Patents by Inventor Guillaume Bulin
Guillaume Bulin 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).
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Publication number: 20130175388Abstract: The invention relates to a device for driving at least one landing gear wheel of an aircraft by means of a wheel motor, which is intended to be used in the stage when the aircraft is traveling on the ground, said aircraft having turbojet engines (1) attached to the main wing. The device comprises at least one power source (6, 8), and one power transmission line between the power source and the wheel motor. The power source (6, 8) is arranged adjacently to a turbojet engine (1) attached to the main wing of the aircraft, and comprises disengageable means (7) enabling the power source to be mechanically connected to the rotating portion of the turbojet engine (1), the power source being sufficient to act as a starter for the turbojet engine (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2011Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SASInventors: Guillaume Bulin, Christophe Cros
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Patent number: 8448420Abstract: An aircraft nacelle in which a power plant is arranged delimits a duct for a flow which assists the thrust. The nacelle includes a device for reducing, canceling, or reversing the thrust that includes at least one flap that can have an active position in which it deflects—in the direction of a radial opening—at least a portion of the flow and an at-rest position in which the flap does not interfere with the flow, whereby the wall of the nacelle delimiting the duct includes at least one moving part that can occupy a first position in which it is interposed between the flow to be deflected and the flap and another position in which it releases the flap so as to allow the flap to change position and to move from the at-rest position to the active position.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2008Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Guillaume Bulin, Patrick Oberle
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Publication number: 20130092754Abstract: A power plant includes a nacelle with a bypass turbojet engine having a ducted fan with a low compression ratio. A secondary flow, drawn in and accelerated by the fan, is channeled through a secondary duct installed in the nacelle between the inner surface of the nacelle and the outer surface of the turbojet, toward a fan nozzle. The power plant has at least two moving parts on either side of a vertical plane of symmetry of the nacelle, at least one moving part being able to adopt one of a discrete number of positions, the moving part containing or releasing a portion of the secondary flow, depending on the moving part's position. A control unit controls a different displacement of each of the moving parts between their possible positions in order to create asymmetry of the moving parts relative to the vertical plane of symmetry.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2012Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Guillaume Bulin, Patrick Oberle, Nicolas Devienne
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Patent number: 8381509Abstract: A method for starting up an aircraft turbine engine using an electric starter is provided. The aircraft turbine engine is provided with at least one hydraulic fluid circuit for lubricating the aircraft turbine engine, the aircraft turbine engine lubricating circuit is provided with a temperature-regulating section that is able to remove the heat generated by the aircraft turbine engine when the aircraft turbine engine is running, the electric starter is provided with at least one hydraulic fluid circuit for lubricating parts of the electric starter, and the lubricating circuit of the electric starter is provided with the temperature-regulating section that is able to remove the heat emitted by the electric starter when the lubricating circuit of the electric starter is operating.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2008Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Guillaume Bulin, Pierre Jacquet Francillon
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Publication number: 20130026301Abstract: The invention relates to a nacelle for a variable area nozzle propulsion unit comprising a nacelle, hosting a turbofan jet engine, of dual-flow type. The propulsion unit includes: a fixed part, carried by the inboard half-nacelle defined by a vertical plane of symmetry of the nacelle; and a movable part carried by the outboard half-nacelle. The moving part containing or releasing part of the secondary flow, depending on its open or closed position. The moving part being able to move to a discrete number of positions including a closed position, an open position, and one or more intermediate positions so as to provide variable area nozzle configurations for the turbofan engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SAS)Inventors: Guillaume BULIN, Patrick Oberle, Nicolas Devienne
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Publication number: 20120237332Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid cooling device (1) for the propulsion unit of an aircraft of the so-called propfan type, comprising a compressed air intake (11) at the air compressor of the turbomachine (8), an air vein (13) capable of conveying the collected compressed air to a cooler (14), means of conveying the heat of the lubricant to the cooler, said cooler (14) comprising firstly, a matrix body (15) provided with a plurality of ducts (20) for a cooling agent, said ducts (20) extending along a first so-called inner surface (17) up to a second so-called outer surface (16) of the matrix body (15), such that the collected pressurized air serving as a cooling agent can pass through the matrix body (15), the matrix body (15) of the cooler (14) forming a portion of the outer skin (6) of the propulsion unit, and, secondly, a set of fins (18) extending from the outer surface (16) towards the outside of the propulsion unit, and oriented mainly parallel to the air flow direction (X) when the aircraft is in flightType: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2010Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicants: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Guillaume Bulin, Ralf-Henning Stolte
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Patent number: 8235657Abstract: A turbojet for an aircraft includes an engine housed in a nacelle and a thermal exchanger that can be traversed by a hot fluid designed to be cooled by thermal exchange with a cold fluid external to the thermal exchanger. The thermal exchanger is disposed in an internal volume of the nacelle, between an internal wall of the nacelle and an external wall of the engine, in such a way as to present two thermal exchange surfaces in the flow of the air stream from the turbojet. The disclosed embodiments also relate to an aircraft equipped with such a jet turbine engine.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2007Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Guillaume Bulin, Patrick Oberle
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Publication number: 20120156039Abstract: An electrical energy generating device for a propfan-type aircraft propulsion unit rotor. The propulsion unit includes a turbomachine that drives in rotation at least one rotor including a plurality of blades arranged around an annular crown moving with the blades, which forms with its outer wall part of an outer envelope of the propulsion unit, the outer envelope being subjected to atmospheric conditions outside the propulsion unit. The turbomachine generates a flow of hot gases that exit via an annular hot vein, which is concentric with the moving annular crown, and defined for part of its surface by an inner wall of the moving annular crown, and includes, within the moving annular part, a mechanism to transform thermal energy into electrical energy, preferably by thermal diodes. Such a device, as an example, can find application to a device for controlling a pitch of rotors of a propfan-type propulsion unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (inc as a Societe par Act Simpl)Inventors: Guillaume Bulin, Severine Perret, Jean-Michel Rogero
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Publication number: 20120132633Abstract: A deicing device for propfan-type aircraft propulsion unit blades, wherein the propulsion unit includes a turbomachine that drives in rotation at least one rotor including a plurality of blades arranged around an annular crown moving with the blades, which forms with its outer wall part of the outer envelope of the propulsion unit, the outer envelope being subjected to atmospheric conditions outside the propulsion unit, the turbomachine generating a flow of hot gases that exit via an annular hot vein, which is concentric with the moving annular crown, and defined for part of its surface by an inner wall of the moving annular crown. The deicing device includes: a mechanism transforming thermal energy into electrical energy, within the moving annular part; a mechanism transferring the generated electrical energy towards the rotor blades; and a mechanism transforming the electrical energy into thermal energy onto at least a part of the surface of the blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: Airbus Operations (inc as a Societe par Act Simpl)Inventors: Guillaume Bulin, Severine Perret
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Publication number: 20120107133Abstract: A deicing device for propfan-type aircraft propulsion unit blades, wherein the propulsion unit includes a turbomachine that drives in rotation at least one rotor including a plurality of blades arranged around an annular crown moving with the blades, which forms with its outer wall part of an outer envelope of the propulsion unit, the outer envelope being subjected to atmospheric conditions outside the propulsion unit, the turbomachine generating a flow of hot gases that exit via an annular vein, which is concentric with the moving annular crown, and defined for part of its surface by the inner wall of the moving annular crown. The deicing device includes: a mechanism capturing thermal energy from the annular vein, within the moving annular part; a mechanism transferring thermal energy towards the rotor blades; and a mechanism distributing the thermal energy onto at least a part of the surface of the blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (inc, as a Soc. par Act Simpl)Inventors: Guillaume Bulin, Jean-Michel Rogero, Christian Fabre
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Publication number: 20120073262Abstract: An air discharging device (20) for an aircraft turbine engine, comprising at least one door (24) displaceable between an open and a closed position of a corresponding orifice (30) and comprising two valves (26, 28), which delimit between them a conduit (68) for guiding a portion (74) of the secondary flow (76) outwards in the downstream direction, and which are integral with each other and are hinged around a pivot axis (58), so that in said open position, the upstream end of said internal valve (26) protrudes from the inner side relative to the internal surface (12), the downstream end of said external valve (28) protrudes from the external side relative to the external surface (14), and said internal valve (26) is spaced away from the fixed structure (22) so that an air passage exists downstream of said internal valve (26), between the latter and said fixed structure (22).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Guillaume BULIN, Thierry Surply
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Patent number: 8128022Abstract: The object of the invention is an aircraft nacelle that comprises, on the inside, an inside pipe (56) that empties out toward the front at an air intake (58), and, on the outside, an aerodynamic wall that extends from the air intake (58) up to the rear end of the nacelle, and a hood (62) that comprises said air intake (58) as well as a cylindrical wall (64) that forms at least one portion of the aerodynamic surface of the outside of the nacelle, whereby said hood (62) can move translationally relative to a stationary part of the nacelle toward the front along slides (72), each slide (72) comprising a guide element (74) that is connected to the hood (or to the stationary part of the nacelle), whereby said guide element (74) can slide into a pipe (78) that is connected to the stationary part of the nacelle (or to a hood) and has a section that is above the section of the guide element (74) so as to allow the hood (62) to rotate in order to immobilize it in the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2009Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventor: Guillaume Bulin
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Publication number: 20110155846Abstract: Device for driving at least one wheel of an aircraft landing gear, which includes at least one turbine machine incorporated into the landing gear of the aircraft. Advantageously, the turbine machine is a pneumatic turbine.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2009Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S)Inventors: Guillaume Bulin, Christophe Cros, Juluan Gaultier
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Publication number: 20100300066Abstract: A turbojet engine for an aircraft that includes an engine provided in a nacelle and at least one heat exchanger for cooling down a hot fluid collected in the propulsion system of the turbojet engine before re-injecting the aforementioned partially-cooled hot flow into the aforementioned propulsion system, wherein at least one heat exchanger is a radial heat exchanger extending in the lower portion of the turbojet engine at a lower branching of the turbojet engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SOCIETE PAR ACTIONS SIMPLIFIEE)Inventors: Guillaume Bulin, Patrick Oberle
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Publication number: 20100288244Abstract: A process for management of thermal effluents of an aircraft that includes an airframe (110) and at least one propulsion system (112), whereby the at least one propulsion system (112) includes a gas turbine engine (116) that is supplied with fuel via a fuel supply circuit (122) that extends from a reservoir (124) that is arranged at the airframe (110), whereby the airframe (110) includes at least one source of thermal effluents (134), wherein the process includes at least partially dissipating—at the level of at least one propulsion system (112)—the thermal effluents that are generated at the airframe (110) by using as coolant the fuel that is used for supplying the gas turbine engine (116).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2008Publication date: November 18, 2010Applicants: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS, AIRBUS DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Guillaume Bulin, Jan Dittmar
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Patent number: 7818958Abstract: A nacelle for an aircraft high-bypass jet engine, in which a jet engine having a longitudinal axis is mounted, the nacelle including a wall concentrically and at least partially surrounding the jet engine and defining with the latter an annular duct for fluid inner flow, including at the downstream end of the nacelle wall a passage section of a flow outlet. The nacelle includes a displacement mechanism displacing on request a portion of the nacelle wall to modify the passage section of the flow outlet through which a major portion of the flow escapes, the displacement forming in the nacelle wall at least one opening through which a small portion of a leak flow, naturally escapes. The nacelle further includes a fluid device that uses a fluid for compelling the leak flow to flow along the outer face of the portion of the nacelle wall located downstream relative to the at least one opening.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Airbus FranceInventors: Guillaume Bulin, Patrick Oberle, Thierry Surply
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Publication number: 20100212857Abstract: A system for cooling and adjusting the temperature of apparatuses in the propulsion assembly of an aircraft, that includes first means for heat exchange between lubrication circuits of at least two of the aforementioned apparatuses and a heat-carrier fluid contained in a closed circuit, a second means for heat exchange between the heat-carrier fluid and at least one coolant, the first heat exchange means being arranged locally at each of the aforementioned apparatuses, the second heat exchange means being remote from the aforementioned first means, the closed circuit extending between at least two of the aforementioned apparatuses and the aforementioned second means.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2008Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONSInventors: Guillaume Bulin, Stephane Pugliese, Christian Fabre, Patrick Oberle
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Publication number: 20100107648Abstract: According to the invention, when starting a turboshaft engine (1) in cold weather, the method comprises transferring to the hydraulic fluid of the lubrication circuit (3) of the turboshaft engine (1) at least a portion of the calorific energy scattered by the electric starter (2) and inhibiting the temperature regulation means (9, 10) of said lubrication circuit (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2008Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (SAS)Inventors: Guillaume Bulin, Pierre Jacquet Francillon
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Patent number: 7703716Abstract: A hinged device for at least one door (46.1, 46.2) of an aircraft nacelle (40), whereby the door is able to block an opening (44) that is made in the fairing of the nacelle, the device including a base to which is connected at least one door, able to occupy a first retracted state in which the base is located at least in part inside the nacelle and a second extended state in which the base is located outside the fairing of the nacelle so as to be able to move, in a direction that is essentially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the nacelle, outside of the nacelle by entraining the at least one door (46.1, 46.2) to release the opening (44) at least in part.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2007Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventor: Guillaume Bulin
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Publication number: 20100071638Abstract: A system for managing the heat fluxes of an aircraft including at least one propulsion system that integrates a turbomachine and a cell including at least one fuel tank to supply the turbomachine via a fuel supply circuit, and at least one source of thermal effluents connected to a cell cooling circuit that integrates first elements for ensuring heat transfer between a coolant circulating in the cell cooling circuit and an air flow channeled into at least one cooling air channel extending from at least one air intake up to at least one air exhaust, whereby the system includes second elements for ensuring heat transfer between a coolant circulating in the cell cooling circuit and the fuel, a fuel circuit connecting the at least one tank to the second heat transfer elements, whereby the air intake includes blocking elements that can occupy a first open state for air to pass inside the channel and a second closed state to block the air intake.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2009Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SASInventor: Guillaume BULIN