Patents by Inventor Huguette de Wergifosse
Huguette de Wergifosse 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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Patent number: 11867076Abstract: The invention relates to a system (1) for lubricating an aeronautical engine (5) and a reduction gearbox (4) associated with the engine (5), the system (1) comprising an oil reservoir (2) feeding at least one first supply pump (3) supplying a first circuit (6) of the gearbox (4) opening into at least one chamber (4a) of the gearbox (4) and, in parallel, a second circuit (7) of the engine (5) opening into chambers (5a) of the engine (5). The second circuit (7) comprises a jet pump (9) of variable cross section supplied at least by the first supply pump (3), bypassing the first circuit (6), a second driven supply pump (10) being integrated into the second circuit (7) downstream of the jet pump (9), a portion of a flow (Qp) in the first circuit (6) being drawn off by the jet pump (9) to supply the second circuit (7).Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Loic Pora, Huguette De Wergifosse
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Patent number: 11859558Abstract: A device for driving an integrated generator from an accessories relay box of a turbomachine. The device includes first and second electric motors arranged to transfer electric power from one to the other, one or more controllers configured for controlling said electric motors, and an epicyclic reduction gear train. The gear train includes a first element intended to be coupled to the accessories relay box, a second element intended to be coupled to the generator, and a third element driven to rotate by said first electric motor. The control means are configured to modify the speed of rotation of the third element in such a way that the second element is driven to rotate at a constant speed.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventor: Huguette De Wergifosse
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Patent number: 11815034Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for supplying fuel to a turbomachine. In some embodiments, the system includes a pump, a hydromechanical group, a drive device positioned to drive the pump, and a branch comprising actuators for controlling variable geometry. In some embodiments, the system regulates a fuel flow rate based at least in part on a flow rate set point value. In some embodiments, the system may include a flow rate sensor. A flow rate loop may be arranged to determine a pressure set point value at the outlet of the pump according to the flow rate set point value and a measurement supplied by the flow rate sensor. In some embodiments, a pressure sensor may be positioned in the fuel circuit at the outlet of the pump. In further embodiments, a pressure loop may control the speed of the drive device based at least on a difference between a pressure measurement supplied by the pressure sensor and the pressure set point value.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Huguette De Wergifosse, Loïc Pora, Eric De Wergifosse
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Publication number: 20230361699Abstract: An actuating device of a pump of a fuel pumping system of an engine, including a motor, a generator, an inverter, a switching member and a control member, the motor including a first rotor coupled to the pump and a first stator including at least one input stator winding, the generator including a second rotor coupled to a drive shaft of the engine, and a second stator including at least one output stator winding, the control member being configured to control the switching member in order to selectively connect each input stator winding: to a corresponding output stator winding if a speed of the engine is higher than or equal to a predetermined speed; to a corresponding output of the inverter, otherwise.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Huguette DE WERGIFOSSE, Clément DUPAYS
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Publication number: 20230250857Abstract: This device for disconnecting and braking a rotor of an electric machine comprises an inner axis driven in rotation by the rotor and longitudinally movable between an engagement position and a disconnection position, the disconnection and braking device further comprising a longitudinally fixed nut and a means for braking the rotation of the nut so that braking of the rotation of the nut urges the inner axis into its disconnection position and brakes the rotation of the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Didier Brun, Huguette De Wergifosse, Gilles Eluard
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Patent number: 11560854Abstract: A fuel supply system for a turbomachine, comprising a fuel circuit comprising pressurizer at the output of the circuit, a pump arranged to send into the circuit a fuel flow rate which is an increasing function of the rotational speed of a shaft of the pump, and a control circuit arranged to control the device to comply with a flow rate setpoint at the output of the fuel circuit. The system further comprises a feedforward corrector circuit configured to calculate an increment of the flow rate setpoint as a function of the engine speed of the turbomachine and of a variation in the engine speed of the turbomachine, and to add this increment to the flow rate setpoint. A method of regulating the pump is also described.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Huguette De Wergifosse, Loïc Michel Pierre Pora
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Publication number: 20220260019Abstract: A device for driving an integrated generator from an accessories relay box of a turbomachine. The device includes first and second electric motors arranged to transfer electric power from one to the other, one or more controllers configured for controlling said electric motors, and an epicyclic reduction gear train. The gear train includes a first element intended to be coupled to the accessories relay box, a second element intended to be coupled to the generator, and a third element driven to rotate by said first electric motor. The control means are configured to modify the speed of rotation of the third element in such a way that the second element is driven to rotate at a constant speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventor: Huguette De Wergifosse
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Patent number: 11415061Abstract: A power distribution device between an electric starter of a turbomachine and an electric machine toward a shaft of the turbomachine, including the electric starter, the electric machine, and a controller for controlling the electric machine. An epicyclic train reducer includes a first element intended to be coupled to the shaft, a second element coupled to the electric starter, and a third element intended to be rotated by the electric machine. The controller is configured to rotate the third of the three elements so as to obtain two bearings of reduction ratios of the speeds between the first of said three elements and the second of the three elements. The controller is configured to drive the torque of the third of the three elements in accordance with a determined output torque.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Huguette De Wergifosse, Nicolas Bertrand Georges De Blois, Clement Dupays, Pierre Gerard Lalonde
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Publication number: 20220243663Abstract: A turbomachine has an electric machine, and a starter-generator incorporating a second electric machine configured to operate as a starter and a generator. The the electric machine and the generator-starter are arranged to transfer electric power between there. A planetary gear reduction device has a first element coupled to an accessory relay housing, a second element coupled to the starter-generator, a third element rotated by the electric machine, control means configured to modify the speed of rotation of the first electric machine and the starter-generator so as to provide the starter-generator with a maximum torque in starter mode. The planetary gear reduction device also modifies the speed of rotation of the first electric machine such that the starter-generator is driven at a constant speed in generator mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventor: Huguette DE WERGIFOSSE
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Publication number: 20220213806Abstract: The invention relates to a system (1) for lubricating an aeronautical engine (5) and a reduction gearbox (4) associated with the engine (5), the system (1) comprising an oil reservoir (2) feeding at least one first supply pump (3) supplying a first circuit (6) of the gearbox (4) opening into at least one chamber (4a) of the gearbox (4) and, in parallel, a second circuit (7) of the engine (5) opening into chambers (5a) of the engine (5). The second circuit (7) comprises a jet pump (9) of variable cross section supplied at least by the first supply pump (3), bypassing the first circuit (6), a second driven supply pump (10) being integrated into the second circuit (7) downstream of the jet pump (9), a portion of a flow (Qp) in the first circuit (6) being drawn off by the jet pump (9) to supply the second circuit (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Loic PORA, Huguette DE WERGIFOSSE
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Publication number: 20220195926Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel supply system of a turbomachine, including a fuel circuit having a pressurizing means at the outlet of the circuit, a pump arranged to send a flow of fuel into the circuit, and a flow sensor placed in a fuel supply duct between an outlet of the pump and the pressurizing means. The fuel circuit includes a device for regulating a flow cross section between the pump and the flow sensor, the device being activated by control means, the shaft of the pump being associated with detection means recording a speed of rotation of the shaft, and, if these detection means record a speed of rotation above a variable predetermined threshold, the regulating device is activated in order to reduce the flow sent to the flow sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Loic PORA, Huguette DE WERGIFOSSE
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Patent number: 11220959Abstract: A transmission device drives a fuel pump for a turbomachine using a drive shaft of said turbomachine. The transmission includes a planet reduction gearing with three elements: a central planet gear, an outer ring gear and a planet carrier. A first of the three elements connects to the drive shaft and a second of the three elements couples to a shaft of the pump. The three elements can be rotated about a shaft of the reduction gearing. First electrical means rotatably drive the third element to modify a rotational speed ratio between the first and second elements. Second electrical means are coupled to the first or the second element. The first and second electrical means are arranged to transfer electrical power reversibly from one to the other.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWERInventors: Huguette De Wergifosse, Eric De Wergifosse
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Publication number: 20210025334Abstract: A power distribution device between an electric starter of a turbomachine and an electric machine toward a shaft of the turbomachine, including the electric starter, the electric machine, and a controller for controlling the electric machine. An epicyclic train reducer includes a first element intended to be coupled to the shaft, a second element coupled to the electric starter, and a third element intended to be rotated by the electric machine. The controller is configured to rotate the third of the three elements so as to obtain two bearings of reduction ratios of the speeds between the first of said three elements and the second of the three elements. The controller is configured to drive the torque of the third of the three elements in accordance with a determined output torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Huguette DE WERGIFOSSE, Nicolas Bertrand Georges DE BLOIS, Clement DUPAYS, Pierre Gerard LALONDE
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Publication number: 20210010430Abstract: A fuel supply system for a turbomachine, comprising a fuel circuit comprising pressurizer at the output of the circuit, a pump arranged to send into the circuit a fuel flow rate which is an increasing function of the rotational speed of a shaft of the pump, and a control circuit arranged to control the device to comply with a flow rate setpoint at the output of the fuel circuit. The system further comprises a feedforward corrector circuit configured to calculate an increment of the flow rate setpoint as a function of the engine speed of the turbomachine and of a variation in the engine speed of the turbomachine, and to add this increment to the flow rate setpoint. A method of regulating the pump is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Huguette De Wergifosse, Loïc Michel Pierre Pora
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Patent number: 10870481Abstract: A pitch actuation system for a turbomachine propeller, comprising an actuator with a movable portion configured to be connected to blades of the propeller in order to rotate them relative to the blade-pitch setting axes, wherein the actuator is an electromechanical actuator and comprises: blade-pitch control having a transmission screw rotated about an axis; a nut through which the transmission screw passes; and a member configured to engage with the blades in order to move the blades, wherein the nut is connected to the member via a decoupler configured such that a translational movement of the nut causes a translational movement of the member, but rotational movement of the member does not cause rotational movement of the nut.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventor: Huguette De Wergifosse
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Patent number: 10780976Abstract: A pitch actuating system for a turbomachine propeller including an actuator having a movable portion configured to be connected to propeller blades for displacement thereof in rotation with respect to the pitch axes of the blades. A first pitch control system for the blades, includes a first transmission screw movable in rotation, a first nut traversed by the first transmission screw and configured to cooperate with the blades for their displacement, an auxiliary system for feathering the blades, which comprise a second fixed transmission screw, a second nut traversed by the second transmission screw and movable in translation on the second nut, and wherein the pitch actuation system is configured so that a translational movement of the second nut causes a translational movement of the first transmission screw.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Huguette De Wergifosse, Frédéric Brettes
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Patent number: 10766604Abstract: A pitch actuation system for a turbine engine propeller includes an actuator with movable part configured to rotate the blades of the propeller relative to the blade pitch axes. The actuator includes a transmission screw that is rotatable and movable in translation along a longitudinal axis, and a nut that engages the screw to move in translation along the longitudinal axis to adjust the pitch of the propeller blades. The actuator further includes non-rotatable decoupler for decoupling the rotation between the propeller and the nut. A blade feathering device has at least one electric drive motor and is configured to translate a member along the longitudinal axis. A blade pitch control device includes at least one electric motor configured to drive a rotor about the longitudinal axis, wherein that rotation rotates the screw and transmits translation of the member.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventor: Huguette De Wergifosse
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Patent number: 10647411Abstract: Pitch actuation system for a turbine engine propeller, comprising an actuator, a movable part of which is configured to be connected to blades of the propeller so as to rotate them relative to the blade pitch axes (B), comprising: a transmission screw that can rotationally and translationally move along a longitudinal axis (A), a nut, through which said transmission screw passes and which cooperates with this screw so as to translationally displace along the axis (A) with a view to modifying the pitch of the propeller blades, and means for decoupling between the rotation of the propeller and said nut, which is rotationally fixed; first blade pitch control means, which comprise at least one electric motor setting a component into rotation through a planet reduction gear with a view to modifying the position of the transmission screw; second blade feathering means configured to act on the transmission screw with a view to modifying the pitch of the blades if the first means are inactive, and in that said firType: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventor: Huguette De Wergifosse
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Patent number: 10633987Abstract: A pitch actuation system for a turbine engine propeller, comprising an actuator, a movable part of which is designed to be connected to blades of the propeller so as to rotate said blades relative to blade pitch-setting axes, wherein the actuator is an electromechanical actuator and comprises at least two electric motors for driving a common rotor, and a transmission screw rotated by the common rotor, and in that the system further comprises a nut, through which the transmission screw passes and which is designed to cooperate with the blades so as to move them.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventor: Huguette de Wergifosse
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Publication number: 20200003123Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for supplying fuel to a turbomachine. In some embodiments, a fuel circuit includes a pressurisation valve at an outlet of the system and a pump. The circuit may include a flow rate sensor arranged between the outlet of the pump and the pressurisation valve. In some embodiments, the flow rate sensor may include a sliding drawer, a restoring spring, and a sensor for detecting the position of said drawer in order to indicate the flow passing through the flow rate sensor. The system may include a device arranged to drive the pump with a controllable rotational speed and a control configured to control the device on the basis of a measurement supplied by the flow rate sensor, in such a way as to adapt the rotational speed of the pump shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Loïc Pora, Huguette De Wergifosse