Patents by Inventor Gilles Alain Charier

Gilles Alain 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: 9518687
    Abstract: A device can be housed coaxially inside a sleeve in which the supplies are situated, and includes: a hollow cylindrical body that fits inside the sleeve and accepts the mechanism in the housing of the hollow body, with passages for respectively connecting the supplies to said mechanism; and a cover which is integrated or fixed, removably, on the front side of the cylindrical body and connects the hidden supplies to the respective passages of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Augustin Curlier, Gilles Alain Charier, Olivier Belmonte
  • Publication number: 20160326964
    Abstract: An epicyclic gear device for driving rotation of a first blade set of a turbine engine, the device: including a sunwheel centered on a longitudinal axis of the turbine engine and connected to a rotor of the engine in order to be driven in rotation; at least one planet meshing with the sunwheel; a planet carrier rotatably carrying the planet and connected to a first blade set in order to drive it in rotation; and a ring meshing with the planet; the sunwheel being connected to the rotor via a first constant velocity ball transmission joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Augustin CURLIER, Julien AUSTRUY, Tewfik BOUDEBIZA, Gilles Alain CHARIER
  • Publication number: 20160290236
    Abstract: The invention relates to a non-faired propeller turbo-engine comprising a gas generator (12) and a propulsion unit (14) which is separated from the gas generator (12) by an intermediate housing (40), the turbo-engine (10) including a housing (100) and a radially internal ferrule (44) which are coaxial, which are connected by hollow radial arms (50), said housing (100) also defining in part a gas flow duct (48) of a secondary gas flow, 1wherein each radial arm (50) is hollow and is traversed by at least one service (54) of the turbo-engine, characterised in that at least one arm (50) is traversed by a ventilation gas circulation duct (56) from the secondary gas flow and which leads to at least one component from among in particular a power turbine and a mechanical transmission of said propulsion unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Tewfik BOUDEBIZA, Gilles Alain CHARIER, Augustin Marc Michel CURLIER, Jean-Christophe DUFFET
  • Publication number: 20160201791
    Abstract: The epicyclic reduction gear comprises a planetary input shaft, planet gears meshing around said shaft and supported by a planet carrier, and two transverse sides. According to the invention, the reduction gear comprises at least one fluid transfer pipe suitable for being connected to a fluid supply source and passing through the planet carrier, being linked in rotation to same, from a first of said transverse sides of the reduction gear to a second of said transverse sides of the latter in order to open on the outside of the reduction gear and dispense the fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Augustin Curlier, Tewfik BOUDEBIZA, Gilles Alain Charier
  • Patent number: 9309808
    Abstract: A turboprop provided with a blade-positioning device including a stationary nacelle, a rotary nacelle including a plurality of blade roots, a turbine, the stationary and rotary nacelles and the turbine being coaxial along a longitudinal axis, a blade positioning device including for each blade a device configured to transform movement suitable for transforming a translation movement into a rotation movement, each one of the device for transforming movement being secured to the rotary nacelle and being suitable for pivoting a blade. The positioning device is placed between the inner surface of the stationary nacelle and the outer surface of the turbine, the positioning device including a member including a body secured to the stationary nacelle and a rod for sliding along an axis substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Wouter Balk, Gilles Alain Charier, François Gallet
  • Patent number: 9227723
    Abstract: A mechanism for adjusting pitch of blades of a propeller of a system of contra-rotating propellers for a turbomachine, wherein each blade moves around a radial axis. The mechanism includes a linear actuator, a structure to transform movement imparted by the linear actuator into rotation of each of the blades in a synchronized manner around their radial axis, the structure including a bracket of longitudinal axis formed of a central ring, an outer ring, and multiple radial arms rigidly connected to the central ring and to the outer ring. The central ring can be subject to actuation of the linear actuator, and the central ring and the outer ring are positioned in two separate planes, orthogonal to the longitudinal axis, such that the bracket is shaped as a truncated cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Wouter Balk, Gilles Alain Charier
  • Publication number: 20150336679
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a propulsion unit comprising a pair of contra-rotating coaxial propellers, that are referred to as upstream (2) and downstream (3), the downstream propeller, forming a rotating reference frame, being mounted for rotation about a central member forming a stationary reference frame, and being provided with a device for changing the pitch of the blades, characterised in that the downstream propeller is supported by bearings arranged externally on the cylindrical central support, an upstream bearing (40) of which is arranged downstream of a device for changing the pitch of the blades of the upstream propeller, and in that said device for changing the pitch of the downstream propeller comprises a linear actuator (23) in the stationary reference frame with an element (235) that is able to move axially along the axis of the downstream propeller, the upstream bearing comprising an inner ring that is rigidly connected to the linear actuator and an outer ring that is rigidly connected t
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Sebastien Emile Philippe Tajan, Denis Louis Bocquet, Gilles Alain Charier
  • Patent number: 9194241
    Abstract: A composite material turbine nozzle blade including an airfoil adapted to have a cooling fluid flow through it and extending between a shroud and a root is provided. The shroud is shaped to be attached to one or more turbine casings of a turbomachine and the root is shaped to provide a junction with a turbine internal casing. The root is produced with a loosened texture and includes an external upstream side loosened texture lug and an external downstream side loosened texture lug. The ends of the two external side lugs extend radially relative to the rotation axis of the turbomachine to form a device for supporting and centering the internal casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Gilles Alain Charier, Jean Pierre Mareix, Didier Fabre
  • Patent number: 9085979
    Abstract: A device for controlling pitch of fan blades of a turboprop including at least one set of adjustable-pitch fan blades secured to rotate with a rotary ring centered on the longitudinal axis, and mechanically connected to a turbine rotor, each blade of the set being coupled for pitch adjustment to a synchronization ring centered on the longitudinal axis. An actuator is secured to rotate with the turbine rotor and is mechanically connected to the synchronization ring by a plurality of connection arms connected to the actuator rod and hinge-mounted on the synchronization ring such that actuating the actuator causes the synchronization ring to move in turning about the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Wouter Balk, Gilles Alain Charier, Francois Gallet
  • Patent number: 9057326
    Abstract: A system of contra-rotating propellers for an aircraft jet engine, including: a free power turbine; a first and second propeller, contra-rotating, the first propeller being placed in a predetermined direction relative to the second propeller, each including a hub, an outer ferrule, and coupling arms linking the two; and a casing inserted between the free turbine and the propellers, the propellers arranged in the predetermined direction relative to the casing and the free turbine arranged in the opposite direction relative to the casing, the casing including a casing extension in the given direction, rotatably supporting the hub of the propeller. The coupling arms extend in the opposite direction, radially towards the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Gilles Alain Charier, Francois Gallet
  • Publication number: 20150139802
    Abstract: Device for supplying oil under pressure to a linear actuator of a turbine engine, this actuator comprising an internal fixed portion and an external movable portion and means for regulating and supplying oil to chambers of the actuator, these regulating means being mounted radially outside the movable portion of the actuator, and the fixed portion of the actuator comprising on its upstream end portion oil passage channels of which the outlets open radially outwards, the device further comprising an oil distribution ring which is mounted on the upstream end portion of the fixed portion and which comprises internal conduits of which the inlets communicate with the outlets of the channels of the fixed portion and the outlets open axially downstream and are connected to the regulating means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Augustin CURLIER, Gilles Alain Charier
  • Patent number: 8985954
    Abstract: A device for controlling pitch of fan blades of a turboprop including at least one set of adjustable-pitch fan blades secured to rotate with a rotary ring mechanically connected to a turbine rotor, each blade of the set being coupled for pitch adjustment to a synchronization ring. The device includes a rolling bearing including an inner cage slidably mounted on a turbine casing and connected to the rod of an actuator, and an outer cage that is mechanically connected to the synchronization ring by a plurality of connection arms connected to the actuator rod and hinge-mounted on the synchronization ring such that actuating the actuator causes the synchronization ring to move in turning about the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Wouter Balk, Gilles Alain Charier, Francois Gallet
  • Patent number: 8967950
    Abstract: A turbine driving a planet gear and an epicyclic gear train and including a planet pinion cage and a ring driving two propellers in rotation, is connected to the planet gear through a flexible sleeve surrounding a turbine support shaft rather than through a support shaft itself to achieve a flexible assembly with a limit stop position in contact with the shaft to limit parasite internal forces applied to the epicyclic gear train without tolerating a loose assembly or breakage of the sleeve due to a condition of the limit stop after a clearance has been eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Gilles Alain Charier, Francois Gallet
  • Publication number: 20150047369
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fixed turbine engine receiver part comprising a fixed hollow shaft for carrying ancillary systems of a turbine engine, centered on the turbine engine axis, turbine engine ancillary systems, an assembly for holding ancillary systems in position situated inside the fixed hollow shaft. The assembly for holding ancillary systems in position comprises at least one first ancillary system support ring, having an axis substantially parallel with the turbine engine axis, a first distance sleeve for holding the first ancillary system support ring in position, having an axis substantially parallel with the turbine engine axis, the first distance sleeve bearing against the first support ring, such that the first support ring comprises a plurality of mutually separated through holes, each through hole defining a passage for at least one ancillary system, each through hole being traversed by at least one of the ancillary systems of the turbine engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Nadege HUGON, Gilles Alain CHARIER
  • Patent number: 8944765
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing device for the partition penetration of a connecting rod of a turboprop fan blade orientation control system. The device includes a bellows (60) of trunconical shape designed to allow passage of the connecting rod (50a) and having, at its wider end, means (62, 64) of attachment to the partition (58) to be sealed and, at its narrower end, an O-ring through which the connecting rod is free to slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Gilles Alain Charier, Francois Gallet
  • Patent number: 8876462
    Abstract: A system of contra-rotating propellers for an aircraft turbomachine, including: a free power turbine including a first rotor; first and second propellers; and a mechanical transmission system including a planetary gear train fitted with a sun gear driven by the rotor, at least one planet gear driving the first propeller, and a ring driving the second propeller. The free power turbine also includes a second rotor that is contra-rotating relative to the first rotor, and rotating the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Snecma
    Inventors: Wouter Balk, Gilles Alain Charier, Francois Gallet
  • Publication number: 20140294585
    Abstract: A turbo engine includes a system for changing a pitch of blades of a propeller, the system including an annular fluid cylinder with a linear drive and a link mechanism linking the cylinder to the blades of the propeller to change an orientation of the propeller. The annular cylinder of the system can be rigidly mounted on a fixed housing supporting the propeller and internal to it, unlike the blades mounted in an external rotating hub of the propeller, and the link mechanism includes a displacement transfer bearing fixed, on one side, to the mobile part of the cylinder and cooperating, on the other side, with a mechanism linking to the blades of the rotating hub of the propeller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicants: GE Aviation Systems Limited, SNECMA
    Inventors: Didier Rene Andre Escure, Denis Louis Bocquet, Gilles Alain Charier, Aleksander Szymandera, Marek Malitka, Jan Sikorski, Christopher Carrington
  • Patent number: 8672095
    Abstract: A method and a system for lubricating a turbine engine including at least three separate housings each including at least one roller bearing. The method pressurizes the housings through seals, of which two main housings are pressurized at a pressure higher than that of a remaining secondary housing, lubricates a secondary roller bearing only by injecting an oil mist from at least one of the main housings, the oil mist being supplied by a pressure difference between the main housings and the secondary housing, recovers a remainder of the lubrication oil injected into the main housings to supply the same to an oil tank, and supplies the air/oil mixture from the secondary housing to an oil separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Gilles Alain Charier, Gerard Philippe Gauthier, Laurent Gille, Serge Rene Morreale
  • Publication number: 20140023505
    Abstract: The device (27) can be housed coaxially inside a sleeve (25) in which the supplies are situated, and comprises: a hollow cylindrical body (30) that fits inside the sleeve and accepts the mechanism (22) in the housing of the hollow body, with passages (33, 34, 36) for respectively connecting the supplies to said mechanism (22); and a cover (31) which is integrated or fixed, removably, on the front side of the cylindrical body and connects the hidden supplies to the respective passages of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Augustin Curlier, Gilles Alain Charier, Olivier Belmonte
  • Publication number: 20140017086
    Abstract: A system, including: a linear actuator axially arranged in a first propeller and rotatably secured thereto, a first linking mechanism connecting a rod of the linear actuator to a second propeller to change a setting of blades thereof, and including an intermediate bearing between the propellers, which is capable of transmitting translation of the rod of the linear actuator and disconnecting a rotatable link to the first propeller to make it possible to change the setting of the blades of the second propeller rotated in an opposite direction to the first propeller, and a second linking mechanism combined with blades of the first propeller to change a setting thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Gilles Alain Charier, Wouter Balk