Patents by Inventor Günter Wilfert

Günter Wilfert 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).

  • Patent number: 10830097
    Abstract: An engine case is provided having a first solid wall region and a second solid wall region with an internal region between the first and second sold wall regions. The internal region defines at least one cavity. One or more lattice structures are provided within the cavity that controls the flow of coolant air through the cavity. The cavity may be divided into two or more distinct cooling regions for allowing particular coolant flow paths to be provided to different parts of the engine case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ashish Sharma, Guenter Wilfert
  • Publication number: 20170314416
    Abstract: An engine case is provided having a first solid wall region and a second solid wall region with an internal region between the first and second sold wall regions. The internal region defines at least one cavity. One or more lattice structures are provided within the cavity that controls the flow of coolant air through the cavity. The cavity may be divided into two or more distinct cooling regions for allowing particular coolant flow paths to be provided to different parts of the engine case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Ashish SHARMA, Guenter WILFERT
  • Patent number: 6307175
    Abstract: In a method of forming a cooling bore in a wall of a workpiece, the configuration of a feed section and a diffuser section is selected, a throughbore is produced with a cross-sectional area within the cross-sectional area of the feed section, and the diffuser section is cut out by a beam- or jet-drilling method in such a way that the drilling beam or jet in the region of the feed section remains essentially within the cross-sectional area of the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Blöchlinger, Ivan Luketic, Klaus Semmler, Günter Wilfert
  • Patent number: 6236562
    Abstract: The section of an electrical high-voltage system has a gas-filled housing of predominantly symmetrical design. Provided in the housing are a conductor extending along a plane of symmetry of the housing, and cooling means for producing a circulation flow which dissipates heat loss from the conductor. The cooling means contains two blowers. The blowers are arranged in the interior of the housing and designed in such a way that, during the operation of the system, two mirror-symmetrical circulation part flows are formed which are bounded by the plane of symmetry. These circulation part flows are in each case guided without recirculation along a housing side wall from the top of the housing or the bottom of the housing. By this means, the heat loss is given up particularly effectively to the housing side walls, and the conductor can be loaded with very high operating currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventors: Günter Wilfert, Günter Kübler, Sacha Parneix, Enrico Malfa
  • Patent number: 6183199
    Abstract: A cooling wall comprises an outer surface, which is exposed to a hot-gas flow, an inner surface, and at least one film-cooling hole within the wall, which film-cooling hole has a diffuser section and an outlet at the outer surface. The diffuser section has first and second internal surfaces, the intersection edge between the first internal surface and the outer surface forming an upstream edge of the outlet, and the intersection edge between the second internal surface and the outer surface forming a downstream edge of the outlet. The diffuser section has side surfaces, which faces one another, connect the first and second internal surfaces and diverge from one another toward the outlet of the diffuser section. The first internal surface of the diffuser section is rounded toward the axis of the film-cooling hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Alexander Beeck, Bernhard Bonhoff, Günter Wilfert