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: 20150030446
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a nacelle for a turbojet engine, including an upstream section forming an air intake lip and defining a space for the circulation of a main air flow. The nacelle includes a device for modulating the cross-section of the space and has means for injecting an auxiliary flow of a gas by means of an induced ejector effect; suction means for drawing in the injected auxiliary flow; and an internal auxiliary flow return area in one or more walls, the area being configured to allow the circulation of the injected auxiliary flow and the drawn-in auxiliary flow and to bring part of the injected auxiliary flow into contact with the main air flow. The internal return area includes an outer front part forming an area in which the thickness of the internal return area is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Aircelle
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Laurent Albert Blin
  • Publication number: 20140369812
    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: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Pierre CARUEL, Franck ZAGANELLI, Patrick GONIDEC, Olivier KERBLER
  • Publication number: 20140360158
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for aircraft turbojet engine nacelle includes at least one upstream door and a downstream door. The upstream and downstream doors move in concert between a direct jet position and a reverse jet position. In the direct jet position, two doors are closed, and in the reverse jet position the two doors are open and able to deflect a part of a cold air flow circulating inside the nacelle. The thrust reverser further includes a curved downstream edge of the upstream door to make adapted a part of cold air flow circulating between an upper camber of the upstream door and a lower camber of the downstream door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Laurent Albert Blin, Xavier Bouteiller, LoÏc Chapelain
  • Publication number: 20140291066
    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: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Nicolas DEZEUSTRE, Pierre CARUEL, Patrick GONIDEC, Patrick BOILEAU
  • Patent number: 8833055
    Abstract: A locking/unlocking device for a thrust reverser with sliding cover and adaptive nozzle is provided that includes a fixed pin secured to a fixed structure of the reverser, a first sleeve secured to the sliding cover and able to accommodate the pin, a second sleeve slidably mounted on the first sleeve, a third sleeve secured to the adaptive nozzle and slidably mounted on the second sleeve, first locking means able to lock the first sleeve with respect to the pin, second locking means able to lock the second sleeve with respect to the first sleeve, and third locking means able to lock the third sleeve with respect to the second sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Aircelle
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Philippe Avenel, Pierre Moradell-Casallas
  • Publication number: 20140245716
    Abstract: A thrust reverser for a turbojet aircraft engine nacelle includes a pair of twin doors including an upstream door and a downstream door which is connected to the upstream door by a connecting rod. The thrust reverse also includes an actuating cylinder for operating the upstream door between a direct jet position in which the two doors are closed and a reversed jet position in which the two doors are open and deflects a portion of a cold air stream flowing inside the nacelle. A locking system of the thrust reverser locks the upstream and downstream doors relative to one another by the operation of the actuating cylinder alone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventor: Patrick GONIDEC
  • Publication number: 20140225380
    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: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventor: Patrick GONIDEC
  • Patent number: 8764072
    Abstract: A locking device includes a bolt capable of engaging with a corresponding hook, the bolt being mounted against a resilient return spring that tends to return the bolt into a spaced apart position. The locking device further includes a detection linkage, which is moveable between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the linkage enables unlocking of the bolt and the hook. In the second position, the linkage engages with a portion of the locking pair so as to block the unlocking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Aircelle
    Inventor: Patrick Gonidec
  • Patent number: 8640825
    Abstract: The invention relates to an acoustic panel (20) for an ejector nozzle (10) comprising the following main components: an external skin (22) containing acoustic holes (29); an internal skin (23); an acoustic structure (21) comprising alveolar-core cells (27) between the internal skin (23) and the external skin (22). At least one main component selected from the external skin (22), the internal skin (23) and the acoustic structure (21) is formed by a composite material and the acoustic structure (21) is held in contact with either or both of the internal (23) and external (22) skins by compression by elastic means and/or by fixing by mechanical fixing means (24). The invention also relates to an injector nozzle (10) and a nacelle (1) comprising such an acoustic panel (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Aircelle
    Inventors: Guy Bernard Vauchel, Emmanuel Drevon, Patrick Gonidec, Guillaume Ruckert, Eric Conete, Renaud Barreteau
  • Publication number: 20130280052
    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: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Alexandre Bellager
  • Publication number: 20130234447
    Abstract: A locking device includes a bolt capable of engaging with a corresponding hook, the bolt being mounted against a resilient return spring that tends to return the bolt into a spaced apart position. The locking device further includes a detection linkage, which is moveable between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the linkage enables unlocking of the bolt and the hook. In the second position, the linkage engages with a portion of the locking pair so as to block the unlocking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventor: Patrick Gonidec
  • Publication number: 20120217372
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly for holding the interface of a stationary outer structure (15) of a nacelle (3) and housing (27) of a jet engine (5), said assembly including: a first raised element belonging to the upstream end of the stationary outer structure (15); a second raised element belonging to the downstream end of the housing (27), said first and second raised elements being formed so as to be placed in contact with each other; two half-rings (109) formed by a wall defining a recess that is formed so as to receive the first and second raised elements when the housing (27) and the stationary outer structure (15) are mounted edge to edge; and an abutment means formed so as to keep the first and second raised elements in the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Guy Bernard Vauchel, Pierre Caruel, Patrick Gonidec, Georges Alain Bouret
  • Publication number: 20110108357
    Abstract: The invention relates to an acoustic panel (20) for an ejector nozzle (10) comprising the following main components: an external skin (22) containing acoustic holes (29); an internal skin (23); an acoustic structure (21) comprising alveolar-core cells (27) between the internal skin (23) and the external skin (22). At least one main component selected from the external skin (22), the internal skin (23) and the acoustic structure (21) is formed by a composite material and the acoustic structure (21) is held in contact with either or both of the internal (23) and external (22) skins by compression by elastic means and/or by fixing by mechanical fixing means (24). The invention also relates to an injector nozzle (10) and a nacelle (1) comprising such an acoustic panel (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicants: AIRCELLE, SNECMA PROPULSION SOLIDE
    Inventors: Guy Bernard Vauchel, Emmanuel Drevon, Patrick Gonidec, Guillaume Ruckert, Eric Conete, Renaud Barreteau
  • Publication number: 20090165463
    Abstract: The invention concerns a fixing system for at least one component of a pod of a turbojet on an engine strut to which the pod is attached and comprising at least one coupling zone provided by the component capable of co-operating with at least one complimentary coupling zone provided by the strut, and fixing means for providing with complementary fixing means a rigid and detachable connection between said component and the strut. The invention is wherein the fixing means and the complementary fixing means are capable of slightly pivoting relative to each other, as well as relative to a corresponding pod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: AIRCELLE
    Inventors: Bernard G Vauchel, Patrick Gonidec, Gerard P Rouyer
  • Patent number: 6837459
    Abstract: An air intake of a turbofan engine, capable of being fixed at the front of an engine casing enclosing the fan. The air intake includes an annular inner wall, an annular outer cowl radially spaced apart from the inner wall and of the outer cowl, a front annular partition linking downstream ends of the inner wall and of the outer cowl, a rear annular flange located in an extension of the inner wall to fix the air intake in front of the engine casing, and a front annular lip that forms with the front partition an annular de-icing chamber capable of being connected to a defrosting system. The air intake is made in at least two separable parts. The separation plane of the two parts passes outside the de-icing chamber, the inner wall, and the rear flange, and cuts out a dome in the outer cowl and a crescent with rectilinear edge in the rear partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Aircelle
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, François Pierre Clément Grigis
  • Patent number: 6688098
    Abstract: A backup locking system for a thrust reverser door comprises a catch pivotally mounted by a pivot pin to a fixed structure of the thrust reverser. A hook with a self-locking profile is provided at the free end of said catch for cooperation with a locking interface on the door in the event of failure of the normal locking systems. At its other end remote from said hook, the catch has a heel ending in a part-cylindrical surface which is concentric with said pivot pin. The catch is urged against the locking interface by a piston rod which presses against a front face of said heel under the force of a spring acting on a piston to which said piston rod is attached. When the rod is retracted, a double lever positively moves the catch toward a minimum opening angle, at which point the door can be opened. An unlocking spring causes the full opening of the catch to maximum open position when an opening lever is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Hurel Hispano Le-Havre
    Inventors: Pascal-Gérard Rouyer, Patrick Gonidec
  • Publication number: 20040000615
    Abstract: The invention concerns an air intake of a turbofan engine, capable of being fixed at the front of an engine casing enclosing said fan, and comprising an annular inner wall (6), an annular outer cowl (5) radially spaced apart from the inner wall (6), an annular rear wall (2) linking the upstream ends of the inner wall (6) and of the outer cowl (5), a front annular partition linking the downstream ends of the inner wall (6) and of the outer cowl (5), a rear annular flange (1) located in the extension of the inner wall (6) and designed to fix said air intake in front of the engine casing and a front annular lip (4) which forms with the front partition an annular de-icing chamber capable of being connected to a defrosting system, said air intake being made in at least two separable parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Francois Pierre Clement Grigis
  • Patent number: 6622964
    Abstract: In a turbojet thrust reverser comprising, in an annular section of an outer cowling of the turbojet, a number of movable doors which, in an inactive position during operation in a forward thrust configuration, close off passages separating rigid spars of a fixed structure, there is provided, between two adjacent doors, a locking system which allows substantially simultaneous opening of the two doors. The locking system comprises, for each door, at least one hook mounted on the fixed structure so that it can be pivoted by an olive secured to the door between a door locking position and an unlocked position during opening or closing movement of the door. The two hooks of the locking system are rotationally interlinked by a mechanical linkage device, for example link rods, so as to prevent the unlocking of one door if the other door is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Hurel Hispano-le-Havre
    Inventors: Pascal Gérard Rouyer, Patrick Gonidec
  • Publication number: 20020145078
    Abstract: In a turbojet thrust reverser comprising, in an annular section of an outer cowling of the turbojet, a number of movable doors which, in an inactive position during operation in a forward thrust configuration, close off passages separating rigid spars of a fixed structure, there is provided, between two adjacent doors, a locking system which allows substantially simultaneous opening of said two doors. The locking system comprises, for each door, at least one hook mounted on said fixed structure so that it can be pivoted by an olive secured to said door between a door locking position and an unlocked position during opening or closing movement of the door. The two hooks of the locking system are rotationally interlinked by a mechanical linkage device, for example link rods, so as to prevent the unlocking of one door if the other door is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2002
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Applicant: HUREL HISPANO-LE-HAVRE
    Inventors: Pascal Gerard Rouyer, Patrick Gonidec
  • Patent number: 6274216
    Abstract: A conventional honeycomb structure is strengthened by intermediate membranes (13), which compartmentalize the cells (5) in the height-wise direction. Such a structure more particularly has an increased mechanical strength and high damping properties for Helmholtz resonators intended to trap sound waves arriving on the structure by a perforated face (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Hispano Suiza Aerostructures
    Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Jean Adam Roger Treger