Patents by Inventor Guy Grienche

Guy Grienche 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: 10156358
    Abstract: An annular wall for a combustion chamber of a turbomachine. The wall presents a hot side and a cold side and includes at least one primary hole for enabling a first flow of air flowing on the cold side of the wall to penetrate to the hot side of the wall to feed combustion of fuel inside the combustion chamber, and together with a plurality of cooling holes, each having a diameter no greater than 1 mm, to enable a second flow of air flowing on the cold side of the wall to penetrate to the hot side of the wall to cool the hot side of the wall. The plurality of cooling holes can also dilute combustion gas resulting from the combustion by using the flow of air penetrating to the hot side of the wall through the cooling holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas Savary, Claude Berat, Guy Grienche, Patrick Berteau, Hubert Pascal Verdier
  • Publication number: 20140208763
    Abstract: An annular wall for a combustion chamber of a turbomachine. The wall presents a hot side and a cold side and includes at least one primary hole for enabling a first flow of air flowing on the cold side of the wall to penetrate to the hot side of the wall to feed combustion of fuel inside the combustion chamber, and together with a plurality of cooling holes, each having a diameter no greater than 1 mm, to enable a second flow of air flowing on the cold side of the wall to penetrate to the hot side of the wall to cool the hot side of the wall. The plurality of cooling holes can also dilute combustion gas resulting from the combustion by using the flow of air penetrating to the hot side of the wall through the cooling holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: TURBOMECA
    Inventors: Nicolas Savary, Claude Berat, Guy Grienche, Patrick Berteau, Hubert Pascal Verdier
  • Patent number: 7249721
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for injecting a liquid fuel into a pressurized air flow (7), in particular for a combustion chamber, comprising a hollow cylindrical body (10) of longitudinal axis (YY?) delimiting a substantially cylindrical central volume (11), fluid veins (12) substantially radial in relation to the longitudinal axis of body (10) and arranged on the periphery of said body to allow passage of said flow, and axial fuel injection pipes (5) arranged inside said fluid veins and connected to at least one fuel inlet (3) by at least one supply point (16). According to the invention, pipes (5) are pierced with openings (9) that open onto central volume (11) of said body (10) and which are oriented substantially in the direction of the flow in fluid veins (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignees: Institut Francais du Petrole, Turbomeca
    Inventors: Tidjani Niass, Gérard Martin, Etienne Lebas, Guy Grienche, Gérard Schott, Hubert Verdier
  • Publication number: 20040142294
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for injecting a liquid fuel into a pressurized air flow (7), in particular for a combustion chamber, comprising a hollow cylindrical body (10) of longitudinal axis (YY′) delimiting a substantially cylindrical central volume (11), fluid veins (12) substantially radial in relation to the longitudinal axis of body (10) and arranged on the periphery of said body to allow passage of said flow, and axial fuel injection pipes (5) arranged inside said fluid veins and connected to at least one fuel inlet (3) by at least one supply point (16). According to the invention, pipes (5) are pierced with openings (9) that open onto central volume (11) of said body (10) and which are oriented substantially in the direction of the flow in fluid veins (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: Tidjani Niass, Gerard Martin, Etienne Lebas, Guy Grienche, Gerard Schott, Hubert Verdier
  • Publication number: 20020050139
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a combustion chamber of a gas turbine working on liquid fuel, comprising a tubular enclosure (2) having at least one pressurized air inlet, a liquid fuel injection means (6) positioned on or in proximity to the longitudinal axis XX′ of the tubular enclosure, an outlet to the turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 1999
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: JEAN-HERVE LE GAL, PATRICK FLAMENT, GERARD MARTIN, GUY GRIENCHE, GERARD SCHOTT
  • Patent number: 6378310
    Abstract: A combustion chamber of a gas turbine working on liquid fuel includes a tubular enclosure (2) having at least one pressurized air inlet, a liquid fuel injection means (6) positioned on or in proximity to the longitudinal axis (XX′) of the tubular enclosure, and an outlet to the turbine. The fuel injection means (6) includes a series of orifices (62) arranged so as to create separate fuel jets, the jets being arranged in the direction of the generatrices of a cone with an angle ranging between 30° and 60° at the vertex thereof. The chamber includes at least two types of pressurized air inlets placed close to each other, the first one (7) taking in the air helically around the longitudinal axis of the combustion chamber, the second air inlet (8) being tangential to enclosure (2) so as to create, around the fuel jets, counterrotating flows intended to improve mixing of the air and of said fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Jean-Hervé Le Gal, Patrick Flament, Gérard Martin, Guy Grienche, Gérard Schott
  • Patent number: 6263663
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas-turbine combustion chamber comprising at least a zone (11) referred to as pilot combustion zone into which at least a first pilot fuel injection means (3) and an associated first oxidizer injection means (4) open; a main combustion zone (12) into which at least a second main fuel injection means (7) and an associated second oxidizer injection means (8) open, all of it being maintained under a pressure P1 inside an enclosure (14). According to the invention, said chamber further comprises a mechanical means (15-19) for controlling the second flow of oxidizer, which reacts to the pressure difference between the inside (P1) and the atmospheric pressure (Po) outside enclosure (14), said pressure difference being directly linked with the engine speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignees: Institut Francais du Petrole, Turbomeca
    Inventors: Guy Grienche, Gérard Schott, Jean-Hervé Le Gal, Gérard Martin, Patrice Laborde, Raphaël Spagna