Patents by Inventor Josselin COUPARD

Josselin COUPARD 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: 10288518
    Abstract: A method for monitoring an aircraft engine during flight, which includes the steps of: for at least one characteristic frequency of the operation of the engine, measuring at least one synchronous vibration level value; for at least one module of the engine, estimating an out-of-balance value of the module in accordance with the one or more vibration level values measured and at least one sensitivity coefficient; estimating a balancing margin of the module in accordance with the out-of-balance value of said module and a maximum threshold; (d) estimating a remaining number of flights of the aircraft prior to balancing and/or a quality indicator of a preceding balancing operation in accordance with the one or more estimated balancing margins and data representing past balancing operations of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Josselin Coupard, Ronan Louis Castrec, Rafik Zouari
  • Patent number: 10147245
    Abstract: A method for monitoring an aircraft thrust reverser having stowable doors, the thrust reverser being a reverser having hydraulic actuators equipped with switches arranged to each return a data item on the position of the doors, the engine including a computer configured to make measurements of a representative parameter of the position of the switches based on the data returned by the switches, includes computation of one or a plurality of statistical indicators of the parameter measured and an analysis of the temporal progression of the statistical indicator(s) computed. The invention also applies to a computer program for the implementation of this method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Josselin Coupard, Hang-Mi Tran
  • Publication number: 20180306666
    Abstract: A method for monitoring an aircraft engine during flight, which includes the steps of: for at least one characteristic frequency of the operation of the engine, measuring at least one synchronous vibration level value; for at least one module of the engine, estimating an out-of-balance value of the module in accordance with the one or more vibration level values measured and at least one sensitivity coefficient; estimating a balancing margin of the module in accordance with the out-of-balance value of said module and a maximum threshold; (d) estimating a remaining number of flights of the aircraft prior to balancing and/or a quality indicator of a preceding balancing operation in accordance with the one or more estimated balancing margins and data representing past balancing operations of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Josselin COUPARD, Ronaqn Louis CASTREC, Rafik ZOUARI
  • Publication number: 20160328892
    Abstract: A method for monitoring an aircraft thrust reverser having stowable doors, the thrust reverser being a reverser having hydraulic actuators equipped with switches arranged to each return a data item on the position of the doors, the engine including a computer configured to make measurements of a representative parameter of the position of the switches based on the data returned by the switches, includes computation of one or a plurality of statistical indicators of the parameter measured and an analysis of the temporal progression of the statistical indicator(s) computed. The invention also applies to a computer program for the implementation of this method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Josselin COUPARD, Hang-Mi TRAN