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: 10781714
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a device for limiting overspeeding of a turbine shaft of a turbomachine, comprising structure for destroying the rotor blades of at least one turbine stage. The structure includes a casing and at least one projectile configured for projecting into the path of the rotor blades of the stage in order for the stage in question to be destroyed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Arnaud Nicolas Negri, Nils Edouard Romain Bordoni, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Romain Guillaume Cuvillier, Guillaume Patrice Kubiak, Nathalie Nowakowski
  • Publication number: 20200095890
    Abstract: A turbine engine comprising a fan comprising a first shaft driven in rotation via a reduction gear, the first shaft being guided in rotation with respect to a support of a fixed structure via an upstream bearing and a downstream bearing, the downstream bearing guiding in rotation the first shaft with respect to a downstream branch of the support, the first shaft and the support together defining an enclosure, the reduction gear comprising a ring gear fixed to the structure via a shell, the turbine engine comprising lubricator composed of at least one pipe for conveying a liquid lubricant, wherein the pipe is located in the enclosure, the pipe passing through an orifice made in the shell and an opening made in the downstream branch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Xavier Jean Yves Alain Agneray, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault
  • Publication number: 20200095876
    Abstract: A fan of a turbine engine includes a disc provided with blades at the periphery thereof, the blades being mounted so as to pivot on the disc about a pivot axis, and a mechanism for changing the pitch of the blades. The mechanism is configured to adjust an angular position of each blade around the pivot axis. The angular position is in an angular setting range no greater than 20°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Romain Guillaume CUVILLIER, Nils Edouard Romain BORDONI, Michel Gilbert Roland BRAULT, Guillaume Patrice KUBIAK, Arnaud Nicolas NEGRI, Nathalie NOWAKOWSKI, Emmanuel Pierre Dimitri PATSOURIS, Sebastien Emile Philippe TAJAN
  • Publication number: 20200072053
    Abstract: A turbomachine having a fan shaft supported by a first bearing positioned downstream of the fan, the first bearing including an outer ring attached to an annular support secured to the stator. The turbomachine includes at least one gas feed duct leading into an enclosure positioned against the disc, the gas feed duct being adapted to be fed at a second end with pressurized gas taken from an airstream of a high-pressure compressor of the turbomachine, so that the gas applies an axial force towards upstream on the disc during some operating phases of the turbomachine. The turbomachine further includes a ferrule imperviously sealing the enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Michel Gilbert Roland BRAULT, Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Amelie Argie Antoinette CHASSAGNE, Didier Jean-Louis YVON
  • Publication number: 20200018181
    Abstract: A turbomachine (10) comprising a fan (12) shaft driven by a turbine shaft (16) by intermediary of a rotational speed reduction device (20), said turbomachine comprising decoupling means (28) interposed between the reduction device (20) and the fan shaft (18), which decoupling means are able to decouple the reduction device (20) and the fan shaft (18), characterized in that the reduction device (20) is coupled to the fan shaft via the intermediary of a coupling (17) having trapezoidal teeth of the curvic type which comprises said decoupling means (28), said decoupling means (28) being configured to decouple the reduction device (20) and the fan shaft (18) in response to a predetermined resistive torque (CD), referred to as the decoupling torque, being exceeded, which torque acts between the fan shaft (18) and the reduction device (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Michel Gilbert Roland BRAULT, Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Arnaud Nicolas NEGRI, Didier Jean-Louis YVON
  • Patent number: 10458422
    Abstract: A turbine engine includes two rotary shafts and a lubrication unit. The lubrication unit has at least one pump which a casing inside of which a rotor is mounted and driven by one of the rotary shafts. The pump casing is rotated by the other rotary shaft such that the actuation of the pump depends on the difference between rotational speeds of the shafts. The shafts are a drive shaft and a fan shaft, respectively, wherein the fan shaft is driven by the drive shaft by means of a reduction gear which is lubricated by the lubrication unit. The reduction gear is annular and the pump passes axially therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Benoît Jean Henri Gomanne, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Thomas Chauveau, Bellal Waissi
  • Patent number: 10450884
    Abstract: A turbine engine impeller comprises a disc bearing vanes and an annular plate. The roots of the vanes are fitted in grooves and the root of each vane is connected to a blade by an integrated platform. The platforms of said vanes cooperate to form a radially inner wall of a duct for a flow passing through the blades. The annular plate comprises a transverse annular portion forming an axial stop of the roots of the vanes. The integrated platform of each vane has no spoiler and stops axially to the right of transverse faces of the root. The transverse annular portion of said annular plate bears, between the integrated platforms and the disc, an annular spoiler configured to extend in an axial space between the impeller and an adjacent module of the turbine engine so that said annular plate bears annular knife-edge seals of a labyrinth sealing joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Antoine Jean-Philippe Beaujard, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Nathalie Nowakowski
  • Patent number: 10422341
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbofan engine comprising a fan driven, via a fan shaft supported by at least two first bearings, by a turbine shaft supported by at least one second bearing comprising a stationary ring and a movable ring, said turbine shaft driving said fan shaft through a device for reducing the speed of rotation, said device for reducing the speed of rotation and said first and second bearings being housed in a lubrication enclosure in which the shell comprises stationary portions and movable portions connected to one another by sealing means, said reducing device comprising an inducer shaped so as to receive the torque transmitted by said turbine shaft via driving means connected to said movable ring, wherein the lubrication enclosure forms a coaxial ring with the turbine shaft and said driving means comprise a girth gear which is part of the movable sealing walls of the shell of the lubrication enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Nathalie Nowakowski
  • Publication number: 20190277156
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a device for limiting overspeeding of a turbine shaft of a turbomachine, comprising structure for destroying the rotor blades of at least one turbine stage. The structure includes a casing and at least one projectile configured for projecting into the path of the rotor blades of the stage in order for the stage in question to be destroyed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Arnaud Nicolas Negri, Nils Edouard Romain Bordoni, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Romain Guillaume Cuvillier, Guillaume Patrice Kubiak, Nathalie Nowakowski
  • Patent number: 10316857
    Abstract: A fan of a turbine engine, the fan including a fan disk provided with blades on its periphery, the blades being pivotally mounted on the disk around a pivoting axis and having a center of gravity, and a pitch change mechanism for the blades, each blade being configured so that its center of gravity is positioned on or at a small distance from a fictitious plane which passes through the pivoting axis of the blade and which is perpendicular to the axis of revolution of the fan when the blade is in a minimum drag position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nils Edouard Romain Bordoni, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Romain Guillaume Cuvillier, Guillaume Patrice Kubiak, Arnaud Nicolas Negri, Nathalie Nowakowski
  • Patent number: 10312949
    Abstract: A gateway architecture able to meet the challenges raised by the large-scale deployment of wireless sensor networks. The main modules within such a gateway for wireless sensor networks, for example digital radio modems and analog radio interface modules take the form of various separate physical blocks that may be joined together. This technique makes it possible to implement adaptable and scalable modular gateways that may be quickly and easily configured or suited to any situation, simply by replacing existing physical blocks or adding new physical blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: KERLINK
    Inventors: Martin Chaplet, Michel Gilbert, Samuel Nicolas, Ronan Dubourg, Yannick Delibie
  • Publication number: 20190153958
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for rotating a fan (2) of a turbojet engine (1) about a first rotation axis ?, including a reduction gear (3) made up of a planetary gearset placed at the centre of the fan (2), which includes: a central sun gear (31); an outer planet gear (33) attached to the fan (2); at least one satellite gear (32) arranged between the central sun gear (31) and the outer planet gear (33) in order to transmit a rotary movement between the central sun gear (31) and the outer planet gear (33); characterised in that the outer planet gear (33) includes an inner portion (33a) which meshes with the satellite gear (32), as well as an outer portion (33b) to which blades (21) of the fan (2) are directly attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Guillaume Patrice KUBIAK, Nils Edouard Romain BORDONI, Michel Gilbert Roland BRAULT, Romain Guillaume CUVILLIER, Benoit Jean Henri GOMANNE, Arnaud Nicolas NEGRI, Nicolas Xavier TRAPPIER
  • Publication number: 20190101081
    Abstract: A bypass turbojet engine including a low pressure shaft supported by at least two low pressure bearings, a high pressure shaft supported by at least two high pressure bearings, a fan shaft supported by at least two fan bearings, a reduction system coupling the low pressure shaft, with the fan shaft, enclosures housing the low pressure bearings, the high pressure bearings, the fan bearings and the reduction system, and a lubrication assembly including a closed oil circuit configured to supply oil to the enclosures in order to cool the bearings and the reduction system and at most five recovery pumps configured to recover oil from the enclosures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Romain Guillaume CUVILLIER, Nils Edouard Romain BORDONI, Michel Gilbert Roland BRAULT, Sebastien Christophe CHALAUD, Guillaume Patrice KUBBIAK, Arnaud Nicolas NEGRI, Nathalie NOWAKOWSKI
  • Publication number: 20190093504
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine, comprising a fan driven by a fan shaft and retractable axial retainer of the shaft mounted on a stator element and movable between a first operational position and a second non-operational position. The retainer may comprise a fluid supply configured for supplying at least one cavity with fluid. In some examples, the retainer is mounted movable or slidingly so as to generate movement of the retainer between the operation and non-operational positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Michel Gilbert Rolant Brault, Romain Guillaume Cuvillier, Arnaud Nicolas Negri
  • Publication number: 20190085724
    Abstract: A turbofan including a low-pressure shaft; a high-pressure shaft; a fan shaft; a reducing mechanism that couples the low-pressure shaft to the fan shaft; and a maximum of six chambers that accommodate the bearings of the low-pressure shaft, the bearings of the high-pressure shaft and the bearings of the fan as well as the reducing mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Romain Guillaume CUVILLIER, Nils Edouard Romain BORDONI, Michel Gilbert Roland BRAULT, Jeremy DIEVART, Guillaume Patrice KUBIAK, Arnaud Nicolas NEGRI, Nathalie NOWAKOWSKI
  • Publication number: 20190003395
    Abstract: A multiflow turbojet engine generally includes an upstream fan driven by a gas generator having first and second coaxial compressors, an intake case forming a mounting for the rotors of the upstream fan and the first compressor, an inter-compressor case downstream from the intake case and forming a mounting for the rotors of the second compressor, and attachment means for thrust take-up control rods arranged in the inter-compressor case. The turbojet engine also includes a structural force shroud connecting the intake case to the inter-compressor case, of the and a floating first compressor case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Nils Edouard Romain Bordoni, Romain Guillaume Cuvillier, Guillaume Patrice Kubiak, Arnaud Nicolas Negri, Nathalie Nowakowski
  • Publication number: 20180372001
    Abstract: A multi-flow turbojet engine generally includes an upstream ducted fan driven by a gas generator, the gas generator having a first and a second compressor, which are coaxial, an inlet case forming a support for the rotors of the upstream ducted fan and of the first compressor, an inter-compressor case downstream of the inlet casing and forming a support for the rotors of the second compressor, attachment means for thrust take-up rods, which attachment means are arranged on the inter-compressor case. The turbojet engine includes at least one axial stress transmission rod for connecting the inlet case to the inter-compressor case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nils Edouard Romain Bordoni, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Romain Guillaume Cuvillier, Guillaume Patrice Kubiak, Arnaud Nicolas Negri, Nathalie Nowakowski
  • Patent number: 10138755
    Abstract: A device for deicing a separator nose of an aviation turbine engine, and including a separator nose for positioning downstream from a fan of the engine to separate annular channels for passing a primary stream and a secondary stream coming from the engine, and a casing fastened to the separator nose so as to extend it downstream, the casing having an inner shroud defining the outside of the primary stream flow passage, and including at least one air duct incorporated in the inner shroud so as to be formed integrally therewith, the air duct opening out downstream to an air feed and opening out upstream into the inside of the separator nose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Benoit Jean Henri Gomanne, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault
  • Publication number: 20180334915
    Abstract: A turbomachine module includes a rotor supporting variable pitch blades, and an inner annular shaft, a blade pitch control device, a device for feathering at least one blade comprising at least one gas generator placed between a body and a movable member. The control device and the feathering device are situated radially between the shaft and the blades, the movable member is coupled with the at least one blade and capable, under the action of the gas generated and/or released by the generator, of being moved into a reference position wherein it entails a feathered position to the at least one blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nils Edouard Romain Bordoni, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Romain Guillaume Cuvillier, Guillaume Patrice Kubiak, Arnaud Nicolas Negri, Nathalie Nowakowski
  • Publication number: 20180248568
    Abstract: A gateway architecture able to meet the challenges raised by the large-scale deployment of wireless sensor networks. The main modules within such a gateway for wireless sensor networks, for example digital radio modems and analog radio interface modules take the form of various separate physical blocks that may be joined together. This technique makes it possible to implement adaptable and scalable modular gateways that may be quickly and easily configured or suited to any situation, simply by replacing existing physical blocks or adding new physical blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: KERLINK
    Inventors: Martin CHAPLET, Michel GILBERT, Samuel NICOLAS, Ronan DUBOURG, Yannick DELIBIE