Patents by Inventor Jean-Philippe Maffre

Jean-Philippe Maffre 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: 7766574
    Abstract: A fastener system is configured to fasten together at least two parts, one of which includes at least one flange that is caused to bear against a surface of the other part by a plurality of pins each presenting a collar having a non-circular outline. The collar is received in a groove formed in a bearing surface of one of the parts, and is designed to prevent the pins from turning by abutment against a wall, wherein the outline of each collar includes two substantially opposite plane surfaces that serve as mutual abutments against two adjacent collars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe Maffre
  • Publication number: 20060291955
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an assembly composed of a rotary shaft and of a roller bearing supporting said shaft, the bearing including a ring interconnected with the shaft and forming a raceway. The assembly is characterised in that the ring is immobilised in rotation on the shaft by a coupling formed by a plurality of teeth on the shaft co-operating with lugs interconnected with the ring, the lugs being received between said teeth, and in axial direction by a snap ring transversal in the form of a ring portion. The invention applies in particular to the installation of a ring of a roller bearing on a turbine shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe Maffre
  • Patent number: 7048497
    Abstract: A gas turbine stator including at least a first injector providing a passage for a main cooling air stream into a pressurized chamber. An evacuation mechanism discharges air coming from an internal labyrinth gland of a first cavity towards a lower-pressure second cavity. A second injector evacuates the air contained in the second cavity towards a main duct. The stator further includes a third injector designed to generate an overpressure close to the internal labyrinth gland in the pressurized chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Arilla, Alain Galland, Michel Gerard Paul Hacault, Jean-Philippe Maffre
  • Publication number: 20050238423
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fastener system for fastening together at least two parts, one of which includes at least one flange that is caused to bear against a surface of the other part by means of a plurality of pins each presenting a collar having a non-circular outline, said collar being received in a groove formed in a bearing surface of one of said parts, and being designed to prevent said pins from turning by abutment against a wall, wherein the outline of each collar includes two substantially opposite plane surfaces that serve as mutual abutments against two adjacent collars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURS
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe Maffre
  • Publication number: 20050201859
    Abstract: A ventilation circuit of a turbomachine turbine rotor having a turbine disk and an upstream flange disposed upstream from a combustion chamber from which it is spaced apart by a cavity. A first cooling air circuit delivers air into the cavity via main injectors and holes in the flange. A second cooling air circuit delivers air through enclosures delimited by the combustion chamber inner casing and the rotor via a discharge labyrinth, an under-injector labyrinth, and at least one labyrinth downstream from the main injectors between an annular structure and the flange. Three single-wiper labyrinths delimiting two cavities upstream from the venting cavity of the turbine disk are provided downstream from the main injectors. One of the cavities is fed with air from the second circuit upstream from the under-injector labyrinth by bore holes in the annular structure sloping tangentially in the rotation direction of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventors: Sylvie Coulon, Jean-Claude Taillant, Jean-Philippe Maffre
  • Publication number: 20040247429
    Abstract: The invention concerns a gas turbine stator comprising:
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Arilla, Alain Galland, Michel Hacault, Jean-Philippe Maffre
  • Patent number: 6520743
    Abstract: An apparatus for axially retaining rotor blades to an annular radially extending disk having a recess and a flange. An annular retaining ring is disposed in the recess and includes an axially extending lip and an axially outer side forming an annular bevel surface along a radially outer edge. A retaining plate having an axially extending base, a radially extending outward arm and a radially extending inward leg having an annular bevel surface along an axially inner, radially inner edge is affixed to the disk and the leg cooperates with the lip of the ring. Wherein, the bevel surfaces of the retaining plate and retaining ring are arranged outwardly opposite to one another so that the bevel surfaces are radially compressed along each other as the base slidably engages with the recess walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Arilla, Jean-Philippe Maffre
  • Publication number: 20020018719
    Abstract: An apparatus for axially retaining rotor blades to an annular radially extending disk having a recess and a flange. An annular retaining ring is disposed in the recess and includes an axially extending lip and an axially outer side forming an annular bevel surface along a radially outer edge. A retaining plate having an axially extending base, a radially extending outward arm and a radially extending inward leg having an annular bevel surface along an axially inner, radially inner edge is affixed to the disk and the leg cooperates with the lip of the ring. Wherein, the bevel surfaces of the retaining plate and retaining ring are arranged outwardly opposite to one another so that the bevel surfaces are radially compressed along each other as the base slidably engages with the recess walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Arilla, Jean-Philippe Maffre