Patents by Inventor Jacques AURIOL

Jacques AURIOL 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: 20250101930
    Abstract: Method for braking an aircraft turbine engine including a fan or a propeller connected to a turbine by a shaft and an electric generator connected to the shaft, the method comprising the following steps: a request to brake the turbine engine by thrust reversal; a calculation of a turbine braking setpoint by a control system; and in response to the braking setpoint, an adjustment by the control system of a resistance of a dissipative load to draw electric power from the electric generator to the dissipative load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jacques Auriol, Pierre-Alain Jean Philippe Reigner
  • Patent number: 12246820
    Abstract: A system for controlling the modification of the pitch of the blades of a fan of a turbine engine, in particular for an aircraft. The turbine engine comprising blades mounted radially in a drive shaft and a setting device configured to modify the pitch of the blades on the basis of an axial force applied to said setting device. The control system comprises a hydraulic actuator, a hydraulic pump, a connecting ring connected mechanically to the hydraulic pump such that the flow rate of the hydraulic pump is proportional to the relative speed between the drive shaft and the connecting ring, and a magnetic coupling device designed to control the drive speed of the connecting ring in order to control the pitch of the blades independently of the speed of the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Jacques Auriol
  • Publication number: 20240253771
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pitch-change mechanism for a turbine engine propeller, said turbine engine comprising a stator portion and a rotor portion, said pitch-change mechanism comprising an electrohydraulic actuator comprising: —a cylinder for actuating the propeller, comprising a first chamber and a second chamber; —a hydraulic pump suitable for selectively supplying the first chamber or the second chamber of the cylinder with pressurized hydraulic fluid; —a hydraulic fluid reservoir configured to store a pressurized hydraulic fluid; —a valve controlled between a first position in which the valve places the first chamber of the cylinder in fluid communication with the hydraulic pump, and a second position in which the valve places the first chamber of the cylinder in fluid communication with the hydraulic fluid reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Huguette DE WERGIFOSSE, Jacques AURIOL
  • Publication number: 20240124126
    Abstract: A system for controlling the modification of the pitch of the blades of a fan of a turbine engine, in particular for an aircraft. The turbine engine comprising blades mounted radially in a drive shaft and a setting device configured to modify the pitch of the blades on the basis of an axial force applied to said setting device. The control system comprises a hydraulic actuator, a hydraulic pump, a connecting ring connected mechanically to the hydraulic pump such that the flow rate of the hydraulic pump is proportional to the relative speed between the drive shaft and the connecting ring, and a magnetic coupling device designed to control the drive speed of the connecting ring in order to control the pitch of the blades independently of the speed of the drive shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventor: Jacques Auriol
  • Publication number: 20230407764
    Abstract: A lubrication system for a turbomachine which includes a reduction gear. The lubrication system includes a main branch and a bypass branch which is arranged in parallel with the main branch. The main branch includes a heat exchanger. The bypass branch includes a hydraulic resistance that is lower than the hydraulic resistance of the main branch. The reduction gear is located downstream of the main branch and the bypass branch. The lubrication system includes at least one bypass device that is configured to supply the bypass branch with lubricant when a pressure value of the lubricant is below a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Jérémy Edmond FERT, Jacques AURIOL
  • Patent number: 11668252
    Abstract: A method for controlling a clearance control valve of a turbomachine wherein, during a maneuver to increase engine speed in cruise phase, a command to reduce the opening of the clearance control valve is actuated by a Full Authority Digital Engine Control based on a change in the state of a step-climb signal provided by a flight management system in order to increase clearances at the tips of the turbomachine blades and an increase in the opening of the clearance control valve follows its reduction, at the expiry of either of the following two time limits: a first time limit starting at the change in the state of the step-climb signal and determined not to penalize the performance of the engine for too long and a second time limit starting at the end of the maneuver and determined as a function of a thermal time constant of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Jacques Auriol
  • Publication number: 20220388690
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device and a method for managing a fleet of information communication devices with reversible attachment on aircraft turbomachines, having: an association of a device among the fleet of devices with a turbomachine among a fleet of turbomachines, an attachment, an acquisition of at least one turbomachine operating parameter, a development of at least one indicator that allows the update of a digital twin of the turbomachine based on the operating parameter acquired, a communication of the indicator that allows the update of the digital twin to a digital twin storage entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Alméric Pierre Louis GARNIER, Jacques AURIOL, Josselin Xavier COUPARD
  • Publication number: 20210017913
    Abstract: A method for controlling a clearance control valve of a turbomachine wherein, during a maneuver to increase engine speed in cruise phase, a command to reduce the opening of the clearance control valve is actuated by a Full Authority Digital Engine Control based on a change in the state of a step-climb signal provided by a flight management system in order to increase clearances at the tips of the turbomachine blades and an increase in the opening of the clearance control valve follows its reduction, at the expiry of either of the following two time limits: a first time limit starting at the change in the state of the step-climb signal and determined not to penalize the performance of the engine for too long and a second time limit starting at the end of the maneuver and determined as a function of a thermal time constant of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Jacques AURIOL