Patents by Inventor Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht

Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht 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: 11767794
    Abstract: A twin-flow, double body turbojet includes a fan that is positioned upstream from a gas generator and delimits primary and secondary flows. The gas generator is traversed by the primary flow and includes a low-pressure compressor, a high-pressure compressor, a combustion chamber, a high-pressure turbine and a low-pressure turbine. The low-pressure turbine is linked to the low-pressure compressor by a low-pressure rotating shaft, and the high-pressure turbine is linked to the high-pressure compressor by a high-pressure rotating shaft. The turbojet has an electric motor for injecting mechanical power into at least one of the rotating shafts. The turbojet also has a device for removing power from at least one of the rotating shafts and transforming the excess power into electrical energy. An electric storage means is positioned between the device for removing power and the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Bernard Robic, Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht, Baptiste Jean Marie Renault
  • Patent number: 10024336
    Abstract: A compressor for a turbine engine, including: a casing, at least one compressor stage including an impeller having stationary blades and an impeller having moving blades positioned downstream of the stationary blade impeller, and cavities in a thickness of the casing that are disposed along a circumference of the casing opposite the moving blades. The cavities, which are elongate and extend along a main direction of orientation, are closed upstream and downstream by upstream and downstream faces respectively, and an upstream border and a downstream border are formed at the intersections between same and the casing. The cavities are offset in relation to the moving blades to overlap the moving blade impeller in the upstream portion, thereby covering the upstream end thereof. The downstream border of the cavities is oriented parallel to the chord at the head of the moving blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht, Celine Ghilardi, Vincent Perrot
  • Publication number: 20170226934
    Abstract: twin-flow, double body turbojet includes a fan that is positioned upstream from a gas generator and delimits primary and secondary flows. The gas generator is traversed by the primary flow and includes a low-pressure compressor, a high-pressure compressor, a combustion chamber, a high-pressure turbine and a low-pressure turbine. The low-pressure turbine is linked to the low-pressure compressor by a low-pressure rotating shaft, and the high-pressure turbine is linked to the high-pressure compressor by a high-pressure rotating shaft. The turbojet has an electric motor for injecting mechanical power into at least one of the rotating shafts. The turbojet also has a device for removing power from at least one of the rotating shafts and transforming the excess power into electrical energy. An electric storage means is positioned between the device for removing power and the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Bernard Robic, Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht, Baptiste Jean Marie Renault
  • Patent number: 9638213
    Abstract: A casing for a turbine engine compressor, including: cavities in a thickness of the casing, extending in parallel to one another from an inner face of the casing along a circumference thereof, the cavities not being in communication with one another. The cavities, which are elongate and extend along a main direction of orientation between two side walls, are closed upstream and downstream by upstream and downstream faces respectively, and an upstream border and a downstream border are formed at the intersections between same and the inner face of the casing. The upstream border of the cavities takes a form of a wavy line including at least two alternate undulations over a length thereof between the side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht, Olivier Stephane Domercq
  • Patent number: 9200638
    Abstract: A rotor of a turbomachine compressor, including a bladed rotor disk fitted at its radially external end with a wall forming the inner end of an annual flow channel of a primary gas flow, and formed from multiple angular sectors, each of which is delimited between two blades of the disk which are consecutive in a circumferential direction and includes a bulging portion which is convex in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction, together with, upstream from the bulging portion, a troughed portion which is concave in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction and which has a base which is roughly punctiform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignees: SNECMA, CENAERO
    Inventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Alexandre Franck Arnaud Chartoire, Vasiliki Iliopoulou, Ingrid Lepot, Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht
  • Publication number: 20150078890
    Abstract: A compressor for a turbine engine, including: a casing, at least one compressor stage including an impeller having stationary blades and an impeller having moving blades positioned downstream of the stationary blade impeller, and cavities in a thickness of the casing that are disposed along a circumference of the casing opposite the moving blades. The cavities, which are elongate and extend along a main direction of orientation, are closed upstream and downstream by upstream and downstream faces respectively, and an upstream border and a downstream border are formed at the intersections between same and the casing. The cavities are offset in relation to the moving blades to overlap the moving blade impeller in the upstream portion, thereby covering the upstream end thereof. The downstream border of the cavities is oriented parallel to the chord at the head of the moving blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht, Celine Ghilardi, Vincent Perrot
  • Publication number: 20150078889
    Abstract: A casing for a turbine engine compressor, including: cavities in a thickness of the casing, extending in parallel to one another from an inner face of the casing along a circumference thereof, the cavities not being in communication with one another. The cavities, which are elongate and extend along a main direction of orientation between two side walls, are closed upstream and downstream by upstream and downstream faces respectively, and an upstream border and a downstream border are formed at the intersections between same and the inner face of the casing. The upstream border of the cavities takes a form of a wavy line including at least two alternate undulations over a length thereof between the side walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht, Olivier Stephane Domercq
  • Publication number: 20120201692
    Abstract: A rotor of a turbomachine compressor, including a bladed rotor disk fitted at its radially external end with a wall forming the inner end of an annual flow channel of a primary gas flow, and formed from multiple angular sectors, each of which is delimited between two blades of the disk which are consecutive in a circumferential direction and includes a bulging portion which is convex in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction, together with, upstream from the bulging portion, a troughed portion which is concave in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction and which has a base which is roughly punctiform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicants: CENAERO, SNECMA
    Inventors: Eric Jacques Boston, Alexandre Franck Arnaud Chartoire, Vasiliki Iliopoulou, Ingrid Lepot, Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht
  • Patent number: 8182209
    Abstract: Reinjecting air to the inlet of a compressor in order to improve its pumping margin. The inlet stator of the compressor includes injection holes passing through at least some of the vanes in the vicinity of their pivots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht
  • Patent number: 7845901
    Abstract: Devices for intaking gases from the boundary layer through ducts hollowed out in blades. These devices are suitable for variable setting blades, installed on the stator using pivots. The seal is maintained despite the variation in the relative position between the moving pivots through which ducts pass, and the fixed intake header pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Stephan Yves Aubin, Thomas Julien Roland Earith, Didier Rene Andre Escure, Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht, Stephane Rousselin
  • Publication number: 20080298951
    Abstract: Reinjecting air to the inlet of a compressor in order to improve its pumping margin. The inlet stator of the compressor includes injection holes passing through at least some of the vanes in the vicinity of their pivots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Michel Gilbert Roland Brault, Thierry Jean-Jacques Obrecht