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).
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Publication number: 20150030446Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: AircelleInventors: Patrick Gonidec, Laurent Albert Blin
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Publication number: 20140369812Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Pierre CARUEL, Franck ZAGANELLI, Patrick GONIDEC, Olivier KERBLER
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Publication number: 20140360158Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Laurent Albert Blin, Xavier Bouteiller, LoÏc Chapelain
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Publication number: 20140291066Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Nicolas DEZEUSTRE, Pierre CARUEL, Patrick GONIDEC, Patrick BOILEAU
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Patent number: 8833055Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: AircelleInventors: Patrick Gonidec, Philippe Avenel, Pierre Moradell-Casallas
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Publication number: 20140245716Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: AIRCELLEInventor: Patrick GONIDEC
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Publication number: 20140225380Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: AIRCELLEInventor: Patrick GONIDEC
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Patent number: 8764072Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 22, 2013Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: AircelleInventor: Patrick Gonidec
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Patent number: 8640825Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 14, 2009Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: AircelleInventors: Guy Bernard Vauchel, Emmanuel Drevon, Patrick Gonidec, Guillaume Ruckert, Eric Conete, Renaud Barreteau
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Publication number: 20130280052Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Alexandre Bellager
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Publication number: 20130234447Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: AIRCELLEInventor: Patrick Gonidec
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Publication number: 20120217372Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2010Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: AIRCELLEInventors: Guy Bernard Vauchel, Pierre Caruel, Patrick Gonidec, Georges Alain Bouret
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Publication number: 20110108357Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicants: AIRCELLE, SNECMA PROPULSION SOLIDEInventors: Guy Bernard Vauchel, Emmanuel Drevon, Patrick Gonidec, Guillaume Ruckert, Eric Conete, Renaud Barreteau
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Publication number: 20090165463Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2007Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: AIRCELLEInventors: Bernard G Vauchel, Patrick Gonidec, Gerard P Rouyer
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Patent number: 6837459Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 9, 2001Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: AircelleInventors: Patrick Gonidec, François Pierre Clément Grigis
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Patent number: 6688098Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 4, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Hurel Hispano Le-HavreInventors: Pascal-Gérard Rouyer, Patrick Gonidec
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Publication number: 20040000615Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2003Publication date: January 1, 2004Inventors: Patrick Gonidec, Francois Pierre Clement Grigis
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Patent number: 6622964Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 3, 2002Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: Hurel Hispano-le-HavreInventors: Pascal Gérard Rouyer, Patrick Gonidec
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Publication number: 20020145078Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2002Publication date: October 10, 2002Applicant: HUREL HISPANO-LE-HAVREInventors: Pascal Gerard Rouyer, Patrick Gonidec
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Patent number: 6274216Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 22, 1999Date of Patent: August 14, 2001Assignee: Hispano Suiza AerostructuresInventors: Patrick Gonidec, Jean Adam Roger Treger