Patents by Inventor Michel Gilbert

Michel Gilbert 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: 12196139
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse, Emmanuel Fabrice Marie Baret, Franck Emmanuel Bosco, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault
  • Patent number: 12025182
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Olivier Formica, Patrice Jean-Marc Rosset, Alexandre Jean-Marie Tan-Kim
  • Patent number: 11952904
    Abstract: A fan module for an aircraft turbomachine includes a fan with a disc carrying fan blades and a rotor of an electric machine. The rotor has an annular shape and is mounted coaxially downstream of the fan. The module further includes an annular support for the rotor with a downstream end fixed to the rotor and with an upstream end fixed to the fan disc. The support is fixed to the disc by shear bolts configured to break when a torque transmitted by the disc to the support exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Truco, Claire Marie Figeureu, Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse, Pierre-Alain Jean Philippe Reigner, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault
  • Patent number: 11905889
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes a single ducted fan including a first shaft rotated by a second shaft via a speed reduction gearset, the second shaft being rotated by a third shaft of a turbine, the first shaft being guided in rotation with respect to a fixed structure via a first bearing and a second bearing placed upstream of the speed reduction gearset. The second shaft is guided in rotation with respect to the first shaft via a rolling bearing placed upstream of the speed reduction gearset, the rolling bearing comprising an outer ring housed in the first shaft, an inner ring connected to the second shaft and rolling elements arranged between the inner and outer rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Marion Jeanne Pierrette Verdier, Yanis Benslama, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Romain Guillaume Cuvillier, Serge René Morreale
  • Patent number: 11852079
    Abstract: A pump that can be a gear pump that drives a rotating body of an aircraft turbine engine such as a fan shaft, is set in rotation always in the same direction, by virtue of a transmission including an oblique double gear formed by a toothed wheel on the same side as the rotating body and meshing with two pinions connected to a shaft driving the pump through free-wheels with identical driving directions, whereas the pinions have opposite directions of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Emmanuel Fabrice Marie Baret, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Franck Emmanuel Bosco, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse
  • Patent number: 11808212
    Abstract: A drive shaft of an aircraft turbine engine includes a first portion and a second portion, and connecting means connecting the first and second portions and being configured to transmit a torque from the second portion to the first portion. The connecting means has at least one bellows with a first section having a diameter greater than the diameters of the first and second portions and second sections flanking the first section. The first section includes at least one fusible section with at least one through-hole and being configured to break when the value of a torque applied to the first portion exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Arnaud Nicolas Negri, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Romain Guillaume Cuvillier
  • Publication number: 20230179243
    Abstract: A communication gateway for connecting an LPWAN network to a network for access to a cellular or RAN network, the LPWAN network and the RAN network using radio links. Such a gateway typically allows connected objects and servers on the Internet to communicate according to the Internet of Things (IoT) architecture. However, the proximity of the frequency bands used for the two radio links may lead to mutual interference between them, the transmitter of one interfering with the receiver of the other, especially when the gateway is miniature, of the order of magnitude of the connected objects (approximately 10 cm). The disclosed gateway electromagnetically isolates the two RF channels by means of double filtering: by a bandpass filter on the LPWAN RF channel combined with a rejection filter on the cellular RF channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: Michel GILBERT
  • Patent number: 11661970
    Abstract: A shaft assembly (22, 32) for an aircraft turbine engine (1), comprising a first outer shaft (32) and a second inner shaft (22), the first outer shaft being intended to be engaged axially on the second shaft and comprising inner longitudinal splines (34) for coupling with outer longitudinal splines (24) of the second shaft, characterised in that, when the first and second shafts are in the coupling position, the inner and outer splines are engaged in one another and cooperate with each other in an axial coupling area (Z), the inner and outer teeth being situated outside this coupling area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Arnaud Nicolas Negri, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Guillaume Patrice Kubiak
  • Patent number: 11643975
    Abstract: A speed reducer, particularly of an aircraft, includes a central sun gear mounted to rotate with a drive shaft about a rotation axis X, an annular ring gear coaxial with the X axis, and a plurality of planet gears arranged about the X axis and mounted to be movable on a planet carrier. The planet gears engages the sun gear and the annular ring gear, which extends around the planet gears. The speed reducer further includes a lubricant recovery device having a pipe for recovering lubricant discharged from the reducer by centrifuging. The recovery device has scoops mounted to pivot about a pivot axis P on a movable member of the speed reducer that rotates about the X axis between a deployed state and a rest state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Emmanuel Fabrice Marie Baret, Franck Emmanuel Bosco, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse
  • Publication number: 20230138274
    Abstract: A fluid sampling device and a method is provided for collecting body fluid samples such as blood without the intervention of medically trained personnel. The body fluid sampling device having a sample containment chamber made of a material having a thermal inertia permitting the maintenance of sample temperature over a known period of time. Optionally an isolating cover or sleeve may slide in place by a mechanism triggered by thermal contraction of an element after the device has reached a sufficiently low temperature in a patients refrigerator. Associated methods are provided to ensure hermetic transport of the collected body fluid sample to an analysis lab. Also disclosed is a device and app combination for drug or vaccine injection, the app including means to allow for verification of the patient's ID and/or the particular device used. The device my be equipped with geo-localization and long-range communication capabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Preci Health SA
    Inventors: Lucien Vouillamoz, Alain JACCARD, Michel Gilbert BRUEHWILER, Michel ORSINGER, Craig COOK, Philippe MARGAIRAZ, Luc MAFFLI, Toraif BORK, Bartosz KOREC, Philip D'Almada REMEDIOS, Robert Sean HÄGEN
  • Publication number: 20230126327
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Paul Ghislain Albert LEVISSE, Emmanuel Fabrice Marie BARET, Franck Emmanuel BOSCO, Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Michel Gilbert Roland BRAULT
  • Publication number: 20230117756
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michel Gilbert Roland BRAULT, Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Olivier FORMICA, Patrice Jean-Marc ROSSET, Alexandre Jean-Marie TAN-KIM
  • Publication number: 20230104669
    Abstract: A fan module for an aircraft turbomachine includes a fan with a disc carrying fan blades and a rotor of an electric machine. The rotor has an annular shape and is mounted coaxially downstream of the fan. The module further includes an annular support for the rotor with a downstream end fixed to the rotor and with an upstream end fixed to the fan disc. The support is fixed to the disc by shear bolts configured to break when a torque transmitted by the disc to the support exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain TRUCO, Claire Marie FIGEUREU, Paul Ghislain Albert LEVISSE, Pierre-Alain Jean Philippe REIGNER, Michel Gilbert Roland BRAULT
  • Patent number: 11591408
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods are provided for covalently linking a cargo molecule, such as a therapeutic or a diagnostic agent, to a glycan in the Fab region of an antibody. Also provided are methods of modeling and producing antibodies having de novo Fab glycosylation sites. Also provided are antibody carrier conjugates, methods of using the conjugates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: National Research Council of Canada
    Inventors: Michel Gilbert, Traian Sulea, Maria L. Jaramillo, Yves Durocher, Maurizio Acchione
  • Patent number: 11506130
    Abstract: An aircraft turbomachine with a reduction gear has a first shaft and a second shaft having one same axis of rotation, the second shaft being rotationally driven by the first shaft via the reduction gear, the first shaft having elastically deformable means having bellows section(s) and being connected to the reduction gear by a connecting system likewise having elastically deformable means involving a hairpin or bellows section(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Alexandre Jean-Marie Tan-Kim, Nicolas Auguste Marcel Pommier, Arnaud Nicolas Negri, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault
  • Publication number: 20220364517
    Abstract: A pump that can be a gear pump that drives a rotating body of an aircraft turbine engine such as a fan shaft, is set in rotation always in the same direction, by virtue of a transmission including an oblique double gear formed by a toothed wheel on the same side as the rotating body and meshing with two pinions connected to a shaft driving the pump through free-wheels with identical driving directions, whereas the pinions have opposite directions of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Emmanuel Fabrice Marie BARET, Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Franck Emmanuel BOSCO, Michel Gilbert Roland BRAULT, Paul Ghislain Albert LEVISSE
  • Publication number: 20220235711
    Abstract: A speed reducer, particularly of an aircraft, includes a central sun gear mounted to rotate with a drive shaft about a rotation axis X, an annular ring gear coaxial with the X axis, and a plurality of planet gears arranged about the X axis and mounted to be movable on a planet carrier. The planet gears engages the sun gear and the annular ring gear, which extends around the planet gears. The speed reducer further includes a lubricant recovery device having a pipe for recovering lubricant discharged from the reducer by centrifuging. The recovery device has scoops mounted to pivot about a pivot axis P on a movable member of the speed reducer that rotates about the X axis between a deployed state and a rest state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Emmanuel Fabrice Marie BARET, Franck Emmanuel BOSCO, Michel Gilbert Roland BRAULT, Paul Ghislain Albert LEVISSE
  • Patent number: 11371384
    Abstract: A turbine engine including a fan shaft driven by a turbine shaft with a rotational speed reduction device. A decoupling element is interposed between the reduction device and the fan shaft which operates to decouple the reduction device and the fan shaft. The reduction device is coupled to the fan shaft by a coupling having trapezoidal teeth of the curvic type which are used during the said decoupling operation. The decoupling element is configured to decouple the reduction device and the fan shaft in response to a predetermined resistive torque, referred to as the decoupling torque, which acts between the fan shaft and the reduction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Arnaud Nicolas Negri, Didier Jean-Louis Yvon
  • Patent number: 11352906
    Abstract: Dynamic sealing device for an aircraft turbomachine, comprising two rotors (3, 8) which are configured to rotate about the one same axis (A) and different speeds, the said rotors extending at least in part around one another and dynamic sealing means (14) being mounted between the said rotors, characterized in that: —the said sealing means comprise annular rings (38) extending about the said axis, these rings being mounted with the ability to slide on a first (3) of the said rotors, in a radial direction with respect to the said axis, and being able to bear radially via their external periphery against a second (8) of the said rotors which at least partially surrounds the said first rotor, and in that it further comprises: —oil discharge means comprising an annular cavity (44) formed in the said second rotor, the said annular cavity opening radially towards the inside in the vicinity of the said sealing means and being in fluidic communication with oil passage ports (45) formed in the bottom of the cavity and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Romain Guillaume Cuvillier, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Arnaud Nicolas Negri
  • Publication number: 20220152297
    Abstract: An applicator assembly for use with a dmg infusion system having multiple wear configurations, including a tethered configuration and a patch configuration. The applicator assembly may be a multi-functional device configured to (1) selectively apply an infusion head and/or a holder to a patients skin and (2) insert an injection device of the infusion head into the patients skin. The drug infusion system may be worn interchangeably in the tethered configuration by placing a dmg delivery device in fluid communication with the infusion head via an intermediate tubing set, or in the patch configuration by coupling the drug delivery device to the holder and placing the dmg delivery device in fluid communication with the infusion head without the intermediate tubing set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Michel Gilbert BRUEHWILER, Eileen Mei BUTLER, Mary Teresa CARTER, Daniel Morris HARTMANN, Ariel Marie ROBERTS