating elements positioned in the cone, an energy transfer system, an electrical power source coupled to the high-pressure shaft and connected to the energy transfer system by a set of switches, and a computer configured so as to define a power set point for deicing the cone depending on ambient temperature and pressure data, and on an operating speed of the low-pressure shaft, and, depending on the electrical power supplied by the electrical power source, define a duty cycle of the set of switches to deliver electrical power to the resistive heating elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jacques Russmann, Clément Dupays, Jean-Marc Blan
  • Patent number: 12071250
    Abstract: An aircraft with hybrid thermal/electrical propulsion includes a turbomachine; a first electrical source; a second electrical source equipped with an electrical energy storage device; a non-propulsion electrical distribution network; a low-voltage electrical distribution network; and a propulsion electrical distribution network. The three electrical distribution networks are electrically supplied by the first and second electrical sources and electrically interconnected by static converters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER
    Inventors: Philippe Delbosc, Anne Lienhardt, Clement Dupays, Christophe Viguier, Sonia Dhokkar
  • Patent number: 12000294
    Abstract: The invention concerns a bypass turbomachine (1) with a primary flow path and a secondary flow path, comprising: —a low-pressure body comprising a low-pressure compressor (120) connected to a low-pressure turbine (122) via a low-pressure shaft (124), —a high-pressure body comprising a high-pressure compressor (130) connected to a high pressure turbine (132), via a high-pressure shaft (134), —a low-pressure power take-off system (220) comprising an electrical generator (226), configured to take power (W12) from the low-pressure body, wherein—the turbomachine comprises a debris removal system (500), located between the two compressors (226, 236), —the low-pressure power take-off system (220) is configured to take power (W12) from the low-pressure shaft (124) using the resistive torque of the electrical generator (226), in order to avoid a risk of surging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas Bertrand Georges De Blois, Clément Dupays
  • Patent number: 11964779
    Abstract: In order to fill a reservoir while avoiding laborious manual filling operations, there is added to the existing device, including a supply duct, a pump and a measuring probe, a stop valve designed to interrupt the filling as soon as the desired level has been reached, which is detected for example by an air intake which controls the closure of the valve. Two level indicators are added and make it possible to ascertain either that optimum filling has been achieved or that a malfunction is present in the system. Application to the systems for oil filling of aircraft engine reservoirs from another reservoir arranged within the aircraft, generally common to all the engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Mathieu Jean Jacques Santin, Clément Dupays, Bellal Waissi
  • Publication number: 20230361699
    Abstract: An actuating device of a pump of a fuel pumping system of an engine, including a motor, a generator, an inverter, a switching member and a control member, the motor including a first rotor coupled to the pump and a first stator including at least one input stator winding, the generator including a second rotor coupled to a drive shaft of the engine, and a second stator including at least one output stator winding, the control member being configured to control the switching member in order to selectively connect each input stator winding: to a corresponding output stator winding if a speed of the engine is higher than or equal to a predetermined speed; to a corresponding output of the inverter, otherwise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Huguette DE WERGIFOSSE, Clément DUPAYS
  • Publication number: 20230014208
    Abstract: In an electromechanical actuation chain for controlling the movement of mobile loads of an aircraft turbine engine, from a control unit, one or more of these mobile loads being actuated by an electromechanical actuator, there is provided for control of this movement a single Ethernet controller having deterministic control that uses an Ethernet bus to control a set of converters acting selectively on the electromechanical actuators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas Bertrand Georges DE BLOIS, Clément DUPAYS
  • Publication number: 20220411082
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric architecture for a twin-engined, hybrid thermal/electric propulsion aircraft and, for each turboshaft engine, the architecture comprises: —a high-voltage DC propulsive electric distribution network (32), —a non-propulsive electric distribution network (56) which is connected to loads of the aircraft, and—an electric distribution network (76) which is connected to loads of an electrified control system of the turboshaft engine, and wherein power supply sources are shared for these different networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Philippe DELBOSC, Clement DUPAYS, Anne LIENHARDT, Benoit MICHAUD, Cyrille GAUTIER, Anthony GIMENO
  • Patent number: 11512615
    Abstract: An evaluation of the oil level of an aircraft engine tank from doses of oil delivered from another tank by a pump can be checked by comparing the evaluation of the volume provided by a sensor associated with the engine tank with an estimation of the volume extracted from the aircraft rank, either by another level sensor associated with this tank, or directly from the control of the pump. This comparison is made by a module capable of notifying staff of the need to check or maintain the device, and in particular to check if the sensor is operating correctly. Application to aeronautics, in particular to devices wherein a single aircraft tank supplies all the engine tanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Clement Dupays, Mathieu Jean Jacques Santin, Caroline Marie Frantz, Benoit Gaillot-Drevon
  • Patent number: 11415061
    Abstract: A power distribution device between an electric starter of a turbomachine and an electric machine toward a shaft of the turbomachine, including the electric starter, the electric machine, and a controller for controlling the electric machine. An epicyclic train reducer includes a first element intended to be coupled to the shaft, a second element coupled to the electric starter, and a third element intended to be rotated by the electric machine. The controller is configured to rotate the third of the three elements so as to obtain two bearings of reduction ratios of the speeds between the first of said three elements and the second of the three elements. The controller is configured to drive the torque of the third of the three elements in accordance with a determined output torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Huguette De Wergifosse, Nicolas Bertrand Georges De Blois, Clement Dupays, Pierre Gerard Lalonde
  • Publication number: 20220235701
    Abstract: A turbomachine comprising a cone positioned at an upstream end and secured in rotation to the low-pressure shaft, a system for deicing said cone, comprising resistive heating elements positioned in the cone, an energy transfer system, an electrical power source coupled to the high-pressure shaft and connected to the energy transfer system by a set of switches, and a computer configured so as to define a power set point for deicing the cone depending on ambient temperature and pressure data, and on an operating speed of the low-pressure shaft, and, depending on the electrical power supplied by the electrical power source, define a duty cycle of the set of switches to deliver electrical power to the resistive heating elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jacques RUSSMANN, Clément DUPAYS, Jean-Marc BLAN
  • Publication number: 20220212816
    Abstract: In order to fill a reservoir while avoiding laborious manual filling operations, there is added to the existing device, including a supply duct, a pump and a measuring probe, a stop valve designed to interrupt the filling as soon as the desired level has been reached, which is detected for example by an air intake which controls the closure of the valve. Two level indicators are added and make it possible to ascertain either that optimum filling has been achieved or that a malfunction is present in the system. Application to the systems for oil filling of aircraft engine reservoirs from another reservoir arranged within the aircraft, generally common to all the engines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Mathieu Jean Jacques SANTIN, Clément DUPAYS, Bellal WAISSI
  • Patent number: 11339683
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for starting a turbine engine in cold weather, including a starting system intended for rotating a drive shaft of the turbine engine, the method comprising the following steps: —a pre-starting step in which a first starting signal is generated to control the drive shaft in a first direction of rotation about a longitudinal axis (X) and in a second opposite direction of rotation in an alternating manner; and —a starting step in which a second starting signal is transmitted to the starting system in order for the latter to drive the drive shaft of the turbine engine in a normal direction of rotation and in which the drive shaft is rotated until a rotation speed that causes the turbine engine to start.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Clement Dupays, Gwenole Yann Le Pache
  • Publication number: 20220154596
    Abstract: The invention concerns a bypass turbomachine (1) with a primary flow path and a secondary flow path, comprising: —a low-pressure body comprising a low-pressure compressor (120) connected to a low-pressure turbine (122) via a low-pressure shaft (124), —a high-pressure body comprising a high-pressure compressor (130) connected to a high pressure turbine (132), via a high-pressure shaft (134), —a low-pressure power take-off system (220) comprising an electrical generator (226), configured to take power (W12) from the low-pressure body, wherein—the turbomachine comprises a debris removal system (500), located between the two compressors (226, 236), —the low-pressure power take-off system (220) is configured to take power (W12) from the low-pressure shaft (124) using the resistive torque of the electrical generator (226), in order to avoid a risk of surging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Nicolas Bertrand Georges DE BLOIS, Clément DUPAYS
  • Publication number: 20220145804
    Abstract: A method for starting a turbine engine in cold weather, including a starting system intended for rotating a drive shaft of the turbine engine. The method includes the following steps: a pre-starting step in which a first starting signal is generated to control the drive shaft in a first direction of rotation about a longitudinal axis and in a second opposite direction of rotation in an alternating manner; and a starting step in which a second starting signal is transmitted to the starting system in order for the latter to drive the drive shaft of the turbine engine in a normal direction of rotation and in which the drive shaft is rotated until a rotation speed that causes the turbine engine to start.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Clement DUPAYS, Gwenole Yann LE PACHE
  • Publication number: 20210347491
    Abstract: An aircraft with hybrid thermal/electrical propulsion includes a turbomachine; a first electrical source; a second electrical source equipped with an electrical energy storage device; a non-propulsion electrical distribution network; a low-voltage electrical distribution network; and a propulsion electrical distribution network. The three electrical distribution networks are electrically supplied by the first and second electrical sources and electrically interconnected by static converters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicants: SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER
    Inventors: Philippe DELBOSC, Anne LIENHARDT, Clement DUPAYS, Christophe VIGUIER, Sonia DHOKKAR
  • Publication number: 20210062721
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for starting a turbine engine in cold weather, including a starting system intended for rotating a drive shaft of the turbine engine, the method comprising the following steps: a pre-starting step in which a first starting signal is generated to control the drive shaft in a first direction of rotation about a longitudinal axis (X) and in a second opposite direction of rotation in an alternating manner; and a starting step in which a second starting signal is transmitted to the starting system in order for the latter to drive the drive shaft of the turbine engine in a normal direction of rotation and in which the drive shaft is rotated until a rotation speed that causes the turbine engine to start.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Clement DUPAYS, Gwenole Yann LE PACHE
  • Publication number: 20210025334
    Abstract: A power distribution device between an electric starter of a turbomachine and an electric machine toward a shaft of the turbomachine, including the electric starter, the electric machine, and a controller for controlling the electric machine. An epicyclic train reducer includes a first element intended to be coupled to the shaft, a second element coupled to the electric starter, and a third element intended to be rotated by the electric machine. The controller is configured to rotate the third of the three elements so as to obtain two bearings of reduction ratios of the speeds between the first of said three elements and the second of the three elements. The controller is configured to drive the torque of the third of the three elements in accordance with a determined output torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Huguette DE WERGIFOSSE, Nicolas Bertrand Georges DE BLOIS, Clement DUPAYS, Pierre Gerard LALONDE