Patents by Inventor Romain Nicolas Lunel

Romain Nicolas Lunel 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 11365883
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bottom wall (118) of a gas turbomachine combustion chamber. This bottom wall comprises openings (119) for mounting combustion air supply systems and holes (128) for the passage of cooling air between at least one inlet (128a) and at least one outlet of said holes. The holes (128) extend inwardly along the bottom wall with the outlet port located closer to the opening (119) adjacent to it than the inlet hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: François Xavier Chapelle, Yvan Yoann Guezel, Romain Nicolas Lunel
  • Patent number: 11300296
    Abstract: An annular combustion chamber of a turbomachine is described. The combustion chamber has an axis of revolution and is delimited by coaxial internal and external annular walls joined upstream by a bottom of chamber substantially transverse to the walls. In some embodiments, the chamber includes at least one annular deflector placed in the chamber and substantially parallel to the bottom of chamber. The bottom of chamber may have openings adapted to be traversed by air for cooling the deflector. In some embodiments, the bottom of chamber and the deflector include mounting openings for mounting an annular row of injection devices for injecting a mixture of air and fuel into the chamber. At least a portion of the air for cooling the deflector is conveyed into the chamber through holes in the injection devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Patrice André Commaret, Haris Musaefendic, Romain Nicolas Lunel
  • Publication number: 20220082259
    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: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Sébastien Alain Christophe BOURGOIS, Romain Nicolas LUNEL, Haris MUSAEFENDIC
  • Patent number: 11268699
    Abstract: An injection system for a turbine engine annular combustion chamber includes a support configured to support and to center a fuel injector head. The support includes a frustoconical surface connected at its downstream end of smallest diameter to an upstream end of a cylindrical surface. The system further includes a bowl configured to mix air and fuel arranged downstream of the support and at least one axial swirl inducer extending at least in part around the support. Each swirl inducer includes vanes delimiting between them substantially axial channels for the passage of an air flow. The channels open at their upstream ends on said frustoconical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien Alain Christophe Bourgois, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Haris Musaefendic
  • Patent number: 11242994
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for a turbomachine having a bottom wall, at least one mixing bowl for promoting the mixing of air and fuel, mounted in an opening in the bottom wall, at least one annular baffle mounted axially downstream of the bottom wall, with respect to the direction of the gas flow within the combustion chamber, around the opening. The baffle is produced in one piece with the mixing bowl so as to form a one-piece assembly that has at least one channel for the flow of cooling air. The channel has an air inlet located upstream of the bottom wall and an air outlet located downstream of the bottom wall. The air outlet is located radially opposite the baffle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Yvan Yoann Guezel, François Xavier Chapelle, Romain Nicolas Lunel
  • Patent number: 11125435
    Abstract: A turbine engine combustion chamber including: an outer annular housing; a flame tube connected to the outer housing. The flame tube includes an inner annular wall and an outer annular wall and a second axial outlet portion of the flame tube. The flame tube also includes a chamber base located at the inlet of the flame tube; and a fuel injection system configured to inject fuel into the flame tube via the inlet of the flame tube. The injection system includes an injector axis, and an air manifold to move air towards twists in the injection system. The twists are arranged around an implantation axis. The air manifold includes a circular portion around the injector axis. The circular portion, forms an air inlet of the manifold. The opening places the entering air flow in rotation about the implantation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Guillaume Aurelien Godel, Alain Rene Cayre, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Haris Musaefendic
  • Publication number: 20210262665
    Abstract: An injection system for a turbine engine annular combustion chamber includes a support configured to support and to center a fuel injector head. The support includes a frustoconical surface connected at its downstream end of smallest diameter to an upstream end of a cylindrical surface. The system further includes a bowl configured to mix air and fuel arranged downstream of the support and at least one axial swirl inducer extending at least in part around the support. Each swirl inducer includes vanes delimiting between them substantially axial channels for the passage of an air flow. The channels open at their upstream ends on said frustoconical surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien Alain Christophe Bourgois, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Haris Musaefendic
  • Publication number: 20210199297
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bottom wall (118) of a gas turbomachine combustion chamber. This bottom wall comprises openings (119) for mounting combustion air supply systems and holes (128) for the passage of cooling air between at least one inlet (128a) and at least one outlet of said holes. The holes (128) extend inwardly along the bottom wall with the outlet port located closer to the opening (119) adjacent to it than the inlet hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: François Xavier CHAPELLE, Yvan Yoann GUEZEL, Romain Nicolas LUNEL
  • Patent number: 10883718
    Abstract: An air intake swirler for a turbomachine injection system includes an upstream wall and a downstream wall, both of revolution about an axis of the air intake swirler, and fins distributed about the axis and connecting the upstream wall to the downstream wall so as to delimit, between the upstream wall and the downstream wall, air inlet channels each having an inlet and an outlet. The swirler includes two aerodynamic deflectors that respectively extend the downstream walls radially outward and that have a concavity oriented upstream. The aerodynamic deflectors extend radially facing the respective inlets of the air inlet channels and thus make it possible to limit the loss of pressure of the air supplied to the air inlet channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Nicolas Lunel, Guillaume Aurelien Godel, Haris Musaefendic, Christophe Pieussergues, Francois Pierre Georges Maurice Ribassin
  • Patent number: 10883720
    Abstract: A combustion chamber of a turbomachine includes an annular outer casing and a flame tube connected to the outer casing. The flame tube includes an annular inner wall and an annular outer wall defining a first, radial portion at the inlet of the flame tube and a second, axial portion at the outlet of the flame tube. The first portion extends towards the second portion forming an elbow between the inlet and the outlet of the flame tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Guillaume Aurelien Godel, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Thomas Olivier Marie Noel, Matthieu Francois Rullaud
  • Publication number: 20200333008
    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: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: François Pierre Ribassin, Patrice André Commaret, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Christophe Pieussergues