Patents by Inventor Sami BENICHOU

Sami BENICHOU 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: 10669863
    Abstract: A blade for a turbomachine bladed wheel having N blades. At one end, the blade presents a platform that is formed integrally with an airfoil of the blade. Over a portion of the axial extent of the blade, a section through the platform wall on a plane perpendicular to the axis (X) of the wheel is constituted mainly by two first straight line segments arranged respectively on the two sides of the airfoil. Each of these segments forms an angle of 90°-180°/N relative to the radial direction on either side of the airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Sami Benichou, Christian Bariaud, Stéphanie Deflandre, Sébastien Digard Brou De Cuissart, Patrick Emilien Paul Emile Huchin
  • Patent number: 10626728
    Abstract: A blade for a turbomachine bladed wheel, the blade comprising a root, an airfoil, and a tip. The root and the tip have respective platforms, each presenting a surface on a side toward the airfoil, which surfaces are referred to respectively as the root platform wall and the tip platform wall. Each of these platform walls is constituted by a pressure side portion and a suction side portion meeting at a crest curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Sami Benichou, Christian Bariaud, Stéphanie Deflandre, Sébastien Digard Brou De Cuissart, Patrick Emilien Paul Emile Huchin
  • Patent number: 10533426
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a turbine engine blade (25) comprising a pressure side and a suction side separated from one another by an inner space for the circulation of cooling air, the blade (25) comprising a tip (S) with a closing wall (29) joining the pressure side and suction side walls in the region of this tip (S) in order to define a well shape, the closing wall including through-holes. The closing wall (29) obtained by moulding has a considerable nominal thickness with pits (36, 37) locally reducing this thickness at each through-hole in order to facilitate the removal by chemical etching of alumina rods defining the holes. Since the closing wall (29) thus has a large nominal thickness, it can then be machined in order to form raised patterns or complex shapes inside the well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Dominique Coyez, Christian Bariaud, Sami Benichou, Jean-Claude Marcel Auguste Hanny
  • Publication number: 20170328222
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a turbine engine blade (25) comprising a pressure side and a suction side separated from one another by an inner space for the circulation of cooling air, the blade (25) comprising a tip (S) with a closing wall (29) joining the pressure side and suction side walls in the region of this tip (S) in order to define a well shape, the closing wall including through-holes. The closing wall (29) obtained by moulding has a considerable nominal thickness with pits (36, 37) locally reducing this thickness at each through-hole in order to facilitate the removal by chemical etching of alumina rods defining the holes. Since the closing wall (29) thus has a large nominal thickness, it can then be machined in order to form raised patterns or complex shapes inside the well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Dominique Coyez, Christian Bariaud, Sami Benichou, Jean-Claude Marcel, Auguste Hanny
  • Publication number: 20170122108
    Abstract: A blade for a turbomachine bladed wheel, the blade comprising a root, an airfoil, and a tip. The root and the tip have respective platforms, each presenting a surface (15) on a side toward the airfoil, which surfaces are referred to respectively as the root platform wall and the tip platform wall. Each of these platform walls is constituted by a pressure side portion and a suction side portion situated respectively pressure side and on the suction side and meeting at a crest curve (45, 65). Fabrication of the blade is facilitated in particular by the fact that every point of a first surface selected from the pressure side and the suction side and every point of the root and tip platform wall portions situated on the same side as the first surface presents a normal forming an acute angle or a right angle relative to a direction referred to as the first fabrication direction. A method of modeling the blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Sami BENICHOU, Christian BARIAUD, Stéphanie DEFLANDRE, Sébastien DIGARD BROU DE CUISSART, Patrick Emilien, Paul, Emile HUCHIN
  • Publication number: 20160319676
    Abstract: A blade for a turbomachine bladed wheel having N blades. At one end, the blade presents a platform that is formed integrally with an airfoil of the blade. Over a portion of the axial extent of the blade, a section through the platform wall on a plane perpendicular to the axis (X) of the wheel is constituted mainly by two first straight line segments arranged respectively on the two sides of the airfoil. Each of these segments forms an angle of 90°-180° /N relative to the radial direction on either side of the airfoil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Sami BENICHOU, Christian BARIAUD, Stéphanie DEFLANDRE, Sébastien DIGARD BROU DE CUISSART, Patrick Emilien Paul Emile HUCHIN