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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of forming a unit for reducing the number of components and operations required for forming the unit having a casing and a convergent portion. SOLUTION: The method of forming the unit having the casing and the convergent portion comprises steps of: forming a fiber reinforced material 150 from a first fiber preform 50 formed of first type fibers and a second fiber preform 100 formed of second type fibers different from the first type fibers and arranged on the first preform; holding the fiber reinforced material on a tool 200 so that its shape corresponds to the shape of the unit having the casing and the convergent portion; and impregnating the fiber reinforced material with a thermosetting resin 204 to polymerize the resin. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a reaction or a diffusion between a brazing composition and silicon existing in heat-resistant material components when the material components in which the surfaces to be brought into contact with are sealed with a silicon-based composition by being impregnated therewith, are fitted by brazing. SOLUTION: Refractory ceramic material layers (22 and 32) are formed on at least the surfaces (S20 and S30) of two components (20 and 30) to be bonded. This material is not reactive with silicon at a brazing temperature. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system passively controlling pressure oscillation hydrodynamically generated in a solid propellant rocket engine 61. SOLUTION: This solid propellant rocket engine having a body 62 storing a loading material 63 of solid propellant is characterized in having, at least, a single inclusion 100 laterally positioned to the flow direction E of combustion gas of the solid propellant in the body of the rocket engine. The inclusion is provided with an opening part 101 having a non-axisymmetrical shape for producing a three-dimensional effect to the flow and preventing the formation of a turbulent flow mode in the rocket engine. Such a system can be applicable to an existing rocket engine. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing, from a ceramic matrix composite material, a component in which many holes are formed. SOLUTION: A fiber preform 20 for constituting a fiber reinforcing material for the composite material is manufactured and solidified by depositing a matrix phase enough to combine the fiber to each other in the preform without compacting the preform completely. A plurality of pins 10 made of a rigid material are inserted into the solidified preform and the densification of the solidified preform provided with the pins is continued by depositing at least one ceramic matrix phase. Subsequently, at least part of the pins composed of a material at least part of which is removable is removed to leave an adjusted hole penetrating through the part by carrying out a treatment having no effect on the ceramic material of the matrix. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fixed or seal ring for maximizing cooling at the wall end of a combustion chamber, and the combustion chamber including such a ring. SOLUTION: This ring (1) is constituted of a sleeve (1a) fixed around the end of the wall (51a) of the combustion chamber by an optional system for connecting to the wall, a plurality of orifices or rings for storing a fixing member. The sleeve (1a) includes at least one recessed part (3) in the face facing to the wall (51a) of the combustion chamber, and hereby reduces the area of the sleeve (1a) facing to a wall (61a) and pressing it, and forms an open cavity (6) cooperatively with the wall where a cooling air flow (63) passes. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heat treatment oven with inductive heating that enables effective preheating without requiring a large volume for a gas heater zone. SOLUTION: This heat treatment oven 10 includes a loading or treatment zone 30, at least one gas inlet 22, a gas preheater chamber 50 situated in the heat treatment oven between the gas inlet 22 and the loading or treatment zone 30, a susceptor having at least one sidewall 12 surrounding the preheater chamber 50 and the loading or treatment zone 30, and a field winding 18 suitable for heating the sidewall 12 by electromagnetic induction. The portion 121 of the sidewall 12 of the susceptor that is situated around the preheater chamber 50 has at least two recessed portions 1210 spaced apart circumferentially from one another to form portions of reduced thickness in the portion of the sidewall. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a combustion chamber structure, absorbing a thermal expansion difference between metal and ceramics. SOLUTION: Elastically deformable link parts 17 and 27 of an annular combustion chamber connect the inner wall and the outer wall of a chamber to inner and outer casings 15 and 25 that are made of metal. The assembly formed by the inner wall, the outer wall, and the end wall of the combustion chamber is subdivided circumferentially into adjacent chamber sectors, each sector being made as a single piece of ceramic composite material and comprising an inner wall sector 110, an outer wall sector 120, and a chamber end wall sector 130. The link parts 17 and 27 connect the inner metal casing and the outer metal casing respectively to each inner wall sector of the combustion chamber and to each outer wall sector of the chamber. The chamber end wall sectors are in contact with a one-piece ring 32 to which they are connected. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a composite material component having not only a mechanical property at a high temperature characteristic of a heat-resistant composite material but also an impermeability at a level usable along with a fluid without a risk of leakage even under pressure. SOLUTION: In a method containing a process for forming a porous substrate (10) from at least one kind of fiber-reinforced material made of a heat-resistant fiber and a process for densifying the reinforced material by a first phase of carbon and a second phase of silicon carbide, the porous substrate is impregnated with a composition (13) based on a molten silicon to fill pores of the substrate (10). COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a component made of a composite material, to which coating is applied for protection from oxidation. SOLUTION: The coating for the protection is formed by applying a composition comprising a mixture of boride powder composed mainly of TiB 2 , at least one vitreous refractory oxide powder constituted mainly of a mixture of borosilicate glass and a binder containing a ceramic-precursor resin on a component made of the composite material, curing the resin at ≤400°C, heat-treating at ≥600°C and successively transforming the resin into a ceramic by first exposure of the coated component to the high temperature. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a combustion chamber structure preventing deformation by a thermal expansion difference between metal and ceramics. SOLUTION: Elastically deformable link elements 17 and 27 connect an inner wall and an outer chamber wall to inner and outer metal casings. Each of the inner and outer chamber walls 10 and 20 is subdivided circumferentially into adjacent sectors 100 and 200 along longitudinal edges, each sector extending continuously from the end wall to the opposite end of the chamber and being folded outward from the chamber at each of its longitudinal edges to form a portion having a U-shaped cross-section terminated by a folded-back margin 102, 202 that is spaced apart from the outer face of the corresponding chamber wall. The link elements 17 and 27 are connected to the inner and outer chamber walls by being fastened to the sector margins. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT