Patents by Inventor Patrice Eneau

Patrice Eneau 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).

  • Publication number: 20180318913
    Abstract: A moulding unit for producing a turbomachine blade blank. The moulding unit has an upstream portion and a downstream portion. According to the invention, the moulding unit comprises a raised portion designed to form a downstream opening which, at the level of the trailing edge, passes through at least one of the side edges of the basin-like portion at the blade tip. The raised portion rigidly secures the upstream portion to the downstream portion and comprises a strengthening protuberance extending in the transverse direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Matthieu Jean Luc Vollebregt, Charlotte Marie Dujol, Patrice Eneau, Coralie Geurard, Patrick Emilien Paul Emile Huchin
  • Publication number: 20180306035
    Abstract: A turbine blade including a root bearing an aerofoil extending in a direction of span and ending in a tip, this aerofoil including a leading edge and a trailing edge which are connected by a pressure face wall and a suction face wall, the trailing edge including on the pressure face side cooling slots. The trailing edge includes one or more first slots close to the root, which are supplied via a lower cavity; one or more last slots near the tip which are supplied via an upper cavity; intermediate slots situated between the first slots and the last slots supplied with air via a downstream line set; and wherein the lower cavities and upper cavities and the downstream line set are supplied distinctly at the level of the root.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Patrice ENEAU, Sebastien Serge Francis CONGRATEL, Charlotte Marie DUJOL, Philippe PICOT
  • Patent number: 9981308
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a core for molding a blade of a turbomachine, including placing a flexible ceramic sheet in a cavity of a mold in such a way as to shape the ceramic sheet, introducing a ceramic paste into the cavity of the mold, the ceramic paste forming at least one frame in contact with the ceramic sheet, and co-sintering the ceramic sheet and the frame in such a way as to rigidly join together the ceramic sheet and the frame, the frame maintaining the shape of the ceramic sheet given by the mold during the preceding co-sintering phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sebastien Digard Brou De Cuissart, Charlotte Marie Dujol, Patrice Eneau, Philippe Metron, Matthieu Jean-Luc Vollebregt
  • Publication number: 20180073373
    Abstract: A ceramic core used for fabricating a hollow turbine blade for a turbine engine by using the lost-wax casting technique and shaped to constitute the cavities of the blade as a single element, includes, in order to feed the insides of these cavities jointly with cooling air, core portions that are to form first and second lateral cavities and that are connected to a core portion that is to form at least one central cavity, firstly in the core root via at least two ceramic junctions, and secondly at various heights up the core via a plurality of other ceramic junctions of positioning that defines the thickness of the internal partitions of the blade, while also ensuring additional cooling air for predetermined critical zones of the first and second lateral cavities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicants: SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sylvain PAQUIN, Charlotte Marie DUJOL, Patrice ENEAU, Hugues Denis JOUBERT, Adrien Bernard Vincent ROLLINGER
  • Patent number: 9890644
    Abstract: A foundry core for manufacturing a blade of a turbomachine including a tip section offset, including a core element for forming various internal cavities, the core element including a leading-edge cavity internal core, central cavity internal cores, and a trailing-edge cavity internal core. The internal core for the central cavity adjacent to the internal core for the trailing-edge cavity includes a bulge extending toward the core for the leading-edge cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Huu-Thanh Tran, Michael Hansom, Christian Bariaud, Patrice Eneau
  • Patent number: 9869187
    Abstract: The internal cooling of moving blades of turbines in aircraft turbomachines is limited in effectiveness because of inhomogeneities of this cooling on each of the pressure-side and suction-side walls. To address this problem, there is proposed a blade including a circuit for cooling the airfoil part thereof, in which circuit the cavities interconnected in series are such that the stream of air flows radially toward the outside along the pressure-side wall in pressure-side cavities, and radially toward the inside along the suction-side wall in a suction-side cavity that is separated from the pressure-side cavities by an internal wall of the airfoil part. In this way, the force of the Coriolis effect deflects the stream of air toward each of the pressure-side and suction-side walls thereby limiting the inhomogeneity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Charlotte Marie Dujol, Patrice Eneau, Sebastien Digard Brou De Cuissart, Matthieu Jean-Luc Vollebregt
  • Publication number: 20170191368
    Abstract: A turbine blade including a root, a vane extending in a spanwise direction, ending at a tip and including a leading edge and a trailing edge and a pressure-side wall and a suction-side wall, the vane further including at least one upstream duct configured to collect air at the root to cool the leading edge, discharging the air through holes passing through the wall of the leading edge; at least one downstream duct separate from the upstream duct and configured to collect air at the root to cool the trailing edge, discharging the air through holes passing through the pressure wall upstream from the trailing edge; an inner side cavity running along the pressure-side wall to form a heat shield insulating the downstream duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Charlotte Marie DUJOL, Patrice ENEAU
  • Publication number: 20170183969
    Abstract: A turbine blade for a turbomachine such as a turboprop or a turbojet, the blade including a root, a vane carried by the root and extending in a spanwise direction, ending at a tip, the vane including a pressure-side wall and a suction-side wall spaced apart from each other, and at least one duct configured to collect cooling air at the root and to make same flow in the vane in order to cool same; holes and/or slots made in the walls of same in order to discharge the cooling air out of the vane; an upper inner cavity located at the tip of the vane in order to cool same; and wherein at least one of the ducts directly supplies the upper cavity with cooling air collected in the root.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Charlotte Marie DUJOL, Patrice ENEAU, Sebastien DIGARD BROU DE CUISSART, Matthieu Jean-Luc VOLLEBREGT
  • Publication number: 20170183970
    Abstract: A turbine blade for a turbomachine, including a vane extending in a spanwise direction between a root and a tip, a first inner side cavity running along a pressure-side wall and a second inner side cavity running along a suction-side wall. The blade further includes at least one inner central duct configured to collect air intended to cool the vane. The central duct extends between the side cavities, being separated from the side cavities to be at least partially thermally isolated from the pressure-side wall and the suction-side wall. The side cavities communicate with each other in a junction region located downstream from the central duct, over a majority of a height of the central duct in the spanwise direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Charlotte Marie DUJOL, Patrice ENEAU
  • Publication number: 20170151604
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a core for molding a blade of a turbomachine, including placing a flexible ceramic sheet in a cavity of a mold in such a way as to shape the ceramic sheet, introducing a ceramic paste into the cavity of the mold, the ceramic paste forming at least one frame in contact with the ceramic sheet, and co-sintering the ceramic sheet and the frame in such a way as to rigidly join together the ceramic sheet and the frame, the frame maintaining the shape of the ceramic sheet given by the mold during the preceding co-sintering phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sebastien DIGARD BROU DE CUISSART, Charlotte DUJOL, Patrice ENEAU, Philippe METRON, Matthieu Jean-Luc VOLLEBREGT
  • Publication number: 20170037733
    Abstract: The internal cooling of moving blades of turbines in aircraft turbomachines is limited in effectiveness because of inhomogeneities of this cooling on each of the pressure-side and suction-side walls. To address this problem, there is proposed a blade including a circuit for cooling the airfoil part thereof, in which circuit the cavities interconnected in series are such that the stream of air flows radially toward the outside along the pressure-side wall in pressure-side cavities, and radially toward the inside along the suction-side wall in a suction-side cavity that is separated from the pressure-side cavities by an internal wall of the airfoil part. In this way, the force of the Coriolis effect deflects the stream of air toward each of the pressure-side and suction-side walls thereby limiting the inhomogeneity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Charlotte Marie DUJOL, Patrice ENEAU, Sebastien DIGARD BROU DE CUISSART, Matthieu Jean-Luc VOLLEBREGT
  • Publication number: 20150132139
    Abstract: A foundry core for manufacturing a blade of a turbomachine including a tip section offset, including a core element for forming various internal cavities, the core element including a leading-edge cavity internal core, central cavity internal cores, and a trailing-edge cavity internal core. The internal core for the central cavity adjacent to the internal core for the trailing-edge cavity includes a bulge extending toward the core for the leading-edge cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Huu-Thanh Tran, Michael Hansom, Christian Bariaud, Patrice Eneau
  • Patent number: 7670112
    Abstract: A turbine blade, including an intrados wall, an extrados wall, at least one first radial trailing edge cavity, at least one second radial cavity upstream of the trailing edge cavity, an internal wall separating the radial cavities and with at least one channel connecting the cavities to one another, the channel being oriented in an axis intersecting the internal surface of the intrados wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Auguste Amedee Boury, Patrice Eneau, Guy Moreau
  • Patent number: 7661930
    Abstract: A moving blade for a turbomachine with a central portion that is geometrically subdivided into four adjacent pressure-side zones disposed on the pressure side of the blade, and into four adjacent suction-side zones disposed on the suction side of the blade, the pressure-side and suction-side zones being distributed on either side of the skeleton of the blade, and the blade including in its central portion a pressure-side cooling circuit and a suction-side cooling circuit, the pressure-side cooling circuit including three radial cavities occupying three adjacent pressure-side zones, and the suction-side cooling circuit including three radial cavities occupying the four suction-side zones and the remaining pressure-side zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Snecma
    Inventors: Pascal Deschamps, Patrice Eneau, Thomas Potier
  • Patent number: 7513739
    Abstract: A moving blade for a turbomachine, the central portion of the blade including a pressure-side cooling circuit and a suction-side cooling circuit. The pressure-side circuit comprises at least first and second pressure-side cavities extending from the pressure side of the blade to a central wall, a central cavity extending from the pressure side to the suction side of the blade, and outlet orifices opening out from the central cavity and into the pressure-side face of the blade. The suction-side circuit comprises at least first and second suction-side cavities extending radially from the suction side of the blade to the central wall, a central cavity extending across the blade from the pressure side to the suction side, and outlet orifices opening out from the central cavity and into the pressure-side face of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Snecma
    Inventors: Jacques Auguste Amedee Boury, Patrice Eneau, Sylvain Paquin
  • Publication number: 20070128036
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of turbine blades for a turbo machine, in particular a turbine blade (1), including an intrados wall (2), an extrados wall (3), at least one first radial trailing edge cavity (4), at least one second radial cavity (5) upstream of the trailing edge cavity (4), an internal wall (6) separating the radial cavities (4 and 5) and comprising at least one channel (7) connecting the cavities (4 and 5) to one another, the said channel (7) being oriented in an axis (71) intersecting the internal surface (42) of the intrados wall (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Boury, Patrice Eneau, Guy Moreau
  • Publication number: 20070122282
    Abstract: The invention relates to moving blade for a turbomachine. The central portion of the blade is geometrically subdivided into four adjacent pressure-side zones disposed on the pressure side of the blade, and into four adjacent suction-side zones disposed on the suction side of the blade, the pressure-side and suction-side zones being distributed on either side of the skeleton of the blade, and the blade including in its central portion a pressure-side cooling circuit and a suction-side cooling circuit, the pressure-side cooling circuit comprising three radial cavities occupying three adjacent pressure-side zones, and the suction-side cooling circuit comprising three radial cavities occupying the four suction-side zones and the remaining pressure-side zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Pascal Deschamps, Patrice Eneau, Thomas Potier
  • Publication number: 20070116570
    Abstract: A moving blade for a turbomachine, the central portion of the blade including a pressure-side cooling circuit and a suction-side cooling circuit. The pressure-side circuit comprises at least first and second pressure-side cavities extending from the pressure side of the blade to a central wall, a central cavity extending from the pressure side to the suction side of the blade, and outlet orifices opening out from the central cavity and into the pressure-side face of the blade. The suction-side circuit comprises at least first and second suction-side cavities extending radially from the suction side of the blade to the central wall, a central cavity extending across the blade from the pressure side to the suction side, and outlet orifices opening out from the central cavity and into the pressure-side face of the blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Boury, Patrice Eneau, Sylvain Paquin
  • Patent number: 7192251
    Abstract: A gas turbine blade comprising an internal cooling circuit consisting of at least one cavity extending radially between the base and tip of the blade, at least one air inlet aperture at one radial end of the cavity and at least one air outlet orifice opening into the cavity and emerging onto one of the faces of the blade. At least one of the walls of the cavity of the cooling circuit comprises at least one air deflector whereof the shape and dimensions are adapted to project the air flowing along the wall of the cavity towards an opposite wall of the cavity whilst avoiding re-attachment of the boundary layer immediately downstream of the air deflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Auguste Amedee Boury, Patrice Eneau, Guy Moreau
  • Publication number: 20070048136
    Abstract: A gas turbine blade comprising an internal cooling circuit consisting of at least one cavity extending radially between the base and tip of the blade, at least one air inlet aperture at one radial end of the cavity and at least one air outlet orifice opening into the cavity and emerging onto one of the faces of the blade. At least one of the walls of the cavity of the cooling circuit comprises at least one air deflector whereof the shape and dimensions are adapted to project the air flowing along said wall of the cavity towards an opposite wall of said cavity whilst avoiding re-attachment of the boundary layer immediately downstream of said air deflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Jacques Boury, Patrice Eneau, Guy Moreau