Patents by Inventor Geoffroy Nicq

Geoffroy Nicq 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: 10852215
    Abstract: A method for monitoring an aircraft engine vane wheel (22), which includes: acquiring at least one time signal relative to moments when the vane wheel blades (23) pass in front of a sensor (21); determining a common flight phase of the aircraft; for each flight in a series of flights of the aircraft, correlating at least part of each time signal with a predetermined flight phase; and for each blade (23), each flight, and each predetermined flight phase, measuring the mean position (24C), the so-called “balance position”, of the top of the blade. The invention also relates to a device for implementing such a method. One advantage of the invention is providing a diagnosis of the blades using a small number of sensors and low computing power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Geoffroy Nicq, Valerio Gerez
  • Patent number: 10330648
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for acoustically detecting at least one malfunction (DYS) of a motor, the motor generating a primary noise Po that is treated by an active noise control system emitting, at the noise reduction targets, an acoustic signal Pc produced by at least one actuator and connected by a transfer function H to a signal Y produced by said active noise control system, said malfunction (DYS) having an acoustic signature identifiable in the primary noise Po at the noise reduction targets, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: acquisition of said signal Y produced by the active control system; identification of the appearance, if any, of a malfunction by a monitoring means that uses the knowledge of Y and H and emits an alert message if warranted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Geoffroy Nicq
  • Publication number: 20170315021
    Abstract: A method for monitoring an aircraft engine vane wheel (22), which includes: acquiring at least one time signal relative to moments when the vane wheel blades (23) pass in front of a sensor (21); determining a common flight phase of the aircraft; for each flight in a series of flights of the aircraft, correlating at least part of each time signal with a predetermined flight phase; and for each blade (23), each flight, and each predetermined flight phase, measuring the mean position (24C), the so-called “balance position”, of the top of the blade. The invention also relates to a device for implementing such a method. One advantage of the invention is providing a diagnosis of the blades using a small number of sensors and low computing power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Geoffroy Nicq, Valerio Gerez
  • Patent number: 9575009
    Abstract: The present description relates to a remote connection system suitable for being incorporated in an aircraft (1A, 1B, 1C) comprising at least one engine propeller (50A, 50B, 50C) having a plurality of blades (52A, 52B, 52C) suitable for rotating relative to a stationary module (10A, 10B, 10C) of the aircraft about an engine axis (X). The remote connection system comprises: a light emitter device configured, when the remote connection system is incorporated in the aircraft (1A, 1B, 1C), to emit a light beam that emerges to the outside of the propeller (50A, 50B, 50C), from at least one emission surface (54A, 54B, 54C) of said propeller (50A, 50B, 50C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Snecma
    Inventor: Geoffroy Nicq
  • Patent number: 9551629
    Abstract: A method and a system for acquiring a vibratory signal for troubleshooting a rotary motor, including: an input receiving a temporal vibratory signal of the motor and at least one current rotational speed of at least one shaft of the motor, and a sampling mechanism sampling the temporal vibratory signal in real time with at least one sampling signal synchronised with the at least one current rotational speed thus generating a corresponding synchronous vibratory signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventor: Geoffroy Nicq
  • Publication number: 20160178531
    Abstract: The present description relates to a remote connection system suitable for being incorporated in an aircraft (1A, 1B, 1C) comprising at least one engine propeller (50A, 50B, 50C) having a plurality of blades (52A, 52B, 52C) suitable for rotating relative to a stationary module (10A, 10B, 10C) of the aircraft about an engine axis (X). The remote connection system comprises: a light emitter device configured, when the remote connection system is incorporated in the aircraft (1A, 1B, 1C), to emit a light beam that emerges to the outside of the propeller (50A, 50B, 50C), from at least one emission surface (54A, 54B, 54C) of said propeller (50A, 50B, 50C).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventor: Geoffroy NICQ
  • Publication number: 20150316512
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for acoustically detecting at least one malfunction (DYS) of a motor, the motor generating a primary noise Po that is treated by an active noise control system emitting, at the noise reduction targets, an acoustic signal Pc produced by at least one actuator and connected by a transfer function H to a signal Y produced by said active noise control system, said malfunction (DYS) having an acoustic signature identifiable in the primary noise Po at the noise reduction targets, characterised in that it comprises the following steps: acquisition of said signal Y produced by the active control system; identification of the appearance, if any, of a malfunction by a monitoring means that uses the knowledge of Y and H and emits an alert message if warranted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventor: Geoffroy Nicq
  • Publication number: 20150315914
    Abstract: A method of balancing a turbine engine rotor, the method including mounting screws forming balance weights on the rotor in order to form a balance configuration, each screw possessing a predetermined weight and a screw head having a visual characteristic previously associated with its weight. A rotor balanced by such a method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventor: Geoffroy NICQ
  • Patent number: 8958946
    Abstract: A method and an on-board system for detecting impact on an impeller wheel of an aircraft engine. Deflection signals representative of the deflections on the blades of the impeller wheel are acquired. Each of the deflection signals is correlated with a pulse signal typical of an impact on a sound blade at the rotation frequency of the engine, in order to identify impacts on the impeller wheel. The impact signals are extracted from among the deflection signals. The impact signals are transmitted to the ground in order that the signals are analyzed to detect defects on the blades of the impeller wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Geoffroy Nicq, Valerio Gerez
  • Patent number: 8942886
    Abstract: A method and a system for detecting an impact on an impeller wheel of an aircraft engine. A device acquires a revolutions per minute of the engine and a series of deflection signals representative of the deflections on the blades of the impeller wheel at the revolutions per minute. A device constructs signals for detecting impact on the impeller wheel by correlating each of the deflection signals with a predetermined signature of a shock on a blade at the revolutions per minute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: David Tourin, Valerio Gerez, Geoffroy Nicq
  • Publication number: 20140352444
    Abstract: A method and a system for acquiring a vibratory signal for troubleshooting a rotary motor, including: an input receiving a temporal vibratory signal of the motor and at least one current rotational speed of at least one shaft of the motor, and a sampling mechanism sampling the temporal vibratory signal in real time with at least one sampling signal synchronised with the at least one current rotational speed thus generating a corresponding synchronous vibratory signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventor: Geoffroy Nicq
  • Publication number: 20130239653
    Abstract: A method and an on-board system for detecting impact on an impeller wheel of an aircraft engine. Deflection signals representative of the deflections on the blades of the impeller wheel are acquired. Each of the deflection signals is correlated with a pulse signal typical of an impact on a sound blade at the rotation frequency of the engine, in order to identify impacts on the impeller wheel. The impact signals are extracted from among the deflection signals. The impact signals are transmitted to the ground in order that the signals are analysed to detect defects on the blades of the impeller wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Geoffroy NICQ, Valerio GEREZ
  • Patent number: 8474802
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vibration isolator comprising a canister which ends are closed by end caps and a shaft able to move inside the canister, wherein the shaft comprises a piston-like shaped part for separating the canister in two parts: the first part being defined between the piston-like shaped part of the shaft and the first end cap, and comprising at least one resilient and damping element able to be compressed by a compression movement of the shaft on a first nominal stroke; the second part being defined between the piston-like shaped part of the shaft and the second end cap, and comprising at least one resilient and damping element able to be compressed by a tension movement of the shaft on a second nominal stroke; the tangential stiffness of the vibration isolator being, on at least one part of the first nominal stroke of the shaft, at least twice as lower as its tangential stiffness on the entire second nominal stroke of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Barry Wright Corporation
    Inventor: Geoffroy Nicq
  • Publication number: 20100314812
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vibration isolator comprising a canister which ends are closed by end caps and a shaft able to move inside the canister, wherein the shaft comprises a piston-like shaped part for separating the canister in two parts: the first part being defined between the piston-like shaped part of the shaft and the first end cap, and comprising at least one resilient and damping element able to be compressed by a compression movement of the shaft on a first nominal stroke; the second part being defined between the piston-like shaped part of the shaft and the second end cap, and comprising at least one resilient and damping element able to be compressed by a tension movement of the shaft on a second nominal stroke; the tangential stiffness of the vibration isolator being, on at least one part of the first nominal stroke of the shaft, at least twice as lower as its tangential stiffness on the entire second nominal stroke of the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventor: Geoffroy Nicq