Patents by Inventor Eric Bil

Eric Bil 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: 20080063515
    Abstract: The bypass turbomachine comprises, between a primary flowpath (2) and a secondary flowpath (3), a structural intermediate casing (14). A bleed passage (29) allows the diversion of a portion of the gas stream toward the secondary flowpath (3), downstream of support arms (18) situated at the periphery of the intermediate casing. A bleed opening (28) emerges upstream of the support arms (18). A slide valve (22) slides between three positions, namely a closed position in which the slide valve (22) completely blocks off the bleed passage and opening, an intermediate position in which the bleed opening (28) emerging upstream of the support arms (18) is blocked off, while the bleed passage (29) for diverting a portion of the gas stream downstream of the support arms (18) is open, and an open position in which the bleed opening (28) emerging upstream of the support arms (18) and the bleed passage (29) emerging downstream of the support arms are both open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Eric BIL, Gilles Charier, Philippe Fessou, Patrick Morel
  • Publication number: 20070292271
    Abstract: Rotor blade for a compressor or a gas turbine, in particular for a turbojet engine, comprising a suction side and a pressure side, which are joined at their upstream ends by a leading edge and at their downstream ends by a trailing edge for the gases, a platform connecting the suction side and the pressure side to a blade root, and a stiffener formed beneath the downstream part of the platform and including at least one notch or a cut-away in line with the trailing edge, in order to reduce the stresses in the joint region between the aerofoil and the platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Eric Bil, Chantal Giot, Thomas Schlesinger
  • Publication number: 20070243067
    Abstract: Gas turbine or compressor blade, comprising a convex outer surface or suction side and a concave inner surface or pressure side, these sides being joined at their upstream ends by a leading edge and at their downstream ends by a trailing edge for the gases and terminating on a platform, one part of which includes a downstream fairing that includes at least one through-notch that extends substantially between a transverse line passing through the trailing edge and the downstream end of the fairing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Eric Bil, Nicolas Hervy, Thomas Schlesinger
  • Patent number: 7214034
    Abstract: A system for controlling a leakage zone under platforms of blades of a turbomachine blade-wheel by liners having edges that flare radially inwards, and that are disposed in inter-blade cavities defined by the platforms, by upstream and downstream radial walls of the blades and by the periphery of the wheel disk. One of the flared edges, upstream or downstream, presents an elastic zone bearing on an inclined surface of the adjacent radial wall relative to a radial plane, such that the liner tends to move axially towards the radial wall facing, under action of centrifugal forces, to improve sealing in the zone, and so that when the wheel stops, the elastic zone moves radially inwards, the liner pivoting around an axis distant from the elastic zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Chantal Giot, Marc Marchi, Christian Gosselin, Eric Bil
  • Publication number: 20070039310
    Abstract: This turbine engine compressor comprises a separating nose extended by inner and outer annular walls defining in cooperation an annular volume (V) of separation of a primary flow (F1) and a secondary flow (F2). This volume (V) comprises a plurality of annular segments in the form of cells separated in pairs by blades of a first fan, these blades passing through both the primary flow (F1) and the secondary flow (F2). These cells are fixed to an upstream annular collar and a downstream annular collar driven rotationally by the aforementioned blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Eric Bil, Gilles Alain Charier
  • Publication number: 20050175463
    Abstract: A system for controlling a leakage zone under platforms of blades of a turbomachine blade-wheel by liners having edges that flare radially inwards, and that are disposed in inter-blade cavities defined by the platforms, by upstream and downstream radial walls of the blades and by the periphery of the wheel disk. One of the flared edges, upstream or downstream, presents an elastic zone bearing on an inclined surface of the adjacent radial wall relative to a radial plane, such that the liner tends to move axially towards the radial wall facing, under action of centrifugal forces, to improve sealing in the zone, and so that when the wheel stops, the elastic zone moves radially inwards, the liner pivoting around an axis distant from the elastic zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Applicant: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Chantal Giot, Marc Marchi, Christian Gosselin, Eric Bil