Patents by Inventor Franck Bernard Léon Varin
Franck Bernard Léon Varin 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: 11555406Abstract: A turbine engine blade having an aerodynamic surface extending a first direction between a leading edge and a trailing edge and in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, between a root of the blade and a tip of the blade, the aerodynamic surface being made of a fiber-reinforced organic matrix composite material, and a metallic structural reinforcement bonded by an adhesive joint to the leading edge whose shape it follows and which has over its entire height a substantially V-shaped section with a base extended by two lateral flanks having a thinned profile at free ends directed toward the trailing edge, the adhesive joint being locally supplemented below the free ends of the lateral flanks by an elastomeric polymer introduced in the form of solid particles into the adhesive joint and adhered to the aerodynamic surface and/or the free ends of the lateral flanks during a polymerization phase.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Vincent Joudon, Franck Bernard Léon Varin
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Patent number: 11199094Abstract: A turbine machine blade has an aerodynamic surface that is made of organic matrix composite material reinforced by fibers and metal structural reinforcement that is adhesively bonded by an epoxy adhesive bond on the leading edge, which is of matching shape, and that presents along its entire height a section that is substantially V-shaped with a base extended by two lateral flanks of respective profiles that become thinner at free ends going towards the trailing edge. In order to increase the toughness of the epoxy adhesive bond in the event of the epoxy adhesive bond cracking, the epoxy adhesive bond includes a reinforcing sheet of elastomeric polymer enabling the reinforcing sheet to be torn into two portions, the elastomeric polymer having the following properties at 23° C.: Young's modulus E?10 MPa; stress at rupture ?r>10 MPa; strain at rupture ?r>80%.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Vincent Joudon, Franck Bernard Léon Varin
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Publication number: 20210293152Abstract: A turbine engine blade having an aerodynamic surface extending a first direction between a leading edge and a trailing edge and in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, between a root of the blade and a tip of the blade, the aerodynamic surface being made of a fiber-reinforced organic matrix composite material, and a metallic structural reinforcement bonded by an adhesive joint to the leading edge whose shape it follows and which has over its entire height a substantially V-shaped section with a base extended by two lateral flanks having a thinned profile at free ends directed toward the trailing edge, the adhesive joint being locally supplemented below the free ends of the lateral flanks by an elastomeric polymer introduced in the form of solid particles into the adhesive joint and adhered to the aerodynamic surface and/or the free ends of the lateral flanks during a polymerization phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2019Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Vincent JOUDON, Franck Bernard Léon VARIN
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Publication number: 20200102834Abstract: A turbine machine blade has an aerodynamic surface that is made of organic matrix composite material reinforced by fibers and metal structural reinforcement that is adhesively bonded by an epoxy adhesive bond on the leading edge, which is of matching shape, and that presents along its entire height a section that is substantially V-shaped with a base extended by two lateral flanks of respective profiles that become thinner at free ends going towards the trailing edge. In order to increase the toughness of the epoxy adhesive bond in the event of the epoxy adhesive bond cracking, the epoxy adhesive bond includes a reinforcing sheet of elastomeric polymer enabling the reinforcing sheet to be torn into two portions, the elastomeric polymer having the following properties at 23° C.: Young's modulus E?10 MPa; stress at rupture ?r>10 MPa; strain at rupture ?r>80%.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Vincent JOUDON, Franck Bernard Léon VARIN
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Patent number: 10549310Abstract: A device applies a coating to a surface of an turbomachine annular casing, wherein the casing has an abradable layer obtained by polymerising a resin. The device includes first support means and, optionally, second automated means movable relative to the first support means. The automated means includes means for depositing said resin on the surface of the casing. The automated means further includes means for spreading the resin on the surface of the casing, and means for unwinding a plastic film that is intended to be interposed between said spreading means and the resin.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Thierry Sacy, Patrice Le Bec, Philippe Charles Alain Le Biez, Serge Georges Vladimir Selezneff, Franck Bernard Léon Varin, Michel Lenfant, Fabrice Marsaleix, Jacques Chazal Dufour
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Patent number: 10259169Abstract: A method of fastening structural metal reinforcement on a portion of a gas turbine blade made of composite material and an injection mold for performing the method, the method including positioning the structural metal reinforcement in an injection mold, positioning the portion of the blade onto which the structural metal reinforcement is to be fastened in the injection mold, the portion of the blade and the structural metal reinforcement being positioned relative to each other in their final relative position while leaving between them a gap, injecting adhesive into the gap between the structural metal reinforcement and the portion of the blade onto which the structural metal reinforcement is to be fastened, and polymerizing the adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Thierry Godon, Bruno Jacques Gerard Dambrine, Franck Bernard Leon Varin
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Patent number: 10180070Abstract: A tooling for fastening metal reinforcement on the leading edge of a turbine engine blade, the tooling including a blade support for receiving a blade while leaving surfaces of the leading edge of the blade disengaged; and a leading edge reinforcement support on which the blade support is designed to be mounted, and including two lateral wedges between which the metal reinforcement for the leading edge of the blade is positioned, the wedges being suitable for being capable of moving towards each other and apart from each other and each of them being provided with a suction grid for gripping the metal reinforcement, the leading edge reinforcement support further including heater elements for polymerizing an adhesive film applied on the leading edge surfaces of the blade.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Thierry Chauvin, Franck Bernard Leon Varin
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Patent number: 10137640Abstract: A method is provided of bonding together at least two parts. The method includes assembling together at least two parts and at least one adhesive layer, the adhesive being configured so that its adhesive power increases on heating as a result of it polymerizing, at least one of the parts being made of composite material or of metal, the adhesive layer being present, after assembly, between the parts, the assembled together parts and the adhesive being present in a chamber defined by a wall, the wall having an inside face situated facing a first part present between the adhesive layer and the wall, the first part being intended to be bonded to a second part and only a fraction of the second part being present inside the chamber; and applying a liquid against the wall on its side opposite from the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Thierry Godon, Julien Schneider, Franck Bernard Leon Varin
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Publication number: 20180178243Abstract: A device applies a coating to a surface of an turbomachine annular casing, wherein the casing has an abradable layer obtained by polymerising a resin. The device includes first support means and, optionally second automated means movable relative to the first support means. The automated means includes means for depositing said resin on the surface of the casing. The automated means further includes means for spreading the resin on the surface of the casing, and means for unwinding a plastic film that is intended to be interposed between said spreading means and the resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2016Publication date: June 28, 2018Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Thierry Sacy, Patrice Le Bec, Philippe Charles Alain Le Biez, Serge Georges Vladimir Selezneff, Franck Bernard Léon Varin, Michel Lenfant, Fabrice Marsaleix, Jacques Chazal Dufour
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Patent number: 9643341Abstract: A mold includes a first shell and a second shell that are suitable, in the closed position, for imparting a shape to a part that is to be molded in the mold, a main axis being perpendicular to the main plane in which the first shell and the second shell extend. The mold further includes a slide that is situated between the first shell and the second shell and that is in contact with the first shell and the second shell when the mold is in the closed position, and that is to come into contact with the molded part, the slide presenting a first face that constitutes its interface with the first shell, the first face presenting a primary direction along which the slide is suitable for sliding along the first face when the mold is in the open position.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignees: SNECMA, SAFRANInventors: Franck Bernard Leon Varin, Thierry Chauvin
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Patent number: 9457435Abstract: A propeller blade, which can belong to a fan without covering by an external casing, includes two portions fitted into one another and of different materials, generally composite, to resist various stresses, heating coming from a rotor or impacts of solid bodies. An internal portion includes a blade core, a blade shank and possibly a foam lining, and a preform of an outside portion is assembled to it by surrounding it closely before being completely formed by receiving its resin, which is placed into polymerization. A method for producing the propeller blade guarantees good assembly of the portions without defects of form, damage or deformation of a fiber weave.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2013Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignees: SNECMA, SAFRANInventors: Richard Mathon, Olivier Foussard, Yann Marchal, Franck Bernard Leon Varin
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Patent number: 9387632Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cylindrical part from composite material, and a molding device to implement the method, the method including: installation of a fibrous structure on a horizontal mandrel; formation of an annular enclosure for molding around the fibrous structure and the mandrel; supply of the enclosure with resin via a first axial end, while keeping a second axial end of the enclosure at a pressure lower than a supply pressure of the resin. The second end includes at least two sectors of vents in a form of ring sectors, each being independently kept at a pressure lower than the supply pressure.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2012Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Franck Bernard Leon Varin, Thierry Godon
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Publication number: 20160076387Abstract: A tooling for fastening metal reinforcement on the leading edge of a turbine engine blade, the tooling including a blade support for receiving a blade while leaving surfaces of the leading edge of the blade disengaged; and a leading edge reinforcement support on which the blade support is designed to be mounted, and including two lateral wedges between which the metal reinforcement for the leading edge of the blade is positioned, the wedges being suitable for being capable of moving towards each other and apart from each other and each of them being provided with a suction grid for gripping the metal reinforcement, the leading edge reinforcement support further including heater elements for polymerizing an adhesive film applied on the leading edge surfaces of the blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2014Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicants: SAFRAN, SNECMAInventors: Thierry CHAUVIN, Franck Bernard Leon VARIN
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Publication number: 20160001466Abstract: A mold comprises a first shell and a second shell that are suitable, in the closed position, for imparting a shape to a part that is to be molded in the mold, a main axis A being perpendicular to the main plane in which the first shell and the second shell extend. The mold further comprises at least one slide that is situated between the first shell and the second shell and that is in contact with the first shell and the second shell when the mold is in the closed position, and that is to come into contact with the molded part, the or each slide presenting a first face that constitutes its interface with the first shell, the first face presenting a primary direction along which the slide is suitable for sliding along the first face when the mold is in the open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicants: SNECMA, SAFRANInventors: Franck Bernard Leon VARIN, Thierry CHAUVIN
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Publication number: 20150151485Abstract: A method of fastening structural metal reinforcement on a portion of a gas turbine blade made of composite material and an injection mold for performing the method, the method including positioning the structural metal reinforcement in an injection mold, positioning the portion of the blade onto which the structural metal reinforcement is to be fastened in the injection mold, the portion of the blade and the structural metal reinforcement being positioned relative to each other in their final relative position while leaving between them a gap, injecting adhesive into the gap between the structural metal reinforcement and the portion of the blade onto which the structural metal reinforcement is to be fastened, and polymerizing the adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Thierry Godon, Bruno Jacques Gerard Dambrine, Franck Bernard Leon Varin
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Publication number: 20150013160Abstract: A propeller blade, which can belong to a fan without covering by an external casing, includes two portions fitted into one another and of different materials, generally composite, to resist various stresses, heating coming from a rotor or impacts of solid bodies. An internal portion includes a blade core, a blade shank and possibly a foam lining, and a preform of an outside portion is assembled to it by surrounding it closely before being completely formed by receiving its resin, which is placed into polymerisation. A method for producing the propeller blade guarantees good assembly of the portions without defects of form, damage or deformation of a fiber weave.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicants: SNECMA, SAFRANInventors: Richard Mathon, Olivier Foussard, Yann Marchal, Franck Bernard, Leon Varin
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Patent number: 8894809Abstract: A method for disconnecting a first mechanical part from a second magnetic mechanical part, the first mechanical part being adhered to the second magnetic mechanical part by an adhesive film along a connecting area. In the method, a magnetic field is generated at least within the connecting area so as to generate, by induction, eddy currents in the second magnetic mechanical part, to soften the adhesive film and enable disconnection of the first and second mechanical parts.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: SNECMAInventor: Franck Bernard Leon Varin
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Publication number: 20140217652Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cylindrical part from composite material, and a molding device to implement the method, the method including: installation of a fibrous structure on a horizontal mandrel; formation of an annular enclosure for molding around the fibrous structure and the mandrel; supply of the enclosure with resin via a first axial end, while keeping a second axial end of the enclosure at a pressure lower than a supply pressure of the resin. The second end includes at least two sectors of vents in a form of ring sectors, each being independently kept at a pressure lower than the supply pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Franck Bernard Leon Varin, Thierry Godon
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Publication number: 20130276991Abstract: A method for disconnecting a first mechanical part from a second magnetic mechanical part, the first mechanical part being adhered to the second magnetic mechanical part by an adhesive film along a connecting area. In the method, a magnetic field is generated at least within the connecting area so as to generate, by induction, eddy currents in the second magnetic mechanical part, to soften the adhesive film and enable disconnection of the first and second mechanical parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2012Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: SNECMAInventor: Franck Bernard, Leon Varin