Patents by Inventor Patrick Joseph Marie Girard

Patrick Joseph Marie Girard 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: 20240263560
    Abstract: Blade of a turbomachine turbine including a airfoil extending along a first direction between an internal end and an external end, a base secured to said internal end, and a root secured to said external end and extending, along a second direction perpendicular to said first direction, between an upstream edge, and a downstream edge and, along a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, between first and second lateral edges, the first side edge having, in a plane including the second and third directions, a shape complementary to that of the second lateral edge. The first lateral edge includes a first portion extending from the upstream edge, and a second portion externally protruding along the third direction at an acute angle with the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph Marie GIRARD, Didier René André ESCURE, Matthieu Arnaud GIMAT, Sébastien Serge Francis CONGRATEL, Arthur DE CASTRO
  • Patent number: 10539028
    Abstract: A method optimizing a composite material blade profile for a rotor wheel of a turbine engine, and a blade including a tang compensated by the method. The method includes: compensating a blade airfoil by subdividing the airfoil into slices, and for each airfoil slice and a predetermined rotation speed of a disk of the wheel, calculating centrifugal force applied to the slice, calculating an aerodynamic force moment acting on a bottom section of the slice, and calculating shift values to be applied to a center of gravity of the slice to cancel the aerodynamic force moment; and compensating the blade tang by calculating centrifugal force applied to a blade portion situated beyond the airfoil neck, calculating an aerodynamic force moment acting on a bottom section of the blade tang, and calculating shift values to be applied to a center of gravity of the blade tang to cancel the aerodynamic force moment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignees: SNECMA, HERAKLES
    Inventors: Sylvain Yves Jean Duval, Clement Roussille, Alain Schweitzer, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard
  • Patent number: 9752506
    Abstract: A device for connecting a fixed turbine engine portion and a distributor foot of a turbine engine turbine is provided. The device includes a ring-shaped body adapted so as to be connected and secured to the fixed turbine engine portion, and two ring-shaped upstream and downstream brackets secured to the body, both brackets being adapted so as to clamp the foot of the distributor. At least one bracket is interrupted by forming an expansion or retraction slot, the slot allowing an expansion of the bracket tending to close the slot or retraction of the bracket tending to further open the slot, under the effect of a difference in internal temperatures of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Eric Schwartz, Fabien Garnier, Helene Condat, Renaud Gabriel Constant Royan, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard
  • Patent number: 9683452
    Abstract: A turbine for a gas turbine engine comprising at least one turbine stator and one turbine rotor, said turbine stator comprising at least one inner annular platform, said inner platform comprising a radial wall delimiting at least one cavity between the turbine stator and the turbine rotor, wherein the turbine rotor comprises at least one elongate element positioned substantially axially and defining a sealing baffle in said cavity, and in that the turbine stator comprises at least one element made of abradable material designed to engage with said elongate element of the turbine rotor so as to form a labyrinth seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Florent Pierre Antoine Luneau, Alain Dominique Gendraud, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard, Sebastien Jean Laurent Prestel
  • Patent number: 9631557
    Abstract: A sealing device for a nozzle of a turbomachine turbine including a turbine rotor. The turbine nozzle includes at least one inner annular platform. The turbine rotor includes a downstream spoiler disposed substantially axially. The sealing device includes at least one sealing sheet disposed, radially, between the inner face of the inner platform and the downstream spoiler of the rotor of the turbine so as to form an overlap clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Florent Pierre Antoine Luneau, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard, Sebastien Jean Laurent Prestel, Jean-Luc Soupizon
  • Patent number: 9194240
    Abstract: A vibration damper between outer platforms of adjacent composite-material blades of a turbine engine rotor wheel, the damper including a peg having a substantially spherical portion at each of its two ends, and two hollow inserts for being received in tangential cavities that are provided facing each other in outer platforms of two adjacent composite-material blades of a turbine engine rotor wheel, each spherical portion of the peg coming to bear with point contact against the inside of one of the inserts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignees: SNECMA, HERAKLES
    Inventors: Stephane Pierre Guillaume Blanchard, Thierry Fachat, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard, Clement Roussille
  • Patent number: 9188014
    Abstract: A vibration damper between outer platforms of adjacent composite-material blades of a rotor wheel of a turbine engine, the damper including a strip for inserting lengthwise in tangential cavities that are formed facing each other in the outer platforms of two adjacent composite-material blades of a turbine engine rotor wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignees: SNECMA, HERAKLES
    Inventors: Thierry Fachat, Jean-Luc Soupizon, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard
  • Publication number: 20140205442
    Abstract: A sealing device for a nozzle of a turbomachine turbine including a turbine rotor. The turbine nozzle includes at least one inner annular platform. The turbine rotor includes a downstream spoiler disposed substantially axially. The sealing device includes at least one sealing sheet disposed, radially, between the inner face of the inner platform and the downstream spoiler of the rotor of the turbine so as to form an overlap clearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Florent Pierre Antoine Luneau, Patrick Joseph, Marie Girard, Sebastien Jean-Laurent Prestel, Jean-Luc Soupizon
  • Publication number: 20140105732
    Abstract: A turbine for a gas turbine engine comprising at least one turbine stator and one turbine rotor, said turbine stator comprising at least one inner annular platform, said inner platform comprising a radial wall delimiting at least one cavity between the turbine stator and the turbine rotor, wherein the turbine rotor comprises at least one elongate element positioned substantially axially and defining a sealing baffle in said cavity, and in that the turbine stator comprises at least one element made of abradable material designed to engage with said elongate element of the turbine rotor so as to form a labyrinth seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Florent Pierre Antoine LUNEAU, Alain Dominique Gendraud, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard, Sebastien Jean Laurent Prestel
  • Patent number: 8662835
    Abstract: A turbine nozzle for a turbomachine, including inner and outer annular platforms connected together by vanes, the inner platform carrying annular elements of abradable material co-operating with annular wipers of a rotor of the turbomachine to form a labyrinth seal, these elements of abradable material being carried by annular sheet-metal sectors of substantially L-, S-, or C-shaped section that are fastened by brazing or welding at their outer peripheries to the inner platform and at their inner peripheries to the elements of abradable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Fachat, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard, Jean-Luc Soupizon
  • Publication number: 20130230404
    Abstract: A method optimizing a composite material blade profile for a rotor wheel of a turbine engine, and a blade including a tang compensated by the method. The method includes: compensating a blade airfoil by subdividing the airfoil into slices, and for each airfoil slice and a predetermined rotation speed of a disk of the wheel, calculating centrifugal force applied to the slice, calculating an aerodynamic force moment acting on a bottom section of the slice, and calculating shift values to be applied to a center of gravity of the slice to cancel the aerodynamic force moment; and compensating the blade tang by calculating centrifugal force applied to a blade portion situated beyond the airfoil neck, calculating an aerodynamic force moment acting on a bottom section of the blade tang, and calculating shift values to be applied to a center of gravity of the blade tang to cancel the aerodynamic force moment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicants: HERAKLES, SNECMA
    Inventors: Sylvain Yves Jean Duval, Clement Roussille, Alain Schweitzer, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard
  • Publication number: 20130052032
    Abstract: A vibration damper between outer platforms of adjacent composite-material blades of a rotor wheel of a turbine engine, the damper including a strip for inserting lengthwise in tangential cavities that are formed facing each other in the outer platforms of two adjacent composite-material blades of a turbine engine rotor wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicants: HERAKLES, SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Fachat, Jean-Luc Soupizon, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard
  • Publication number: 20120328415
    Abstract: A vibration damper between outer platforms of adjacent composite-material blades of a turbine engine rotor wheel, the damper including a peg having a substantially spherical portion at each of its two ends, and two hollow inserts for being received in tangential cavities that are provided facing each other in outer platforms of two adjacent composite-material blades of a turbine engine rotor wheel, each spherical portion of the peg coming to bear with point contact against the inside of one of the inserts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicants: HERAKLES, SNECMA
    Inventors: Stephane Pierre ,Guillaume Blanchard, Thierry Fachat, Patrick Joseph ,Marie Girard, Clement Roussille
  • Publication number: 20120195766
    Abstract: A rotor wheel of a turbine engine includes a plurality of CMC blades each having a first portion constituting a blade airfoil and root and made as a single piece with a second portion forming an outer platform. The blades are held under twisting prestress by mutual engagement via contact zones between the outer platforms of adjacent blades, and the contact zones that are situated on opposite sides of the outer platform of a blade are defined by at least one insert that is integrated in the outer platform and that is, for example, made of a carbon-based material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Arthur COHIN, Damien CORDIER, Patrick Joseph Marie GIRARD, Son LE HONG, Jean-Luc SOUPIZON
  • Patent number: 8147189
    Abstract: A sectorized nozzle for a turbomachine, the nozzle being made up of cylindrical sectors and comprising two annular platforms interconnected by substantially radial vanes, together with an annular rail for supporting elements of abradable material, each inner platform having longitudinally-extending edges that are V-shaped, and each rail sector having, on at least one of its sides, means for bearing axially on corresponding means provided on an adjacent nozzle sector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph Marie Girard, Xavier Firmin Camille Jean Lescure, Aurelien Rene-Pierre Massot, Sebastien Jean Laurent Prestel
  • Patent number: 8128375
    Abstract: The monocrystalline turbomachine blade according to the invention that is cast and directionally solidified, is disclosed. The blade includes an airfoil with a leading edge, a pressure face, a suction face, a trailing edge, a skeleton and having a longitudinal axis, the faces and having a neck line, respectively a pressure face neck and a suction face neck relative to the adjacent blade in the turbomachine rotor of which it forms an element; an endpiece of the airfoil, such as a heel or a platform, having an airfoil end face, on the stream side, forming an angle with the axis ZZ; and a connection zone between the airfoil and the airfoil end face. The connection zone forms a fattening of the airfoil. The connection zone extends about the leading edge between a point P1 situated on the suction face of the airfoil upstream of the suction face neck and a point P3 situated on the pressure face of the airfoil upstream of the pressure face neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph Marie Girard, Jean-Claude Marcel Auguste Hanny, Renaud Martet, Olivier Charles Henri Massy, Philippe Jean-Pierre Pabion, Stephanie Dominique Roger
  • Publication number: 20110127352
    Abstract: A turbine nozzle for a turbomachine, including inner and outer annular platforms connected together by vanes, the inner platform carrying annular elements of abradable material co-operating with annular wipers of a rotor of the turbomachine to form a labyrinth seal, these elements of abradable material being carried by annular sheet-metal sectors of substantially L-, S-, or C-shaped section that are fastened by brazing or welding at their outer peripheries to the inner platform and at their inner peripheries to the elements of abradable material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Fachat, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard, Jean-Luc Soupizon
  • Patent number: 7780398
    Abstract: A bladed stator sector for a turbo-engine reduces the occurrence of thermally-induced stress cracks in stator blades by increasing the flexibility of the sectors by using one or more cutouts. The stator sector includes at least one stator blade between inner and outer platforms and at least one flange on one or more of the platforms. Each flange has a first end portion fixed to one of the platforms and a second end portion that is not fixed to either of the platforms. The one or more cutouts may be located on the flange and may be non-opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Alexandre Nicolas Dervaux, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard, Gael Loro, Guillaume Jean-Claude Robert Renon
  • Publication number: 20090155061
    Abstract: A sectorized nozzle for a turbomachine, the nozzle being made up of cylindrical sectors and comprising two annular platforms interconnected by substantially radial vanes, together with an annular rail for supporting elements of abradable material, each inner platform having longitudinally-extending edges that are V-shaped, and each rail sector having, on at least one of its sides, means for bearing axially on corresponding means provided on an adjacent nozzle sector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph Marie GIRARD, Xavier Firmin Camille Jean Lescure, Aurelien Rene-Pierre Massot, Sebastien Jean Laurent Prestel
  • Publication number: 20090155085
    Abstract: The monocrystalline turbomachine blade according to the invention that is cast and directionally solidified, comprising: an airfoil with a leading edge, a pressure face, a suction face, a trailing edge, a skeleton and having a longitudinal axis, the faces and having a neck line, respectively a pressure face neck and a suction face neck relative to the adjacent blade in the turbomachine rotor of which it forms an element, an endpiece of the airfoil, such as a heel or a platform, having an airfoil end face, on the stream side, forming an angle with the axis ZZ and a connection zone between the airfoil and said airfoil end face, said connection zone forming a fattening of the airfoil, is characterized in that said connection zone extends about the leading edge between a point P1 situated on the suction face of the airfoil upstream of the suction face neck and a point P3 situated on the pressure face of the airfoil upstream of the pressure face neck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph Marie GIRARD, Jean-Claude Marcel Auguste Hanny, Renaud Martet, Olivier Charles Hanri Massy, Philippe Jean-pierre Pabion, Stephanie Dominique Roger