Patents by Inventor Damien DESVIGNE

Damien DESVIGNE 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).

  • Publication number: 20210206482
    Abstract: A sleeve connecting a blade to the hub of a rotor of a rotary wing aircraft. The sleeve has a leading edge and a trailing edge, together with a protuberance arranged on the trailing edge. The dimensions of the protuberance are linked to the dimensions of the sleeve. The presence of the protuberance serves to improve the aerodynamic behavior of the sleeve and of the rotor during rotation of the rotor while the aircraft is moving forwards, both when the sleeve is advancing and when it is retreating. The presence of the protuberance also serves to reduce the vibration generated by a wake of the rotor on a tail boom or on a horizontal and/or vertical stabilizer of the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS
    Inventors: Damien DESVIGNE, David ALFANO
  • Publication number: 20190193851
    Abstract: A thick airfoil shape that is to form a blade neck for blades, the blade neck connecting a blade root to a streamlined portion of the blade, and/or a blade cuff connecting a blade to the hub of an aircraft rotor. The thick airfoil shape has a leading edge and a trailing edge together with thick airfoil profiles for which the particular positions of points defining the maximum thickness of each airfoil profile make it possible to improve the aerodynamic behavior of the thick airfoil shapes and of the rotor during rotation of the rotor while the aircraft is advancing, for the blade both when it is advancing and when it is retreating. The thick airfoil shape also serves to reduce the vibration as generated by a wake from the rotor on a tail boom or a horizontal and/or vertical stabilizer of the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS
    Inventors: David ALFANO, Damien DESVIGNE
  • Publication number: 20180312269
    Abstract: An aircraft having a static air inlet system. The static air inlet system comprises a static air intake, the static air intake having a through opening formed in a top structural assembly, the through opening forming an interface between a medium and an inside space of the top structural assembly. The static air inlet system has at least one separator subdividing the through opening into at least two distinct slots, the separator comprising a first portion extended by a second portion, the first portion extending inside the inside space and the second portion extending outside the inside space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS
    Inventor: Damien DESVIGNE
  • Publication number: 20170088258
    Abstract: A head for a rotor of a rotorcraft, the head comprising a cap extending radially from an axis of rotation in elevation towards a periphery and extending in azimuth over 360 degrees, the cap extending in thickness between an inside face that is to face a hub of the rotor and an outside face overlying the inside face, the periphery being crenellated to define a succession of crenellations and of notches, each notch allowing a blade of the rotor to perform flapping motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS
    Inventors: David ALFANO, Damien DESVIGNE, Raphael FUKARI
  • Publication number: 20160137297
    Abstract: A dome for a rotor of a rotorcraft, the dome comprising a cap extending radially from an axis of rotation in elevation towards a periphery and in azimuth over 360 degrees, the cap extending in thickness from a bottom face for facing a hub of the rotor towards a top face above the bottom face. At least one of the top and bottom faces is an undulating face that undulates at least in azimuth between the periphery and the axis of rotation in elevation, by including in azimuth along at least one internal circle a succession of bulges and of recesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: David ALFANO, Damien DESVIGNE, Raphael FUKARI
  • Publication number: 20160137296
    Abstract: A dome for a rotor comprising a cap extending radially from an axis of rotation in elevation towards a periphery and in azimuth over 360 degrees, the cap extending in thickness from a bottom face towards a top face above the bottom face. The dome includes at least one slot extending between the periphery and the axis of rotation in elevation, each slot passing right through a thickness of the cap by extending in elevation from the bottom face to the top face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: David ALFANO, Damien DESVIGNE, Raphael FUKARI