Patents by Inventor Matthieu François Rullaud

Matthieu François Rullaud 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: 10883720
    Abstract: A combustion chamber of a turbomachine includes an annular outer casing and a flame tube connected to the outer casing. The flame tube includes an annular inner wall and an annular outer wall defining a first, radial portion at the inlet of the flame tube and a second, axial portion at the outlet of the flame tube. The first portion extends towards the second portion forming an elbow between the inlet and the outlet of the flame tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Guillaume Aurelien Godel, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Thomas Olivier Marie Noel, Matthieu Francois Rullaud
  • Patent number: 10551064
    Abstract: An annular wall of a combustion chamber of a turbine engine including: a cold side and a hot side; plural dilution holes to allow circulating air of the cold side to enter the hot side for dilution of an air/fuel mixture; plural cooling orifices to allow the circulating air of the cold side to enter the hot side to form a film of cooling air along the annular wall, the cooling orifices distributed spaced axially from one another and with geometric axes inclined, in an axial direction of flow of combustion gases, by an inclination angle relative to a normal to the annular wall; plural additional cooling orifices arranged directly downstream of the dilution holes and distributed spaced axially from one another, with geometric axes arranged in a plane perpendicular to the axial direction and inclined by an angle of inclination relative to a normal to the annular wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Matthieu Francois Rullaud, Bernard Joseph Jean-Pierre Carrere, Hubert Pascal Verdier
  • Patent number: 10488049
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combustion chamber for a turbomachine, such as an aircraft turbojet engine or turboprop engine, comprising an internal annular shroud and an external annular shroud which at their upstream ends are connected by an annular chamber end wall (48), said chamber comprising deflectors (50) mounted upstream of the annular chamber end wall (48). Injectors (19) are mounted in sleeves (44) at least one of which comprises a radially annular flange (66) which is designed to slide radially between the chamber end wall (48) and the deflector (50) and which is blocked axially between the chamber end wall (48) and the deflector (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Romain Nicolas Lunel, Thomas Olivier Marie Noel, Matthieu François Rullaud
  • Patent number: 10180256
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for a turbine engine, including an annular end wall provided with injection systems each centered on a respective axis and each having an upstream end forming a bushing for receiving a head of a fuel injector, and an annular shroud covering the end wall and including injector ports respectively arranged facing the injection systems, wherein the annular shroud includes air intake ports separate from the injector ports, and the bushing of each injection system crosses the corresponding injector port and includes at its upstream end a collar having a free end remote from the axis of the injection system by a first distance greater than a second distance separating a rim of the injector port from the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Matthieu Francois Rullaud, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Thomas Olivier Marie Noel
  • Publication number: 20180299132
    Abstract: A combustion chamber of a turbomachine includes an annular outer casing and a flame tube connected to the outer casing. The flame tube includes an annular inner wall and an annular outer wall defining a first, radial portion at the inlet of the flame tube and a second, axial portion at the outlet of the flame tube. The first portion extends towards the second portion forming an elbow between the inlet and the outlet of the flame tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Guillaume Aurelien GODEL, Romain LUNEL, Thomas Olivier Marie NOEL, Matthieu Francois RULLAUD
  • Patent number: 10036552
    Abstract: An air and fuel injection system for a turbine engine combustion chamber dome, including at least two fuel injection devices including a central injector and a peripheral annular injector arranged around the central injector, and an inner annular air inlet channel into which the central injector opens up to enable mixing between the fuel from the central injector and the air inlet into the inner annular channel, and at least one outer annular air inlet channel to enable enrichment of this mix with air and to stabilize the pilot combustion zone, wherein the inner annular channel and at least one outer annular channel are separated by an intermediate annular wall extending around the central injector and having a convergent inner profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignees: SNECMA, OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Matthieu Francois Rullaud, Didier Hernandez, Christian Guin
  • Publication number: 20170299192
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combustion chamber for a turbomachine, such as an aircraft turbojet engine or turboprop engine, comprising an internal annular shroud and an external annular shroud which at their upstream ends are connected by an annular chamber end wall (48), said chamber comprising deflectors (50) mounted upstream of the annular chamber end wall (48). Injectors (19) are mounted in sleeves (44) at least one of which comprises a radially annular flange (66) which is designed to slide radially between the chamber end wall (48) and the deflector (50) and which is blocked axially between the chamber end wall (48) and the deflector (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Romain Nicolas Lunel, Thomas Olivier Marie Noel, Matthieu François Rullaud
  • Patent number: 9551489
    Abstract: An annular combustion chamber for a turbine engine, the chamber including an inner wall and an outer wall forming surfaces of revolution, the walls being connected together by a chamber end wall fitted with a fuel injection mechanism, each of the inner and outer walls including primary holes and dilution holes situated downstream from the primary holes in a gas flow direction, the primary and dilution holes being regularly distributed around the circumference of the inner and outer walls. The outer wall has a greater number of dilution holes than the inner wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Matthieu Francois Rullaud, Michel Pierre Cazalens
  • Publication number: 20160281991
    Abstract: An air and fuel injection system for a turbine engine combustion chamber dome, including at least two fuel injection devices including a central injector and a peripheral annular injector arranged around the central injector, and an inner annular air inlet channel into which the central injector opens up to enable mixing between the fuel from the central injector and the air inlet into the inner annular channel, and at least one outer annular air inlet channel to enable enrichment of this mix with air and to stabilise the pilot combustion zone, wherein the inner annular channel and at least one outer annular channel are separated by an intermediate annular wall extending around the central injector and having a convergent inner profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicants: SNECMA, OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES
    Inventors: Matthieu Francois RULLAUD, Didier HERNANDEZ, Christian GUIN
  • Publication number: 20160215983
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for a turbine engine, including an annular end wall provided with injection systems each centred on a respective axis and each having an upstream end forming a bushing for receiving a head of a fuel injector, and an annular shroud covering the end wall and including injector ports respectively arranged facing the injection systems, wherein the annular shroud includes air intake ports separate from the injector ports, and the bushing of each injection system crosses the corresponding injector port and includes at its upstream end a collar having a free end remote from the axis of the injection system by a first distance greater than a second distance separating a rim of the injector port from the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Matthieu Francois RULLAUD, Romain Nicolas LUNEL, Thomas Olivier, Marie NOEL
  • Patent number: 9360218
    Abstract: A fuel injection device is provided. The device includes a pilot injector opening out into a venturi and an annular row of multipoint injection orifices opening out axially in a downstream direction and radially outside the venturi, the venturi being connected at its downstream end to a separation wall. The outer peripheral edge of the separation wall has a diameter greater than the diameter of the annular row of injection orifices, whereby the separation wall forms a thermal protection screen for these orifices against heat radiation coming from the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Matthieu Francois Rullaud, Galadriel Dancie, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Thomas Olivier Marie Noel
  • Patent number: 9303876
    Abstract: An air and fuel injection system for the back of a turbomachine's annular combustion chamber, including a central injector and a peripheral annular fuel injector including at least one fuel injection aperture made in an annular wall and emerging in a peripheral annular channel separated from a central channel by the annular wall and having an annular space of admission of air. The system also includes multiple air ejection apertures made in the annular wall downstream from the fuel ejection aperture or apertures in reference to the flow of the air stream, for an additional injection of air into the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Didier Hippolyte Hernandez, Thomas Olivier Marie Noel, Matthieu Francois Rullaud
  • Patent number: 8955326
    Abstract: In a fuel injection device at a base of a combustion chamber, a mixing air inlet screw is manufactured with its peripheral holes extending only over a sector of a circle directed towards the air's propagation cone, wherein the remainder of the periphery of the screw is closed. It is then possible to reduce load loss of the injection system while obtaining an improved quality of the mix supplied to the chamber. Such a device can be used in gas turbines fitted with centrifugal compressors and in which the air flow towards the combustion chamber must therefore be made convergent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Sébastien Alain Christophe Bourgois, Didier Hippolyte Hernandez, Matthieu François Rullaud
  • Publication number: 20140260257
    Abstract: An annular wall of a combustion chamber of a turbine engine including: a cold side and a hot side; plural dilution holes to allow circulating air of the cold side to enter the hot side for dilution of an air/fuel mixture; plural cooling orifices to allow the circulating air of the cold side to enter the hot side to form a film of cooling air along the annular wall, the cooling orifices distributed spaced axially from one another and with geometric axes inclined, in an axial direction of flow of combustion gases, by an inclination angle relative to a normal to the annular wall; plural additional cooling orifices arranged directly downstream of the dilution holes and distributed spaced axially from one another, with geometric axes arranged in a plane perpendicular to the axial direction and inclined by an angle of inclination relative to a normal to the annular wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicants: SNECMA, TURBOMECA
    Inventors: Matthieu Francois Rullaud, Bernard Joseph, Jean-Pierre Carrere, Hurbert Pascal Verdier
  • Publication number: 20140223912
    Abstract: An annular combustion chamber for a turbine engine, the chamber including an inner wall and an outer wall forming surfaces of revolution, the walls being connected together by a chamber end wall fitted with a fuel injection mechanism, each of the inner and outer walls including primary holes and dilution holes situated downstream from the primary holes in a gas flow direction, the primary and dilution holes being regularly distributed around the circumference of the inner and outer walls. The outer wall has a greater number of dilution holes than the inner wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Matthieu Francois Rullaud, Michel Pierre Cazalens
  • Publication number: 20140090381
    Abstract: A fuel injection device (110) for a turbine engine, the device comprising a pilot injector opening out into a venturi (120) and an annular row of multipoint injection orifices (136) opening out axially in a downstream direction and radially outside the venturi, the venturi being connected at its downstream end to a separation wall (140), the device being characterized in that the outer peripheral edge (142) of the separation wall has a diameter (B?) greater than the diameter of the annular row (A) of injection orifices, whereby the separation wall forms a thermal protection screen for these orifices against heat radiation coming from the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Matthieu Francois RULLAUD, Galadriel DANCIE, Romain Nicolas LUNEL, Thomas Olivier, Marie NOEL
  • Publication number: 20120304650
    Abstract: An air and fuel injection system for the back of a turbomachine's annular combustion chamber, including a central injector and a peripheral annular fuel injector including at least one fuel injection aperture made in an annular wall and emerging in a peripheral annular channel separated from a central channel by the annular wall and having an annular space of admission of air. The system also includes multiple air ejection apertures made in the annular wall downstream from the fuel ejection aperture or apertures in reference to the flow of the air stream, for an additional injection of air into the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Didier Hippolyte Hernandez, Thomas Oliver Marie Noel, Matthieu Francois Rullaud
  • Publication number: 20120047899
    Abstract: In a fuel injection device at a base of a combustion chamber, a mixing air inlet screw is manufactured with its peripheral holes extending only over a sector of a circle directed towards the air's propagation cone, wherein the remainder of the periphery of the screw is closed. It is then possible to reduce load loss of the injection system while obtaining an improved quality of the mix supplied to the chamber. Such a device can be used in gas turbines fitted with centrifugal compressors and in which the air flow towards the combustion chamber must therefore be made convergent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Sébastien Alain Christophe Bourgois, Didier Hippolyte Hernandez, Matthieu François Rullaud