Patents by Inventor Frédéric Ridray

Frédéric Ridray 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: 20230286662
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly is disclosed including a pylon, a turbomachine comprising an engine and a fan surrounded by a fan casing, a nacelle surrounding the engine and the fan casing, and including a load bearer positioned at the upper part of the nacelle, a forward fan mount between a frontal zone of the fan casing and a frontal zone of the load bearer, a rear pylon mount between the pylon and the load bearer, and a positioning assembly providing positioning between the fan casing and the load bearer. The propulsion assembly is configured to control the separations between the cowls mounted in a moveable manner on the load bearer and a nose cowl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventor: Frédéric RIDRAY
  • Publication number: 20230286663
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly is disclosed including a pylon, a turbomachine including an engine and a fan surrounded by a fan casing, a nacelle surrounding the engine and the fan casing, and including a load bearer positioned at the upper part of the nacelle and split into two bearers, a forward fan mount between a frontal zone of the fan casing and a frontal zone of the upstream bearer, a rear pylon mount between the pylon and the downstream bearer, and a positioning assembly providing positioning between the fan casing and each bearer. The propulsion assembly is configured to improve the control over the separation between the articulated lateral cowls and the nose cowl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventor: Frédéric RIDRAY
  • Patent number: 11565822
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly having a pylon, a turbomachine comprising an engine and a fan that is enclosed by a fan casing, a nacelle surrounding the engine and the fan casing and having a load support disposed in the top part of the nacelle, a front engine attachment between the pylon and a front part of the engine, a rear engine attachment between the pylon and a rear part of the engine, a front fan attachment between the fan casing and the load support, and a rear pylon attachment between the pylon and the load support. Such a propulsion assembly allows a reduction in bulk since the load of the turbojet engine is distributed between the load support and the pylon, and the pylon is attached to the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Philippe Auge, Benoit Orteu, Julien Bernat, Jean Geliot, Delphine Jalbert, Frédéric Ridray, Laurent Lafont, Pascal Gardes
  • Patent number: 11434849
    Abstract: A turbofan engine with a nacelle including a runner translationally mobile between advanced and back-off positions to open a window between a stream and an outside, a plurality of blades, each rotatable on the runner between retracted and deployed positions, and a maneuvering system displacing each blade and comprising, for each blade, a shaft rotatable on the runner and to which the blade is fixed, and a toothed segment on the shaft, and a toothed arc rotatable on the runner about a longitudinal axis, the tooth arc teeth meshing with the toothed segment teeth, a slip translationally mobile on the runner in a plane at right angles to the longitudinal axis between first and second positions, a connecting rod mounted articulated between the slip and the toothed arc, a rib integral to the fixed structure, and a guiding U integral to the slip and which straddles the rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Antoine Cousin, Frédéric Ridray
  • Patent number: 11255293
    Abstract: A turbofan with a secondary duct and including a fixed structure and a mobile assembly including a frame with openwork regions. The mobile assembly is translatable between advanced and extended positions. The openwork regions are positioned across the window in the extended position. A plurality of blocking doors is provided, each being mobile between stowed and deployed positions. An array of rams move the mobile assembly. A cascade grille mounts on the frame across the openwork region. The grille slides on the frame parallel to the translational direction. For each grille, a rear stop limits rearward movement, and a compression spring pushes the grille to the rear for abutment against a rear stop. For each grille, the fixed structure comprises a stop element against which the grille abuts upon movement from the advanced position to the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Pascal Gardes, Frédéric Ridray, Benoit Orteu, Pascal Gougeon, Frédéric Piard
  • Patent number: 11215141
    Abstract: A turbofan comprising a motor and a nacelle, surrounding the motor, where a duct for a bypass flow is delimited between the nacelle and the motor and in which a flow of air flows. The nacelle comprises reverser flaps where each one is articulated between a stowed position in which it is not in the bypass duct and a deployed position in which it is across the bypass duct. The turbofan has at least one reverser flap with at least one leakage window configured to allow airflow in the deployed position. The at least one reverser flap has at least one fin extending across the leakage window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Pascal Gardes, Frédéric Ridray, Lionel Czapla
  • Patent number: 11187188
    Abstract: A ducted fan turbojet including a nacelle including a fixed structure, a thrust reverser system having a frame, a mobile structure fastened to the frame, inner doors and outer doors hinged at the frame. The frame is mobile in translation on the fixed structure between a forward position and a rear position so as to define a window between the fixed structure and the mobile structure, the window being open between a bypass duct and the exterior of the nacelle. Each door is mobile between a stowed position and a deployed position and the mobile structure is assembled hinged on the frame via at least one hinge whose axis of rotation is globally parallel to a longitudinal axis of the ducted fan turbojet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Frédéric Ridray, Lionel Czapla, Frédéric Piard
  • Patent number: 11168644
    Abstract: A turbofan including a motor, nacelle and a secondary duct therebetween. The nacelle includes a fan casing with front and rear parts, a fixed assembly including a fixed structure and the front part, a mobile assembly with an openwork frame, a mobile cowl and the rear part and mobile between advanced and retracted positions in which a window is open between the secondary duct and the exterior of the nacelle, inner doors articulated between stowed and deployed positions, a first actuator for moving the frame and a second actuator for moving each inner door. The rear part is divided into outer flaps mobile between lowered and raised positions and is moved by an electric motor. A jet engine accordingly serves to increase retraction distance by freeing up part of the fan cowl and improve orientation of flow of air passing through the window by orienting the outer flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Laurent Presseq, Julie Cazalis, Lionel Sillieres, Bastian Sabathier, José Goncalves, Frédéric Piard, Lionel Czapla, Thierry Gaches, Frédéric Ridray, Pascal Gardes
  • Patent number: 11161619
    Abstract: A turbojet engine comprising an engine, a nacelle comprising a fan case, an intermediate case having a part forming a hub and an outer shroud radially spaced away from the hub by a secondary, or bypass, flow path and fixed to the hub via arms, in which the outer shroud is situated to the rear and in the continuity of the fan case, a fixed structure fixed to the outer shroud, a mobile assembly mounted with the ability to effect translational movement on the fixed structure, and a ramp fixed to the outer shroud and configured to direct the secondary or bypass flow to exit the outer shroud. Such a turbojet engine makes it possible to simplify assembly and among other things, makes it possible to fix the ramp directly to the outer shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Pascal Gardes, Frédéric Ridray, Frédéric Piard, José Goncalves
  • Patent number: 11143141
    Abstract: A nacelle having a window open between a secondary jet and the outside of the nacelle and comprising a fixed structure and a thrust-reversing system having a frame and outer doors articulated on the frame. The frame is translationally mobile on the fixed structure between an advanced position and a retracted position. Each outer door is mobile between a stowed position and a deployed position. The nacelle comprises at least one anti-vibration system which comprises a chock fixed to the fixed structure and having a hole, and a finger fixed to the outer door. The finger and the hole are configured so that the finger lodges in the hole when the frame is in advanced position. Such a nacelle makes it possible to limit the vibrations of the outer doors when they are in stowed position and before the mobile frame begins to be displaced to the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Frédéric Ridray, Frédéric Piard
  • Patent number: 11136938
    Abstract: A bypass turbofan engine with a nacelle comprising a fan case and a thrust-reversal system. The fan case comprises an exterior wall, and the reversal system comprises a slider having an upstream frame, a downstream frame and a plurality of spars fixed between the upstream frame and the downstream frame, in which the slider is able to move between a forward position and a retracted position. The fan case comprises, at a rear edge of its exterior wall, a support. Each support comprises, for each spar, a shoe fixed to the exterior wall and positioned radially about the spar, and a skirt secured to the shoes and extending the rear edge, in which, in a forward position, the skirt bears around the downstream frame, and in which in a forward/retracted/intermediate position, the shoes are distant from the spars from the upstream frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Pascal Gardes, Frédéric Ridray, José Goncalves
  • Patent number: 11105297
    Abstract: A turbofan having a nacelle comprising a slider translatable between an advanced position and a retracted position to open a window between a duct and the exterior, a plurality of blades, each one rotatable on the slider between a stowed position and a deployed position, and a maneuvering system that moves each blade and comprises, for each blade, a shaft rotatable on the slider and on which the blade is fixed, and a toothed sector fixed to the shaft, and a toothed arc rotatable on the slider about a longitudinal axis, where the teeth of the toothed arc mesh with the teeth of each toothed sector, a cam, as one with the toothed arc, and a groove, as one with a fixed structure, which receives the cam and where, when the slider moves, the cam follows the groove and rotates the toothed arc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Pascal Gardes, Guillaume Seguin, Laurent Tizac, Fabien Menou, Frédéric Ridray, Benoit Orteu, Romain Cusset
  • Patent number: 10995700
    Abstract: A jet engine including a motor with a fan casing and a nacelle which includes a mobile cowl and a main slider that is mobile in translation between an advanced position and a retracted position in which the mobile cowl and the fan casing define, between them, a window. The nacelle also includes reverser flaps and exterior flaps, each one being mounted articulated on the main slider between a stowed position in which it obstructs the window and a deployed position in which it does not obstruct the window, a secondary slider that is mobile in translation on the main slider between a first position and a second position, a transmission system making each reverser flap and exterior flap pass from the stowed position to the deployed position when the secondary slider passes from the first position to the second position, and a set of actuators that bring about a movement in translation of the main slider and of the secondary slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Frédéric Ridray, Lionel Czapla, Frédéric Piard
  • Publication number: 20200378340
    Abstract: A turbofan engine with a nacelle including a runner translationally mobile between advanced and back-off positions to open a window between a stream and an outside, a plurality of blades, each rotatable on the runner between retracted and deployed positions, and a maneuvering system displacing each blade and comprising, for each blade, a shaft rotatable on the runner and to which the blade is fixed, and a toothed segment on the shaft, and a toothed arc rotatable on the runner about a longitudinal axis, the tooth arc teeth meshing with the toothed segment teeth, a slip translationally mobile on the runner in a plane at right angles to the longitudinal axis between first and second positions, a connecting rod mounted articulated between the slip and the toothed arc, a rib integral to the fixed structure, and a guiding U integral to the slip and which straddles the rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Antoine COUSIN, Frédéric RIDRAY
  • Patent number: 10830089
    Abstract: A turbofan with a fan casing and a nacelle which comprises a fixed structure, a movable assembly with a movable cowl and a slide, which is translationally movable between an advanced position and a retreated position in which the movable cowl is moved away from the fan casing in order to define a window open between a duct and the outside of the nacelle, a plurality of blades, each being mounted rotatably on the slide, where each blade is movable between a retracted position in which the blade is outside of the duct and a deployed position in which the blade is across the duct, a set of actuators for moving the slide and an operating system configured to move each blade from the retracted position to the deployed position, and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Pascal Gardes, Frédéric Ridray, Frédéric Piard
  • Publication number: 20200318574
    Abstract: A turbofan with a secondary duct and including a fixed structure and a mobile assembly including a frame with openwork regions. The mobile assembly is translatable between advanced and retracted positions. The openwork regions are positioned across the window in the retracted position. A plurality of blocking doors is provided, each being mobile between stowed and deployed positions. An array of rams move the mobile assembly. A cascade grille mounts on the frame across the openwork region. The grille slides on the frame parallel to the translational direction. For each grille, a rear stop limits rearward movement, and a compression spring pushes the grille to the rear for abutment against a rear stop. For each grille, the fixed structure comprises a stop element against which the grille abuts upon movement from the advanced position to the retracted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Pascal GARDES, Frédéric RIDRAY, Benoit ORTEU
  • Publication number: 20200240359
    Abstract: A turbofan having a nacelle comprising a slider translatable between an advanced position and a retracted position to open a window between a duct and the exterior, a plurality of blades, each one rotatable on the slider between a stowed position and a deployed position, and a maneuvering system that moves each blade and comprises, for each blade, a shaft rotatable on the slider and on which the blade is fixed, and a toothed sector fixed to the shaft, and a toothed arc rotatable on the slider about a longitudinal axis, where the teeth of the toothed arc mesh with the teeth of each toothed sector, a cam, as one with the toothed arc, and a groove, as one with a fixed structure, which receives the cam and where, when the slider moves, the cam follows the groove and rotates the toothed arc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Pascal GARDES, Guillaume SEGUIN, Laurent TIZAC, Fabien MENOU, Frédéric RIDRAY, Benoit ORTEU, Romain CUSSET
  • Patent number: 10690088
    Abstract: A turbofan including a motor with a fan casing and a nacelle which includes a mobile cowl and a main slider bearing gratings and being mobile in translation between an advanced position and a retracted position in which the mobile cowl and the fan casing define, between them, a window. The nacelle also includes reverser flaps, each one being mounted articulated on the main slider between a closed position in which it obstructs the window and an open position in which it does not obstruct the window, a secondary slider mounted mobile in translation on the main slider between a first position and a second position, a transmission system configured to make each reverser flap pass from the closed position to the open position when the secondary slider passes from the first position to the second position, and a set of actuators that bring about a movement in translation of the main slider, and of the secondary slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Frédéric Ridray, Lionel Czapla, Frédéric Piard
  • Publication number: 20200189759
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly having a pylon, a turbomachine comprising an engine and a fan that is enclosed by a fan casing, a nacelle surrounding the engine and the fan casing and having a load support disposed in the top part of the nacelle, a front engine attachment between the pylon and a front part of the engine, a rear engine attachment between the pylon and a rear part of the engine, a front fan attachment between the fan casing and the load support, and a rear pylon attachment between the pylon and the load support. Such a propulsion assembly allows a reduction in bulk since the load of the turbojet engine is distributed between the load support and the pylon, and the pylon is attached to the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Philippe AUGE, Benoit ORTEU, Julien BERNAT, Jean GELIOT, Delphine JALBERT, Frédéric RIDRAY, Laurent LAFONT, Pascal GARDES
  • Publication number: 20200122409
    Abstract: A method for connecting two components is proposed where a pressure acting on an adhesive between two join partners is supported by an auxiliary body which rests on a cutout of one of the components. Both components to be connected together and the auxiliary body are covered by a vacuum film and once the air has been sucked out, the compressive force is generated below the vacuum film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Pascal GARDES, Frédéric RIDRAY, José GONCALVES