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).

  • Patent number: 11982195
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Damien Daniel Sylvain Lourit, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge
  • Publication number: 20230400053
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE, Tiphaine DE TINGUY
  • Publication number: 20230347416
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE, Guilhem Kevin COMBES, Alexandre CORSAUT
  • Patent number: 11754342
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse, Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Alexandre Corsaut, Catherine Pikovsky
  • Patent number: 11753962
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Sébastien Serge Francis Congratel, Lucien Henri Jacques Quennehen
  • Patent number: 11686216
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas Ovaere, Fabien Stéphane Garnier, Arnaud Lasantha Genilier, Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge
  • Patent number: 11619380
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Eric Conete, Gautier Mecuson, Matthieu Leyko
  • Patent number: 11585236
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Dimitri Daniel Gabriel Marquie, Adrien Jacques Philippe Fabre, Frédéric Patard, Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge
  • Publication number: 20220412226
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE, Sébastien Serge Francis CONGRATEL, Lucien Henri Jacques QUENNEHEN
  • Publication number: 20220395907
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Guilhem Kevin COMBES, Sébastien Vincent François DREANO, Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE
  • Publication number: 20220235672
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nicolas OVAERE, Fabien Stéphane GARNIER, Arnaud Lasantha GENILIER, Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE
  • Patent number: 11391178
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Sébastien Serge Francis Congratel, Lucien Henri Jacques Quennehen
  • Publication number: 20220205726
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Paul Ghislain Albert LEVISSE, Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE, Alexandre CORSAUT, Catherine PIKOVSKY
  • Publication number: 20220205366
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Damien Daniel Sylvain LOURIT, Adrien Jacques Philippe FABRE, Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE
  • Patent number: 11280217
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Ghislain Hervé Abadie, Alexandre Corsaut, Fabien Stéphane Garnier, Driss Karim
  • Publication number: 20210396152
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE, Ghislain Hervé ABADIE, Alexandre CORSAUT, Fabien Stéphane GARNIER, Driss KARIM
  • Patent number: 11168610
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Matthieu Leyko, Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Eric Conete, Gautier Mecuson
  • Patent number: 11060732
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste Metge, Matthieu Leyko
  • Publication number: 20210189905
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE, Sébastien Serge Francis CONGRATEL, Lucien Henri Jacques QUENNEHEN
  • Publication number: 20210156302
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Matthieu LEYKO, Pierre Jean-Baptiste METGE, Eric CONETE, Gautier MECUSON