Patents by Inventor Thierry Georges Paul Papin

Thierry Georges Paul Papin 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: 10378556
    Abstract: A guide vane for a dual flow aircraft turbine engine includes an aerodynamic part. The aerodynamic part includes an inner duct for lubricant cooling extending in a main direction and being partly bounded by a pressure side wall and a suction side wall of the vane. The aerodynamic part is embodied as a single piece, and includes heat transfer fins arranged in the duct expanding substantially parallel to a direction of the duct. The fins are spaced from each other depending on the direction of the duct and a transversal direction of the vane, so that at least some of the fins are arranged substantially staggered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Cedric Zaccardi, Mohamed-Lamine Boutaleb, Sebastien Christophe Chalaud, Eric Pierre Georges Lemarechal, Thierry Georges Paul Papin
  • Publication number: 20190152618
    Abstract: A ring of vanes for an aircraft turbine engine, the ring presenting an axial direction and a radial direction and including a first annular sheath presenting an inside surface and a second annular sheath presenting an inside surface facing the first inside surface of the first annular sheath, the first and second sheaths being coaxial and defining between them a flow passage for a gas stream. The ring further includes both partially annular acoustic treatment panels including resonant cavities and also vanes extending in the radial direction between the first and second sheaths. Each vane includes a radial airfoil with at least two attachment tabs at each radial end of the airfoil fastened to the first or second sheath, and the inside surface of at least one of the first and second annular sheaths and the corresponding attachment tabs are covered by acoustic treatment panels arranged between the airfoils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Cedric ZACCARDI, Christophe Marcel Lucien PERDRIGEON, Francois Marie Paul MARLIN, Thierry Georges Paul PAPIN, Jacky Novi MARDJONO
  • Publication number: 20180258779
    Abstract: The invention relates to a guide vane for a twin-spool aircraft turbomachine, of which the aerodynamic part (32) comprises an internal lubricant cooling passage (50a) extending along a principal lubricant flow direction (52a). According to the invention, the aerodynamic part is made in a single piece and also comprises heat transfer fins (80a, 80b) arranged in the passage (50a) connecting the intrados and extrados walls (70, 72) and extending approximately parallel to the direction (52a), these fins being distributed in successive rows along the principal direction (52a) and made such that for two rows (R1, R2) of staggered directly consecutive fins, the row (R1) comprises fins (80a) forming a positive acute angle A1 with a dummy reference plane (Pf), while the row (R2) comprises fins (80b) forming a negative acute angle A2 with this plane (Pf).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Mohamed-Lamine Boutaleb, Fabien Roger Gaston Caty, Sebastien Vincent Francois Dreano, Thierry Georges Paul Papin, Christophe Marcel Lucien Perdrigeon, Cedric Zaccardi
  • Publication number: 20180156237
    Abstract: The invention relates to a guide vane intended to be mounted in a turbine engine between an inner shroud (17) and an outer shroud (16), comprising a longitudinal straightening body (41) for an air flow extending between a first end (42) intended to be positioned at the inner shroud (17) and a second end (44) intended to be positioned at the outer shroud (16), the longitudinal straightening body having an aerodynamic profile defined by a leading edge (41a) and a trailing edge (41b) in the flow direction of the air flow, and by a camber line (41c) extending from the leading edge (41a) to the trailing edge (41b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Thierry Georges Paul PAPIN, Marc-Antoine Anatole GOT, Kaelig Merwen ORIEUX, Cedric ZACCARDI
  • Patent number: 9945261
    Abstract: A support structure suitable for interposing between the engine and the nacelle of an aeroengine and suitable for being fastened on an intermediate casing is provided. The structure includes a shroud having a plurality of sectors, a plurality of radial arms each installed between two adjacent shroud sectors, and a plurality of fasteners for fastening the plurality of shroud sectors to the plurality of radial arms. The shroud sectors and radial arms form a skeleton for transmitting structural forces within the intermediate casing. The structure includes non-structural fairings mounted on the skeleton and suitable for reconstituting the airflow passage. Each of the shroud sectors and radial arms is formed by a metal frame without mechanical discontinuity, each shroud sector metal frame defining at least one opening that is closed by a cover and each radial arm metal frame defining at least one orifice for receiving a closure plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Georges Paul Papin, Kaelig Merwen Orieux, Regis Eugene Henri Servant
  • Publication number: 20180023406
    Abstract: The invention relates to an intermediate case (25) for a twin spool turbomachine for an aircraft, comprising a hub (26), an outer shell (23) and outlet guide vanes (24) installed at their ends on the hub and on the outer shell, and each of at least some of the outlet guide vanes (24) performing a heat exchanger function and comprising a lubricant passage (50a, 50b) designed to be cooled by the fan flow (58) following an outer surface of the outlet guide vane. According to the invention, the case also comprises at least one lubricant duct (55) passing along a circumferential direction of the hub (26) and at least part of which is made from a single casting with the hub, the lubricant duct (55) having at least one lateral opening communicating with the lubricant passage (50a, 50b) of at least one of the vanes (24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Cédric Zaccardi, Christophe Paul Jacquemard, Thierry Georges Paul Papin, Christophe Marcel Lucien Perdrigeon
  • Patent number: 9797266
    Abstract: A closer for an attachment orifice of an OGV in a turbine engine, the vane having a blade fixed to a root provided with attachment orifices, the closer including a cup adapted to be fixed in the attachment orifice of an OGV; a cylindrical shaped plug engaging in the cup, the plug including an upper face inclined relative to the ground plane of the plug; a guide adapted to position the plug on the cup by rotation into a working position, in which the upper face of the plug coincides with the surface level of the vane root; a blocking system to block the plug in the working position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Kaëlig Merwen Orieux, Thierry Georges Paul Papin
  • Publication number: 20170284417
    Abstract: A guide vane for a dual flow aircraft turbine engine, the aerodynamic part of the vane including an inner duct for lubricant cooling extending in a main direction and being partly bounded by a pressure side wall and a suction side wall of the vane. A heat conduction matrix is lodged in the duct, and presents main heat transfer wings extending parallel to the direction, and laid out in staggered rows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Cedric ZACCARDI, Mohamed-Lamine Boutaleb, Sebastien Christophe Chalaud, Eric Pierre Georges Lemarechal, Thierry Georges Paul Papin
  • Patent number: 9771968
    Abstract: A vaned wheel device traversed by a radial drive shaft includes radial arms, one of which contains the shaft, and stationary vanes manufactured separately from the casing and a ferrule and assembled thereto. A sleeve encompassing the shaft traverses the casing and serves to support a bearing for supporting the shaft with positional accuracy, and maintaining tightness by forming a single cavity with the radial arm cavities traversing the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Francois Maurice Duchatelle, Virginie Guilbert, Cedric Magret, Thierry Georges Paul Papin
  • Publication number: 20170204879
    Abstract: The invention relates to a guide vane (24) for a dual flow aircraft turbine engine, the aerodynamic part (32) of the vane comprising an inner duct (50a) for lubricant cooling extending in a main direction (52a) and being partly bounded by a pressure side wall (70) and a suction side wall (72) of the vane. According to the invention, the aerodynamic part (32) of the vane is embodied from as a single piece, including also the heat transfer fins (80), arranged in the duct (50a) expanding substantially parallel to the direction (52a), the fins (80) being spaced from each other depending on the direction (52a) as well as a transversal direction (60) of the vane, so that at least some of the fins (80) are arranged substantially staggered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Cedric ZACCARDI, Mohamed-Lamine BOUTALEB, Sebastien Christophe CHALAUD, Eric Pierre Georges LEMARECHAL, Thierry Georges Paul PAPIN
  • Publication number: 20170037871
    Abstract: A turbomachine fan frame including a central hub, a plurality of radial vanes installed on the hub and distributed around the hub, each vane including an inner radial end root at which the vane is fixed to the hub, a plurality of flow stream reconstitution platforms, each platform being installed between the roots of two adjacent vanes and radially at a distance from the hub, wherein each platform is fixed to the hub by at least one support element associated with the platform, the support element located between the associated platform and the hub and located between the roots of two adjacent vanes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Thierry Georges Paul PAPIN, Kaelig Merwen ORIEUX, Virginie GUILBERT, Lise LACROIX
  • Patent number: 9556745
    Abstract: A plate closes the main part of a vane in two parts. An internal cavity is closed by the plate. Around a bearing surface of the plate, a groove receives an elastic seal, and the outer edge of the plate extends over the groove to compress the seal and to establish excellent leak proofing. The position of the plate may be guaranteed by centring pins penetrating into holes adjacent to the seal and which it fills when the pins have been removed, which completes the closing of the cavity. The plate has application in particular to stationary gas guide vanes in turbine engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Georges Paul Papin, Lise Lacroix, Dominique Raulin
  • Patent number: 9528441
    Abstract: This invention relates to an assembly (100) for an aircraft turbofan comprising a flowpath splitter (40) downstream from which there is firstly a fan flowpath (31) inner delimitation ring (44) and secondly a compressor case (42), the assembly comprising a plurality of outlet guide vanes (34) provided with an inner platform (50) located in the downstream continuity of the delimitation ring. According to the invention, the assembly comprises at least one part (52) to support the delimitation ring (44), comprising a radially outer end (52b) fixed to a downstream part of this ring (44) and a radially inner end (52a) fixed to the compressor case (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Fabrice Cretin, Yvan Guezel, Francois Marie Paul Marlin, Thierry Georges Paul Papin, Alain Marc Lucien Bromann, Damien Lourit
  • Publication number: 20160146054
    Abstract: A support structure suitable for interposing between the engine and the nacelle of an aeroengine and suitable for being fastened on an intermediate casing, the structure comprising a shroud having a plurality of sectors (12A, 12B, 12C, 12D), a plurality of radial arms (14A, 14B, 14C, 14D) each installed between two adjacent shroud sectors, and a plurality of fastener means (16) for fastening the plurality of shroud sectors to the plurality of radial arms, the shroud sectors and radial arms forming a skeleton (10) suitable for transmitting structural forces within the intermediate casing, the structure including non-structural fairings mounted on the skeleton and suitable for reconstituting the airflow passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Georges Paul PAPIN, Kaelig Merwen ORIEUX, Regis Eugene Henri SERVANT
  • Publication number: 20150345315
    Abstract: A closer for an attachment orifice of an OGV in a turbine engine, the vane having a blade fixed to a root provided with attachment orifices, the closer including a cup adapted to be fixed in the attachment orifice of an OGV; a cylindrical shaped plug engaging in the cup, the plug including an upper face inclined relative to the ground plane of the plug; a guide adapted to position the plug on the cup by rotation into a working position, in which the upper face of the plug coincides with the surface level of the vane root; a blocking system to block the plug in the working position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Kaëlig Merwen ORIEUX, Thierry Georges Paul PAPIN
  • Publication number: 20150159554
    Abstract: This invention relates to an assembly (100) for an aircraft turbofan comprising a flowpath splitter (40) downstream from which there is firstly a fan flowpath (31) inner delimitation ring (44) and secondly a compressor case (42), the assembly comprising a plurality of outlet guide vanes (34) provided with an inner platform (50) located in the downstream continuity of the delimitation ring. According to the invention, the assembly comprises at least one part (52) to support the delimitation ring (44), comprising a radially outer end (52b) fixed to a downstream part of this ring (44) and a radially inner end (52a) fixed to the compressor case (42).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Fabrice Cretin, Yvan Guezel, Francois Marie Paul Marlin, Thierry Georges Paul Papin, Alain Marc Lucien Bromann, Damien Lourit
  • Publication number: 20140193250
    Abstract: A plate closes the main part of a vane in two parts. An internal cavity is closed by the plate. Around a bearing surface of the plate, a groove receives an elastic seal, and the outer edge of the plate extends over the groove to compress the seal and to establish excellent leak proofing. The position of the plate may be guaranteed by centring pins penetrating into holes adjacent to the seal and which it fills when the pins have been removed, which completes the closing of the cavity. The plate has application in particular to stationary gas guide vanes in turbine engines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Georges Paul Papin, Lise Lacroix, Dominique Raulin
  • Patent number: 8740556
    Abstract: A structural and aerodynamic module including two blades each extending along a longitudinal axis, in which each blade includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, a radially inner edge, and a radially outer edge, is provided. The module also includes a radially inner platform mechanically connecting the radially inner edges of the two blades, and a radially outer platform mechanically connecting the radially outer edges of the two blades such that the two blades and the radially outer and inner platforms delimit a flow stream. The two blades and the platforms are made from a composite material and the two blades are fixed on the radially outer and inner platforms using screw-nut assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Georges Paul Papin, Alain Raffy, Dominique Raulin
  • Publication number: 20140135134
    Abstract: A vaned wheel device traversed by a radial drive shaft includes radial arms, one of which contains the shaft, and stationary vanes manufactured separately from the casing and a ferrule and assembled thereto. A sleeve encompassing the shaft traverses the casing and serves to support a bearing for supporting the shaft with positional accuracy, and maintaining tightness by forming a single cavity with the radial arm cavities traversing the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Francois Maurice Duchatelle, Virgine Guilbert, Cedric Magret, Thierry Georges Paul Papin
  • Patent number: 8646744
    Abstract: A structural frame for a turbomachine, such as an intermediate frame or an exhaust frame, the frame including at least two coaxial rings, an inner ring and an outer ring, together with radial arms interconnecting the rings. At least one of these elements includes a plurality of parts that are fastened together by bolting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Francois Maurice Duchatelle, Thierry Georges Paul Papin, Dominique Raulin, Arnaud Sanchez