Patents by Inventor Gwenole Yann LE PACHE

Gwenole Yann LE PACHE 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: 11466625
    Abstract: A method for controlling the fuel injection of a turbine engine using a fuel supply circuit. The supply circuit includes a pilot injection line and a main injection line. During a transition of the supply distribution between the pilot injection line and the main supply line, the method includes the following steps: a) determining at least a minimum value to be maintained for a pressure value; b) determining at least one hydraulic quantity of the supply circuit; c) based on the determined hydraulic quantity of the supply circuit, calculating a calculated fuel supply distribution value corresponding to the minimum value to be maintained; and switching the fuel supply distribution to the calculated fuel distribution value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Mohammed-Lamine Boutaleb, Sebastien Christophe Chalaud, Gwenole Yann Le Pache
  • Patent number: 11339683
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for starting a turbine engine in cold weather, including a starting system intended for rotating a drive shaft of the turbine engine, the method comprising the following steps: —a pre-starting step in which a first starting signal is generated to control the drive shaft in a first direction of rotation about a longitudinal axis (X) and in a second opposite direction of rotation in an alternating manner; and —a starting step in which a second starting signal is transmitted to the starting system in order for the latter to drive the drive shaft of the turbine engine in a normal direction of rotation and in which the drive shaft is rotated until a rotation speed that causes the turbine engine to start.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Clement Dupays, Gwenole Yann Le Pache
  • Publication number: 20220145804
    Abstract: A method for starting a turbine engine in cold weather, including a starting system intended for rotating a drive shaft of the turbine engine. The method includes the following steps: a pre-starting step in which a first starting signal is generated to control the drive shaft in a first direction of rotation about a longitudinal axis and in a second opposite direction of rotation in an alternating manner; and a starting step in which a second starting signal is transmitted to the starting system in order for the latter to drive the drive shaft of the turbine engine in a normal direction of rotation and in which the drive shaft is rotated until a rotation speed that causes the turbine engine to start.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Clement DUPAYS, Gwenole Yann LE PACHE
  • Publication number: 20210062731
    Abstract: A method for controlling the fuel injection of a turbine engine using a fuel supply circuit. The supply circuit includes a pilot injection line and a main injection line. During a transition of the supply distribution between the pilot injection line and the main supply line, the method includes the following steps: a) determining at least a minimum value to be maintained for a pressure value; b) determining at least one hydraulic quantity of the supply circuit; c) based on the determined hydraulic quantity of the supply circuit, calculating a calculated fuel supply distribution value corresponding to the minimum value to be maintained; and switching the fuel supply distribution to the calculated fuel distribution value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Mohammed-Lamine BOUTALEB, Sebastien CHALAUD, Gwenole Yann LE PACHE
  • Publication number: 20210062721
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for starting a turbine engine in cold weather, including a starting system intended for rotating a drive shaft of the turbine engine, the method comprising the following steps: a pre-starting step in which a first starting signal is generated to control the drive shaft in a first direction of rotation about a longitudinal axis (X) and in a second opposite direction of rotation in an alternating manner; and a starting step in which a second starting signal is transmitted to the starting system in order for the latter to drive the drive shaft of the turbine engine in a normal direction of rotation and in which the drive shaft is rotated until a rotation speed that causes the turbine engine to start.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Clement DUPAYS, Gwenole Yann LE PACHE
  • Patent number: 10422286
    Abstract: A turbine engine equipped with an electrical apparatus with rotor and an epicyclic reduction gear train, includes a sun gear driven by a drive shaft about an axis of rotation, a ring gear surrounding the sun gear and configured to drive a fan shaft about the axis, and an annular row of planet gears interposed between the sun gear and the ring gear and held by a planet carrier fixed to a stator housing of the turbine engine. The stator of the electrical apparatus is fixed to the stator housing with an annular member for apparatus support. The annular member includes elongate legs that axially traverse the reduction gear. The annular member includes a first annular element for fixing to an annular flange integral with the stator housing. The stator of the apparatus has a first annular fixing flange connected integrally to opposed longitudinal extremities of the legs of the annular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Gwenolé Yann Le Pache, Augustin Curlier, Clément Dupays
  • Patent number: 10167731
    Abstract: A turbomachine for an aircraft, comprising a rotor shaft, a turbomachine case, a lubricated bearing chamber, at least one bearing supporting the rotor shaft and being located in the bearing chamber, a lubrication device comprising oil injection means to inject oil into the bearing chamber, and oil supply means to supply oil to said oil injection means, and an electric current generator, comprising an armature driven by the rotor shaft and a field coil fixed to the turbomachine case. The generator has an orifice, which passes longitudinally through the generator from one end to the other, and the oil injection means pass through the orifice so that oil can circulate in the axial direction through the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Augustin Marc Michel Curlier, Nicolas Maurice Herve Aussedat, Gwénolé Yann Le Pache
  • Publication number: 20180023483
    Abstract: A turbine engine, comprising at least one drive shaft having an axis of rotation A and configured to drive a fan wheel by means of an epicyclic reduction gear train, said reduction gear having: a sun gear configured to be driven by said drive shaft about said axis A, a ring gear surrounding the sun gear and configured to drive a fan shaft about said axis A, and an annular row of planet gears interposed between the sun gear and the ring gear and held by a planet carrier fixed to a stator housing of the turbine engine, said turbine engine also having an electrical apparatus with rotor, wherein the stator of the electrical apparatus is fixed to the stator housing by means of an annular member for apparatus support, the annular member comprising legs of an elongated shape that axially traverse the reduction gear, the annular member comprising at longitudinal extremities of the legs a first annular element for fixing to an annular flange integral with the stator housing, and wherein the stator of the apparatus
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Gwenolé Yann Le Pache, Augustin Curlier, Clément Dupays
  • Publication number: 20160123185
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of ventilating equipment of a turbojet, the turbojet (10) having a cold zone (ZF) including a fan (14) upstream from a hot zone (ZC), the turbojet equipment (32) for ventilating being arranged in a ventilation space (30) available around the hot zone between a primary air stream passage (26) and a secondary air stream passage (28) of the turbojet, the method comprising taking ventilation air from one of the air stream passages in order to convey it to the ventilation space, and providing forced flow of the ventilation air by means of at least one electric fan (36) positioned inside the ventilation space and powered electrically by at least one thermoelectric generator (38) suitable for inducing a potential difference (?V) and positioned in a wall (40) between the ventilation space and the secondary air stream passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Gwénolé Yann LE PACHE, Lise Jeanine Léonie DOMECQ
  • Publication number: 20160115817
    Abstract: A turbomachine for an aircraft, comprising a rotor shaft, a turbomachine case, a lubricated bearing chamber, at least one bearing supporting the rotor shaft and being located in the bearing chamber, a lubrication device comprising oil injection means to inject oil into the bearing chamber, and oil supply means to supply oil to said oil injection means, and an electric current generator, comprising an armature driven by the rotor shaft and a field coil fixed to the turbomachine case. The generator has an orifice, which passes longitudinally through the generator from one end to the other, and the oil injection means pass through the orifice so that oil can circulate in the axial direction through the generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Augustin Curlier, Nicolas Aussedat, Gwénolé Yann Le Pache