Patents by Inventor Olivier Kerbler

Olivier Kerbler 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: 11767808
    Abstract: A nacelle rear assembly of a nacelle of a turbojet engine of an aircraft extends along a longitudinal central axis (A) and includes a sliding cascade thrust reverser. The cascade thrust reverser includes at least one sliding cowl, a deflection cascade including a plurality of rows of vanes that each extend around the longitudinal central axis (A) and that are longitudinally arranged from a first front row of vanes up to a last rear row of vanes, each row of vanes including at least one deflection vane for deflecting the airflow toward the outside of the rear assembly of the nacelle, the deflection cascade being movably integral with the sliding cowl, wherein the deflection cascade includes at least one additional neutral row of vanes that is interposed between the last row of vanes and the sliding cowl and that includes at least one neutral vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Pierre Caruel, Loïc Grall, Alexis Heau, Olivier Kerbler, Mélody Seriset
  • Patent number: 11549462
    Abstract: A turbojet engine nacelle having a cascade-type thrust reverser includes a movable frame surrounding a cold air flow path, guided axially by longitudinal rails fixed to an intermediate casing surrounding the cold air flow path and supporting cascades of thrust-reversal guide vanes and mobile rear cowls. The nacelle has a passage of ancillaries opening radially towards the outside of the movable frame, in a zone with no bearing structure passing radially across the cold air flow path. The movable frame is cut in an axial plane at the passage for the passage of ancillaries, and each edge of the cut of the movable frame is connected to the intermediate casing by a slide rail fitted on a longitudinal rail arranged each on one side of this passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: Safran Nacelles, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien Michel Thierry Guillemant, Pierre Caruel, Olivier Kerbler, Alexis Heau, Mathieu Lerouvreur, Antoine Elie Hellegouarch
  • Patent number: 11401887
    Abstract: An improved thrust reverser for an aircraft propulsion assembly includes redirection of the air flow for performing the thrust reversal by one or more closure membranes, i.e. by thin and flexible structures deployed across the propulsion assembly. The improved thrust reverser includes at least one closure membrane arranged to deflect at least one portion of the air flow in the direction of the evacuation structure when the thrust reverser is in the reverse jet position and an intermediate structure movable in rotation relative to the fixed structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Olivier Kerbler, Alexandre Phi, Jean-Paul Rami, Stephane Tirel, Jean-Baptiste Goulard, Matthieu Vanderlinden, Arnaud Carles-Espiteau
  • Patent number: 11390394
    Abstract: A nacelle for an aircraft turbojet engine includes a thrust-reversing device with a fixed structure and a movable structure translatably movable along an axis substantially parallel with a longitudinal axis of the nacelle between a retracted position in which it provides aerodynamic continuity with the fixed structure of the nacelle during operation of the nacelle with forward thrust and a deployed position in which it opens a passage intended for the circulation of a diverted secondary air flow during operation of the nacelle with reverse thrust. The nacelle includes at least one position sensor configured and arranged in the nacelle for detecting a deformation of the movable structure exceeding a permitted predetermined deformation threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Olivier Kerbler, Laurent Georges Valleroy, Corentin Hue, Alexis Heau
  • Patent number: 11338930
    Abstract: A nacelle of an aircraft turbofan engine including an air inlet upstream from the engine, a median section configured to surround a fan of the engine and delimited on the outside by a fan cowl supported by a fan housing to which it is attached at the upstream portion, a downstream section delimiting an annular flow path in which the air is configured to flow and housing thrust reversal devices, the thrust reversal approach including a movable cowl associated with at least one actuator for moving the movable cowl between a direct jet position, in which it provides the aerodynamic continuity of the nacelle and an indirect jet position in which it opens up a passage in the nacelle by uncovering cascade vanes arranged around this flow path that receive the cold air flow to return it towards the outside and forwards, the cascade vanes being attached to the movable cowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Loïc Grall, Mélody Seriset, Alexis Heau, Benjamin Brebion, Olivier Kerbler
  • Patent number: 11186379
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a system for installing and removing a propulsion unit on a pylon of an aircraft, a propulsion unit of the type including a nacelle and a turbojet engine, the turbojet engine being linked on the pylon by at least one front suspension and one rear suspension. The system includes a supporting structure which is adapted to support a thrust reverser device, a front suspension of the turbojet engine, which carries a front part of the supporting structure, and which is removably fastened on a front part of the pylon, and a rear suspension of the turbojet engine which carries a rear part of the supporting structure, and which is removably fastened on a rear part of the pylon, and the disengagement of said suspensions of the pylon allowing removing the propulsion unit mounted on the pylon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Patrick Boileau, Olivier Kerbler, Julien Lezerac, Aurélien Gonzalez, Loïc Grall, Ludovic Toupet
  • Publication number: 20210003096
    Abstract: A turbojet engine nacelle having a cascade-type thrust reverser includes a movable frame surrounding a cold air flow path, guided axially by longitudinal rails fixed to an intermediate casing surrounding the cold air flow path and supporting cascades of thrust-reversal guide vanes and mobile rear cowls. The nacelle has a passage of ancillaries opening radially towards the outside of the movable frame, in a zone with no bearing structure passing radially across the cold air flow path. The movable frame is cut in an axial plane at the passage for the passage of ancillaries, and each edge of the cut of the movable frame is connected to the intermediate casing by a slide rail fitted on a longitudinal rail arranged each on one side of this passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicants: Safran Nacelles, Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Sébastien Michel Thierry GUILLEMANT, Pierre CARUEL, Olivier KERBLER, Olivier HEAU, Mathieu LEROUVREUR, Antoine Elie HELLEGOUARCH
  • Patent number: 10883447
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion assembly including a bypass turbojet having a stationary inter-compressor casing positioned upstream from a space between passages, a nacelle including at its downstream end an inner wall that defines the outside of the space between passages and the inside of the bypass stream flow passage, and an outer wall arranged around the inner wall and that defines the outside of the bypass stream flow passage, at least a portion of the inner wall being suitable for moving between a maintenance position and a working position, and a thrust-reverser including a downstream element of the outer wall that is movable in translation between a retracted position and a thrust-reversal position in which it allows bypass stream deflector elements to be deployed in a radial direction, the deployment of the stream deflector elements being controlled by guide rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Carmen Gina Ancuta, Kevin Morgane Lemarchand, Olivier Kerbler, Melody Seriset
  • Publication number: 20200347800
    Abstract: An improved thrust reverser for an aircraft propulsion assembly includes redirection of the air flow for performing the thrust reversal by one or more closure membranes, i.e. by thin and flexible structures deployed across the propulsion assembly. The improved thrust reverser includes at least one closure membrane arranged to deflect at least one portion of the air flow in the direction of the evacuation structure when the thrust reverser is in the reverse jet position and an intermediate structure movable in rotation relative to the fixed structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Olivier KERBLER, Alexandre PHI, Jean-Paul RAMI, STEPHANE TIREL, Jean-Baptiste GOULARD, Matthieu VANDERLINDEN, Arnaud CARLES-ESPITEAU
  • Publication number: 20200347801
    Abstract: A nacelle rear assembly of a nacelle of a turbojet engine of an aircraft extends along a longitudinal central axis (A) and includes a sliding cascade thrust reverser. The cascade thrust reverser includes at least one sliding cowl, a deflection cascade including a plurality of rows of vanes that each extend around the longitudinal central axis (A) and that are longitudinally arranged from a first front row of vanes up to a last rear row of vanes, each row of vanes including at least one deflection vane for deflecting the airflow toward the outside of the rear assembly of the nacelle, the deflection cascade being movably integral with the sliding cowl, wherein the deflection cascade includes at least one additional neutral row of vanes that is interposed between the last row of vanes and the sliding cowl and that includes at least one neutral vane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Pierre CARUEL, Loïc GRALL, Alexis HEAU, Olivier KERBLER, Mélody SERISET
  • Publication number: 20200317355
    Abstract: A nacelle of an aircraft turbofan engine including an air inlet upstream from the engine, a median section configured to surround a fan of the engine and delimited on the outside by a fan cowl supported by a fan housing to which it is attached at the upstream portion, a downstream section delimiting an annular flow path in which the air is configured to flow and housing thrust reversal devices, the thrust reversal approach including a movable cowl associated with at least one actuator for moving the movable cowl between a direct jet position, in which it provides the aerodynamic continuity of the nacelle and an indirect jet position in which it opens up a passage in the nacelle by uncovering cascade vanes arranged around this flow path that receive the cold air flow to return it towards the outside and forwards, the cascade vanes being attached to the movable cowl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Loïc GRALL, Mélody SERISET, Alexis HEAU, Benjamin BREBION, Olivier KERBLER
  • Patent number: 10641206
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a nacelle rear assembly for turbojet engine including at least one thrust reverser device to redirect air flow circulating from upstream to downstream in a flow path of the turbojet engine and a mast to link the nacelle to a structure of the aircraft. In one form, the nacelle extends longitudinally from forth to back along an axis and includes a cradle fastened on the mast. In one form, the cradle includes a first longeron and a second longeron extending longitudinally on either side of the mast. The first and second longeron each include a sliding guide device for sliding of a movable cowl and of a cascade of the thrust reverser device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Patrick Boileau, Olivier Kerbler, Julien Lezerac, Armel Gautier, Loïc Grall, Ludovic Toupet
  • Patent number: 10590886
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aircraft turbojet engine nacelle, the nacelle including a rear section without a lower bifurcation, the rear section including a thrust reversal system, the thrust reversal system including a mobile cowl. The nacelle includes a guide system that translates as one with the mobile cowl, the guide system collaborating with at least one slide that is fixed in relation to the nacelle, the guide system and the slide being arranged near the position referred to as the 6 o'clock position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Olivier Kerbler, Fabrice Henri Emile Metezeau, Patrick Gonidec, Loïc Grall
  • Publication number: 20200031485
    Abstract: A nacelle for an aircraft turbojet engine includes a thrust-reversing device with a fixed structure and a movable structure translatably movable along an axis substantially parallel with a longitudinal axis of the nacelle between a retracted position in which it provides aerodynamic continuity with the fixed structure of the nacelle during operation of the nacelle with forward thrust and a deployed position in which it opens a passage intended for the circulation of a diverted secondary air flow during operation of the nacelle with reverse thrust. The nacelle includes at least one position sensor configured and arranged in the nacelle for detecting a deformation of the movable structure exceeding a permitted predetermined deformation threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Olivier KERBLER, Laurent Georges VALLEROY, Corentin HUE, Alexis HEAU
  • Patent number: 10309340
    Abstract: A thrust reverser of a bypass turbojet engine nacelle is disclosed, which includes movable cowls that move backwards with respect to a fixed front structure to uncover thrust reverser cascades and a variable secondary nozzle connected to the movable cowls by guide means allowing an axial sliding of the system which controls the movement of this variable secondary nozzle, wherein it includes cylinders bearing on the front structure for controlling reversal means of the displacement direction connected to the movable cowls, which move the variable secondary nozzle backwards when these cylinders output a forward stroke, as well as blocking devices which connect the secondary nozzle to the movable cowls when this nozzle is deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Patrick Boileau, Olivier Kerbler
  • Patent number: 10294822
    Abstract: A nacelle of a turbine engine includes an external cowling, an internal cowling, and a heat exchanger associated with at least one circulation duct for a fluid. In particular, the circulation duct forms a recirculation loop through the heat exchanger, and the recirculation loop includes at least one circulation area extending at least partially along the external cowling in contact with a wall of the external cowling so as to allow exchange of heat by conduction with the air outside the nacelle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Pierre Caruel, Franck Zaganelli, Patrick Gonidec, Olivier Kerbler
  • Publication number: 20190040816
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion assembly including a bypass turbojet having a stationary inter-compressor casing positioned upstream from a space between passages, a nacelle including at its downstream end an inner wall that defines the outside of the space between passages and the inside of the bypass stream flow passage, and an outer wall arranged around the inner wall and that defines the outside of the bypass stream flow passage, at least a portion of the inner wall being suitable for moving between a maintenance position and a working position, and a thrust-reverser including a downstream element of the outer wall that is movable in translation between a retracted position and a thrust-reversal position in which it allows bypass stream deflector elements to be deployed in a radial direction, the deployment of the stream deflector elements being controlled by guide rods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Carmen Gina ANCUTA, Kevin Morgane LEMARCHAND, Olivier KERBLER, Melody SERISET
  • Patent number: 10167815
    Abstract: A thrust reverser of a turbofan pod is provided that includes movable cowlings that retract relative to stationary front structure to reveal stationary or movable thrust reverser cascades, as well as a secondary variable nozzle section connected to the movable cowlings by guiding means enabling movement controlled by actuators engaged with the front structure to apply an axial thrust. The actuators are directly connected to the secondary nozzle, and in that the thrust reverser comprises latches connected to the movable cowlings, having two positions providing, alternately, latching onto the front structure or latching onto the control of the secondary nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Patrick Boileau, Olivier Kerbler
  • Patent number: 10125721
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a turbojet engine nacelle having a downstream section including a cowl which is ended with a hinged flap constituting a nozzle. In particular, the hinged flap is hingedly and translatably hinged to the cowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Olivier Kerbler, Olivier Gilo, Patrick Gonidec
  • Patent number: 10100780
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a turbojet engine nacelle having an external cowling with an internal wall defining, with an internal fixed structure, an annular flow channel for a secondary airflow and an exhaust nozzle for said secondary airflow. The nozzle includes at least one opening, at least one continuous downstream end portion, downstream of said opening, and at least one door moving between a closed position and an open position allowing the passage of a part of said airflow through said opening. The nacelle is notable in that it includes a shaped device for activation of the door, during their activation from a closed position to an open position of the door, to drive the door in a combined movement that is translational in the direction running upstream from the nacelle and rotary towards the exterior of the nacelle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Sarah Tissot, Xavier Bouteiller, Olivier Kerbler, Patrick Gonidec