Patents by Inventor Thierry Fachat
Thierry Fachat 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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Publication number: 20230212953Abstract: The invention proposes an aeronautical turbine engine assembly comprising an upstream casing (55) to which guide blading (48a) is fastened, and a downstream casing (58) to which a sealing element (62) provided with an abradable material for rotor blading is fastened. This assembly further comprises a shroud ring (66) placed between the upstream casing and the downstream casing and fastening means (68) for detachably fastening the shroud ring. In order to be fastened to the upstream casing, the guide blading (48a) of the turbine engine is mounted on a downstream hook (480b) of the upstream casing, without being hooked onto the shroud ring (66), and the downstream casing (58) has an upstream hook with which the sealing element (62) is engaged in order to be fastened to the downstream casing, or the shroud ring has an upstream hook on which the sealing element (62) is mounted so as to be fastened to the downstream casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Simon Nicolas MORLIERE, Nicolas Jean-Marc Marcel BEAUQUIN, Thierry FACHAT, Alain Dominique GENDRAUD
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Patent number: 9194240Abstract: A vibration damper between outer platforms of adjacent composite-material blades of a turbine engine rotor wheel, the damper including a peg having a substantially spherical portion at each of its two ends, and two hollow inserts for being received in tangential cavities that are provided facing each other in outer platforms of two adjacent composite-material blades of a turbine engine rotor wheel, each spherical portion of the peg coming to bear with point contact against the inside of one of the inserts.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignees: SNECMA, HERAKLESInventors: Stephane Pierre Guillaume Blanchard, Thierry Fachat, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard, Clement Roussille
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Patent number: 9188014Abstract: A vibration damper between outer platforms of adjacent composite-material blades of a rotor wheel of a turbine engine, the damper including a strip for inserting lengthwise in tangential cavities that are formed facing each other in the outer platforms of two adjacent composite-material blades of a turbine engine rotor wheel.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignees: SNECMA, HERAKLESInventors: Thierry Fachat, Jean-Luc Soupizon, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard
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Patent number: 8662835Abstract: A turbine nozzle for a turbomachine, including inner and outer annular platforms connected together by vanes, the inner platform carrying annular elements of abradable material co-operating with annular wipers of a rotor of the turbomachine to form a labyrinth seal, these elements of abradable material being carried by annular sheet-metal sectors of substantially L-, S-, or C-shaped section that are fastened by brazing or welding at their outer peripheries to the inner platform and at their inner peripheries to the elements of abradable material.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2009Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Thierry Fachat, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard, Jean-Luc Soupizon
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Publication number: 20130052032Abstract: A vibration damper between outer platforms of adjacent composite-material blades of a rotor wheel of a turbine engine, the damper including a strip for inserting lengthwise in tangential cavities that are formed facing each other in the outer platforms of two adjacent composite-material blades of a turbine engine rotor wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicants: HERAKLES, SNECMAInventors: Thierry Fachat, Jean-Luc Soupizon, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard
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Publication number: 20120328415Abstract: A vibration damper between outer platforms of adjacent composite-material blades of a turbine engine rotor wheel, the damper including a peg having a substantially spherical portion at each of its two ends, and two hollow inserts for being received in tangential cavities that are provided facing each other in outer platforms of two adjacent composite-material blades of a turbine engine rotor wheel, each spherical portion of the peg coming to bear with point contact against the inside of one of the inserts.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2011Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicants: HERAKLES, SNECMAInventors: Stephane Pierre ,Guillaume Blanchard, Thierry Fachat, Patrick Joseph ,Marie Girard, Clement Roussille
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Publication number: 20110127352Abstract: A turbine nozzle for a turbomachine, including inner and outer annular platforms connected together by vanes, the inner platform carrying annular elements of abradable material co-operating with annular wipers of a rotor of the turbomachine to form a labyrinth seal, these elements of abradable material being carried by annular sheet-metal sectors of substantially L-, S-, or C-shaped section that are fastened by brazing or welding at their outer peripheries to the inner platform and at their inner peripheries to the elements of abradable material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2009Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Thierry Fachat, Patrick Joseph Marie Girard, Jean-Luc Soupizon
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Patent number: 7530788Abstract: A hollow turbomachine blade including an internal cooling passage, an open cavity situated at the free end of the blade and defined by an end wall and the side wall of at least one rim which extends between the leading edge and the trailing edge of the blade, and at least one cooling channel connecting said internal cooling passage to said open cavity, said cooling channel opening out at the base of the rim and the wall of the rim forming an angle relative to said end wall that is obtuse, being strictly greater than 90°. An indentation may be formed in the wall of the rim at the outlet from said cooling channel. Said blade advantageously does not include a pressure rim.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2006Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: SNECMAInventors: Jacques Auguste Amedée Boury, Damien Bonneau, Thierry Fachat
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Publication number: 20090092500Abstract: A hollow turbomachine blade including an internal cooling passage, an open cavity situated at the free end of the blade and defined by an end wall and the side wall of at least one rim which extends between the leading edge and the trailing edge of the blade, and at least one cooling channel connecting said internal cooling passage to said open cavity, said cooling channel opening out at the base of the rim and the wall of the rim forming an angle relative to said end wall that is obtuse, being strictly greater than 90°. An indentation may be formed in the wall of the rim at the outlet from said cooling channel. Said blade advantageously does not include a pressure rim.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2006Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: SNECMAInventors: Jacques Auguste Amedee Boury, Damien Bonneau, Thierry Fachat
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Patent number: 7360987Abstract: A method of assembling sectored elements of an annular stator of a high-pressure turbine of a turbomachine about a longitudinal axis of said turbine, in which method an angular distribution pattern is defined for distributing elements of the stator over a predetermined angular sector, said pattern being defined so as to prevent inter-sector zones of stator elements being in radial alignment, said zones being defined between two adjacent sectors of the same stator element, and so as to repeat said distribution pattern around the entire circumference of the stator.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2005Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: SnecmaInventors: Anne-Marie Arraitz, Thierry Fachat, Jerome Friedel, Alain Gendraud, Delphine Roussin
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Patent number: 7309209Abstract: A device for tuning clearance at rotor blade tips in a gas turbine rotor, the device comprising at least one annular air flow duct that is mounted around the circumference of an annular casing of a stator of the turbine, the annular air flow duct being designed to discharge air onto the casing in order to modify the temperature thereof. A tubular air manifold is disposed around the air flow duct(s). There are also disposed an air feed tube to supply the tubular air manifold with air and an air pipe opening in the tubular air manifold and opening out into the air flow duct(s). The air pipe is provided with a balancing diaphragm for balancing the air flowing through the pipe.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2005Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: Snecma MoteursInventors: Denis Amiot, Anne-Marie Arraitz, Thierry Fachat, Alain Gendraud, Delphine Roussin
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Publication number: 20070264120Abstract: A device for tuning clearance at rotor blade tips in a gas turbine rotor, the device comprising at least one annular air flow duct that is mounted around the circumference of an annular casing of a stator of the turbine, the annular air flow duct being designed to discharge air onto the casing in order to modify the temperature thereof. A tubular air manifold is disposed around the air flow duct(s). There are also disposed an air feed tube to supply the tubular air manifold with air and an air pipe opening in the tubular air manifold and opening out into the air flow duct(s). The air pipe is provided with a balancing diaphragm for balancing the air flowing through the pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2005Publication date: November 15, 2007Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURSInventors: Denis Amiot, Anne-Marie Arraitz, Thierry Fachat, Alain Gendraud, Delphine Roussin
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Patent number: 7287955Abstract: A clearance control device for controlling clearance between rotary blade tips and a stationary bushing of a gas turbine having a casing that is provided with at least two annular ridges, the clearance control device including a circular tuning unit that includes air circulation means for circulating air, said means being made up of at least three ducts; air supply means for supplying air to the air flow ducts; and air discharge means for discharging air on the ridges in order to modify the temperature, the air discharge means for each duct being made up of at least one top row having a number N of perforations disposed facing one of the side faces of the ridges and of at least one bottom row having a number 2N of perforations disposed facing a connection radius that connects the ridges to the casing.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2005Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Snecma MoteursInventors: Denis Amiot, Anne-Marie Arraitz, Thierry Fachat, Alain Gendraud, Pascal Lefebvre, Delphine Roussin-Moynier
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Publication number: 20050238477Abstract: A method of assembling sectored elements of an annular stator of a high-pressure turbine of a turbomachine about a longitudinal axis of said turbine, in which method an angular distribution pattern is defined for distributing elements of the stator over a predetermined angular sector, said pattern being defined so as to prevent inter-sector zones of stator elements being in radial alignment, said zones being defined between two adjacent sectors of the same stator element, and so as to repeat said distribution pattern around the entire circumference of the stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2005Publication date: October 27, 2005Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURSInventors: Anne-Marie Arraitz, Thierry Fachat, Jerome Friedel, Alain Gendraud, Delphine Roussin
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Publication number: 20050158169Abstract: A clearance control device for controlling clearance between rotary blade tips and a stationary bushing of a gas turbine having a casing that is provided with at least two annular ridges, the clearance control device including a circular tuning unit that includes air circulation means for circulating air, said means being made up of at least three ducts; air supply means for supplying air to the air flow ducts; and air discharge means for discharging air on the ridges in order to modify the temperature, the air discharge means for each duct being made up of at least one top row having a number N of perforations disposed facing one of the side faces of the ridges and of at least one bottom row having a number 2N of perforations disposed facing a connection radius that connects the ridges to the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2005Publication date: July 21, 2005Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURSInventors: Denis Amiot, Anne-Marie Arraitz, Thierry Fachat, Alain Gendraud, Pascal Lefebvre, Delphine Roussin-Moynier
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Patent number: 6896038Abstract: An assembly for ventilating a stator ring having branched pipes that include feed pipes, distributors, and a plurality of manifolds adjacent to the stator ring and provided with drilled holes. The distributors connect the feed pipes to the plurality of manifolds, and the plurality of manifolds include pairs of half-shells, each of the half-shells including an end plate having an opening and a rim surrounding the end plate, and the half-shells in each of the pairs being joined to each other at the rims. The distributors include ducts mounted between adjacent ones of the plurality of manifolds and have open ends fitted into openings of the end plates and have abutment portions to the end plates.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2001Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Snecma MoteursInventors: Jean-Baptiste Arilla, Thierry Fachat
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Publication number: 20020053837Abstract: The ventilation assembly designed to cool a stator ring (1) of a turbine machine, finishes on gas blower manifolds (3) composed of symmetric half-shells (7 and 8) attached by welding at their opposite edges and joined together by distributors (4) composed mainly of cylindrical coils acting as spacers placed between the manifolds (3) and welded to them. Finally, the flexible support means comprise rules (6) to complete the assembly of the manifolds to the ring (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2001Publication date: May 9, 2002Applicant: SNECMA MOTEURSInventors: Jean-Baptiste Arilla, Thierry Fachat