Patents by Inventor Maxime ZEBIAN

Maxime ZEBIAN 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: 12344383
    Abstract: An aircraft having an engine, a cabin, an air conditioning system collecting the hot air from the engine, so as to treat the hot air, regulate a temperature of the hot air and send the hot air towards the cabin via a main line, an air line channeling the air leaving the cabin, and an arrangement for cooling the engine using the air thus drawn off by the air line. By drawing off the air at the outlet of the cabin, the performance of the engine is improved and the fuel consumption is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Antoine Abele, Maxime Zebian
  • Publication number: 20250188851
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly for an aircraft with an engine; an inner structure formed by two half-shells, each half-shell articulated to a pylon and comprising a semi-cylindrical part movable between a closed position, in which the half-shell is closely fitted around the engine, and an open position, in which the half-shell is away from the engine; and, a fluid circuit. At least one half-shell has a cooling circuit connected to the fluid circuit. A detachable hydraulic interface between the fluid circuit and the cooling circuit is provided having at least two quick-fit couplings, wherein each of the quick-fit couplings comprises a pair of male/female elements configured for axial fitting of one in the other, with one element of the pair being fixed on the half-shell and the other element of the pair being integral with the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Maxime ZEBIAN, Laurent CAZEAUX, Laurent PRESSEQ
  • Patent number: 12163469
    Abstract: A module ensuring an acoustic attenuation of a flow of a first fluid and a heat exchange between the first fluid and a second fluid. The module comprises a perforated first wall with a cutout, a second wall, a cellular structure extending from the second wall to the first wall, a recess provided in the cellular structure between a perforated bottom and a perforated top, and a heat exchanger which is fixed inside the recess between the bottom and the top and in which the second fluid circulates. Such a module ensures an attenuation of sound waves and a heat exchange without limiting the attenuation surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Arnaud Bourhis, Florian Ravise, Maxime Zebian
  • Patent number: 11951341
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly with an outer compartment, an inner compartment, a supply pipe and a transfer pipe between the two compartments, a suction system between the two pipes, a regulating element that regulates the flow rate of air in the suction system and a fire-fighting system having a reservoir of extinguishing fluid, a discharge pipe connected to the reservoir, and a control system between the reservoir and the discharge pipe. The discharge pipe is configured and arranged to supply the transfer pipe when the control system is in the open position. The outside air is then driven by the suction system and passes through the two compartments in a forced manner and the extinguishing fluid reaches the transfer pipe to flow into the inner compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Yannick Sommerer, Maxime Zebian
  • Patent number: 11846233
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly with a primary duct and a secondary duct, an outer fairing delimiting an outer compartment with an inlet opening, an inner fairing delimiting an inner compartment with an air exhaust aperture, a suction system having an inlet, an outlet and mobile elements that draw the air in via the inlet and deliver the air via the outlet, a drive that drives the mobile elements, a transfer pipe connected to the outlet, a distribution pipe disposed in the inner compartment, connected to the transfer pipe and having nozzles, a supply pipe that opens into the outer compartment and is connected to the inlet, and a regulator that regulates the flow rate of air in the suction system. The outside air is then driven by the suction system and passes through the two compartments in a forced manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Yannick Sommerer, Maxime Zebian
  • Patent number: 11791480
    Abstract: An aircraft comprising a structure comprising a leakproof tank delimited by walls, of which at least one is in contact with the air outside the aircraft, and filled partly with a two-phase heat-transfer fluid, a fuel cell that is passed through by a heat-transfer fluid, and a line which takes the heat-transfer fluid at an output of the fuel cell and which reintroduces this heat-transfer fluid at an input of the fuel cell. The line passes through the leakproof tank immersed in the heat-transfer fluid in liquid phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Maxime Zebian
  • Patent number: 11643216
    Abstract: An anti-icing protection system for an aircraft engine nacelle, the nacelle comprising an inner shroud, an air intake lip forming a leading edge of the nacelle, the protection system comprising a heat exchanger device including at least one heat pipe configured to transfer heat emitted by a heat source to the inner shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Alain Porte, François Pons, Gregory Albet, Maxime Zebian
  • Publication number: 20230138228
    Abstract: A module ensuring an acoustic attenuation of a flow of a first fluid and a heat exchange between the first fluid and a second fluid. The module comprises a perforated first wall with a cutout, a second wall, a cellular structure extending from the second wall to the first wall, a recess provided in the cellular structure between a perforated bottom and a perforated top, and a heat exchanger which is fixed inside the recess between the bottom and the top and in which the second fluid circulates. Such a module ensures an attenuation of sound waves and a heat exchange without limiting the attenuation surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Arnaud BOURHIS, Florian RAVISE, Maxime ZEBIAN
  • Patent number: 11518526
    Abstract: An anti-icing protection system for an aircraft engine nacelle, the nacelle comprising an inner shroud provided with at least one acoustic panel, an air intake lip forming a leading edge of the nacelle, the protection system comprising a heat exchanger device including at least one heat pipe configured to transfer heat emitted by a heat source to the acoustic panel or panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Alain Porte, Jacques Lalane, Gregory Albet, Maxime Zebian, Arnaud Bourhis
  • Publication number: 20220290614
    Abstract: An aircraft having an engine, a tank, devices to be heated, air intakes, a heat exchanger, a pipe connecting the air intakes and the devices to be heated by passing through the heat exchanger, a fuel pipe connected between the tank and the combustion chamber of the engine, and an air pipe which feeds the heat exchanger from the fan duct. The aircraft has an additional heat exchanger installed on the pipe between the heat exchanger and the air intakes, and a diversion pipe that passes through the additional heat exchanger and is connected at each end to the fuel pipe. The use of the fuel to cool the air makes it possible to use a smaller and therefore less bulky heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Maxime ZEBIAN, Davy BOURGALET
  • Publication number: 20220267021
    Abstract: An aircraft having an engine, a dihydrogen tank, devices to be heated, a first air intake for taking in air at a low pressure or at an intermediate pressure, a second air intake for taking in air at a high pressure, a first heat exchanger, a first pipe which passes through the first heat exchanger and feeds the devices to be heated. Upstream of the first heat exchanger, the first pipe is divided into two sub-pipes connected respectively to the first air intake and the second air intake, and a fuel pipe that is connected between the tank and the combustion chamber and passes through the first heat exchanger. The use of heat exchangers on the dihydrogen pipe allows a regulation of the temperature of the devices to be heated and of the engine and to increase the temperature of the dihydrogen before its combustion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Maxime ZEBIAN, Davy BOURGALET
  • Publication number: 20220231311
    Abstract: An aircraft comprising a structure comprising a leakproof tank delimited by walls, of which at least one is in contact with the air outside the aircraft, and filled partly with a two-phase heat-transfer fluid, a fuel cell that is passed through by a heat-transfer fluid, and a line which takes the heat-transfer fluid at an output of the fuel cell and which reintroduces this heat-transfer fluid at an input of the fuel cell. The line passes through the leakproof tank immersed in the heat-transfer fluid in liquid phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventor: Maxime ZEBIAN
  • Patent number: 11391220
    Abstract: A regulation system to regulate the flow rate of a hot air duct which comprises a shutter, an upstream air intake, a downstream air intake, a regulator and an actuator of the shutter with a first inlet connected to an outlet of the regulator and a cooling system comprising an outer radiator, a housing and a heat pipe housed in the housing and discharging the heat between the housing and the outer radiator, wherein the air streams coming from the upstream air intake and from the downstream air intake pass through the housing. Such a regulation system allows a better discharging of the heat by the action of the heat pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Maxime Zebian
  • Publication number: 20220219029
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly with an outer compartment, an inner compartment, a supply pipe and a transfer pipe between the two compartments, a suction system between the two pipes, a regulating element that regulates the flow rate of air in the suction system and a fire-fighting system having a reservoir of extinguishing fluid, a discharge pipe connected to the reservoir, and a control system between the reservoir and the discharge pipe. The discharge pipe is configured and arranged to supply the transfer pipe when the control system is in the open position. The outside air is then driven by the suction system and passes through the two compartments in a forced manner and the extinguishing fluid reaches the transfer pipe to flow into the inner compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Yannick Sommerer, Maxime Zebian
  • Publication number: 20220135236
    Abstract: An aircraft having an engine, a cabin, an air conditioning system collecting the hot air from the engine, so as to treat the hot air, regulate a temperature of the hot air and send the hot air towards the cabin via a main line, an air line channeling the air leaving the cabin, and an arrangement for cooling the engine using the air thus drawn off by the air line. By drawing off the air at the outlet of the cabin, the performance of the engine is improved and the fuel consumption is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Antoine ABELE, Maxime ZEBIAN
  • Patent number: 11293348
    Abstract: A turbomachine for an aircraft comprising a thermo-acoustic system associated with a fluid circuit allowing the turbomachine engine to be supplied with fluid, the thermo-acoustic system comprising an exchanger connected to the fluid circuit and through which the fluid that is to be cooled passes, an acoustic noise-attenuation structure forming, in full or in part, a wall of the duct of a fan duct, the structure being situated some distance from the exchanger, and a pulsating heat pipe comprising a tube extending between the exchanger and the acoustic noise-attenuation structure, the tube having a serpentine form with a plurality of elbows bent over at 180° housed alternately in the exchanger and the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Maxime Zebian
  • Patent number: 11293349
    Abstract: A turbomachine for an aircraft, comprising a thermoacoustic system associated with a fluid circuit that serves to supply the engine of the turbomachine with fluid. The thermoacoustic system comprises an exchanger which is connected to the fluid circuit and in which there flows a fluid that is to be cooled, an acoustic attenuation structure which is distinct from the exchanger and which forms all or part of a wall of the fan duct, and at least one heat-duct tube comprising a portion that is entirely received in the acoustic structure and a portion with an end that is received in the exchanger, and a single curved elbow with a non-zero angle between the two portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Thomas Livebardon, Maxime Zebian
  • Patent number: 11220958
    Abstract: A turbomachine comprising an engine body and an annular nacelle. The nacelle has an air intake comprising an outer skin, an inner skin, an air intake lip connecting the outer and inner skins together, and an annular frame connecting the outer and inner skins together. The turbomachine comprises a system for de-icing the air intake having an air bleeding port for bleeding a flow of hot air from the engine body, and two interconnected heating systems. An inner skin heating system receives the hot air flow to heat, by means of a gas-liquid heat exchanger, a heat transfer liquid contained in a hydraulic circuit arranged in part in the heat exchanger and in the inner skin. An air intake lip heating system diffuses the flow of hot air, once it has passed through the inner skin heating system, through the annular frame to heat the air intake lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventor: Maxime Zebian
  • Publication number: 20210270191
    Abstract: A regulation system to regulate the flow rate of a hot air duct which comprises a shutter, an upstream air intake, a downstream air intake, a regulator and an actuator of the shutter with a first inlet connected to an outlet of the regulator and a cooling system comprising an outer radiator, a housing and a heat pipe housed in the housing and discharging the heat between the housing and the outer radiator, wherein the air streams coming from the upstream air intake and from the downstream air intake pass through the housing. Such a regulation system allows a better discharging of the heat by the action of the heat pipes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventor: Maxime ZEBIAN
  • Publication number: 20210261267
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly with a primary duct and a secondary duct, an outer fairing delimiting an outer compartment with an inlet opening, an inner fairing delimiting an inner compartment with an air exhaust aperture, a suction system having an inlet, an outlet and mobile elements that draw the air in via the inlet and deliver the air via the outlet, a drive that drives the mobile elements, a transfer pipe connected to the outlet, a distribution pipe disposed in the inner compartment, connected to the transfer pipe and having nozzles, a supply pipe that opens into the outer compartment and is connected to the inlet, and a regulator that regulates the flow rate of air in the suction system. The outside air is then driven by the suction system and passes through the two compartments in a forced manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Yannick SOMMERER, Maxime ZEBIAN