US Patent Issued to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES on Sept. 30 for "Filling an aircraft turbine engine lubricant tank" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,968, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (Paris).

"Filling an aircraft turbine engine lubricant tank" was invented by Claire Alexia Bergo (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual flow turbine engine includes at least one lubricant tank located in an annular space of the turbine engine body and at least one hatch which is provided on an external cowling of a nacelle, for filling the tank. The tank is configured to be filled, by means of a removable tubular pipe inserted from the hatch into the tank, through canisters. One of the canisters includes a first interface through which the pipe ...