Patents by Inventor Eric Bouillon

Eric Bouillon 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: 11958784
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a turbomachine blade made of ceramic matrix composite component includes at least a structural part and a functional part secured to the structural part, the method including obtaining an assembly including a first preform of the functional part that is mounted on a second preform of the structural part or on the structural part, the first preform including a fibrous reinforcement of short fibres, and the second preform or the structural part comprising a woven fibrous reinforcement, and densification of the first preform of the assembly by infiltration with a molten composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Arnaud Delehouze, Eric Bouillon, Gildas Garnier, Clément Marie Benoît Roussille
  • Patent number: 11959440
    Abstract: An annular or semi-annular acoustic attenuation structure includes an inner skin and an outer skin, defining between them an annular or semi-annular volume, and a plurality of partitions extending in the space in a radial direction perpendicular to the inner and outer skins and in a circumferential direction. The inner and outer skins and the partitions are made of composite material including a fibrous reinforcement densified by a matrix. The fibrous reinforcement of each partition includes yarns or fibers extending into the fibrous reinforcement of at least one of the inner or outer skins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Eric Bouillon, Eric Conete
  • Patent number: 11932942
    Abstract: A process for depositing a coating on a continuous fibre of carbon or silicon carbide from a precursor of the coating, includes heating a segment of the fibre in the presence of the coating precursor in a microwave field so as to bring the surface of the segment to a temperature allowing the coating to form on the segment from the coating precursor, wherein the segment of fibre is in the presence of a supercritical phase of the precursor of the coating in the reactor and the coating is formed by supercritical phase chemical deposition in the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN CERAMICS, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
    Inventors: Arnaud Delehouze, Eric Bouillon, Adrien Delcamp, Cédric Descamps
  • Patent number: 11866373
    Abstract: A method for coating fibers, includes desizing sized short fibers having an average length less than or equal to 5 mm, the short fibers being made of ceramic material or carbon, sieving the desized short fibers in order to separate them from any agglomerates of sized short fibers still present, introducing the desized and sieved short fibers into a reactor, and coating the short fibers in the reactor by chemical vapor deposition in a fluidized bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, SAFRAN CERAMICS, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
    Inventors: Arnaud Delehouze, Eric Bouillon, Amine El Mansouri, Nathalie Dominique Bertrand, Alain Jean-Michel Guette
  • Publication number: 20230399265
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a turbomachine blade made of ceramic matrix composite component includes at least a structural part and a functional part secured to the structural part, the method including obtaining an assembly including a first preform of the functional part that is mounted on a second preform of the structural part or on the structural part, the first preform including a fibrous reinforcement of short fibres, and the second preform or the structural part comprising a woven fibrous reinforcement, and densification of the first preform of the assembly by infiltration with a molten composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Arnaud DELEHOUZE, Eric BOUILLON, Gildas GARNIER, Clément Marie Benoît ROUSSILLE
  • Publication number: 20230382813
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hollow part made of ceramic matrix or metal matrix composite, includes preparing a raw material including short fibers and a ceramic matrix precursor charge, positioning a sacrificial core in a molding cavity of injection-molding equipment, shaping the raw material by injection molding the raw material into the free space between the sacrificial core and an internal wall of the cavity to obtain a green part including the sacrificial core and the shaped raw material, extracting the green part from the equipment, densifying the raw material by flash sintering of the green part to transform the charge into a ceramic matrix, removing the sacrificial core to obtain a hollow part made of ceramic matrix or metal matrix composite, wherein the sacrificial core is coated with a flexible graphite sheet, with a graphite layer deposited by spraying or with a boron nitride paint layer before the injecting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Arnaud DELEHOUZE, Eric BOUILLON
  • Publication number: 20230287563
    Abstract: A method for producing a part having improved resistance to oxidation and high temperature-corrosion, includes the formation of an environmental barrier coating on an at least partially ceramic matrix composite material, the environmental barrier coating being formed by direct liquid injection-metal organic chemical vapor deposition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Arnaud DELEHOUZE, Eric BOUILLON, Sylvain Lucien JACQUES
  • Publication number: 20230227368
    Abstract: A method for coating fibers, includes desizing sized short fibers having an average length less than or equal to 5 mm, the short fibers being made of ceramic material or carbon, sieving the desized short fibers in order to separate them from any agglomerates of sized short fibers still present, introducing the desized and sieved short fibers into a reactor, and coating the short fibers in the reactor by chemical vapor deposition in a fluidized bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Arnaud DELEHOUZE, Eric BOUILLON, Amine EL MANSOURI, Nathalie Dominique BERTRAND, Alain Jean-Michel GUETTE
  • Publication number: 20230174431
    Abstract: A method for coating fibres includes coating short fibres having an average length less than or equal to 5 mm by chemical vapour deposition in a fluidised bed, the short fibres treated being made of ceramic material or carbon and being mixed with spacer particles distinct from the short fibres, the spacer particles having an average diameter greater than or equal to 20 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Arnaud DELEHOUZE, Eric BOUILLON, Nathalie Dominique BERTRAND, Alain Jean-Michel GUETTE, Armine EL MANSOURI
  • Patent number: 11643936
    Abstract: A turbine stator blade made of ceramic matrix composite material includes a hollow blade profile and has a trailing edge and a leading edge, the blade including a first portion including an extrados face and a second portion distinct from the first portion including an intrados face, the first and second portions being connected to one another by a connection interface present at least on the trailing edge or leading edge, the connecting interface including a region of overlap between the first and second portions present on at least one longitudinal end of the blade profile and intended to be present outside a flow path of a gas stream of the turbine, the blade also including a platform present at a longitudinal end of the blade profile and that includes a first portion integral with the extrados face and a second part integral with the intrados face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Matthieu Arnaud Gimat, Eric Bouillon, Maxime François Roger Carlin
  • Publication number: 20230126667
    Abstract: A turbine stator blade made of ceramic matrix composite material includes a hollow blade profile and has a trailing edge and a leading edge, the blade including a first portion including an extrados face and a second portion distinct from the first portion including an intrados face, the first and second portions being connected to one another by a connection interface present at least on the trailing edge or leading edge, the connecting interface including a region of overlap between the first and second portions present on at least one longitudinal end of the blade profile and intended to be present outside a flow path of a gas stream of the turbine, the blade also including a platform present at a longitudinal end of the blade profile and that includes a first portion integral with the extrados face and a second part integral with the intrados face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Matthieu Arnaud GIMAT, Eric BOUILLON, Maxime François Roger CARLIN
  • Patent number: 11530727
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a friction component made of composite material, includes the densification of a fibrous preform of carbon yarns by a matrix including at least pyrocarbon and at least one ZrOxCy phase, where 1?x?2 and 0?y?1, the matrix being formed by chemical vapor infiltration at least from a first gaseous precursor of pyrocarbon and a second gaseous precursor including zirconium, the second precursor being an alcohol or a C1 to C6 polyalcohol modified by linking the oxygen atom of at least one alcohol function to a group of formula —Zr—R3, the substituents R being identical or different, and R being selected from: —H, C1 to C5 carbon chains and halogen atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Eric Bouillon, Arnaud Delehouze, Amandine Lorriaux, Laurence Maille
  • Publication number: 20220316068
    Abstract: A process for depositing a coating on a continuous fibre of carbon or silicon carbide from a precursor of the coating, includes heating a segment of the fibre in the presence of the coating precursor in a microwave field so as to bring the surface of the segment to a temperature allowing the coating to form on the segment from the coating precursor, wherein the segment of fibre is in the presence of a supercritical phase of the precursor of the coating in the reactor and the coating is formed by supercritical phase chemical deposition in the reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Arnaud DELEHOUZE, Eric BOUILLON, Adrien DELCAMP, Cédric DESCAMPS
  • Publication number: 20220252022
    Abstract: An annular or semi-annular acoustic attenuation structure includes an inner skin and an outer skin, defining between them an annular or semi-annular volume, and a plurality of partitions extending in the space in a radial direction perpendicular to the inner and outer skins and in a circumferential direction. The inner and outer skins and the partitions are made of composite material including a fibrous reinforcement densified by a matrix. The fibrous reinforcement of each partition includes yarns or fibers extending into the fibrous reinforcement of at least one of the inner or outer skins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Eric BOUILLON, Eric CONETE
  • Patent number: 11390952
    Abstract: A process for depositing a coating on a continuous carbon or silicon carbide fibre from a coating precursor, includes at least heating a segment of the fibre in the presence of the coating precursor in a microwave field so as to bring the surface of the segment to a temperature enabling the coating to be formed on the segment from the coating precursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: SAFRAN CERAMICS, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
    Inventors: Arnaud Delehouze, Eric Bouillon, Adrien Delcamp, Cédric Descamps
  • Publication number: 20220177374
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a CMC part, includes coating a plurality of tows with an interphase by transporting the tows through a treatment chamber in which a gas phase is injected, the tows being tensioned during their transport and the interphase being formed by vapor deposition from the injected gas phase; forming a fiber preform by performing three-dimensional weaving using the tows coated with the interphase; and forming a consolidated fiber preform by treating the fiber preform by chemical vapor infiltration to form a consolidation phase on the interphase, the consolidation phase comprising silicon carbide and having a Young's modulus greater than or equal to 350 GPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Eric BOUILLON, Michael VERRILLI, Eric PHILIPPE, Gildas GARNIER
  • Publication number: 20210323295
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite panel is described. The method includes producing a first wall, a second wall, a third wall and a fourth wall from composite materials including an oxide matrix and long oxide fibres; from the first and second walls, producing a cellular core including a plurality of cells, each cell including a first end and an opposing second end, covering the first and second ends of the cells of the cellular core with the third wall and the fourth wall, respectively, so as to close the ends of said cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Aurélia Clerambourg, Eric Bouillon, Eric Philippe
  • Publication number: 20210292245
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a part made of composite material with a matrix at least predominantly made of ceramic includes producing a fibrous structure by three-dimensional or multilayer weaving; shaping the fibrous structure to form a fibrous preform core; depositing an interphase on the fibers of the preform core; consolidating the preform core by partial densification of the core including the formation of a matrix phase by chemical vapor infiltration or by a liquid process; depositing a powder of ceramic particles in the porosity of the preform core; draping one or more layers of pre-impregnated non-woven fibers over all or part of the outer surface of the preform core; heat treatment of the preform core and of the pre-impregnated layer(s) to form a hybrid fibrous preform; further densifying by infiltration of the hybrid fibrous preform with an infiltration composition containing at least silicon to obtain a ceramic matrix composite part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Eric BOUILLON, Eric PHILIPPE, Gildas GARNIER, Maxime François Roger CARLIN, Michael VERRILLI
  • Patent number: 11014856
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a composite material part including a particulate reinforcement densified by a ceramic matrix, the process including: formation of a blank of the part to be manufactured by shaping a mixture including a binder, first ceramic or carbon particles intended to form the particulate reinforcement of the part and second ceramic or carbon particles distinct from the first particles, removal or pyrolysis of the binder present in the blank to obtain a porous preform of the part to be manufactured, and infiltration of the porosity of the preform by a molten composition including a metal in order to obtain the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: SAFRAN CERAMICS, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
    Inventors: Arnaud Delehouze, Eric Bouillon, Yann Lepetitcorps
  • Patent number: 10988417
    Abstract: A part made of composite material includes fiber reinforcement including silicon carbide fibers presenting an oxygen content less than or equal to 1 % in atomic percentage; and a matrix present in the pores of the fiber reinforcement and including at least one sintered silicate phase including at least one rare earth silicate, mullite, or a mixture of mullite and of at least one rare earth silicate, the matrix including at least a first phase including mullite and a second phase, different from the first phase, including at least one rare earth silicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Eric Bouillon, Aurélia Clerambourg, Lisa Pin, David Marsal