Patents by Inventor Claude Georges
Claude Georges 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).
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Publication number: 20240133311Abstract: A distributor for a turbine of a turbomachine. The distributor includes a radially inner platform, a blade and a root which is coated with a track made of an abradable material. According to the invention, the distributor includes a leakage gas reintroduction duct. The duct includes an inlet through the track made of an abradable material, an outlet opening through a downstream surface of the root, and a duct intermediate portion which extends from the inlet up to the outlet. The duct intermediate portion is orientated with a tangential component.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Jérôme Claude George LEMONNIER, Franck Davy BOISNAULT, Antoine Bruno VAN NOORT
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Publication number: 20240093619Abstract: A turbine ring assembly extending around an axis, including a plurality of ring sectors made of ceramic matrix composite material forming a turbine ring and a ring support structure held by a turbine casing, each ring sector including a base from which an upstream tab and a downstream tab extend radially outward, spaced axially from one another, wherein the assembly also includes a cross-member mechanically connected to the ring support and including a first radial flange bearing against the upstream latching tabs of the ring sectors, and, for each ring sector, at least two transverse pins and a radial spring, each transverse pin passing through the upstream latching tab and the downstream latching tab of the ring sector and the ring support to hold the ring sector and the ring support secured to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Jérôme Claude George LEMONNIER, Franck Davy BOISNAULT, Florian Armand Gabriel GAUDRY, Kévin Claude Luc BAUDY, Marion France CHAMBRE
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Patent number: 11913350Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbine injector comprising an annular ring extending around a longitudinal axis and having a radially outer edge and a radially inner edge. The crown has a plurality of channels for fluidly connecting the radially outer edge to the radially inner edge, each channel extending in a radial plane of the ring and having an inlet opening near the outer edge and an outlet opening near the radially inner edge, the orientation of each channel varying progressively according to a tangential component between the inlet section of the inlet opening and the outlet section of the outlet opening.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Jérôme Claude George Lemonnier, Franck Davy Boisnault, Nicolas Li Yen Kuhn, Antoine Bruno Van Noort
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Patent number: 11794887Abstract: A rotor blade assembly for a rotary wing aircraft includes a main rotor blade body comprising an upper blade skin, a lower blade skin, an inboard end, an outboard end, and a trailing edge. The rotor blade assembly further includes a trailing edge actuator assembly. The trailing edge actuator assembly includes an upper actuator skin and a lower actuator skin defining a cavity and a trailing edge flap, a control panel disposed in the cavity and coupled to one of the upper actuator skin or the lower actuator skin and one or more actuators disposed in the cavity and configured to apply force to the control panel to cause the trailing edge flap to deflect. The trailing edge actuator assembly is coupled to the trailing edge of the main rotor blade body.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONInventors: Matthew Walter DiPalma, Timothy James Conti, Claude George Matalanis
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Publication number: 20230322374Abstract: A rotor blade assembly for a rotary wing aircraft includes a main rotor blade body comprising an upper blade skin, a lower blade skin, an inboard end, an outboard end, and a trailing edge. The rotor blade assembly further includes a trailing edge actuator assembly. The trailing edge actuator assembly includes an upper actuator skin and a lower actuator skin defining a cavity and a trailing edge flap, a control panel disposed in the cavity and coupled to one of the upper actuator skin or the lower actuator skin and one or more actuators disposed in the cavity and configured to apply force to the control panel to cause the trailing edge flap to deflect. The trailing edge actuator assembly is coupled to the trailing edge of the main rotor blade body.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2022Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONInventors: Matthew Walter DiPalma, Timothy James Conti, Claude George Matalanis
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Publication number: 20230322373Abstract: A rotary wing aircraft includes a single main rotor hub configured to receive a rotor blade. The rotor blade includes a blade root, a blade tip, and a blade body. The blade body includes a leading edge and a trailing edge and defines a feathering axis. The leading edge and the trailing edge each include a first portion and a second portion that extend toward a first direction and a second portion, respectively. At a given radial location along the feathering axis, a local twist angle changes from a positive value to a negative value, a chord length decreases in value, a distance between the trailing edge and the feathering axis decreases in value, and the first portion of the leading edge extends toward the first direction. The rotor blade assembly also includes a trailing edge assembly having a trailing edge flap configured to be selectively deployed by an actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONInventors: Byung-Young Min, Vera Klimchenko, Annie Gao, Alexander F. Dunn, Claude George Matalanis, Brian Ernest Wake
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Patent number: 11633258Abstract: A powder chamber, in particular for powder polishing devices, including a casing and two functional sectors, whereby the two functional sectors are arranged to be opposite to each other, and whereby at least one functional sector is designed to provide an opening for a working medium such as air or a mixture of powder and air, and whereby the two functional sectors are designed to allow the powder chamber to be locked. The two functional sectors are preferably arranged along an axis and are rotationally symmetric.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: FERTON HOLDING S.A.Inventors: Etienne Lebreton, Florent Jean-Claude Georges Beani, Bertolote Tiago, Marcel Donnet
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Publication number: 20230098029Abstract: An electrical conductor assembly for a rotor blade includes a substrate and at least one electrical conductor. The substrate includes an inboard end portion and an outboard end portion. The at least one electrical conductor is attached to the substrate and extends between the inboard end portion and the outboard end portion. The at least one electrical conductor is configured to transmit electricity along a length of the rotor blade. The inboard end portion and the outboard end portion are structured such that when the electrical conductor assembly is installed within the rotor blade, the inboard end portion is securable relative to the rotor blade and the outboard end portion is movable relative to the rotor blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Eric S. Parsons, Christopher Michael Colschen, Claude George Matalanis, Benjamin Edward Isabella, Marc A. Antonetz, Timothy James Conti, Frank M. Caputo
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Publication number: 20230044006Abstract: Method for controlling a clearance between the tips of the blades of a rotor of an aircraft engine turbine and a turbine ring, comprising the estimation of the clearance to be controlled and the control of a valve delivering an air stream directed towards the turbine ring based on the thus estimated clearance, this method comprising: the detection of a transient acceleration phase based on at least one parameter representative of the engine; the receipt of a data relating to the altitude of the aircraft; the determination of data representative of the temperature of the rotor during the transient acceleration phase and in steady speed and the calculation of a relative temperature deviation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Jérôme Claude George LEMONNIER, Damien BONNEAU, Cécile RACINET, Antoine Bruno VAN NOORT
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Publication number: 20220364470Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbine injector comprising an annular ring extending around a longitudinal axis and having a radially outer edge and a radially inner edge. The crown has a plurality of channels for fluidly connecting the radially outer edge to the radially inner edge, each channel extending in a radial plane of the ring and having an inlet opening near the outer edge and an outlet opening near the radially inner edge, the orientation of each channel varying progressively according to a tangential component between the inlet section of the inlet opening and the outlet section of the outlet opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Jérôme Claude George LEMONNIER, Franck Davy BOISNAULT, Nicolas Li Yen KUHN, Antoine Bruno VAN NOORT
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Patent number: 11413115Abstract: Teeth cleaning system, in particular dental powder jet cleaning system, including a powder container having an inlet for compressed air, and where the powder container has an outlet for a powder/air mixture, and where the outlet communicates with a pipe system via which a fluid is passed, in particular a powder/air mixture which is formed in the powder container and from which powder container can be led, where a flow resistance of the inlet is configured relative to a flow resistance of the outlet and/or of the pipepipe system in such a way that a predetermined pressure loss is set across the inlet.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: FERTON HOLDING S.A.Inventors: Etienne Lebreton, Florent Jean-Claude Georges Beani, Tiago Bertolote, Marcel Donnet
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Publication number: 20210327141Abstract: A method is described for recording a video. The method comprises receiving one or more user content and then providing a 3D virtual world and a virtual camera having one or more parameters. The optimal 3D flight path of the virtual camera is then determined based on the user content and the virtual camera is then allowed to travel along the optimal 3D flight path and to record the video.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: Skydoor Pte LtdInventors: Roberto Mariani, Richard Claude Georges Leon Roussel
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Publication number: 20210275280Abstract: Teeth cleaning system, in particular dental powder jet cleaning system, including a powder container having an inlet for compressed air, and where the powder container has an outlet for a powder/air mixture, and where the outlet communicates with a pipe system via which a fluid is passed, in particular a powder/air mixture which is formed in the powder container and from which powder container can be led, where a flow resistance of the inlet is configured relative to a flow resistance of the outlet and/or of the pipepipe system in such a way that a predetermined pressure loss is set across the inlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2017Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Etienne Lebreton, Florent Jean-Claude Georges Beani, Tiago Bertolote, Marcel Donnet
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Patent number: 11109943Abstract: A powder-blasting device for cleaning the surfaces of teeth via application with a powder-gas mixture, including a stationary unit having a connection region for a mixing chamber for producing the powder-gas mixture, a hand part having a nozzle device for blasting the powder-gas mixture onto a surface of a tooth, and a joining unit for joining the hand part to the stationary unit wherein the joining unit has at least one joining guide between the stationary unit and the hand part, and wherein a tube section that can be blocked via elastic deformation is arranged in a powder-gas line between the mixing chamber and the nozzle device, wherein the joining unit is detachably joined to the stationary unit and the lockable tube section is arranged in the detachable joining unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: FERTON HOLDING S.A.Inventors: Etienne Lebreton, Martin Limon, Florent Jean-Claude Georges Beani, Pierre Fridez, Marcel Donnet
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Patent number: 10777373Abstract: A foot pedal for controlling a medical device, in particular a dental device, including a housing with a housing base, a cover element which is mounted so as to be vertically displaceable with respect to the housing base along an actuating direction and so as to be inclinable with respect to the housing base, a first switch for initiating a first functionality on the medical device and a second switch for initiating a second functionality on the medical device, and an actuating device which is vertically displaceable along the actuating direction and which actuates the first switch during a movement in the actuating direction within a first height offset section and actuates the second switch within a second height offset section, the actuating device being configured in such a way, in that it is in a first state in the first height offset section and in a second state in the second height offset section, where the foot pedal being configured such that, at a predeterminable angle of inclination of the cover eType: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: FERTON HOLDING S.A.Inventors: Etienne Lebreton, Florent Jean-Claude Georges Beani
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Patent number: 10683805Abstract: An anti-icing system for a turbine engine vane extending between an outer casing and an inner casing defining a passage, the system includes an injector device for injecting a jet of air into the passage upstream from the vane, the injector device including a first injection orifice for injecting the jet of air, the first orifice passing through one member selected from the outer casing and the inner casing, and being located in such a manner that, at a first speed of the engine wherein a stream of air flows generally in the passage along a first direction, the first orifice and a leading edge of the vane are substantially in alignment along the first direction, the first orifice is spaced apart from the junction between the leading edge of the vane and the member through which the first orifice passes by a distance of at least 10 mm, and preferably of about 15 mm.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Guillaume Claude Georges Philippe Linassier, Morgan Balland, Helene Mazet, Christophe Scholtes, Antoine Robert Alain Brunet, Simon Amodeo
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Publication number: 20200175762Abstract: A method is described for recording a video. The method comprises receiving one or more user content and then providing a 3D virtual world and a virtual camera having one or more parameters. The optimal 3D flight path of the virtual camera is then determined based on the user content and the virtual camera is then allowed to travel along the optimal 3D flight path and to record the video.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: Skydoor Pte LtdInventors: Roberto Mariani, Richard Claude Georges Leon Roussel
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Publication number: 20200043682Abstract: A foot pedal for controlling a medical device, in particular a dental device, including a housing with a housing base, a cover element which is mounted so as to be vertically displaceable with respect to the housing base along an actuating direction and so as to be inclinable with respect to the housing base, a first switch for initiating a first functionality on the medical device and a second switch for initiating a second functionality on the medical device, and an actuating device which is vertically displaceable along the actuating direction and which actuates the first switch during a movement in the actuating direction within a first height offset section and actuates the second switch within a second height offset section, the actuating device being configured in such a way, in that it is in a first state in the first height offset section and in a second state in the second height offset section, wherein the foot pedal being configured such that, at a predeterminable angle of inclination of the coverType: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Etienne Lebreton, Florent Jean-Claude Georges Beani
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Patent number: 10373376Abstract: A method is described for recording a video. The method comprises receiving one or more user content and then providing a 3D virtual world and a virtual camera having one or more parameters. The optimal 3D flight path of the virtual camera is then determined based on the user content and the virtual camera is then allowed to travel along the optimal 3D flight path and to record the video.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2012Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: SKYDOOR PTE LTDInventors: Roberto Mariani, Richard Claude Georges Leon Roussel
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Publication number: 20190038381Abstract: A powder chamber, in particular for powder polishing devices, including a casing and two functional sectors, whereby the two functional sectors are arranged to be opposite to each other, and whereby at least one functional sector is designed to provide an opening for a working medium such as air or a mixture of powder and air, and whereby the two functional sectors are designed to allow the powder chamber to be locked. The two functional sectors are preferably arranged along an axis and are rotationally symmetric.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: FERTON HOLDING S.A.Inventors: Etienne LEBRETON, Florent Jean-Claude Georges BEANI, Bertolote TIAGO, Marcel DONNET