Patents by Inventor Hung Quac Tran

Hung Quac Tran 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: 6296442
    Abstract: A turbomachine stator vane set includes a ring of vanes having platforms arranged in a housing formed on an outer shell. The bottom of the housing has a non-planar surface which is spherical or cylindrical with a radius of curvature R, and the cooperating surface of the platforms has a corresponding non-planar surface which is spherical or cylindrical with a larger radius of curvature R+&Dgr;R prior to fitting and which is reduced to the radius R under stress, by the action of fastening rivets used to assemble the vane platforms with the outer shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Techspace Aero
    Inventor: Hung Quac Tran
  • Patent number: 6142729
    Abstract: A sealing device for a turbomachine bearing chamber in which a bearing is mounted between a sleeve secured to a rotary shaft and a casing defining said bearing chamber, said sealing device comprising a labyrinth seal disposed on the sleeve at the junction with an adjacent air chamber, a static carbon ring which is not in contact with the shaft and is retained axially in position in a fixed annular support, and a rotary ring which is driven by the sleeve and which is centred without clamping on the sleeve by means of a ring seal and is retained axially in position by a flat annular spring, the rotary ring having a radial surface which faces and co-operates with a radial surface of the carbon ring and which is formed with lift grooves such that, during operation, a substantially frictionless sealing is effected between the two radial surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Techspace Aero
    Inventors: Hung Quac Tran, Lorenzo Pacchioni