Patents by Inventor Claude Berat

Claude Berat 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: 10156358
    Abstract: An annular wall for a combustion chamber of a turbomachine. The wall presents a hot side and a cold side and includes at least one primary hole for enabling a first flow of air flowing on the cold side of the wall to penetrate to the hot side of the wall to feed combustion of fuel inside the combustion chamber, and together with a plurality of cooling holes, each having a diameter no greater than 1 mm, to enable a second flow of air flowing on the cold side of the wall to penetrate to the hot side of the wall to cool the hot side of the wall. The plurality of cooling holes can also dilute combustion gas resulting from the combustion by using the flow of air penetrating to the hot side of the wall through the cooling holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas Savary, Claude Berat, Guy Grienche, Patrick Berteau, Hubert Pascal Verdier
  • Patent number: 9677505
    Abstract: An air/fuel mixer system of a combustion chamber of a gas turbine includes at least one compressed air intake swirler, the swirler having a central axis of symmetry, and a fuel injector including an injection head having an axis of symmetry. Each injector is mounted in the corresponding swirler with aid of a guide mechanism, so that the axis of symmetry of the injection head is off-center with respect to the central axis of symmetry of the swirler. The system can reduce, or even eliminate, combustion instabilities, by injecting the fuel along a particular axis which is off-center relative to the axis of the air/fuel mixer system, inducing a flow of fuel which is no longer perfectly axially symmetrical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: TURBOMECA
    Inventors: Nicolas Savary, Claude Berat, Hubert Hippolyte Vignau, Christophe Nicolas Henri Viguier
  • Publication number: 20170038075
    Abstract: The fixed vanes of a diffuser are set to an azimuth angle setting (?) with respect to the injectors of a combustion chamber so that the paths leading from the trailing edges pass through the gaps between injectors and more preferably mid-way between same, so that these portions of the flow, which may contain condensed water, do not affect the initiation of the combustion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: TURBOMECA
    Inventors: Patrick DUCHAINE, Claude BERAT, Christophe Nicolas Henri VIGUIER
  • Publication number: 20140208763
    Abstract: An annular wall for a combustion chamber of a turbomachine. The wall presents a hot side and a cold side and includes at least one primary hole for enabling a first flow of air flowing on the cold side of the wall to penetrate to the hot side of the wall to feed combustion of fuel inside the combustion chamber, and together with a plurality of cooling holes, each having a diameter no greater than 1 mm, to enable a second flow of air flowing on the cold side of the wall to penetrate to the hot side of the wall to cool the hot side of the wall. The plurality of cooling holes can also dilute combustion gas resulting from the combustion by using the flow of air penetrating to the hot side of the wall through the cooling holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: TURBOMECA
    Inventors: Nicolas Savary, Claude Berat, Guy Grienche, Patrick Berteau, Hubert Pascal Verdier
  • Publication number: 20140116384
    Abstract: An air/fuel mixer system of a combustion chamber of a gas turbine includes at least one compressed air intake swirler, the swirler having a central axis of symmetry, and a fuel injector including an injection head having an axis of symmetry. Each injector is mounted in the corresponding swirler with aid of a guide mechanism, so that the axis of symmetry of the injection head is off-center with respect to the central axis of symmetry of the swirler. The system can reduce, or even eliminate, combustion instabilities, by injecting the fuel along a particular axis which is off-center relative to the axis of the air/fuel mixer system, inducing a flow of fuel which is no longer perfectly axially symmetrical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: TURBOMECA
    Inventors: Nicolas Savary, Claude Berat, Hubert Hippolyte Vignau, Christophe Nicolas Henri Viguier