Patents by Inventor Romain Jean Claude Ferrier

Romain Jean Claude Ferrier 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: 11199108
    Abstract: The outlet of a heat exchange circuit extending under a wall, such as a nacelle cowling of an aircraft engine, is divided into openings in the form of parallel slots which are elongated in the longitudinal direction and successively arranged in the transverse direction to divide the hot gas into streams while facilitating the circulation of fresh gas streams, originating from an external flow, on the intermediate laminates. The hot gas cannot fall back easily onto the outer face of the wall and risk damaging the wall, and the gas mixes more effectively with the fresh outdoor air. The openings are provided with nozzles flaring in the transverse direction and the downstream longitudinal direction to facilitate the mixing of the hot and cold gas streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Jean-Claude Ferrier, Sébastien Christophe Chalaud, Philippe Gérard Chanez, Lauren Davis, Bastien Pierre Verdier, Christian Sylvain Vessot
  • Publication number: 20210207494
    Abstract: The outlet of a heat exchange circuit extending under a wall, such as a nacelle cowling of an aircraft engine, is divided into openings in the form of parallel slots which are elongated in the longitudinal direction and successively arranged in the transverse direction to divide the hot gas into streams while facilitating the circulation of fresh gas streams, originating from an external flow, on the intermediate laminates. The hot gas cannot fall back easily onto the outer face of the wall and risk damaging the wall, and the gas mixes more effectively with the fresh outdoor air. The openings are provided with nozzles flaring in the transverse direction and the downstream longitudinal direction to facilitate the mixing of the hot and cold gas streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Jean-Claude FERRIER, Sebastien Christophe CHALAUD, Philippe Gerard CHANEZ, Lauren DAVIS, Bastien Pierre VERDIER, Christian Sylvain VESSOT
  • Patent number: 10946975
    Abstract: A turbomachine of the «open rotor» type or a turboprop engine comprises a nacelle defining an air inlet, a central hub and an annular air intake section surrounding the central hub and opening into a air supply main section, with the central hub comprising a central trap having an aperture for trapping the foreign objects in an air flow entering the turbomachine, and an air recovery channel having a discharge end, through which said air recovery channel opens into the main section, is provided on the central hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Romain Jean-Claude Ferrier, Romeo Brogna, Jackie Raymond Julien Prouteau, Nicolas Joseph Sirvin
  • Patent number: 10837706
    Abstract: A heat exchanger designed to be fixed to a turbomachine wall delimiting a gas flow stream, this exchanger including a body with a front face through which the gas flow passes; an attachment face to the wall; an external face opposite the attachment face and connected to the front face; two lateral faces connected to the front face; a cover surrounding the front face and extending along the prolongation of the external face and the lateral faces, to delimit an intake with an area smaller than the area of the front face, this intake being located upstream from the front face relative to the gas flow stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Jean-Claude Ferrier, Irwin Pierre Robert Kernemp, Jonathan David Robert Langridge
  • Patent number: 10640222
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aircraft propulsion assembly comprising a cradle receiving a turbine engine comprising at least one propeller having a longitudinal axis of rotation, a gas turbine engine having a longitudinal axis of rotation offset from the axis, and a reduction gear by means of which said propeller receives drive power from said engine, wherein the propeller and the gas turbine engine are designed such that axes and are offset from one another within said cradle at least by a given value in a transverse direction, the axis of the gas turbine engine being transversely closer to a proximal lateral side of the cradle than to an opposite distal lateral side of the cradle in order to create a lateral space between said engine and said distal lateral side of the cradle, thereby forming at least one region for installing equipments, components or accessories of said turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Nora El Ghannam, Matthieu Etienne Attali, Romain Jean-Claude Ferrier, Caroline Marie Frantz, Thomas Gerard Daniel Riviere, Nicolas Xavier Trappier
  • Patent number: 10562638
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cradle (10) for an aircraft turbopropeller engine (12) of a substantially axial orientation, comprising a front arch (16) and a rear arch (18) extending transversely relative to said axial direction (A), said arches (16, 18) being open at their lower ends and connected to each other by at least one axial longeron (34) extending between said arches (16, 18), characterised in that the longeron (34) is arranged in an upper portion of the cradle (10) and is formed in a single piece with the front arch (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCFRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Frederic Paul Eichstadt, Nora El Ghannam, Romain Jean-Claude Ferrier, Antoine Elie Hellegouarch
  • Patent number: 10415470
    Abstract: Air inlet duct of a turbine engine, in particular an aircraft turbine engine comprising a gas generator, which extends axially between the air inlet and the gas generator and has a first axial wall part and a second wall part which is angularly offset with respect to the first part, which duct is capable of causing, in a shedding region, shedding of the boundary layer formed by an air flow along the wall of the duct; and a device for controlling said shedding of the boundary layer, characterised in that the control device comprises an air-blowing pipe which opens via at least one air-injection opening which is directly upstream of the shedding region, the blowing pipe being connected to an air intake positioned upstream of said air-injection opening or in the shedding region and comprising an air compressor means between the air intake and the air-injection opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romeo Brogna, Romain Jean-Claude Ferrier
  • Publication number: 20190270524
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cradle (10) for an aircraft turbopropeller engine (12) of a substantially axial orientation, comprising a front arch (16) and a rear arch (18) extending transversely relative to said axial direction (A), said arches (16, 18) being open at their lower ends and connected to each other by at least one axial longeron (34) extending between said arches (16, 18), characterised in that the longeron (34) is arranged in an upper portion of the cradle (10) and is formed in a single piece with the front arch (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Frederic Paul EICHSTADT, Nora EL GHANNAM, Romain Jean-Claude FERRIER, Antoine Elie HELLEGOUARCH
  • Publication number: 20180356157
    Abstract: A heat exchanger designed to be fixed to a turbomachine wall delimiting a gas flow stream, this exchanger including a body with a front face through which the gas flow passes; an attachment face to the wall; an external face opposite the attachment face and connected to the front face; two lateral faces connected to the front face; a cover surrounding the front face and extending along the prolongation of the external face and the lateral faces, to delimit an intake with an area smaller than the area of the front face, this intake being located upstream from the front face relative to the gas flow stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Jean-Claude FERRIER, Irwin KERNEMP, Jonathan David Robert LANGRIDGE
  • Publication number: 20180354638
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine (24) of the «open rotor» type or a turboprop engine comprising a nacelle (26) defining an air inlet (28), a central hub (30) and an annular air intake section (32) surrounding the central hub (30) and opening into a air supply main section (34), with the central hub (30) comprising a central trap (36) having an aperture (38) for trapping the foreign objects in an air flow entering the turbomachine (24), and an air recovery channel (48) having a discharge end (48a), through which said air recovery channel (48) opens into the main section (34), provided on the central hub (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Romain Jean-Claude Ferrier, Romeo Brogna, Jackie Raymond Julien Prouteau, Nicolas Joseph Sirvin
  • Patent number: 10054049
    Abstract: An air guidance device for a turbomachine includes an air supply channel of a turbomachine engine. The supply channel has an upstream section and a downstream section connected together by a diverting section, the upstream section and the diverting section being connected together via an internal elbow and an external elbow. At the internal elbow, the internal surface has a groove extending longitudinally in the longitudinal direction of the supply channel and the longitudinal edges of which are widened in the direction of the downstream end of the upstream section of the supply channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Alexandre Gérard François Couilleaux, Romain Jean-Claude Ferrier, Nicolas Joseph Sirvin
  • Publication number: 20180105278
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aircraft propulsion assembly comprising a cradle receiving a turbine engine comprising at least one propeller having a longitudinal axis of rotation, a gas turbine engine having a longitudinal axis of rotation offset from the axis, and a reduction gear by means of which said propeller receives drive power from said engine, wherein the propeller and the gas turbine engine are designed such that axes and are offset from one another within said cradle at least by a given value in a transverse direction, the axis of the gas turbine engine being transversely closer to a proximal lateral side of the cradle than to an opposite distal lateral side of the cradle in order to create a lateral space between said engine and said distal lateral side of the cradle, thereby forming at least one region for installing equipments, components or accessories of said turbine engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Nora EL GHANNAM, Matthieu Etienne ATTALI, Romain Jean-Claude FERRIER, Caroline Marie FRANTZ, Thomas Gerard Daniel RIVIERE, Nicolas Xavier TRAPPIER
  • Publication number: 20170260903
    Abstract: Air inlet duct of a turbine engine, in particular an aircraft turbine engine comprising a gas generator, which extends axially between the air inlet and the gas generator and has a first axial wall part and a second wall part which is angularly offset with respect to the first part, which duct is capable of causing, in a shedding region, shedding of the boundary layer formed by an air flow along the wall of the duct; and a device for controlling said shedding of the boundary layer, characterised in that the control device comprises an air-blowing pipe which opens via at least one air-injection opening which is directly upstream of the shedding region, the blowing pipe being connected to an air intake positioned upstream of said air-injection opening or in the shedding region and comprising an air compressor means between the air intake and the air-injection opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romeo Brogna, Romain Jean-Claude Ferrier
  • Publication number: 20170138260
    Abstract: An air guidance device for a turbomachine includes an air supply channel of a turbomachine engine. The supply channel has an upstream section and a downstream section connected together by a diverting section, the upstream section and the diverting section being connected together via an internal elbow and an external elbow. At the internal elbow, the internal surface has a groove extending longitudinally in the longitudinal direction of the supply channel and the longitudinal edges of which are widened in the direction of the downstream end of the upstream section of the supply channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Alexandre Gérard François COUILLEAUX, Romain Jean-Claude FERRIER, Nicolas Joseph SIRVIN
  • Publication number: 20160123228
    Abstract: Air intake sleeve (32) for an aircraft turboprop engine, comprising an air bleed duct (54) that is oriented substantially along a first axis (A) and a duct (56) for supplying air to a compressor, which duct is oriented substantially along a second axis (B), at a distance from the first axis and substantially in parallel with the first axis, said air bleed duct and said supply duct being interconnected by an intermediate duct (60) having a general S shape, when viewed from the side, characterised in that said intermediate duct comprises, on at least one of the walls thereof, means for sucking air into the flow path of the intermediate duct, said suction means (64, 66) being positioned and/or designed to suck a boundary layer of said flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Alexandre Gerard Francois Couilleaux, Romain Jean Claude Ferrier, Nicolas Joseph Sirvin