Patents by Inventor Eddy Stephane Joel Fontanel

Eddy Stephane Joel Fontanel 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: 11773747
    Abstract: A turbine rotor for aircraft turbine engine includes a mobile disc supporting mobile blades, the mobile disc including a plurality of slots into which are inserted the roots of the mobile blades a passage being formed between the bottom of the slots and the roots of the mobile blades inserted into the slots. The rotor also includes a circulation channel configured to allow circulation of fluid, the circulation channel including the passage, and a calibration device configured to allow the flow of a first fluid flow rate in the circulation channel when the temperature within the channel is less than a predetermined temperature threshold value, and to change state so as to allow the flow of a second fluid flow rate, greater than the first flow rate, in the channel, when the temperature within the channel is greater than or equal to said predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Eddy Stephane Joel Fontanel, Matthieu Etienne Attali, Gerard Philippe Gauthier, Wilfried Lionel Schweblen
  • Patent number: 11635001
    Abstract: An aircraft turbomachine module comprising a ventilation device configured to have a cooling air flow circulate in the turbomachine module, the ventilation device comprising an air outlet, blocking means fixed to the air outlet and mobile between a blocking position of the air outlet and an opening position of the air outlet, and locking means configured to maintain the blocking means in one of the blocking position and the opening position when the temperature within the module is less than a predetermined threshold value, the blocking means being configured to adopt the other of the blocking position and the opening position when the temperature within the module is greater than said predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Eddy Stéphane Joël Fontanel, Matthieu Etienne Attali, Gérard Phillippe Gauthier, Wilfried Lionel Schweblen
  • Publication number: 20230052526
    Abstract: A turbine rotor for aircraft turbine engine includes a mobile disc supporting mobile blades, the mobile disc including a plurality of slots into which are inserted the roots of the mobile blades a passage being formed between the bottom of the slots and the roots of the mobile blades inserted into the slots. The rotor also includes a circulation channel configured to allow circulation of fluid, the circulation channel including the passage, and a calibration device configured to allow the flow of a first fluid flow rate in the circulation channel when the temperature within the channel is less than a predetermined temperature threshold value, and to change state so as to allow the flow of a second fluid flow rate, greater than the first flow rate, in the channel, when the temperature within the channel is greater than or equal to said predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Eddy Stephane Joel FONTANEL, Matthieu Etienne ATTALI, Gerrard Philippe GAUTHIER, Wilfried Lionel SCHWEBLEN
  • Publication number: 20220065130
    Abstract: An aircraft turbomachine module comprising a ventilation device configured to have a cooling air flow circulate in the turbomachine module, the ventilation device comprising an air outlet, blocking means fixed to the air outlet and mobile between a blocking position of the air outlet and an opening position of the air outlet, and locking means configured to maintain the blocking means in one of the blocking position and the opening position when the temperature within the module is less than a predetermined threshold value, the blocking means being configured to adopt the other of the blocking position and the opening position when the temperature within the module is greater than said predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Eddy Stéphane Joël FONTANEL, Matthieu Etienne ATTALI, Gérard Phillippe GAUTHIER, Wilfried Lionel SCHWEBLEN
  • Patent number: 10502081
    Abstract: A turbomachine bearing housing comprising a fixed wall, a rotating shaft, first and second seals between the wall and the shaft, and a chamber between the fixed wall and a stator element supplied with air via an opening close to the shaft. An air guide is arranged along the surface of the wall of the housing, outside same, such that at least a portion of the air exiting the guide passes between the first seal and the shaft, the air guide being supplied with air by an air intake separated radially from the shaft, the air from the air intake being at a higher pressure than at the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jérémy Lucien Jacques Bioud, Sébastien Bourget, Gaël Evain, Eddy Stéphane Joël Fontanel, Florence Irène Noëlle Leutard, Christophe Lima, Giuliana Elisa Rossi
  • Patent number: 10316688
    Abstract: A turbomachine including an exhaust housing, including a plurality of arms, the space separating the arms defining openings in which there circulates a primary air flow of the turbomachine, at least one conduit, a) configured to collect a compressed air flow at one of the ends of same, b) the other end of the conduit being connected to at least one opening of the exhaust housing, so as to insert the collected air flow into the primary air flow, the collected air flow having, when inserted into the opening, a Mach number less than or equal to 0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Abdelkader Benyahia, Jean-Michel Boiteux, Maxime Delabriere, Matthieu Fiack, Eddy Stephane Joel Fontanel, Alberto Martin Matos, Helene Orsi, Philippe Rembry, Olivier Renon, Giuliana Elisa Rossi
  • Patent number: 10294820
    Abstract: A device for protecting against oil leaks towards the rotors of a turbomachine turbine includes an upstream cavity in which an oil/air mixture can circulate, the upstream cavity being delimited downstream by a journal of the turbine rotor and on the outside by a sealing flange of the journal extending axially in an upstream direction, a downstream cavity opening towards the discs of the turbine and communicating with the upstream cavity via a plurality of ventilation holes provided in the journal, and an upstream annular deflector fixed to the sealing flange of the journal and extending radially inwards towards the ventilation holes The upstream deflector has oil passage ports provided at the end of same secured to the sealing flange of the journal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Mathieu Jean Pierre Trohel, Eddy Stephane Joel Fontanel
  • Patent number: 9765645
    Abstract: A journal configured to be driven in rotation in a housing of a turbine engine, or for an aircraft, the journal including: a circumferential main body including plural ventilation openings configured to allow plural axial airflows to circulate from upstream to downstream in the turbine engine, two consecutive ventilation openings being connected by a connecting segment, and a circumferential ring for recovering a flow of lubrication oil, which ring is rigidly connected to the main body and is radially inside the ventilation openings, the circumferential ring including plural radial discharge openings for allowing plural radial flows of oil to be discharged towards the outside, each discharge opening being radially aligned with a connecting segment of the main body to allow each flow of oil to be discharged radially between the airflows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Eddy Stephane Joel Fontanel, Giuliana Elisa Rossi, Philippe Pierre Vincent Bouiller, Emmanuel Da Costa, Julien Foll
  • Publication number: 20160341067
    Abstract: A turbomachine including an exhaust housing, including a plurality of arms, the space separating the arms defining openings in which there circulates a primary air flow of the turbomachine, at least one conduit, a) configured to collect a compressed air flow at one of the ends of same, b) the other end of the conduit being connected to at least one opening of the exhaust housing, so as to insert the collected air flow into the primary air flow, the collected air flow having, when inserted into the opening, a Mach number less than or equal to 0.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Abdelkader BENYAHIA, Jean-Michel BOITEUX, Maxime DELABRIERE, Matthieu FIACK, Eddy Stephane Joel FONTANEL, Alberto MARTIN MATOS, Helene ORSI, Philippe REMBRY, Olivier RENON, Giuliana Elisa ROSSI
  • Publication number: 20160169041
    Abstract: A device for protecting against oil leaks towards the rotors of a turbomachine turbine includes an upstream cavity in which an oil/air mixture can circulate, the upstream cavity being delimited downstream by a journal of the turbine rotor and on the outside by a sealing flange of the journal extending axially in an upstream direction, a downstream cavity opening towards the discs of the turbine and communicating with the upstream cavity via a plurality of ventilation holes provided in the journal, and an upstream annular deflector fixed to the sealing flange of the journal and extending radially inwards towards the ventilation holes The upstream deflector has oil passage ports provided at the end of same secured to the sealing flange of the journal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Mathieu Jean Pierre TROHEL, Eddy Stephane Joel FONTANEL
  • Patent number: 9212757
    Abstract: An apparatus for activating a valve of an ejector in order to adapt the pressurization of a chamber in an aircraft turbojet engine comprising a device constructed and arranged to trigger the opening and/or closing of valve and/or the power of the valve as a function of the altitude at which the valve is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Giuliana Elisa Rossi, Eddy Stéphane Joël Fontanel, Marie Gentilhomme
  • Publication number: 20150147157
    Abstract: A journal configured to be driven in rotation in a housing of a turbine engine, or for an aircraft, the journal including: a circumferential main body including plural ventilation openings configured to allow plural axial airflows to circulate from upstream to downstream in the turbine engine, two consecutive ventilation openings being connected by a connecting segment, and a circumferential ring for recovering a flow of lubrication oil, which ring is rigidly connected to the main body and is radially inside the ventilation openings, the recovery ring including plural radial discharge openings for allowing plural radial flows of oil to be discharged towards the outside, each discharge opening being radially aligned with a connecting segment of the main body to allow each flow of oil to be discharged between the airflows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Eddy Stephane Joel Fontanel, Giuliana Elisa Rossi, Philippe Pierre Vincent Bouiller, Emmanuel Da Costa, Julien Foll
  • Patent number: 8764385
    Abstract: In an axial-centrifugal compressor, the rotor of which includes an impeller, axial play is controlled by a special air ventilation to the rotor, by a circuit including two parallel arms, flow rates of which are both controlled by respective veins, and moreover the temperature in one of them is changed by a heat exchanger. The ventilation air is thus controlled, both in terms of temperature and flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Laurent Donatien Behaghel, Eddy Stephane Joel Fontanel, Benjamin Philippe Pierre Pegouet
  • Publication number: 20140034146
    Abstract: An apparatus for activating a valve of an ejector in order to adapt the pressurisation of a chamber in an aircraft turbojet engine comprising a device constructed and arranged to trigger the opening and/or closing of valve and/or the power of the valve as a function of the altitude at which the valve is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Giuliana Elisa ROSSI, Eddy Stéphane Joël FONTANEL, Marie GENTILHOMME
  • Publication number: 20110129332
    Abstract: In an axial-centrifugal compressor, the rotor of which includes an impeller, axial play is controlled by a special air ventilation to the rotor, by a circuit including two parallel arms, flow rates of which are both controlled by respective veins, and moreover the temperature in one of them is changed by a heat exchanger. The ventilation air is thus controlled, both in terms of temperature and flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Laurent Donatien Behaghel, Eddy Stephane Joel Fontanel, Benjamin Philippe Pierre Pegouet