Patents by Inventor Serge Rene Morreale

Serge Rene Morreale 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: 12116930
    Abstract: A scoop for an aircraft turbine engine, this scoop including a body which is movable between at least two positions, including a first position in which it is configured to capture part of a first air stream flowing in a first direction, wherein the body is movable into a second position in which it is configured to capture part of a second air stream flowing in a second direction which is opposite to the first direction, and wherein the body is mounted to move freely between the at least two positions so as to automatically adopt the first position when the first air stream flows, and to automatically adopt the second position when the second air stream flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Paco Maurer, Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Serge Rene Morreale, Nicolas Stoliaroff-Pepin
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12055052
    Abstract: Fan module for an aircraft turbine engine, the module including a fan having variable-pitch blades and an oil-transfer device configured to transfer oil between a stator and a rotor. The device includes a stator ring having internal oil ducts, a shaft engaged in the ring and having internal oil ducts, and a plain bearing and rolling bearings which are mounted between the ring and the shaft, the ring including first fluidic-connection ports which are configured to cooperate by male-female engagement with ends of oil-supply sockets during blind assembly of the device by axial translation downstream of the device as a whole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Caroline Marie Franz, Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Herve Christian Denis Maine, Serge Rene Morreale
  • Publication number: 20240183284
    Abstract: Fan module for an aircraft turbine engine, the module including a fan having variable-pitch blades and an oil-transfer device configured to transfer oil between a stator and a rotor. The device includes a stator ring having internal oil ducts, a shaft engaged in the ring and having internal oil ducts, and a plain bearing and rolling bearings which are mounted between the ring and the shaft, the ring including first fluidic-connection ports which are configured to cooperate by male-female engagement with ends of oil-supply sockets during blind assembly of the device by axial translation downstream of the device as a whole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Caroline Marie FRANZ, Gilles Alain Marie CHARIER, Herve Christian Denis MAINE, Serge Rene MORREALE
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11970983
    Abstract: An arrangement for an aircraft turbine engine, including a shaft and a follower element rotatably coupled to the shaft by a spline connection, the arrangement including upstream and downstream connections for radially centring the follower element relative to the shaft; means for spraying a lubricant into a collection cavity; a passage for receiving lubricant, which passage opens into the collection cavity and into a cavity for lubricating the splines which is partially defined by the upstream and downstream radial centring connections; and a passage for discharging lubricant, which passage opens into the cavity for lubricating the splines and outside the arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Matthieu Bruno François Foglia, Serge René Morreale, Adrien Louis Simon
  • Patent number: 11905889
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes a single ducted fan including a first shaft rotated by a second shaft via a speed reduction gearset, the second shaft being rotated by a third shaft of a turbine, the first shaft being guided in rotation with respect to a fixed structure via a first bearing and a second bearing placed upstream of the speed reduction gearset. The second shaft is guided in rotation with respect to the first shaft via a rolling bearing placed upstream of the speed reduction gearset, the rolling bearing comprising an outer ring housed in the first shaft, an inner ring connected to the second shaft and rolling elements arranged between the inner and outer rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Marion Jeanne Pierrette Verdier, Yanis Benslama, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Romain Guillaume Cuvillier, Serge René Morreale
  • Publication number: 20230417181
    Abstract: A scoop for an aircraft turbine engine, this scoop including a body which is movable between at least two positions, including a first position in which it is configured to capture part of a first air stream flowing in a first direction, wherein the body is movable into a second position in which it is configured to capture part of a second air stream flowing in a second direction which is opposite to the first direction, and wherein the body is mounted to move freely between the at least two positions so as to automatically adopt the first position when the first air stream flows, and to automatically adopt the second position when the second air stream flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Paco MAURER, Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Serge Rene MORREALE, Nicolas STOLIAROFF-PEPIN
  • Publication number: 20230184167
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine for an aircraft, comprising: a first rotor comprising a first shaft, a second rotor comprising a second shaft, a mechanical reduction gearing having an epicyclic gear set comprising a sun gear connected to the second shaft, a ring gear connected to the first shaft, and planet gears located between the sun gear and the ring gear and borne by a planet carrier attached to a stator of the turbomachine, rolling element bearings for guiding said first shaft and second shaft in rotation, an annular gutter which extends around the ring gear of the reduction gearing and which is configured to recover oil for lubricating the reduction gearing that is sprayed by centrifugal action out from the ring gear during operation, and an annular bearing support which is attached, with the gutter, to a stator of the turbomachine and which supports at least one of said bearings, characterized in that it also comprises: at least one device for conveying oil recovered by said gutter, which d
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Julien Fabien Patrick Becoulet, Serge René Morreale, Olivier Renon
  • Publication number: 20230160345
    Abstract: An arrangement for an aircraft turbine engine, including a shaft and a follower element rotatably coupled to the shaft by a spline connection, the arrangement including upstream and downstream connections for radially centring the follower element relative to the shaft; means for spraying a lubricant into a collection cavity; a passage for receiving lubricant, which passage opens into the collection cavity and into a cavity for lubricating the splines which is partially defined by the upstream and downstream radial centring connections; and a passage for discharging lubricant, which passage opens into the cavity for lubricating the splines and outside the arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicants: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Matthieu Bruno François FOGLIA, Serge René MORREALE, Adrien Louis SIMON
  • Patent number: 11441439
    Abstract: A lubricated enclosure for an aircraft turbine engine, including a drained roller bearing provided with drainage orifices, as well as a lubricant ejector intended to limit the retention of lubricant in a critical zone of the enclosure, the ejector being intended to be passed through by a primary lubricant flow in order to drive a secondary lubricant flow located around a nozzle of the ejector housed in the critical zone of the enclosure. The enclosure includes a device for establishing communication between the drainage orifices and the ejector, such that the lubricant that escapes from the drainage orifices supplies the ejector in order to form the primary flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Serge Rene Morreale
  • Patent number: 11401869
    Abstract: The invention concerns an assembly comprising an epicycloidal gear train (10) having a central pinion (26), an outer crown (28) and satellite pinions (32) in engagement with the central pinion (26) and the outer crown (28) and each mounted freely rotatable on a satellite carrier (36), the central pinion (26) surrounding and being rotationally fixed to a shaft (24) and the gear train comprising means for lubricating the teeth and axes (34) of the satellite pinions (32), these means including an annular cup (56) fixed to the satellite carrier (36) opened radially inward. According to the invention, the assembly includes fixed oil spraying means (64) configured to spray oil towards oil deflecting means (70) towards the inside of the annular cup (56).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Serge René Morreale, Fabien Roger Gaston Caty, Patrice Jocelyn Francis Gedin
  • Patent number: 11378177
    Abstract: The invention concerns an epicycloidal gear train (10) comprising a central pinion (26), an outer crown (28) and satellite pinions (32) in engagement with the central pinion (26) and the outer crown (28) and each mounted freely rotatable on a satellite carrier (36), the gear train (10) comprising an annular cup (56) being integral with the satellite carrier (36) and open radially inward. According to the invention, the cup (56) is divided into a circumferential succession of first basins (60) of the first oil circuit and second basins (62) of the second oil circuit, the first basins (60) being fluidly separated from the second cells (62) and characterised in that the cup (56) comprises two annular walls (56a, 56b) axially facing, the annular wall (56b) of which is furthest from a median transverse plane (74) of the gear train (10) has openings (76) opening into the second basins (62).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Serge René Morreale, Fabien Roger Gaston Caty, Patrice Jocelyn Francis Gedin
  • Patent number: 11326517
    Abstract: An oil distribution device for a rotating planet carrier of a step-down gear of a turbomachine is configured to be fixedly joined to a tubular member for supporting a bearing of the planet carrier, said oil distribution device having an oil inlet and a row of oil outlets at the external periphery thereof, said oil distribution device having at least two internal cavities which are connected in series by at least one calibrated port, one of these cavities, referred to as the receiving cavity, being connected to said oil inlet, and internal calibrated channels for conveying oil which extend substantially radially from said cavities as far as ports of the periphery of the device in order to form said oil outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Serge René Morreale, Laurent Gille
  • Patent number: 11306811
    Abstract: The invention concerns an epicycloidal gear train comprising a central pinion (26), an outer crown (28) and satellite pinions (32) in engagement with the central pinion (26) and the outer crown (28) and each mounted freely rotatable on a satellite carrier (36), the gear train (10) comprising means for lubricating the teeth and axes (34) of the satellite pinions (32), these means including an annular cup (56) integral with the satellite carrier (36) opened radially inward. According to the invention, an annular bailer (64) is arranged radially inside the cup (56) and applied annularly sealingly to it, the annular bailer (64) being fixed in rotation to the central pinion (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventor: Serge René Morreale
  • Patent number: 11274676
    Abstract: A ducted fan module with variable-pitch blades for a turbo engine includes a rotor carrying a plurality of blades, a stationary casing, and a blade pitch changing and control system. The rotor includes a central shaft and a surrounding blade support ring. A front end of the blade support ring is connected to a front end of the central shaft, creating a rearward-opening annular space between the blade support ring and the central shaft. A tubular part is connected to the stationary casing and extends into the annular space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Serge René Morreale, Yanis Benslama, Jérémy Dievart, Dominik Igel
  • Patent number: 11255425
    Abstract: A rotary planet carrier for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbomachine having an annular row of tubular members for supporting bearings that are parallel to one another and to an axis of rotation (X) of the planet carrier. The tubular members include grooves for oil to flow through that are connected to oil ducts that extend from the grooves to an external peripheral surface. The grooves are rectilinear and parallel to one another and to an axis of revolution (Y) of an internal cylindrical surface of a corresponding tubular member. Some of the grooves have a width about the axis of revolution that is greater than the diameter of the ducts connected to this groove. Some of the ducts are connected to the corresponding groove that is closest to the axis of rotation (X) of the planet carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Serge Rene Morreale, Laurent Gille
  • Publication number: 20220042460
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes a single ducted fan including a first shaft rotated by a second shaft via a speed reduction gearset, the second shaft being rotated by a third shaft of a turbine, the first shaft being guided in rotation with respect to a fixed structure via a first bearing and a second bearing placed upstream of the speed reduction gearset. The second shaft is guided in rotation with respect to the first shaft via a rolling bearing placed upstream of the speed reduction gearset, the rolling bearing comprising an outer ring housed in the first shaft, an inner ring connected to the second shaft and rolling elements arranged between the inner and outer rings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Marion Jeanne Pierrette Verdier, Yanis Benslama, Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Romain Guillaume Cuvillier, Serge René Morreale
  • Patent number: 11162506
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fan module having variable-pitch blades for a turbine engine, including a rotor (2) having blades (3), a stationary casing (7), and a system for adjusting and controlling the pitch of the blades (3), the rotor (2) including a central shaft (6) and a ring (9) for supporting the blades surrounding the shaft, a front end of the ring being connected to a front end of the shaft so as to define an annular space between the ring and the shaft which is open towards the rear, said annular space of the rotor (2) housing said system, and the shaft (6) being guided by a first bearing (8) mounted in the stationary casing (7), to the rear of the ring (9), characterised in that the ring (9) is guided by at least one complementary bearing (31) located upstream of the first bearing (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Serge Rene Morreale, Yanis Benslama, Jeremy Dievart, Dominik Igel
  • Patent number: 11124287
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fan module with variable-pitch blades for a turbomachine, comprising a rotor (2) carrying blades (3), a stationary housing (7), a mechanism (11, 12, 13, 14, 20) for regulating the pitch of the blades (3), which is connected to the rotor, and a control means (16, 17) mounted on the stationary housing (7) and comprising a control part (18) that can be moved in translation according to an axis (X) of rotation of the rotor (2), and a bearing (19) for load transfer between the control part (18) and said mechanism, characterised in that it also comprises a stationary track (23) supporting the elastic restoring means (26, 27) which are arranged so as to exert an axial restoring force on the control part (18) towards a determined position, preferably corresponding to the blade (3) feathering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Serge Rene Morreale, Yanis Benslama, Jeremy Dievart, Dominik Igel