Patents by Inventor José Rodrigues
José Rodrigues 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).
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Patent number: 6820425Abstract: A system for injecting an air/fuel mixture into a combustion chamber of a turbomachine, the system having an injector comprising: an axial internal volume opening out at one end via an axial outlet for the air/fuel mixture; a first fuel feed stage having a plurality of first fuel feed orifices which open out into the internal volume, which are distributed around an axis of the injector, and which are connected by fuel feed channels to an inlet for admitting fuel into the injector; and at least one air feed channel which opens out into the internal volume and which is connected to an inlet for admitting air into the injector. The injector further comprises at least one second fuel feed stage with a plurality of second fuel feed orifices which open out into the internal volume, which are distributed around the axis of the injector, and which are connected to said inlet for admitting fuel into the injector via fuel feed channels which coincide at least in part with the fuel feed channels of said first stage.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2002Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Hispano-SuizaInventors: Etienne David, Marion Michau, José Rodrigues, Denis Sandelis, Alain Tiepel
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Patent number: 6799427Abstract: The invention provides an injection system for injecting an air/fuel mixture into a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine, the injection system having a longitudinal axis and comprising fuel injection means, interposed between first and second air injection means, the fuel injection means being disposed in an annular internal cavity of a Venturi, the fuel injection means comprising at least a first fuel admission circuit provided with at least one fuel injection orifice, and a plurality of second fuel admission circuits independent from the first fuel admission circuit(s), each being provided with at least one fuel injection orifice so as to define a plurality of independent modes of injecting the air/fuel mixture depending on determined operating speeds of the engine, the fuel injection orifice of the first fuel admission circuit being formed in the upstream wall of the Venturi so as to inject fuel towards the combustion chamber in a general direction that is substantially perpendicular to a flow of airType: GrantFiled: March 6, 2003Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: SNECMA MoteursInventors: Gwénaëlle Calvez, Didier Feder, Marion Michau, Frédéric Ravet, José Rodrigues, Alain Schuler, Alain Tiepel, Christophe Viguier
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Patent number: 6776843Abstract: A device is provided for spraying a coating product including a moving arm able to perform a tracking movement for tracking an object to be coated which is moving in a horizontal plane along an axis of conveying, a sprayer disposed at an end of the moving arm, and a base on which the moving arm is pivotably disposed, the base is rotatable about an axis generally horizontal and generally perpendicular to the axis of conveying and the base is translatable.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2002Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: Eisenmann France SarlInventors: Michel Fouvet, Jose Rodrigues
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Patent number: 6775984Abstract: An injector of a two-headed combustion chamber of a turbomachine has a first feed tube which is connected to an annular injection piece for discharging primary fuel into the combustion chamber. It also has a second feed tube surrounding the first feed tube and connected to a cylindrical endpiece for discharging secondary fuel into said combustion chamber. This endpiece has an annular channel of diameter that is greater than the diameter of the second feed tube and that extends over its entire length. A third tube is provided that surrounds the second tube and that is connected to a tubular separation element which is inserted in the annular channel of the cylindrical endpiece so as to form two annular spaces in which a cooling fluid can flow over 360° all the way to the end of the injector.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2001Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: SNECMA MoteursInventors: Alain Lavie, Stéphanie Martelli, Marion Michau, José Rodrigues, Alain Tiepel
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Patent number: 6758043Abstract: A fuel injector for a turbomachine engine, the injector comprising an injector body having pressurized fuel admission means, a first valve mounted downstream from the pressurized fuel admission means and arranged to admit fuel into the injector body, a second valve mounted downstream from the first valve and capable of opening in order to meter at least a fraction of the fuel admitted into the injector body for utilization means for using the fuel, the metered fuel flow rate to the utilization means being a function of flow sections formed through the second valve, the injector further comprising a diaphragm placed between the pressurized fuel admission means and the first valve so as to set the rate at which fuel is admitted into the injector body at a determined value.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Hispano-SuizaInventors: Marion Michau, José Rodrigues, Alain Tiepel
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Publication number: 20040074545Abstract: The invention concerns a module (1) generally parallelepiped in shape, comprising parts (7) wherein emerge at least two bores (8) converging towards a central channel (8) and perpendicular to the end surfaces (2, 3) of the module, and which emerge likewise in said channel (9). Each bore (8) nets as housing for a gate valve (10) whereof the disc (10) is designed, depending on its position, in isolating or in communicating with the central channel, a chamber wherein emerge two channels respectively supplying paint and transporting paint back to the reservoir (17). Each paint supplying or recuperating channel is connected to an outer conduit (17) via a connection (21) comprising a first externally threaded part (20) designed to be urged to be screwed into a conduit (17) and a second part (18) with larger diameter, enclosed by a joint (19) designed to be urged to be tightly interlocked in a well (16) provided in the module (1), in the bottom of which emerges a paint supplying or recuperating channel (12, 13).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Inventors: Jose Rodrigues, Xavier Laborie
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Publication number: 20040061086Abstract: A pneumatically controlled needle valve including a cylindrical body intended to be mounted in a bore of a device, two annular sealing surfaces delimiting a chamber connected to a compressed-air supply device, a first compartment arranged inside the body communicatively with the chamber, a second compartment, a piston separating the first and second compartments, a rod having the piston secured thereto, the rod protruding axially from the body, a needle disposed on the rod intended, depending on a position of the needle, to bear or not to bear against a seat of the bore, at least one spring disposed in the second compartment, the spring acting on the rod in a direction for closing the valve by pressing the needle onto the seat, while air under pressure from the compressed air supply device acts on the piston in the opposite direction, the rod passing with sealing through a front end of the body, and a plug for closing a rear end of the body, the plug being connected to the body in such a way as to be preventeType: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2003Publication date: April 1, 2004Inventor: Jose Rodrigues
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Publication number: 20040025508Abstract: The invention provides an injection system for injecting an air/fuel mixture into a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine, the injection system having a longitudinal axis and comprising fuel injection means, interposed between first and second air injection means, the fuel injection means being disposed in an annular internal cavity of a Venturi, the fuel injection means comprising at least a first fuel admission circuit provided with at least one fuel injection orifice, and a plurality of second fuel admission circuits independent from the first fuel admission circuit(s), each being provided with at least one fuel injection orifice so as to define a plurality of independent modes of injecting the air/fuel mixture depending on determined operating speeds of the engine, the fuel injection orifice of the first fuel admission circuit being formed in the upstream wall of the Venturi so as to inject fuel towards the combustion chamber in a general direction that is substantially perpendicular to a flow of airType: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURSInventors: Gwenaelle Calvez, Didier Feder, Marion Michau, Frederic Ravet, Jose Rodrigues, Alain Schuler, Alain Tiepel, Christophe Viguier
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Patent number: 6644031Abstract: A fuel injector has a metering valve arranged to open under a predetermined feed pressure which constitutes a first threshold pressure, and to remain open in response to said feed pressure increasing so as to deliver fuel to fuel utilization means. The flow rate of fuel passing through the injector is metered to feed said utilization means so long as the feed pressure remains below a second threshold pressure greater than the first threshold pressure. Above the second threshold pressure, the metering valve behaves like a fixed diaphragm as a function of the fluid flow sections formed therethrough. Individual adjustment means are provided so as to enable said second threshold pressure to be adjusted for each injector to ensure that fuel is injected at a uniform flow rate by all of the injectors in a combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2001Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: SNECMA MoteursInventors: Alain Lavie, Stéphanie Martelli, Marion Michau, José Rodrigues, Alain Tiepel
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Publication number: 20030136336Abstract: The invention concerns a mobile (10) providing a displacement for controlling the object to be covered moving in a horizontal plane on a conveyor or the like, and at the free end of which is mounted a sprayer (17). The pivoting arm (10) is mounted on a base capable of being driven in rotational motion about a substantially horizontal axis (12) substantially perpendicular to the conveying axis. In a first embodiment, it provides a translation movement along a substantially vertical or horizontal axis of the rotary base (6) bearing the arm and in another embodiment, it produces an articulation forming a bend on the arm bearing the sprayer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Michel Fouvet, Jose Rodrigues
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Patent number: 6595000Abstract: An assembly method in which a brazing metal is initially filled into radial wells pierced in an annular injection piece having first injection orifices for discharging a primary fuel, and in a cylindrical endpiece surrounding the annular injection piece and having secondary injection orifices for discharging a secondary fuel; thereafter the annular injection piece is fitted inside the cylindrical endpiece and these pieces are together fitted on a first tube for feeding primary fuel and a second tube for feeding secondary fuel and surrounding the first tube, and also to an outer wall of the injector; finally, the end portion of the injector as assembled in this way is placed in an enclosure where it is heated so as to melt the brazing metal to unite the parts.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2001Date of Patent: July 22, 2003Assignee: Snecma MoteursInventors: Alain Lavie, Stéphanie Martelli, Marion Michau, José Rodrigues, Alain Tiepel
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Publication number: 20030131600Abstract: A system for injecting an air/fuel mixture into a combustion chamber of a turbomachine, the system having an injector comprising: an axial internal volume opening out at one end via an axial outlet for the air/fuel mixture; a first fuel feed stage having a plurality of first fuel feed orifices which open out into the internal volume, which are distributed around an axis of the injector, and which are connected by fuel feed channels to an inlet for admitting fuel into the injector; and at least one air feed channel which opens out into the internal volume and which is connected to an inlet for admitting air into the injector. The injector further comprises at least one second fuel feed stage with a plurality of second fuel feed orifices which open out into the internal volume, which are distributed around the axis of the injector, and which are connected to said inlet for admitting fuel into the injector via fuel feed channels which coincide at least in part with the fuel feed channels of said first stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2002Publication date: July 17, 2003Applicant: HISPANO-SUIZAInventors: Etienne David, Marion Michau, Jose Rodrigues, Denis Sandelis, Alain Tiepel
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Patent number: 6581902Abstract: In a fluid metering device for metering a fluid from a supply source to means of use of this fluid comprising a metering valve able to slide in a sleeve over a travel C, this valve comprising an intake orifice (16) for admitting the fluid from the said supply source and an orifice (18) for ejecting this fluid to the means of use, there are provided means (20) for channelling the fluid intended to allow, during the movement of the metering valve in its sleeve, a sweeping of the fluid over all the contacting surfaces of the valve and of the sleeve. The means of channelling the fluid advantageously comprise a helical groove of width L and of pitch P.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: SNECMA MoteursInventors: Marion Michau, José Rodrigues, Alain Tiepel
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Publication number: 20030093998Abstract: A fuel injector for a turbomachine engine, the injector comprising an injector body having pressurized fuel admission means, a first valve mounted downstream from the pressurized fuel admission means and arranged to admit fuel into the injector body, a second valve mounted downstream from the first valve and capable of opening in order to meter at least a fraction of the fuel admitted into the injector body for utilization means for using the fuel, the metered fuel flow rate to the utilization means being a function of flow sections formed through the second valve, the injector further comprising a diaphragm placed between the pressurized fuel admission means and the first valve so as to set the rate at which fuel is admitted into the injector body at a determined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2002Publication date: May 22, 2003Applicant: HISPANO-SUIZAInventors: Marion Michau, Jose Rodrigues, Alain Tiepel
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Publication number: 20030094203Abstract: A fluid metering device comprising a metering valve capable of sliding in a bushing under fluid feed pressure in order to enable a fluid to be admitted and then ejected towards means for utilizing said fluid, the valve having, at a first end, an opening opening out into a longitudinal fluid admission bore, and at a second end forming an end wall, a valve head provided with fluid metering slots opening out into the longitudinal bore and defining varying flow sections leading towards said means for utilizing the fluid, said valve head further comprising at least one substantially transverse orifice disposed downstream from the metering slots in the fluid flow direction, said orifice communicating with the longitudinal bore and defining at least one fixed flow section towards said means for utilizing the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2002Publication date: May 22, 2003Applicant: HISPANO-SUIZAInventors: Guy D'Agostino, Michel Hugues, Marion Michau, Alain Tiepel, Jose Rodrigues
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Publication number: 20030094197Abstract: A system for injecting fuel into a turbomachine comprising N fuel injectors placed in a combustion chamber of the turbomachine and fed from a fuel tank, the injection system further comprising, interposed between the N injectors and the tank, a single pumping means for taking fuel from the tank and delivering N metered flow rates of fuel to the injectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2002Publication date: May 22, 2003Applicant: HISPANO-SUIZAInventors: Pascal Leblanc, Pascal Marly, Jose Rodrigues, Alain Tiepel
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Publication number: 20020073707Abstract: An injector of a two-headed combustion chamber of a turbomachine has a first feed tube which is connected to an annular injection piece for discharging primary fuel into the combustion chamber. It also has a second feed tube surrounding the first feed tube and connected to a cylindrical endpiece for discharging secondary fuel into said combustion chamber. This endpiece has an annular channel of diameter that is greater than the diameter of the second feed tube and that extends over its entire length. A third tube is provided that surrounds the second tube and that is connected to a tubular separation element which is inserted in the annular channel of the cylindrical endpiece so as to form two annular spaces in which a cooling fluid can flow over 360° all the way to the end of the injector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2001Publication date: June 20, 2002Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURSInventors: Alain Lavie, Stephanie Martelli, Marion Michau, Jose Rodrigues, Alain Tiepel
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Publication number: 20020073708Abstract: An assembly method in which a brazing metal is initially filled into radial wells pierced in an annular injection piece having first injection orifices for discharging a primary fuel, and in a cylindrical endpiece surrounding the annular injection piece and having secondary injection orifices for discharging a secondary fuel; thereafter the annular injection piece is fitted inside the cylindrical endpiece and these pieces are together fitted on a first tube for feeding primary fuel and a second tube for feeding secondary fuel and surrounding the first tube, and also to an outer wall of the injector; finally, the end portion of the injector as assembled in this way is placed in an enclosure where it is heated so as to melt the brazing metal to unite the parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2001Publication date: June 20, 2002Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURSInventors: Alain Lavie, Stephanie Martelli, Marion Michau, Jose Rodrigues, Alain Tiepel
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Publication number: 20020059799Abstract: A fuel injector has a metering valve arranged to open under a predetermined feed pressure which constitutes a first threshold pressure, and to remain open in response to said feed pressure increasing so as to deliver fuel to fuel utilization means. The flow rate of fuel passing through the injector is metered to feed said utilization means so long as the feed pressure remains below a second threshold pressure greater than the first threshold pressure. Above the second threshold pressure, the metering valve behaves like a fixed diaphragm as a function of the fluid flow sections formed therethrough. Individual adjustment means are provided so as to enable said second threshold pressure to be adjusted for each injector to ensure that fuel is injected at a uniform flow rate by all of the injectors in a combustion chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2001Publication date: May 23, 2002Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURSInventors: Alain Lavie, Stephanie Martelli, Marion Michau, Jose Rodrigues, Alain Tiepel
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Publication number: 20020033463Abstract: In a fluid metering device for metering a fluid from a supply source to means of use of this fluid comprising a metering valve able to slide in a sleeve over a travel C, this valve comprising an intake orifice (16) for admitting the fluid from the said supply source and an orifice (18) for ejecting this fluid to the means of use, there are provided means (20) for channelling the fluid intended to allow, during the movement of the metering valve in its sleeve, a sweeping of the fluid over all the contacting surfaces of the valve and of the sleeve. The means of channelling the fluid advantageously comprise a helical groove of width L and of pitch P.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2001Publication date: March 21, 2002Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURSInventors: Marion Michau, Jose Rodrigues, Alain Tiepel