Patents by Inventor Dominique Gerhardt MAYHEW

Dominique Gerhardt MAYHEW 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: 11767098
    Abstract: A blade includes a fibrous reinforcement having a three-dimensional weave densified by a matrix, the fibrous reinforcement including, in a single woven piece, a root and an aerodynamic profile part extending along a longitudinal direction between the root part and a blade tip portion and along a transverse direction between a leading and a trailing edge portion. The profile part includes first and second suction side and pressure side faces. The fibrous reinforcement includes a separation forming a housing inside the fibrous reinforcement, a bladder filled with a shaping foam being present in the housing. The separation extends over a separation zone inside the profile part of the fibrous reinforcement comprised between the root part and the blade tip portion in the longitudinal direction and between the leading and the trailing edge portion in the transverse direction. The separation opens to the outside of the profile part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Vivien Mickaël Courtier, Dominique Gerhardt Mayhew, Adrien Louis Nicolas Laurenceau
  • Publication number: 20220333493
    Abstract: Fibrous preform for a composite blade and also a composite blade formed by means of such a preform, a rotor and a rotating machine comprising such a blade, the preform comprising a first longitudinal section, configured to form a blade root, and a second longitudinal section, extending from the first longitudinal section, configured to form a portion of an airfoil, wherein the first longitudinal section has a first thickness at its upper end and wherein the second longitudinal section comprises at least one set-back zone having a thickness at least three times less than the first thickness, said set-back zone occupying at least 50% of the second longitudinal section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Vivien Mickaël COURTIER, Dominique Gerhardt MAYHEW, Adrien Jacques Philippe FABRE, Adrien Louis Nicolas LAURENCEAU
  • Publication number: 20220097824
    Abstract: A blade includes a fibrous reinforcement having a three-dimensional weave densified by a matrix, the fibrous reinforcement including, in a single woven piece, a root and an aerodynamic profile part extending along a longitudinal direction between the root part and a blade tip portion and along a transverse direction between a leading and a trailing edge portion. The profile part includes first and second suction side and pressure side faces. The fibrous reinforcement includes a separation forming a housing inside the fibrous reinforcement, a bladder filled with a shaping foam being present in the housing. The separation extends over a separation zone inside the profile part of the fibrous reinforcement comprised between the root part and the blade tip portion in the longitudinal direction and between the leading and the trailing edge portion in the transverse direction. The separation opens to the outside of the profile part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Vivien Mickaël COURTIER, Dominique Gerhardt MAYHEW, Adrien Louis Nicolas LAURENCEAU
  • Patent number: 11268450
    Abstract: A turbomachine comprising a ducted fan, a low-pressure turbine shaft and a reduction gearbox housed in a casing between the fan and the low-pressure turbine shaft, the fan rotor supplying airflow to a primary stream and a secondary stream and comprising a hub of diameter D1, wherein—the diameter D3 of the fan rotor is greater than 82 inches (2.08 metres), —the pressure ratio of the fan is between 1.10 and 1.35, the turbomachine comprises a low-pressure compressor separate from the fan, the reduction gearbox being interposed between the fan rotor and a turbine shaft of the low-pressure compressor, and wherein the reduction gearbox casing has an outside diameter D2 greater than the diameter D1 of the hub, the pitch diameter D4 of the reduction gearbox ring being between 0.15 and 0.35 times the fan rotor diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Kevin Morgane Lemarchand, Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Nathalie Nowakowski, Nicolas Jérôme Jean Tantot, Matthieu Pierre Michel Dubosc, Dominique Gerhardt Mayhew
  • Patent number: 11208198
    Abstract: A vane includes a fiber reinforcement having a three-dimensional weaving densified by a matrix, the fiber reinforcement including in a single woven part a root portion and an airfoil portion extending along a longitudinal direction between the root portion and a vane tip portion and along a transverse direction between a leading edge portion and a trailing edge portion. The airfoil portion includes first and second extrados and intrados faces. The fiber reinforcement includes a non-interlinking forming a housing inside the fiber reinforcement, a conformation part being present in the housing. The non-interlinking extends over a non-interlinked area inside the airfoil portion of the fiber reinforcement included between the root portion and the vane tip portion in the longitudinal direction and between the leading edge portion and the trailing edge portion in the transverse direction, the non-interlinking also opening outside the airfoil portion of the fiber reinforcement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Vivien Mickaël Courtier, Dominique Gerhardt Mayhew, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre
  • Patent number: 10766603
    Abstract: A system changes the pitch of blades of a turbine engine propeller having a plurality of blades. The system includes a plurality of links, each link being connected to one of the propeller blades at a first interface, and a control means acting on the link and having a body movable in translation along a longitudinal axis. A load transfer module is arranged between the links and the control means and is connected to the links at a plurality of second interfaces. A first adjustment element is configured to adjust an axial position of the second interfaces along the axis to provide adjustment of the pitch of all of the blades simultaneously. A plurality of second adjustment elements are configured to adjust an axial distance between each first interface and the corresponding second interface to allow the pitch of each blade to be adjusted individually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien Emile Philippe Tajan, Régis Eugène Henri Servant, Dominique Gerhardt Mayhew, Eddy Keomorakott Souryavongsa, Xavier Bertrand Miqueu
  • Publication number: 20200223531
    Abstract: A vane includes a fiber reinforcement having a three-dimensional weaving densified by a matrix, the fiber reinforcement including in a single woven part a root portion and an airfoil portion extending along a longitudinal direction between the root portion and a vane tip portion and along a transverse direction between a leading edge portion and a trailing edge portion. The airfoil portion includes first and second extrados and intrados faces. The fiber reinforcement includes a non-interlinking forming a housing inside the fiber reinforcement, a conformation part being present in the housing. The non-interlinking extends over a non-interlinked area inside the airfoil portion of the fiber reinforcement included between the root portion and the vane tip portion in the longitudinal direction and between the leading edge portion and the trailing edge portion in the transverse direction, the non-interlinking also opening outside the airfoil portion of the fiber reinforcement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Vivien Mickaël COURTIER, Dominique Gerhardt MAYHEW, Adrien Jacques Philippe FABRE
  • Publication number: 20200080496
    Abstract: A turbomachine comprising a ducted fan, a low-pressure turbine shaft and a reduction gearbox housed in a casing between the fan and the low-pressure turbine shaft, the fan rotor supplying airflow to a primary stream and a secondary stream and comprising a hub of diameter D1, wherein—the diameter D3 of the fan rotor is greater than 82 inches (2.08 metres),—the pressure ratio of the fan is between 1.10 and 1.35, the turbomachine comprises a low-pressure compressor separate from the fan, the reduction gearbox being interposed between the fan rotor and a turbine shaft of the low-pressure compressor, and wherein the reduction gearbox casing has an outside diameter D2 greater than the diameter D1 of the hub, the pitch diameter D4 of the reduction gearbox ring being between 0.15 and 0.35 times the fan rotor diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Kevin Morgane LEMARCHAND, Gilles Alain Marie CHARIER, Nathalie NOWAKOWSKI, Nicolas Jérôme Jean TANTOT, Matthieu Pierre Michel DUBOSC, Dominique Gerhardt MAYHEW