Patents by Inventor Romain NICOLAS

Romain NICOLAS 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: 11952950
    Abstract: An axial turbomachine comprising a compression device with a variable-orientation vane rectifier stage; a combustion chamber downstream of the compression device; a turbine device downstream of the combustion chamber; and a leak passage of air compressed by the compression device, between the compression device and the turbine device for cooling the turbine device; and where the rectifier stage is configured to modulate the section of the leak passage according to the orientation of the vanes of the stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES SAS
    Inventors: Lilian Yann Dumas, Baptiste René Roger Batonnet, Romain Nicolas Lagarde
  • Patent number: 11933497
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air/fuel injection system for a turbomachine, comprising:—an injector comprising a duct and an injection nose, arranged inside said duct, which extends from upstream to downstream along a longitudinal axis;—a mixer device comprising a bowl comprising an annular inlet, forming the inlet of the mixer device, from which there extends a conical portion flared in the downstream direction, said mixer device being arranged downstream of the injection nose; the injection system being characterized in that the injector comprises an air-injection annulus extending from the duct and from which there extends a connection ring comprising a divergent portion, said ring being arranged externally around the annular inlet of the mixer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Nicolas Lunel, Haris Musaefendic
  • Patent number: 11840994
    Abstract: The fuel injection conduits in a multipoint device surrounding a so-called pilot central injection device include tubes of circumferential orientation. By separating the injection conduits from each other, it is possible to attribute to them different head losses which compensate the differences in length that the fuel has to travel: a uniform flow of fuel may be hoped for, for each of the injection holes. The tubes are individual but joined to form a crown that is unitary or composed of two almost symmetrical unitary portions, which lends itself well to manufacture by addition of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien Alain Christophe Bourgois, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Haris Musaefendic
  • Patent number: 11828191
    Abstract: A turbomachine assembly includes a casing, first and second rotors, and a damper. The first rotor includes a disk and blades and is movable in rotation relative to the casing. The second rotor is movable relative to the casing around a longitudinal axis. The damper damps a movement of the first rotor relative to the second rotor. The damper includes first to third parts. The first part bears on the first rotor in a first area extending over a first angular sector around the longitudinal axis and applies a first centrifugal force on the first rotor. The second part bears on the first rotor in a second area that is smaller than the first angular sector and extends over a second angular sector around the longitudinal axis. The third part bears on the second rotor and applies a second centrifugal force on the second rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Philippe Gérard Edmond Joly, Romain Nicolas Lagarde, Jean-Marc Claude Perrollaz, Laurent Jablonski, François Jean Comin, Edouard Antoine Dominique Marie De Jaeghere, Charles Jean-Pierre Douguet
  • Patent number: 11808169
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an assembly for a turbomachine, comprising: a first rotor; a second rotor, and a damper (2) configured to damp a displacement of the first rotor relative to the second rotor, the damper comprising: a first portion (21) bearing against the first rotor and having a first thickness, a second portion (22) bearing against the second rotor and having a second radial thickness, and a third portion (23) connecting the first portion (21) to the second portion (22) and having a third radial thickness, wherein the third radial thickness is greater than at least one of the first radial thickness and the second radial thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Philippe Gérard Edmond Joly, Romain Nicolas Lagarde, Jean-Marc Claude Perrollaz, Laurent Jablonski, François Jean Comin, Edouard Antoine Dominique Marie De Jaeghere, Charles Jean-Pierre Douguet
  • Patent number: 11808160
    Abstract: A sub-assembly of a turbine engine including a shaft, a bearing for guiding an axial end of the shaft, a nut which is screw-connected to the end of the shaft and a member for blocking the rotation of the nut in relation to the end of the shaft, wherein the member for blocking the nut includes a first section bearing a plurality of flexible tabs, one end of each tab of which cooperates with a radially inner annular wall of the end of the shaft and includes a second section which cooperates with the nut, characterised in that the second section of the blocking member is screw-connected to the nut and the features of the thread between the blocking member and the nut are different from the features of the thread between the nut and the end of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Nicolas Lagarde, Marie-Charline Stéphanie Charbonnier, Jean-Marc Claude Perrollaz, Lilian Yann Dumas
  • Patent number: 11808170
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbomachine assembly, comprising: a casing (10), a first rotor (12) which is movable in rotation with respect to the casing (10) about a longitudinal axis (X-X), and comprising: *a disk (120), and *a plurality of blades (122) capable of flapping with respect to the disk (120) during a rotation of the first rotor (12) with respect to the casing (10), a second rotor (140) which is movable in rotation with respect to the casing (10) about the longitudinal axis (X-X), and a damper (2) which is configured to damp a displacement of the first rotor (12) with respect to the second rotor (140) in a plane orthogonal to the longitudinal axis (X-X), the displacement being caused by a flapping of at least one blade (122) among the plurality of blades (122), the damper (2) comprising: o a first bearing part (21): *bearing against the first rotor (12), and *being configured to apply a first centrifugal force (C1) to the first rotor (12), o a second bearing part (22): *bearing against the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Philippe Gérard Edmond Joly, Romain Nicolas Lagarde, Jean-Marc Claude Perrollaz, Laurent Jablonski, François Jean Comin, Edouard Antoine Dominique Marie De Jaeghere, Charles Jean-Pierre Douguet
  • Patent number: 11739936
    Abstract: An injection system for a turbomachine combustion chamber includes a swirler and a mixing bowl. The mixing bowl includes a converging frustoconical portion and a diverging frustoconical portion. The diverging frustoconical portion is connected to the converging frustoconical portion, forming a continuous aerodynamic profile with the converging frustoconical portion. The diverging frustoconical portion is passed through by vortex holes which each includes a circumferential component around a longitudinal axis of the injection system and an axial component along the longitudinal axis of the injection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien Alain Christophe Bourgois, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Haris Musaefendic
  • Patent number: 11725822
    Abstract: The invention concerns a turbo engine comprising a combustion chamber (110) arranged inside the outer housing (112) and comprising an internal revolution wall (118) and an external revolution wall (116). First stop parts (54) and second stop parts (56) fixed respectively to the outer housing and to the combustion chamber are provided, the first and second stop parts being adapted to come to a substantially axial stop two by two by forming stop pairs (58).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Nicolas Lunel, Damien Bonnefoi, Christophe Pieussergues, Luc Namer, Dominique Raulin, Dan Ranjiv Joory, Benjamin Frantz Karl Villenave
  • Publication number: 20230250962
    Abstract: Annular combustion chamber for an aircraft turbomachine, said chamber having two coaxial annular walls, an inner annular wall and an outer annular wall, respectively, which are connected upstream by an annular bottom wall of the chamber, wherein an injection device passes through an axis and comprises an air injection system and a frustoconical bowl which is flared downstream and has air passage openings, the chamber further having an annular deflector placed downstream of the bottom wall substantially parallel to the latter; and wherein the air injection system, the bottom wall, the deflector and the bowl are integrally formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Haris Musaefendic, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Jean-François Cabre
  • Patent number: 11614234
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for a turbine engine, in particular for an aircraft turbojet engine or turboprop engine. The combustion chamber includes a radially outer annular shroud, a radially inner annular shroud coaxial with the radially outer shroud, and an end wall connecting the radially outer shroud and the radially inner shroud. The combustion chamber further includes a first annular sealing member coaxial with said radially inner and outer shrouds. The first annular sealing member is radially interposed between the end wall and the radially outer shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Dan-Ranjiv Joory, Patrice André Commaret, Romain Nicolas Lunel
  • Publication number: 20230003386
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air/fuel injection system for a turbomachine, comprising: —an injector comprising a duct and an injection nose, arranged inside said duct, which extends from upstream to downstream along a longitudinal axis; —a mixer device comprising a bowl comprising an annular inlet, forming the inlet of the mixer device, from which there extends a conical portion flared in the downstream direction, said mixer device being arranged downstream of the injection nose; the injection system being characterized in that the injector comprises an air-injection annulus extending from the duct and from which there extends a connection ring comprising a divergent portion, said ring being arranged externally around the annular inlet of the mixer device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Nicolas LUNEL, Haris MUSAEFENDIC
  • Patent number: 11536157
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly (1) for a turbomachine comprising: a first rotor module (2) comprising a first blade (20), a second rotor module (3), connected to the first rotor module (2), and comprising a second blade with a length less than the first blade (20), and a damping device (4) extending with at least one component along a turbomachine longitudinal axis (X-X), characterized in that the damping device (4) is annular while extending circumferentially around the turbomachine longitudinal axis (X-X) and in that the damping device (4) comprises a first radial external surface (40) supported with friction against the first module (2) as well as a second radial external surface (42) supported with friction against the second module (3), so as to couple the modules (2, 3) in order to damp their respective vibrational movements during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Philippe Gérard Edmond Joly, François Jean Comin, Charles Jean-Pierre Douguet, Laurent Jablonski, Romain Nicolas LaGarde, Jean-Marc Claude Perrollaz
  • Patent number: 11466571
    Abstract: A turbomachine assembly is provided. The assembly includes: a first rotor module including a first blade, a second rotor module, connected to the first rotor module, and including a second blade of smaller length than the first blade, and a damping device including a plurality of first radial external surfaces supported with friction against the first module. The damping device is stepped, and includes a second radial external surface supported with friction against the second module, so as to couple the modules for the purpose of damping their respective vibrational movements during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Philippe Gerard Edmond Joly, Marie-Oceane Parent, Francois Jean Comin, Romain Nicolas Lagarde, Jean-Marc Claude Perrollaz, Laurent Jablonski, Charles Jean-Pierre Douguet
  • Publication number: 20220299040
    Abstract: A turbomachine assembly is provided. The assembly includes: a first rotor module including a first blade, a second rotor module, connected to the first rotor module, and including a second blade of smaller length than the first blade, and a damping device including a plurality of first radial external surfaces supported with friction against the first module. The damping device is stepped, and includes a second radial external surface supported with friction against the second module, so as to couple the modules for the purpose of damping their respective vibrational movements during operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Philippe Gerard Edmond JOLY, Marie-Oceane PARENT, Francois Jean COMIN, Romain Nicolas LAGARDE, Jean-Marc Claude PERROLLAZ, Laurent JABLONSKI, Charles Jean-Pierre DOUGUET
  • Patent number: 11441779
    Abstract: The provision of air passage holes through a wall of a gas turbomachine combustion chamber. Multi-perforations are virtually positioned and distributed, even in a first safety zone without air passage openings. Multi-perforations with a virtual inlet or outlet in this first security zone are virtually removed. According to certain criteria, at least some of said removed multi-perforations are then virtually reintegrated, and, from then on a perimeter passing through the virtual inlets and outlets of all the multi-perforations present is defined, in the direction of a primary or dilution hole to be installed, a modified safety zone is defined, then, respecting around said hole and with the freedom to reposition it within this limit, the shape of this hole is redefined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: François Pierre Ribassin, Patrice André Commaret, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Christophe Pieussergues
  • Publication number: 20220275762
    Abstract: An axial turbomachine comprising a compression device with a variable-orientation vane rectifier stage; a combustion chamber downstream of the compression device; a turbine device downstream of the combustion chamber; and a leak passage of air compressed by the compression device, between the compression device and the turbine device for cooling the turbine device; and where the rectifier stage is configured to modulate the section of the leak passage according to the orientation of the vanes of the stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Lilian Yann DUMAS, Baptiste René Roger BATONNET, Romain Nicolas LAGARDE
  • Publication number: 20220275941
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for an aircraft turbomachine includes an annular chamber end wall structure, an annular row of main injection systems mounted in the chamber end wall structure and configured to deliver a sheet of fuel, including a central recirculation region and a corner recirculation region around the central recirculation region, and secondary injection systems each configured to inject an additional flow of air and fuel directly into a corresponding corner recirculation region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Julien Marc Matthieu LEPAROUX, Jean-François CABRE, Haris MUSAEFENDIC, Romain Nicolas LUNEL
  • Patent number: 11421534
    Abstract: An assembly for a turbomachine including a first rotor module (2) with a first blade (20), and a second rotor module (3), connected to the first rotor module (2). The second rotor module includes a second blade with a smaller length than the first blade (20). A damping device (4) is attached to the second rotor module (3) and includes a radial external surface (40) supported with friction against the first module (2), so as to couple the modules (2, 3) for the purpose of damping their respective vibrational movements during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Philippe Gerard Edmond Joly, Francois Jean Comin, Laurent Jablonski, Romain Nicolas Lagarde, Jean-Marc Claude Perrollaz
  • Publication number: 20220228491
    Abstract: A turbomachine assembly includes a casing, first and second rotors, and a damper. The first rotor includes a disk and blades and is movable in rotation relative to the casing. The second rotor is movable relative to the casing around a longitudinal axis. The damper damps a movement of the first rotor relative to the second rotor. The damper includes first to third parts. The first part bears on the first rotor in a first area extending over a first angular sector around the longitudinal axis and applies a first centrifugal force on the first rotor. The second part bears on the first rotor in a second area that is smaller than the first angular sector and extends over a second angular sector around the longitudinal axis. The third part bears on the second rotor and applies a second centrifugal force on the second rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Philippe Gérard Edmond JOLY, Romain Nicolas LAGARDE, Jean-Marc Claude PERROLLAZ, Laurent JABLONSKI, François Jean COMIN, Edouard Antoine Dominique Marie DE JAEGHERE, Charles Jean-Pierre DOUGUET