Patents by Inventor Gilles Billonnet

Gilles Billonnet 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: 5676522
    Abstract: The supersonic distributor for the inlet stage of a turbomachine comprises an outer case, a hub, and a set of peripheral blades disposed in a ring and attached to the hub to provide supersonic speed fluid passages between the blades to transform a flow at high pressure and low speed into a supersonic flow at low pressure. The blades are disposed radially in regular manner within a fluid feed torus. In a section developed on a line corresponding to a given radius, i.e. in a blade-to-blade plane, the blades define a profile in the form of a two-dimensional half-nozzle. This profile has a rectilinear upstream portion, a bulge defining a throat for accelerating the flow to a Mach number equal to 1, the throat being of section that varies with radius, and a downstream portion which terminates in a region of uniform flow at a trailing edge which may be truncated perpendicularly to the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Societe Europeenne de Propulsion
    Inventors: Frederic Pommel, Andreas Von Kaenel, Jacques DesClaux, Georges Meauze, Gilles Billonnet