Patents by Inventor Jean-Philippe Beaujard

Jean-Philippe Beaujard 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: 10036277
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine for propulsion of an aircraft, the engine extending axially from upstream to downstream and including a composite part, a metal part, and a device for flexible fixing of the parts, the fixing device including: a flexible connecting element including a first fixing portion connected to the metal part by an axial connection and a second fixing portion connected to the composite part by an axial connection, the connecting element including an axially extending free end; and a rigid locking element including a fixing portion connected to the metal part by an axial connection and an axially extending free end, the free end of the locking element being aligned radially with the free end of the connecting element to limit deformation of the connecting element while the engine is in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Jacques Rene Bart
  • Publication number: 20180209378
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion assembly, including a turbine engine comprising at least one gas generator configured to generate a main flow, which is supplied by a central jet to at least one power turbine, the central jet being surrounded by an outer fairing, and the power turbine driving, on the periphery thereof, at least one fan rotor. The aircraft propulsion assembly comprises first movable means which are arranged so as to divert at least some of the main flow from the central jet to the outside of the outer fairing and preferably upstream of the turbine engine so as to generate thrust reversal. An aircraft which uses the propulsion assembly, particularly on the rear tip of the fuselage of the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas Jérôme Jean Tantot, Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Pascal Coat, Didier Jean-Louis Yvon
  • Patent number: 9834312
    Abstract: An adapting part is designed to be held on a casing of a turbo-engine, partially covering the casing. The adapting part includes, in the extension of one of its axial ends, a first connector to engage with a first complementary connector associated with the casing to form a sliding connection. The adapting part also includes, at its other axial end, a second connector to be secured to a second complementary connector associated with the casing to form a rigid connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Maryline Besnard
  • Patent number: 9822655
    Abstract: A turbine nozzle or a compressor diffuser includes sectors made of CMC material, each having an inner platform, an outer platform, and airfoils. An abradable material support ring is made up of sectors, each presenting upstream and downstream attachment tabs. Each inner platform presents on the inside an upstream hook and a downstream hook, and the abradable material support ring is supported by the nozzle or the diffuser by mutually engaging without fastening together firstly the end portions of the upstream attachment tabs and the upstream hooks and secondly the end portions of the downstream attachment tabs and the downstream hooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: SNECMA, HERAKLES
    Inventors: Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Elric Georges Andre Fremont
  • Patent number: 9784122
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a composite material casing for a gas turbine engine, the method including making an outer shroud including a platform and a flange, making an inner shroud of smaller diameter than the outer shroud and including a platform and a flange, making a plurality of casing arms, each including a blade that is terminated at each radial end by a respective platform, arranging a plurality of openings in the respective platforms of the shrouds, each opening serving to receive a platform of a casing arm, and assembling the casing arms with the outer shroud and with the inner shroud by inserting the platforms of the casing arms in the openings of the shrouds. A composite material casing is obtained by such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignees: SNECMA, HERAKLES
    Inventors: Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Elric Georges André Fremont
  • Publication number: 20170218778
    Abstract: A rotor for a turbine engine includes a disk having cavities called primary cavities at its periphery; a plurality of blades each having a root of which the lower part is composed of a bulb locked axially in the primary cavities; a plurality of added platforms, each being arranged between two consecutive blades, wherein the platforms have: a substantially straight plate and a bulb extending radially under the plate, the bulb being locked axially in the secondary cavities arranged at the periphery of the disk, the secondary cavities being positioned between two consecutive primary cavities; a spoiler extending in the axial direction, the spoiler forming an annular sector facing at least two consecutive blades,
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Nicolas TRAPPIER, Antoine Jean-Philippe BEAUJARD
  • Publication number: 20170137137
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft comprising a fuselage (1) and a propulsion unit at the rear of the fuselage, the propulsion unit comprising at least one fan rotor (7, 8), a nacelle (14) fairing the fan and at least one connection means (15) connecting the nacelle to the fuselage, the fan being rotated by the energy supplied by at least one gas-turbine gas generator (2a, 2b) housed in the fuselage, said gas generator comprising auxiliary equipment cooled by a cooling circuit. The aircraft is characterised in that said cooling circuit comprises at least one heat exchanger exchanging heat with the ambient air housed in one of said connection means (15) and/or in said nacelle (14). The cooling circuit optionally comprises also a heat exchanger exchanging heat with the ambient air, housed in the tail unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Nils Edouard Romain BORDONI, Antoine Jean-Philippe BEAUJARD, Nicolas Jerome Jean TANTOT
  • Patent number: 9638042
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine including at least a first composite part configured for mounting in a second metal part of the engine, the first composite part including an interface surface configured to be in surface contact with the second metal part, the engine including a metal protection removably mounted on the first composite part and configured to cover the interface surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Didier Fabre, Jean Pierre Mareix
  • Patent number: 9518472
    Abstract: A turbine nozzle comprises a plurality of composite material vanes, each vane comprising an inner platform, an outer platform with attachment tabs on the outside, and at least one airfoil extending between the inner and outer platforms and secured thereto. The attachment tabs of the vanes are engaged on a metal assembly ring supporting all of the vanes, extending continuously along the outer platforms of adjacent vanes, and forming a distinct assembly part between the vanes and a turbine casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignees: SNECMA, HERAKLES
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard
  • Patent number: 9506355
    Abstract: A method for fabricating turbine engine blade or vane made of composite material includes: performing three-dimensional weaving to make a single-piece fiber blank; shaping the fiber blank to obtain a single-piece fiber preform having a first portion forming a preform for at least a blade/vane airfoil, at least one second portion forming a preform for an inner part of a blade/vane inner platform or for an outer part of a blade/vane outer platform, and at least one third portion forming a preform for an outer part of a blade/vane inner platform or for an inner part of a blade/vane outer platform; and densifying the fiber preform with a matrix to obtain a composite material blade, and forming a single piece with an inner and/or outer platform(s) incorporated therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignees: Snecma, Herakles
    Inventors: Romain Nunez, Stephane Blanchard, Guillaume Renon, Dominique Coupe, Clement Roussille, Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Elric Georges Andre Fremont
  • Patent number: 9469417
    Abstract: An aircraft failure diagnostic method and system includes a group of at least one smart mobile device, mobile in relation to the on-board equipment of an aircraft. The smart mobile device transmits a request for measurement data to an on-board equipment, following a tree structure of measurement data to be acquired. A piece of measurement data received from the on-board equipment by a smart mobile device causes passage to a later step in the tree structure of measurement data requests or interactive maintenance document. The interactive maintenance document is generated by automatically extracting inferences, data to be measured, measurements achievable on the on-board equipment, and measurements requiring a tool not included in the on-board equipment from an aircraft technical documentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: FLIGHTWATCHING
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Olivier Ho Dac
  • Patent number: 9429030
    Abstract: A device for locking a root of a rotor blade in a groove in a rotor disk of a turbomachine including: a circular ring sector configured to be mounted, transversely to the axis of the turbomachine, in a groove in the rotor disk; at least one locking wedge, which is rigidly secured and perpendicular to the ring sector, and extends parallel to the axis of the ring sector so as to hold the root of the blade radially in the groove; and at least one locking tooth extending from the ring sector radially with respect to the axis of the ring sector, so as to prevent the root of the blade from moving axially in the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Rene Bart, Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard
  • Publication number: 20160186582
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine rotor including a disk and at least one blade wherein the root comprises a bulb accommodated into a groove associated with the disk, wherein the bulb includes a slot that opens up radially inwards at its lower face, and in that the rotor includes a retaining part extending partly into the groove projecting radially outwards from the bottom face of the groove, of which a radially outer end of the retaining part fits into the slot of the bulb and bears radially inwards on the inner wall of the slot of the bulb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventor: Antoine Jean-Philippe BEAUJARD
  • Publication number: 20160169024
    Abstract: A turbine engine impeller comprises a disc bearing vanes and an annular plate. The roots of the vanes are fitted in grooves and the root of each vane is connected to a blade by an integrated platform. The platforms of said vanes cooperate to form a radially inner wall of a duct for a flow passing through the blades. The annular plate comprises a transverse annular portion forming an axial stop of the roots of the vanes. The integrated platform of each vane has no spoiler and stops axially to the right of transverse faces of the root. The transverse annular portion of said annular plate bears, between the integrated platforms and the disc, an annular spoiler configured to extend in an axial space between the impeller and an adjacent module of the turbine engine so that said annular plate bears annular knife-edge seals of a labyrinth sealing joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Nathalie Nowakowski
  • Patent number: 9194241
    Abstract: A composite material turbine nozzle blade including an airfoil adapted to have a cooling fluid flow through it and extending between a shroud and a root is provided. The shroud is shaped to be attached to one or more turbine casings of a turbomachine and the root is shaped to provide a junction with a turbine internal casing. The root is produced with a loosened texture and includes an external upstream side loosened texture lug and an external downstream side loosened texture lug. The ends of the two external side lugs extend radially relative to the rotation axis of the turbomachine to form a device for supporting and centering the internal casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Gilles Alain Charier, Jean Pierre Mareix, Didier Fabre
  • Publication number: 20150226084
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a composite material casing for a gas turbine engine, the method including making an outer shroud including a platform and a flange, making an inner shroud of smaller diameter than the outer shroud and including a platform and a flange, making a plurality of casing arms, each including a blade that is terminated at each radial end by a respective platform, arranging a plurality of openings in the respective platforms of the shrouds, each opening serving to receive a platform of a casing arm, and assembling the casing arms with the outer shroud and with the inner shroud by inserting the platforms of the casing arms in the openings of the shrouds. A composite material casing is obtained by such a method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Elric Georges André Fremont
  • Patent number: 9103219
    Abstract: A composite material turbine nozzle blade including an airfoil adapted to have a cooling fluid flow through it and extending between a shroud and a root is provided. The shroud is shaped to be attached to one or more turbine casings of a turbomachine and the root is shaped to provide a junction with a turbine internal casing. The root is produced with a loosened texture and includes an external upstream side loosened texture lug and an external downstream side loosened texture lug, the ends of the two external side lugs extending axially relative to the rotation axis of the turbomachine to form a device for supporting and centering the internal casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Didier Fabre, Jean-Pierre Mareix
  • Patent number: 9062562
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a turbomachine blade or vane of composite material including fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix is disclosed. The method includes: making a one-piece fiber blank by three-dimensional weaving; shaping the fiber blank to obtain a one-piece fiber preform having a first portion forming a blade airfoil and root preform and at least one second portion forming a blade platform preform; and densifying the preform with a matrix to obtain a composite material blade or vane having fiber reinforcement constituted by the preform and densified by the matrix, forming a single part with at least one incorporated platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignees: HERAKLES, SNECMA
    Inventors: Dominique Coupe, Clement Roussille, Jonathan Goering, Julien Mateo, Nicolas Eberling-Fux, Guillaume Renon, Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Elric Georges Andre Fremont
  • Publication number: 20150167491
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine for propulsion of an aircraft, the engine extending axially from upstream to downstream and including a composite part, a metal part, and a device for flexible fixing of the parts, the fixing device including: a flexible connecting element including a first fixing portion connected to the metal part by an axial connection and a second fixing portion connected to the composite part by an axial connection, the connecting element including an axially extending free end; and a rigid locking element including a fixing portion connected to the metal part by an axial connection and an axially extending free end, the free end of the locking element being aligned radially with the free end of the connecting element to limit deformation of the connecting element while the engine is in operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Jacques Rene Bart
  • Patent number: 9045992
    Abstract: A turbomachine blade made of composite material including a fiber reinforcement obtained by three-dimensional weaving of yarns and densified by a matrix, includes a first portion constituting an airfoil and a blade root. The first portion constitutes a single part with at least one second portion constituting a blade inner platform, the blade then lacking a blade anti-tilting wall, or a blade anti-tilting wall, the blade then lacking a blade inner platform. The first portion also constitutes a single part with at least one third portion constituting a blade outer platform spoiler plate, the blade then lacking a blade outer platform wiper plate, or a blade outer platform wiper plate, the blade then lacking a blade outer platform spoiler plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignees: Herakles, Snecma
    Inventors: Clément Roussille, Julien Mateo, Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Elric Georges André Fremont