Patents by Inventor Gerard FROIDEVAUX

Gerard FROIDEVAUX 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: 11215079
    Abstract: A turbine includes an outer casing and an inner casing surrounded by said outer casing. The outer casing and inner casing are coaxially arranged with respect to a machine axis. The outer casing and inner casing are each divided in a split plane into an upper part and a lower part. The upper and lower parts are connected with each other in said split plane by means of a flanged connection. The disassembly process is improved by the flanged connection of the upper and lower part of the inner casing comprising a plurality of bolts, which extend each through through holes in respective flanges of said flanged connection of the inner casing, protrude from said through holes at both ends with a threaded section, and are tightened by means of nuts screwed on said threaded sections at both ends of said bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Tobias Christoph Huber, Gerard Froidevaux, Daniel Seng, Ivan Rozman
  • Patent number: 9528393
    Abstract: The method for removing an inner casing from a machine such as a turbine or compressor includes providing supports between the outer casing and the inner casing of the machine, removing a top part of the outer casing, then removing a top part of the inner casing, then connecting a ring sector to a bottom part of the inner casing to replace the removed top part of the inner casing, then rotating the reciprocally connected ring sector and bottom part of the inner casing around the longitudinal axis to make the bottom part of the inner casing accessible, then removing the bottom part of the inner casing, guiding the reciprocally connected ring sector and bottom part of the inner casing during rotation, to prevent movement along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Christoph Huber, Gerard Froidevaux, Daniel Seng, Karsten Schwarz
  • Patent number: 9162329
    Abstract: The method for removing an inner casing from a machine includes removing a top part of the outer casing, removing a top part of the inner casing, removing the bottom part of the inner casing, before removing the bottom part of the inner casing connecting the bottom part of the inner casing to the rotor, such that the bottom part of the inner casing is supported by the rotor, then rotating the rotor around the longitudinal axis to make the bottom part of the inner casing accessible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Tobias Christoph Huber, Gerard Froidevaux, Daniel Seng, Karsten Schwarz, Ivan Rozman
  • Publication number: 20150267563
    Abstract: A tool for installing or uninstalling a segment of an inner housing of a turbomachine. The turbomachine includes an outer housing, at least partially surrounding an inner housing and a rotor, concentrically arranged within the inner housing. The rotor is equipped with a number of rotor grooves. The inner housing is divided at an essentially horizontal split plane into an upper segment and a lower segment. The tool includes a first portion insertable into any of the rotor grooves, and furthermore includes a second portion disposed at a distance from the first portion. This second portion is connectable to the lower segment of the inner housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Tobias Christoph HUBER, Gerard Froidevaux, Daniel Seng, Karsten Schwarz, Ivan Rozman
  • Publication number: 20150267561
    Abstract: A turbine includes an outer casing and an inner casing surrounded by said outer casing. The outer casing and inner casing are coaxially arranged with respect to a machine axis. The outer casing and inner casing are each divided in a split plane into an upper part and a lower part. The upper and lower parts are connected with each other in said split plane by means of a flanged connection. The disassembly process is improved by the flanged connection of the upper and lower part of the inner casing comprising a plurality of bolts, which extend each through through holes in respective flanges of said flanged connection of the inner casing, protrude from said through holes at both ends with a threaded section, and are tightened by means of nuts screwed on said threaded sections at both ends of said bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Tobias Christoph HUBER, Gerard FROIDEVAUX, Daniel SENG, Ivan ROZMAN
  • Publication number: 20140068911
    Abstract: The method for removing an inner casing from a machine includes removing a top part of the outer casing, removing a top part of the inner casing, removing the bottom part of the inner casing, before removing the bottom part of the inner casing connecting the bottom part of the inner casing to the rotor, such that the bottom part of the inner casing is supported by the rotor, then rotating the rotor around the longitudinal axis to make the bottom part of the inner casing accessible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Tobias Christoph HUBER, Gerard FROIDEVAUX, Daniel SENG, Karsten SCHWARZ, Ivan ROZMAN
  • Publication number: 20140072422
    Abstract: The method for removing an inner casing from a machine such as a turbine or compressor includes providing supports between the outer casing and the inner casing of the machine, removing a top part of the outer casing, then removing a top part of the inner casing, then connecting a ring sector to a bottom part of the inner casing to replace the removed top part of the inner casing, then rotating the reciprocally connected ring sector and bottom part of the inner casing around the longitudinal axis to make the bottom part of the inner casing accessible, then removing the bottom part of the inner casing, guiding the reciprocally connected ring sector and bottom part of the inner casing during rotation, to prevent movement along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Tobias Christoph HUBER, Gerard Froidevaux, Daniel Seng, Karsten Schwarz