US Patent Issued to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES on Nov. 4 for "Fan module equipped with an oil transfer device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,550, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Fan module equipped with an oil transfer device" was invented by Paul Ghislain Albert Levisse (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Caroline Marie Frantz (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Didier Gabriel Bertrand Desombre (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Christophe Marcel Lucien Perdrigeon (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Jean-Claude Christian Taillant (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan module for an aircraft turbine engine, the module including a fan having variable-pitch blades and an oil transfer device for transferring oil between a stator and a rotor, the dev...