Patents by Inventor Jean-Michel Bernard Guimbard

Jean-Michel Bernard Guimbard 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: 8162594
    Abstract: A cooled blade forming an upstream guide vane element for a turbomachine is disclosed. The airfoil includes a longitudinal cavity with a first opening at one end and a second opening at the other end, a tubular sleeve being housed in the cavity with a first end in the first opening and a second end in the second opening, first spacers on the side of the first end, and second spacers on the side of the second end of the sleeve making a space between the outer face of the sleeve and the wall of the cavity. The blade is arranged so that the sleeve is inserted into the cavity through the first opening. The first spacers are secured to the sleeve and the second spacers are secured to the wall of the cavity of the airfoil. The invention makes it possible to mount the sleeve despite an accentuated curvature of the profile of the airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Bernard Guimbard, Philippe Jean-Pierre Pabion, Jean-Luc Soupizon
  • Patent number: 8162593
    Abstract: An inter-turbine casing for a turbofan is disclosed. The casing includes an outer ring, an inner ring, and an intermediate ring between the inner ring and the outer ring. The inner and intermediate rings have respective openings for the passage of cooling air. The casing includes at least one sealing device, arranged between the outer ring and the intermediate ring, with a base, provided with at least one orifice for the passage of cooling air, and a peripheral skirt which is able to be compressed and expanded elastically. The base bears against the outer ring and the peripheral skirt bears against the intermediate ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Bernard Guimbard, Philippe Jean-Pierre Pabion, Sebastien Jean Laurent Prestel, Jean-Luc Soupizon
  • Patent number: 8083476
    Abstract: A method of designing a multistage turbine for a turbomachine in which each turbine stage comprises a stator row and a rotor row each made up of an annular row of airfoils, wherein, for all of the stator or rotor rows, it consists in simultaneously modifying the shapes of the airfoils of said rows to straighten out the wakes from the trailing edges of said airfoils, then in angularly positioning the rows in such a manner that the wakes from the airfoils of the stator (or rotor) airfoils impact against the leading edges of the stator (or rotor, respectively) airfoils of the rows situated downstream, in order to achieve multistage aerodynamic coupling simultaneously over the turbine as a whole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Bernard Guimbard, Olivier Kueny, Eric Schwartz
  • Patent number: 7658591
    Abstract: A layout for cooling a blade having a cavity surrounded by an internal wall including cooling fins which are spaced apart from each other by a pitch (p) and each have a thickness (e). The blade has, inside the cavity, a jacket passed through by emission holes each having a diameter (d). When the jacket is in place in the cavity of the blade, and in respect of the critical operating point of the turbine engine, each emission hole of the jacket is opposite a place on the internal wall of the blade which is located between cooling fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Alexandre Dervaux, Jean-Michel Bernard Guimbard, Damien Gilbert Andre Redon, Pascal Bertrand Yves Claude Papot
  • Publication number: 20090155062
    Abstract: A method of designing a multistage turbine for a turbomachine in which each turbine stage comprises a stator row and a rotor row each made up of an annular row of airfoils, wherein, for all of the stator or rotor rows, it consists in simultaneously modifying the shapes of the airfoils of said rows to straighten out the wakes from the trailing edges of said airfoils, then in angularly positioning the rows in such a manner that the wakes from the airfoils of the stator (or rotor) airfoils impact against the leading edges of the stator (or rotor, respectively) airfoils of the rows situated downstream, in order to achieve multistage aerodynamic coupling simultaneously over the turbine as a whole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Bernard GUIMBARD, Olivier Kueny, Eric Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20080232953
    Abstract: The invention relates to an inter-turbine casing (40) for a turbofan (2), comprising an outer ring (44), an inner ring (54), and an intermediate ring (52) between the inner ring and the outer ring, the inner (54) and intermediate (52) rings having respective openings (540, 520) for the passage of cooling air. The casing is distinguished in that it comprises at least one sealing device (80), arranged between the outer ring (44) and the intermediate ring (52), with a base (82), provided with at least one orifice (90) for the passage of cooling air, and a peripheral skirt (84) which is able to be compressed and expanded elastically, the base (82) bearing against the outer ring (44) and the peripheral skirt (84) bearing against the intermediate ring (52).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Bernard GUIMBARD, Philippe Jean-Pierre Pabion, Sebastien Jean Laurent Prestel, Jean-Luc Soupizon
  • Publication number: 20080184694
    Abstract: A gas turbine with contrarotating HP and LP turbines comprises an LP turbine having a plurality of moving wheels alternating with nozzles, the moving wheels of the LP turbine rotating in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the moving wheel of the HP turbine, and an inter-turbine casing having inner and outer casing walls defining a stream passage between the HP and LP turbines together with arms extending across the passage between the inner and outer casing walls. The gas turbine does not have a nozzle or device for forming the function of deflecting the stream between the outlet from the HP turbine and the first moving wheel of the LP turbine. The HP turbine is advantageously designed to deliver a stream that gyrates in the inter-turbine casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Bernard Guimbard, Renaud Martet, Eric Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20080085182
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transition channel (10) between a first turbine section and a second turbine section for a gas turbine engine, comprising a first radially external annular wall (102), a second radially internal annular wall, the first wall comprising orifices (102C?) for injecting a fluid into the channel in order to re-energize the boundary layer thereof. It is characterized in that the first wall (102) consists of ring sector elements housed inside an annular ring (104), fluid supply means being arranged between the space (110) outside the ring and said injection orifices (104).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Bernard GUIMBARD, Philippe Jean-Pierre Pabion, Eric Schwartz, Jean-Luc Soupizon