Patents by Inventor Dieter Minninger

Dieter Minninger 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: 20160290160
    Abstract: A turbomachine includes an inner housing which radially defines the flow channel of the turbomachine. A thermal barrier coating is arranged about the inner housing. The thermal barrier coating of the inner housing is made of microporous plastic coating which can be added to hollow spheres made of different materials and have different sizes. A method for applying a thermal barrier coating to the inner casing of a turbomachine includes preparing a material having a base material which has a microporous plastic; coating the outside of the wall of the inner casing by applying the base material to the inner casing; and curing the applied material, thus forming the thermal barrier coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manuel ETTLER, Bora KOCDEMIR, Alexander LITINSKY, Andrey MASHKIN, Dieter MINNINGER, Adam ZIMMERMANN
  • Patent number: 9074490
    Abstract: A gas turbine including a plurality of hook elements disposed one inside the other and designed substantially in the form of hollow cones or hollow cylinders, and including a stator blade support, is intended to enable an especially high efficiency while maintaining the greatest possible operating safety and operating life. To this end, at least one of the hook elements or the stator blade support has a substantially elliptical cross-sectional contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Francois Benkler, Tobias Buchal, Andreas Böttcher, Martin Hartmann, Patricia Hülsmeier, Uwe Kahlstorf, Ekkehard Maldfeld, Dieter Minninger, Michael Neubauer, Peter Schröder, Rostislav Teteruk, Vyacheslav Veitsman
  • Patent number: 9057281
    Abstract: An axial turbomachine including a rotor-blade cascade is provided. The turbomachine includes a casing in which the cascade is installed and a guide-blade carrier which encloses the cascade and is integrated into the inner side of the housing. The guide-blade carrier is arranged immediately adjacently to the blade tips faulting a radial gap, wherein the guide-blade carrier is mounted in the housing, such that it may be displaced parallel to the axis of the axial turbomachine, and includes an adjusting ring which is supported on contact surfaces on the housing and guide-blade carrier and may be rotated about the axis, wherein the contact surfaces of the adjusting ring and of the housing and/or of the guide-blade carrier are set with respect to a plane perpendicular to the axis, so that, when the adjusting ring is rotated about the axis, the guide-blade carrier is displaced axially by the adjusting ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Francois Benkler, Andreas Böttcher, Uwe Kahlstorf, Torsten Matthias, Dieter Minninger, Oliver Schneider, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
  • Patent number: 8635876
    Abstract: Disclosed is a gas turbine for a thermal power plant, especially a gas turbine, comprising a rotatable rotor and a duct which can be penetrated by a gas and in which turbine blades for driving the rotor are disposed. The inventive gas turbine is characterized by a blocking device which at least partially prevents the gas from penetrating the duct in a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hajrudin Ceric, Stefan Dahlke, Uwe Gruschka, Matthias Heue, Martin Lenze, Thomas Matern, Dieter Minninger, Axel Schaberg, Stephan Schmidt, Steffen Skreba, Bernd Stöcker, Volker Vosberg, Roger Waldinger
  • Patent number: 8336315
    Abstract: A gas turbine, comprising a turbine and a compressor provided with a compressor housing, and to a method for the operation thereof. The compressor is tapped in order to cool the turbine by means of at least one tap line for removing compressed or partially compressed air. The tap line comprises a locking device, particularly a valve, in order to regulate the outflow of tapped air and thus the cooling of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Holger Bauer, Bernhard Küsters, Dieter Minninger, Marc Mittelbach, Andreas Peters, Stephan Schmidt, Steffen Skreba, Bernd Stöcker
  • Publication number: 20120076638
    Abstract: An axial turbomachine including a rotor-blade cascade is provided. The turbomachine includes a casing in which the cascade is installed and a guide-blade carrier which encloses the cascade and is integrated into the inner side of the housing. The guide-blade carrier is arranged immediately adjacently to the blade tips faulting a radial gap, wherein the guide-blade carrier is mounted in the housing, such that it may be displaced parallel to the axis of the axial turbomachine, and includes an adjusting ring which is supported on contact surfaces on the housing and guide-blade carrier and may be rotated about the axis, wherein the contact surfaces of the adjusting ring and of the housing and/or of the guide-blade carrier are set with respect to a plane perpendicular to the axis, so that, when the adjusting ring is rotated about the axis, the guide-blade carrier is displaced axially by the adjusting ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventors: Francois Benkler, Andreas Böttcher, Uwe Kahlstorf, Torsten Matthias, Dieter Minninger, Oliver Schneider, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
  • Publication number: 20110280721
    Abstract: A gas turbine including a plurality of hook elements disposed one inside the other and designed substantially in the form of hollow cones or hollow cylinders, and including a stator blade support, is intended to enable an especially high efficiency while maintaining the greatest possible operating safety and operating life. To this end, at least one of the hook elements or the stator blade support has a substantially elliptical cross-sectional contour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Francois Benkler, Tobias Buchal, Andreas Böttcher, Martin Hartmann, Patricia Hülsmeier, Uwe Kahlstorf, Ekkehard Maldfeld, Dieter Minninger, Michael Neubauer, Peter Schröder, Rostislav Teteruk, Vyacheslav Veitsman
  • Patent number: 7909565
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbo-machine, in particular to a gas turbine and to a method for accelerating a temperature modification of a rotor shaft rotationally mounted in turbo-machine. The aim of invention is to develop a device and a method for the turbo-machine making it possible to reduce the size of a radial split of the turbo-machine in order to obtain greater degree of efficiency. The inventive turbo-machine comprises a rotor rotationally mounted in the case of the turbo-machine, a feeding channel embodied in the rotor for introducing a fluid and an outlet channel embodied in the rotor for removing fluid. An inlet orifice of the feeding channel is disposed further inside than the outlet orifice of the outlet channel, and arrangement influencing a liquid flow is formed of an actuating device dependent on centrifugal force. Methods for cooling the rotor only by decelerating the gas turbine and for heating the turbo-machine rotor by heating fluid flowing there-through are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Dieter Minninger
  • Patent number: 7766611
    Abstract: The invention relates a method for improving the hot-starting behavior of a turbomachine. By virtue of the setting of a radial gap formed between a brushing edge of a blade profile and a guide face lying opposite this, in which setting a guide ring forming the guide face can be acted upon with a coolant, the hot-starting behavior can be improved, in that the guide ring is cooled before the start of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tobias Buchal, Gerhard Hülsemann, Mirko Milazar, Dieter Minninger, Michael Neubauer, Harald Nimptsch, Heinrich Pütz, Kang Qian, Arnd Reichert, Volker Vosberg
  • Publication number: 20090293491
    Abstract: Disclosed is a gas turbine for a thermal power plant, especially a gas turbine, comprising a rotatable rotor and a duct which can be penetrated by a gas and in which turbine blades for driving the rotor are disposed. The inventive gas turbine is characterized by a blocking device which at least partially prevents the gas from penetrating the duct in a closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Hajrudin Ceric, Stefan Dahlke, Uwe Gruschka, Matthias Heue, Martin Lenze, Thomas Matern, Dieter Minninger, Axel Schaberg, Stephan Schmidt, Steffen Skreba, Bernd Stöcker, Volker Vosberg, Roger Waldinger
  • Publication number: 20090196732
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbo-machine, in particular to a gas turbine and to a method for accelerating a temperature modification of a rotor shaft rotationally mounted in said turbo-machine. The aim of said invention is to develop a device and a method for the turbo-machine making it possible to reduce the size of a radial split of the turbo-machine in order to obtain greater degree of efficiency. The inventive turbo-machine comprises a rotor rotationally mounted in the case of the turbo-machine, a feeding channel embodied in the rotor for introducing a fluid and an outlet channel embodied in the rotor for removing said fluid. An inlet orifice of the feeding channel is disposed further inside than the outlet orifice of the outlet channel, and means influencing a liquid flow is formed of an actuating device dependent on centrifugal force. Methods for cooling the rotor only by decelerating the gas turbine and for heating the turbo-machine rotor by heating fluid flowing there-through are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventor: Dieter Minninger
  • Patent number: 7534087
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbo-machine, in particular to a gas turbine and to a method for accelerating a temperature modification of a rotor shaft rotationally mounted in said turbo-machine. The aim of said invention is to develop a device and a method for the turbo-machine making it possible to reduce the size of a radial split of the turbo-machine in order to obtain greater degree of efficiency. The inventive turbo-machine comprises a rotor rotationally mounted in the case of the turbo-machine, a feeding channel embodied in the rotor for introducing a fluid and an outlet channel embodied in the rotor for removing said fluid. An inlet orifice of the feeding channel is disposed further inside than the outlet orifice of the outlet channel, and an actuating device dependent on centrifugal force is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Dieter Minninger
  • Publication number: 20070289286
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gas turbine, comprising a turbine and a compressor provided with a compressor housing, and to a method for the operation thereof The compressor is tapped in order to cool the turbine by means of at least one tap line for removing compressed or partially compressed air. The tap line comprises a locking device, particularly a valve, in order to regulate the outflow of tapped air and thus the cooling of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Holger Bauer, Bernhard Kusters, Dieter Minninger, Marc Mittelbach, Andreas Peters, Stephan Schmidt, Steffen Skreba, Bernd Stocker
  • Publication number: 20070098543
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbo-machine, in particular to a gas turbine and to a method for accelerating a temperature modification of a rotor shaft rotationally mounted in said turbo-machine. The aim of said invention is to develop a device and a method for the turbo-machine making it possible to reduce the size of a radial split of the turbo-machine in order to obtain greater degree of efficiency. The inventive turbo-machine comprises a rotor rotationally mounted in the case of the turbo-machine, a feeding channel embodied in the rotor for introducing a fluid and an outlet channel embodied in the rotor for removing said fluid. An inlet orifice of the feeding channel is disposed further inside than the outlet orifice of the outlet channel, and means influencing a liquid flow is formed of an actuating device dependent on centrifugal force. Methods for cooling the rotor only by decelerating the gas turbine and for heating the turbo-machine rotor by heating fluid flowing there-through are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Inventor: Dieter Minninger