Patents by Inventor Lionel Rene Henri Weller

Lionel Rene Henri Weller 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: 9371742
    Abstract: A set of rotor disks for a turbine engine, or an airplane turboprop or turbojet, the set including disks rigidly connected together by bolts and shaped at their outer peripheries with slots for mounting blade roots. Each disk includes a rim extending radially and not having any axial flanges, two consecutive disks being connected together with help of an axially-extending ferrule that is fastened to the rims of the disks and that is fitted with a holder plate for holding the blade roots of the downstream disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Ludovic Gallego, Lionel Rene Henri Weller
  • Patent number: 9073155
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a turbine engine drum including at least two rotor disks, the method including: positioning the two disks on a common axis spaced apart from each other and in a predetermined angular position relative to each other; placing a wall forming a body of revolution between the two disks coaxially about their common axis; driving the wall in rotation about its axis; and moving the disks axially towards the wall so as to put the disks into contact with ends of the wall and thus welding the disks to the wall by inertial friction welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Lionel Rene Henri Weller
  • Patent number: 8998579
    Abstract: A blade retention disk includes, on its external surface, a peripheral annular groove configured to receive a plurality of blade roots of the hammer attachment type, the peripheral annular groove including a loading orifice intended for the introduction of blade roots inside the peripheral annular groove. The retention disk also includes: a crown covering the peripheral annular groove; a crown centering device to center the crown, the crown centering device and the crown forming an air supply enclosure from the bottom of the peripheral annular groove; at least one orifice opening in the air supply enclosure, the orifice being configured to introduce cooling air into the air supply enclosure. The blade retention disk finds a direct application in the field of low pressure turbines for aircraft turbine engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Lionel René Henri Weller, Yann Frédéric Vincent Harnay
  • Patent number: 8985952
    Abstract: A fan for an aircraft turbine engine, including an intake cone including a balancing system including a plurality of mass accommodation holes and at least one balancing mass mounted in one of the holes. The balancing system further includes an attachment mechanism exerting pressure that flattens the balancing mass against the bottom of its mass accommodation hole, the accommodation hole being made blind in the intake cone, so as to open out inside the intake cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Lionel Rene Henri Weller
  • Patent number: 8757980
    Abstract: A one-piece rotor spool for a gas turbine engine extending along the axis of the engine is disclosed. The spool includes an upstream portion and a downstream portion that are radially offset relative to one another. The radially outer downstream portion includes a plurality of housings for rotor blades formed in the outer surface of the radially outer downstream portion. The radially inner upstream portion includes an attachment mechanism designed to interact with a rotor ring in order to prevent a tangential movement of the rotor ring relative to the radially inner upstream portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Lionel Rene Henri Weller
  • Patent number: 8696779
    Abstract: A deoiler including a hub mounted on the vent shaft and a cover mounted on the hub between two stop faces which fix the cover avoiding the need to weld or bolt the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Muriel Jane Sylvie Borzakian, Lionel René Henri Weller
  • Publication number: 20130209238
    Abstract: A set of rotor disks for a turbine engine, or an airplane turboprop or turbojet, the set including disks rigidly connected together by bolts and shaped at their outer peripheries with slots for mounting blade roots. Each disk includes a rim extending radially and not having any axial flanges, two consecutive disks being connected together with help of an axially-extending ferrule that is fastened to the rims of the disks and that is fitted with a holder plate for holding the blade roots of the downstream disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Ludovic Gallego, Lionel Rene Henri Weller
  • Publication number: 20130133194
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a turbine engine drum including at least two rotor disks, the method including: positioning the two disks on a common axis spaced apart from each other and in a predetermined angular position relative to each other; placing a wall forming a body of revolution between the two disks coaxially about their common axis; driving the wall in rotation about its axis; and moving the disks axially towards the wall so as to put the disks into contact with ends of the wall and thus welding the disks to the wall by inertial friction welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Lionel Rene, Henri Weller
  • Publication number: 20130064619
    Abstract: A machining method for machining peripheral slots in a disk of a turbine of a turbine engine, such as an airplane turboprop or turbojet, the method including: machining the slots by reaming using a substantially cylindrical reamer of length greater than an axial thickness of the disk, and extending substantially parallel to the axis of the disk, outlines of the slots being machined by moving the reamer perpendicularly to its axis along the profile of each slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Jean-Pierre Leboulanger, Bruno Varone, Lionel Rene Henri Weller
  • Patent number: 8303189
    Abstract: A bearing support journal for an internal shaft of a gas turbine engine including a device for retaining a sealing sleeve surrounding the shaft is disclosed. The retaining device includes a full radial annular flange formed upstream on an axial cylindrical part of the journal, the full flange being intended to butt axially against a radial annular flange of the sealing sleeve; and a tangential immobilizing device for immobilizing the sealing sleeve with respect to the journal, the tangential immobilizing device being created downstream on the axial cylindrical part of the journal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Snecma
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Franck Emmanuel Bosco, Dimitri Alain Fauron, Lionel Rene Henri Weller
  • Publication number: 20120121428
    Abstract: A blade retention disk includes, on its external surface, a peripheral annular groove configured to receive a plurality of blade roots of the hammer attachment type, the peripheral annular groove including a loading orifice intended for the introduction of blade roots inside the peripheral annular groove. The retention disk also includes: a crown covering the peripheral annular groove; a crown centering device to center the crown, the crown centering device and the crown forming an air supply enclosure from the bottom of the peripheral annular groove; at least one orifice opening in the air supply enclosure, the orifice being configured to introduce cooling air into the air supply enclosure. The blade retention disk finds a direct application in the field of low pressure turbines for aircraft turbine engines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Lionel René Henri Weller, Yann Frédéric Vincent Harnay
  • Publication number: 20120102900
    Abstract: A deoiler including a hub mounted on the vent shaft and a cover mounted on the hub between two stop faces which fix the cover avoiding the need to weld or bolt the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Muriel Jane, Sylvie Borzakian, Lionel René, Henri Weller
  • Publication number: 20110239661
    Abstract: A one-piece rotor spool (20) for a gas turbine engine extending along the axis of the engine, the spool comprising an upstream portion (20A) and a downstream portion (20B) that are radially offset relative to one another, the radially outer portion (20B) comprising a plurality of housings (24) for rotor blades formed in the outer surface of said radially outer portion (20B), the spool (20) being characterized in that the radially inner portion (20A) comprises attachment means (23) designed to interact with a rotor ring (30) in order to prevent a tangential movement of the rotor ring (30) relative to the radially inner portion (20A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier BELMONTE, Lionel René Henri Weller
  • Publication number: 20110223008
    Abstract: A fan for an aircraft turbine engine, including an intake cone including a balancing system including a plurality of mass accommodation holes and at least one balancing mass mounted in one of the holes. The balancing system further includes an attachment mechanism exerting pressure that flattens the balancing mass against the bottom of its mass accommodation hole, the accommodation hole being made blind in the intake cone, so as to open out inside the intake cone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier Belmonte, Lionel Rene Henri Weller
  • Publication number: 20100046868
    Abstract: A bearing support journal (100) for an internal shaft of a gas turbine engine comprising a means of retaining a sealing sleeve surrounding said shaft, the retaining means comprising: a full radial annular flange (132) formed upstream on an axial cylindrical part (130) of the journal (100), said full flange (132) being intended to butt axially against a radial annular flange of the sealing sleeve, and tangential means (135) of immobilizing the sealing sleeve with respect to the journal (100), these being created downstream on the axial cylindrical part (130) of the journal (100). The invention also relates to assembly of a journal (100) and of a sealing sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Olivier BELMONTE, Franck Emmanuel Bosco, Dimitri Alain Fauron, Lionel Rene Henri Weller