Patents by Inventor Alexandra Küpper

Alexandra Küpper has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20110103943
    Abstract: A guide disc segment for a horizontally split turbomachine housing is provided. The guide disc segment includes a plurality of guide blades and an outer ring segment. The guide blades are fixed to the outer ring segment along an inner circumference. The outer ring segment can be rolled into or out of a guide blade carrier of the turbomachine housing. The outer ring segment has, along an outer circumference, a toothing into which a drive device engages. A tangential force can be applied to the outer ring segment by the toothing such that the guide disc segment can be driven during the rolling into or rolling out of the outer ring segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Alexandra Küpper, Walter Loch
  • Patent number: 7828516
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for support of an adjusting ring which encompasses at a distance a basically circular blade carrier, which adjusting ring is rotatable in the circumferential direction around a center axis which is identical with the blade carrier, in order to adjust radially extending blades of a ring of a turbo-engine, wherein a plurality of levers are provided between the blade carrier and the adjusting ring, which levers are distributed over the circumference, extend tangentially in each case, and which on their free ends have a rotatable roller in each case, which are rollable in the circumferential direction on the adjusting ring or on the blade carrier. According to the invention, the lever is tightly clamped on one side to disclose a wear-free and reliable device for support of an adjusting ring which encompasses at a distance a circular blade carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Hartmann, Alexandra Küpper, Walter Loch, Vadim Shevchenko