Safran Transmission Systems

France

Back to Profile

1-100 of 168 for Safran Transmission Systems Sort by
Query
Patent
United States - USPTO
Aggregations Reset Report
Date
New (last 4 weeks) 4
2024 March 8
2024 February 1
2024 January 2
2023 December 2
See more
IPC Class
F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user 82
F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling 53
F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion 50
F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion 34
F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating 32
See more
Status
Pending 30
Registered / In Force 138
Found results for  patents
  1     2        Next Page

1.

DEVICE FOR DRIVING AT LEAST ONE WHEEL OF AN AIRCRAFT LANDING GEAR

      
Application Number 18467019
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-14
First Publication Date 2024-03-21
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Fernandez, Maxime
  • Douy, Yohan
  • Francois, Loïc
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel
  • Peltier, Jordane Emile André

Abstract

A device for driving at least one wheel of an aircraft landing gear is provided. The device includes at least one wheel having a rim, an electric motor having a shaft, and a mechanical transmission system for mechanical transmission between the shaft of the motor and the rim. The mechanical transmission system includes a mechanical reduction gear. The mechanical reduction gear includes a sun gear secured in rotation to the shaft and having an external toothing, a stationary ring gear with internal toothing, a movable ring gear secured in rotation to the rim and having an internal toothing, and planet gears that are meshed with the sun gear and each have two external toothing meshed respectively with the toothing of the stationary and movable ring gears.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B64C 25/32 - Alighting gear characterised by elements which contact the ground or similar surface
  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion

2.

COMPACT ACCESSORY GEARBOX COMPRISING AN INTEGRATED ELECTRIC MACHINE

      
Application Number 18470606
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-20
First Publication Date 2024-03-21
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Falguiere, Clément
  • Cadet, Clément Romain Aimé
  • Chaput, Florian Pierre-Yves
  • Martin, Raphaël Clément Stéphane

Abstract

An accessory gearbox houses at least one gear train with a series of pinions. The casing has two substantially flat and opposite parallel side walls between which are mounted support shafts for each of the pinions, each of which receives accessories, and which define in the enclosure an internal volume surrounding a shaft supporting at least one hybridization pinion. The gearbox receives at least one electric machine having a rotor and a stator, wherein the rotor of the electric machine is supported by the shaft supporting the hybridization pinion of the gear train, and the stator extends around the rotor in the internal volume.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/021 - Shaft support structures, e.g. partition walls, bearing eyes, casing walls or covers with bearings
  • F02C 7/32 - Arrangement, mounting, or driving, of auxiliaries
  • F16H 1/22 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion without gears having orbital motion involving more than two intermeshing members with arrangements for dividing torque between two or more intermediate shafts

3.

DEVICE FOR DRIVING AT LEAST ONE WHEEL OF AN AIRCRAFT LANDING GEAR

      
Application Number 18457875
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-08-29
First Publication Date 2024-03-21
Owner Safran Transmission Systems (France)
Inventor
  • Fernandez, Maxime
  • Francois, Loic
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel
  • Peltier, Jordane Emile Andre

Abstract

A device for driving at least one wheel of an aircraft landing gear including at least one landing gear wheel, this wheel including a rim, an electric motor including a shaft, a mechanical transmission system between the shaft of the motor and the rim, this mechanical transmission system including a mechanical reducer including a sun gear secured in rotation to the shaft of the motor, a ring gear, and planet gears which are carried by a planet carrier and which each includes three external toothings, including a median external toothing which is meshed with a toothing of the sun gear, and two lateral external toothings which are respectively meshed with toothings of the ring gear.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B64C 25/32 - Alighting gear characterised by elements which contact the ground or similar surface
  • B64C 25/34 - Alighting gear characterised by elements which contact the ground or similar surface wheeled type, e.g. multi-wheeled bogies
  • F16H 1/24 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion without gears having orbital motion involving gears essentially having intermeshing elements other than involute or cycloidal teeth

4.

SPEED REDUCER FOR A DEVICE FOR DRIVING A WHEEL OF AN AIRCRAFT LANDING GEAR

      
Application Number 18466330
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-13
First Publication Date 2024-03-21
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Fernandez, Maxime
  • Francois, Loic
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel
  • Peltier, Jordane Emile Andre

Abstract

A mechanical speed reducer, in particular for a device for driving at least one wheel of an aircraft landing gear, this reducer including a first sun gear including external toothing, first planet gears meshed with the external toothing of the first sun gear, these first planet gears being carried by a first planet carrier, a stationary ring gear meshed with the planet gears, and second planet gears meshed with a ring gear and with an external toothing of said first planet carrier, these second planet gears being carried by a second planet carrier.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B64C 25/32 - Alighting gear characterised by elements which contact the ground or similar surface
  • B60B 27/00 - Hubs
  • F16H 1/46 - Systems consisting of a plurality of gear trains, each with orbital gears

5.

PLANET CARRIER FOR A SPEED REDUCER ON AN AIRCRAFT TURBOMACHINE

      
Application Number 18461740
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-06
First Publication Date 2024-03-14
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Mouly, Guillaume Pierre
  • Beck, Guillaume Julien
  • Ptaszynski, Patrice Julien
  • Serey, Jean-Pierre
  • Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

A planet carrier for a speed reducer of an aircraft turbomachine, the planet carrier including a cage carrier and a cage. The cage can have two parts: a first part having a wall and bridges, these bridges projecting axially from a face of this wall and including first axial ends connected to this face and second free axial ends; and a second part having another of the walls, this other wall including a face to which the free ends of the bridges are applied. The two parts of the cage can be attached together by screws.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

6.

DRIVE ASSEMBLY FOR A MECHANICAL REDUCER FOR AN AIRCRAFT TURBOMACHINE

      
Application Number 18465336
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-12
First Publication Date 2024-03-14
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Pap, Bálint
  • Jarroux, Clément
  • Mouly, Guillaume Pierre
  • Tune, Pierre-Damien

Abstract

A drive assembly for a mechanical reducer for a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, includes planet gears, a planet carrier having at least one transverse wall, plain bearings for guiding the planet gears in rotation, and an oil supply circuit for the plain bearings. The planet carrier has collars for attaching the planet gears to the at least one transverse wall, and each of the planet gears includes at least one external cylindrical surface for forming an oil film with an internal cylindrical surface portion of each of the collars for forming said oil film.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F01D 15/12 - Combinations with mechanical gearing

7.

PLAIN BEARING FOR AN AIRCRAFT TURBOMACHINE MECHANICAL REDUCER

      
Application Number 18463836
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-08
First Publication Date 2024-03-14
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Pap, Bálint
  • Casteloot, Cyrille

Abstract

A plain bearing for a mechanical reducer for a turbomachine is integrally formed and includes a cylindrical body. The cylindrical body has an external cylindrical guide surface, a first axial mounting extension, a first circumferential edge extending around the first extension, a second axial mounting extension, and a second circumferential edge extending around the second extension. The plain bearing further includes an attachment cover connected to the first axial extension and extending axially opposite said first edge.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F01D 15/12 - Combinations with mechanical gearing
  • F01D 25/16 - Arrangement of bearings; Supporting or mounting bearings in casings
  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements

8.

AIRCRAFT TURBOMACHINE WITH MECHANICAL REDUCTION GEAR

      
Application Number 18465630
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-09-12
First Publication Date 2024-03-14
Owner Safran Transmission Systems (France)
Inventor
  • Mouly, Guillaume Pierre
  • Beck, Guillaume Julien
  • Peltier, Jordane Emile Andre
  • Serey, Jean-Pierre
  • Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

An aircraft turbomachine including a mechanical reduction gear including one sun gear, a ring gear, planet gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear, each planet gear including a first toothing for meshing with the sun gear, and a second toothing for meshing with the ring gear, the first toothing of each planet gear having a diameter greater than that of the second toothing of the planet gear, and a planet carrier, wherein the sun gear is coupled to a first rotor shaft of the turbomachine, the planet carrier is coupled to a second rotor shaft of the turbomachine, the ring gear is fixed to a stator of the turbomachine.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

9.

IMPROVED AIRCRAFT PROPULSION ASSEMBLY

      
Application Number 18264544
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-02-01
First Publication Date 2024-02-08
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Raucoules, Clément
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel
  • Peltier, Jordane Emile André

Abstract

A propulsion assembly for an aircraft comprising at least two electric motors configured to be disposed in a wing of the aircraft and each comprising a rotor having a motor shaft movable about a motor axis, at least one propeller borne by a propeller shaft movable about a propeller axis and mechanically coupled to the motor shaft of the at least two electric motors, the propeller axis being perpendicular to the motor axis of the at least two electric motors.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B64D 35/08 - Transmitting power from power plant to propellers or rotors; Arrangements of transmissions characterised by the transmission being driven by a plurality of power plants
  • B64D 27/24 - Aircraft characterised by the type or position of power plant using steam, electricity, or spring force
  • B64D 35/02 - Transmitting power from power plant to propellers or rotors; Arrangements of transmissions characterised by the type of power plant

10.

OIL RECOVERY DEVICE FOR A TURBOMACHINE

      
Application Number 18348870
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-07-07
First Publication Date 2024-01-11
Owner
  • SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Pennacino, Antoine Jacques Marie
  • Chassagne, Amélie Argie Antoinette
  • Gedin, Patrice Jocelyn Francis
  • Marcos Izquierdo, Juan-Luis
  • Peltier, Jordane Emile André

Abstract

An oil recovery device for a reducer of an aircraft turbomachine, the device having a gutter extending around an axis and being intended to be arranged facing oil ejection means formed in a ring gear of the reducer of the turbomachine. The gutter can include at least one oil reception chamber which extends around the axis and which is open towards the axis so as to receive the oil coming from the oil ejection means. The reception chamber can be delimited by a first wall and a second wall arranged facing each other. The first wall can have an axial oil evacuation orifice and the second wall can have a radial dimension relative to the axis which increases increasingly along the axis towards the axial orifice, so as to allow oil ejected by the reducer to be conveyed to the axial orifice.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating

11.

POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM COMPRISING AN IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY CHANNEL

      
Application Number 18254142
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-11-24
First Publication Date 2024-01-04
Owner
  • SAFRAN (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Marcos Izquierdo, Juan-Luis
  • Cailler, Melody Elisabeth Laurent
  • Gedin, Patrice Jocelyn Francis
  • Serey, Jean-Pierre

Abstract

A power transmission system for an aircraft turbine engine including a speed reducer including a ring gear that is able to rotate about an axis X, formed from half-rings having annular flanges clamped together by first fastener. The reducer includes an annular channel for recovering centrifuged oil, having a U-shaped cross section, extending around the flanges, this channel being formed by an axial assembly of at least two parts and forming a fairing for the flanges and the first fastener intended to limit aerodynamic disturbances.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating

12.

LUBRICATION MODULE FOR A TURBOMACHINE LUBRICATION STATION

      
Application Number 18336674
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-06-16
First Publication Date 2023-12-21
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor Badidi, Abdallah

Abstract

Lubrication module for at least one lubrication station of a turbomachine, the lubrication module comprising at least one positive displacement pump including a pump body delimiting a main chamber configured to be in fluid communication with a main lubrication circuit and an auxiliary chamber configured to be in fluid communication with an auxiliary lubrication circuit, and a piston movably mounted in the pump body between an inactive configuration and an active configuration, the piston being configured to perform, in the active configuration, a pumping movement between a top dead center and a bottom dead center by cooperation with a cam of a shaft of the turbomachine and, in the inactive configuration, not to cooperate with the cam of the shaft of the turbomachine, the positive displacement pump including a return element configured to return the piston to the active configuration.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F01D 25/20 - Lubricating arrangements using lubrication pumps
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating
  • F02C 7/32 - Arrangement, mounting, or driving, of auxiliaries
  • F16N 13/04 - Adjustable reciprocating pumps

13.

PLANET CARRIER FOR A MECHANICAL GEARBOX ON AN AIRCRAFT TURBOMACHINE

      
Application Number 18332609
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-06-09
First Publication Date 2023-12-14
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor Mouly, Guillaume Pierre

Abstract

A planet carrier for a mechanical gearbox of a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, the planet carrier being formed in a single piece and comprising two annular flasks connected by material bridges and together defining housings configured to receive planet gears, the flasks comprising orifices for mounting the planet gears which are oriented axially and which open into the housings. One of the flasks can include at least one thinning around its orifices, the at least one thinning defining a minimum thickness of material in the axial direction which is less than a minimum thickness of the other flask around each of its orifices.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F02C 6/20 - Adaptations of gas-turbine plants for driving vehicles

14.

Aeronautical propulsion system with improved propulsive efficiency

      
Application Number 18031917
Grant Number 11913385
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-10-08
First Publication Date 2023-11-30
Grant Date 2024-02-27
Owner
  • SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Frantz, Caroline Marie
  • Charier, Gilles Alain Marie
  • Foglia, Matthieu Bruno François
  • Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

A propulsion system includes a drive shaft that rotates about an axis, a fan, a fan shaft that drives the fan about the axis, a reduction mechanism coupling the drive and fan shafts, a compression section driven by the drive shaft, and an inlet channel that extends between the fan and the compression section. The inlet channel includes inner and outer ferrules delimiting an air inlet flow path, the inner ferrule having a minimum radius. The reduction mechanism includes two reduction stages including two or more planet gears circumferentially distributed around the axis, each planet gear including a first portion meshed with the drive shaft and a second portion meshed with the fan shaft and being mounted fixed with respect to the inner ferrule and having a maximum radius greater than the minimum radius such that the air inlet flow path extends partly between the two or more planet gears.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02K 3/06 - Plants including a gas turbine driving a compressor or a ducted fan in which part of the working fluid by-passes the turbine and combustion chamber the plant including ducted fans, i.e. fans with high volume, low-pressure outputs, for augmenting jet thrust, e.g. of double-flow type with front fan
  • F02C 7/04 - Air intakes for gas-turbine plants or jet-propulsion plants

15.

PRE-ASSEMBLY METHOD FOR AN AIRCRAFT TURBOMACHINE

      
Application Number 18311414
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-05-03
First Publication Date 2023-11-09
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Beck, Guillaume Julien
  • Douy, Yohan
  • Peltier, Jordane Emile André
  • Seban, Jérémy David

Abstract

A pre-assembly method for an aircraft turbomachine, having preliminary assembling, outside the turbomachine, the following components with each other a reduction gear configured to transmit a rotation between at least two rotors of the turbomachine while modifying the speed and torque ratio from one to the other of said at least two rotors, a shaft kinematically coupled to the reduction gear and configured to be kinematically coupled to one of said at least two rotors, a bearing support, and at least one bearing mounted on the bearing support and configured to rotatably support the shaft.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B64F 5/10 - Manufacturing or assembling aircraft, e.g. jigs therefor
  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

16.

MECHANICAL REDUCER FOR AN AIRCRAFT TURBOMACHINE

      
Application Number 18305208
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-04-21
First Publication Date 2023-10-26
Owner
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
  • SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (France)
Inventor
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Chatenet, Luc Henri
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel
  • Rouffet, Jonathan Jean-Pierre

Abstract

A mechanical reducer for a turbomachine for an aircraft, this reducer having a sun gear with internal splines and an external toothing, a ring gear which extends around the sun gear and which has an internal toothing, planet gears which are arranged between the sun gear and the ring gear and which each have at least one external toothing meshing with the external toothing of the sun gear and the internal toothing of the ring gear, and a planet carrier which carries first bearings for guiding the planet gears in rotation. The reducer can further include at least one second bearing for guiding the sun gear in rotation. The at least one second bearing can be mounted between the sun gear and the planet carrier.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating

17.

LUBRICATING OIL DEFLECTOR, SPEED REDUCTION GEAR INCLUDING SUCH A DEFLECTOR AND TURBOMACHINE INCLUDING SUCH A SPEED REDUCTION GEAR

      
Application Number 18183688
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-03-14
First Publication Date 2023-09-21
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor Marcos Izquierdo, Juan-Luis

Abstract

The invention relates to a lubricating oil deflector for a speed reduction gear of a turbomachine, the deflector comprising a body having a first end intended to be disposed facing a sun gear of the reduction gear, the first end being configured to receive oil from the sun gear and an opposite second end configured to discharge the oil from the body, the body including two side faces each intended to be disposed facing a planet gear of the reduction gear and each connecting the first and second ends together, the body including at least one inner oil guide channel that opens out at the first end and at the second end and is configured to discharge the oil by gravity through the second end.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F01D 15/12 - Combinations with mechanical gearing
  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements

18.

CIRCULAR MODULAR TRAY FOR THE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF A PART WITH AN AXIS OF REVOLUTION ON A POWDER BED

      
Application Number 18002896
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-06-11
First Publication Date 2023-08-24
Owner
  • SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Nifenecker, Arnaud Georges
  • Ador, Jérémi Christophe Benjamin
  • Aycaguer, Frédéric
  • Dufau, Frédéric Jacques
  • Gouin, Gilles Gaston Jacques

Abstract

A circular modular tray for the additive manufacturing of a part with an axis of revolution on a powder bed, characterised in that it consists of an assembly of modules that are concentrically coupled along a contiguous axis in a radial direction, the modules including an annular peripheral module and a circular central module.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B22F 12/37 - Rotatable
  • B22F 10/68 - Cleaning or washing
  • B22F 10/66 - Treatment of workpieces or articles after build-up by mechanical means
  • B29C 64/245 - Platforms or substrates
  • B29C 64/35 - Cleaning
  • B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
  • B33Y 40/20 - Post-treatment, e.g. curing, coating or polishing
  • B33Y 10/00 - Processes of additive manufacturing

19.

AERONAUTIC PROPULSION SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED PROPULSION EFFICIENCY

      
Application Number 18133280
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-04-11
First Publication Date 2023-08-24
Owner
  • SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Gros-Borot, Maeva Daphné
  • Charier, Gilles Alain Marie
  • Foglia, Matthieu Bruno Francois
  • Frantz, Coroline Marie
  • Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

A propulsion system includes a drive shaft movable in rotation about an axis of rotation, a low-pressure compressor driven in rotation by the drive shaft, the low-pressure compressor having a mean radius, a fan shaft, a fan driven in rotation by the fan shaft, a reduction mechanism coupling the drive shaft and the fan shaft, having a reduction ratio, and an inlet channel which extends between the fan and the low-pressure compressor, the inlet channel having an inlet adjacent to the fan and an outlet opposite the inlet and adjacent to the low-pressure compressor, the inlet having a mean radius. A first ratio between a ratio of a mean radius of the inlet channel and the mean radius of the low-pressure compressor, and the reduction ratio of the reduction mechanism, is strictly less than 0.35.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02K 3/06 - Plants including a gas turbine driving a compressor or a ducted fan in which part of the working fluid by-passes the turbine and combustion chamber the plant including ducted fans, i.e. fans with high volume, low-pressure outputs, for augmenting jet thrust, e.g. of double-flow type with front fan
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

20.

Speed reduction gear for an aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 18165173
Grant Number 11933229
Status In Force
Filing Date 2023-02-06
First Publication Date 2023-08-10
Grant Date 2024-03-19
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Ptaszynski, Patrice Julien
  • Pennacino, Antoine Jacques Marie
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel

Abstract

Speed reduction gear for an aircraft turbomachine. The reduction gear has a main axis and planet carrier having a cage and a cage carrier, a sun gear located in the cage and centred on the main axis, an annular row of planet gears arranged around the main axis and the sun gear and meshed with the sun gear, and a ring gear arranged around the axis and the cage and meshed with the planet gears. The cage and the cage carrier are connected to each other by connections whose bending flexibility is optimised.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

21.

TURBOMACHINE EQUIPPED WITH ELECTRIC MACHINES COUPLED TO A COUPLING SURFACE

      
Application Number 17999701
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-05-19
First Publication Date 2023-06-29
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Peltier, Jordane Emile André
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel

Abstract

A turbomachine includes a fan, a first casing with longitudinal axis X in which a motor shaft is rotated around the longitudinal axis X, a second casing surrounding and coaxial with the first casing, and a drive shaft connected to the motor shaft. The driveshaft is also connected to at least two electric machines via a power transmission angle gear device housed in a housing. The electric machines being intended are configured to take or inject power on the motor shaft. The housing has a coupling surface to which the two electric machines are coupled.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F01D 15/10 - Adaptations for driving, or combinations with, electric generators
  • F02C 7/32 - Arrangement, mounting, or driving, of auxiliaries

22.

MODULAR TRAY FOR THE POWDER BED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF A PART WITH AN AXIS OF REVOLUTION

      
Application Number 17995465
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-03-31
First Publication Date 2023-06-08
Owner
  • SAFRAN HELICOPTER ENGINES (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Nifenecker, Arnaud Georges
  • Ador, Jérémi Christophe Benjamin
  • Aycaguer, Frédéric
  • Dufau, Frédéric Jacques
  • Gouin, Gilles Gaston Jacques
  • Wilmes, Jean-Pierre
  • Arguel, Werner

Abstract

A modular tray, for the additive manufacturing of a part with an axis of revolution on a powder bed, includes: a shaft-mounted circular module including a shaft provided with a circular tray at one of the ends thereof, the shaft and the circular tray being concentric; and a main support module including, in one face, a cavity configured for receiving the shaft-mounted circular module, the shaft being completely inserted in the cavity. The assembly of the shaft-mounted circular module and of the main support module define a planar top surface that is at least partly formed by the circular tray of the shaft-mounted circular module.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B22F 12/37 - Rotatable
  • B22F 10/28 - Powder bed fusion, e.g. selective laser melting [SLM] or electron beam melting [EBM]
  • B22F 10/66 - Treatment of workpieces or articles after build-up by mechanical means
  • B22F 12/82 - Combination of additive manufacturing apparatus or devices with other processing apparatus or devices
  • B22F 10/64 - Treatment of workpieces or articles after build-up by thermal means
  • B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
  • B33Y 40/20 - Post-treatment, e.g. curing, coating or polishing
  • B33Y 10/00 - Processes of additive manufacturing
  • B22F 10/47 - Structures for supporting workpieces or articles during manufacture and removed afterwards characterised by structural features
  • B29C 64/245 - Platforms or substrates
  • B29C 64/153 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only solid materials using layers of powder being selectively joined, e.g. by selective laser sintering or melting
  • B29C 64/30 - Auxiliary operations or equipment

23.

ARRANGEMENT FOR AN AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE HAVING IMPROVED LUBRICATION, THE ARRANGEMENT COMPRISING A SHAFT ROTATABLY COUPLED TO A FOLLOWING MEMBER BY MEANS OF SPLINES

      
Application Number 17997771
Status Pending
Filing Date 2021-04-23
First Publication Date 2023-05-25
Owner
  • SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Foglia, Matthieu Bruno François
  • Morreale, Serge René
  • Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

An arrangement for an aircraft turbine engine, including a shaft and a follower element rotatably coupled to the shaft by a spline connection, the arrangement including upstream and downstream connections for radially centring the follower element relative to the shaft; means for spraying a lubricant into a collection cavity; a passage for receiving lubricant, which passage opens into the collection cavity and into a cavity for lubricating the splines which is partially defined by the upstream and downstream radial centring connections; and a passage for discharging lubricant, which passage opens into the cavity for lubricating the splines and outside the arrangement.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F01D 5/02 - Blade-carrying members, e.g. rotors

24.

AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE WITH AN OFF-AXIS PROPELLER

      
Application Number 17932934
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-09-16
First Publication Date 2023-05-04
Owner
  • SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Levisse, Paul Ghislain Albert
  • Becoulet, Julien Fabien Patrick
  • Mouly, Guillaume Pierre
  • Gedin, Patrice Jocelyn Francis
  • Belmonte, Olivier

Abstract

An aircraft turbine engine includes a turbine shaft having a first axis of rotation, a propulsion propeller having a second axis of rotation parallel to and spaced from the first axis, and a mechanical reduction gear coupled to the turbine shaft and rotating the propeller. The reduction gear has a sun gear connected to the turbine shaft, a ring gear, and at least two planet gears, each including a first external toothing that is meshed with an external toothing of the sun gear. A second external toothing is located within the ring gear and is meshed with an internal toothing of the ring gear.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

25.

Method for manufacturing a mechanical reducer for an aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 17933894
Grant Number 11686255
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-09-21
First Publication Date 2023-03-30
Grant Date 2023-06-27
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Ghribi, Dhafer

Abstract

A method for manufacturing a mechanical reducer for an aircraft turbomachine including a central pinion, an outer crown, N planet pinions, where N≥3, each planet pinion including a first stage meshing with the central pinion, and a second stage meshing with the outer crown, the method including the assembly marking, wherein N teeth of the central pinion are marked, and N pairs of teeth of the first stage of each planet pinion are marked, the N planet pinions each being marked identically, and the assembly of the mechanical reducer, so that the teeth of the pairs of marked teeth of the first stage of each planet pinion are disposed on either side of a marked tooth of the central pinion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 57/00 - General details of gearing

26.

Power transmission module for an aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 17933606
Grant Number 11859560
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-09-20
First Publication Date 2023-03-23
Grant Date 2024-01-02
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Mouly, Guillaume Pierre
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Beck, Guillaume Julien
  • Lefebvre, Simon Loic Clement

Abstract

A power transmission module for an aircraft, the module including a torque input connected to a turbine shaft, a first torque output and a second torque output, the power transmission module including a mechanical reducer including a sun gear forming the torque input, and planet gears carried by a planet carrier, wherein each of the planet gears includes at least three independent toothings and further includes a first toothing meshed with the sun gear, a second toothing meshed with an element forming one of the torque outputs, and a third toothing meshed with another element.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

27.

Splined shaft

      
Application Number 17884730
Grant Number 11927139
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-08-10
First Publication Date 2023-02-16
Grant Date 2024-03-12
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Marcos Izquierdo, Juan-Luis
  • Pigott, Quentin Pierre Henri

Abstract

A splined shaft includes splines evenly distributed over the periphery, wherein the splines being spaced apart from each other. At least one portion of the splines are spaced apart by a modified pitch p with respect to the nominal pitch pn of the splines. The ratio of the absolute value of the difference between the modified pitch and the nominal pitch, to the nominal pitch, i.e. |pn−p|/pn, is different from zero, for example between 0.5 and 5%.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16D 1/10 - Quick-acting couplings in which the parts are connected by simply bringing them together axially
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

28.

Pivot for a turbomachine mechanical reduction gear

      
Application Number 17872239
Grant Number 11708889
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-07-25
First Publication Date 2023-01-26
Grant Date 2023-07-25
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Pap, Balint
  • Peltier, Jordane Emile André
  • Pennacino, Antoine Jacques Marie

Abstract

b).

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion

29.

Aeronautic propulsion system with low leakage rate and improved propulsion efficiency

      
Application Number 17783073
Grant Number 11802515
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-12-11
First Publication Date 2023-01-19
Grant Date 2023-10-31
Owner
  • SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Frantz, Caroline Marie
  • Charier, Gilles Alain Marie
  • Gros-Borot, Maeva Daphné
  • Foglia, Matthieu Bruno François
  • Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

A propulsion system includes a drive shaft, a fan, a fan shaft, and a reduction device coupling the drive and fan shafts. The reduction device includes a first reduction stage and a second reduction state, and include a sun gear, centered on an axis of rotation of the drive and fan shafts and driven in rotation by the drive shaft, a ring gear, coaxial with the sun gear and that drives the fan shaft in rotation about the axis, and planet gears distributed circumferentially about the axis between the sun and ring gears, each planet gear including a first portion which is meshed with the sun gear and a second portion which is meshed with the ring gear, a diameter of the first portion being different from a diameter of the second portion, and an oil transfer bearing positioned between the fan and the reduction device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02K 3/04 - Plants including a gas turbine driving a compressor or a ducted fan in which part of the working fluid by-passes the turbine and combustion chamber the plant including ducted fans, i.e. fans with high volume, low-pressure outputs, for augmenting jet thrust, e.g. of double-flow type

30.

AERONAUTIC PROPULSION SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED PROPULSION EFFICIENCY

      
Application Number 17783721
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-12-11
First Publication Date 2023-01-19
Owner
  • SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Gros-Borot, Maeva Daphné
  • Charier, Gilles Alain Marie
  • Foglia, Matthieu Bruno François
  • Frantz, Caroline Marie
  • Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

An aero-propulsion system includes a drive shaft, a low-pressure compressor, a fan shaft driving a fan, a reduction device that couples the drive shaft and the fan shaft, and an inlet channel which extends between the fan and the low-pressure compressor, the inlet having a predetermined mean radius, a ratio between a mean radius of the inlet channel and the mean radius of the low-pressure compressor, on the one hand, and the reduction ratio of the reduction mechanism, on the other hand, being less than 0.35.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02K 3/06 - Plants including a gas turbine driving a compressor or a ducted fan in which part of the working fluid by-passes the turbine and combustion chamber the plant including ducted fans, i.e. fans with high volume, low-pressure outputs, for augmenting jet thrust, e.g. of double-flow type with front fan
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

31.

TURBOMACHINE HAVING A CONTRAROTATING TURBINE FOR AN AIRCRAFT

      
Application Number 17756501
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-12-08
First Publication Date 2023-01-12
Owner
  • SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Levisse, Paul Ghislain Albert
  • Belmonte, Olivier
  • Truco, Romain
  • Formica, Olivier
  • Chevillot, Fabrice Joel Luc
  • Niepceron, Clement Paul Rene

Abstract

Turbomachine (10) having a contrarotating turbine for aircraft, the turbomachine comprising a contrarotating turbine (22) of which a first rotor (22a) is configured to rotate in a first direction of rotation and is connected to a first turbine shaft (36), and a second rotor (22b) is configured to rotate in an opposite direction of rotation and is connected to a second turbine shaft (38), the first rotor comprising turbine discs that are interleaved between turbine discs of the second rotor, said first shaft (36) being guided by at least two guide bearings (60, 62) mounted between this first shaft and a stator casing, and said second shaft (38) being guided by at least two guide bearings (56, 58) mounted between this second shaft and another stator casing (28).

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 3/067 - Gas-turbine plants characterised by the use of combustion products as the working fluid having a turbine driving a compressor the compressor comprising only axial stages having counter-rotating rotors
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02K 3/06 - Plants including a gas turbine driving a compressor or a ducted fan in which part of the working fluid by-passes the turbine and combustion chamber the plant including ducted fans, i.e. fans with high volume, low-pressure outputs, for augmenting jet thrust, e.g. of double-flow type with front fan

32.

Aeronautical propulsion system having a low leakage flow rate and improved propulsion efficiency

      
Application Number 17783950
Grant Number 11725592
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-12-11
First Publication Date 2023-01-12
Grant Date 2023-08-15
Owner
  • SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Frantz, Caroline Marie
  • Charier, Gilles Alain Marie
  • Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

A propulsion system includes a drive shaft movable about an axis of rotation, a fan, a fan shaft that drives the fan, and a reduction device coupling the drive shaft and the fan shaft. The reduction device has first and second reduction stages and includes a sun gear, centered on the axis and driven by the drive shaft, a ring gear that is coaxial with the sun gear and that drives the fan shaft about the axis, and planet gears distributed circumferentially about the axis between the sun gear and the ring gear. Each planet gear includes a first portion meshed with the sun gear and a second portion meshed with the ring gear. A diameter of the first portion is different from a diameter of the second portion, and the first portion of the planet gears extend between the second portion of the planet gears and the fan.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

33.

Planet carrier for a speed reducer of an aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 17847149
Grant Number 11674592
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-06-22
First Publication Date 2022-12-29
Grant Date 2023-06-13
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Mouly, Guillaume Pierre
  • Serey, Jean-Pierre

Abstract

a cage (220) comprising at its periphery housings (280) and second connection elements which are mounted in said housings and which cooperate with the first connection elements to form connections between the cage carrier (222) and the cage (220), which allow at least one degree of freedom, b).

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion

34.

PLANET CARRIER FOR A SPEED REDUCTION GEAR OF AN AIRCRAFT TURBOMACHINE

      
Application Number 17847511
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-06-23
First Publication Date 2022-12-29
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor Mouly, Guillaume Pierre

Abstract

A planet carrier for a speed reduction gear of a turbomachine has a main axis X and includes a cage carrier with an annular row of axial fingers around the axis X, which carry first connecting elements. The carrier further includes a cage having at its periphery housings and second connecting elements that are mounted in the housings and that cooperate with the first connecting elements to form connections between the cage carrier and the cage, which allow at least one degree of freedom. The cage comprises two shells that are axially fastened to each other and separated from each other by a plane. The housings are formed respectively in the shells.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

35.

ASSEMBLY FOR AN AIRCRAFT GAS TURBINE ENGINE COMPRISING AN ACCESSORY GEARBOX

      
Application Number 17848966
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-06-24
First Publication Date 2022-12-29
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Chaput, Florian Pierre-Yves
  • Drevon, Fanélie Violaine
  • De Dreuille De Longeville, Thomas Marie Joseph
  • Pigott, Quentin Pierre Henri

Abstract

An assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a casing centered on a longitudinal axis and including an upstream portion, a central portion and a downstream portion arranged successively along the longitudinal axis, an attachment system include plural tie rods, and an accessory gearbox arranged within a space delimited axially by the upstream portion and the downstream portion and radially by the central portion, the accessory gearbox being solely attached to the upstream portion or solely attached to the downstream portion by the attachment system.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F01D 25/24 - Casings; Casing parts, e.g. diaphragms, casing fastenings

36.

MECHANICAL PART FOR AN AIRCRAFT TURBOMACHINE AND CORRESPONDING TURBOMACHINE

      
Application Number 17805380
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-06-03
First Publication Date 2022-12-08
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor Marcos Izquierdo, Juan-Luis

Abstract

A mechanical part for an aircraft turbomachine, the mechanical part being made of metal and comprising at least one profiled surface configured to ensure an oil flow during operation. According to the invention, the surface includes a more hydrophobic and/or lipophobic coating than the surface or a surface texturing rendering the surface more hydrophobic and/or lipophobic

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling

37.

MECHANICAL PART FOR AN AIRCRAFT TURBOMACHINE

      
Application Number 17832899
Status Pending
Filing Date 2022-06-06
First Publication Date 2022-12-08
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor Marcos Izquierdo, Juan-Luis

Abstract

A mechanical part for an aircraft turbomachine is made of metal and includes at least one profiled surface configured to ensure an oil flow during operation. The surface has a hydrophobic and/or lipophobic coating or a surface texturing rendering the surface hydrophobic and/or lipophobic.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling

38.

Impeller for a planet carrier of a planetary gear speed reducer of a turbomachine

      
Application Number 17775423
Grant Number 11959418
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-11-06
First Publication Date 2022-11-24
Grant Date 2024-04-16
Owner
  • SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Kubiak, Guillaume Patrice
  • Becoulet, Julien Fabien Patrick
  • Cuvillier, Romain Guillaume
  • Lefebvre, Simon Loïc Clément
  • Patsouris, Emmanuel Pierre Dimitri
  • Yvon, Didier Jean-Louis

Abstract

An impeller (230) for a planet carrier of a planetary gear speed reducer of a turbomachine, is configured intended to be rotatably secured to the planet carrier and to be rotated about an axis A of the speed reducer. The impeller has an annular shape about the axis and includes lubrication means (43, 45, 238), in particular for lubricating bearings of planet gears of the speed reducer. The lubrication means include an annular cavity (238) situated at the inner periphery of the impeller. The impeller includes an inner peripheral wall (246) closing the cavity (238) in the radial direction, and the impeller includes an annular port (248) that extends around the axis and that opens in the axial direction into the cavity in order to supply it with lubricating oil.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating
  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling

39.

OIL RESTRICTOR FOR EMERGENCY LUBRICATION OF A COMPONENT FOR AN AIRCRAFT TURBINE ENGINE

      
Application Number 17642169
Status Pending
Filing Date 2020-09-16
First Publication Date 2022-10-06
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Dombek, Alexis Claude Michel
  • Gedin, Patrice Jocelyn Francis

Abstract

An oil restrictor for emergency lubrication of a component for an aircraft turbine engine includes a metal cylindrical body having a longitudinal axis and configured to be housed in and shrink-fitted into a cylindrical bore of a part of the turbine engine. The restrictor further includes an integrated oil circuit enabling oil to pass through the restrictor along the axial extent thereof. The body is a one-piece body, and the circuit has at least two oil channels recessed on an outer cylindrical surface of the body and extending around and/or along the axis.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16N 27/00 - Proportioning devices
  • F16N 29/02 - Special means in lubricating arrangements or systems providing for the indication or detection of undesired conditions; Use of devices responsive to conditions in lubricating arrangements or systems for influencing the supply of lubricant
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

40.

Epicyclic reduction gear for a turbomachine

      
Application Number 17626216
Grant Number 11754002
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-07-07
First Publication Date 2022-08-25
Grant Date 2023-09-12
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Niepceron, Clément Paul René
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel

Abstract

The invention relates to an epicyclic reduction gear for a turbomachine, including a sun wheel that is rotatable about a first axis (A); a ring gear surrounding the sun wheel and being rotatable about the first axis (A); at least one planetary gear that is rotatable about a second axis (B), the planetary gear being meshed with the sun wheel and the ring gear; an immobile planet carrier, the planetary gear being rotatably guided about the second axis (B) with respect to a bearing of the planet carrier; an item of equipment including a rotor. The invention is characterized in that the item of equipment is fastened to the bearing of the planet carrier and the rotor of the item of equipment is rotatably driven by the planetary gear.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating

41.

Epicyclic reduction gear for a turbomachine

      
Application Number 17625876
Grant Number 11802514
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-07-07
First Publication Date 2022-08-18
Grant Date 2023-10-31
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Niepceron, Clément Paul René
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel

Abstract

An epicyclic reduction gear for a turbomachine includes a sun gear that is rotatable about a first axis and a ring gear surrounding the sun gear and also rotatable about the first axis. The ring gear is secured to a ring gear carrier that rotates a fan shaft. At least one planet gear is rotatable about a second axis and is meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear. The planet gear is guided in rotation about the second axis relative to a bearing of the planet carrier. A piece of equipment comprising a rotor. The piece of equipment is attached to the bearing of the planet carrier and has a rotor rotated by the ring gear carrier.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F16H 57/021 - Shaft support structures, e.g. partition walls, bearing eyes, casing walls or covers with bearings
  • F16H 61/66 - Control functions within change-speed- or reversing-gearings for conveying rotary motion specially adapted for continuously variable gearings

42.

Mechanical reducer

      
Application Number 17582546
Grant Number 11808213
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-01-24
First Publication Date 2022-08-04
Grant Date 2023-11-07
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Mouly, Guillaume Pierre
  • Laisnez, Frédéric Nicolas François
  • Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

planet gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the crown and which are held by a planet carrier (62) which is configured to be movable in rotation about said axis (61), In addition, the oil distributor (65) comprises a plurality of oil distribution modules (67) assembled together, each module (67) comprising at least one lubrication pipe (68) having an inlet intended to receive oil and an outlet (69) adapted to lead the oil into an opening (63) of the planet carrier (62), the opening (63) being intended for lubricating the reducer.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating
  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion

43.

Triple flow aircraft turbomachine provided with a power transmission module

      
Application Number 17583336
Grant Number 11555454
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-01-25
First Publication Date 2022-07-28
Grant Date 2023-01-17
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor Mouly, Guillaume Pierre

Abstract

A triple-flow turbomachine for an aircraft, including a power transmission module including a torque input connected to a turbine shaft, a first torque output of a gearbox connected to a main shaft for rotatably driving a main fan propeller, and a second torque output of a planet gear connected to a secondary shaft for rotatably driving a secondary fan propeller. The planet gear is independent of the gearbox and arranged downstream of the gearbox.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating
  • F02K 3/077 - Plants including a gas turbine driving a compressor or a ducted fan in which part of the working fluid by-passes the turbine and combustion chamber the plant including ducted fans, i.e. fans with high volume, low-pressure outputs, for augmenting jet thrust, e.g. of double-flow type the plant being of the multiple flow type, i.e. having three or more flows

44.

Planet carrier for a mechanical gearbox of an aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 17568093
Grant Number 11808344
Status In Force
Filing Date 2022-01-04
First Publication Date 2022-07-07
Grant Date 2023-11-07
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Mouly, Guillaume Pierre
  • Laisnez, Frederic Nicolas François
  • Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

A planet carrier for a mechanical gearbox for a turbomachine includes a one-piece cage that extends about an axis of rotation defining an internal housing configured to receive a sun gear and planet gears of the gearbox. The planet carrier further includes a lubrication system with at least one bore formed in the cage and extending parallel to the axis over more than 30% of a maximum axial dimension (Lmax) of the cage. The lubrication system also includes for the at least one bore, at least two sprinklers which are fitted to the cage and which are each mounted in a recess of the cage.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

45.

Oil collector for a torque transmission device of an aircraft turbine engine

      
Application Number 17454384
Grant Number 11686217
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-11-10
First Publication Date 2022-05-19
Grant Date 2023-06-27
Owner
  • SAFRAN (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel
  • Betbeder-Lauque, Xavier Roger
  • Charrier, Mathieu Jean

Abstract

An oil collector for a torque transmission device of an aircraft turbine engine, this oil collector being configured to collect sprayed oil, wherein it includes at least one wall formed at least in part by a mesh structure, and at least one recovery device located at one end of the wall and configured to recover the oil captured by the wall and intended to flow from this wall to the recovery device.

IPC Classes  ?

46.

Mechanical gearbox for an aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 17453607
Grant Number 11867259
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-11-04
First Publication Date 2022-05-12
Grant Date 2024-01-09
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Mouly, Guillaume Pierre
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Ghribi, Dhafer

Abstract

A mechanical gearbox for turbomachine, in particular for aircraft. The gearbox includes a sun gear including an external toothing, a ring gear including an internal toothing, and planet gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the stationary ring gear. The planet gears are carried by a movable planet carrier and each having external toothings of different diameters. The movable planet carrier includes a movable ring gear which carries an internal toothing and which is independent of the stationary ring gear, each of the planet gears being meshed with the sun gear and the stationary and movable ring gears.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

47.

Mechanical reduction gear for an aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 17454118
Grant Number 11739829
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-11-09
First Publication Date 2022-05-12
Grant Date 2023-08-29
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Beck, Guillaume Julien
  • Gedin, Patrice Jocelyn Francis
  • Lefebvre, Simon Loic Clement
  • Pap, Balint
  • Pigott, Quentin Pierre Henri
  • Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

A mechanical reduction gear for a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, the reduction gear including a sun gear, a ring gear, planet gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear, hydrodynamic bearings for guiding the planet gears in rotation, these bearings being carried by a planet carrier and including cylindrical bodies which are engaged in the planet gears and which are configured so as to be supplied with oil and so as to form guiding oil films between the bodies and the planet gears, wherein each of the planet gears is guided by two hydrodynamic bearings independent of each other and disposed on either side of the plane.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion

48.

Mechanical reduction gear for an aircraft turbine engine

      
Application Number 17495209
Grant Number 11377974
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-10-06
First Publication Date 2022-04-14
Grant Date 2022-07-05
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Lefebvre, Simon Loïc Clément
  • Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

A mechanical reduction gear of a turbine engine, in particular for an aircraft, includes a sun gear having external toothing, a ring gear which extends around the sun gear and has internal toothing, planet gears which are in mesh with the sun gear and the ring gear and which have toothings of different diameters, a planet carrier which supports bearings for guiding the planet gears in rotation, and a lubrication circuit of the reduction gear. The planet carrier has a hydrodynamic abutment on which the sun gear is configured to bear axially.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F01D 15/12 - Combinations with mechanical gearing
  • F16H 55/17 - Toothed wheels
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

49.

Reduction gear for ring gear retention

      
Application Number 17448074
Grant Number 11480109
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-09-20
First Publication Date 2022-03-24
Grant Date 2022-10-25
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Niepceron, Clément Paul René
  • Seyfrid, Marc Dominique

Abstract

A reduction gear for a turbomachine (6) extending around an axis (X-X) of rotation, comprising a ring gear (9) connected to a ring gear carrier (12), wherein the ring gear carrier (12) has, according to a section view along a plane including the axis (X-X), an internal segment (124), an external segment (126) and a ring gear support (128), extending successively from the internal shaft (122) until the ring gear support (128), the internal segment (124) extends until a radius R1 with respect to the axis (X-X), the external segment (126) forms an angle β with the internal segment (124), the ring gear support (128) forms an angle α with the external segment (126), and is secured to the ring gear (9) via a bolted connection accomplished at a nominal radius R2 with respect to the axis (X-X), in that the ratio R1/R2 is comprised between 0.3 and 0.7.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 55/17 - Toothed wheels
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

50.

Mechanical gearbox for an aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 17466074
Grant Number 11549582
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-09-03
First Publication Date 2022-03-10
Grant Date 2023-01-10
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Mouly, Guillaume Pierre
  • Pap, Bálint

Abstract

planet gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear and which each have a first toothing of average diameter D32 meshed with the toothing of the sun gear, and a second toothing of average diameter D28, different from D32, meshed with the internal toothing of the ring gear. The planet gears are guided by hydrodynamic bearings which each include a first smooth guiding surface extending at least partly under the first toothing, and a second smooth guiding surface extending at least partly under the second toothing.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16C 32/06 - Bearings not otherwise provided for with moving member supported by a fluid cushion formed, at least to a large extent, otherwise than by movement of the shaft, e.g. hydrostatic air-cushion bearings
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • B64D 35/02 - Transmitting power from power plant to propellers or rotors; Arrangements of transmissions characterised by the type of power plant
  • F01D 15/12 - Combinations with mechanical gearing
  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion

51.

Mechanical gearbox for aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 17345377
Grant Number 11591972
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-06-11
First Publication Date 2021-12-23
Grant Date 2023-02-28
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Beck, Guillaume Julien
  • Ghribi, Dhafer
  • Lefebvre, Simon Loïc Clément
  • Pigott, Quentin Pierre Henri
  • Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

A mechanical gearbox for an aircraft turbomachine includes a sun gear having an axis (X) of rotation, a ring gear around the sun gear, and planet gears meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear. Each planet gear has a first toothing meshed with the sun gear and a second loathing meshed with the ring gear. The first toothing includes a series of upstream teeth and a series of downstream teeth located on either side of a plane (H) perpendicular to the axis (X) of rotation of the sun gear. The second toothing includes a series of upstream teeth and a series of downstream teeth located on either side of the plane (H) and separated from one another by the first toothing, these teeth being parallel to one another and to the axis (Y) of rotation of the planet gear.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 55/08 - Profiling
  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 1/34 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion involving gears essentially having intermeshing elements other than involute or cycloidal teeth

52.

Mechanical reduction gear for aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 17341893
Grant Number 11492979
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-06-08
First Publication Date 2021-12-16
Grant Date 2022-11-08
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Beck, Guillaume Julien
  • Mouly, Guillaume Pierre
  • Lefebvre, Simon Loic Clement
  • Pigott, Quentin Pierre Henri
  • Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

A mechanical reduction gear for turbomachine, in particular for aircraft. The reduction gear includes a sun gear having an axis of rotation, a ring gear which extends around the sun gear, planet gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear and which each includes a first toothing and a second toothing each including two series of teeth located on either side of a median plane, each of the planet gears being centred and guided in rotation by bearings, including an upstream bearing interposed axially between the series of upstream teeth of the second toothing and the plane, and a downstream bearing interposed axially between the series of downstream teeth of the second toothing and the plane.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating

53.

Oil transfer device

      
Application Number 17231517
Grant Number 11795875
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-04-15
First Publication Date 2021-11-25
Grant Date 2023-10-24
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Gedin, Patrice Jocelyn Francis
  • Pap, Bálint

Abstract

b).

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling

54.

Mechanical reduction gear of an aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 17225876
Grant Number 11608785
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-04-08
First Publication Date 2021-10-14
Grant Date 2023-03-21
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Lefebvre, Simon Loic Clement

Abstract

A mechanical reduction gear of a turbomachine, in particular of an aircraft. The reduction gear includes a sun gear, a ring gear surrounded by a ring gear carrier, and planet gears meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear. The ring gear carrier includes an axial abutment on which the ring gear is configured to bear, and helical external splines which are engaged in complementary internal splines of the ring gear carrier and which are configured to cooperate by sliding with the internal splines so as to force the ring gear to be held against the abutment in operation.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F16H 1/32 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion in which the central axis of the gearing lies inside the periphery of an orbital gear

55.

Cage for a turbomachine speed reducer with planetary gear set

      
Application Number 17261794
Grant Number 11512647
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-07-22
First Publication Date 2021-08-26
Grant Date 2022-11-29
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre

Abstract

A planet-carrier cage is provided for a turbomachine speed reducer having a planetary gear set. The cage contains a central sun gear and an annular row of planet gears arranged around the sun gear axis and engaging both the sun gear and an internal gear that surrounds the cage. A periphery of the cage has axial receiving elements configured to receive axial fingers secured to a cage carrier of the speed reducer. Each receiving element is penetrated by a radial spindle that guides the rotation of a connection means, such as a swivel joint or a bearing, which is supported by the fingers. The spindles include means for projecting lubricating oil into regions in which the planet gears mesh with the internal gear.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

56.

Installation for mounting an outer sun gear

      
Application Number 16972694
Grant Number 11499623
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-06-05
First Publication Date 2021-08-19
Grant Date 2022-11-15
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre
  • Rappaport, Florian

Abstract

An installation for mounting an outer sun gear in a reduction gear. The reduction gear includes an outer sun gear and planet gears meshing with an inner sun gear and with the outer sun gear and each mounted for free rotation around a pivot of a planet carrier. The outer sun gear includes a first crown having a first toothing and a second crown having a second toothing each meshing with first and second toothings of the planet gears. The installation includes a frame for supporting the reduction gear along its longitudinal axis, and first and second torque applicators, such as cylinders, that apply a torque around an axis of first and second rings, respectively. The first ring is configured to engage with the first crown of the outer sun gear and the second ring is configured to engage with a second crown of the outer sun gear.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/00 - General details of gearing
  • F16H 57/023 - Mounting or installation of gears or shafts in gearboxes, e.g. methods or means for assembly

57.

Reduction gear for turbomachine equipped with an electric generator

      
Application Number 17141707
Grant Number 11448084
Status In Force
Filing Date 2021-01-05
First Publication Date 2021-07-15
Grant Date 2022-09-20
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Niepceron, Clément Paul René
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel
  • Rappaport, Florian
  • Charpentier, Bernard Guy Antoine

Abstract

A mechanical reduction gear for a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, including a first sun gear having a central axis forming a main axis of the reduction gear, a ring gear, planet gears, a planet carrier, and at least one electric generator, in which the electric generator has a first set of electromagnetic elements and a second set of electromagnetic elements, wherein one among the first and second set of electromagnetic elements is a first set of coils, each coil of this first set of coils being wound around a direction parallel to the main axis, and in which the other among the first and second set of electromagnetic elements is configured to induce a current in the first set of coils when it is driven with a relative movement with respect to the first set of coils.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F01D 15/12 - Combinations with mechanical gearing
  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F01D 25/24 - Casings; Casing parts, e.g. diaphragms, casing fastenings
  • F01D 15/10 - Adaptations for driving, or combinations with, electric generators
  • B64D 41/00 - Power installations for auxiliary purposes
  • B64D 27/16 - Aircraft characterised by the type or position of power plant of jet type
  • H02K 7/116 - Structural association with clutches, brakes, gears, pulleys or mechanical starters with gears
  • H02K 7/18 - Structural association of electric generators with mechanical driving motors, e.g.with turbines
  • H02K 21/24 - Synchronous motors having permanent magnets; Synchronous generators having permanent magnets with stationary armatures and rotating magnets with magnets axially facing the armatures, e.g. hub-type cycle dynamos

58.

Assembly comprising a planetary gearset

      
Application Number 16605076
Grant Number 11401869
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-04-05
First Publication Date 2021-06-24
Grant Date 2022-08-02
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Morreale, Serge René
  • Caty, Fabien Roger Gaston
  • Gedin, Patrice Jocelyn Francis

Abstract

The invention concerns an assembly comprising an epicycloidal gear train (10) having a central pinion (26), an outer crown (28) and satellite pinions (32) in engagement with the central pinion (26) and the outer crown (28) and each mounted freely rotatable on a satellite carrier (36), the central pinion (26) surrounding and being rotationally fixed to a shaft (24) and the gear train comprising means for lubricating the teeth and axes (34) of the satellite pinions (32), these means including an annular cup (56) fixed to the satellite carrier (36) opened radially inward. According to the invention, the assembly includes fixed oil spraying means (64) configured to spray oil towards oil deflecting means (70) towards the inside of the annular cup (56).

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F01D 25/16 - Arrangement of bearings; Supporting or mounting bearings in casings
  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling

59.

Supply and recovery of lubricating oil in a mechanical reduction gear of an aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 17100278
Grant Number 11635028
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-11-20
First Publication Date 2021-05-27
Grant Date 2023-04-25
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

A lubricating oil distributor for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbomachine, in particular of an aircraft, includes a body of generally annular shape around an axis X and includes first and second independent oil circuits. The first oil circuit has a first oil inlet connected by a first chamber to several oil outlets distributed on the body around the axis X. The second oil circuit has a second oil inlet connected by a second chamber to several oil outlets distributed on the body around the axis X. The first and second chambers extend circumferentially around the axis X at different diameters, wherein the first and second oil circuits are formed in the body and are respectively a recovery circuit and an oil supply circuit for toothing of the reduction gear.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling

60.

Staged impeller for the oil supply of an epicyclic or planetary reduction gear

      
Application Number 17095670
Grant Number 11396941
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-11-11
First Publication Date 2021-05-20
Grant Date 2022-07-26
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Pennacino, Antoine Jacques Marie
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre

Abstract

An oil supply device intended to supply oil to an epicyclic reduction gear, the oil coming from at least one oil injector fixed with respect to the reduction gear, the oil supply device including at least one cup which is integral with a planet carrier of the reduction gear and substantially annular open radially with respect to an axis of the reduction gear and the walls of which delimit a cavity supplied by the at least one oil injector and which supplies at least one of the oil distribution circuits of the reduction gear. The oil supply device is staged and includes at least two independent stages provided with cups coaxial, of different diameters, each supplying an associated oil circuit and configured to receive the oil axially, centripetally, or tangentially, or according to an inclined direction combining two of the directions.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements

61.

Impeller for a planet carrier of an epicyclic speed reduction gear of a turbine engine

      
Application Number 17097838
Grant Number 11261798
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-11-13
First Publication Date 2021-05-20
Grant Date 2022-03-01
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Charrier, Mathieu Jean
  • Pennacino, Antoine Jacques Marie
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre
  • Rappaport, Florian

Abstract

An impeller for a planet carrier of a epicyclic speed reduction gear of a turbine engine is fixed in rotation to the planet carrier and is rotatable about an axis of the reduction gear. The impeller has an annular shape about the axis and includes means for lubricating in particular planet gear bearings of the reduction gear. The lubricating means include an annular cavity located at the inner periphery of the impeller, wherein the impeller has an inner peripheral wall that closes the cavity in the radial direction. The impeller further includes an annular aperture that extends around the axis and opens in the axial direction into the cavity to supply lubricating oil thereto.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

62.

Impeller for a planet carrier of a planetary gear speed reducer of a turbomachine

      
Application Number 16500371
Grant Number 11231104
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-04-04
First Publication Date 2021-04-22
Grant Date 2022-01-25
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Charrier, Mathieu Jean
  • Beck, Guillaume Julien
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre
  • Dombek, Alexis Claude Michel
  • Gedin, Patrice Jocelyn Francis
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel

Abstract

An impeller (130) for a planet carrier of a planetary gear speed reducer of a turbomachine, said impeller having a generally annular shape and comprising means (158) for supporting axes of rotation of planets of said reducer, said impeller comprising means for lubricating teeth of said planets and bearings of said axes, said lubrication means comprising an annular groove (138) located on the internal periphery of said impeller and opening radially towards the inside, said groove being connected to lubricant supply and/or spray means, characterised in that the impeller comprises dynamic annular sealing means (142, 144) located at the inner periphery of said impeller, on either side of the groove, and configured to interact with a stator (132) of the reducer or of the turbomachine intended to extend inside of and coaxially with the impeller.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating

63.

Planetary gearset

      
Application Number 16605045
Grant Number 11378177
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-04-10
First Publication Date 2021-04-08
Grant Date 2022-07-05
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Morreale, Serge René
  • Caty, Fabien Roger Gaston
  • Gedin, Patrice Jocelyn Francis

Abstract

b) of which is furthest from a median transverse plane (74) of the gear train (10) has openings (76) opening into the second basins (62).

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating

64.

Lubricant nozzle for a planetary gear set speed reducer of a turbomachine

      
Application Number 16630394
Grant Number 11396940
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-07-20
First Publication Date 2021-03-25
Grant Date 2022-07-26
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre
  • Dombek, Alexis Claude Michel
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel

Abstract

A lubricant nozzle for a planetary gear set speed reducer of a turbomachine, the nozzle having a generally elongate shape and including a body with a longitudinal axis B, the body having a longitudinal inner cavity in fluid communication with a lubricant inlet located at a longitudinal end of the body and with lubricant outlet apertures that are provided in an annular wall of the body and that extend substantially radially relative to axis B, wherein the apertures are formed in at least one boss of the body, which boss projects radially outwards on the wall and extends, about the axis, at an angular extent that does not exceed 180°.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

65.

Oil collector for a mechanical reduction gear of an aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 16928434
Grant Number 11578664
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-07-14
First Publication Date 2021-03-18
Grant Date 2023-02-14
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Charrier, Mathieu Jean
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel
  • Serey, Jean-Pierre

Abstract

An oil collector for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, the reduction gear including a body having two opposite lateral faces configured to extend in part around planet gears of the reduction gear, the collector further including an internal oil circulation cavity connected firstly to oil inlets located on the faces, and on the other hand to at least one oil outlet, characterised in that at least one of the faces comprises includes columns and rows of several inlets each having a recess with a progressively increasing cross-section, each recess being delimited by walls, at least some of the walls having a hydrodynamic profile.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

66.

Aircraft propulsion assembly provided with a rotary transformer for supplying the blades with electrical energy

      
Application Number 17051587
Grant Number 11370551
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-04-04
First Publication Date 2021-03-04
Grant Date 2022-06-28
Owner
  • SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (France)
  • SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Santin, Mathieu Jean Jacques
  • Beck, Guillaume Julien
  • Moreau De Lizoreux, Aldric Renaud Gabriel Marie
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel
  • Chastagnier, Jean-Michel Bernard Paul
  • Turchi, Thomas

Abstract

A propulsion unit for an aircraft, including an engine and a propeller shaft and further a propeller with airfoils which is coupled to the propeller shaft and having electrical members consuming electrical power, sealing between a case and the propeller shaft being ensured by a dynamic seal housed between a rotating dynamic seal support secured to the propeller shaft and a dynamic seal support flange secured to an end portion of the case, the rotating dynamic seal support being secured to the propeller shaft and abutted against a bearing for supporting this propeller shaft, it is provided that the propulsion unit, in order to deliver electrical power to the electrical members, having a rotating transformer rotated by the propeller shaft and including a stator, a casing of which is secured to the dynamic seal support flange and a rotor, a casing of which is secured to this propeller shaft.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B64D 15/12 - De-icing or preventing icing on exterior surfaces of aircraft by electric heating
  • H01F 38/18 - Rotary transformers
  • B64C 7/00 - Structures or fairings not otherwise provided for
  • B64C 11/00 - Propellers, e.g. of ducted type; Features common to propellers and rotors for rotorcraft
  • B64D 27/10 - Aircraft characterised by the type or position of power plant of gas-turbine type
  • B64D 27/16 - Aircraft characterised by the type or position of power plant of jet type
  • B64D 27/24 - Aircraft characterised by the type or position of power plant using steam, electricity, or spring force

67.

Planet carrier for an epicyclic speed reduction gear

      
Application Number 16957442
Grant Number 11149841
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-12-28
First Publication Date 2021-03-04
Grant Date 2021-10-19
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Rappaport, Florian
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre
  • Dombek, Alexis Claude Michel

Abstract

A planet carrier for an epicyclic speed reduction gear, comprising a torque transmission member of longitudinal axis A and an annular cage extending around the axis A and connected to a longitudinal end of the member, said cage comprising two flanks extending essentially radially with respect to the axis A and connected by bridges, seats extending axially between the flanks and being intended for supporting planet gears mounted rotatably about the seats, characterized in that said bridges comprise bars which cross one another essentially in the shape of an X, and of which the ends located on the side of said member are connected to said member by a ring extending around said axis A and comprising a continuous internal annular channel.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling

68.

Mechanical reduction gear for an aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 16922351
Grant Number 11022045
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-07-07
First Publication Date 2021-01-14
Grant Date 2021-06-01
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Niepceron, Clément Paul René
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel
  • Seyfrid, Marc Dominique
  • Lefebvre, Simon Loïc Clément

Abstract

A mechanical reduction gear is suitable for a turbomachine and, in particular, a turbomachine of an aircraft. The reduction gear includes a sun gear, a ring gear formed by two half-ring gears, planet gears arranged between the sun gear and the ring gear, and at least one shaft rotationally fixed to the ring gear. The reduction gear further includes an annular covering part that extends around the ring gear and is independently fixed by flanges and/or splines to each of the half-ring gears.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 57/00 - General details of gearing
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

69.

Oil pipe cover and mechanical reduction gear for an aircraft turbomachine comprising such a cover

      
Application Number 16922807
Grant Number 11137062
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-07-07
First Publication Date 2021-01-14
Grant Date 2021-10-05
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Dombek, Alexis Claude Michel
  • Pap, Bálint

Abstract

An oil pipe cover for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbomachine, for example of an aircraft, is configured to be fixed to a planet carrier of the reduction gear and to be mounted on an axial end of a hydrodynamic bearing tubular support of a planet gear of the reduction gear. The oil pipe cover has an annular body extending around an axis (Y) and having a mounting central orifice on the axial end. The body has two diametrically opposed circumferential deflectors: a first deflector having a circumferential oil guiding surface located radially outwards with respect to the axis (Y), and a second deflectors having a circumferential oil guiding surface located radially inwards with respect to the axis (Y).

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

70.

Planetary gear train

      
Application Number 16770212
Grant Number 11028902
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-11-29
First Publication Date 2020-12-10
Grant Date 2021-06-08
Owner SAFFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Lefebvre, Simon Loïc Clément
  • Robinet, Guillaume Jean Pierre

Abstract

A planetary gearset having a first planet gear, a second planet gear, and pinion gears. The pinion gears mesh with the first planet gear and with the second planet gear, and each pinion gear is pivotally mounted around a shaft. A pinion gear carrier supports each shaft. Each shaft has a radially inner cylindrical portion mounted on the pinion gear carrier, a radially outer cylindrical portion about which the pinion gear is pivotally mounted and a flange extending radially from the radially outer cylindrical portion. The radially outer periphery of the flange is mounted on the pinion gear carrier. The radially outer cylindrical portion and the radially inner cylindrical portion are connected to each other by a radially extending connecting zone.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 1/48 - Special means compensating for misalignment of axes
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

71.

Disengageable speed-reducing unit

      
Application Number 16607225
Grant Number 11028781
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-05-02
First Publication Date 2020-12-03
Grant Date 2021-06-08
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Beck, Guillaume Julien
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel

Abstract

A speed-reducing unit, particularly for transferring torque between a gas turbine and a fan in a turbine engine, includes an annular ring, at least one gear that is coupled to the ring, the ring including two annular half-rings that are offset relative to each other along the main axis of the speed-reducing unit and that are coupled with at least one gear, and a plate for supporting the two half-rings, in relation to which the two half-rings are rotationally fixed about the main axis of the speed-reducing unit. Each half-ring includes an internal helical tooth. Each half-ring is connected to the support plate so as to be able to be uncoupled from at least one gear when at least one gear exerts a disengaging action on each half-ring, with the amplitude of the action being greater than a determined amplitude value.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 35/10 - Arrangements or devices for absorbing overload or preventing damage by overload
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 55/17 - Toothed wheels

72.

Cage for a turbomachine speed reducer with planetary gear set

      
Application Number 16763527
Grant Number 11143271
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-11-06
First Publication Date 2020-10-22
Grant Date 2021-10-12
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor Dombek, Alexis Claude Michel

Abstract

The invention relates to a planet-carrier (230) cage (234) for a turbomachine speed reducer (110) with a planetary gear set, said cage being designed such that it can contain a central sun wheel (151) with an axis of rotation X and an annular row of planets (150) arranged around the axis X and engaged with said sun wheel, the cage comprising axial receiving elements (280) on the periphery thereof, for receiving axial arms (282) secured to a barrel (242) of said reducer, a substantially radial finger (288) passing through each receiving element and being used to guide the rotation of a ball joint (286) carried by one of said arms, characterised in that each finger comprises means (294, 295) for lubricating said ball joint.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

73.

Mechanical reduction gear of aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 16848642
Grant Number 11339725
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-04-14
First Publication Date 2020-10-22
Grant Date 2022-05-24
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Lefebvre, Simon Loic Clement
  • Mouly, Guillaume Pierre

Abstract

A mechanical reduction gear for a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, this reduction gear including a sun gear having an axis of rotation, a ring gear which extends around the sun gear and which is configured to be fixed in rotation around the axis, planet gears which are in mesh with the sun gear and the ring gear and which are held by a planet carrier which is configured to be fixed or in rotation around the axis, each planet gear including a first toothing of average diameter D1 for the meshing with the sun gear, and a second toothing of average diameter D2, different from D1, for the meshing with the ring gear, wherein the first and second toothings of each planet gear include herringbone teeth and are symmetrical with respect to a plane perpendicular to the axis and passing substantially in the middle of the planet gear.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

74.

Mechanical reduction gear for aircraft turbomachine

      
Application Number 16852068
Grant Number 11137063
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-04-17
First Publication Date 2020-10-22
Grant Date 2021-10-05
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre
  • Pap, Balint

Abstract

A mechanical reduction gear for a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, this reduction gear including a sun gear having an axis of rotation, a ring gear that extends around the sun gear, planet gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear, and a lubricating oil distributor which is configured to supply oil to the internal cavities of tubular supports of the planet gears, wherein each of the tubular supports includes a first angular sector including oil conveying pipes and a first outer peripheral surface for forming an oil film, and a second angular sector including a second outer peripheral surface in which a breaking tub of the oil film and recovering of the oil is formed.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

75.

Lubrication of a planet-carrier for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbine engine, in particular of an aircraft

      
Application Number 16790360
Grant Number 11313283
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-02-13
First Publication Date 2020-09-24
Grant Date 2022-04-26
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Charrier, Mathieu Jean
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre
  • Lefebvre, Simon Loic Clement
  • Robinet, Guillaume Jean Pierre

Abstract

The invention relates to the lubrication of a planet-carrier for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbine engine, in particular of an aircraft, said planet-carrier comprising a cage defining an internal housing intended to receive a central sun gear with an axis of rotation X, and an annular row of planet gears arranged around the sun gear, said cage comprising two annular walls that are radial with respect to said axis X, and connected to one another at their outer periphery by a cylindrical wall of axis X, at least one of these radial walls comprising orifices for mounting the axes of said planet gears, and the cylindrical wall comprising through-holes for the passage of the gearings of the planet gears so that they may engage with a gearing of the ring gear, which is intended to extend around the planet gears and the cage.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating

76.

Pivot for sliding bearing and gear train

      
Application Number 16646730
Grant Number 11187159
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-09-12
First Publication Date 2020-09-24
Grant Date 2021-11-30
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Lemoine, Julie Marie Renée
  • Dombek, Alexis Claude Michel
  • Pap, Balint

Abstract

b) has a said width and/or depth (P) which varies circumferentially.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F16H 57/00 - General details of gearing
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling

77.

Aircraft turbine engine mechanical reduction gear

      
Application Number 16810158
Grant Number 11396846
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-03-05
First Publication Date 2020-09-10
Grant Date 2022-07-26
Owner
  • SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (France)
  • SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Foglia, Matthieu Bruno François

Abstract

A turbine engine mechanical reduction gear, for example, of an aircraft, the reduction gear comprising: a sun gear having an axis of rotation; a ring gear which extends around the sun gear and which is configured to be immobile in rotation about the axis; planetary gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear and which are supported by a planetary carrier which is configured to be mobile in rotation about the axis; at least one lubrication oil distributor which comprises a stator portion immobile in rotation and a rotating integral rotor portion of the planetary carrier; and an annular oil deflector which is integral with the ring gear, wherein the stator portion of the distributor is integral with the deflector.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating
  • F16H 1/36 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion with two central gears coupled by intermeshing orbital gears
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling

78.

Pivot for a sliding bearing

      
Application Number 16646678
Grant Number 11359511
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-09-12
First Publication Date 2020-09-03
Grant Date 2022-06-14
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Dombek, Alexis Claude Michel
  • Lemoine, Julie Marie Renée

Abstract

A pivot for a sliding bearing of an epicyclic train includes an annular wall delimiting an axial passage, the annular wall including a first and a second annular groove opening axially in opposite directions and each defined by two coaxial inner and outer annular branches formed at the axial ends of the annular wall. The pivot also includes a plurality of first holes opening at a first end into the first annular groove and at a second opposite end into the second annular groove, these holes being made over an angular sector of between 5° and 330°.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F01D 15/12 - Combinations with mechanical gearing
  • F01D 25/16 - Arrangement of bearings; Supporting or mounting bearings in casings
  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

79.

Pivot for a sliding bearing

      
Application Number 16646832
Grant Number 11313244
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-09-12
First Publication Date 2020-08-27
Grant Date 2022-04-26
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Dombek, Alexis Claude Michel
  • Lemoine, Julie Marie Renée

Abstract

c).

IPC Classes  ?

  • F01D 15/12 - Combinations with mechanical gearing
  • F01D 25/16 - Arrangement of bearings; Supporting or mounting bearings in casings
  • F16C 17/04 - Sliding-contact bearings for exclusively rotary movement for axial load only

80.

Pivot and gear train

      
Application Number 16646640
Grant Number 11365687
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-09-12
First Publication Date 2020-08-27
Grant Date 2022-06-21
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Lemoine, Julie Marie Renée
  • Dombek, Alexis Claude Michel

Abstract

b).

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02K 3/06 - Plants including a gas turbine driving a compressor or a ducted fan in which part of the working fluid by-passes the turbine and combustion chamber the plant including ducted fans, i.e. fans with high volume, low-pressure outputs, for augmenting jet thrust, e.g. of double-flow type with front fan
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

81.

Pivot for a plain bearing and gearset with reduced thermal stress

      
Application Number 16646646
Grant Number 11041562
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-09-12
First Publication Date 2020-08-27
Grant Date 2021-06-22
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Lemoine, Julie Marie Renée
  • Dombek, Alexis Claude Michel
  • Pap, Balint

Abstract

a).

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F01D 25/16 - Arrangement of bearings; Supporting or mounting bearings in casings
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16C 17/02 - Sliding-contact bearings for exclusively rotary movement for radial load only
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling

82.

Lubrication of a planet-carrier for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbine engine, in particular of an aircraft

      
Application Number 16790476
Grant Number 11079008
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-02-13
First Publication Date 2020-08-20
Grant Date 2021-08-03
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Charrier, Mathieu Jean
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre
  • Lefebvre, Simon Loïc Clément
  • Robinet, Guillaume Jean Pierre

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to the lubrication of a planet-carrier for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbine engine, for example of an aircraft. The planet-carrier includes a cage defining an internal housing configured to receive a central sun gear with an axis of rotation X, and an annular row of planet gears arranged around the sun gear. The cage includes two annular walls that are radial with respect to the axis X, and connected to one another at their outer periphery by a cylindrical wall. At least one of the radial walls has orifices for mounting the planet gears, and the cylindrical wall has through-holes for the passage of the gearings of the planet gears so that they may engage with a gearing of the ring gear, which is configured to extend around the planet gears and the cage.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 1/36 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion with two central gears coupled by intermeshing orbital gears
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

83.

Sun gear for a mechanical reduction gear of an aircraft turbine engine

      
Application Number 16792041
Grant Number 11255274
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-02-14
First Publication Date 2020-08-20
Grant Date 2022-02-22
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre

Abstract

A sun gear for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbine engine, in particular for aircraft, the sun gear having a general annular shape about an axis and comprising at the outer periphery thereof, a meshing gearing with planet gears of the reduction gear, and at the inner periphery thereof, splines for coupling with an input shaft of the reduction gear, characterised in that the sun gear has a staged profile in axial cross-section, and preferably comprises an annular recess opening radially inwards and configured to receive at least one oil jet.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating

84.

Planetary gearbox assembly for a turbine engine

      
Application Number 16793999
Grant Number 11499482
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-02-18
First Publication Date 2020-08-20
Grant Date 2022-11-15
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Lefebvre, Simon Loic Clement

Abstract

b) extending into planes passing through the axis X capable of engaging by abutment in the circumferential direction with the stator element. A vibration absorption system is inserted between the first faces and the stator element.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F01D 25/04 - Antivibration arrangements
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating

85.

Device for lubricating and cooling a turbomachine bearing

      
Application Number 16648051
Grant Number 11542832
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-09-19
First Publication Date 2020-08-13
Grant Date 2023-01-03
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Bauduin, Lionel
  • Ez-Zahraouy, Othmane

Abstract

A device for lubricating and cooling a turbomachine rolling bearing is at least partially annular. The device comprises a first duct and a second duct inclined with respect to the first duct. The first duct is configured to be in thermal contact with an outer ring of the rolling bearing that at least partially surrounds same. The second duct is fluidically connected to the first duct. The first duct is configured to circulate the lubricant for cooling the outer ring, towards a discharge outlet of the lubricant. The second duct is configured to eject the lubricant through a lubrication outlet towards the rolling bearing.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16C 33/66 - Special parts or details in view of lubrication
  • F16C 35/077 - Fixing them on the shaft or housing with interposition of an element between housing and outer race ring
  • F16C 37/00 - Cooling of bearings
  • F01D 25/12 - Cooling
  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements
  • F16N 7/40 - Arrangements for supplying oil or unspecified lubricant from a stationary reservoir or the equivalent in or on the machine or member to be lubricated with a separate pump; Central lubrication systems in a closed circulation system

86.

Device for separating an air/oil mixture

      
Application Number 16718098
Grant Number 11110379
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-12-17
First Publication Date 2020-07-30
Grant Date 2021-09-07
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Guillemont, Maxence Gérard Claude
  • Becquerelle, Samuel Raymond Germain

Abstract

The invention relates to a device (1) for separating an air/oil mixture comprising an air/oil mixture inlet (8), an oil receiving chamber (9), an air circulation duct (11), at least one filter element (21) rotatably coupled to a rotating drive shaft (12), the device (1) being designed so that the mixture from the above-mentioned inlet (8) opens into the chamber (9) and is driven through the rotatably driven filter element (21), so that the oil contained in the mixture is centrifuged radially outside the filter element (21) and fed into the oil receiving chamber (9), the filtered air opening into the air flow line (11), characterized in that the rotating drive shaft (12) is coupled to a turbine (26) capable of being driven in rotation by at least part of the filtered air flow, the turbine (26) comprising an outlet (29) of the filtered flow which opens to the outside.

IPC Classes  ?

  • B01D 46/26 - Particle separators, e.g. dust precipitators, using rigid hollow filter bodies rotatable
  • B01D 45/14 - Separating dispersed particles from gases or vapours by gravity, inertia, or centrifugal forces by centrifugal forces generated by rotating vanes, discs, drums or brushes
  • F02C 7/32 - Arrangement, mounting, or driving, of auxiliaries
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating

87.

Deflector for the fairing of a turbomachine pinion, associated gear box and turbomachine

      
Application Number 16733855
Grant Number 11073043
Status In Force
Filing Date 2020-01-03
First Publication Date 2020-07-09
Grant Date 2021-07-27
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor Guillemont, Maxence Gérard Claude

Abstract

A deflector for the fairing of a pinion, which includes a teething, a barrel and a wall positioned between the teething and the barrel, the deflector extending around an axis and including an envelope of which the shape and the dimensions are suited to surrounding at least one part of the teething of the pinion, the deflector including an oil injection circuit including a first portion provided on an outer surface of the envelope, a first injection hole provided in the envelope and communicating with the first portion of the oil injection circuit, the first injection hole emerging on an inner surface of the envelope so as to inject oil in the direction of the pinion, a second portion communicating with the first portion, the second portion including a second injection hole intended to be facing the inside of the barrel of the pinion.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F01D 15/12 - Combinations with mechanical gearing
  • F01D 25/24 - Casings; Casing parts, e.g. diaphragms, casing fastenings
  • F04D 29/06 - Lubrication
  • F04D 29/58 - Cooling; Heating; Diminishing heat transfer

88.

Ring gear for an epicyclic or planetary reduction gear of a turbomachine

      
Application Number 16623304
Grant Number 11326524
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-06-25
First Publication Date 2020-07-02
Grant Date 2022-05-10
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre
  • Dombek, Alexis Claude Michel
  • Rappaport, Florian

Abstract

bb) for attaching said first and second elements to each other, characterised in that one of said first and second flanges comprises, at its outer periphery, a cylindrical centring rim (164) configured to cooperate with the outer periphery of the other of said first and second flanges.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 57/02 - Gearboxes; Mounting gearing therein

89.

Lubricating oil distributor for a mechanical reduction gear of an aircraft turbine engine

      
Application Number 16723491
Grant Number 11732608
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-12-20
First Publication Date 2020-06-25
Grant Date 2023-08-22
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Charrier, Mathieu Jean
  • Gouin, Gilles Gaston Jacques
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel

Abstract

Lubricating oil distributor for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbine engine, in particular of an aircraft, wherein it has a general annular shape around an axis X and is formed of a single part, the distributor including first and second independent oil circuits, the first oil circuit including a first oil inlet connected by a first annular chamber to several oil outlets, and the second oil circuit including a second oil inlet connected by a second annular chamber to several oil outlets, the first chamber including a section that is at least partially nested in a section of the second chamber.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements
  • B64D 33/08 - Arrangement in aircraft of power plant parts or auxiliaries not otherwise provided for of power plant cooling systems
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling

90.

Planet-carrier for a reduction gear of the planetary type

      
Application Number 16706511
Grant Number 11162576
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-12-06
First Publication Date 2020-06-18
Grant Date 2021-11-02
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre

Abstract

f) of the reduction gear.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • B64D 35/02 - Transmitting power from power plant to propellers or rotors; Arrangements of transmissions characterised by the type of power plant
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 1/36 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion with two central gears coupled by intermeshing orbital gears
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling

91.

Planet-carrier for a mechanical reduction gear of an aircraft turbine engine

      
Application Number 16689743
Grant Number 10989119
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-11-20
First Publication Date 2020-05-28
Grant Date 2021-04-27
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel
  • Ptaszynski, Patrice Julien

Abstract

A planet-carrier for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbine engine, in particular of an aircraft, this planet-carrier having a rotation axis and comprising axes for guiding the planet gears that are arranged around and parallel with the rotation axis, each guiding axis having a general tubular shape of which the outer periphery comprises only two coaxial and adjacent cylindrical tracks of the respective rollers of two annular rows of rollers, wherein each axis has an inner periphery that is substantially bi-conical and comprising two coaxial and adjacent frustoconical surfaces, these inner frustoconical surfaces converging towards one another and extending respectively radially inside the tracks.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

92.

Lubricating oil distributor for a mechanical reduction gear of aircraft turbine engine

      
Application Number 16691481
Grant Number 11268451
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-11-21
First Publication Date 2020-05-28
Grant Date 2022-03-08
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre

Abstract

A lubricating oil distributor for a turbine engine mechanical reduction gear, for example of an aircraft, has an annular shape about an axis X and is formed of one single part. The distributor includes first and second independent oil circuits, the first oil circuit having a first oil inlet connected by a first annular chamber to several oil outlets distributed over a first circumference C1 about the axis X, and the second oil circuit having a second oil inlet connected by a second annular chamber to several oil outlets distributed over a second circumference C2 about the axis X, the first and second circumferences having different diameters.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

93.

Deflector for a mechanical reduction gear of an aircraft turbine engine

      
Application Number 16691504
Grant Number 11339724
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-11-21
First Publication Date 2020-05-28
Grant Date 2022-05-24
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre
  • Simon, Adrien Louis

Abstract

A deflector for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbine engine, for example of an aircraft, is configured to be inserted between two adjacent planets of the reduction gear. The deflector includes a block having a first lateral surface that is cylindrical and concave and has a radius of curvature R1 measured from an axis G1. The block also has a second lateral surface, opposite the first lateral surface, that is cylindrical and concave and that has a radius of curvature R1 measured from an axis G2 that is parallel to G1. Each of the first and second surfaces has at least one protruding tab having a generally elongate shape about the respective axis G1, G2 of the surface considered and having an internal periphery that is concavely curved and a has radius of curvature R2 measured from the respective axis G1, G2, R2 being less than R1.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user
  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion

94.

Ring gear for an epicyclic or planetary reduction gear of a turbomachine

      
Application Number 16621400
Grant Number 11242925
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-07-02
First Publication Date 2020-05-28
Grant Date 2022-02-08
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre
  • Rappaport, Florian
  • Seyfrid, Marc Dominique

Abstract

A ring gear for an epicyclic or planetary reduction gear of a turbomachine, in particular of an aircraft, said ring gear extending about an axis X and comprising first and second coaxial annular elements and comprising, respectively, two inner annular toothing sets of different orientation, each of said toothing sets having a pitch diameter and a median plane substantially perpendicular to said axis and with an intersection point designated Y in an axial cross-section of the ring gear, said first and second annular elements further comprising, respectively, first and second radially outer annular flanges for attaching said first and second elements to each other, wherein each of said first and second flanges comprises a peripheral portion extending in a plane that is angled with respect to said axis X and that passes substantially through said intersection point Y.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F16H 55/17 - Toothed wheels

95.

Lubricating and cooling core for a mechanical reduction gear of an aircraft turbine engine

      
Application Number 16691412
Grant Number 11339869
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-11-21
First Publication Date 2020-05-28
Grant Date 2022-05-24
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Simon, Adrien Louis
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel

Abstract

A lubricating and cooling core for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbine engine, for example of an aircraft, is configured to be mounted in an axis of a planet gear of the reduction gear. The core includes first and second coaxial and substantially frusto-conical shields, each having a first end with a greater diameter and a second opposite end with a smaller diameter, the shields being secured to one another by their second ends and being configured to extend inside the axis and to cover at least a radially internal surface of the axis to define with the latter at least one annular cavity for the circulation of oil for lubricating and cooling the axis, the second ends of the first and second shields having fluid connection means configured to connect the at least one cavity to a source of lubricating and cooling oil.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F02C 7/06 - Arrangement of bearings; Lubricating
  • F02C 7/16 - Cooling of plants characterised by cooling medium
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F16H 1/36 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion with two central gears coupled by intermeshing orbital gears

96.

Toothed wheel

      
Application Number 16662219
Grant Number 11085510
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-10-24
First Publication Date 2020-04-30
Grant Date 2021-08-10
Owner Safran Transmission Systems (France)
Inventor
  • Pennacino, Antoine Jacques Marie
  • Charrier, Mathieu Jean
  • Morelli, Boris Pierre Marcel

Abstract

A toothed wheel extending along an axis and comprising at least two annular toothed areas and an annular groove located axially between said toothed areas, intended for collecting lubricating oil from said toothed areas, characterized in that said groove is delimited by an axially extending bottom surface and radially extending lateral surfaces, characterized in that the groove has at least one projecting portion extending radially outwards from the bottom surface of the groove.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 55/08 - Profiling
  • F16H 1/36 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion with two central gears coupled by intermeshing orbital gears

97.

Assembly comprising a lubricating wheel and lubricant nozzles for a planetary gear speed reducer of a turbomachine

      
Application Number 16631103
Grant Number 11112001
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-07-16
First Publication Date 2020-04-30
Grant Date 2021-09-07
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Dombek, Alexis Claude Michel
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre

Abstract

An assembly comprising a lubricating wheel and lubricant nozzles for a planetary gear speed reducer of a turbomachine, the wheel having a lubricator configured to supply lubricant to the nozzles and the bearings of the planetary carriers of the reducer, the wheel being intended to be mounted coaxially on an annular wall of an axis of rotation X of a planetary carrier of the reducer, the wheel having a bearing and attachment surface on the annular wall of the planetary carrier, the lubricant nozzles being distributed around the axis and each having a generally elongated shape, the nozzles having first longitudinal ends for fluidly connecting to the lubricator of the wheel, wherein the first ends of the nozzles being configured to be attached to the wheel before mounting the wheel on the annular wall of the planetary carrier.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F01D 25/18 - Lubricating arrangements
  • F02C 7/36 - Power transmission between the different shafts of the gas-turbine plant, or between the gas-turbine plant and the power user

98.

Turbomachine clevis with built-in filter and method of producing said clevis

      
Application Number 16482201
Grant Number 11927215
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-01-30
First Publication Date 2020-04-23
Grant Date 2024-03-12
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor Mabire, Simon Pierre Mathieu

Abstract

A clevis, particularly for a turbomachine includes a body that is attachable to a casing and at least one aperture for fitting a hinge pin. The body is formed in one piece and includes, about the at least one aperture, a honeycomb-type annular portion. The annular portion acts as a vibration filter and has a compressive and/or flexural strain capacity greater than that of the rest of the body.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16C 11/04 - Pivotal connections
  • B22F 5/00 - Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the special shape of the product
  • B22F 10/28 - Powder bed fusion, e.g. selective laser melting [SLM] or electron beam melting [EBM]
  • F16C 27/02 - Sliding-contact bearings
  • B22F 10/73 - Recycling of powder
  • B22F 12/52 - Hoppers
  • B22F 12/63 - Rollers
  • B22F 12/67 - Blades
  • B33Y 10/00 - Processes of additive manufacturing
  • B33Y 80/00 - Products made by additive manufacturing
  • B64D 27/26 - Aircraft characterised by construction of power-plant mounting

99.

System for coupling/uncoupling accessory boxes

      
Application Number 16660175
Grant Number 11143244
Status In Force
Filing Date 2019-10-22
First Publication Date 2020-04-23
Grant Date 2021-10-12
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor Viel, Julien

Abstract

d) capable of cooperating with second coupling means (38) carried by a second shaft (22) connected to the aircraft accessory box (12) so as to couple the first (20) and the second (22) rotating shaft, wherein it further comprises electrical means for moving the slide (28) along the axis (30) of the first shaft (20) between a first uncoupling position with the second shaft and a second first coupling position with the second shaft.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16D 11/14 - Clutches in which the members have interengaging parts with clutching members movable only axially
  • F16D 28/00 - Electrically-actuated clutches
  • B64D 35/00 - Transmitting power from power plant to propellers or rotors; Arrangements of transmissions
  • F16D 11/10 - Clutches in which the members have interengaging parts actuated by moving a non-rotating part axially with clutching members movable only axially
  • F02C 7/32 - Arrangement, mounting, or driving, of auxiliaries

100.

Cage planet carrier for a speed-reducing unit with an epicyclic gear train

      
Application Number 16607618
Grant Number 11156287
Status In Force
Filing Date 2018-04-26
First Publication Date 2020-03-26
Grant Date 2021-10-26
Owner SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS (France)
Inventor
  • Di Giovanni, Jean-Charles Michel Pierre
  • Dombek, Alexis Claude Michel

Abstract

A planet carrier for a speed-reducing unit with an epicyclic gear train for a turbine engine, said planet carrier comprising a cage defining an internal space for assembling a central sun gear having an axis of rotation and an annular row of planet gears disposed around the axis and meshed with said sun gear, said cage comprising two substantially parallel annular walls centered on said axis and a cylindrical wall connecting said annular walls to their outer periphery, a first one of said annular walls being connected to a substantially cylindrical body, wherein a second one of said annular walls is formed as a single part with a lubrication grove, channel or duct.

IPC Classes  ?

  • F16H 57/08 - General details of gearing of gearings with members having orbital motion
  • F16H 57/04 - Features relating to lubrication or cooling
  • F16H 1/28 - Toothed gearings for conveying rotary motion with gears having orbital motion
  1     2        Next Page