Patents by Inventor Sebastien ORIOL

Sebastien ORIOL 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: 20240401530
    Abstract: A turbine engine includes an oil supply system that has a main oil tank, a supply pump with an inlet and an outlet connected to a control system, an auxiliary oil tank, and a valve having a first inlet connected to the main tank, a second inlet connected to the auxiliary tank and an outlet connected to the inlet of the supply pump. The valve also has a member configured to move within the body and between a first position, in which the first inlet of the valve is in fluid communication with the outlet of the valve, and a second position, in which the second inlet of the valve is in fluid communication with the outlet of the valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien ORIOL, Thibault Maxime Adrien MALLET
  • Patent number: 12158105
    Abstract: An assembly for a fluid circuit of a turbine engineincludes a main branch, a fluid control valve, and a bypass branch which is arranged in parallel to the main branch. The fluid control valve includes a main outlet which is fluidly connected to the main branch and a bypass outlet which is fluidly connected to the bypass branch. The fluid control valve including a shutter, a spring for biasing the shutter, and control members for electrically controlling the shutter to a main open position or a bypass position. The spring for biasing the shutter is configured to bias the displacement of the shutter to the bypass position when a fluid pressure value is lower than a first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien Oriol, Mohammed-Lamine Boutaleb, Nicolas Vincent Pierre-Yves Cotereau
  • Patent number: 12158109
    Abstract: An aircraft turbine engine assembly, including a lubricating oil circuit and a fuel supply device, the assembly also including a passive bypass valve enabling the oil to bypass an exchanger, the valve including a valve body and a piston arranged to move in a sliding space defining a first actuating chamber supplied with oil from the oil circuit, as well as a second actuating chamber supplied with fuel from the device, the valve being configured so that when the differential pressure between the oil pressure in the first actuating chamber and the fuel pressure in the second actuating chamber drops below a predetermined value of differential pressure, the piston moves from a normal operating position to an exchanger bypass position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien Oriol, Nicolas Vincent Pierre-Yves Cotereau, Mohammed-Lamine Boutaleb
  • Publication number: 20240392695
    Abstract: An auxiliary oil tank including an enclosure that includes: a first internal volume (V1) in fluid communication with the first outlet port, a second internal volume (V2) in fluid communication with the second outlet port and separated from the first internal volume (V1) by a baffle, the baffle having a first end wall extending from the top wall towards the bottom wall and a second end wall extending from the bottom wall towards the top wall, the first and second end walls being substantially parallel, the first end wall and the lower wall delimiting a first fluid passage, and the second end wall and the upper wall delimiting a second fluid passage (P2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Sebastien ORIOL, Mohammed-Lamine BOUTALEB
  • Publication number: 20240384668
    Abstract: An auxiliary supply device that includes: an auxiliary oil tank, an auxiliary pump including an inlet connected to the auxiliary tank and an outlet, a valve including a body having an inlet connected to the outlet of the auxiliary pump and a first outlet connected to the auxiliary oil tank, and a second outlet intended to be connected to a control system, the valve further having a member capable of moving within the body and configured to move between a first position in which the inlet of the valve is in fluid communication with the first outlet of the valve and a second position in which the inlet of the valve is in fluid communication with the second outlet of the valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Sebastien ORIOL, Mohammed-Lamine BOUTALEB
  • Patent number: 12110826
    Abstract: An assembly for an aircraft turbine engine includes a fan drive reduction gear and a lubrication system including: a reduction gear housing; a lubricant tank; a lubricant supply circuit including a feed pump; and a lubricant recovery circuit including a pump for recovering lubricant from the reduction gear housing. The recovery circuit includes a lubricant distributor, including: a lubricant inlet communicating with a lubricant outlet of the housing; an air inlet; and a distributor outlet, the distributor being able to adopt a lubricant recovery configuration and a configuration for retaining the lubricant in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Mohammed-Lamine Boutaleb, Nicolas Vincent Pierre-Yves Cotereau, Sébastien Oriol
  • Patent number: 12104504
    Abstract: A device for setting the pitch of blades for a turbine engine, including a control system acting on a linkage mechanism and including an actuator having two chambers; —a supply member coupled to a fluid transfer bearing for transferring a pressurised fluid from a main supply source in a fixed frame of reference to the chambers; —an auxiliary supply circuit which is arranged in a rotating frame of reference and is connected to the supply member and to the main supply source, the supply member being configured to: —in normal operation, allow fluid to pass from the main supply source to the chambers and to the auxiliary supply circuit, and—in the event of a break in the supply to the chambers from the main supply source, allow pressurised fluid to pass from the auxiliary supply circuit to the chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sebastien Oriol, Caroline Marie Frantz, Bastien Pierre Verdier
  • Patent number: 12092029
    Abstract: A fan module for an aircraft turbine engine includes a fan with a fan shaft and variable-pitch fan blades. The fan module further includes an oil transfer device transfers oil between a stator and an actuator that controls the pitch of the fan blades the device includes a stator ring having an inner cylindrical surface and internal oil ducts, each of which opens onto the inner cylindrical surface. A shaft is engaged in the stator ring and rotates about an axis inside the ring. The shaft includes an outer cylindrical surface extending inside said inner cylindrical surface. The shaft has internal oil ducts, each of which opens onto said outer cylindrical surface A rolling bearing is mounted between the ring and the shaft, on each side of the plain bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Caroline Marie Frantz, Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Antoine Pierre Albert Mariot, Serge René Morreale, Sébastien Oriol
  • Publication number: 20240167421
    Abstract: A fan module for an aircraft turbine engine includes a fan with a fan shaft and variable-pitch fan blades. The fan module further includes an oil transfer device transfers oil between a stator and an actuator that controls the pitch of the fan blades the device includes a stator ring having an inner cylindrical surface and internal oil ducts, each of which opens onto the inner cylindrical surface. A shaft is engaged in the stator ring and capable of rotating rotates about an axis inside the ring. The shaft includes an outer cylindrical surface extending inside said inner cylindrical surface. The shaft has internal oil ducts, each of which opens onto said outer cylindrical surface. A rolling bearing is mounted between the ring and the shaft, on each side of the plain bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Caroline Marie FRANTZ, Gilles Alain Marie CHARIER, Antoine Pierre Albert MARIOT, Serge René MORREALE, Sébastien ORIOL
  • Publication number: 20240018904
    Abstract: A heat exchange system for a turbine engine is provided. The heat exchange system includes a cavity having an air intake, a heat exchanger arranged in the cavity and having a first circuit in which a first fluid can circulate, a movable flap mounted at the air intake and moving between two positions permitting or preventing, respectively, the circulation of air flow in the cavity, and a control device having a movable member configured to drive the movement of the movable flap. The control device can be arranged in the heat exchanger supply circuit and configured so as to permit or prevent the circulation of the first fluid to the heat exchanger and simultaneously move the movable flap between at least one of the two positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien ORIOL, Nicolas Vincent Pierre-Yves COTEREAU, Mohammed-Lamine BOUTALEB
  • Publication number: 20240011404
    Abstract: A device for setting the pitch of blades for a turbine engine, including a control system acting on a linkage mechanism and including an actuator having two chambers; —a supply member coupled to a fluid transfer bearing for transferring a pressurised fluid from a main supply source in a fixed frame of reference to the chambers; —an auxiliary supply circuit which is arranged in a rotating frame of reference and is connected to the supply member and to the main supply source, the supply member being configured to: —in normal operation, allow fluid to pass from the main supply source to the chambers and to the auxiliary supply circuit, and —in the event of a break in the supply to the chambers from the main supply source, allow pressurised fluid to pass from the auxiliary supply circuit to the chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Sebastien ORIOL, Caroline Marie FRANTZ, Bastien Pierre VERDIER
  • Publication number: 20240003299
    Abstract: An aircraft turbine engine assembly, including a lubricating oil circuit and a fuel supply device, the assembly also including a passive bypass valve enabling the oil to bypass an exchanger, the valve including a valve body and a piston arranged to move in a sliding space defining a first actuating chamber supplied with oil from the oil circuit, as well as a second actuating chamber supplied with fuel from the device, the valve being configured so that when the differential pressure between the oil pressure in the first actuating chamber and the fuel pressure in the second actuating chamber drops below a predetermined value of differential pressure, the piston moves from a normal operating position to an exchanger bypass position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Sébastien ORIOL, Nicolas Vincent Pierre-Yves COTEREAU, Mohammed-Lamine BOUTALEB
  • Patent number: 11698004
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion assembly includes a turbine engine surrounded by a nacelle with an annular air-intake lip extending around the turbine engine by two annular walls, inner and outer, respectively, intended for being swept across by air flows at least when the aircraft is in flight. The inner and outer walls each includes or supports at least one network of pipes forming heat exchangers. The inner wall pipe network having liquid outlet connected with a liquid intake of the outer wall pipe network. The propulsion assembly further includes means for circulating the liquid, connected to at least one liquid intake of the network of pipes of the inner wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Sébastien Oriol, Mohammed-Lamine Boutaleb, Vincent Jean-François Peyron
  • Publication number: 20230175438
    Abstract: An assembly for an aircraft turbine engine includes a fan drive reduction gear and a lubrication system including: a reduction gear housing; a lubricant tank; a lubricant supply circuit including a feed pump; and a lubricant recovery circuit including a pump for recovering lubricant from the reduction gear housing. The recovery circuit includes a lubricant distributor, including: a lubricant inlet communicating with a lubricant outlet of the housing; an air inlet; and a distributor outlet, the distributor being able to adopt a lubricant recovery configuration and a configuration for retaining the lubricant in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Mohammed-Lamine BOUTALEB, Nicolas Vincent Pierre-Yves COTEREAU, Sébastien ORIOL
  • Publication number: 20230116598
    Abstract: An assembly for a fluid circuit of a turbine engineincludes a main branch, a fluid control valve, and a bypass branch which is arranged in parallel to the main branch. The fluid control valve includes a main outlet which is fluidly connected to the main branch and a bypass outlet which is fluidly connected to the bypass branch. The fluid control valve including a shutter, a spring for biasing the shutter, and control members for electrically controlling the shutter to a main open position or a bypass position. The spring for biasing the shutter is configured to bias the displacement of the shutter to the bypass position when a fluid pressure value is lower than a first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Sébastien ORIOL, Mohammed-Lamine BOUTALEB, Nicolas Vincent Pierre-Yves COTEREAU
  • Publication number: 20200049028
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion assembly includes a turbine engine surrounded by a nacelle with an annular air-intake lip extending around the turbine engine by two annular walls, inner and outer, respectively, intended for being swept across by air flows at least when the aircraft is in flight. The inner and outer walls each includes or supports at least one network of pipes forming heat exchangers. The inner wall pipe network having liquid outlet connected with a liquid intake of the outer wall pipe network. The propulsion assembly further includes means for circulating the liquid, connected to at least one liquid intake of the network of pipes of the inner wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN NACELLES
    Inventors: Sébastien Oriol, Mohamed-Lamine Boutaleb, Vincent Jean-François Peyron