Patents by Inventor Philippe Maurice Rene Legendre

Philippe Maurice Rene Legendre 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: 6203277
    Abstract: A rotorcraft, in particular helicopter, rotor includes a tubular pylon driven in rotation about its axis, which is the rotation axis of the rotor, from its foot. A hub is attached to the pylon by a flared base and includes two annular plates substantially radial to the rotor axis and spaced from each other along the rotor axis so that relative to the pylon one is an axially inside plate and the other is an axially outside plate. Each of at least two blades has its root connected to the hub by retaining and articulation arrangements retained between the plates of the hub and enabling relative angular movement of the blade at least in pitch about a longitudinal blade pitch change axis controlled by displacement by a pitch rod of a pitch lever attached to the blade root.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Eurocopter
    Inventors: Philippe Maurice René Legendre, Etienne Jean Rampal
  • Patent number: 5961288
    Abstract: This process consists in making separately a set of individual plies consisting of rods impregnated with thermoplastic resin, in assembling several individual plies in order to form a rod bundle, in encasing at least the rods in at least one elastomer and in curing the injected elastomer. The ends of the rods have a rectangular shape, the rods having central parts joined to the ends by transition zones such that the surface area of the cross-section of the rods is constant and the length of the transition zone is very small. Cut pieces consisting of fibers, arranged on each side of the ends of the rods comprise fibers oriented at more or less 45 degrees to the longitudinal fibers of the rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Eurocopter
    Inventors: Philippe Maurice Rene Legendre, Marc Pierre Christian Denante
  • Patent number: 5788462
    Abstract: A hingeless rotor including a rotor mast driven in rotation about an axis of the rotor, a hub secured in terms of rotation to the mast, and at least two blades, each of which is, firstly, joined to the hub by a root attachment part comprising at least one arm which can twist about a longitudinal pitch-change axis of the blade and, secondly, equipped with a cuff which is rigid in torsion, surrounding the at least one twistable arm, and the radially external part of the cuff, with respect to the rotor axis is secured in terms of torsion to the blade and to the twistable arm about the pitch-change axis, while the radially internal part of the cuff surrounds, without contact, the at least one twistable arm and exhibits a pitch lever projecting towards the outside of the cuff and joined to a pitch-control rod, wherein, for each blade, an intermediate pitch-control ring which is rigid in terms of torsion about the corresponding pitch-change axis, and which surrounds the corresponding at least one twistable arm is a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Eurocopter France
    Inventors: Philippe Maurice Rene Legendre, Thomas Pierre Louis Manfredotti, Philippe Maurice Paul Antomarchi