Patents by Inventor Vincent Francois Georges MILLIER
Vincent Francois Georges MILLIER 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: 11293300Abstract: An aircraft turbine engine includes a low-pressure body and a high-pressure body, as well as means for drawing power on said low-pressure body, said means having a first shaft for drawing power, the radially inner end of said first shaft bearing a first bevel gear meshed with a first idler bevel wheel driven by the low-pressure body, the turbine engine further having a first annular bearing support which extends about an axis and is rigidly connected to a stator. The first bearing support includes a first cylindrical portion which extends coaxially with a second substantially cylindrical portion of the idler wheel, said first and second portions being guided one inside the other by bearings, and the idler wheel is driven by the low-pressure body by means of an annular damping piece which is independent of the first bearing support.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Caroline Marie Frantz, Loïc Paul Yves Guillotel, Vincent François Georges Millier
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Publication number: 20220018357Abstract: A blade pivot of adjustable orientation for a turbomachine fan hub includes: a block having a retaining device configured to retain a fan blade root and a coupling device for the transmission of a torque; a ball type rolling bearing for taking up centrifugal forces having an inner ring; a clamping nut screwed onto an external thread of the block in order to clamp the inner ring of the ball type rolling bearing for taking up centrifugal forces to the block; a rolling bearing for taking up transverse forces; a pitch setting transmission ring positioned inside the inner radial end of the block and equipped with a coupling device cooperating with the coupling device of the block, and a device for locking the pitch setting transmission ring on the block.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Vincent François Georges MILLIER, Caroline Marie FRANTZ, Gilles Alain Marie CHARIER, Olivier BELMONTE
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Publication number: 20210396141Abstract: An aircraft turbine engine includes a gas generator and a fan arranged upstream from the gas generator and configured to generate a main gas flow, one portion of which flows in a flow path of the gas generator to form a primary flow, and another portion of which flows in a flow path around the gas generator to form a secondary flow. The gas generator has a low-pressure body with a rotor driving the fan and a low-pressure compressor situated upstream from an intermediate housing. The turbine engine also includes an electric machine, mounted coaxially downstream from the fan and upstream from the intermediate housing. An intermediate shaft is driven by the rotor of the low-pressure body and drives rotors of the electric machine and of the low-pressure compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Caroline Marie Frantz, Loïc Paul Yves Guillotel, Vincent François Georges Millier
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Publication number: 20210396147Abstract: The invention relates to an electric module (11) of a fan of axis A, comprising a fan (12) provided with blades (13) which are rotatably movable inside a casing (40), and an electric machine comprising a rotor (60) secured to the fan (12) and a stator (66) integrated into said casing (40), characterized in that the rotor (60) of the electric machine is integrated into the fan (12) and in that it comprises a removable ring (62) which captures only axially and transversely from the radially outer ends (64) the blades (13) of the fan (12) and which is received inside said stator (66) which is integrated into the casing (40).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Caroline Marie Frantz, Loïc Paul Yves Guillotel, Vincent François Georges Millier
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Publication number: 20210396193Abstract: A fan module for an aircraft turbine engine, this module comprising a fan and an electrical machine, such that the electrical machine is coaxially mounted downstream of the fan and comprises a rotor coupled to rotate with the fan and an annular member with generally C-shaped axial cross-section, the opening of which is axially orientated and receives the rotor, this member comprising a radially outer portion forming a stator, and a radially inner portion forming a support for bearings guiding the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Loic Paul Yves GUILLOTEL, Tewfik BOUDEBIZA, Gilles Alain Marie CHARIER, Caroline Marie FRANTZ, Vincent Francois Georges MILLIER
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Publication number: 20210396149Abstract: Aircraft turbine engine (10), comprising a gas generator (12) and a blower (14) arranged upstream of the gas generator and configured to generate a main gas flow (F), of which one portion flows in a stream from the gas generator to form a primary flow (36), and of which another portion flows in a stream around the gas generator to form a secondary flow (38), the gas generator comprising a low pressure body (12a) which comprises a rotor driving the fan by means of a crown of a mechanical planetary reduction gear (33), the turbine engine further comprising an electrical machine (62), characterised in that the electrical machine is mounted coaxially around the reduction gear and comprises a rotor (62a) rotated by the crown (33a) of the reduction gear, and a stator (62b) extending around the rotor of the electrical machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Loïc Paul Yves Guillotel, Vincent François Georges Millier, Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Caroline Marie Frantz
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Publication number: 20210355893Abstract: An aircraft turbomachine, including a fan that is able to rotate inside a casing, and an electric machine including a rotor secured to the fan and a stator secured to the casing, wherein the rotor of the electric machine includes a ring that is able to rotate inside the stator, which is linked by arms to a cone mounted upstream from the fan.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Caroline Marie FRANTZ, Gilles Alain Marie CHARIER, Loic Paul Yves GUILLOTEL, Vincent Francois Georges MILLIER
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Publication number: 20210355840Abstract: An aircraft turbine engine includes a gas generator and a fan arranged upstream from the gas generator and configured to generate a main gas flow, one portion of which flows in a flow path of the gas generator to form a primary flow, and another portion of which flows in a flow path around the gas generator to form a secondary flow. The gas generator includes a low-pressure compressor that includes a rotor driving the fan. The turbine engine further includes an electric machine. The electric machine includes a rotor rotated by the rotor of the low-pressure compressor, and a stator extending around the rotor of the electric machine and configured to be cooled by the primary flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2019Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Caroline Marie Frantz, Loïc Paul Yves Guillotel, Vincent François Georges Millier
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Patent number: 11035244Abstract: Turbine engine turbine sealing module extending about an axis and including a distributor fixed to a casing, and at least one blade connected to an outer platform. The turbine module further includes an impeller mounted rotating inside the casing and surrounded by a sealing ring fastened to this casing. The sealing ring includes an annular row of ring sectors arranged such that the circumferential end edges of two adjacent sectors are facing one another. Each sector includes a body configured to engage with at least one seal lip carried by the impeller and a hook which extends circumferentially which is configured to engage with a fastening rail of the casing. Each ring sector further includes a deflector which extends radially inwards and upstream with respect to the axis, such that the radially inward end thereof extends around a downstream end of the outer platform of the distributor.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Simon Nicolas Morliere, Nicolas Jean-Marc Marcel Beauquin, Renaud James Martet, Vincent Francois Georges Millier
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Patent number: 11035242Abstract: A sealing assembly for a turbine is provided. The turbine includes stages each including a nozzle blade extending between radially inner and outer platforms, the outer platform including a spoiler which delimits a groove. The assembly includes a ring, a tab, and an anti-wear foil. The ring is to be attached to an outer casing of the turbine. A part of the sealing tab is engaged in a first housing of a ring sector of the ring and another part in a second housing of an adjacent ring sector. The anti-wear foil, open upstream, is mounted in the groove. The downstream end of the ring sectors are to be engaged in the anti-wear foil. Each of the first and second housings is formed by a slot. The tab is bent and disposed in the slots so that a downstream end of the tab extends out of the slots.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Simon Nicolas Morliere, Nicolas Jean-Marc Marcel Beauquin, Vincent Francois Georges Millier
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Publication number: 20210164358Abstract: An aircraft turbine engine includes a low-pressure body and a high-pressure body, as well as means for drawing power on said low-pressure body, said means having a first shaft for drawing power, the radially inner end of said first shaft bearing a first bevel gear meshed with a first idler bevel wheel driven by the low-pressure body, the turbine engine further having a first annular bearing support which extends about an axis and is rigidly connected to a stator. The first bearing support includes a first cylindrical portion which extends coaxially with a second substantially cylindrical portion of the idler wheel, said first and second portions being guided one inside the other by bearings, and the idler wheel is driven by the low-pressure body by means of an annular damping piece which is independent of the first bearing support.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2019Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Gilles Alain Marie Charier, Caroline Marie Frantz, Loïc Paul Yves Guillotel, Vincent François Georges Millier
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Patent number: 10920593Abstract: A movable ring assembly (4) for a turbine engine turbine (10) that is mounted between two successive rotor discs (20a) and (20b) of said turbine (10), said rotor discs (20a) and (20b) being fixed to each other by bolting, characterised in that it comprises:—a fixing ferrule (44) fixed between the upstream (20a) and downstream (20b) discs by the bolting thereof; a part forming a movable ring (42), said part supporting radial sealing members (32) and being fixed between the upstream disc (20a) and the ferrule (44);—and a seal (46) interposed between said part forming the movable ring (42) and the ferrule (44).Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Vincent Francois Georges Millier, Francois Pierre Michel Comte, Fabien Stephane Garnier, Alain Dominique Gendraud, Arnaud Lasantha Genilier
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Publication number: 20200182089Abstract: The invention relates to a device (26) for cooling an annular outer turbine casing (17), the device (26) comprising at least one circumferentially extending tube (27) having an air inlet intended for conveying cooling air, said tube (27) having a radially inner wall provided with cooling air discharge openings and a radially outer wall arranged axially opposite each other, an air inlet manifold (28), the inlet of the tube (27) opening into said manifold (28), characterized in that the tube (27) comprises at least one intermediate wall extending over a circumferential portion of the tube (27) from the air inlet, the intermediate wall being located radially between the radially inner wall and the radially outer wall, the radially inner wall and the intermediate wall forming a first air conveying duct, the radially outer wall and the intermediate wall forming a second air conveying duct extending circumferentially beyond the first air conveying duct, relative to the air inlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Arnaud Lasantha GENILIER, François Pierre Michel COMTE, Fabien Stéphane GARNIER, Vincent François Georges MILLIER
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Publication number: 20200063588Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing assembly for a turbine (1) rotor of a turbomachine, said turbine comprising an outer casing (4) and a plurality of rotor impellers (3) and nozzles (2), the sealing assembly comprising a sealing ring (7), attached to the casing (4), consisting of a plurality of ring sectors (70a, 70b) and surrounding the impeller (3), a sealing tab (8, 8?) being engaged, in a first slot (73a) of a ring sector (70a) and in a second slot (73b) of an adjacent ring sector (70b).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: February 27, 2020Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Simon Nicolas MORLIERE, Nicolas Jean-Marc Marcel BEAUQUIN, Vincent Francois Georges MILLIER
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Publication number: 20200040735Abstract: A movable ring assembly (4) for a turbine engine turbine (10) that is mounted between two successive rotor discs (20a) and (20b) of said turbine (10), said rotor discs (20a) and (20b) being fixed to each other by bolting, characterised in that it comprises:—a fixing ferrule (44) fixed between the upstream (20a) and downstream (20b) discs by the bolting thereof; a part forming a movable ring (42), said part supporting radial sealing members (32) and being fixed between the upstream disc (20a) and the ferrule (44);—and a seal (46) interposed between said part forming the movable ring (42) and the ferrule (44).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2017Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Vincent Francois Georges MILLIER, Francois Pierre Michel COMTE, Fabien Stephane GARNIER, Alain Dominique GENDRAUD, Arnaud Lasantha GENILIER
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Publication number: 20200011194Abstract: Turbine engine turbine sealing module extending about an axis and including a distributor fixed to a casing, and at least one blade connected to an outer platform. The turbine module further includes an impeller mounted rotating inside the casing and surrounded by a sealing ring fastened to this casing. The sealing ring includes an annular row of ring sectors arranged such that the circumferential end edges of two adjacent sectors are facing one another. Each sector includes a body configured to engage with at least one seal lip carried by the impeller and a hook which extends circumferentially which is configured to engage with a fastening rail of the casing. Each ring sector further includes a deflector which extends radially inwards and upstream with respect to the axis, such that the radially inward end thereof extends around a downstream end of the outer platform of the distributor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Simon Nicolas MORLIERE, Nicolas Jean-Marc Marcel BEAUQUIN, Renaud James MARTET, Vincent Francois Georges MILLIER
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Publication number: 20190331001Abstract: The invention relates to a lubrication device (1) for a turbo machine, comprising: a rotor (2) rotating around an axis, at least one lubrication chamber (6) formed in the rotor (2), a stator (22) in which the rotor (2) is rotatably mounted, a bearing (11) for rotationally guiding the rotor (2), mounted between the rotor (2) and the stator, lubricating fluid supply means which supply at least the chamber (6) and the bearing (11), the lubricating fluid supply means comprising a nozzle (23) mounted on the stator provided with an ejection nozzle (34) at a free end of the nozzle (23), said nozzle (34) being configured to project the lubricating fluid into the chamber (6), characterized in that the nozzle (23) has a movable part (27) including said ejection nozzle (34), said movable part (27) being movable between a retracted position in which the ejection nozzle (34) is remote from the chamber (6) or at least partially located outside the chamber (6), and an extended position in which the nozzle (34) is closerType: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Fabien Stéphane GARNIER, François Pierre Michel COMTE, Arnaud Lasantha GENILIER, Vincent François Georges MILLIER