Patents by Inventor Roland Gilbert Michel Brault

Roland Gilbert Michel Brault 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: 10539031
    Abstract: A turbine engine impeller including a disc bearing vanes, the roots of which are fitted in grooves which are substantially parallel to an axis of revolution of the disc. The root of each vane is connected to a blade by an integrated platform, the platforms of said vanes cooperating so as to form a radially inner wall of a duct for a flow passing through the blades. The impeller further includes two independent annular plates which are fixed to the disc, a first of said plates being mounted upstream of the disc and comprising a transverse annular portion which is supported on an upstream face of the roots of the vanes, and a second of said plates being mounted downstream of the disc and comprising a transverse annular portion which is supported on a downstream face of the roots of the vanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Antoine Beaujard, Roland Gilbert Michel Brault, Nathalie Nowakowski
  • Patent number: 10473035
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an engine (1) with a modular structure comprising a plurality of coaxial modules (A, B, C) with, at one end, a first module (A) comprising a power transmission shaft (3) and a speed reduction gear (7), said power transmission shaft being driven via the speed reduction gear (7) by a turbine shaft (2) secured to one (C) of said coaxial modules that is separate from the first module, the speed reduction gear comprising a drive means (8 and 9) fixed to the turbine shaft (2) and to a journal (13) of a shaft of a low-pressure compressor rotor (1 a), characterized in that it comprises a first nut (16) for fastening the drive means to the journal and a second nut (14) for fastening the drive means to the turbine shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Roland Gilbert Michel Brault, Nathalie Nowakowski
  • Publication number: 20160298548
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an engine (1) with a modular structure comprising a plurality of coaxial modules (A, B, C) with, at one end, a first module (A) comprising a power transmission shaft (3) and a speed reduction gear (7), said power transmission shaft being driven via the speed reduction gear (7) by a turbine shaft (2) secured to one (C) of said coaxial modules that is separate from the first module, the speed reduction gear comprising a drive means (8 and 9) fixed to the turbine shaft (2) and to a journal (13) of a shaft of a low-pressure compressor rotor (1a), characterized in that it comprises a first nut (16) for fastening the drive means to the journal and a second nut (14) for fastening the drive means to the turbine shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Roland Gilbert Michel Brault, Nathalie Nowakowski
  • Publication number: 20160169014
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine engine impeller, comprising a disc bearing vanes, the roots of which are fitted in grooves which are substantially parallel to an axis of revolution of the disc, the root of each vane being connected to a blade by an integrated platform, the platforms of said vanes cooperating so as to form a radially inner wall of a duct for a flow passing through the blades, the impeller further comprising two independent annular plates which are fixed to the disc, a first of said plates being mounted upstream of the disc and comprising a transverse annular portion which is supported on an upstream face of the roots of the vanes, and a second of said plates being mounted downstream of the disc and comprising a transverse annular portion which is supported on a downstream face of the roots of the vanes, characterised in that the integrated platform of each vane stops axially, upstream and downstream, to the right of the upstream and downstream transverse faces of the root, in that said tran
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Jean-Philippe Antoine Beaujard, Roland Gilbert Michel Brault, Nathalie Nowakowski