Patents by Inventor Erwan Daniel Botrel

Erwan Daniel Botrel 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: 11988108
    Abstract: A turbine vane of a turbine engine such as a turboprop or a turbojet, the vane comprising a root supporting a blade, the vane including at least one air-circulation duct for cooling the air during operation, the duct including, at the vane root, an inlet portion for collecting the cooling air, the inlet portion extending away from a lower surface of the vane root opposite the blade. At least one inlet portion is provided with a helical element for rotating the cooling air in order to improve the cooling efficiency thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Erwan Daniel Botrel, Sébastien Serge Francis Congratel, Simon Parinet
  • Patent number: 11946387
    Abstract: A turbine blade, including a root, a vane including a leading edge and a trailing edge and a pressure-side wall and a suction-side wall, and including cooling vents at the trailing edge, this vane also including first and second serpentine circuits; each serpentine circuit including several ducts extending in the span direction, being connected to each other by angled portions; each serpentine circuit being supplied with air by its duct that is closest to the leading edge; and wherein the vents are supplied by the first and by the second serpentine circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Erwan Daniel Botrel, Kevin Yannick Garles, Laurent Patrick Robert Coudert
  • Patent number: 11753945
    Abstract: A turbomachine turbine blade, includes a platform, a vane, a cooling cavity supplying a plurality of cooling outlets provided along the trailing edge, two radially adjacent cooling outlets defining therebetween a rib. At least one cooling hole is formed in the thickness of at least one rib and/or in the thickness of a portion of the trailing edge fillet located in the axial extension of at least one rib, so as to ensure fluid communication for a cooling flow between the inside and the outside of the blade for cooling the at least one rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Léandre Ostino, Erwan Daniel Botrel
  • Publication number: 20230098861
    Abstract: A turbomachine turbine blade, includes a platform, a vane, a cooling cavity supplying a plurality of cooling outlets provided along the trailing edge, two radially adjacent cooling outlets defining therebetween a rib. At least one cooling hole is formed in the thickness of at least one rib and/or in the thickness of a portion of the trailing edge fillet located in the axial extension of at least one rib, so as to ensure fluid communication for a cooling flow between the inside and the outside of the blade for cooling the at least one rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Léandre OSTINO, Erwan Daniel BOTREL
  • Publication number: 20220316345
    Abstract: A turbine blade, including a root, a vane including a leading edge and a trailing edge and a pressure-side wall and a suction-side wall, and including cooling vents at the trailing edge, this vane also including first and second serpentine circuits; each serpentine circuit including several ducts extending in the span direction, being connected to each other by angled portions; each serpentine circuit being supplied with air by its duct that is closest to the leading edge; and wherein the vents are supplied by the first and by the second serpentine circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Erwan Daniel BOTREL, Kevin Yannick GARLES, Laurent Patrick Robert COUDERT
  • Patent number: 10822961
    Abstract: A turbomachine blade including a hollow body defining a cavity, and including a downstream trailing edge. The blade further includes at least one hole which communicates with the cavity and which opens downstream onto the trailing edge. The trailing edge extends along the main radial direction of the blade, and including a downstream convex face. The blade is characterised in that each hole opens onto a planar rear face of a flat region formed in the trailing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Laurent Patrick Robert Coudert, Erwan Daniel Botrel
  • Patent number: 10753215
    Abstract: A turbine vane of a turbine engine such as a turbojet. The vane includes a base supporting a blade that extends in a spanwise direction and ends in an apex. The blade includes a pressure-side wall and a suction-side wall, each ending at an end edge at the apex of the blade. The blade includes, at the apex thereof, a closed wall extending from the pressure-side wall to the suction-side wall so as to define, with the end edges, a tub shape. The pressure-side wall is curved inward so as to deviate from the spanwise direction in the region of the blade apex preceding the tub, between the base and the pressure-side end edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Laurent Patrick Robert Coudert, Erwan Daniel Botrel
  • Patent number: 10458246
    Abstract: When cold and in the non-coated state, the aerodynamic profile is substantially identical to a nominal profile determined by the Cartesian coordinates X,Y, Zadim given in Table 1, in which the coordinate Zadim is the quotient D/H where D is the distance of the point under consideration from a first reference plane P0 situated at the base of the nominal profile, and H is the height of said profile measured from the first reference plane to a second reference plane P1. The measurements D and H are taken radially relative to the axis of the turbine, while the X coordinate is measured in the axial direction of the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Thomas Michel Mervant, Erwan Daniel Botrel, Maxime Didier Delabriere, Jean-Armand Marc Destouches
  • Publication number: 20190292918
    Abstract: A turbine vane of a turbine engine such as a turboprop or a turbojet, the vane comprising a root supporting a blade, the vane including at least one air-circulation duct for cooling the air during operation, the duct including, at the vane root, an inlet portion for collecting the cooling air, the inlet portion extending away from a lower surface of the vane root opposite the blade. At least one inlet portion is provided with a helical element for rotating the cooling air in order to improve the cooling efficiency thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Erwan Daniel BOTREL, Sébastien Serge Francis CONGRATEL, Simon PARINET
  • Patent number: 10287887
    Abstract: When cold and in the non-coated state, the aerodynamic profile is substantially identical to a nominal profile determined by the Cartesian coordinates X,Y, Zadim given in Table 1, in which the coordinate Zadim is the quotient D/H where D is the distance of the point under consideration from a first reference plane P0 situated at the base of the nominal profile, and H is the height of said profile measured from the first reference plane to a second reference plane P1. The measurements D and H are taken radially relative to the axis of the turbine, while the X coordinate is measured in the axial direction of the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Erwan Daniel Botrel, Maxime Didier Delabriere, Daniel Marius Man, Pierre Hervé Marche
  • Patent number: 10260361
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine vane comprising a root and a blade including a median main plane having a longitudinal and radial main orientation, which is carried by the root, the blade including a leading edge located at an upstream longitudinal end, a trailing edge located at a longitudinal end downstream of the leading edge with respect to a gas stream flowing around the blade, a lower surface wall and an upper surface wall which are located laterally remote from each other and each connecting the leading edge to the trailing edge, and a top located at the free outer radial end of the blade, the blade further including a fin having a longitudinal main orientation which is carried by the lower surface side, which is located at the top of the blade, wherein the fin is radially inwardly offset with respect to the top of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Erwan Daniel Botrel, Laurent Patrick Robert Coudert
  • Publication number: 20180371925
    Abstract: A turbine vane of a turbine engine such as a turbojet. The vane includes a base supporting a blade that extends in a spanwise direction and ends in an apex. The blade includes a pressure-side wall and a suction-side wall, each ending at an end edge at the apex of the blade. The blade includes, at the apex thereof, a closed wall extending from the pressure-side wall to the suction-side wall so as to define, with the end edges, a tub shape. The pressure-side wall is curved inward so as to deviate from the spanwise direction in the region of the blade apex preceding the tub, between the base and the pressure-side end edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Laurent Patrick Robert COUDERT, Erwan Daniel BOTREL
  • Publication number: 20180230807
    Abstract: When cold and in the non-coated state, the aerodynamic profile is substantially identical to a nominal profile determined by the Cartesian coordinates X,Y, Zadim given in Table 1, in which the coordinate Zadim is the quotient D/H where D is the distance of the point under consideration from a first reference plane P0 situated at the base of the nominal profile, and H is the height of said profile measured from the first reference plane to a second reference plane P1. The measurements D and H are taken radially relative to the axis of the turbine, while the X coordinate is measured in the axial direction of the turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Thomas Michel MERVANT, Erwan Daniel BOTREL, Maxime Didier DELABRIERE, Jean-Armand Marc DESTOUCHES
  • Publication number: 20180016907
    Abstract: When cold and in the non-coated state, the aerodynamic profile is substantially identical to a nominal profile determined by the Cartesian coordinates X,Y, Zadim given in Table 1, in which the coordinate Zadim is the quotient D/H where D is the distance of the point under consideration from a first reference plane P0 situated at the base of the nominal profile, and H is the height of said profile measured from the first reference plane to a second reference plane P1. The measurements D and H are taken radially relative to the axis of the turbine, while the X coordinate is measured in the axial direction of the turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Erwan Daniel BOTREL, Maxime Didier DELABRIERE, Daniel Marius MAN, Pierre Hervé MARCHE
  • Patent number: 9657579
    Abstract: The invention relates to a movable vane of a turbomachine comprising a blade (12) with inner cooling cavities and a root (11) by which means the vane can be mounted on a rotor disk, the root comprising at least two channels (11a) communicating with said inner cavities and leading to the base (11b) thereof, said base comprising at least two openings (11b1, 11b2) through which the channels open up, and a calibrating plate (20) provided with calibrated perforations (21, 22) corresponding to said openings being attached to the base (11b) of the root. The vane is characterized in that a mechanical means (25, 26; 11m1, 11m2) forming a sealing barrier between the two openings is arranged between the plate and the base of the root.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Erwan Daniel Botrel, Charlotte Marie Dujol
  • Patent number: 9605545
    Abstract: A hollow blade including an airfoil extending along a longitudinal direction, a root, a tip, an internal cooling passage, and an open cavity defined by an end wall and a rim, together with cooling channels connecting the internal cooling passage to a pressure side. The cooling channels slope relative to the pressure side. A stack of airfoil sections of the blade at a level of the rim of the tip of the blade are offset towards the pressure side. The pressure side wall of the airfoil includes a projecting portion and cooling channels arranged in the projecting portion to open out into a terminal face of the projecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Regis Grohens, Erwan Daniel Botrel
  • Publication number: 20150361808
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine vane (10) comprising a root (12) and a blade (14) including a median main plane (14) having a longitudinal and radial main orientation, which is carried by the root, the blade (14) including a leading edge (24) located at an upstream longitudinal end, a trailing edge (26) located at a longitudinal end downstream of the leading edge (24) with respect to a gas stream flowing around the blade (14), a lower surface wall (28) and an upper surface wall which are located laterally remote from each other and each connecting the leading edge (24) to the trailing edge (26), and a top (32) located at the free outer radial end of the blade (24), the blade (14) further including a fin (34) having a longitudinal main orientation (14) which is carried by the lower surface side (28), which is located at the top (32) of the blade (14), wherein the fin (34) is radially inwardly offset with respect to the top (32) of the blade (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Erwan Daniel BOTREL, Laurent Patrick Robert COUDERT
  • Publication number: 20150240649
    Abstract: The invention relates to a movable vane of a turbomachine comprising a blade (12) with inner cooling cavities and a root (11) by which means the vane can be mounted on a rotor disk, the root comprising at least two channels (11a) communicating with said inner cavities and leading to the base (11b) thereof, said base comprising at least two openings (11b1, 11b2) through which the channels open up, and a calibrating plate (20) provided with calibrated perforations (21, 22) corresponding to said openings being attached to the base (11b) of the root. The vane is characterised in that a mechanical means (25, 26; 11m1, 11m2) forming a sealing barrier between the two openings is arranged between the plate and the base of the root.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Erwan Daniel Botrel, Charlotte, Marie Dujol
  • Publication number: 20140322028
    Abstract: A hollow blade including an airfoil extending along a longitudinal direction, a root, a tip, an internal cooling passage, and an open cavity defined by an end wall and a rim, together with cooling channels connecting the internal cooling passage to a pressure side. The cooling channels slope relative to the pressure side. A stack of airfoil sections of the blade at a level of the rim of the tip of the blade are offset towards the pressure side. The pressure side wall of the airfoil includes a projecting portion and cooling channels arranged in the projecting portion to open out into a terminal face of the projecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Regis Grohens, Erwan Daniel Botrel
  • Patent number: 8348602
    Abstract: A turbine ring sector is disclosed. The turbine ring sector includes a wall bounding an aerodynamic flowpath in which gases flow from the upstream region toward the downstream region, and a multiperforated plate, situated on the opposite side of the aerodynamic flowpath with respect to the wall. The multiperforated plate includes a bottom and side walls. The distance between the wall of the ring sector and the bottom of the multiperforated plate defines a gap which is progressive in an axial direction, from the upstream region toward the downstream region. The value of the gap situated at the upstream region is below the value of the gap situated at the downstream region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Snecma
    Inventors: Erwan Daniel Botrel, Claire Dorin