Patents by Inventor Joao Antonio AMORIM

Joao Antonio AMORIM 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: 11879339
    Abstract: A control valve composed of sectors of stationary blades, which are externally connected to a stator, includes an inner platform divided into an outer portion formed of sectors and associated, by radial slide connections, with an inner portion in the form of a ring which is continuous over a circumference, which carries an abradable seal. Springs ensure the radial position of the crown, and the concentricity thereof to the rest of the machine. The diameter of the crown is essentially determined by the temperature of the gases which pass in front of it. The independence of the radial thermal deformations is ensured by slides composed of sliding sleeves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Joao Antonio Amorim, Vahe Kupelian
  • Patent number: 11761345
    Abstract: An assembly for a turbine engine turbine includes a turbine rotor disc centered on a longitudinal axis and a turbine shaft centered on the longitudinal axis and driven in rotation by the rotor disc. Torque from the rotor disc is transmitted to the shaft, wherein the rotor disc is locked in translation relative to the shaft in the direction of the longitudinal axis by a screwed member on the shaft. Torque from the rotor disc is transmitted from the rotor disc to the screwed member when the torque ceases being transmitted from the rotor disc to the shaft. The screwed member has an unscrewing direction identical to the direction of rotation of the rotor disc in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Antoine Hervé Dos Santos, Joao Antonio Amorim, Pascal Grégory Casaliggi, Nicolas Xavier Trappier
  • Publication number: 20230160314
    Abstract: A control valve composed of sectors of stationary blades, which are externally connected to a stator, includes an inner platform divided into an outer portion formed of sectors and associated, by radial slide connections, with an inner portion in the form of a ring which is continuous over a circumference, which carries an abradable seal. Springs ensure the radial position of the crown, and the concentricity thereof to the rest of the machine. The diameter of the crown is essentially determined by the temperature of the gases which pass in front of it. The independence of the radial thermal deformations is ensured by slides composed of sliding sleeves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Joao Antonio AMORIM, Vahe KUPELIAN
  • Publication number: 20230033362
    Abstract: An assembly for a turbine engine turbine includes a turbine rotor disc centered on a longitudinal axis, a turbine shaft centered on the longitudinal axis and driven in rotation by the rotor disc. The assembly further includes first means of transmitting torque from the rotor disc to the shaft, wherein the rotor disc is locked in translation relative to the shaft in the direction of the longitudinal axis by a screwed member on the said shaft and second means of transmitting torque from the rotor disc to the screwed member. The screwed member has an unscrewing direction identical to the direction of rotation of the rotor disc in operation, and the second means of transmitting torque are configured to transmit the rotational torque from the rotor disc to the screwed member when the first means of transmitting torque cease to transmit torque from the rotor disc to the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Antoine Hervé DOS SANTOS, Joao Antonio AMORIM, Pascal Grégory CASALIGGI, Nicolas Xavier TRAPPIER
  • Patent number: 11525367
    Abstract: Assembly including a rotor disc, an adjacent stator and a plurality of sealing elements secured to the rotor disc, the stator including an inner platform and a root bearing at least one abradable element configured to cooperate with the sealing elements, the sealing elements being placed in an enclosure formed by the abradable element, the enclosure being open to the inside and delimited axially by an upstream abradable edge and a downstream abradable edge, the enclosure being delimited radially by an outer abradable edge, at least one of the sealing elements including a first lip configured to cooperate with the upstream abradable edge or the downstream abradable edge, and a second, separate lip configured to cooperate with the outer abradable edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas Xavier Trappier, Joao Antonio Amorim, Maxime Aurelien Rotenberg
  • Publication number: 20220003127
    Abstract: Assembly including a rotor disc, an adjacent stator and a plurality of sealing elements secured to the rotor disc, the stator including an inner platform and a root bearing at least one abradable element configured to cooperate with the sealing elements, the sealing elements being placed in an enclosure formed by the abradable element, the enclosure being open to the inside and delimited axially by an upstream abradable edge and a downstream abradable edge, the enclosure being delimited radially by an outer abradable edge, at least one of the sealing elements including a first lip configured to cooperate with the upstream abradable edge or the downstream abradable edge, and a second, separate lip configured to cooperate with the outer abradable edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Nicolas Xavier TRAPPIER, Joao Antonio AMORIM, Maxime Aurelien ROTENBERG
  • Patent number: 10598031
    Abstract: A turbine rotor is fitted to a turbomachine and includes disks each containing a coupling portion with recesses each holding a root of a blade, and coupled to one another by a first annular ferrule attached to one of them close to the recesses, and second rotationally coupled ferrules, which are respectively coupled radially to the disks, which each consists of at least two semi-annular sectors, and which form with the associated disk a space which communicates with the recesses of the coupling portion of this latter disk. In addition, each first ferrule includes through-holes enabling air to enter this space, and then the recesses, intended to cool the coupling portion which couples its disk and the blade roots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCTAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Stéphane Pierre Guillaume Blanchard, Joao Antonio Amorim, Maxime Aurélien Rotenberg, Nicolas Xavier Trappier
  • Publication number: 20180066528
    Abstract: A turbine rotor is fitted to a turbomachine and includes disks each containing a coupling portion with recesses each holding a root of a blade, and coupled to one another by a first annular ferrule attached to one of them close to the recesses, and second rotationally coupled ferrules, which are respectively coupled radially to the disks, which each consists of at least two semi-annular sectors, and which form with the associated disk a space which communicates with the recesses of the coupling portion of this latter disk. In addition, each first ferrule includes through-holes enabling air to enter this space, and then the recesses, intended to cool the coupling portion which couples its disk and the blade roots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Stéphane Pierre Guillaume BLANCHARD, Joao Antonio AMORIM, Maxime Aurélien ROTENBERG, Nicolas Xavier TRAPPIER