Patents by Inventor Gilles Charier

Gilles 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).

  • Publication number: 20180065730
    Abstract: A device for controlling pitch of fan blades of a turbine engine including an un-ducted fan, the device including: at least one set of fan blades of adjustable pitch, the set being constrained to rotate with a rotary ring centered on a longitudinal axis and mechanically connected to a turbine rotor, each blade of the set being mounted on a blade root support that is pivotally mounted on the rotary ring; and at least one radial control shaft adjusting pitch of at least two adjacent blades of the set, the control shaft being constrained to rotate with the rotary ring and being configured to pivot about an axis of the shaft, being coupled to the blade root supports of the at least two blades of the set to adjust their pitch via a transmission system including eccentrics connected together by at least one connecting rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Tewfik BOUDEBIZA, Olivier BELMONTE, Gilles CHARIER, Emmanuel Pierre Dimitri PATSOURIS, Pierre-Alain REIGNER
  • Patent number: 8839629
    Abstract: An assembly is designed to attach hangers from which an aircraft propulsion unit is suspended. The propulsion unit is intended to be suspended from a structural element of the aircraft. The propulsion unit includes a turbojet engine having a longitudinal axis and the attachment assembly having a clevis mount for attaching the hangers to a casing of the propulsion unit. The clevis mount is fixed to the casing by means designed to form a connection between the clevis mount and the casing at the external periphery of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignees: Aircelle, SNECMA
    Inventors: Herve Hurlin, Nicolas Dezeustre, Wouter Balk, Gilles Charier
  • Publication number: 20130227963
    Abstract: An assembly is designed to attach hangers from which an aircraft propulsion unit is suspended. The propulsion unit is intended to be suspended from a structural element of the aircraft. The propulsion unit includes a turbojet engine having a longitudinal axis and the attachment assembly having a clevis mount for attaching the hangers to a casing of the propulsion unit. The clevis mount is fixed to the casing by means designed to form a connection between the clevis mount and the casing at the external periphery of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicants: SNECMA, AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Herve Hurlin, Nicolas Dezeustre, Wouter Balk, Gilles Charier
  • Patent number: 7591594
    Abstract: A turbomachine roller bearing that supports a shaft constituted by a trunnion of a shaft line of a high-pressure spool of a turbomachine to rotate relative to a stationary support that is connected to a casing of the turbomachine, said bearing comprising rollers inserted between an outer ring disposed adjacent to the stationary support and an inner ring disposed adjacent to the high-pressure trunnion, the inner ring extending along the axis beyond a downstream end of the high-pressure trunnion to which it is secured by clamping means, and being provided with anti-rotation means for preventing said inner ring from rotating relative to the high-pressure trunnion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Gilles Charier, Guy Dusserre-Telmon, Marc Marchi, Jean-Pierre Mourlan, Patrice Rosset, Zoltan Zsiga
  • Publication number: 20080063515
    Abstract: The bypass turbomachine comprises, between a primary flowpath (2) and a secondary flowpath (3), a structural intermediate casing (14). A bleed passage (29) allows the diversion of a portion of the gas stream toward the secondary flowpath (3), downstream of support arms (18) situated at the periphery of the intermediate casing. A bleed opening (28) emerges upstream of the support arms (18). A slide valve (22) slides between three positions, namely a closed position in which the slide valve (22) completely blocks off the bleed passage and opening, an intermediate position in which the bleed opening (28) emerging upstream of the support arms (18) is blocked off, while the bleed passage (29) for diverting a portion of the gas stream downstream of the support arms (18) is open, and an open position in which the bleed opening (28) emerging upstream of the support arms (18) and the bleed passage (29) emerging downstream of the support arms are both open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Eric BIL, Gilles Charier, Philippe Fessou, Patrick Morel
  • Publication number: 20070212226
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly between a turbine shaft and a stub axle of a turbomachine compressor shaft, the assembly comprising a substantially cylindrical compressor shaft stub axle, a substantially cylindrical turbine shaft disposed coaxially inside the compressor shaft stub axle, means for transmitting torque between the turbine shaft and the compressor shaft stub axle, and clamping means for clamping a downstream end of the turbine shaft to the compressor shaft stub axle. The compressor shaft stub axle has a plurality of teeth extending radially from its inside surface, and the turbine shaft is provided at its downstream end with a plurality of axial slots, the teeth of the stub axle co-operating with the slots of the turbine shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Frederic Guihard, Gilles Charier
  • Publication number: 20070137221
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for ventilating turbine components in a gas turbine engine comprising two turbine rotors mechanically independent of each other, each with at least one turbine disk, an HP turbine disk and an LP turbine disk respectively, and with a first circuit for ventilating the LP turbine. The device comprises an air compression wheel arranged downstream of the HP turbine disk especially between said two turbine disks, HP and LP in order to assist the circulation of the air in said first circuit. The invention also relates to the wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Gilles Charier, Stephane Rousselin, Philippe Bouiller
  • Patent number: 7128529
    Abstract: A device (D) is dedicated to securing a machine shaft (AIP) on a bearing support (SP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Pascal Le Jeune, Gilles Charier
  • Publication number: 20060233479
    Abstract: The assembly arrangement between an inner race 6 of a bearing and a journal 2 supported in rotation in this bearing comprises: a journal annular groove 36 and a race annular groove 26 which interact to form an annular channel 52 when they are placed opposite one another, a retaining ring 40 placed in the said annular channel 52, which prevents a relative movement in translation between the said journal 2 and the said inner race 6, and at least one recess 38 of the said journal 2 and at least one tooth 32 of the said inner race 6, which interact to prevent a relative movement in rotation between the said journal 2 and the said inner race 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Philippe Bouiller, Gilles Charier, Daniel Plona
  • Publication number: 20060188369
    Abstract: A device for varying the section of the throat of a turbine nozzle, the nozzle being formed by a plurality of stationary vanes extending radially between outer and inner annular platforms and spaced apart from one another in order to define a throat presenting a minimum flow section. The device comprises an annular element having a coefficient of expansion that is less than that of the platforms of the nozzle, the annular element being secured to the outer platform and being capable of taking up two positions: one position corresponding to no expansion of the platforms, in which the element provides continuity for the profile of the flow passage; and another position corresponding to the platforms having expanded, in which position the element projects into the flow passage so as to reduce its section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Gilles Charier, Claude Nottin, Stephane Rousselin
  • Publication number: 20050196088
    Abstract: A turbomachine roller bearing that supports a shaft constituted by a trunnion of a shaft line of a high-pressure spool of a turbomachine to rotate relative to a stationary support that is connected to a casing of the turbomachine, said bearing comprising rollers inserted between an outer ring disposed adjacent to the stationary support and an inner ring disposed adjacent to the high-pressure trunnion, the inner ring extending along the axis beyond a downstream end of the high-pressure trunnion to which it is secured by clamping means, and being provided with anti-rotation means for preventing said inner ring from rotating relative to the high-pressure trunnion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Applicant: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Gilles Charier, Guy Dusserre-Telmon, Marc Marchi, Jean-Pierre Mourlan, Patrice Rosset, Zoltan Zsiga
  • Publication number: 20050013696
    Abstract: A device (D) is dedicated to securing a machine shaft (AIP) on a bearing support (SP).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURS
    Inventors: Pascal Le Jeune, Gilles Charier
  • 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