Patents by Inventor Gilles A. Charier

Gilles A. Charier 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: 5586860
    Abstract: Turbo aero engine including a heating arrangement for the internal portions (12) of turbine disks on revving up so as to reduce the temperature gradient in the disks. Heating gas passes through pipes (11) integral with the stator and reheats the disks by passing through a gasket (13) designed with the tongues (18) and orifices (20 and 22) which allow the gas to circulate towards the zones to be heated when the revving up has firstly heated the portions of the machine close to the pipes (11) and then makes it possible to interrupt the communication when the temperatures even out and the original heat expansions become uniform and offset the orifices (20 and 23).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1996
    Assignee: Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation "Snecma"
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Bertrand, Gilles A. Charier, Xavier J.A. Guyonnet, Jean-Louis Picard
  • Patent number: 5440874
    Abstract: A turbojet engine includes a combustion chamber located upstream of a turbine, the turbine having a rotor disk integrally bladed with vanes and including a channel blowing gas from a position outside a wall of the combustion chamber to a peripheral zone of the rotor disk adjacent to the vanes, a channel divided in front of a zone adjacent to the vanes into an internal channel and an external channel surrounding the internal channel, wherein the internal channel has a greater cross-section than the external channel and wherein the external channel converges upon approaching an outlet thereof so as to accelerate the gas flowing therethrough and prevent gas which passed through the internal channel from being dispersed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Assignee: Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation "SNECMA"
    Inventors: Gilles A. Charier, Xavier, J. M. A. Guyonnet, Jean-Louis Picard