Patents by Inventor Stéphane Combes
Stéphane Combes 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: 11542022Abstract: A propulsion assembly for an aircraft, comprising a pylon to be secured below a wing of the aircraft and having a front face and a lower face, and a turbomachine comprising, from upstream to downstream in a direction of a flow of air passing through the turbomachine during operation, a fan and an engine driving the fan. The fan is faired by a fan casing and the engine is faired, from upstream to downstream, by an intermediate casing and an engine casing, the intermediate casing having a hub and an outer ring extending the fan casing, the ring being spaced apart radially from the hub and secured to the latter by arms extending in an air duct. The propulsion assembly comprises a front engine attachment secured between the pylon front face and the hub and a rear engine attachment secured between the pylon lower face and the engine casing.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SASInventors: Stéphane Combes, Adeline Soulie, Olivier Pautis
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Patent number: 11247781Abstract: An aircraft turbine engine assembly including a nacelle structure with a strut attachment zone, a first cover forming an air intake lip, a hinged cover arranged on the nacelle upper portion, between the first cover and the attachment zone, a hinge system of the cover comprising, on either side of a mid-plane of the nacelle, a front rod and a rear rod that are one in front of the other. The two ends of each rod are co-planar, parallel to the mid-plane. A first end of each rod is hinged on the cover. A second end of each rod is hinged on the structure. A locking system is actuatable from the outside of the nacelle between a locked and an unlocked positon. The nacelle comprises at least one cylinder with a first end mounted hinged on the structure and the other end mounted hinged on the cover.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SASInventors: Stéphane Combes, Jean Geliot
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Patent number: 10934009Abstract: An engine attachment system comprising an engine pylon with a top wall, a bottom wall and two lateral walls, and a front engine attachment with a beam which bears two connecting rods for fixing the engine. The engine attachment system also comprises an intermediate piece with a bottom wall and four lateral walls, wherein the beam is fixed against an outer face of the bottom wall, wherein the intermediate piece is fitted at a front-end face of the engine pylon in such a way that an inner face of the bottom wall comes against the front-end face of the engine pylon, and in such a way that the lateral walls of the intermediate piece are superposed with the walls of the engine pylon. In such an engine attachment system, the front engine attachment is thus located on the front-end face of the engine pylon, allowing a space saving.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SASInventors: Stéphane Combes, Jean Geliot, Thomas Deforet, Adeline Soulie, Benoit Orteu
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Patent number: 10882630Abstract: A dual-flow jet engine comprising a fixed structure, a central core, and a cowl comprising a fixed part and a mobile cowl mounted to be rotationally mobile on the fixed structure via hinges with swan neck fitting. The fixed part has a first edge and the mobile cowl has a second edge, in which, when the mobile cowl is in a closed position, the second edge extends against the first edge. For each hinge with swan neck fitting, the fixed part is hollowed at the first edge, so as to delimit a recess opposite the swan neck fitting and allow the passage of the swan neck fitting when the mobile cowl switches from the closed position to the open position. The recess for each hinge with swan neck fitting allows for a reduction of the dimensions of the swan neck during the movement of the mobile cowl.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SASInventors: Stéphane Combes, Jean Geliot, Thomas Deforet, Adeline Soulie, Benoit Orteu
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Patent number: 10746100Abstract: A heat exchange device to be positioned in an aircraft pylon and including a heat exchanger and an obturator to adopt a closed state where it prevents flow of air from flowing through the heat exchanger, and more- or less-permissive states where it allows flow of air to flow with a higher or lower flow rate. The obturator includes slats each including a pivot axis, the pivot axes of the various slats being mutually parallel and intersecting the direction of the flow of air, the slats being simultaneously mobile in rotation about their pivot axis between a closed position in which the slats are contiguous, which corresponds to the closed state of the obturator, and an open position in which the slats are spread apart, which corresponds to the permissive state of the obturator.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)Inventors: Stéphane Combes, Jean Geliot, Thomas Deforet, Adeline Soulie, Benoit Orteu
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Patent number: 10647441Abstract: A rear engine attachment for an engine of an aircraft which comprises a pylon having a bottom face, the rear engine attachment comprising a first fitting configured to be fixed against the bottom face and having a wall, a second fitting configured to be secured to a structural casing of the engine, two front links and two rear links, which are fixed by one and the same main link point to the wall and by two link points on either side of the second fitting. Such a motorization assembly allows for a reduction of the bulk, in particular at the rear engine attachment, which helps in improving the overall performance of the motorization assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Stéphane Combes, Jean Geliot, Thomas Deforet, Adeline Soulie, Benoit Orteu
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Publication number: 20190085770Abstract: A heat exchange device to be positioned in an aircraft pylon and including a heat exchanger and an obturator to adopt a closed state where it prevents flow of air from flowing through the heat exchanger, and more- or less-permissive states where it allows flow of air to flow with a higher or lower flow rate. The obturator includes slats each including a pivot axis, the pivot axes of the various slats being mutually parallel and intersecting the direction of the flow of air, the slats being simultaneously mobile in rotation about their pivot axis between a closed position in which the slats are contiguous, which corresponds to the closed state of the obturator, and an open position in which the slats are spread apart, which corresponds to the permissive state of the obturator.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Stéphane Combes, Jean Geliot, Thomas Deforet, Adeline Soulie, Benoit Orteu
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Patent number: 8087608Abstract: An arrangement configured to connect an evener bar onto a rigid structure of an aircraft engine mount, including a pin system slidingly mounted in a first passageway of a bracket to permit its displacement along a first longitudinal axis, in a first direction from a normal extended position to a retracted position in which the pin system is retracted within this same bracket, and conversely. The arrangement also includes a pin extending member carried by the system and configured to be moved parallel to the longitudinal axis, in a second direction from a normal retracted position to an extended position in which the pin extending member is joined to the system and projects beyond the system, and conversely.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Stéphane Combes, Stéphane Levert, Laurent Lafont, Dominique Moreau
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Publication number: 20080296430Abstract: An arrangement configured to connect an evener bar onto a rigid structure of an aircraft engine mount, including a pin system slidingly mounted in a first passageway of a bracket to permit its displacement along a first longitudinal axis, in a first direction from a normal extended position to a retracted position in which the pin system is retracted within this same bracket, and conversely. The arrangement also includes a pin extending member carried by the system and configured to be moved parallel to the longitudinal axis, in a second direction from a normal retracted position to an extended position in which the pin extending member is joined to the system and projects beyond the system, and conversely.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2006Publication date: December 4, 2008Applicant: Airbus FranceInventors: Stéphane Combes, Stephane Levert, Laurent Lafont, Dominique Moreau
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Patent number: 7142522Abstract: A satellite telecommunication system includes a plurality of user stations and at least one satellite. A resource manager for the satellite telecommunication system includes a congestion controller that assigns resources to uplinks, a demand assignment device that assigns resources to uplinks, and, for each satellite, a central entity that includes a subsystem of the congestion controller adapted to receive requests sent by user stations using the satellite, each request expressing the bit rate necessary for a group of connections supported by a user station and by the same downlink of the satellite, and to determine the bit rate authorized for the group of connections. It further includes, for each satellite, a subsystem of the demand assignment device adapted to allocate resources to an uplink, at each user station, as a function of the bit rates authorized by the congestion controller subsystem and globally for all connections supported by the user station.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2001Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: AlcatelInventors: Cédric Baudoin, Laurence Bignebat, Stéphane Combes, Pierre Parmentier, Laurent Roullet, Tarif Zein Al-Abedeen
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Patent number: 7107050Abstract: A resource manager for a satellite telecommunication system including user terminals sending data to spots via a satellite, all data streams from a given terminal to the same given destination spot constituting a virtual path comprising a set of uplinks from the terminal to the satellite and a set of downlinks from the satellite to the spot, includes a central entity associated with each satellite for receiving requests sent by the user terminals and each expressing a requirement to use resources of the satellite corresponding to the virtual path. The central entity groups the requests into request groups each associated with a set of uplinks from the same spot to the destination spot, the set of uplinks constituting a virtual link, and determines authorized resources for each request group.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2003Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: AlcatelInventors: Stéphane Combes, Tarif Zein Al-Abedeen, Jean-Didier Gayrard