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).
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Patent number: 11933497Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Romain Nicolas Lunel, Haris Musaefendic
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Patent number: 11840994Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Sébastien Alain Christophe Bourgois, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Haris Musaefendic
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Patent number: 11739936Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Sébastien Alain Christophe Bourgois, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Haris Musaefendic
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Patent number: 11725822Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Romain Nicolas Lunel, Damien Bonnefoi, Christophe Pieussergues, Luc Namer, Dominique Raulin, Dan Ranjiv Joory, Benjamin Frantz Karl Villenave
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Publication number: 20230250962Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Haris Musaefendic, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Jean-François Cabre
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Patent number: 11614234Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 4, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Jacques Marcel Arthur Bunel, Dan-Ranjiv Joory, Patrice André Commaret, Romain Nicolas Lunel
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Publication number: 20230003386Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Romain Nicolas LUNEL, Haris MUSAEFENDIC
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Patent number: 11441779Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: François Pierre Ribassin, Patrice André Commaret, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Christophe Pieussergues
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Publication number: 20220275941Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Julien Marc Matthieu LEPAROUX, Jean-François CABRE, Haris MUSAEFENDIC, Romain Nicolas LUNEL
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Patent number: 11365883Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: François Xavier Chapelle, Yvan Yoann Guezel, Romain Nicolas Lunel
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Patent number: 11300296Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Patrice André Commaret, Haris Musaefendic, Romain Nicolas Lunel
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Publication number: 20220082259Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Sébastien Alain Christophe BOURGOIS, Romain Nicolas LUNEL, Haris MUSAEFENDIC
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Patent number: 11268699Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Sébastien Alain Christophe Bourgois, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Haris Musaefendic
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Patent number: 11242994Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Yvan Yoann Guezel, François Xavier Chapelle, Romain Nicolas Lunel
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Patent number: 11125435Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Guillaume Aurelien Godel, Alain Rene Cayre, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Haris Musaefendic
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Publication number: 20210262665Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Sébastien Alain Christophe Bourgois, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Haris Musaefendic
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Publication number: 20210199297Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: François Xavier CHAPELLE, Yvan Yoann GUEZEL, Romain Nicolas LUNEL
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Patent number: 10883718Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Romain Nicolas Lunel, Guillaume Aurelien Godel, Haris Musaefendic, Christophe Pieussergues, Francois Pierre Georges Maurice Ribassin
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Patent number: 10883720Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: Guillaume Aurelien Godel, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Thomas Olivier Marie Noel, Matthieu Francois Rullaud
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Publication number: 20200333008Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: Safran Aircraft EnginesInventors: François Pierre Ribassin, Patrice André Commaret, Romain Nicolas Lunel, Christophe Pieussergues