Patents by Inventor Guy Bernard Vauchel

Guy Bernard Vauchel 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: 20100008772
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nacelle for a turbojet, of the type comprising a downstream structure having an outer structure (6) that defines, together with an inner concentric structure (9) for surrounding the downstream portion of the turbojet, an annular flow channel (8), characterised in that a portion at least of said inner structure (9) is mounted so as to be capable of a translation movement along the longitudinal axis of the nacelle so that it can move between a working position, in which the inner structure acts as a casing for the downstream portion of the turbojet, and a maintenance position in which the inner structure exposes said downstream portion of the turbojet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2007
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Guy Bernard Vauchel, Nicolas Hillereau, Jerome Collier, Pierre-Alain Chouard, Guillaume Lefort
  • Publication number: 20100001123
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thrust inverter with grids (5) for a turbojet, that defines at least a portion of the downstream section (103) of a nacelle (100) housing the turbojet, comprising a front frame (105) to be secured to a fixed portion (102) of the nacelle and bearing, on the one side, cylinders (6) for the translational actuation of at least one mobile cowling (2) and, on the other side, grids for inverting the peripheral thrusts, characterised in that the front frame includes a fixed portion for securing the front frame to the fixed portion of the nacelle and bearing the diversion grids, and a portion mounted so as to be capable of translation movement along the longitudinal axis of the nacelle and on which one end of the cowling actuation cylinders is attached, wherein the fixed and mobile portions of the front frame can be removably connected to each other by locking means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Nicolas Hillereau, Jerome Collier, Guy Bernard Vauchel
  • Publication number: 20090255271
    Abstract: The present invention relates, on the one hand, to a nacelle (1) for a double flow turboreactor (2) comprising a front air intake section (5), a median section (6) intended for surrounding a fan (3) of the turboreactor and a rear section (7), said rear section having an internal structure (7b) intended for serving as a housing to a rear portion of the turboreactor, characterised in that the internal structure possesses attachment means suitable for enabling the nacelle to be fastened to a pylon (12) intended to be connected to a fixed structure (13) of an aeroplane on at least one portion of said internal structure, and on the other hand, to a propellant assembly and to an aircraft provided with such a nacelle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Guy Bernard Vauchel, Anne-Laure Gibouin, Regis Fassier, Jean-Philippe Joret, Jerome Collier, Guillaume Lefort, Pierre-Alain Chouard
  • Publication number: 20090188233
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a thrust reverser for the nacelle of a turbojet engine comprising, on the one hand, means (11) for deflecting at least some of an air flow of the turbojet engine and, on the other hand, at least one hood (10) able to move translationally in a direction substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the nacelle and able to switch alternately from a closed position in which it ensures the aerodynamic continuity of the nacelle and covers the deflection means, and an open position in which it opens a passage in the nacelle and uncovers the deflection means, characterized in that the moving hood comprises at least one outer part (10a) having a downstream extension forming a nozzle and at least one internal part (10b) each of which parts is mounted such that it is translationally mobile and is connected to at least one actuating means able to allow it to be moved, each independently of the other, or together, in a substantially longitudinal direction of the nacelle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Guy Bernard Vauchel, Pierre Andre Marcel Baudu
  • Publication number: 20090134272
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lip (4a) of an air inlet (4) of a turbojet pod (1) intended to be fastened to an air inlet downstream structure (4b) and including at least one electric heating element for defrosting, said electric heating element being fitted with at least one electrical connector able to be connected to at least one corresponding electricity supply connector of the downstream structure, characterised in that the lip breaks down into at least two identical structures (7) set end-to-end on a periphery of the air inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventor: Guy Bernard VAUCHEL
  • Publication number: 20090107108
    Abstract: This invention relates to a nacelle for bypass engine with a high bypass ratio comprising an interior flow channel for a secondary flow generated by the bypass engine and having an external structure provided with a reverse thrust device capable of alternately shifting from a closed position in which it enables circulation of the direct-jet secondary flow inside the interior channel, to an open position in which it uncovers an opening in the external structure so as to enable reorientation of the secondary flow in an angled flow via activation of the reverse thrust means; in open position, the reverse thrust device partially blocks the interior channel so as to provide a leakage section therein, enabling circulation of a controlled leakage flow, said nacelle being characterized in that, when the thrust reversal device is in open position and has an angled-jet reversal section and a leakage section through the interior channel the sum of which is substantially equal to a direct-jet secondary flow discharge sec
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Guy Bernard Vauchel, Jean Fabrice Marcel Portal, Laurent Albert Blin, Christophe Thorel
  • Patent number: 7484355
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device comprising gratings, which are used to form a reverse flow from a jet engine thrust flow. The inventive device comprises a plurality of flow diverter gratings which are disposed side-by-side at the outer edge of an annular thrust flow circulation channel. Each of the gratings comprises a plurality of intersecting inner transverse blades and inner longitudinal blades, two adjacent gratings being separated by a side clearance which generates a leakage flow. The device also comprises means of re-directing the aforementioned leakage flow in a direction such as to increase the effectiveness of the reverse flow, said re-direction means comprising aerodynamic appendages which are mounted to at least one outer longitudinal edge of each grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Aircelle
    Inventors: Laurent Albert Blin, Xavier Cazuc, Guy Bernard Vauchel
  • Publication number: 20080315034
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nacelle (1) of a turbojet engine (4), which nacelle is intended to be attached to a structure (2) of an aeroplane by a connecting pylori (3) and comprises at least one moving part (9?, 9?) above to be opened in order to provide access to the interior of the nacelle, characterized in that the said moving part is mounted to pivot about a pivot axis (25) directed along a line more or less perpendicular to the plane of the structure of the aeroplane to which the nacelle is attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Guy Bernard Vauchel, Laurent Marcel Vicogne, Georges Alain Bouret, Xavier Cazuc
  • Patent number: 7461871
    Abstract: The invention relates to a latch (1) provided for joining two elements to one another via, on the one hand, a hook (2) capable of coming into contact with a retaining element (18) integrally connected to the first element and, on the other, via a main pin (3) to be attached in a fixed manner to the second element. Said latch has a handle (6) that is mounted so that it can pivot about an end pin (13) and has an articulation having a pair of compression links (4) mounted in a manner that enables them to pivot about the main pin (3) and about an intermediate pin (14). The invention is characterized in that the hook is inserted between the handle and the main pin, and in that at least one compression link (4) is provided with a guiding means (21) capable of coming into contact with the surface of the hook facing the handle during the opening of the latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventor: Guy Bernard Vauchel
  • Patent number: 6592074
    Abstract: A thrust reverser having an annular duct bounding a bypass flow and including a set of vane cascades configured in a stationary pod portion, a displaceable fairing slidably mounted on the stationary pod portion to permit sliding motion along a slotted cylindrical shell and to be translated between a stowed position blocking access of the bypass flow to the vane cascades and a deployed position wherein the vane-cascades are exposed to the bypass flow, a drive system driving the displaceable fairing, and flaps arranged to seal the annular duct in order to deflect a flow toward the vane cascades. The drive system further includes linear actuators substantially configured in the central axis of the slotted cylindrical shells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Hurel-Hispano
    Inventors: Michel Philippe Dehu, Damien Benoĩt Marie Lesbos, Guy Bernard Vauchel
  • Publication number: 20020125370
    Abstract: A thrust reverser having an annular duct bounding a bypass flow and including a set of vane cascades configured in a stationary pod portion, a displaceable fairing slidably mounted on the stationary pod portion to permit sliding motion along a slotted cylindrical shell and to be translated between a stowed position blocking access of the bypass flow to the vane cascades and a deployed position wherein the vane-cascades are exposed to the bypass flow, a drive system driving the displaceable fairing, and flaps arranged to seal the annular duct in order to deflect a flow toward the vane cascades. The drive system further includes linear actuators substantially configured in the central axis of the slotted cylindrical shells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Michel Philippe Dehu, Damien Benoit Marie Lesbos, Guy Bernard Vauchel
  • Patent number: 6237325
    Abstract: A turbojet-engine cowling combined with a thrust reverser comprising a large-displacement displaceable component (7) includes an electrically grounding mechanism for the displaceable component (7) when in its forward-thrust position. The grounding mechanism comprises an elastic device (20) dedicated to shunt the electric current away from any mechanical member used in the displacement without any displaceable connecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Hispano-Suiza Aerostructures
    Inventors: Jean-Paul René André Hogie, Guy Bernard Vauchel
  • Patent number: 6216980
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for closing a pivoting door thrust reverser pivotally attached to a jet engine cowling including a latch mechanism that is movably connected to the jet engine cowling and movable between a first position in which the latch grips a forward portion of the thrust reverser door when the forward portion of the thrust reverser door is a predetermined distance from the fully closed position and a second position in which the latch mechanism exerts a force on the thrust reverser door to urge the thrust reverser door to the fully closed position. In this manner, a relatively large closing torque is exerted on a forward portion of the thrust reverser door by the movable latch mechanism. Since the force is applied a relatively large distance from the pivot axis of the thrust reverser door, the requisite torque may be generated by actuator having a relatively low force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Societe Hispano-Suiza
    Inventors: Pierre André Marcel Baudu, Patrick Gonidec, Guy Bernard Vauchel
  • Patent number: 6170255
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for a turbojet engine comprising displaceable downstream baffles (2) which are integrated into the outer wall of the annular bypass-flow duct so as to form the downstream end of the exhaust nozzle of the turbojet engine during the operation of the turbojet engine in a forward-thrust mode is provided. When in a thrust-reversal mode, the downstream baffles (2) are positioned so as to deflect the bypass flow and obtain thrust reversal. The baffles (2) are pivotably mounted on stationary pivots (10) and have at least one associated displacement mechanism (6, 7) for driving the baffles (2). Each downstream baffle (2) has an associated displaceable inner panel (13). Each baffle (2) and the associated inner panel (13) are driven through different angular displacements by the at least one associated displacement mechanism (6, 7), which is common to the baffle (2) and the associated inner panel (13), to change between the forward-thrust mode and the thrust-reversal mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Hispano-Suiza Aerostructures
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Pascal G{acute over (e)}rard Rouyer, Guy Bernard Vauchel
  • Patent number: 6158211
    Abstract: A bypass turbojet-engine thrust reverser comprises at least one hollow, pivoting door (3) with an inner conduit (10), defined between an outer structure (4) of the door (3) and an inner structure (5) of the door (3), which guides flow through the door (3) when the door (3) is in a reverse thrust position. At least a downstream part of the outer structure (4) of the door (3) is independent of and displaceable relative to the inner structure (5) of the door (3) and is driven in a centrifugal direction relative to the inner structure (5) by a mechanical drive system such that a downstream exhaust cross-section (S2) of the inner conduit (10), which is less than an intake cross-section (S1) of the inner conduit (10) when the door (3) is in a forward thrust position, is at least equal to the intake cross-section (S1) when the door (3) is in the reverse thrust position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Hispano Suiza Aerostructures
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Jean Fabrice Marcel Portal, Vincent Joseph Rodolphe Studer, Guy Bernard Vauchel
  • Patent number: 6151884
    Abstract: A bypass turbo-fan type turbojet-engine having a thrust reverser utilizing pivotally mounted bypass flow deflecting doors, each door having a movable, retractable spoiler at its upstream edge. A control actuator for driving each movable spoiler relative to a door is arranged to cause the spoiler to remain in a stowed retracted position during the initial motion of the door toward its open thrust reversed position and to begin to positively move the spoiler to its extended position into the deflected flow stream as the door nears its fully opened position, the spoiler being fully extended when the door is fully opened at its thrust reversed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Hispano Suiza Aerostructures
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Guy Bernard Vauchel
  • Patent number: 6151886
    Abstract: A turbojet-engine thrust-reverser comprising pivoting hollow doors (3) which in the forward-thrust mode are integrated into the external cowling of the turbojet-engine and which in the thrust-reversal mode constitute scoop-type flow-deflecting baffles. A displaceable external cowling panel (20) covers both the fore frame (8) of the stationary structure and the cross-section of the flow exhaust of the door (3) when in the forward-thrust mode. The external cowling panel (20) is pivotable on a panel pivot (24) situated downstream of the pivot (9) of the door (3) and its upstream edge moves radially outward to simultaneously clear a space above the fore frame (8) and the exhaust cross-section for the deflected flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Hispano Suiza Aerostructures
    Inventor: Guy Bernard Vauchel
  • Patent number: 6148607
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for aircraft gas-turbine engines includes latch devices that display a tell-tale visible indication when thrust reverser shutters (doors, etc.) are ajar. A latch of the lock at least partly projects from a wall (13, 14) radially bounding the annular structure (12) of the thrust reverser (10) when the latch (37) is in the open mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Societe Hispano Suiza Aerostructures
    Inventors: Pierre Andre Marcel Baudu, Patrick Gonidec, Pascal Gerard Rouyer, Guy Bernard Vauchel
  • Patent number: 6145786
    Abstract: A latching mechanism is disclosed for a jet engine thrust reverser having a thrust reverser door movably connected to an engine cowling with a reverse thrust opening, the thrust reverser door being movable between a forward thrust position, in which the thrust reverser door covers the reverse thrust opening, and a reverse thrust position, in which the reverse thrust opening is uncovered. The latching mechanism has a lock bar mounted on the thrust reverser door, the lock bar having a distal end, and a latch member pivotally located on the cowling, the latch member having a slot engaged by the distal end of the lock bar when the thrust reverser door is in the forward thrust position. The latch member is movable between a latched position, in which the latch member prevents disengagement of the distal end of the lock bar from the slot, so as to lock the thrust reverser door in the forward thrust position, and an unlatched position which permits disengagement of the distal end of the lock bar from the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Hispano-Suiza Aerostructures
    Inventors: Pierre Andre Marcel Baudu, Patrick Gonidec, Guy Bernard Vauchel
  • Patent number: 6145301
    Abstract: A turbojet-engine thrust reverser includes bypass flow deflectors (3) which in a forward thrust mode are retracted into a wall of the primary cowling (4) of the engine and which are driven by linear actuator (6) mounted inside the primary cowling (4) to form an annular flow-deflecting assembly aft of the outlet of the bypass flow duct for producing thrust reversal. Each deflector (3) is independently driven by an actuator (6) and a linkage element (9) into rotation about one or more displaceable pivots (12) which in turn is or are translated by at least one linear actuator along one or more longitudinal guide elements (10). Each actuator (6) is connected to a deflector at the downstream end of the deflector and drives the associated deflector downstream end in an upstream or forward direction, the guide elements extending in a fore and aft direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Societe Hispano-Suiza Aerostructures
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Pascal Gerard Rouyer, Guy Bernard Vauchel