Patents by Inventor Paul Antoine Foresto

Paul Antoine Foresto 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: 20230220786
    Abstract: An intermediate casing includes an inner wall having an outer surface extending along a longitudinal axis, the outer surface having a first profile in a first plane, an outer wall having an inner surface a second profile in the first plane, and first through fourth arms each extending radially. The outer and inner surfaces and the first and second arms delimit a first cavity, the first cavity having a first area and the outer and inner surfaces being separated by a first distance. The outer and inner surfaces and the third and fourth arms delimit a second cavity, the second cavity having a second area and the outer and inner surfaces being separated by a second distance. The first and second profiles are such that the first area is substantially identical to the second area and the first distance is different from the second distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Paul Antoine FORESTO
  • Patent number: 11473430
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine assembly (1) comprising a fan (2) and a booster drum-type part (3), the fan (2) comprising:—blades (20) comprising an airfoil (23) and an extension (30) mounted on and attached to the trailing edge (25) of the airfoil (23),—a fan (2) disc (10) and—a series of inter-blade platforms (16), the extension (30) of each blade (20) extending beyond the downstream face (14) of the fan (2) disc (10) in the direction of the upstream edge (4) of the part (3) and covering, at least partially, the cavity (6) between the fan (2) and the part (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Paul Antoine Foresto, Vivien Mickaël Courtier, Stéphane Roger Mahias, William Henri Joseph Riera
  • Patent number: 11319899
    Abstract: The invention relates to a module of an aircraft bypass engine including an annular flow path of a secondary flow of gas wherein is mounted an annular row of stator blades configured to straighten the gas flow, an arm extending in the flow path downstream from said annular row of blades and being connected physically to one of the stator blades so as to form a unitary aerodynamic assembly, wherein at least one of the two blades adjacent to the blade of the unitary aerodynamic assembly is of a variable pitch type and capable of being rotationally moved about a substantially radial axis with respect to a longitudinal axis of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Paul Antoine Foresto
  • Publication number: 20220056803
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine assembly (1) comprising a fan (2) and a booster drum-type part (3), the fan (2) comprising:—blades (20) comprising an airfoil (23) and an extension (30) mounted on and attached to the trailing edge (25) of the airfoil (23),—a fan (2) disc (10) and—a series of inter-blade platforms (16), the extension (30) of each blade (20) extending beyond the downstream face (14) of the fan (2) disc (10) in the direction of the upstream edge (4) of the part (3) and covering, at least partially, the cavity (6) between the fan (2) and the part (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Paul Antoine FORESTO, Vivien Mickaël COURTIER, Stéphane Roger MAHIAS, William Henri Joseph RIERA
  • Patent number: 11162418
    Abstract: A turbine engine fan having an axis of revolution wherein a fan disk having an upstream face and a radial face is configured to receive a series of fan blades. An inter-blade platform wherein an upstream end, a blocking ferrule, are applied and attached on the one hand to the upstream end of the platform and on the other hand to the upstream face of the fan disk, and an inlet cone. The blocking ferrule includes a radial ring and a lug, extending axially from the radial ring and configured to form a radial abutment for the inlet cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Fabrice Michel Francois Rene Aubert, Suzanne Madeleine Coustillas, Paul Antoine Foresto, Didier Pierre Mozer
  • Patent number: 10858943
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fan blink (28) for an aircraft turbomachine, comprising a hub, an annular platform (42) and fan blades (44) arranged projecting from the annual platform. It also comprises a mechanical discharge slit (52) from a trailing edge (49) of the fan blade, associated with at least one of the fan blades (44), for the case of ingestion of a bird, the slit being made on the annular platform (42) going around the trailing edge (49).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Guillaume Pascal Jean-Charles Gondre, Paul Antoine Foresto, Stéphane Roger Mahias
  • Patent number: 10830076
    Abstract: A guide vane located in a fan air flow in an aircraft twin-spool turbomachine, the vane being made with an extrados body and an intrados body between which there is a thermal conduction matrix. Furthermore, the attachment devices between the two spools are arranged outside the aerodynamic part of the vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Cedric Zaccardi, Christophe Marcel Lucien Perdrigeon, Paul Antoine Foresto, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre
  • Publication number: 20200332743
    Abstract: The invention relates to a module of an aircraft bypass engine including an annular flow path of a secondary flow of gas wherein is mounted an annular row of stator blades configured to straighten the gas flow, an arm extending in the flow path downstream from said annular row of blades and being connected physically to one of the stator blades so as to form a unitary aerodynamic assembly, wherein at least one of the two blades adjacent to the blade of the unitary aerodynamic assembly is of a variable pitch type and capable of being rotationally moved about a substantially radial axis with respect to a longitudinal axis of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventor: Paul Antoine FORESTO
  • Patent number: 10794392
    Abstract: A hub for a propeller having variable-pitch blades for a turbomachine with longitudinal rotation axis, including a plurality of blade platforms, each one being designed to receive a blade root, the platforms being distributed around the annular outer periphery of the hub concentrically with the longitudinal rotation axis, wherein each blade platform has the general geometric shape of a spherical cap, and wherein, between two adjacent blade platforms around the longitudinal rotation axis, the transverse dimension, in particular the diameter, of the hub can vary axially and radially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Paul Antoine Foresto, Vivien Mickaël Courtier, Christophe Paul Jacquemard
  • Publication number: 20200182149
    Abstract: A turbine engine fan having an axis of revolution wherein a fan disk having an upstream face and a radial face is configured to receive a series of fan blades. An inter-blade platform wherein an upstream end, a blocking ferrule, are applied and attached on the one hand to the upstream end of the platform and on the other hand to the upstream face of the fan disk, and an inlet cone. The blocking ferrule includes a radial ring and a lug, extending axially from the radial ring and configured to form a radial abutment for the inlet cone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Fabrice Michel Francois Rene AUBERT, Suzanne Madeleine COUSTILLAS, Paul Antoine FORESTO, Didier Pierre MOZER
  • Patent number: 10549843
    Abstract: A system is configured to change the pitch of blades of at least one turbine engine propeller provided with multiple blades. The system includes a control means acting on a connecting mechanism connected to the blades of the propeller. The control means includes a stationary body and a movable body translatable along a longitudinal axis (X) relative to the stationary body and defining two chambers. A fluid supply means is configured to be connected to a fluid supply source and to supply the chambers. The fluid supply means includes at least one channel. The channel is arranged and extends along an axis (Q) parallel to the longitudinal axis in an overthickness of a wall of the stationary body, the overthickness extending radially inside relative to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien Emile Philippe Tajan, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Paul Antoine Foresto, Régis Eugène Henri Servant, Stéphane Ibarzo
  • Patent number: 10518869
    Abstract: A turboprop including a propeller including a blade extending in a direction, which also includes a root, a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a wing tip, and an inner air stream channel, wherein the inner air stream channel includes an inlet located at the root of the blade and an outlet leading to the trailing edge of the blade transversely directed in relation to the main elongation direction, such that an inner stream of air flowing in the inner air stream channel by entering via the inlet adjacent to the root of the blade is discharged via the outlet adjacent to the trailing edge of the blade by forming a stream of blown air that moves away from the trailing edge in a direction which is transverse to the main elongation direction and which has a component in the direction of a skeleton line of the blade at the trailing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Paul Antoine Foresto, Anthony Binder, Alexandre Gerard Francois Couilleaux, Norman Bruno Andre Jodet
  • Patent number: 10406761
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a blade made of composite material extending in a main elongation direction, the composite material of said blade comprising a fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix, the method comprising the following steps: a step of weaving warp yarns and weft yarns to produce a fiber preform, the fiber preform comprising at least one warp yarn adapted to form in the matrix at least one first portion of a channel, said portion of length of the warp yarn being directed according to the main elongation direction of the blade and opening at the root of the blade, the first channel portion formed in the matrix by said portion of length of warp yarn constituting at least one first portion of the internal airflow channel; a step of forming the fiber preform so as to produce a blade preform and densifying said blade preform; characterized in that the weaving step comprises placing at least one second portion of yarn adapted to form in the matrix a second portion of a cha
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Paul Antoine Foresto, Adrien Philippe Fabre
  • Publication number: 20190249558
    Abstract: The invention relates to a guide vane located in a fan air flow (15) in a aircraft twin-spool turbomachine, the vane being made with an extrados body (32a) and an intrados body (32b) between which there is a thermal conduction matrix (80). Furthermore, the attachment means between the two spools (32a, 32b) are arranged outside the aerodynamic part (32) of the vane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Cedric ZACCARDI, Christophe Marcel Lucien PERDRIGEON, Paul Antoine FORESTO, Adrien Jacques Philippe FABRE
  • Publication number: 20190048888
    Abstract: A hub for a propeller having variable-pitch blades for a turbomachine with longitudinal rotation axis, including a plurality of blade platforms, each one being designed to receive a blade root, the platforms being distributed around the annular outer periphery of the hub concentrically with the longitudinal rotation axis, wherein each blade platform has the general geometric shape of a spherical cap, and wherein, between two adjacent blade platforms around the longitudinal rotation axis, the transverse dimension, in particular the diameter, of the hub can vary axially and radially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Paul Antoine FORESTO, Vivien Mickaël COURTIER, Christophe Paul JACQUEMARD
  • Publication number: 20180087386
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fan blink (28) for an aircraft turbomachine, comprising a hub, an annular platform (42) and fan blades (44) arranged projecting from the annual platform. It also comprises a mechanical discharge slit (52) from a trailing edge (49) of the fan blade, associated with at least one of the fan blades (44), for the case of ingestion of a bird, the slit being made on the annular platform (42) going around the trailing edge (49).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Guillaume Pascal Jean-Charles GONDRE, Paul Antoine FORESTO, Stéphane Roger MAHIAS
  • Publication number: 20180043991
    Abstract: A system is configured to change the pitch of blades of at least one turbine engine propeller provided with multiple blades. The system includes a control means acting on a connecting mechanism connected to the blades of the propeller. The control means includes a stationary body and a movable body translatable along a longitudinal axis (X) relative to the stationary body and defining two chambers. A fluid supply means is configured to be connected to a fluid supply source and to supply the chambers. The fluid supply means includes at least one channel. The channel is arranged and extends along an axis (Q) parallel to the longitudinal axis in an overthickness of a wall of the stationary body, the overthickness extending radially inside relative to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien Emile Philippe Tajan, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Paul Antoine Foresto, Régis Eugène Henri Servant, Stéphane Ibarzo
  • Publication number: 20180009522
    Abstract: A turboprop including a propeller including a blade extending in a direction, which also includes a root, a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a wing tip, and an inner air stream channel, wherein the inner air stream channel includes an inlet located at the root of the blade and an outlet leading to the trailing edge of the blade transversely directed in relation to the main elongation direction, such that an inner stream of air flowing in the inner air stream channel by entering via the inlet adjacent to the root of the blade is discharged via the outlet adjacent to the trailing edge of the blade by forming a stream of blown air that moves away from the trailing edge in a direction which is transverse to the main elongation direction and which has a component in the direction of a skeleton line of the blade at the trailing edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Paul Antoine FORESTO, Anthony BINDER, Alexandre Gerard Francois COUILLEAUX, Norman Bruno Andre JODET
  • Publication number: 20160221273
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a blade made of composite material extending in a main elongation direction, the composite material of said blade comprising a fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix, the method comprising the following steps: a step of weaving warp yarns and weft yarns to produce a fiber preform, the fiber preform comprising at least one warp yarn adapted to form in the matrix at least one first portion of a channel, said portion of length of the warp yarn being directed according to the main elongation direction of the blade and opening at the root of the blade, the first channel portion formed in the matrix by said portion of length of warp yarn constituting at least one first portion of the internal airflow channel; a step of forming the fiber preform so as to produce a blade preform and densifying said blade preform; characterized in that the weaving step comprises placing at least one second portion of yarn adapted to form in the matrix a second portion of a cha
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Paul Antoine Foresto, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre