Patents by Inventor Patrick Gonidec

Patrick Gonidec 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: 20250109723
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for an aircraft propulsion assembly, including at least one sealing membrane designed to deflect at least one portion of the secondary flow towards a set of cascades when the movable structure of the reverser is in the retracted thrust reversal position, the reverser also including a first flexible hook connecting a first end of the membrane to the fixed structure of the reverser, a second hook connecting a second end of the membrane to the fixed structure or to the movable structure, the second hook being fixed to the radially inner delimiting wall of the secondary vein, or guided by an internal guide fixed to the same radially inner delimiting wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Gina FERRIER, Patrick GONIDEC, Loïc CHAPELAIN (Deceased), Edouard Marie Gabriel RAMSTEIN, Patrick André BOILEAU
  • Publication number: 20250101931
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for an aircraft propulsion assembly, including a fixed structure equipped with at least one cascade as well as a radially inner delimiting wall of a secondary vein, and a movable structure including at least one reverser cowling, the cascade being arranged, in the forward direct thrust position, in a housing of the reverser cowling, and, in the retracted thrust reversal position, the wall reveals a passage opening of the secondary vein towards the cascade, the thrust reverser also including at least one sealing membrane designed to deflect at least one portion of the secondary flow. A hook is provided for securing the membrane to a rear cascade support frame, and to the radially inner delimiting wall of the secondary vein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Loïc CHAPELAIN (Deceased), Patrick André BOILEAU
  • Publication number: 20250052200
    Abstract: An assembly for an aircraft gas turbine engine includes a nacelle extending substantially around a longitudinal axis and including a fixed structure disposed around the aircraft gas turbine engine, the fixed structure including an internal surface suitable for delimiting with an external surface of the gas turbine engine a fire zone of the nacelle, a thermal protection covering the internal surface of the fixed structure of the nacelle at the level of the fire zone of the nacelle, and an extinguisher designed to extinguish a fire in the fire zone of the nacelle, the extinguisher including a tank suitable for containing an extinguishing agent. The tank is located between the thermal protection and the internal surface of the fixed structure of the nacelle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Patrick André BOILEAU
  • Publication number: 20250050148
    Abstract: An assembly for an aircraft propulsion system including a nacelle extending around a longitudinal axis and including an internal face that delimits, with an external face of the aircraft propulsion system, a fire zone, an extinguisher for extinguishing a fire in the fire zone, the extinguisher including a tank for containing an extinguishing agent, and a spraying nozzle for spraying the extinguishing agent out of the tank and into the fire zone, an activation device for activating the extinguisher, and a controller that transmits a control order to the activation device, the activation device receiving the control order and transmitting an activation order to the extinguisher, the activation order activating the extinguisher so as to cause the expulsion of the extinguishing agent via the nozzle. The extinguisher is mounted on the nacelle. The assembly includes one or more of a wireless communicator and a cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Patrick André BOILEAU
  • Patent number: 12163487
    Abstract: A structure comprising a nacelle or a thrust reverser, the structure comprising a stationary part and a movable part, the structure comprising: a first guide provided on or in the stationary part of the structure or the movable part of the structure; a first electrical connector attached to the stationary part of the structure: a second electrical connector attached to the movable part of the structure; and a carriage movable along the first guide: wherein the carriage comprises a closed loop electrical cable mounted in or on a carriage body such that the closed loop cable can rotate, wherein the first electrical connector is electrically connected to the closed loop electrical cable and the closed loop electrical cable is electrically connected to the second electrical connector, thereby providing an electrical connection from the stationary part of the structure to the movable part of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLES LIMITED
    Inventors: James Marquis, Patrick Gonidec, Stuart Hardyman, Loic Chapelain
  • Patent number: 12077309
    Abstract: An acoustic treatment panel intended to be disposed on at least one wall of an aircraft propulsion unit in contact with a fluidic flow, the panel including a first, acoustically reflective skin, a second, acoustically porous skin intended to be in contact with the fluidic flow, and a honeycomb structure extending between the first skin and the second skin and having a plurality of cavities. The panel includes at least one acoustically transparent reinforcing wall passing through a plurality of cavities of the honeycomb structure and extending from the second skin to the first skin, forming a non-orthogonal angle with the first and second skins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Albin Lafont, Virginie Emmanuelle Anne-Marie Digeos, Stuart Hardyman
  • Patent number: 12060850
    Abstract: A door for a thrust reverser of a propulsion assembly, the door being provided with a flexible baffle. The baffle is configured to change state by moving from a folded position to an unfolded position, and vice versa, depending on the configuration of the reverser. When the reverser is in reverse jet configuration, the door is open and the baffle is in an unfolded position in order to direct a flow of gas upstream of the propulsion assembly, thus generating a counter-thrust. When the reverser is in direct jet configuration, the door is closed and the baffle is in a folded position so as to cancel or minimise interference caused by the baffle in the flow of gas passing through the propulsion assembly and thus generating a thrust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Gerard Clere, Alexandre Phi
  • Patent number: 12044193
    Abstract: A thrust reverser including doors and at least one flexible deflector obstructing a lateral opening of the thrust reverser when the doors are open. Such a deflector allows better controlling the airflows in thrust reverser configuration and maximizing the counter-thrust force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Sebastien Laurent Marie Pascal, Patrick Gonidec, Alexandre Phi, Paul Ferrey
  • Publication number: 20240229709
    Abstract: A propulsion unit including: a gas generator including a compressor, a combustion chamber, a turbine, at least two compressed-air propulsion modules, each propulsion module including: a fan, a compressed-air turbine configured to drive the rotation of the fan, a manifold allowing the respective turbines of the compressed-air propulsion modules to be supplied with compressed air, wherein the manifold is configured to collect and mix: at least a portion of the flow that has passed through the combustion chamber of the gas generator, typically as it leaves the turbine, and at least one bypass flow, the bypass flow being a flow of air which is not passed through the combustion chamber of the gas generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicants: INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DE L'AERONAUTIQUE ET DE L'ESPAC, SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Miguel Angel AGUIRRE, Sébastien DUPLAA, Bernard ROBIC, Benoit RODRIGUEZ, Nicolas Jérôme Jean TANTOT
  • Publication number: 20240217667
    Abstract: An acoustic treatment panel intended to be disposed on at least one wall of an aircraft propulsion unit in contact with a fluidic flow, the panel including a first, acoustically reflective skin, a second, acoustically porous skin intended to be in contact with the fluidic flow, and a honeycomb structure extending between the first skin and the second skin and having a plurality of cavities. The panel includes at least one acoustically transparent reinforcing wall passing through a plurality of cavities of the honeycomb structure and extending from the second skin to the first skin, forming a non-orthogonal angle with the first and second skins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Albin LAFONT, Virginie Emmanuelle Anne-Marie DIGEOS, Stuart HARDYMAN
  • Publication number: 20240133339
    Abstract: A propulsion unit including: a gas generator including a compressor, a combustion chamber, a turbine, at least two compressed-air propulsion modules, each propulsion module including: a fan, a compressed-air turbine configured to drive the rotation of the fan, a manifold allowing the respective turbines of the compressed-air propulsion modules to be supplied with compressed air, wherein the manifold is configured to collect and mix: at least a portion of the flow that has passed through the combustion chamber of the gas generator, typically as it leaves the turbine, and at least one bypass flow, the bypass flow being a flow of air which is not passed through the combustion chamber of the gas generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicants: INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DE L'AERONAUTIQUE ET DE L'ESPAC, SAFRAN, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Miguel Angel AGUIRRE, Sébastien DUPLAA, Bernard ROBIC, Benoit RODRIGUEZ, Nicolas Jérôme Jean TANTOT
  • Patent number: 11926409
    Abstract: A propulsive assembly, in particular for an aircraft, comprising a mast and a propulsion device comprising an engine and a nacelle, the engine comprising a propeller, the propulsive assembly comprising: A standby protection device comprising a first connecting member fixedly mounted to the mast and a second connecting member fixedly mounted to the propulsion device, the second connecting member being rotatably hinged with respect to the first connecting member in at least one degree of freedom, and at least one retaining member keeping the second connecting member fixed with respect to the first connecting member, and configured, in the presence of a predetermined unbalance force on the propeller, to release the standby protection device in order to protect the mast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Loic Chapelain, Xavier Carcenac, Vincent Lefeuvre
  • Patent number: 11866183
    Abstract: An aircraft includes a fuselage carrying a nacelle of the aircraft offset relative to a wing of the aircraft. The nacelle forms an air inlet fairing of a propulsion assembly. The nacelle includes a lower wall and an upper wall delimiting together a height of the nacelle. The lower wall includes an air inlet edge being contiguous with a trailing edge of the wing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: Safran Nacelles, Safran Aircraft Engines, INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DE L'AÉRONAUTIQUE ET DE L'ESPACE
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Miguel Angel Aguirre, Nicolas Tantot, Bruno Beutin, Bernard Robic, Sébastien Duplaa
  • Patent number: 11773788
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns the communication between electronic systems in an aircraft subassembly such as a propulsion unit. This communication is at least partially carried out by light signals transmitted through at least one interior volume of the sub-assembly, this interior volume defining an optical channel. To this end, at least one of these systems includes an emitter arranged to emit a light signal and modulate it depending on data to be transmitted generated by this system, and at least one other of these systems includes at least one receiver capable of receiving this light signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Jean-Paul Rami
  • Publication number: 20230039569
    Abstract: A thrust reverser including doors and at least one flexible deflector obstructing a lateral opening of the thrust reverser when the doors are open. Such a deflector allows better controlling the airflows in thrust reverser configuration and maximizing the counter-thrust force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Sebastien Laurent Marie PASCAL, Patrick GONIDEC, Alexandre PHI, Paul FERREY
  • Patent number: 11492128
    Abstract: A method for de-icing or anti-icing an aircraft portion having at least one piezoelectric element fastened on the inner face of the aircraft portion includes, during a design phase of the aircraft portion, placing the piezoelectric element on an area of the aircraft portion to determine frequencies of resonance and increased dynamic coupling, and during the de-icing or anti-icing of the aircraft portion, the same piezoelectric element is excited according to the natural frequencies of the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Jean-Paul Rami, Hakim Maalioune, Rémi Billard, Vincent Rigolet, Jean-Denis Sauzade
  • Publication number: 20220348314
    Abstract: A propulsive assembly, in particular for an aircraft, comprising a mast and a propulsion device comprising an engine and a nacelle, the engine comprising a propeller, the propulsive assembly comprising: A standby protection device comprising a first connecting member fixedly mounted to the mast and a second connecting member fixedly mounted to the propulsion device, the second connecting member being rotatably hinged with respect to the first connecting member in at least one degree of freedom, and at least one retaining member keeping the second connecting member fixed with respect to the first connecting member, and configured, in the presence of a predetermined unbalance force on the propeller, to release the standby protection device in order to protect the mast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Loïc Chapelain, Xavier Carcenac, Vincent Lefeuvre
  • Publication number: 20220316426
    Abstract: A door for a thrust reverser of a propulsion assembly, the door being provided with a flexible baffle. The baffle is configured to change state by moving from a folded position to an unfolded position, and vice versa, depending on the configuration of the reverser. When the reverser is in reverse jet configuration, the door is open and the baffle is in an unfolded position in order to direct a flow of gas upstream of the propulsion assembly, thus generating a counter-thrust. When the reverser is in direct jet configuration, the door is closed and the baffle is in a folded position so as to cancel or minimise interference caused by the baffle in the flow of gas passing through the propulsion assembly and thus generating a thrust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Gerard CLERE, Alexandre PHI
  • Publication number: 20220242583
    Abstract: An aircraft includes a fuselage carrying a nacelle of the aircraft offset relative to a wing of the aircraft. The nacelle forms an air inlet fairing of a propulsion assembly. The nacelle includes a lower wall and an upper wall delimiting together a height of the nacelle. The lower wall includes an air inlet edge being contiguous with a trailing edge of the wing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicants: Safran Nacelles, SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DE L'AERONAUTIQUE ET DE L'ESPACE
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Miguel Angel Aguirre, Nicolas Tantot, Bruno Beutin, Bernard Robic, Sébastien Duplaa
  • 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