Patents by Inventor Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet
Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet 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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Publication number: 20250116203Abstract: The present invention relates to an assembly (12) for a turbomachine, comprising: —an outer casing (15) made of half-shells; —an inner casing (14); —a plurality of guide vanes (13) mounted between the outer casing (15) and the inner casing (14), —a structural casing comprising a flange (23) which is radially inside the inner casing (14); and—a system (24) for blocking the inner casing (14) on the structural casing, comprising a generally annular tab (25) fixed to one of the inner casing (14) and the structural casing and a complementary chute (26) fixed to the other of the inner casing (14) and the structural casing, the chute (26) being configured to receive the tab (25) and to block it along the axis (X) with respect to the structural casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2023Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Olivier BELMONTE, Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET
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Patent number: 12247574Abstract: A device for centering and guiding a shaft of an aircraft turbine engine is provided. The device includes an outer ring of a rolling bearing extending about an axis and having orifices, an annular bearing support extending about the axis and at least partially about the ring, the support having orifices and a series of studs for connecting the ring to the support. The studs can be distributed about the axis and extend parallel to the axis. The ends of first studs can be engaged without clearance in the orifices, and ends of second studs can be engaged with clearances in the orifices of the ring and/or of the support, the clearances being configured so that the device has different stiffnesses in at least two directions perpendicular to the axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse, Emmanuel Fabrice Marie Baret, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Alexandre Jean-Marie Tan-Kim
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Patent number: 12228074Abstract: A fan module for an aircraft turbine engine includes a fan having variable pitch blades and an oil transfer device configured to provide a transfer of oil between a stator and a rotor. The oil transfer device includes a stator ring having internal oil ducts, a shaft inserted into the ring and having internal oil ducts, and an annular support of the ring configured to deform elastically to allow movements of the ring in the radial direction. A plain bearing is located between the ring and the shaft, and roller bearings are mounted between the ring and the shaft on either side of the plain bearing.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Olivier Belmonte, Vincent François Georges Millier, Jean Charles Olivier Roda
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Publication number: 20250052165Abstract: The invention relates to an aircraft turbomachine subassembly comprising an annular duct (36) extending concentrically about a longitudinal axis and in which an air stream flows from upstream to downstream, the annular duct comprising a duct portion (28) defining a swan neck having an upstream inlet section and a downstream outlet section. A plurality of radial arms (B1, B2) extend circumferentially in the duct portion (28). One or several intermediate walls (P1, P2) extend between two circumferentially adjacent arms (B1, B2) which form a pair of circumferentially adjacent arms among the plurality of circumferentially adjacent arms so as to locally separate, between the two arms of the pair of arms, the annular duct portion (28) into a radially inner portion (Ci) and a radially outer portion (Ce) further away from the longitudinal axis than the radially inner portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Laurent SOULAT, Sébastien Emile Philippe TAJAN
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Publication number: 20250052203Abstract: A turbomachine for an aircraft comprising a stator, a turbine shaft and an electric machine arranged to the rear of the turbine shaft, and comprising an electric machine stator and an electric machine rotor, a rotationally fixed coupling carriage capable of moving in axial translation relative to the electric machine rotor between coupled and uncoupled positions, coupling members which are designed to engage with one another after the coupling carriage has moved from the uncoupled position to the coupled position and to transmit a torque from the turbine shaft to the electric machine rotor when they are engaged, and an elastic return member designed to elastically return the coupling carriage in axial translation to the coupled position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2022Publication date: February 13, 2025Inventors: Jean-Claude Christian TAILLANT, Emmanuel Fabrice Marie BARET, Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Pierre-Alain Jean Philippe REIGNER, Tewfik BOUDEBIZA
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Patent number: 12196139Abstract: The invention relates to a planetary gear reducer (21) for an aircraft turbine engine (1), the reducer (21) comprising a sun gear (30) and a ring gear (33) which are centred on a longitudinal axis X and a planet carrier (32) which carries at least one planet gear (31) rotatably mounted about a planet axis A parallel to the longitudinal axis X, the sun gear (30) being rotatable about the longitudinal axis, the planet gear (31) meshing both with the sun gear (30) and the ring gear (33), the planet carrier (32) being movable about the longitudinal axis and the ring gear (33) being rotationally fixed. According to the invention, the reducer (21) comprises an electric machine (50) integrated therewith and which comprises a rotor (51) mounted on the planet carrier (32) in such a way as to be rotated about the longitudinal axis X and a stator (52) mounted on the ring gear (33).Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse, Emmanuel Fabrice Marie Baret, Franck Emmanuel Bosco, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault
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Publication number: 20240410319Abstract: Disclosed is an assembly for a turbomachine, comprising: •—a first connection element (9) having a first radial compliance (SRI); •—a second connection element (10) having a second radial compliance (SR2); •—a third connection element (11) having a third radial compliance (SR3); and •—a fourth connection element (12) having a fourth radial compliance (SR4), wherein a ratio of the first radial compliance (SRI) to the third radial compliance (SR3) is strictly lower than 10%, and/or a ratio of the first radial compliance (SRI) to the second radial compliance (SR2) is strictly lower than 4%, and/or a ratio of the first radial compliance (SRI) to the fourth radial compliance (SR4) is strictly lower than 50%.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicant: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Alexandre Jean-Marie TAN-KIM, Maxime Paul Numa GIVERT
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Patent number: 12152538Abstract: A turbomachine including a low-pressure shaft; a stator supporting the low-pressure shaft by bearings including a rear bearing; an electrical machine located at a rear portion of the turbomachine and including a rotor disconnectably driven by the low-pressure shaft and a stator surrounding the rotor and attached to the stator of the turbomachine; the turbomachine includes a journal for supporting the rotor of the electrical machine, the journal including a shaft segment releasably attached to a rear end of the low-pressure shaft by extending the low-pressure shaft, a frame to which the rotor of the electrical machine is attached and which surrounds the shaft segment, and at least one bearing mounted between the frame and the shaft segment; and a sleeve that is axially movable about the low-pressure shaft and/or the shaft segment that is rotationally connected to the low-pressure shaft and the shaft segment.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Romain Truco, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet
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Patent number: 12116930Abstract: A scoop for an aircraft turbine engine, this scoop including a body which is movable between at least two positions, including a first position in which it is configured to capture part of a first air stream flowing in a first direction, wherein the body is movable into a second position in which it is configured to capture part of a second air stream flowing in a second direction which is opposite to the first direction, and wherein the body is mounted to move freely between the at least two positions so as to automatically adopt the first position when the first air stream flows, and to automatically adopt the second position when the second air stream flows.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Paco Maurer, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Serge Rene Morreale, Nicolas Stoliaroff-Pepin
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Patent number: 12116901Abstract: A turbomachine fan module includes a fan shaft and a lubrication chamber traversed axially by at least part of the fan shaft. The module further includes at least one first bearing configured to support and guide the fan shaft in rotation. The fan shaft has a first tubular part closed by a cover, wherein the first tubular part has a distal end and a proximal end that are opposite each other along a longitudinal axis X and an annular squealer cavity, formed in an inner surface of the fan shaft, between the distal end and the proximal end. The cover has a body extending along the longitudinal axis X and mounted in the first tubular portion so as to cover and sealingly close the annular squealer cavity.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Olivier Formica
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Patent number: 12055097Abstract: A device for centering and guiding a shaft of an aircraft turbine engine, the device including an outer ring of a rolling bearing, the ring extending about an axis; an annular bearing support extending about the axis and at least partially about the ring; at least one series of connecting elements for linking the ring to the support, the connecting elements being interposed between an inner cylindrical rim of the ring and an outer cylindrical rim of the support that extends about the inner rim, and each having a first radially outer end for linking to the outer cylindrical rim and a second radially inner end for linking to the inner cylindrical rim, the ring, the support and the connecting elements being integrally formed, the connecting elements being enclosed in an annular housing that is radially delimited by the rims and laterally enclosed by an annular web.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse, Emmanuel Fabrice Marie Baret, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Alexandre Jean-Marie Tan-Kim
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Publication number: 20240240573Abstract: A turbomachine fan module includes a fan shaft and a lubrication chamber traversed axially by at least part of the fan shaft. The module further includes at least one first bearing configured to support and guide the fan shaft in rotation. The fan shaft has a first tubular part closed by a cover, wherein the first tubular part has a distal end and a proximal end that are opposite each other along a longitudinal axis X and an annular squealer cavity, formed in an inner surface of the fan shaft, between the distal end and the proximal end. The cover has a body extending along the longitudinal axis X and mounted in the first tubular portion so as to cover and sealingly close the annular squealer cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2022Publication date: July 18, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Olivier FORMICA
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Publication number: 20240229723Abstract: A turbomachine including a low-pressure shaft, a stator supporting the low-pressure shaft by bearings including a rear bearing; an electrical machine located at a rear portion of the turbomachine and including a rotor disconnectably driven by the low-pressure shaft and a stator surrounding the rotor and attached to the stator of the turbomachine; the turbomachine includes a journal for supporting the rotor of the electrical machine, the journal including a shaft segment releasably attached to a rear end of the low-pressure shaft by extending the low-pressure shaft, a frame to which the rotor of the electrical machine is attached and which surrounds the shaft segment, and at least one bearing mounted between the frame and the shaft segment; and a sleeve that is axially movable about the low-pressure shaft and/or the shaft segment that is rotationally connected to the low-pressure shaft and the shaft segmentType: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2022Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Gilles Alain Marie CHARIER, Romain TRUCO, Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET
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Patent number: 12031448Abstract: A device for centering and guiding a shaft of an aircraft turbine engines. The device includes an outer ring of a rolling bearing, the ring extending about a main axis and having orifices arranged around the axis axis; an annular bearing support extending about the main axis and at least partially about the ring, the support having orifices and openings arranged about the axis; and a series of studs for linking the ring to the support, the studs being distributed about the main axis and having elongation axes substantially parallel to the main axis, the body of each of the studs passing through one of the openings. Some of the studs, have bodies that pass with a first positive clearance and a second virtually zero clearance through the first openings, the first and second clearances being configured so that the device has different displacement amplitudes.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse, Emmanuel Fabrice Marie Baret, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Alexandre Jean-Marie Tan-Kim
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Patent number: 12025182Abstract: An enclosure for a turbomachine includes a turbomachine drive shaft rotating about a longitudinal axis (X) by means of two roller bearings, an upstream bearing and a downstream bearing, each having an inner ring carried by the drive shaft. The two bearings share a single integral outer ring that has an upstream end and a downstream end connected to one another by a section of studs. The single outer ring is carried by an upstream base plate and a downstream base plate of a bearing support configured to be attached to a stationary structure of the turbomachine.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Olivier Formica, Patrice Jean-Marc Rosset, Alexandre Jean-Marie Tan-Kim
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Patent number: 12000344Abstract: An aircraft turbine engine includes a turbine shaft having a first axis of rotation, a propulsion propeller having a second axis of rotation parallel to and spaced from the first axis, and a mechanical reduction gear coupled to the turbine shaft and rotating the propeller. The reduction gear has a sun gear connected to the turbine shaft, a ring gear, and at least two planet gears, each including a first external toothing that is meshed with an external toothing of the sun gear. A second external toothing is located within the ring gear and is meshed with an internal toothing of the ring gear.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Guillaume Pierre Mouly, Patrice Jocelyn Francis Gedin, Olivier Belmonte
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Patent number: 11994073Abstract: Aircraft turbomachine comprising a casing, a fan, a compressor and a turbine and an epicyclic gear train comprising an input driven in rotation by the turbine, a first output stage configured to drive in rotation the compressor and a second output stage coupled to the first output stage and configured to drive in rotation the fan, the compressor being driven in rotation by the ring gear of the first output stage.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet
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Publication number: 20240159187Abstract: A fan module for an aircraft turbine engine includes a fan having variable pitch blades and an oil transfer device configured to provide a transfer of oil between a stator and a rotor. The oil transfer device includes a stator ring having internal oil ducts, a shaft inserted into the ring and having internal oil ducts, and an annular support of the ring configured to deform elastically to allow movements of the ring in the radial direction. A plain bearing is located between the ring and the shaft, and roller bearings are mounted between the ring and the shaft on either side of the plain bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Olivier BELMONTE, Vincent François Georges MILLIER, Jean Charles Olivier RODA
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Publication number: 20240151159Abstract: A device for centering and guiding a shaft of an aircraft turbine engines. The device includes an outer ring of a rolling bearing, the ring extending about a main axis and having orifices arranged around the axis; an annular bearing support extending about the main axis and at least partially about the ring, the support having orifices and openings arranged about the axis; and a series of studs for linking the ring to the support, the studs being distributed about the main axis and having elongation axes substantially parallel to the main axis, the body of each of the studs passing through one of the openings. Some of the studs, have bodies that pass with a first positive clearance and a second virtually zero clearance through the first openings, the first and second clearances being configured so that the device has different displacement amplitudes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Paul Ghislain Albert LEVISSE, Emmanuel Fabrice Marie BARET, Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Alexandre Jean-Marie TAN-KIM
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Publication number: 20240151238Abstract: A device for centering and guiding a shaft of an aircraft turbine engine is provided. The device includes an outer ring of a rolling bearing extending about an axis and having orifices, an annular bearing support extending about the axis and at least partially about the ring, the support having orifices and a series of studs for connecting the ring to the support. The studs can be distributed about the axis and extend parallel to the axis. The ends of first studs can be engaged without clearance in the orifices, and ends of second studs can be engaged with clearances in the orifices of the ring and/or of the support, the clearances being configured so that the device has different stiffnesses in at least two directions perpendicular to the axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Paul Ghislain Albert LEVISSE, Emmanuel Fabrice Marie BARET, Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Alexandre Jean-Marie TAN-KIM