Patents by Inventor Jonathan Langridge

Jonathan Langridge 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: 11274632
    Abstract: In a cowl for a nozzle, an internal wall has a cross-section with a determined abscissa on the axis defining a neck line on the internal wall. The cowl has, downstream of the determined abscissa, indentations in the trailing edge which delimit chevrons distributed in the circumferential direction. The internal wall of the cowl diverges radially towards the interior, in a second axial half-plane passing through the tip of a chevron, from the upstream tangent on the point of the neck line in the second axial half-plane, and the lines defining the internal wall of the cowl in any axial half-plane do not have a turning point downstream of the determined abscissa of the neck line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jonathan Langridge, Julien Szydlowski
  • Publication number: 20190234345
    Abstract: In a cowl for a nozzle, an internal wall has a cross-section with a determined abscissa on the axis defining a neck line on the internal wall. The cowl has, downstream of the determined abscissa, indentations in the trailing edge which delimit chevrons distributed in the circumferential direction. The internal wall of the cowl diverges radially towards the interior, in a second axial half-plane passing through the tip of a chevron, from the upstream tangent on the point of the neck line in the second axial half-plane, and the lines defining the internal wall of the cowl in any axial half-plane do not have a turning point downstream of the determined abscissa of the neck line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jonathan Langridge, Julien Szydlowski
  • Patent number: 10302043
    Abstract: A nozzle of a turbomachine is provided with chevrons with a non-axisymmetric inner face. A cover for the nozzle of longitudinal axis L-L includes an internal wall having a section with a predetermined abscissa on the L-L axis defining, on the wall, a neck line. The cover has, downstream from the abscissa, indentations in the trailing edge of the cover delimiting chevrons distributed in the circumferential direction, in which, on the cover, from the abscissa the internal wall moves away radially towards the outside of the upstream tangent, to the top of an indentation, the outer wall of the cover moves towards the upstream tangent to the top of an indentation, and the internal wall moves away radially towards the inside of the upstream tangent, to the tip of a chevron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jonathan Langridge, Julien Szydlowski
  • Patent number: 10036349
    Abstract: An afterbody for a turbojet engine having a central axis, provided with a nozzle comprising two doors facing each other between two lateral beams. The doors pivot around axes defining a pivot direction, between a retracted position, in which a middle portion of the downstream edge of the doors forms the edge of the outlet section of the nozzle combined with the downstream edges of the two lateral beams, and a deployed position, in which the middle portions of the downstream edges of the pivoting doors come together so as to block the channel between the two lateral beams in order to reverse the thrust of the turbojet engine gases. The edge of the outlet section of the nozzle further having a crown of noise-reducing chevrons alternating with indentations and the afterbody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignees: SNECMA, AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Irwin Kernemp, Jonathan Langridge, Sébastien Pascal, Denis Guillois, Gérard Clere, Loïc Chapelain
  • Publication number: 20160215728
    Abstract: An afterbody for a turbojet engine having a central axis, provided with a nozzle comprising two doors mounted facing each other between two lateral beams pivoting around axes defining a pivot direction, between a retracted position, in which a middle portion of the downstream edge of said doors forms the edge of the outlet section of the nozzle combined with the downstream edges of the two lateral beams, and a deployed position, in which said middle portions of the downstream edges of the pivoting doors come together so as to block the channel between the two lateral beams in order to reverse the thrust of the turbojet engine gases, the edge of the outlet section of the nozzle further having a crown of noise-reducing chevrons alternating with indentations and the afterbody wherein each noise-reducing chevron formed on the middle portion of the downstream edge of a pivoting door is opposite an indentation in the middle portion of the other pivoting door in the direction perpendicular to said pivot direction, t
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicants: SNECMA, AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Irwin Kernemp, Jonathan Langridge, Sébastien Pascal, Denis Guillois, Gérard Clere, Loïc Chapelain
  • Patent number: 9249755
    Abstract: According to the invention, the method for defining the shape of a convergent-divergent nozzle of longitudinal axis L-L comprising a convergent part connected, at a throat, to a divergent part the downstream free end of which comprises scallops delimiting noise-reducing chevrons distributed in the circumferential direction, comprises defining beforehand the divergent part of the nozzle using a divergent first portion, a divergent second portion and a convergent portion, attributing an initial value to dimensional parameters defining the chevrons and the three portions, calculating performance criteria and checking that the calculated performance criteria satisfy predefined performance conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Julien Szydlowski, Guillaume Bodard, Matthieu Leyko, Jonathan Langridge