Patents by Inventor Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel

Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel 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: 20210016498
    Abstract: A method for obtaining, by additive manufacture, a component including at least one recess, this method including: a step of forming, by additive manufacture, a one-piece blank component, in which the at least one recess contains a support including a core in the form of a block of material and cellular elements that connect the core to the recess; and a step of detaching the support from the rest of the blank component in order to expose the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Nicolas OVAERE, Jacques Marcel Arthur BUNEL, Thomas GRICOURT, Paul André SOMAZZI, Sylvain ZAMBELLI
  • Publication number: 20210008624
    Abstract: A method for producing, by additive manufacturing, a part including at least one surface that must be held during the manufacturing, the method including: a step of forming a raw part by additive manufacturing, the raw part including a support including a pillar and a head which is an alveolar element connecting the pillar to the surface to be held; and a step of detaching the support from the rest of the raw part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Nicolas OVAERE, Jacques Marcel Arthur BUNEL, Thomas GRICOURT, Paul André SOMAZZI, Sylvain ZAMBELLI
  • Patent number: 10844789
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (2) for cooling a turbine casing, preferably of a low-pressure turbine of a turbomachine, with air jets, the device comprising a pressurised air supply housing (3) and at least two curved cooling pipes (40) arranged on either side of the housing (3), around and spaced apart from a part of the casing and provided with air injection holes (41), the housing comprising, in particular, a bottom (31) and two longitudinal side walls (32, 33), and the bottom being pierced by air injection holes. The device is characterised in that each of the side walls extends outwards as at least one single-piece tubular sleeve, to which a cooling pipe is joined, the bottom of the sleeve being located at the same level as the bottom of the housing at the point where they are joined together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Emeric D'Herbigny, Pierre Tincelin
  • Patent number: 10760436
    Abstract: An annular turbine engine combustion chamber wall including air admission orifices to create zones of steep temperature gradient, and cooling orifices to enable the air flowing on the cold side to penetrate to the hot side in order to form a film of cooling air along the annular wall, the annular wall being further includes, in the zones of steep temperature gradient, multi-perforation holes having respective bends of an angle ? greater than 90°, the angle ? being measured between an inlet axis Ae and an outlet axis As of the multi-perforation hole, the outlet axis of the multi-perforation hole being inclined at an angle ?3 relative to the normal N to the annular wall through which the multi-perforation holes with bends are formed, in a “gyration” direction that is at most perpendicular to the axial flow direction D of the combustion gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Patrice Andre Commaret, Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Romain Nicolas Lunel
  • Patent number: 10619511
    Abstract: A device for attaching manifolds for cooling the casing of a preferably low-pressure turbine of a turbine engine by air jets. The device includes a mounting for the manifolds, shaped such as to keep the manifolds spaced apart from one another. A plurality of elements support the manifold mounting, each supporting element being attached to the casing, and connected to the manifold mounting by a connector. The device includes N cooling manifolds and N-1 supporting elements, each supporting element being arranged between two adjacent cooling manifolds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Emeric D'Herbigny, Alain Paul Madec, Pierre Tincelin, Benjamin Villenave
  • Publication number: 20200103111
    Abstract: A method for producing an annular combustion chamber of a turbojet using CMC. For this, a shaping tool with movable slides is used and said chamber is produced around the tool, thereby producing a fibrous preform of which the shape is consolidated by drape moulding on the tool and pyrolysis, which is then densified by CVI. Several slides have back drafts, at least one other of such slides having a draft or neither a draft nor a back draft. Then, the slides are removed in a predetermined order imposed by the back drafts and the relative positions of the slides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, William Louis Rodolphe Dousse, Dan Ranjiv Joory, Benjamin Frantz Karl Villenave
  • Publication number: 20200033004
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for a gas turbomachine. The combustion chamber comprising inner and outer walls, a chamber bottom, and a heat shield arranged downstream of the chamber bottom, to protect it thermally. The inner and outer walls and the heat shield form a one-piece unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, William Louis Rodolphe Dousse, Dan Ranjiv Joory, Benjamin Frantz Karl Villenave
  • Patent number: 10532429
    Abstract: A method for perforating a wall, includes calculating mechanical stresses applied on the wall for a use of the wall. The method further includes perforating an orifice in a first determined zone of the wall, the perforation being made using a tool with a cross-section dependent on the mechanical stresses calculated in the first determined zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Mario César De Sousa, Fabrice Dominguez, Bouzid Rabia
  • Publication number: 20190390571
    Abstract: A part for a turbine engine, the part having a general annular shape about an axis of revolution, this part including a first annular shrink-fitted mounting flange and comprising an annular row of orifices for the passage of screws, this part being made by casting and including protruding pads required for the control and the manufacture of the part by casting, wherein the pads are located on the flange and in that each comprises a thread configured to engage with an extraction screw of the flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Etienne Gerard Joseph CANELLE, Jacques Marcel Arthur BUNEL, Faouzi ALIOUAT
  • Publication number: 20190390569
    Abstract: The thermal shrinkage of a casing (2) to regulate as best as possible the internal play between the rotor and the stator is carried out by a ring (4) fixed onto the skin (2) rather than by a circular ramp at a distance therefrom. The ring (4) comprises, between a collection box (8) and the skin (2), a foraminous plate (7), placed on an opening of the box (8) parallel to the skin (2) and at a short distance, in order to impose invariable and known ventilation conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur BUNEL, Etienne Gérard Joseph CANELLE, Emeric Christian Amaury D'HERBIGNY, Pierrick Bernard JEAN
  • Publication number: 20190360698
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for a turbine engine, in particular for an aircraft turbojet engine or turboprop engine. The combustion chamber includes a radially outer annular shroud, a radially inner annular shroud coaxial with the radially outer shroud, and an end wall connecting the radially outer shroud and the radially inner shroud. The combustion chamber further includes a first annular sealing member coaxial with said radially inner and outer shrouds. The first annular sealing member is radially interposed between the end wall and the radially outer shroud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Dan Ranjiv Joory, Patrice André Commaret, Romain Nicolas
  • Publication number: 20190353351
    Abstract: An assembly for a combustion chamber of a turbomachine. The assembly comprises an annular shell extending along a longitudinal axis, the shell having an inner wall intended to be turned towards a furnace of the combustion chamber and an outer wall opposite the inner wall and a projecting element extending radially from an area of the outer wall. The shell has at least one deflector projecting from the outer wall and located downstream of the projecting element with respect to a direction of gas flow along the outer wall, oriented along the longitudinal axis. The deflector extends circumferentially. Perforations are provided axially between the projecting element and the or each deflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Pierrick Bernard Jean
  • Patent number: 10247101
    Abstract: A device for mounting a spark plug in a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine includes a chimney including a collar extending radially inwards, a washer fastened on an axial end of the chimney so as to project towards the inside of the chimney, and a bushing forming a spark plug guide and including an inner collar and an outer collar that are axially spaced apart from each other by a cylindrical portion. Each collar extends radially outwards. The bushing is floatingly mounted inside the chimney with its collars axially positioned between the collar of the chimney and the washer. The inner collar comes in operation to bear against the collar of the chimney. The outer collar presents an outside diameter (d1) greater than the inside diameter (d2) of the washer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Mario Cesar De Sousa, Gilles Ulryck
  • Publication number: 20190093559
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (2) for cooling a turbine casing, preferably of a low-pressure turbine of a turbomachine, with air jets, the device comprising a pressurised air supply housing (3) and at least two curved cooling pipes (40) arranged on either side of the housing (3), around and spaced apart from a part of the casing and provided with air injection holes (41), the housing comprising, in particular, a bottom (31) and two longitudinal side walls (32, 33), and the bottom being pierced by air injection holes. The device is characterised in that each of the side walls extends outwards as at least one single-piece tubular sleeve, to which a cooling pipe is joined, the bottom of the sleeve being located at the same level as the bottom of the housing at the point where they are joined together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur BUNEL, Emeric D'HERBIGNY, Pierre TINCELIN
  • Publication number: 20180216488
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (3) for attaching manifolds (1) for cooling the casing (2) of a preferably low-pressure turbine of a turbine engine by air jets, comprising a mounting (4) of said manifolds, shaped such as to keep said manifolds spaced apart from one another and a plurality of elements (5) for supporting said manifold mounting (4), each supporting element being attached to the casing, and connected to said manifold mounting (4) by connection means (6, 6?). Said device is characterised in that it comprises N cooling manifolds (1) and N?1 supporting elements (5), each supporting element (5) being arranged between two adjacent cooling manifolds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur BUNEL, Emeric D'HERBIGNY, Alain Paul MADEC, Pierre TINCELIN, Benjamin VILLENAVE
  • Publication number: 20180142563
    Abstract: An annular turbine engine combustion chamber wall including air admission orifices to create zones of steep temperature gradient, and cooling orifices to enable the air flowing on the cold side to penetrate to the hot side in order to form a film of cooling air along the annular wall, the annular wall being further includes, in the zones of steep temperature gradient, multi-perforation holes having respective bends of an angle ? greater than 90°, the angle ? being measured between an inlet axis Ae and an outlet axis As of the multi-perforation hole, the outlet axis of the multi-perforation hole being inclined at an angle ?3 relative to the normal N to the annular wall through which the multi-perforation holes with bends are formed, in a “gyration” direction that is at most perpendicular to the axial flow direction D of the combustion gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Patrice Andre COMMARET, Jacques Marcel Arthur BUNEL, Romain Nicolas LUNEL
  • Patent number: 9784186
    Abstract: A device for mounting a spark plug in a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine includes a chimney including a collar extending radially inwards, a washer fastened on an axial end of the chimney so as to project towards the inside of the chimney, and a bushing forming a spark plug guide and including an inner collar and an outer collar that are axially spaced apart from each other by a cylindrical portion. Each collar extends radially outwards. The bushing is floatingly mounted inside the chimney with its collars axially positioned between the collar of the chimney and the washer. The inner collar comes in operation to bear against the collar of the chimney. The outer collar presents an outside diameter (d1) greater than the inside diameter (d2) of the washer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Mario César De Sousa, Gilles Ulryck
  • Publication number: 20170108225
    Abstract: A device for mounting a spark plug in a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine includes a chimney including a collar extending radially inwards, a washer fastened on an axial end of the chimney so as to project towards the inside of the chimney, and a bushing forming a spark plug guide and including an inner collar and an outer collar that are axially spaced apart from each other by a cylindrical portion. Each collar extends radially outwards. The bushing is floatingly mounted inside the chimney with its collars axially positioned between the collar of the chimney and the washer. The inner collar comes in operation to bear against the collar of the chimney. The outer collar presents an outside diameter (d1) greater than the inside diameter (d2) of the washer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur BUNEL, Mario Cesar De Sousa, Gilles Ulryck
  • Patent number: 9599344
    Abstract: A combustion chamber (110) for a turbine engine, such as an airplane turboprop or turbojet, the combustion chamber comprising two coaxial annular walls, respectively an inner wall and an outer wall, that are connected together at their upstream ends by a chamber end wall (118) having an annular row of openings (119) for mounting fuel injection devices (120), the combustion chamber being characterized in that an annular metal sheet (130) is mounted upstream from the end wall and includes mounting orifices for receiving the above-mentioned injection devices, the sheet being substantially parallel to the end wall and co-operating therewith to define an annular air flow cavity (140).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Gilles Ulryck
  • Patent number: 9599342
    Abstract: An annular wall for an annular turbine engine combustion chamber, including one annular row of dilution orifices including larger area orifices and smaller area orifices, and a multi-perforation formed from micro-perforations distributed as an upstream row, a downstream row, and at least one intermediate row interrupted by the orifices, a geometric ratio being defined as the quotient obtained by dividing the maximum spacing L between any two points on the edge of the orifice measured along a direction parallel to an axis of the wall by the maximum spacing l between any two points on the edge of this orifice measured along a direction perpendicular to the axis, the geometric ratio of the larger area orifices being greater than or equal to 1, and the geometric ratio of the smaller area orifices being greater than the geometric ratio of the larger area orifices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Nicolas Christian Raymond Leblond, Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Dominique Maurice Jacques Lains