Patents by Inventor Esteban Martino González

Esteban Martino González 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: 20240027136
    Abstract: A heat exchanger module including: a hollow chamber having an inner volume configured through which flows a first fluid in fluidic communication with a source of the first fluid, and a fluid outlet; a hollow enclosure extending outwardly from a surface of the hollow chamber wherein the hollow enclosure includes an inner volume through which flows a second fluid that undergoes a phase change in an operative mode of the heat exchanger module, wherein the hollow enclosure is in fluidic communication with a source of the second fluid, and an enclosure root of the hollow enclosure is inserted in the hollow chamber extending into the inner volume such that in an operative mode a second fluid flowing through the hollow chamber from the inlet to the outlet bathes the outer surface of said enclosure root.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Esteban MARTINO GONZÁLEZ, Mario LINARES VILLEGAS, Lucía BAYONA REVILLA, Gareth MILBOURN, David JULLIEN, Jorge CARRETERO BENIGNOS
  • Publication number: 20230406477
    Abstract: A method for producing an armored wall for an aircraft by determining an available thickness of the wall, an allowable areal mass of the wall, and an available space for a wall deformation due to ballistic impact. The method includes retrieving a parameterization of a plurality of armoring materials, which includes a parameter for each of a plurality of material characteristics for each of the plurality of armoring materials. The method also includes comparing the available wall thickness, the allowable areal mass, and the available deformation space with a corresponding parameter of the parameterization, selecting one armoring material for the wall from the plurality of armoring materials based on a result of comparing, and manufacturing a wall by supplementing the selected armoring material to a basic wall structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Henning SCHEEL, César RODRIGUEZ BARBERO, Esteban MARTINO-GONZALEZ
  • Patent number: 11623752
    Abstract: An aircraft installation of a pneumatic system of an aircraft with different compressed air sources for supplying pressurized air to air consumer equipment. Either an air bleed system, electrical compressors, or a combination thereof may perform such supplying of compressed air depending on the aircraft operation condition, for instance the flight altitude or specific flight phases. Also, a turbofan engine, and a method for supplying compressed air to air consumer equipment are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.
    Inventors: Angel Garcia Zuazo, Serafin Escudero Fraile, Esteban Martino-Gonzalez, Juan Tomas Prieto Padilla, Diego Barron Vega
  • Patent number: 11597523
    Abstract: An air management system with a set of compressed air sources for supplying pressurized air to air consumer equipment. In particular, either an air bleed system, electrical compressors, or a combination thereof may perform such supplying of compressed air depending on the aircraft operation condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.L.
    Inventors: Esteban Martino-Gonzalez, Juan Tomas Prieto Padilla
  • Publication number: 20230002030
    Abstract: An airfoil of an aerodynamic surface including: a control surface having an upper surface and a lower surface, and an actuator configured to elevate or lower the control surface, wherein at least a portion of one of the upper surface and the lower surface of the control surface is auxetic with a negative Poisson ratio, and the other of the upper surface and the lower surface of the control surface includes a material with a higher Poisson ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Álvaro JARA RODELGO, Alfonso PARRA RUBIO, Pablo VÁZQUEZ SÁNCHEZ, Esteban MARTINO GONZÁLEZ
  • Patent number: 11541983
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite assembly with a continuous skin for a rear end of an aircraft by obtaining an upper part of the rear end by composite tooling. The upper part comprises a multi-spar vertical tail plane. The spars of the vertical tail plane comprise widening roots that form an upper shell of the rear end and an upper skin. Furthermore, a lower part comprises a lower shell of the rear end including semi-complete frames and stringers and a lower skin. The upper and lower parts are assembled with a joining procedure. The upper and lower skins are joined to obtain the composite assembly with the continuous skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.
    Inventors: Esteban Martino-Gonzalez, Alberto Arana Hidalgo, Melania Sanchez Perez, Carlos Garcia Nieto, Jesus Javier Vazquez Castro, Edouard Menard, Fernando Iniesta Lozano, Maria Almudena Canas Rios
  • Patent number: 11408338
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system, including a turbojet and a heat exchanger system including a main heat exchanger, a hot air supply pipe and regulating valve, a high pressure pipe bleeding high pressure stage hot air through a first valve, an intermediate pressure pipe bleeding intermediate pressure stage hot air through a second valve, a pipe transferring hot air to an air management system, a main supply pipe supplying fan duct cold air including a main regulating valve, an evacuation pipe expelling air to the outside, a sub heat exchanger, wherein the supply pipe from the regulating valve goes through the sub heat exchanger, a sub supply pipe supplying cold air from the main supply pipe, a sub evacuation pipe expelling air to the fan duct, a temperature sensor measuring hot air temperature exiting the main heat exchanger, and a controller controlling the valves according to the measured temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: AIRBUS SAS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.
    Inventors: Bruno Medda, Esteban Martino-Gonzalez, Thomas Stevens, Julien Cayssials, Juan Tomas Prieto Padilla, Adeline Soulie, Didier Poirier, Pierre-Alain Pinault, Diego Barron Vega
  • Patent number: 11377190
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an aircraft rear section including a tail cone and a vertical tail plane, the method includes: providing pre-cured frames (1) each of which includes a section of the tail cone (2) and a section of the vertical tail plane (3); providing pre-cured stringers (4); placing the pre-cured stringers (4) each in respective positions within the pre-cured frames (1); placing a skin (5) around an external surface of the pre-cured frames (1); and curing the pre-cured frames (1), the pre-cured stringers (4), and the skin (5), forming the final aircraft rear section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.
    Inventors: Esteban Martino-Gonzalez, Alberto Arana Hidalgo, Melania Sanchez Perez, Carlos Garcia Nieto, Jesus Javier Vazquez Castro, Edouard Menard, Fernando Iniesta Lozano, Maria Almudena Canas Rios
  • Patent number: 11319047
    Abstract: A three-dimensional auxetic structure, comprising a plurality of adjoining hollow cells, each hollow cell having cell walls and a transversal cross section of the plurality hollow cells following a two-dimensional auxetic pattern, each cell wall comprising folding lines parallel to a plane containing the auxetic pattern such that peaks and valleys are defined in the cell walls and the cell walls being foldable along the folding lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.L.
    Inventors: Iker Vélez De Mendizábal Alonso, Esteban Martino González, David Apellaniz De La Fuente, Alfonso Parra Rubio, Elena Moya Sanz
  • Patent number: 11267584
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite assembly of an empennage and rear-fuselage having a continuous skin solution. The method obtains parts of the sub-structure. For each part, it is obtained a plurality of stringers performs and frames preforms by composite tooling. The frames are transferred to curing frames molds and a sub-structure skin is obtained. Furthermore, the method includes integrating the parts over an integration tool having cavities for locating the curing frames molds and the stringer performs. Furthermore, the method includes co-curing the integration tool in one shot on an autoclave, demolding the sub-structure skin sections and disassembling the curing frame molds to obtain the composite assembly of the rear section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.L.
    Inventors: Esteban Martino-Gonzalez, Alberto Arana Hidalgo, Melania Sanchez Perez, Carlos Garcia Nieto, Jesus Javier Vazquez Castro, Edouard Menard, Fernando Iniesta Lozano, Maria Almudena Canas Rios
  • Patent number: 11220354
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a composite rear section assembly having a continuous skin solution including obtaining a vertical tail plane tooling that has intermediate tooling for tooling intermediate preforms of a vertical tail plane (800), obtaining a fuselage barrel tooling (420a), (420b), (420c) and (420d) the fuselage barrel tooling having a cut-out (503a), (503b), (503c) and longitudinal cavities (501a), (501b), (501c) and (501d), attaching the vertical tail plane tooling to the fuselage barrel tooling by the cut-out of the fuselage barrel tooling, performing a composite skin lay-up (801) over the fuselage barrel tooling and the vertical tail plane tooling to obtain a continuous skin, curing the composite skin lay-up, the vertical tail plane tooling and the fuselage barrel tooling and demolding the tools to obtain the composite assembly with a continuous skin (1300), (1600).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.L.U.
    Inventors: Esteban Martino-Gonzalez, Alberto Arana Hidalgo, Melania Sanchez Perez, Carlos Garcia Nieto, Jesus Javier Vazquez Castro, Edouard Menard, Fernando Iniesta Lozano, Maria Almudena Canas Rios
  • Patent number: 11215118
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system including a turbojet and heat exchanger system including a heat exchanger. A supply connection and evacuation connection are forward, and aft are a transfer connection and a scoop connection, a supply pipe connected to the supply connection, and which bleeds hot air from the compression stages. A transfer pipe connected to the transfer connection transfers hot air to an air management system. A scoop connected to a scoop connection bleeds cold air from a fan duct and an evacuation pipe, including an inlet connected to the evacuation connection and an outlet, which emerges on the outside, where hot air through the heat exchanger from the supply pipe to the transfer pipe passes along a first transfer direction and cold air passes through the heat exchanger from each scoop to the inlet along a second transfer direction parallel to the first transfer direction in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: Airbus (S.A.S.), Airbus Operations (S.A.S.), Airbus Operations, S.L.
    Inventors: Bruno Medda, Thomas Stevens, Julien Cayssials, Adeline Soulie, Didier Poirier, Pierre-Alain Pinault, Esteban Martino González, Juan Tomas Prieto Padilla, Diego Barron Vega
  • Patent number: 11136921
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system, including a turbojet and a heat exchanger system which includes a main heat exchanger, a hot air supply pipe, a transfer pipe transferring hot air to an air management system, a main supply pipe supplying cold air from the fan duct, an evacuation pipe expelling air to the outside, a sub heat exchanger with a high pressure pipe going therethrough, a sub supply pipe supplying cold air and including a sub regulating valve, a sub evacuation pipe expelling air, a temperature sensor, and a controller controlling the system according to the temperature measured The sub regulating valve comprises a door articulated between closed and open positions, a return spring constraining the door in the open position, and a realizing system, controlled by the controller, mobile between a blocking position and a realizing position in which the door is released to move to the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS, AIRBUS SAS, AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.
    Inventors: Bruno Medda, Esteban Martino-Gonzalez, Thomas Stevens, Julien Cayssials, Juan Tomas Prieto Padilla, Adeline Soulie, Didier Poirier, Pierre-Alain Pinault, Diego Barron Vega
  • Patent number: 11131243
    Abstract: An auxetic bi-stable structure that comprises an auxetic curved shell movable between a first and a second stable position, and a rigid element. At least part of the surface of the auxetic curved shell is joined to the rigid element such that the curved shell is movable with respect to the rigid element between the first and second stable positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.
    Inventors: Esteban Martino-Gonzalez, Iker Velez De Mendizabal Alonso, Vasilis Votsios, Guillermo Nicolas Gutierrez, Diego Sanchez Franco, David Matesanz Hidalgo, Jose Angel Hernanz-Manrique
  • Patent number: 11117344
    Abstract: A deformable auxetic structure for absorbing energy of an impact that comprises a plurality of interconnected adjoining tridimensional auxetic cells where each tridimensional auxetic cell comprises at least one surface element and a plurality of legs extending from the surface, the plurality of legs and the surface element being configured such that the sectional cut of the structure in at least two planes perpendicular to the surface element follows an auxetic pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE, S.A.U.
    Inventors: Esteban Martino-Gonzalez, Iker Velez De Mendizabal Alonso, David Apellaniz De La Fuente
  • Patent number: 10899091
    Abstract: A modular mold for producing a panel including a panel of fiber reinforced material. The panel is configured to form hollow cells having an undulated trapezoidal cross-section. The mold includes at least three molding bars for forming each hollow cell. One of the molding bars has a trapezoidal cross shape. The other two molding bars have a triangular cross shape. The trapezoidal molding bar is located between the two triangular molding bars. The three molding bars when put together its cross-section forms the shape of the trapezoidal cross-section of the hollow cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.
    Inventors: Iker Velez De Mendizabal Alonso, David Apellaniz De La Fuente, Esteban Martino-Gonzalez-Aranjuez
  • Publication number: 20210001991
    Abstract: An air management system with a set of compressed air sources for supplying pressurized air to air consumer equipment. In particular, either an air bleed system, electrical compressors, or a combination thereof may perform such supplying of compressed air depending on the aircraft operation condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Esteban MARTINO-GONZALEZ, Juan Tomas PRIETO PADILLA
  • Publication number: 20210001990
    Abstract: An aircraft installation of a pneumatic system of an aircraft with different compressed air sources for supplying pressurized air to air consumer equipment. Either an air bleed system, electrical compressors, or a combination thereof may perform such supplying of compressed air depending on the aircraft operation condition, for instance the flight altitude or specific flight phases. Also, a turbofan engine, and a method for supplying compressed air to air consumer equipment are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Angel GARCIA ZUAZO, Serafin ESCUDERO FRAILE, Esteban MARTINO-GONZALEZ, Juan Tomas PRIETO PADILLA, Diego BARRON VEGA
  • Patent number: 10882597
    Abstract: An impact resistant fuselage of an aircraft, the fuselage extending along a central longitudinal direction, wherein transversal sections of the fuselage are comprised in a vertical plane perpendicular to the central longitudinal direction. The impact resistant fuselage comprises at least a ballistic material membrane extended along the longitudinal direction for absorbing high energy impacts. The membrane according to a transversal section, comprising at least one section between two tensional elements, wherein the material membrane is located inside the fuselage of the aircraft, the at least one section of the membrane is mechanically linked to the inside of the fuselage by the tensional elements, and the two tensional elements stress the membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.L.
    Inventors: Edouard Menard, Esteban Martino González, Fernando Iniesta Lozano
  • Patent number: 10878791
    Abstract: An energy absorbing structure for attenuating energy received from an energy source. The structure comprises a deformable structure formed by an ensemble of one or more first layers of a material having a positive Poisson's ratio, one or more second layers of a material having a negative Poisson's ratio and one or more third layers of an elastomeric material placed between a first layer and a second layer. The ensemble is arranged with the one or more third layers joined to the first and second layers for absorbing at least part of the energy through shear forces or a combination of traction and compression forces applied to the ensemble by the first and second layers as a consequence of their differential deformation after receiving the energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.L.
    Inventors: Esteban Martino González, Javier Toral Vazquez