Patents by Inventor Romain Jean Gilbert THIRIET

Romain Jean Gilbert THIRIET 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).

  • Publication number: 20240092497
    Abstract: Propulsion system (2) for a helicopter (1) comprising a main engine (9), a main rotor (3), a main gearbox (4) including an output mechanically connected to the main rotor (3), a reduction gearbox (13) mechanically coupled between the main engine (9) and a first input of the main gearbox (4), and an assistance device (10). The assistance device (10) comprises a first electric machine mechanically coupled to the reduction gearbox (13) and configured to operate as an electric generator to take off energy produced by the main engine (9), and a second electric machine mechanically coupled to a second input of the main gearbox (4), the second electric machine being supplied with electrical power by the first electric machine and configured to operate as an electric motor to deliver additional mechanical power to the main gearbox (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Jean Gilbert THIRIET, Fabien MERCIER-CALVAIRAC, Stéphane Albert André DOUILLARD
  • Publication number: 20230258129
    Abstract: Hybrid turbomachine comprising an electric generator, a gas generator equipped with an air inlet and with an exhaust and an acoustic monitoring system comprising a control unit and a plurality of loudspeakers. At least a first loudspeaker is disposed on the electric generator, and/or at least a second loudspeaker is disposed on the air inlet of the gas generator, and/or at least a third loudspeaker is disposed on the exhaust of the gas generator. The control unit of the acoustic monitoring system is mounted on the electric generator and is configured to make an AC-DC electrical conversion of the electromotive force of the electric generator into an adjustable DC voltage intended to be distributed to loads or to energy storage means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicants: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES, SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER, SAFRAN POWER UNITS
    Inventors: Romain Jean Gilbert THIRIET, Eric Jean-Louis BOUTY, Denis Antoine Julien REAL, Valéry CHAU
  • Publication number: 20230138626
    Abstract: An aircraft with an electrical network including electrical subnetworks; a turbo generator including a gas turbine, an electricity generator with permanent magnets having phase groups respectively connected to the electrical subnetworks, and, for each phase group, an isolation device; and a control device designed to detect a short circuit in at least one of the phase groups, each phase group in which a short circuit is detected being described as defective and each other phase group being described as healthy and, in response to the detection of the short circuit, to disconnect this defective phase group from its associated electrical subnetwork and to command the shutdown of the gas turbine. The control device is also designed, in response to the detection of the short circuit, to keep each healthy phase group connected to its electrical subnetwork.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Romain Jean Gilbert THIRIET, David Bernard Martin LEMAY
  • Publication number: 20220388673
    Abstract: A propulsion system (1) for a helicopter, comprising a turboshaft engine (2) with a linked turbine and an electric machine (3) capable of operating as an electric motor, the turboshaft engine (2) and the electric machine (3) being capable of driving in rotation at least one main rotor (5) intended to be coupled to a rotating wing (6) characterised in that it comprises means of coupling and decoupling (14) in rotation between a rotor (3a) of the electric machine (3) and a rotor (2a) of the turboshaft engine (2), the means of coupling and decoupling (14) being capable of allowing the rotor (2a) of the turboshaft engine (2) to be driven in rotation with the aid of the electric machine (3), in a first state of the propulsion system (1), and capable of allowing the rotor (2a) of the turboshaft engine (2) and the rotor (3a) of the electric machine (3) to be decoupled in rotation, in a second state of the propulsion system (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Romain Jean Gilbert THIRIET, Olivier BEDRINE, Antoine Pascal MOUTAUX
  • Publication number: 20220185489
    Abstract: A hybrid propulsion system for a vertical take-off and landing aircraft comprising at least one combustion engine driving an electricity generator, at least one electrical energy storage assembly associated with each electricity generator and defining, with each electricity generator, an energy branch, a plurality of electric motors actuating a same plurality of rotors providing together the propulsion and/or the lift of the aircraft, and an electrical power and distribution unit supplying power to the plurality of electric motors from the electricity generator and/or from the electrical energy storage assembly according to a pre-established flight phase, the system including at least two energy branches having an asymmetric configuration and each supplying power selectively, by means of the electrical power and distribution unit, all or part of the plurality of electric motors, and in that the electricity generators of the combustion engines have between them a power ratio comprised between
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Jean Gilbert THIRIET, Stéphane Meyer BEDDOK