Patents by Inventor Olivier Cazals

Olivier Cazals 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: 10597135
    Abstract: In order to simplify the connection of a door to the outer envelope of an aircraft cell, it is provided to dispose the door into a portion of the outer envelope having tilted sides, as is the case at the nose cones and the tail cones of conventional airplanes, and in various portions of blended wing body airplanes and flying wings. Thus, the door can be configured to displace, in rectilinear translation, from one of its extreme opening and closing positions to the other, without requiring that the door protrudes outside of the outer envelope in the closing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Jaime Genty De La Sagne
  • Patent number: 10407151
    Abstract: An aircraft of flying wing or blended wing body type comprising, for access to a pressurized housing, a non-pressurized door in the trailing edge of the aircraft and a pressurized door on the pressurized housing. The distance between the center of the pressurized door and a plane of symmetry of the aircraft is less than or equal to the distance between the center of the non-pressurized door and the plane of symmetry, and the pressurized door is located on a wall other than a rear wall of the pressurized housing or upstream of a rear extremum point of the housing in the absence of any such rear wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Jaime Genty De La Sagne
  • Patent number: 10329010
    Abstract: An aircraft wing, including a main part and a wing tip mounted mobile in attack relative to the main part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Thierry Druot
  • Publication number: 20180340493
    Abstract: To reduce the size of an aircraft engine, an assembly is disclosed including a nacelle section, a gas exhaust cone positioned radially towards the inside in relation to the nacelle section and forming therewith an annular gas exhaust channel, and a reverse thrust system including moveable gas diversion elements for the gas flowing in the annular channel, at least one actuator and a transmission device linking the at least one actuator to the moveable gas diversion elements. Furthermore, the actuator is located inside the gas exhaust cone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Olivier CAZALS, Guillaume GALLANT
  • Publication number: 20180009532
    Abstract: An aircraft cockpit module (10) that incorporates, on the one hand, a single pilot seat (12) and, on the other hand, at least a part of the piloting equipment and controls necessary for flying an aircraft, the module (10). The aircraft cockpit module forms an assembly which can be moved unitarily and to be incorporated in a single operation in an aircraft cockpit. The module is dedicated to a single pilot and makes it possible to simplify the integration of the cockpit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Olivier CAZALS, Jaime GENTY DE LA SAGNE
  • Publication number: 20170247100
    Abstract: An aircraft of flying wing or blended wing body type comprising, for access to a pressurized housing, a non-pressurized door in the trailing edge of the aircraft and a pressurized door on the pressurized housing. The distance between the center of the pressurized door and a plane of symmetry of the aircraft is less than or equal to the distance between the center of the non-pressurized door and the plane of symmetry, and the pressurized door is outside a rear wall of the pressurized housing or upstream of a rear extremum point of the housing in the absence of any such rear wall. This aircraft has optimum aerodynamic performance and the circulation of passengers between the pressurized housing and the exterior of the aircraft may be fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Jaime GENTY DE LA SAGNE
  • Publication number: 20170183078
    Abstract: A flying wing or blended body aircraft comprising at least one door installed in the leading edge of the aircraft. The lateral edges of the door extend each in a plane parallel to the plane of symmetry of the aircraft, when the door is closed. It reduces the aerodynamic penalties of a door installed in the leading edge of such an aircraft. It also reduces noise related to airflow at the door, and improves the robustness of the aircraft with respect to impacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Olivier CAZALS, Jaime GENTY DE LA SAGNE
  • Publication number: 20170183077
    Abstract: In order to simplify the connection of a door to the outer envelope of an aircraft cell, it is provided to dispose the door into a portion of the outer envelope having tilted sides, as is the case at the nose cones and the tail cones of conventional airplanes, and in various portions of blended wing body airplanes and flying wings. Thus, the door can be configured to displace, in rectilinear translation, from one of its extreme opening and closing positions to the other, without requiring that the door protrudes outside of the outer envelope in the closing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Jaime GENTY DE LA SAGNE
  • Publication number: 20170167437
    Abstract: A jet engine comprises at least three zones including an air intake zone and an exhaust zone. The axis of the air intake zone is not coincident with the axis of the exhaust zone of the engine, the engine as a result, having at least two intersecting axes and being referred to as a multiaxial engine. Therefore, the jet engine has at least two zones with different longitudinal axis orientations: by choosing an axial orientation of the zones of the engine that are more sensitive to a detachment or breakage of elements of the gas generator, it is possible to also choose a direction of the possible paths of these detached elements, to avoid them striking the opposite engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Julien GUILLEMAUT
  • Patent number: 9573693
    Abstract: An aeroplane comprising a fuselage elongated in a longitudinal direction of the aeroplane is provided. The aeroplane includes a wing attached to the fuselage in a midsection of said fuselage in the longitudinal direction, such that part of the fuselage extends forward of the wing toward a front extremity of the fuselage, and part of the fuselage extends from the rear of the wing toward a rear extremity of the fuselage. A rear fuselage section includes at least one engine attached to the fuselage and located to the rear of the wing. The one or more engines attached to the fuselage are attached in a rear position such that only parts of the aeroplane located in a projection space of the one or more engines attached to the fuselage and the rear fuselage does not include any aerodynamic surfaces intended to assure stability and/or aerodynamic control of the aeroplane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS S.A.S.
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Alexis Manneville
  • Publication number: 20160368594
    Abstract: An aircraft wing, including a main part and a wing tip mounted mobile in attack relative to the main part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Thierry Druot
  • Publication number: 20160176533
    Abstract: An auxiliary power device may be exteriorly removably connected to an aircraft in order to allow the increase of the performance data of the aircraft, namely at take-off and landing. The auxiliary power device includes a propeller (or fan) connected to an electric engine fed by an electric power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Thierry Druot, Julien Guillemaut
  • Patent number: 9102395
    Abstract: A propulsive system for aircraft that has a jet engine and a nacelle surrounding the aforementioned jet engine. The nacelle has a front section fixed relative to the jet engine, and a rear extremity behind the front section, and has a rear section with two petals hinged relative to the front section. Each of the two petals in a position called zero-setting forms an extension of the front section of the nacelle in which the inside and outside surfaces of the petals and, respectively, determine the aerodynamic forms of the rear section, which are in geometric continuity with the inside and outside surfaces and, respectively, that determine the aerodynamic forms of the front section. The petals can be set individually at a positive or negative setting angle to put into play the reverser, APU, air brake, vectorial, and taxiing modes of the propulsive system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Jaime Genty De La Sagne
  • Patent number: 9051042
    Abstract: An aircraft including a fuselage which extends along a longitudinal axis. The fuselage includes a substantially cylindrical central portion and a rear portion that may have a flattened or conventional shape. This rear portion which comprises the rear end of the fuselage includes a support surface which bears at least one horizontal stabilizer and/or vertical stabilizer. The rear portion is able to pivot in relation to the central portion around an axis such as the pitch axis, at least one stabilizer or the support surface being equipped with at least one control surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Jaime Genty de la Sagne
  • Patent number: 8876044
    Abstract: An aircraft having an elongated fuselage and a lifting surface fastened to the fuselage. The aircraft has a device for controlling the torque around the yaw axis GZ of the aircraft in which aerodynamic forms that have devices to generate aerodynamic drag are fastened to each end of the lifting surface at non-zero distances from each side of a vertical plane of symmetry XZ of the aircraft. The drag-generating devices are commanded to produce a different aerodynamic drag at each of the two ends to generate a yaw torque on the aircraft. The aerodynamic forms, for example, have winglets improving the aerodynamics of the lifting surface, and are provided with aerodynamic drag generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Thierry Druot
  • Patent number: 8820676
    Abstract: Swiveling engines attached to the fuselage by struts, for example to the rear part of the fuselage are used to control the pitch and yaw movements of an aircraft. The swivel axes of the engines are oriented to form a V so that swiveling one engine creates a variation of the vertical and lateral components of the engine thrust. Controlled swiveling of the two swiveling engines makes it possible to generate a component of the resultant thrust in a vertical plane that can be controlled in direction and intensity to generate pitch and yaw torques. The swiveling engines also include pods provided with jet deflection flaps for the engine considered, and the struts are profiled and provided with a trailing edge control surface using ruddervator architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Thierry Druot
  • Publication number: 20140054413
    Abstract: An aeroplane comprising a fuselage elongated in a longitudinal direction of the aeroplane is provided. The aeroplane includes a wing attached to the fuselage in a midsection of said fuselage in the longitudinal direction, such that part of the fuselage extends forward of the wing toward a front extremity of the fuselage, and part of the fuselage extends from the rear of the wing toward a rear extremity of the fuselage. A rear fuselage section includes at least one engine attached to the fuselage and located to the rear of the wing. The one or more engines attached to the fuselage are attached in a rear position such that only parts of the aeroplane located in a projection space of the one or more engines attached to the fuselage and the rear fuselage does not include any aerodynamic surfaces intended to assure stability and/or aerodynamic control of the aeroplane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Alexis Manneville
  • Patent number: 8651414
    Abstract: An airplane, including a fuselage having an elongate shape along a longitudinal axis of the airplane, and at least one wing attached to the fuselage between front and back ends of the fuselage and a substantially cylindrical central portion and a rear scaleable portion on which a vertical tail assembly and a rear propulsion assembly are attached. Between a section for connecting the rear portion to the central portion of the fuselage and the back end: the maximum width of each fuselage section is constant or increases towards the rear up to a maximum fuselage width L; the height of each fuselage section decreases towards the rear, such that the back end of the fuselage forms a thin trailing edge substantially horizontal in the indicating line of the airplane and substantially rectilinear; a reactor for the propulsion assembly is provided in a so-called semi-buried configuration in the fuselage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations S.A.S.
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Jaime Genty De La Sagne
  • Patent number: 8613409
    Abstract: A trailing edge aerodynamic airfoil of a load-bearing aerodynamic surface of an aircraft of the crocodile type has two airfoil flaps, with each flap being integral in a forward section with a rotational shaft that determines the axis of rotation of the airfoil flap. In a position called the zero setting, the airfoil flaps are essentially joined and form a rear section of the load-bearing surface, and each airfoil flap is movable in translation independently of the other airfoil flap, relative to the load-bearing surface, with each flap being entrained in rotation relative to the load-bearing surface around its axis of rotation by the motion in translation. The ends of the rotational shaft have extensions guided by runners fastened to these ends and acting conjointly with racks fastened to the load-bearing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Thierry Druot
  • Patent number: 8573530
    Abstract: A rear tail assembly for an aircraft, including a fuselage, a wing and at least one propulsion engine attached in the rear portion of the fuselage located behind the wing along the X longitudinal axis of the aircraft, wherein the aforementioned assembly includes aerodynamic surfaces connected in the rear portion of the fuselage. The tail assembly essentially includes horizontal aerodynamic surfaces and essentially vertical aerodynamic surface arranged so as to form an annular structure including at least one ring attached to the fuselage. At least one engine is held in the ring formed by the tail assembly. In one embodiment, a central fin is used for defining two rings in the annular structure. In particular embodiments of an aircraft including such a tail assembly, one or two engines can be fitted in the ring area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Olivier Cazals, Thierry Druot