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).

  • Patent number: 11555406
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Vincent Joudon, Franck Bernard Léon Varin
  • Patent number: 11199094
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Vincent Joudon, Franck Bernard Léon Varin
  • Publication number: 20210293152
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Vincent JOUDON, Franck Bernard Léon VARIN
  • Publication number: 20200102834
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Vincent JOUDON, Franck Bernard Léon VARIN
  • Patent number: 10549310
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 10259169
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Thierry Godon, Bruno Jacques Gerard Dambrine, Franck Bernard Leon Varin
  • Patent number: 10180070
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Thierry Chauvin, Franck Bernard Leon Varin
  • Patent number: 10137640
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Thierry Godon, Julien Schneider, Franck Bernard Leon Varin
  • Publication number: 20180178243
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 9643341
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignees: SNECMA, SAFRAN
    Inventors: Franck Bernard Leon Varin, Thierry Chauvin
  • Patent number: 9457435
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: SNECMA, SAFRAN
    Inventors: Richard Mathon, Olivier Foussard, Yann Marchal, Franck Bernard Leon Varin
  • Patent number: 9387632
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Franck Bernard Leon Varin, Thierry Godon
  • Publication number: 20160076387
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicants: SAFRAN, SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry CHAUVIN, Franck Bernard Leon VARIN
  • Publication number: 20160001466
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicants: SNECMA, SAFRAN
    Inventors: Franck Bernard Leon VARIN, Thierry CHAUVIN
  • Publication number: 20150151485
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Godon, Bruno Jacques Gerard Dambrine, Franck Bernard Leon Varin
  • Publication number: 20150013160
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicants: SNECMA, SAFRAN
    Inventors: Richard Mathon, Olivier Foussard, Yann Marchal, Franck Bernard, Leon Varin
  • Patent number: 8894809
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventor: Franck Bernard Leon Varin
  • Publication number: 20140217652
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Franck Bernard Leon Varin, Thierry Godon
  • Publication number: 20130276991
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventor: Franck Bernard, Leon Varin