Patents by Inventor Nicolas Morand
Nicolas Morand 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).
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Patent number: 10550705Abstract: A turbine housing assembly seal can include a cylindrical portion that defines an opening having an axis where the cylindrical portion is disposed at a cylinder radius from the axis; a lower edge disposed at a lower edge radius that exceeds the cylinder radius; an sloped annular portion that extends radially inwardly from the lower edge; a lower bend that extends from the sloped annular portion to a lower axial position of the cylindrical portion; an upper bend that extends from an upper axial position of the cylindrical portion; and an upper edge that extends radially outwardly from the upper bend to an upper edge radius that exceeds the cylinder radius and that is less than the lower edge radius.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2014Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Garrett Transportation I Inc.Inventors: Shankar Pandurangasa Solanki, Pierre Barthelet, Arnaud Gerard, Vincent Eumont, Nicolas Morand, Francis Abel
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Patent number: 10302011Abstract: An exhaust gas variable geometry turbine assembly can include a number of pivotable vanes that define throats within an exhaust gas nozzle where each of the pivotable vanes includes a corresponding post, where each of the pivotable vanes is made of a first alloy that includes a first amount of nickel by mass, where each of the corresponding posts is made of a second alloy that includes a second amount of nickel by mass and where the second amount of nickel by mass exceeds the first amount of nickel by mass.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Garrett Transportation I Inc.Inventors: Vit Micanek, Gary Agnew, Nicolas Morand, Jan Musil, Francis Abel
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Patent number: 10253683Abstract: A turbocharger having a variable-nozzle turbine formed by pivotable vanes supported by a nozzle ring includes an elastically deformable locator disposed between a radially outwardly facing surface of the center housing and an opposing surface of the nozzle ring. In one embodiment the locator is a metallic ring having a radially undulating waveform shape that repeats a plurality of times about a circumference of the locator. In another embodiment the locator is a metallic ring having a C-shaped cross-section in a radial-axial plane. In still another embodiment the locator is a metallic ring having an S-shaped cross-section in a radial-axial plane. In a further embodiment the locator is a plurality of circumferentially spaced, radial locator pins affixed in the center housing and received in radial slots formed in the nozzle ring, the pins restraining the nozzle ring circumferentially and axially but allowing thermal expansion of the nozzle ring.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Garrett Transportation I Inc.Inventors: Jan Musil, Nicolas Morand, Vit Micanek, Jan Klement, Francis Abel
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Patent number: 10087774Abstract: A variable-nozzle turbocharger includes a variable vane mechanism that has an annular nozzle ring supporting an array of rotatable vanes, an insert having a tubular portion sealingly received into a bore of the turbine housing and having a nozzle portion extending radially out from one end of the tubular portion and being axially spaced from the nozzle ring with the vanes therebetween, and a plurality of two-piece self-centering spacer assemblies connected between the nozzle portion of the insert and the nozzle ring. Each spacer assembly comprises a tubular sleeve and a separate pin that passes through the through-passage of the sleeve, end portions of the pin being secured respectively to the nozzle ring and the nozzle portion. One end of each sleeve has a conical surface and engages in a corresponding conical countersink in the adjacent face of the nozzle ring or nozzle portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Pierre Barthelet, Nicolas Morand, Emmanuel Severin, Calogero Beltrami, Vincent Eumont, Francis Abel, Arnaud Gerard, Aurelien Tingaud, Jayavenkateshwaran Krishnamoorthy
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Patent number: 10087940Abstract: An assembly can include a turbine wheel; a turbine housing that includes a lower turbine housing surface that extends from an exhaust volute to a cylindrical surface that defines an upper portion of a turbine wheel space; a shroud component that includes a contoured surface disposed between an inner end of an upper shroud component surface and an inner end of a lower shroud component surface where the contoured surface defines a lower portion of a turbine wheel space; and a seal mechanism where the turbine housing and the shroud component form an axial gap between a lower axial position of the cylindrical surface and an upper axial position of the contoured surface where the axial gap is axially positioned between an axial position of an inducer portion of the turbine wheel and an axial position of an exducer portion of the turbine wheel.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Arnaud Gerard, Shankar Pandurangasa Solanki, Vincent Eumont, Nicolas Morand, Francis Abel, Pierre Barthelet
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Publication number: 20180045106Abstract: A turbocharger having a variable-nozzle turbine formed by pivotable vanes supported by a nozzle ring includes an elastically deformable locator disposed between a radially outwardly facing surface of the center housing and an opposing surface of the nozzle ring. In one embodiment the locator is a metallic ring having a radially undulating waveform shape that repeats a plurality of times about a circumference of the locator. In another embodiment the locator is a metallic ring having a C-shaped cross-section in a radial-axial plane. In still another embodiment the locator is a metallic ring having an S-shaped cross-section in a radial-axial plane. In a further embodiment the locator is a plurality of circumferentially spaced, radial locator pins affixed in the center housing and received in radial slots formed in the nozzle ring, the pins restraining the nozzle ring circumferentially and axially but allowing thermal expansion of the nozzle ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2016Publication date: February 15, 2018Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Jan Musil, Nicolas Morand, Vit Micanek, Jan Klement, Francis Abel
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Patent number: 9692483Abstract: The invention relates to a communication device using power line communication provided in a first system coupled to a second system via a power cable comprising a pilot line having a first impedance, which encounters at least second and third impedances and through which a first analog signal passes in a first frequency band. The device is arranged so as to: i) generate, from a local digital signal, a second analog power line communication signal having frequencies included in a second frequency band that has minimal overlap with the first frequency band; ii) supply the second analog signal to the pilot line via a capacitive means and iii) extract, from the analog signals passing through the pilot line, each second analog signal in order to convert the latter into a digital signal to be processed by the system.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2012Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: PEUGEOT CITROËN AUTOMOBILES SAInventor: Nicolas Morand
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Publication number: 20170145912Abstract: An exhaust gas variable geometry turbine assembly can include a number of pivotable vanes that define throats within an exhaust gas nozzle where each of the pivotable vanes includes a corresponding post, where each of the pivotable vanes is made of a first alloy that includes a first amount of nickel by mass, where each of the corresponding posts is made of a second alloy that includes a second amount of nickel by mass and where the second amount of nickel by mass exceeds the first amount of nickel by mass.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2015Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Vit MICANEK, Gary AGNEW, Nicolas MORAND, Jan MUSIL, Francis ABEL
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Patent number: 9556880Abstract: A turbine assembly for a turbocharger can include a C-shaped seal that includes an inner diameter, an outer diameter, an axis aligned parallel to a rotational axis of a turbine wheel, a lower lip that contacts a lower axial face of an outer surface of a shroud component along an annular portion of the shroud component, an upper lip that contacts a lower axial face of an inner surface of a turbine housing, and a wall portion that extends between the lower lip and the upper lip. Various other examples of devices, assemblies, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Arnaud Gerard, Shankar Pandurangasa Solanki, Nicolas Morand, Sylvain Mulot, Vincent Eumont, Francis Abel, Stephane Sibille
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Publication number: 20160169018Abstract: A turbine housing assembly seal can include a cylindrical portion that defines an opening having an axis where the cylindrical portion is disposed at a cylinder radius from the axis; a lower edge disposed at a lower edge radius that exceeds the cylinder radius; an sloped annular portion that extends radially inwardly from the lower edge; a lower bend that extends from the sloped annular portion to a lower axial position of the cylindrical portion; an upper bend that extends from an upper axial position of the cylindrical portion; and an upper edge that extends radially outwardly from the upper bend to an upper edge radius that exceeds the cylinder radius and that is less than the lower edge radius.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Shankar Pandurangasa SOLANKI, Pierre BARTHELET, Arnaud GERARD, Vincent EUMONT, Nicolas MORAND, Francis ABEL
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Publication number: 20160169234Abstract: An assembly can include a turbine wheel; a turbine housing that includes a lower turbine housing surface that extends from an exhaust volute to a cylindrical surface that defines an upper portion of a turbine wheel space; a shroud component that includes a contoured surface disposed between an inner end of an upper shroud component surface and an inner end of a lower shroud component surface where the contoured surface defines a lower portion of a turbine wheel space; and a seal mechanism where the turbine housing and the shroud component form an axial gap between a lower axial position of the cylindrical surface and an upper axial position of the contoured surface where the axial gap is axially positioned between an axial position of an inducer portion of the turbine wheel and an axial position of an exducer portion of the turbine wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Arnaud GERARD, Shankar Pandurangasa SOLANKI, Vincent EUMONT, Nicolas MORAND, Francis ABEL, Pierre BARTHELET
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Publication number: 20160090858Abstract: A variable-nozzle turbocharger includes a variable vane mechanism that has an annular nozzle ring supporting an array of rotatable vanes, an insert having a tubular portion sealingly received into a bore of the turbine housing and having a nozzle portion extending radially out from one end of the tubular portion and being axially spaced from the nozzle ring with the vanes therebetween, and a plurality of two-piece self-centering spacer assemblies connected between the nozzle portion of the insert and the nozzle ring. Each spacer assembly comprises a tubular sleeve and a separate pin that passes through the through-passage of the sleeve, end portions of the pin being secured respectively to the nozzle ring and the nozzle portion. One end of each sleeve has a conical surface and engages in a corresponding conical countersink in the adjacent face of the nozzle ring or nozzle portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2014Publication date: March 31, 2016Inventors: Pierre Barthelet, Nicolas Morand, Emmanuel Severin, Calogero Beltrami, Vincent Eumont, Francis Abel, Arnaud Gerard, Aurelien Tingaud, Jayavenkateshwaran Krishnamoorthy
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Patent number: 9057280Abstract: An assembly can include vanes and a base configured to seat the vanes at a radial distance about an axis where each vane includes a leading edge and a trailing edge, a pair of lateral surfaces that meet at the leading edge and at the trailing edge, an extension that extends from one of the lateral surfaces and that has a contact surface, and a stop surface to form a contact with a contact surface of another vane to define a minimum flow distance between the vane and the other vane. Various other examples of devices, assemblies, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2012Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Nicolas Morand, Olivier Espasa, Francis Abel, Lorrain Sausse, Julien Mailfert, Frederic Favray, Emmanuel Bouvier
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Patent number: 8979508Abstract: A variable-vane assembly for a turbocharger includes an annular nozzle ring supporting an array of rotatable vanes, an insert having a tubular portion sealingly received into the bore of the turbine housing and having a nozzle portion extending radially out from one end of the tubular portion and being axially spaced from the nozzle ring with the vanes therebetween, and an annular retainer ring disposed radially outward of the nozzle ring and extending generally radially inwardly. The nozzle ring's face is stepped, and a radially inner edge of the retainer ring engages the face of the nozzle ring radially outward of the step, the radially inner edge of the retainer ring having an axial thickness that is less than the step height such that a remaining portion of the step is presented to the exhaust gas flowing through the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Julien Mailfert, Nicolas Morand, Calogero Beltrami
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Patent number: 8967956Abstract: A variable-nozzle assembly for a turbocharger includes a generally annular nozzle ring and an array of vanes rotatably mounted to the nozzle ring such that the vanes can be pivoted about their axes for regulating exhaust gas flow to the turbine wheel. A unison ring engages vane arms that are affixed to axles of the vanes, such that rotation of the unison ring causes the vanes to pivot between a closed position and an open position. The vanes have proximal ends that are adjacent a face of the nozzle ring. A vane sealing member is supported on the nozzle ring and has a portion disposed between the proximal ends of the vanes and the face of the nozzle ring. The unison ring includes cams that engage cam followers. Rotational movement of the unison ring causes the cam followers to be moved axially and thereby urge the vane sealing member against the proximal ends of the vanes.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Philippe Arnold, Denis Jeckel, Dominique Petitjean, Pierre Barthelet, Emmanuel Severin, Nicolas Morand, Karl-Heinz Bauer, Chris Groves
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Patent number: 8967955Abstract: A variable nozzle for a turbocharger includes a plurality of vanes rotatably mounted on a nozzle ring and disposed in a nozzle flow path defined between the nozzle ring and an opposite nozzle wall. Either or both of the faces of the nozzle ring and nozzle wall include(s) grooves extending substantially transverse to a general flow direction of the flow through the nozzle, and there are clearances between the ends of the vanes and the adjacent faces. Leakage flow through the clearance between the end of each vane and the adjacent face having the grooves must proceed across the grooves, and thus a labyrinthine flow passage is presented to the leakage flow. The labyrinthine passage has a greater resistance to flow than would be the case without the grooves. Accordingly, leakage flow is reduced, which is beneficial to turbine efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Pierre Barthelet, Emmanuel Severin, Nicolas Morand, Denis Jeckel, Dominique Petitjean, Philippe Arnold, Karl-Heinz Bauer
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Publication number: 20150003957Abstract: A turbine assembly for a turbocharger can include a C-shaped seal that includes an inner diameter, an outer diameter, an axis aligned parallel to a rotational axis of a turbine wheel, a lower lip that contacts a lower axial face of an outer surface of a shroud component along an annular portion of the shroud component, an upper lip that contacts a lower axial face of an inner surface of a turbine housing, and a wall portion that extends between the lower lip and the upper lip. Various other examples of devices, assemblies, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2013Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Arnaud Gerard, Shankar Pandurangasa Solanki, Nicolas Morand, Sylvain Mulot, Vincent Eumont, Francis Abel, Stephane Sibille
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Publication number: 20140355698Abstract: The invention relates to a communication device using power line communication provided in a first system coupled to a second system via a power cable comprising a pilot line having a first impedance, which encounters at least second and third impedances and through which a first analog signal passes in a first frequency band. The device is arranged so as to: i) generate, from a local digital signal, a second analog power line communication signal having frequencies included in a second frequency band that has minimal overlap with the first frequency band; ii) supply the second analog signal to the pilot line via a capacitive means and iii) extract, from the analog signals passing through the pilot line, each second analog signal in order to convert the latter into a digital signal to be processed by the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2012Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventor: Nicolas Morand
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Patent number: 8744667Abstract: A device (D) is dedicated to the diagnosis of operating situations) in at least one communication network (RC) having a bus (BU) with N wire(s).Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Peugeot Citroén Automobiles SAInventor: Nicolas Morand
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Publication number: 20140134015Abstract: A variable-vane assembly for a turbocharger includes an annular nozzle ring supporting an array of rotatable vanes, an insert having a tubular portion sealingly received into the bore of the turbine housing and having a nozzle portion extending radially out from one end of the tubular portion and being axially spaced from the nozzle ring with the vanes therebetween, and an annular retainer ring disposed radially outward of the nozzle ring and extending generally radially inwardly. The nozzle ring's face is stepped, and a radially inner edge of the retainer ring engages the face of the nozzle ring radially outward of the step, the radially inner edge of the retainer ring having an axial thickness that is less than the step height such that a remaining portion of the step is presented to the exhaust gas flowing through the nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Julien Mailfert, Nicolas Morand, Calogero Beltrami