Airbus Helicopters

Laurent Zamponi

Boris Grohmann

Jean-Francois Hirsch

John Le Ru

Jerome Belmonte

Nicolas Fontaine

Valerian Durand

Jean-François Hirsch

Eric Fabrigat

Félix Binder

Jérôme Belmonte

Valérian Durand

The transmission system, including a drive shaft, a driven shaft and a connecting device enabling the drive shaft to transmit mechanical torque to the driven shaft, and guide devices guiding the drive shaft in rotation about a drive axis and guiding the driven shaft in rotation about a driven axis. When the transmission system is at a standstill, the drive axis and the driven axis are misaligned, and they move closer to one another when the transmission system transmits torque from the drive shaft to the driven shaft.

Mechanical power transmission system, gearbox and aircraft

A lubrication system for a mechanical system, the lubrication system comprising a main tank, a reserve tank and a main lubrication circuit. The main lubrication circuit comprises, in particular, a pump drawing in the lubricating liquid from the main tank via a main suction point and a main suction pipe connecting the main suction point to the pump. The reserve tank is supplied with lubricating liquid either directly from the main tank or via the main lubrication circuit. The reserve tank is connected to the main suction pipe via an outlet pipe and the reserve tank is located above the main suction point so that the lubricating liquid flows through the outlet pipe to the main suction pipe by gravity.

Lubrication system with a reserve tank

A gearbox including an angular contact ball bearing comprising a first row of balls provided with a plurality of balls, a second row of balls provided with another plurality of balls, at least one inner ring and at least one outer ring. According to the invention, in a degraded operating mode of the bearing, the first row of balls is configured to transmit at least one first axial force oriented along a first axis and at least one second axial force oriented along a second axis opposite the first axis, the second row of balls transmitting no axial force.

Gearbox and associated aircraft

A lubricated rotational connection system provided with a free-wheel having a driving part and a driven part as well as at least one rotational link member arranged in a linking space, the linking space being located radially between a driving linking section and a driven linking section. A lubrication device comprises a fluid circulation device constrained to rotate with a driven pumping section of the driven part. The fluid circulation device is set in rotation with respect to a driving pumping section when the driving speed of rotation of the driving pumping section is lower than the driven speed of rotation of the driven pumping section about the axis of rotation in order to generate a forced circulation of the lubricating fluid within the linking space.

Rotational connection system provided with a free-wheel and a lubrication device

A blade () having an outer covering () defining a cavity (). A carriage () is arranged in said cavity (), the carriage () being provided with a torsion bar () and at least two arms () secured to the torsion bar (). The blade has one connection per arm provided both with an upstream guide gallery and with a downstream guide gallery, each arm extending transversely from an upstream end that slides in an upstream guide gallery to a downstream end that slides in a downstream guide gallery. At least one connection is a helical connection () obtained with the help of an upstream guide gallery () and the downstream guide gallery () of the segment () presenting distinct orientations, giving rise to movement in rotation (ROT) of the segment () under the effect of the carriage () moving in translation.

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Vitrolles, France

Laurent Zamponi