Patents by Inventor Didier René André Escure

Didier René André Escure 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: 20240263560
    Abstract: Blade of a turbomachine turbine including a airfoil extending along a first direction between an internal end and an external end, a base secured to said internal end, and a root secured to said external end and extending, along a second direction perpendicular to said first direction, between an upstream edge, and a downstream edge and, along a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, between first and second lateral edges, the first side edge having, in a plane including the second and third directions, a shape complementary to that of the second lateral edge. The first lateral edge includes a first portion extending from the upstream edge, and a second portion externally protruding along the third direction at an acute angle with the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph Marie GIRARD, Didier René André ESCURE, Matthieu Arnaud GIMAT, Sébastien Serge Francis CONGRATEL, Arthur DE CASTRO
  • Publication number: 20240209776
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aeronautical propulsion system (1) comprising: a drive shaft (11); a drive turbine (8); and a fan section (2). Figure for the abstract: FIG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Baptiste Dorian LAWNICZEK, Didier René André ESCURE, Alexandre Thanh Nhan NGUYEN
  • Publication number: 20240209743
    Abstract: A blade includes a root to be mounted in a slot of plural slots which open out at an outer periphery of a rotor disk of a movable wheel of a low-pressure turbine of an aeronautical propulsion system, the rotor disk being centered on a longitudinal axis and the slots being circumferentially distributed about the longitudinal axis, the rotor disk having an upstream surface and a downstream surface, each slot being delimited by a bottom surface, the rotor disk including blades circumferentially distributed at the outer periphery of the rotor disk, each blade being mounted in a corresponding slot, the root including a first platform which has a radially outer surface; a shroud having a second platform which has a radially inner surface; and an airfoil extending from the root to the shroud, the airfoil having a leading edge and a trailing edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Baptiste Dorian LAWNICZEK, Didier René André ESCURE, Clémentine Charlotte Marie MOUTON
  • Publication number: 20240209736
    Abstract: A blade includes a root to be mounted in a slot of plural slots which opens out at an outer periphery of a rotor disk of a movable wheel of a low-pressure turbine of an aeronautical propulsion system, the rotor disk being centered on a longitudinal axis and the slots being circumferentially distributed about the longitudinal axis, the root including a first platform which has a radially outer surface; a shroud including a second platform which has a radially inner surface; and an airfoil extending from the root to the shroud, the airfoil having a leading edge and a trailing edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Baptiste Dorian Lawniczek, Didier René André Escure, Clémentine Charlotte Marie Mouton
  • Publication number: 20240209745
    Abstract: A blade includes a root to be mounted in a slot of plural slots which opens out at an outer periphery of a rotor disk of a movable wheel of a low-pressure turbine of an aeronautical propulsion system, the rotor disk being centered on a longitudinal axis and the slots being circumferentially distributed about the longitudinal axis, the rotor disk further including blades circumferentially distributed at the outer periphery of the rotor disk, each blade being mounted in a corresponding slot, the root including a first platform which has a radially outer surface, a shroud having a second platform which has a radially inner surface, and an airfoil extending from the root to the shroud, the airfoil having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The shroud is formed of a material and has a defined difficulty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Baptiste Dorian LAWNICZEK, Didier René André ESCURE, Clémentine Charlotte Marie MOUTON
  • Publication number: 20240200509
    Abstract: A propulsion system includes a drive shaft, a drive turbine including a drive turbine rotor having a turbine disk and turbine blades, and a fan section. The turbine disk has an inner surface, an outer surface, a bore radius, and a rim radius. One or more of the turbine blades includes a root fixed to the turbine disk in a respective slot, a stilt connected to the root and including a platform, and an airfoil connected to the platform and extending within a flowpath. The flowpath includes an outer radius and an inner radius. The drive shaft has a limit speed. The bore radius, the rim radius, the outer radius, the inner radius, and the limit speed satisfy a given relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Baptiste Dorian LAWNICZEK, Didier René André ESCURE, Alexandre Thanh Nhan NGUYEN
  • Publication number: 20240200499
    Abstract: A propulsion system includes a drive shaft, a drive turbine including a drive turbine stator and a drive turbine rotor, the rotor being connected to the drive shaft and including a turbine disk and turbine blades, and a fan section including a fan rotor and a fan stator, the drive shaft being connected to the fan rotor. The turbine disk has an inner surface, an outer surface delimiting slots distributed about a longitudinal axis, one or more of the turbine blades including a root fixed to the turbine disk in a respective slot. A bore width of the inner surface, and a rim radius of the outer surface of the turbine disk, and a limit speed of the drive shaft are defined in relation to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Baptiste Dorian LAWNICZEK, Didier René André ESCURE, Alexandre Thanh Nhan NGUYEN
  • Publication number: 20220260012
    Abstract: A combustion chamber of an aircraft turbomachine having a main axis includes: a body of revolution coaxial with the main axis having a plurality of combustion tubes extending mainly in the direction of the main axis and being distributed in a ring about the main axis; a first perforated rotary disc mounted at a first axial end of the body and rotatable about the main axis to selectively open or close a first end of each of the combustion tubes; and a second perforated rotary disc mounted at a second axial end of the body and rotatable about the main axis to selectively open or close a second end of each of the combustion tubes. The body includes a plurality of cooling segments extending mainly in the direction of the main axis, which are distributed in a ring about the main axis and around the combustion tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Didier René André ESCURE, Nicolas Jérôme Jean TANTOT
  • Patent number: 10584641
    Abstract: Engine comprising a propeller unit with a pair of contrarotating propellers (31, 32), a gas generator (5) supplying a power turbine (53), the pair of propellers being rotationally driven by the shaft (53A) of the power turbine via a speed reduction gearbox, the axis of rotation (XX) of the pair of propellers not being coaxial with that (YY) of the power turbine, the speed reduction gearbox comprising a differential gearset (7) and a first stage (6) comprising a simple gearset connecting the turbine shaft (53A) and the differential gearset (7), the engine air intake comprising an air intake duct (11), the air intake duct (11) being in the shape of a lobe adjacent to the assembly formed by the simple gearset and the differential gearset (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Didier Rene Andre Escure, Jean-Francois Endy Bersot, Tewfik Boudebiza, Gilles Alain Charier, Thomas Julien Nguyen Van, Jean Philippe Pierre-Alain Reigner
  • Patent number: 10408127
    Abstract: The assembly (25) links a static housing (24) of the turbomachine, into which supply lines, in particular fluid supply lines (23), arrive, to the blades of the propeller, and comprises: —a system for controlling fluid pitch (27), rigidly connected to the static housing (24), capable of being linked to the supply lines, —a linear actuator (28) having two chambers separated by a piston (71) of which the sliding is dictated by the control system and allows the blades to rotate, and —two concentric tubes (36, 37) housed in the planetary shaft of the epicyclic reduction gear and linking the system (27) to the actuator (28) by delimiting two fluid passages (45, 48) linked, respectively, with the two chambers (72, 73) of the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Belmonte Olivier, Didier Rene Andre Escure, Jeremy Phoria Lao
  • Publication number: 20180128183
    Abstract: Engine comprising a propeller unit with a pair of contrarotating propellers (31, 32), a gas generator (5) supplying a power turbine (53), the pair of propellers being rotationally driven by the shaft (53A) of the power turbine via a speed reduction gearbox, the axis of rotation (XX) of the pair of propellers not being coaxial with that (YY) of the power turbine, the speed reduction gearbox comprising a differential gearset (7) and a first stage (6) comprising a simple gearset connecting the turbine shaft (53A) and the differential gearset (7), the engine air intake comprising an air intake duct (11), the air intake duct (11) being in the shape of a lobe adjacent to the assembly formed by the simple gearset and the differential gearset (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Didier Rene Andre ESCURE, Jean-Francois Endy BERSOT, Tewfik BOUDEBIZA, Gilles Alain CHARIER, Thomas Julien NGUYEN VAN, Jean Philippe Pierre-Alain REIGNER
  • Patent number: 9849970
    Abstract: A turbo engine includes a system for changing a pitch of blades of a propeller, the system including an annular fluid cylinder with a linear drive and a link mechanism linking the cylinder to the blades of the propeller to change an orientation of the propeller. The annular cylinder of the system can be rigidly mounted on a fixed housing supporting the propeller and internal to the propeller, unlike the blades mounted in an external rotating hub of the propeller, and the link mechanism includes a displacement transfer bearing fixed, on one side, to the mobile part of the cylinder and cooperating, on the other side, with a mechanism linking to the blades of the rotating hub of the propeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignees: SNECMA, GE Aviation Systems Limited
    Inventors: Didier Rene Andre Escure, Denis Louis Bocquet, Gilles Alain Charier, Aleksander Szymandera, Marek Malitka, Jan Sikorski, Christopher Carrington
  • Publication number: 20160195012
    Abstract: The assembly (25) links a static housing (24) of the turbomachine, into which supply lines, in particular fluid supply lines (23), arrive, to the blades of the propeller, and comprises: —a system for controlling fluid pitch (27), rigidly connected to the static housing (24), capable of being linked to the supply lines, —a linear actuator (28) having two chambers separated by a piston (71) of which the sliding is dictated by the control system and allows the blades to rotate, and —two concentric tubes (36, 37) housed in the planetary shaft of the epicyclic reduction gear and linking the system (27) to the actuator (28) by delimiting two fluid passages (45, 48) linked, respectively, with the two chambers (72, 73) of the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Belmonte OLIVIER, Didier Rene Andre ESCURE, Jeremy Phoria LAO
  • Publication number: 20140294585
    Abstract: A turbo engine includes a system for changing a pitch of blades of a propeller, the system including an annular fluid cylinder with a linear drive and a link mechanism linking the cylinder to the blades of the propeller to change an orientation of the propeller. The annular cylinder of the system can be rigidly mounted on a fixed housing supporting the propeller and internal to it, unlike the blades mounted in an external rotating hub of the propeller, and the link mechanism includes a displacement transfer bearing fixed, on one side, to the mobile part of the cylinder and cooperating, on the other side, with a mechanism linking to the blades of the rotating hub of the propeller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicants: GE Aviation Systems Limited, SNECMA
    Inventors: Didier Rene Andre Escure, Denis Louis Bocquet, Gilles Alain Charier, Aleksander Szymandera, Marek Malitka, Jan Sikorski, Christopher Carrington
  • Patent number: 8182202
    Abstract: A coupling device for coupling a turbine upstream guide vane which is coupled to a supporting part which itself attached to a stabilizing part is disclosed. The coupling device includes a interlocking device for interlocking a supporting end of the supporting part with a stabilizing end of the stabilizing part, and a retaining part to keep the supporting end and the stabilizing end interlocked. The coupling device may be used to couple an upstream guide vane of a turbojet turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Rene Bart, Didier Rene Andre Escure, Stephane Rousselin
  • Patent number: 8172509
    Abstract: A device for detecting breakage of a turbomachine shaft is disclosed. The device includes a shaft having an upstream end and a downstream end; a rod having an upstream end and a downstream end, and placed coaxially inside the shaft, the downstream end of the rod being securely fastened to the downstream end of the shaft and the upstream end of the rod being free to rotate relative to the upstream and of the shaft; and a sensor suitable for detecting a difference in speed of rotation between the upstream end of the rod and the upstream end of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Rene Bart, Didier Rene Andre Escure, Cedric Magret, Stephane Rousselin
  • Patent number: 8161727
    Abstract: A device for, in a gas turbine engine, braking a turbine including a rotor driving a shaft capable of rotating with respect to a stator in the event of said shaft breaking is disclosed. The device includes a first braking member provided with at least one abrasive element and a second braking member including a ring-shaped element (120A) made of a material capable of being eroded by the abrasive element. One of the two braking members being secured to the rotor and the other of the two braking members being secured to the stator. The braking members come into contact with one another through axial displacement of the rotor once the shaft has broken. The abrasive element of the first braking member eroding the ring-shaped element of the second braking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Rene Bart, Didier Rene Andre Escure, Claude Marcel Mons, Stephane Rousselin
  • Patent number: 8157506
    Abstract: A device for supplying ventilation air to a turbine rotor of a gas turbine engine including a first turbine disk, a second turbine disk, and a downstream shell ring together forming a one-piece drum is disclosed. The second turbine disk includes cavities machined in the rim to house the turbine blades, where the blades are axially retained by axial retaining segments. The downstream shell ring has at least one aperture drilled therethrough, downstream of the rim, which places an internal volume of the drum in fluid communication with at least one of the cavities via a passage formed in the segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Rene Bart, Didier Rene Andre Escure, Stephane Rousselin
  • Patent number: 8127525
    Abstract: A device for, in a gas turbine engine, braking a turbine including a rotor, having at least one disk with a rim driving a shaft and capable of rotating with respect to a stator, is disclosed. The device is for the event of the shaft breaking and includes a first braking member, secured to the rim and provided with at least one cutting element, and a second braking member secured to the stator downstream of the rim and including a ring-shaped element made of a material that can be cut by the cutting element. The two braking members coming into contact with one another through axial displacement of the rotor once the shaft has broken. The cutting element of the first braking member cuts the ring-shaped element of the second braking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Rene Bart, Didier Rene Andre Escure, Claude Marcel Mons, Stephane Rousselin
  • Publication number: 20120017603
    Abstract: A double-body gas turbine engine, including a low-pressure body LP and a high-pressure body HP, rotatably mounted about a single shaft in a stationary casing, the low-pressure body LP including a compressor and a turbine connected by a low-pressure shaft LP. The low-pressure shaft LP is supported by an upstream LP bearing, a first downstream LP bearing, and an additional downstream LP bearing by the stationary casing, the high-pressure body being supported by an upstream HP bearing and a downstream HP bearing which is an inter-shaft bearing including an inner track rigidly connected to the HP turbine rotor and an outer track rigidly connected to the LP shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Rene Bart, Didier Rene, Andre Escure, Ornella Gastineau