Patents by Inventor Eric Jacques Boston
Eric Jacques Boston 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).
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Patent number: 9255583Abstract: A variable pitch blade propeller hub for a turbomachine with a longitudinal axis includes a polygonal ring supporting the blades, concentric with the longitudinal axis and including two spaced parallel annular end flanges between which are diametrically fastened, by root areas arising from the annular flanges, collars with cylindrical radial housings to receive the blades. The collars are equi-angularly distributed at the lateral periphery of the polygonal ring and separated from each other by intermediate areas with through-openings. The also includes connectors connecting the polygonal ring to a turbine rotor element of the turbomachine. The intermediate areas defined between two concentric collars and the annular end flanges include elements for reinforcing the collars that are arranged radially and/or tangentially and fastened at least to the lateral walls of two consecutive collars.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2010Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Michel Andre Bouru, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gerard Edmond Joly
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Patent number: 9200638Abstract: A rotor of a turbomachine compressor, including a bladed rotor disk fitted at its radially external end with a wall forming the inner end of an annual flow channel of a primary gas flow, and formed from multiple angular sectors, each of which is delimited between two blades of the disk which are consecutive in a circumferential direction and includes a bulging portion which is convex in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction, together with, upstream from the bulging portion, a troughed portion which is concave in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction and which has a base which is roughly punctiform.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2010Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignees: SNECMA, CENAEROInventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Alexandre Franck Arnaud Chartoire, Vasiliki Iliopoulou, Ingrid Lepot, Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht
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Patent number: 9145942Abstract: A prestressing device extending about an axis between a first plane and a second plane, the first plane being located at a predetermined distance from the second plane, each plane being perpendicular to the axis. The device includes at least three deformation areas. The deformation areas extend in the first plane. The device further includes, between each deformation area, a planar contact surface extending in the second plane.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Michel André Bouru, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gérard Edmond Joly
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Patent number: 9068574Abstract: An assembly in a turbine engine for controlling plural toothed pivotally-mounted blades arranged in azimuth around the axis of the turbine engine and including an actuator ring controlling a position of the blades. Racks mounted on the ring present corresponding sets of teeth meshing with the set of teeth of a respective one of the blades to place it in a selected angular position, and they are held in the radial direction by radial positioning mechanism fastened to the blade. Each rack is mounted on the ring by plural guides spaced apart circumferentially around the ring, that connect together movements of the rack and of the ring in the circumferential direction, and that are configured to slide relative to the ring, for each guide in its own radial direction, and relative to the rack in a direction of movement that is substantially radial and specific to the rack.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2011Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Michel Andre Bouru, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gerard Edmond Joly
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Patent number: 8967969Abstract: A prestressing device extending about an axis between a first plane that is substantially perpendicular to the axis and a second plane that is substantially parallel to the first plane and axially offset relative to the latter. The device includes a first annular body extending in the first plane, and a first series of at least three tabs, each of which is connected to the first body and extending in an essentially radial direction, each of the tabs of the first series including a planar surface extending in the second plane. This arrangement ensures surface contact between the parts of the elements to be subjected to prestressing. The device can be used for example for a rotor, and for example for a rotor of an unducted propeller for a turbine engine.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2010Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: SnecmaInventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Michel André Bouru, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gérard Edmond Joly
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Patent number: 8967966Abstract: A hub for a propeller having variable pitch blades for a turbine engine, for example for a propfan turbine engine. The propeller hub includes: a polygonal ring having substantially radial cylindrical housings distributed about a central axis of the ring for receiving the blades; a rotor element for the turbine of the turbine engine; a supporting flange attached to the ring so as to connect the ring to the rotor element; and a plurality of backup retaining members linked to the rotor element, and each of which includes at least one bearing surface opposite an outer surface of the ring with a radial spacing.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2010Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Michel André Bouru, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gérard Edmond Joly
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Patent number: 8926279Abstract: A hub of a propeller with variable-pitch blades for a turbine engine, for example for a propfan engine. The hub of the propeller includes a polygonal ring with substantially radial cylindrical recesses distributed about a central axis of the ring for receiving the blades, a turbine rotor element of the turbine engine, and a securing flange that is attached to the ring so as to connect the ring to the rotor element. The hub further includes a plurality of back-up hooks inserted with clearance in openings, the back-up hooks being connected either to the ring or to the rotor element, and the openings being connected to the other one of the two.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2010Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Michel Andre Bouru, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gerard Edmond Joly
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Patent number: 8827653Abstract: A non-streamlined propeller including blades with a variable setting for a turbine engine, the blades of the propeller being rotatably mounted about the axes thereof in radial recesses of a rotor element, and each blade being supported by a plate held in a recess by a sectored ring, and including an inner portion mounted, by interlocking, in a groove of the plate, the ring sectors being inserted into the recess from the inside and locked by a nut screwed onto the plate.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: SnecmaInventors: Michel Andre Bouru, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Joly, Eric Jacques Boston
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Patent number: 8382442Abstract: Controllable pitch blade non-ducted propeller for a jet engine, comprising a rotor member comprising radial housing for mounting blade support plates, each plate being attached in a ring centered and guided in rotation in a housing of the rotor member and comprising external toothing engaged and locked in internal toothing of the ring, to withstand the centrifugal forces to which the propeller blades are subjected in operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Michel Andre Bouru, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gerard Edmond Joly
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Publication number: 20130011261Abstract: An assembly in a turbine engine for controlling plural toothed pivotally-mounted blades arranged in azimuth around the axis of the turbine engine and including an actuator ring controlling a position of the blades. Racks mounted on the ring present corresponding sets of teeth meshing with the set of teeth of a respective one of the blades to place it in a selected angular position, and they are held in the radial direction by radial positioning mechanism fastened to the blade. Each rack is mounted on the ring by plural guides spaced apart circumferentially around the ring, that connect together movements of the rack and of the ring in the circumferential direction, and that are configured to slide relative to the ring, for each guide in its own radial direction, and relative to the rack in a direction of movement that is substantially radial and specific to the rack.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2011Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Michel Andre Bouru, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gerard, Edmond Joly
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Publication number: 20120257975Abstract: A variable pitch blade propeller hub for a turbomachine with a longitudinal axis includes a polygonal ring supporting the blades, concentric with the longitudinal axis and including two spaced parallel annular end flanges between which are diametrically fastened, by root areas arising from the annular flanges, collars with cylindrical radial housings to receive the blades. The collars are equi-angularly distributed at the lateral periphery of the polygonal ring and separated from each other by intermediate areas with through-openings. The also includes connectors connecting the polygonal ring to a turbine rotor element of the turbomachine. The intermediate areas defined between two concentric collars and the annular end flanges include elements for reinforcing the collars that are arranged radially and/or tangentially and fastened at least to the lateral walls of two consecutive collars.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2010Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Michel Andre Bouru, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gerard Edmond Joly
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Publication number: 20120201692Abstract: A rotor of a turbomachine compressor, including a bladed rotor disk fitted at its radially external end with a wall forming the inner end of an annual flow channel of a primary gas flow, and formed from multiple angular sectors, each of which is delimited between two blades of the disk which are consecutive in a circumferential direction and includes a bulging portion which is convex in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction, together with, upstream from the bulging portion, a troughed portion which is concave in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction and which has a base which is roughly punctiform.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2010Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicants: CENAERO, SNECMAInventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Alexandre Franck Arnaud Chartoire, Vasiliki Iliopoulou, Ingrid Lepot, Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht
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Publication number: 20120134822Abstract: A hub for a propeller having variable pitch blades for a turbine engine, for example for a propfan turbine engine. The propeller hub includes: a polygonal ring having substantially radial cylindrical housings distributed about a central axis of the ring for receiving the blades; a rotor element for the turbine of the turbine engine; a supporting flange attached to the ring so as to connect the ring to the rotor element; and a plurality of backup retaining members linked to the rotor element, and each of which includes at least one bearing surface opposite an outer surface of the ring with a radial spacing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Michel André Bouru, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gérard Edmond Joly
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Publication number: 20120128490Abstract: A prestressing device extending about an axis between a first plane and a second plane, the first plane being located at a predetermined distance from the second plane, each plane being perpendicular to the axis. The device includes at least three deformation areas. The deformation areas extend in the first plane. The device further includes, between each deformation area, a planar contact surface extending in the second plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Michel André Bouru, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gérard, Edmond Joly
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Publication number: 20120128503Abstract: A prestressing device extending about an axis between a first plane that is substantially perpendicular to the axis and a second plane that is substantially parallel to the first plane and axially offset relative to the latter. The device includes a first annular body extending in the first plane, and a first series of at least three tabs, each of which is connected to the first body and extending in an essentially radial direction, each of the tabs of the first series including a planar surface extending in the second plane. This arrangement ensures surface contact between the parts of the elements to be subjected to prestressing. The device can be used for example for a rotor, and for example for a rotor of an unducted propeller for a turbine engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Michel André Bouru, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gérard, Edmond Joly
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Publication number: 20120099989Abstract: A hub of a propeller with variable-pitch blades for a turbine engine, for example for a propfan engine. The hub of the propeller includes a polygonal ring with substantially radial cylindrical recesses distributed about a central axis of the ring for receiving the blades, a turbine rotor element of the turbine engine, and a securing flange that is attached to the ring so as to connect the ring to the rotor element. The hub further includes a plurality of back-up hooks inserted with clearance in openings, the back-up hooks being connected either to the ring or to the rotor element, and the openings being connected to the other one of the two.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2010Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: SnecmaInventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Michel Andre Bouru, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gerard Edmond Joly
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Publication number: 20120045334Abstract: A non-streamlined propeller including blades with a variable setting for a turbine engine, the blades of the propeller being rotatably mounted about the axes thereof in radial recesses of a rotor element, and each blade being supported by a plate held in a recess by a sectored ring, and including an inner portion mounted, by interlocking, in a groove of the plate, the ring sectors being inserted into the recess from the inside and locked by a nut screwed onto the plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2010Publication date: February 23, 2012Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Michel Andre Bouru, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Joly, Eric Jacques Boston
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Publication number: 20100239421Abstract: Controllable pitch blade non-ducted propeller for a jet engine, comprising a rotor member comprising radial housing for mounting blade support plates, each plate being attached in a ring centered and guided in rotation in a housing of the rotor member and comprising external toothing engaged and locked in internal toothing of the ring, to withstand the centrifugal forces to which the propeller blades are subjected in operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Eric Jacques BOSTON, Michel Andre Bouru, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Laurent Jablonski, Philippe Gérard Edmond Joly