Patents by Inventor Richard Staessen

Richard Staessen 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: 8162597
    Abstract: A stage of variable-pitch vanes for a turbomachine is disclosed. The vanes include internal pivots engaged in corresponding housings of a sectorized internal ring. Each ring sector includes axial orifices for mounting two pins for the radial retention of the ring sector on the internal pivot of a vane. Each pin includes an immobilization device cooperating by shape coupling with a complementary immobilization device of the other pin in order to rotationally immobilize these pins in the orifices in the ring sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Claude Robert Louis LeJars, Richard Staessen
  • Patent number: 7661925
    Abstract: A variable-setting stator blade guidance device of an axial turbomachine is provided. The blade includes an airfoil, a platform and a pivot mounted in the casing of the turbomachine. The device includes a bearing integrated into the platform. In particular, the device includes a bush sandwiched between the platform and the casing, and the integrated bearing is formed between the bush and the platform. In particular, the bush includes a cylindrical surface portion on the side of the platform cooperating with a matching cylindrical surface portion on the platform to form the integrated bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Claude Robert Louis Lejars, Thierry Jean Maurice Niclot, Didier Raymond Charles Riby, Richard Staessen
  • Publication number: 20090087304
    Abstract: A stage of variable-pitch vanes for a turbomachine, these vanes (10) comprising internal pivots engaged in corresponding housings of a sectorized internal ring (12), each ring sector comprising axial orifices for mounting two pins (70, 76) for the radial retention of the ring sector on the internal pivot of a vane, wherein each pin (70, 76) comprises means (72, 78) cooperating by shape coupling with complementary means (78, 72) of the other pin (76, 70) in order to rotationally immobilize these pins in the orifices in the ring sectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Claude Robert Louis LEJARS, Richard Staessen
  • Publication number: 20080025837
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a variable-setting stator blade guidance device of an axial turbomachine, the blade comprising an airfoil (22), a platform (23) and a pivot (24) mounted in the casing of the turbomachine. The device is characterized in that it comprises a bearing integrated into the platform. In particular, the device comprises a bush (26b) between the platform and the casing, and the integrated bearing is formed between the bush and the platform. In particular, the bush comprises a cylindrical surface portion (26b1) on the side of the platform interacting with a matching cylindrical surface portion (23b1) on the platform to form said integrated bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Claude Robert Louis LEJARS, Thierry Jean Maurice Niclot, Didier Raymond Charles Riby, Richard Staessen
  • Patent number: 7281892
    Abstract: A control lever for the pitch angle of a blade in a turbomachine, said lever having a first end intended to be mounted on a blade pivot so as to rotate it and a second end comprising a cylindrical peg for mounting on a control annulus, this peg being fixed by crimping of one of its ends in an orifice of the second end of the lever and comprising an annular flange to which is applied the second end of the lever, wherein stress distribution means are interposed between the second end of the lever and the crimped end of the peg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Snecma Moteurs
    Inventors: Claude Lejars, Bruce Pontoizeau, Richard Staessen, Nicolas Triconnet
  • Publication number: 20050175445
    Abstract: A control lever for the pitch angle of a blade in a turbomachine, said lever having a first end intended to be mounted on a blade pivot so as to rotate it and a second end comprising a cylindrical peg for mounting on a control annulus, this peg being fixed by crimping of one of its ends in an orifice of the second end of the lever and comprising an annular flange to which is applied the second end of the lever, wherein stress distribution means are interposed between the second end of the lever and the crimped end of the peg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURS
    Inventors: Claude Lejars, Bruce Pontoizeau, Richard Staessen, Nicolas Triconnet