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).

  • 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
  • Publication number: 20180216529
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device for de-icing an air intake lip of an aircraft turbojet engine nacelle. The de-icing device includes a de-icing circuit in which a heat transfer fluid, working in a two-phase form, circulates. The de-icing circuit includes at least one device for circulating the heat transfer fluid in the de-icing circuit, a system for heating the heat transfer fluid and configured to change the phase of the fluid to a vapor phase, and an inlet conduit that opens into the lip through a rear wall and injects the vapor phase fluid into the lip. The fluid changes phase when it condenses on the front wall of the lip to de-ice the lip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Hakim MAALIOUNE, Patrick GONIDEC, Jean-Paul RAMI
  • Publication number: 20180187630
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a nacelle for an aircraft turbofan engine and an aircraft that includes a nacelle that includes a supply device for supplying electric power to an electric actuator system allowing movement of a mobile member for deflecting a stream between a first position parallel or substantially parallel to the flow of the stream and a second position allowing the flow of the stream to be deflected so as to modify the path of the stream in one direction and/or the speed of the stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Hakim MAALIOUNE
  • Patent number: 9995246
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for a nacelle of an aircraft turbojet engine includes at least one movable thrust reverser cowl, a means for locking the cowl, a variable section outlet nozzle, and at least one actuator including an actuator rod. The thrust reverser is provided with a resilient coupler comprising a body which is rigidly connected to the thrust reverser cowl and a resilient return and abutment device that engages with the actuating rod of the actuator such as to resiliently return the nozzle to a neutral position. The return device is calibrated such that, when the cowl is unlocked, the return device opposes the relative movement of the actuating rod relative to the cowl, such as to enable the movement of the cowl and the nozzle, and when the cover is locked, the actuator drives the actuating rod against the return device to enable the movement of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Olivier Kerbler, Corentin Hue, Patrick Boileau
  • Publication number: 20180148187
    Abstract: The present disclosure particularly relates to an acoustic attenuation structure for a propulsion assembly of an aircraft. The acoustic attenuation structure includes an acoustically reflective wall and a sandwich panel. The sandwich panel includes a honeycomb structure surrounded by two acoustically porous skins, a rear skin and a skin. The acoustically reflective wall and the sandwich panel are arranged in such a way as to be separated by a layer of air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: Safran Nacelles
    Inventors: Laurent Georges VALLEROY, Marc VERSAEVEL, Bertrand DESJOYEAUX, Patrick GONIDEC
  • Publication number: 20170327240
    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: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Olivier KERBLER, Fabrice Henri Emile METEZEAU, Patrick GONIDEC, Loïc GRALL
  • Publication number: 20170328305
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for a nacelle of an aircraft turbojet engine includes at least one movable thrust reverser cowl, a means for locking the cowl, a variable section outlet nozzle, and at least one actuator including an actuator rod. The thrust reverser is provided with a resilient coupler comprising a body which is rigidly connected to the thrust reverser cowl and a resilient return and abutment device that engages with the actuating rod of the actuator such as to resiliently return the nozzle to a neutral position. The return device is calibrated such that, when the cowl is unlocked, the return device opposes the relative movement of the actuating rod relative to the cowl, such as to enable the movement of the cowl and the nozzle, and when the cover is locked, the actuator drives the actuating rod against the return device to enable the movement of the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Olivier KERBLER, Corentin HUE, Patrick BOILEAU
  • Patent number: 9816301
    Abstract: A locking device includes a locking pair having a bolt to engage with a retainer and a detection linkage. The bolt is movably mounted against a spring which tends to return the bolt to a position spaced apart from the retainer. The detection linkage is also movably mounted between an unlocked position where the detection linkage allows unlocking of the bolt and the retainer. In particular, a portion of the bolt then engages with the detection linkage by means of a detecting part of the detection linkage to block a possible return of the detection linkage towards a locked position where the detection linkage engages with the portion of the bolt so as to oppose to unlocking of the bolt. The detecting part irreversibly drives the detection linkage to its unlocked position even when one locking pair is unlocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventor: Patrick Gonidec
  • Publication number: 20170082064
    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: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Sarah TISSOT, Xavier BOUTEILLER, Olivier KERBLER, Patrick GONIDEC
  • Patent number: 9587583
    Abstract: A turbojet engine nacelle has a thrust reverser device and an actuating system for said thrust reverser device, and the thrust reverser device includes a moving cowl mounted translatably alternating between a closed position and an open position, and a jet nozzle section for gases that extends the moving cowl. In particular, the jet nozzle section includes a nozzle flap mounted movable between a closed position and an open position in which the nozzle flap opens a leakage passage toward the outside of the nozzle section. The actuating system has an actuator shared with the moving cowl and the nozzle flap to activate the translational movement of the moving cowl and to pivot the nozzle flap between three following positions: an idle position, an open position of the nozzle flap and an open position of the moving cowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Pierre Caruel, Patrick Gonidec, Patrick Boileau
  • Patent number: 9518535
    Abstract: A reverse thrust device and a system for actuating the reverse thrust device is provided by the present disclosure. The device includes at least one cowl that is translatably mounted in a direction substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of a nacelle. The actuation system includes an actuation means that is capable of activating translational and rotational movement of the cowl and a panel of a nozzle. The actuation system also includes a downstream locking means for the nozzle and the cowl. The downstream locking means includes at least two reversible states, one of the states being a locked state in which the downstream locking means is suitable for locking the panel of the nozzle into a position for varying the section for outputting the nozzle with the cowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Guy Bernard Vauchel, Patrick Gonidec
  • Patent number: 9334831
    Abstract: A nacelle for an aircraft bypass turbofan engine includes an upstream section via which an airflow enters, a middle section surrounding the fan of the turbofan and a downstream section having an inner structure and an outer structure delimiting a flow duct in which the air flows. The outer structure includes one cowling movably mounted on the inner fixed structure. The nacelle also has a top to accept a pylon for attaching a wing of the aircraft. The nacelle further includes one first panel mounted on the inner structure on one side of the nacelle and one second panel mounted on the other side of the nacelle. The first panel undergoes a physical interference with a part of the wing. The second panel increases the air removed from this other side of the nacelle during thrust reversal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Alexandre Bellanger
  • Publication number: 20160115902
    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: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Olivier KERBLER, Olivier GILO, Patrick GONIDEC
  • Publication number: 20160040624
    Abstract: A nacelle jet pipe is equipped with a device for regulating the pressure of a flow of air leaving the jet pipe. The device includes an annular element surrounding the downstream end of the jet pipe, and an adjuster to adjust the position of part of the annular element in relation to the downstream end of the jet pipe. In particular, the annular element forms, with the downstream end of the jet pipe, a constricted zone the widest part of which is situated upstream of the narrowest part and the profile of which can be varied according to the position of the annular element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Xavier Bouteiller, Patrick Gonidec, Laurent Albert Blin
  • Publication number: 20150354499
    Abstract: A turbojet engine nacelle has a thrust reverser device and an actuating system for said thrust reverser device, and the thrust reverser device includes a moving cowl mounted translatably alternating between a closed position and an open position, and a jet nozzle section for gases that extends the moving cowl. In particular, the jet nozzle section includes a nozzle flap mounted movable between a closed position and an open position in which the nozzle flap opens a leakage passage toward the outside of the nozzle section. The actuating system has an actuator shared with the moving cowl and the nozzle flap to activate the translational movement of the moving cowl and to pivot the nozzle flap between three following positions: an idle position, an open position of the nozzle flap and an open position of the moving cowl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Pierre CARUEL, Patrick GONIDEC, Patrick BOILEAU
  • Patent number: 9193468
    Abstract: An assembly to hold an interface of a stationary outer structure of a nacelle and a casing of a jet engine includes first and second raised elements and two half rings. The first raised element belongs to an upstream end of the stationary outer structure, and the second raised element belongs to a downstream end of the casing. The first and second raised elements are formed so as to be placed in contact with each other, and the two half-rings are formed by a wall and an abutment. The wall defines a housing to receive the first and second raised elements when the casing and the stationary outer structure are mounted edge to edge, and the abutment is formed so as to keep the first and second raised elements in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Guy Bernard Vauchel, Pierre Caruel, Patrick Gonidec, Georges Alain Bouret
  • Patent number: 9151225
    Abstract: An air intake structure for a turbojet engine nacelle includes a substantially annular main structure having an internal wall, an external wall and an air intake lip structure connecting the external and internal walls upstream. The air intake structure also includes a first acoustic attenuation structure which has a holed acoustic skin, a cellular core and a solid rear skin with which the internal wall is equipped, and a second acoustic attenuation structure having a similar architecture fitted to a part of the air intake lip substantially near a junction with the internal wall. The rear skin of the first acoustic attenuation structure is aligned with the rear skin of the second acoustic attenuation structure, both of rear skins being structural.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Nicolas Dezeustre, Pierre Caruel, Patrick Gonidec, Patrick Boileau
  • Publication number: 20150267643
    Abstract: A cascade-type thrust reverser for an aircraft turbojet engine includes a front frame, a sliding cowl between a direct jet position and a reverse jet position, a plurality of actuating cylinders interposed between this front frame and this sliding cowl, and a plurality of cascades pivotally mounted on the front frame between the direct and reverse jet positions. In the direct jet position, the cascades are substantially parallel to the axis (A) of the thrust reverser, and in the reverse jet position, the cascades are inclined relative to the axis (A) of the thrust reverser. In particular, the cascade-type thrust reverser includes a single radial layer of cascades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Laurent Albert Blin, Olivier Kerbler
  • Publication number: 20150210400
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a component of an aircraft nacelle formed from at least one composite structure and one heating element. The nacelle includes frost protector, and the composite structure has a matrix reinforced by at least a material of which the heat conductivity at ambient temperature that is greater than or equal to 800 W·m?1·K?1, so as to provide transverse heat conductivity within the nacelle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Bertrand Desjoyeaux, Caroline Coat-Lenzotti
  • Publication number: 20150030445
    Abstract: A nacelle for a turbojet engine has a longitudinal axis and a rear section including an annular vein formed by a wall of a fixed internal structure and a wall of an external structure. The nacelle includes a device for modulating the cross-section of a space formed by the annular vein. The device includes an injector to inject an auxiliary flow of a gas so as to vary the orientation or speed of the auxiliary flow, a suction orifice for drawing in part of the injected auxiliary flow, and an internal auxiliary flow return area in one or more walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Patrick GONIDEC, Laurent Albert Blin