Patents by Inventor Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE
Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE 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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Patent number: 11982195Abstract: A splitter between a primary flow and a secondary flow of a dual flow turbomachine includes a single-piece structure including an outer annular wall, an inner annular wall, a radial annular wall and an inner annular baffle, defining a first cavity between the outer annular wall and the inner annular baffle, and a second cavity between the inner annular wall, the radial annular wall and the inner annular baffle.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Damien Daniel Sylvain Lourit, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge
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Publication number: 20230400053Abstract: A connecting rod includes a hollow body with a ring at each end and a centre, a thickness wall e, the wall defining an outer perimeter pe and an inner perimeter pi, a surface section s being contained between the outer and inner perimeters, wherein the outer perimeter pe increases from the ends of the hollow body to the centre of the connecting rod, the hollow body maintaining a constant surface section s, the thickness e decreasing from the end to the centre of the connecting rod.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE, Tiphaine DE TINGUY
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Publication number: 20230347416Abstract: A production of a structure for a turbomachine by additive manufacturing, including the following steps: a) providing an element having at least one localised rough region, in particular produced by machining, b) using powder bed fusion additive manufacturing in order to deposit a layer of material resulting from the fusion on the element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE, Guilhem Kevin COMBES, Alexandre CORSAUT
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Patent number: 11754342Abstract: The present invention relates to a bypass air/fluid heat exchanger (2) for a turbofan engine. According to the invention, this exchanger (2) comprises: —an annular outer shroud (3) with two walls, an inner wall (32) and an outer wall (31), —an annular inner shroud (4) concentric with the outer shroud (3), —a series of OGV guide vanes (5) which connect said outer shroud to said inner shroud, —and a circulation circuit (6) for circulating said fluid, the two shrouds delimiting a bypass air flow path, the fluid circulation circuit (6) is formed in the body of the outer shroud (3) and in the body of at least one of the OGV guide vanes (5), this circulation circuit (6) opening at the two respective ends thereof into an inlet opening (34) and into an outlet opening (35), formed through said outer wall (31) of the outer shroud, and the two shrouds (3, 4), the OGV guide vanes (5) and the circulation circuit (6) of said fluid are integral.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse, Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Alexandre Corsaut, Catherine Pikovsky
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Patent number: 11753962Abstract: A distribution element intended to be fixed to a support structure for supplying cooling fluid to a wall to be cooled facing the distribution element, the distribution element including a body defining a cooling fluid distribution internal volume and a multi-perforated plate which delimits the internal volume and includes a plurality of outlet through-perforations which put the cooling fluid distribution internal volume into communication with the wall to be cooled, the distribution element including an inlet orifice opening into the cooling fluid distribution internal volume, wherein for directing the cooling fluid from the inlet orifice to the plurality of outlet through-perforations the cooling fluid distribution internal volume includes directional fins.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Sébastien Serge Francis Congratel, Lucien Henri Jacques Quennehen
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Patent number: 11686216Abstract: Turbomachine output bearing support extending according to an axial direction, said support being formed by one and the same piece and comprising an annular inner wall having an inner side and an outer side, an annular outer wall and a twist support.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Nicolas Ovaere, Fabien Stéphane Garnier, Arnaud Lasantha Genilier, Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge
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Patent number: 11619380Abstract: A constant volume combustion system includes at least one combustion chamber having at least one admission port and an exhaust port. The system also includes at least one elastically deformable tongue made of ceramic matrix composite material forming an air admission valve, the tongue being present inside the chamber and being positioned facing the admission port, the tongue having a first end that is stationary relative to an inside wall of the chamber and a second end, opposite from the first end, the second end being free and movable relative to the inside wall.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: SAFRANInventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Eric Conete, Gautier Mecuson, Matthieu Leyko
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Patent number: 11585236Abstract: A bearing support designed to be secured to a stationary turbojet element for supporting a journal, including a cone which widens from a central portion for supporting the journal to a portion for securing to the stationary element, a cylindrical body extending the portion for securing to the stationary element while surrounding the cone, an upstream skirt carried by the cone for defining an upstream enclosure for the central portion, and at least one downstream revolution element carried by the cone for defining a downstream enclosure for the central portion. The bearing support can be made as a single part produced by additive manufacturing.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Dimitri Daniel Gabriel Marquie, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Frédéric Patard, Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge
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Publication number: 20220412226Abstract: A distribution element intended to be fixed to a support structure for supplying cooling fluid to a wall to be cooled facing the distribution element, the distribution element including a body defining a cooling fluid distribution internal volume and a multi-perforated plate which delimits the internal volume and includes a plurality of outlet through-perforations which put the cooling fluid distribution internal volume into communication with the wall to be cooled, the distribution element including an inlet orifice opening into the cooling fluid distribution internal volume, wherein for directing the cooling fluid from the inlet orifice to the plurality of outlet through-perforations the cooling fluid distribution internal volume includes directional fins.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE, Sébastien Serge Francis CONGRATEL, Lucien Henri Jacques QUENNEHEN
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Publication number: 20220395907Abstract: A method for holding a part blank inside a holding assembly. The holding assembly includes a first holding portion. The first holding portion includes an inner cavity containing a fluid. The part blank and the first holding portion are at least partially manufactured by additive manufacturing. The holding method includes a heating of the holding assembly and the part blank to deform the first holding portion by fluid expansion in the inner cavity and to reduce a gap between the part blank and the holding assembly by expansion of the first holding portion in relation to the part blank.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Guilhem Kevin COMBES, Sébastien Vincent François DREANO, Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE
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Publication number: 20220235672Abstract: Turbomachine output bearing support extending according to an axial direction, said support being formed by one and the same piece and comprising an annular inner wall having an inner side and an outer side, an annular outer wall and a twist support.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Nicolas OVAERE, Fabien Stéphane GARNIER, Arnaud Lasantha GENILIER, Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE
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Patent number: 11391178Abstract: A cooling fluid distribution element intended to be fixed to a support structure for supplying cooling fluid to a wall to be cooled, typically a turbine ring sector, facing it, the distribution element including a body defining a cooling fluid distribution internal volume and a multi-perforated plate which delimits this internal volume and includes a plurality of outlet through-perforations which put the internal volume into communication with the turbine ring sector, the distribution element further including an inlet orifice opening into the cooling fluid distribution internal volume, which internal volume includes directional fins for directing this cooling fluid from this inlet orifice to the outlet through-perforations.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Sébastien Serge Francis Congratel, Lucien Henri Jacques Quennehen
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Publication number: 20220205726Abstract: The present invention relates to a bypass air/fluid heat exchanger (2) for a turbofan engine. According to the invention, this exchanger (2) comprises: —an annular outer shroud (3) with two walls, an inner wall (32) and an outer wall (31), —an annular inner shroud (4) concentric with the outer shroud (3), —a series of OGV guide vanes (5) which connect said outer shroud to said inner shroud, —and a circulation circuit (6) for circulating said fluid, the two shrouds delimiting a bypass air flow path, the fluid circulation circuit (6) is formed in the body of the outer shroud (3) and in the body of at least one of the OGV guide vanes (5), this circulation circuit (6) opening at the two respective ends thereof into an inlet opening (34) and into an outlet opening (35), formed through said outer wall (31) of the outer shroud, and the two shrouds (3, 4), the OGV guide vanes (5) and the circulation circuit (6) of said fluid are integral.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Paul Ghislain Albert LEVISSE, Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE, Alexandre CORSAUT, Catherine PIKOVSKY
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Publication number: 20220205366Abstract: The invention relates to a nozzle (1) for separating a primary flow from a secondary flow in a double-flow turbomachine. The separation nozzle comprises an outer annular wall (12), an inner annular wall (13), a radial annular wall (14) and an inner annular baffle (16). and defines a first cavity (17) between the outer annular wall (12) and the inner annular baffle (16), and a second cavity (18) between the inner annular wall (13), the radial annular wall (14) and the inner annular baffle (16).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Damien Daniel Sylvain LOURIT, Adrien Jacques Philippe FABRE, Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE
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Patent number: 11280217Abstract: The invention relates to a pressurized-air supply unit for an air-jet cooling device cooling an outer casing of a turbomachine turbine. This unit is notable in that it is monobloc, in that it comprises: —a body which has an interior wall provided with air-ejection perforations, an exterior wall and outlet ducts which are configured to be coupled to cooling lines of the cooling device, —an elbowed air-conveying pipe coupled by its outlet opening to said exterior wall of the body, and in that said unit comprises at least one air-distribution partition, arranged in the outlet opening and connecting the internal face of the portion of the air-conveying pipe that is situated facing the body to the internal face of the opposite portion of the air-conveying pipe.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Ghislain Hervé Abadie, Alexandre Corsaut, Fabien Stéphane Garnier, Driss Karim
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Publication number: 20210396152Abstract: The invention relates to a pressurized-air supply unit for an air-jet cooling device cooling an outer casing of a turbomachine turbine. This unit is notable in that it is monobloc, in that it comprises: —a body which has an interior wall provided with air-ejection perforations, an exterior wall and outlet ducts which are configured to be coupled to cooling lines of the cooling device,—an elbowed air-conveying pipe coupled by its outlet opening to said exterior wall of the body, and in that said unit comprises at least one air-distribution partition, arranged in the outlet opening and connecting the internal face of the portion of the air-conveying pipe that is situated facing the body to the internal face of the opposite portion of the air-conveying pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE, Ghislain Hervé ABADIE, Alexandre CORSAUT, Fabien Stéphane GARNIER, Driss KARIM
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Patent number: 11168610Abstract: A constant-volume combustion system for a turbomachine includes a plurality of combustion chambers distributed in an annular manner about an axis defining an axial direction, each combustion chamber including an intake port and an exhaust port; a selective closure member rotationally movable about the axis with respect to the combustion chambers, the selective closure member including a ferrule facing the intake and exhaust ports of the combustion chambers, the ferrule containing at least one intake aperture intended to cooperate with the exhaust port of each chamber and at least one exhaust aperture intended to cooperate with the exhaust port of each chamber. Each intake aperture and each exhaust aperture are segmented by at least one segment extending in each aperture in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: SAFRANInventors: Matthieu Leyko, Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Eric Conete, Gautier Mecuson
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Patent number: 11060732Abstract: A constant volume combustion chamber for a turbine engine, includes an intake port, an exhaust port, and a first rotary shutter facing the intake and exhaust ports and configured to rotate around an axis in a first direction of rotation, the first shutter including an aperture intended to cooperate alternately with the intake and exhaust ports during the rotation of the first shutter. The chamber further includes at least one second rotary shutter facing the intake and exhaust ports and configured to rotate around the axis in a second direction of rotation opposite to the first direction, the second shutter including an aperture intended to cooperate alternately with the intake and exhaust ports during the rotation of the second shutter, the first and second shutters being synchronized and configured so that their respective apertures intersect alternately when both are facing the intake and when both are facing exhaust ports.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: SAFRANInventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Matthieu Leyko
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Publication number: 20210189905Abstract: A cooling fluid distribution element intended to be fixed to a support structure for supplying cooling fluid to a wall to be cooled, typically a turbine ring sector, facing it, the distribution element including a body defining a cooling fluid distribution internal volume and a multi-perforated plate which delimits this internal volume and includes a plurality of outlet through-perforations which put the internal volume into communication with the turbine ring sector, the distribution element further including an inlet orifice opening into the cooling fluid distribution internal volume, which internal volume includes directional fins for directing this cooling fluid from this inlet orifice to the outlet through-perforations.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2018Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE, Sébastien Serge Francis CONGRATEL, Lucien Henri Jacques QUENNEHEN
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Publication number: 20210156302Abstract: A constant-volume combustion system for a turbomachine includes a plurality of combustion chambers distributed in an annular manner about an axis defining an axial direction, each combustion chamber including an intake port and an exhaust port; a selective closure member rotationally movable about the axis with respect to the combustion chambers, the selective closure member including a ferrule facing the intake and exhaust ports of the combustion chambers, the ferrule containing at least one intake aperture intended to cooperate with the exhaust port of each chamber and at least one exhaust aperture intended to cooperate with the exhaust port of each chamber. Each intake aperture and each exhaust aperture are segmented by at least one segment extending in each aperture in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2018Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Matthieu LEYKO, Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE, Eric CONETE, Gautier MECUSON