Patents by Inventor Gregory ALBET

Gregory ALBET 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: 20230166869
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion assembly includes a power unit, a nacelle positioned around the power unit, and a cleaning device configured to remove insect residue and in order to maintain optimal aerodynamic characteristics. This cleaning device is configured to spread at least a cleaning liquid over an exterior and forward region of the air intake of the nacelle, the cleaning liquid being entrained by a high-speed airflow generated by the power unit and acting as a high-pressure water jet to encourage the removal of the insect residue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Gregory ALBET, Jérôme BENQUET
  • Patent number: 11643967
    Abstract: An optimized protection against ice on the inner and outer faces of an aircraft engine nacelle air intake with the air intake including an outer face and an inner face meeting at a line at the longitudinally extreme, called extremum line, an acoustic panel being installed on the inner surface of a part of the inner face. An elimination system based on vibration of the ice formed is put in place on at least a part of the outer face and an ice formation prevention system using a hot fluid is put in place on at least a part of the inner face and either an ice elimination system or an ice formation prevention system using a hot fluid is installed on the inner face and on the outer face, a marking line marking the boundary between the two systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Arnaud Bourhis, Gregory Albet, Alain Porte
  • Patent number: 11643216
    Abstract: An anti-icing protection system for an aircraft engine nacelle, the nacelle comprising an inner shroud, an air intake lip forming a leading edge of the nacelle, the protection system comprising a heat exchanger device including at least one heat pipe configured to transfer heat emitted by a heat source to the inner shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Alain Porte, François Pons, Gregory Albet, Maxime Zebian
  • Patent number: 11518526
    Abstract: An anti-icing protection system for an aircraft engine nacelle, the nacelle comprising an inner shroud provided with at least one acoustic panel, an air intake lip forming a leading edge of the nacelle, the protection system comprising a heat exchanger device including at least one heat pipe configured to transfer heat emitted by a heat source to the acoustic panel or panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Jacques Lalane, Gregory Albet, Maxime Zebian, Arnaud Bourhis
  • Publication number: 20220282669
    Abstract: An optimized protection against ice on the inner and outer faces of an aircraft engine nacelle air intake with the air intake including an outer face and an inner face meeting at a line at the longitudinally extreme, called extremum line, an acoustic panel being installed on the inner surface of a part of the inner face. An elimination system based on vibration of the ice formed is put in place on at least a part of the outer face and an ice formation prevention system using a hot fluid is put in place on at least a part of the inner face and either an ice elimination system or an ice formation prevention system using a hot fluid is installed on the inner face and on the outer face, a marking line marking the boundary between the two systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Arnaud BOURHIS, Gregory ALBET, Alain PORTE
  • Patent number: 11407522
    Abstract: An air inlet for an aircraft nacelle, including a lip and a front frame, which together form a duct with D-shaped section receiving hot air. The front frame is arranged in an advanced position inside the lip. The lip has de-icing grooves, which communicate with the duct and extend essentially downstream of the front frame. Downstream of the front frame, outside of the de-icing grooves, the lip has perforated zones provided with sound absorption holes. The air inlet includes a foil, which hermetically seals the de-icing grooves and is provided with sound absorption holes facing the perforated zones. The air inlet comprises acoustic panels inside the lip downstream of the front frame. The advanced position of the front frame, due to the de-icing grooves which ensure the de-icing of the lip downstream of the front frame, allows the acoustic treatment surface of the air inlet to be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Arnaud Bourhis, Gregory Albet, François Pons
  • Patent number: 11293302
    Abstract: An anterior part of a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion unit having an air inlet lip at the front end, an internal structure and an external panel extending the air inlet lip, and an annular rigidifying frame having an external peripheral edge connected to the external panel is disclosed. The anterior part of the nacelle includes a shock-absorbing element connected rigidly on the one hand to an internal peripheral edge of the rigidifying frame and on the other hand to the internal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Frédéric Vinches, Gregory Albet, Julien Sentier
  • Patent number: 11161620
    Abstract: An aircraft nacelle comprising an air inlet, with a single fan cowling made of a single piece which extends over all the circumference of the fan. The fan cowling is borne by the air inlet and is mounted to be rotationally mobile about the axis of the nacelle relative to the air inlet, via a link and guiding arrangement comprising a circular rail and a runner capable of sliding along the circular rail. The fan cowling comprises one or more openings closed by hatches allowing access to the interior of the nacelle. The fan cowling has little susceptibility to being deformed both in flight and on the ground during maintenance operations. Furthermore, no pylon portion is needed in the zone of the fan cowling since the latter is not attached to the pylon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Alain Porte, François Pons, Gregory Albet
  • Patent number: 11073081
    Abstract: An aircraft engine air inlet lip takes an annular form about a longitudinal axis and delimits an air inlet stream, and includes: a wall having a U-shaped profile having an outer face oriented towards outside of the air inlet lip and an inner face oriented towards interior of the air inlet lip, an inner wall extending inside the wall between two zones of the inner face, so as to close an inner chamber delimited between the wall and the inner wall and filled with a gas, the inner wall having an upstream face oriented towards and a downstream face oriented away from the inner chamber, a fan configured to move the gas contained in the inner chamber, and at least one pipeline fixed to the upstream face and extending all around the air inlet lip and configured to be fed with a heat transfer fluid heated by a heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Vincent Rebeyrotte, Gregory Albet, Jonathan Carcone
  • Publication number: 20210107669
    Abstract: An anterior part of a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion assembly, which comprises an air intake lip, an outer panel extending an outer part of the air intake lip, an inner structure extending an inner part of the air intake lip, a front frame connecting the outer wall to the air intake lip or to the inner structure. The outer panel and the outer part of the air intake lip together form an outer wall of the anterior part. The front frame and the outer wall are connected to one another by assembly means located inside the anterior part. The anterior part constituted in this manner ensures laminar flow of the air on an outer surface of the anterior part and reduces drag. A nacelle of a propulsion unit, comprising an anterior part of this kind is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Alain PORTE, Jacques LALANE, Frédéric VINCHES, Gregory ALBET
  • Publication number: 20210078718
    Abstract: An air inlet for an aircraft nacelle, including a lip and a front frame, which together form a duct with D-shaped section receiving hot air. The front frame is arranged in an advanced position inside the lip. The lip has de-icing grooves, which communicate with the duct and extend essentially downstream of the front frame. Downstream of the front frame, outside of the de-icing grooves, the lip has perforated zones provided with sound absorption holes. The air inlet includes a foil, which hermetically seals the de-icing grooves and is provided with sound absorption holes facing the perforated zones. The air inlet comprises acoustic panels inside the lip downstream of the front frame. The advanced position of the front frame, due to the de-icing grooves which ensure the de-icing of the lip downstream of the front frame, allows the acoustic treatment surface of the air inlet to be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Arnaud BOURHIS, Gregory ALBET, François PONS
  • Patent number: 10836503
    Abstract: An aircraft nacelle air intake structure including an air intake lip with a U-shaped section to ensure air is shared between an inner face and an outer face. An acoustic panel is on the intake lip rear on the side of the inner face level with a first assembly point. An outer panel is on the intake lip rear on the side of the outer face level with a second assembly point. A front reinforcing frame on the intake lip inside is fixed to the air intake lip on the side of the inner face level with a first fixing point and on the side of the outer face level with a second fixing point. The length of the chord between the stop point and each fixing point is between ? and ? of the total chord between the stop point and the assembly point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignees: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.), Airbus (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Eric Haramburu, Patrick Oberle, Grégory Albet, Vincent Billerot, Frédéric Piard, Franck Oundjian
  • Patent number: 10676203
    Abstract: An air input structure includes an air input lip and a front reinforcement frame placed inside the air input lip. The front part of the air input lip has a plurality of segments distributed angularly along the leading edge of the air input lip, two adjacent segments being separated by an intermediate part having an excess thickness. Each segment has four edges, each having an excess thickness relative to the rest of the segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignees: Airbus Operations S.A.S., AIRBUS SAS
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Patrick Oberle, Gregory Albet
  • Publication number: 20200122843
    Abstract: An anti-icing protection system for an aircraft engine nacelle, the nacelle comprising an inner shroud provided with at least one acoustic panel, an air intake lip forming a leading edge of the nacelle, the protection system comprising a heat exchanger device including at least one heat pipe configured to transfer heat emitted by a heat source to the acoustic panel or panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Alain PORTE, Jacques LALANE, Gregory ALBET, Maxime ZEBIAN, Arnaud BOURHIS
  • Publication number: 20200122844
    Abstract: An anti-icing protection system for an aircraft engine nacelle, the nacelle comprising an inner shroud, an air intake lip forming a leading edge of the nacelle, the protection system comprising a heat exchanger device including at least one heat pipe configured to transfer heat emitted by a heat source to the inner shroud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Alain PORTE, François PONS, Gregory ALBET, Maxime ZEBIAN
  • Publication number: 20200070991
    Abstract: A nacelle including a fixed structure, a central cover mounted on the fixed structure, a fan cover mounted on and articulated to the central cover between an open position and a closed position, and locking means that are distributed between each fan cover and the fixed structure and that are designed to assume a locked position in which they lock the fan cover to the fixed structure and an unlocked position in which they do not lock the fan cover to the fixed structure, in which the locked position can be adopted only when the fan cover is in the closed position, and in which the unlocked position can be adopted whether the fan cover is in the open or closed position and wherein the locking means are locked and unlocked by a rotation around a longitudinal axis of the nacelle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Alain PORTE, Grégory ALBET, Julien SENTIER
  • Publication number: 20190300191
    Abstract: An aircraft nacelle comprising an air inlet, with a single fan cowling made of a single piece which extends over all the circumference of the fan. The fan cowling is borne by the air inlet and is mounted to be rotationally mobile about the axis of the nacelle relative to the air inlet, via a link and guiding arrangement comprising a circular rail and a runner capable of sliding along the circular rail. The fan cowling comprises one or more openings closed by hatches allowing access to the interior of the nacelle. The fan cowling has little susceptibility to being deformed both in flight and on the ground during maintenance operations. Furthermore, no pylon portion is needed in the zone of the fan cowling since the latter is not attached to the pylon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Alain PORTE, François PONS, Gregory ALBET
  • Publication number: 20190195085
    Abstract: An anterior part of a nacelle of an aircraft propulsion unit having an air inlet lip at the front end, an internal structure and an external panel extending the air inlet lip, and an annular rigidifying frame having an external peripheral edge connected to the external panel is disclosed. The anterior part of the nacelle includes a shock-absorbing element connected rigidly on the one hand to an internal peripheral edge of the rigidifying frame and on the other hand to the internal structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Frédéric VINCHES, Gregory ALBET, Julien SENTIER
  • Publication number: 20190112065
    Abstract: An aircraft engine air inlet lip takes an annular form about a longitudinal axis and delimits an air inlet stream, and includes: a wall having a U-shaped profile having an outer face oriented towards outside of the air inlet lip and an inner face oriented towards interior of the air inlet lip, an inner wall extending inside the wall between two zones of the inner face, so as to close an inner chamber delimited between the wall and the inner wall and filled with a gas, the inner wall having an upstream face oriented towards and a downstream face oriented away from the inner chamber, a fan configured to move the gas contained in the inner chamber, and at least one pipeline fixed to the upstream face and extending all around the air inlet lip and configured to be fed with a heat transfer fluid heated by a heat source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Vincent Rebeyrotte, Gregory Albet, Jonathan Carcone
  • Publication number: 20180201387
    Abstract: An aircraft nacelle air intake structure including an air intake lip with a U-shaped section to ensure air is shared between an inner face and an outer face. An acoustic panel is on the intake lip rear on the side of the inner face level with a first assembly point. An outer panel is on the intake lip rear on the side of the outer face level with a second assembly point. A front reinforcing frame on the intake lip inside is fixed to the air intake lip on the side of the inner face level with a first fixing point and on the side of the outer face level with a second fixing point. The length of the chord between the stop point and each fixing point is between ? and ? of the total chord between the stop point and the assembly point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Eric Haramburu, Patrick Oberle, Grégory Albet, Vincent Billerot, Frédéric Piard, Franck Oundjian