Patents by Inventor Romain Plante

Romain Plante 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: 20230311428
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a part made of composite material for a turbomachine, in particular of an aircraft, includes the steps of: b) arranging a preform made of fibers in a mold, c) injecting polymerizable resin into the mold, d) machining the part, and e) visually checking the part. Step b) is preceded by a step a) in which at least one compliance coating is deposited in the mold. The compliance coating has a calibrated thickness (X) and at least one visual aspect identifiable by an operator. The coating is configured to cover at least one area of the preform and to be rigidly attached thereto by the resin at the end of step c) Step e) includes verifying, by the operator, the presence of the aspect in the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Matthieu Patrick Jean Roger PERLIN, Arthur BOUCHAUD, Romain PLANTE
  • Publication number: 20200215769
    Abstract: A method for producing a part by injecting resin into a woven fiber preform includes the steps of (a) shaping the preform, (b) forming the preform, and (c) injecting resin into the preform. The step of injecting resin into the preform is carried out by means of equipment that includes a mold, a countermold, and resin injecting means. The step of injecting resin into the preform includes the substeps of: partially opening the equipment, injecting resin into the equipment, closing the equipment, and pressurizing and heating the impregnated preform between the mold and the countermold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Plante, Sylvain Corradini, Marc-Emmanuel Jean François Techer
  • Patent number: 10239241
    Abstract: A compacting and injection mold for a fiber preform is for use in fabricating a turbine engine guide vane out of composite material. The mold includes a shell forming a trough that is to receive the fiber preform and that is closed in leaktight manner by bottom and top covers, compacting blocks arranged inside the trough each having a surface pressing normally against a surface of the fiber preform that is to be compacted, and closure blocks arranged inside the trough. Each closure block has a surface pressing normally against a surface of a compacting block and does not have a surface in contact with the fiber preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Romain Plante, Lise Lacroix, Olivier Patrigeon, Jean-Pierre Cauchois, Pascal Burek
  • Patent number: 9868235
    Abstract: A compacting and injection mold for a fiber preform is for use in fabricating a turbine engine guide vane out of composite material. The mold includes a shell forming a trough that is to receive the fiber preform and that is closed in leaktight manner by bottom and top covers, compacting blocks arranged inside the trough each having a surface pressing normally against a surface of the fiber preform that is to be compacted, and closure blocks arranged inside the trough. Each closure block has a surface pressing normally against a surface of a compacting block and does not have a surface in contact with the fiber preform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Romain Plante, Lise Lacroix, Olivier Patrigeon, Jean-Pierre Cauchois, Pascal Burek
  • Patent number: 9863270
    Abstract: A turbomachine casing including a substantially cylindrical wall and an annular one-piece acoustic insulation panel mounted inside the wall, the panel including an annular surface that is radially external opposite a radially internal annular surface of the wall, wherein the wall includes on its internal angular surface first projecting members which bear axially against second projecting members belonging to the external annular surface of the panel and which are fixed to these second members in a dismountable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Romain Plante, Romain Coulon, Geoffroy De La Chapelle, Paul Follin, Florent Rognin
  • Publication number: 20170361512
    Abstract: A compacting and injection mold for a fiber preform is for use in fabricating a turbine engine guide vane out of composite material. The mold includes a shell forming a trough that is to receive the fiber preform and that is closed in leaktight manner by bottom and top covers, compacting blocks arranged inside the trough each having a surface pressing normally against a surface of the fiber preform that is to be compacted, and closure blocks arranged inside the trough. Each closure block has a surface pressing normally against a surface of a compacting block and does not have a surface in contact with the fiber preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Romain PLANTE, Lise Lacroix, Olivier Patrigeon, Jean-Pierre Cauchois, Pascal Burek
  • Patent number: 9611863
    Abstract: A turbine engine casing, including a substantially cylindrical wall and a single-piece annular panel for acoustic insulation mounted radially inside the wall, is provided. The panel includes a radially outer annular surface fitted with upstream and downstream first projecting members respectively arranged in the upstream and downstream portions of the radially outer annular surface of the panel. The wall includes a radially inner annular surface fitted with upstream and downstream second projecting members that are releasably fastened respectively to the upstream and downstream first projecting members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Virginie Guilbert, Romain Plante, Florent Rognin
  • Patent number: 9592625
    Abstract: A device for fabricating a composite material part by injecting resin into a fiber structure. The device includes: a first die presenting two adjacent support surfaces defining a reentrant angle between them; at least one chock with a wedge-shaped portion configured to press the fiber structure into the angle; and a second die movable relative to the first die, the first and second dies being configured to clamp on the fiber structure and the chock. The chock is connected to the second die by at least one link, the link being hinged relative to the second die and relative to the chock to guide the wedge-shaped portion towards the angle to press the fiber structure into the angle when the second die approaches the first die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Romain Plante, Claude Canavese, Denis Pingon, Jean-Francois Durand
  • Patent number: 9399315
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing a fan casing of a turbomachine made of composite material, in which a mold includes a cylindrical body of lengthways axis and side flanges, and in which a counter-mold includes a cylindrical body and side counter-flanges. The counter-flanges are configured to be attached securely to the flanges, the body of the mold and the body of the counter-mold are concentric, the preform is configured to be positioned between the body of the mold and the body of the counter-mold, and the material of the body of the mold has an appreciably higher expansion coefficient than that of the body of the counter-mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Romain Plante, Jean-Pierre Cauchois, Louis Bettega, Jean-Louis Robert Marcel Castanie
  • Publication number: 20160032834
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine engine, such as an aircraft turbofan or a turboprop engine, including a fan casing (10) having a substantially cylindrical wall (12) surrounding the blades of the fan, and at least two annular acoustic insulation panels (18, 20) mounted radially inside said wall (12), a first panel (18) being mounted upstream of the fan, a second panel (20) being located downstream of the first panel (18) and supporting an inner layer (42) of abradable material located opposite the radially outer ends of the blades of the fan, characterised in that the two annular panels (18, 20) form a single structural unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Romain Plante, Jérémy Galiano, Florent Roggin, Gérome Sonois
  • Publication number: 20150267555
    Abstract: A turbomachine casing including a substantially cylindrical wall and an annular one-piece acoustic insulation panel mounted inside the wall, the panel including an annular surface that is radially external opposite a radially internal annular surface of the wall, wherein the wall includes on its internal angular surface first projecting members which bear axially against second projecting members belonging to the external annular surface of the panel and which are fixed to these second members in a dismountable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Romain Plante, Romain Coulon, Geoffroy De La Chapelle, Paul Follin, Florent Rognin
  • Publication number: 20140321999
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine engine casing comprising a substantially cylindrical wall (12) and a single-piece annular panel (18) for acoustic insulation mounted radially inside the wall (12), the panel (18) including a radially outer annular surface (36) fitted with upstream and downstream first projecting members (70) respectively arranged in the upstream and downstream portions of the radially outer annular surface (36) of the panel (18), the wall (12) including a radially inner annular surface fitted with upstream and downstream second projecting members (80) that are releasably fastened respectively to the upstream and downstream first projecting members (70).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Virginie Guilbert, Romain Plante, Florent Rognin
  • Publication number: 20140239540
    Abstract: A device for fabricating a composite material part by injecting resin into a fiber structure. The device includes: a first die presenting two adjacent support surfaces defining a reentrant angle between them; at least one chock with a wedge-shaped portion configured to press the fiber structure into the angle; and a second die movable relative to the first die, the first and second dies being configured to clamp on the fiber structure and the chock. The chock is connected to the second die by at least one link, the link being hinged relative to the second die and relative to the chock to guide the wedge-shaped portion towards the angle to press the fiber structure into the angle when the second die approaches the first die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Romain Plante, Claude Canavese, Denis Pingon, Jean-Francois Durand
  • Publication number: 20140197567
    Abstract: A compacting and injection mold for a fiber preform is for use in fabricating a turbine engine guide vane out of composite material. The mold includes a shell forming a trough that is to receive the fiber preform and that is closed in leaktight manner by bottom and top covers, compacting blocks arranged inside the trough each having a surface pressing normally against a surface of the fiber preform that is to be compacted, and closure blocks arranged inside the trough. Each closure block has a surface pressing normally against a surface of a compacting block and does not have a surface in contact with the fiber preform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Romain Plante, Lise Lacroix, Olivier Patrigeon, Jean-Pierre Cauchois, Pascal Burex
  • Publication number: 20140083548
    Abstract: A device for suctioning a liquid contained in a vessel, that includes a take-up tube that is received in the vessel such that a bottom end of the section is submerged in the liquid. The bottom end of the take-up tube is extended downward by a rotationally symmetrical tip which has a main substantially vertical axis open downward and which includes an outer radial collar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Romain Plante, Louis Bettega, Frank Louis
  • Patent number: 8544598
    Abstract: A one-piece soundproofing panel which is attached within an circumferential air blower casing of a turbomachine, with an axis, in which circulates an airflow from upstream to downstream, is disclosed. The panel includes a circumferential rigid seat with a longitudinal cylindrical part, arranged to axially extend with respect to the axis A of the turbomachine, having an outside surface, intended to come to extend facing with an internal surface of the air blower casing, and an internal surface to which is applied a soundproofing coating; and an annular fastening flange, formed at the upstream end of the longitudinal cylindrical part, radially outwardly extending, the fastening flange being arranged to cooperate with a fastening flange of the air blower casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Florian Gaudry, Romain Plante, Noel Robin, Georges Jean Xavier Riou, Jacky Novi Mardjono, Francois Marie Paul Marlin
  • Publication number: 20130087955
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing a fan casing of a turbomachine made of composite material, in which a mold includes a cylindrical body of lengthways axis and side flanges, and in which a counter-mold includes a cylindrical body and side counter-flanges. The counter-flanges are configured to be attached securely to the flanges, the body of the mold and the body of the counter-mold are concentric, the preform is configured to be positioned between the body of the mold and the body of the counter-mold, and the material of the body of the mold has an appreciably higher expansion coefficient than that of the body of the counter-mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Romain Plante, Jean-Pierre Cauchois, Louis Bettega, Jean-Louis Robert, Marcel Castanie
  • Publication number: 20130048414
    Abstract: One-piece soundproofing panel intended to be attached within an circumferential air blower casing of a turbomachine, comprising an axis, in which circulates an airflow from upstream to downstream, the panel including a circumferential rigid seat comprising a longitudinal cylindrical part, arranged to axially extend with respect to the axis A of the turbomachine, comprising an outside surface, intended to come to extend facing with an internal surface of the air blower casing, and an internal surface to which is applied a soundproofing coating and an annular fastening flange, formed at the upstream end of the longitudinal cylindrical part, radially outwardly extending, the fastening flange being arranged to cooperate with a fastening flange of the air blower casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Florian Gaudry, Romain Plante, Noël Robin, Georges Jean Xavier Riou, Jacky Novi Mardjono, François Marie Paul Marlin