Patents by Inventor Thomas Oliver Marie Noel

Thomas Oliver Marie Noel 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).

  • Publication number: 20120304650
    Abstract: An air and fuel injection system for the back of a turbomachine's annular combustion chamber, including a central injector and a peripheral annular fuel injector including at least one fuel injection aperture made in an annular wall and emerging in a peripheral annular channel separated from a central channel by the annular wall and having an annular space of admission of air. The system also includes multiple air ejection apertures made in the annular wall downstream from the fuel ejection aperture or apertures in reference to the flow of the air stream, for an additional injection of air into the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Didier Hippolyte Hernandez, Thomas Oliver Marie Noel, Matthieu Francois Rullaud
  • Publication number: 20090013694
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an annular combustion chamber for a gas turbine engine comprising an external wall, an internal wall, a wall connecting these two walls and constituting a chamber end wall, the chamber end wall being provided with openings for the fuel injection systems, heat shielding deflectors being fixed to the wall, the deflectors comprising a flat wall portion with an opening centered on said openings for the fuel injection systems, two longitudinal edges and two transverse edges, wherein, at least along one of the longitudinal edges, a deflector comprises a tongue forming a joint cover, creating a housing along said edge for the edge of the adjacent deflector so as to seal the join between the two adjacent edges of the two deflectors, said tongue being spaced away from the chamber end wall so as to create a space supplied with cooling air via orifices in the chamber end wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Didier Hippolyte HERNANDEZ, Thomas Oliver Marie Noel