Patents by Inventor Martin Hoeger

Martin Hoeger 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: 20070297904
    Abstract: A compressor, particularly a high-pressure compressor, of a gas turbine, particularly of an aircraft engine, includes at least one rotor and a number of blades (11, 12), which are assigned to the or to each rotor and which rotate together with the respective rotor. Each blade (11, 12) is delimited, in essence, by a flow entry edge or leading edge (16), a flow exit edge or trailing edge (17), and by a blade surface (20), which extends between the leading edge (16) and the trailing edge (17) while forming a suction side (18) and a pressure side. The leading edges (16) of the blades (11, 12) are slanted at a sweep angle that changes with the height of the respective blade (11, 12) in such a manner that the leading edges (16) comprise, in a radially external area (23) of the same, at least one forward sweep angle, a backward sweep angle or zero-sweep angle following in a radially external manner, and a forward sweep angle following, in a radially external manner, the backward sweep angle or the zero-sweep angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Hoeger
  • Publication number: 20070177979
    Abstract: A vane of a guide vane or impeller blade of a turbo machine, particularly a gas turbine. The profile of the vane includes at least one thickening that is advantageous for flow purposes in a radially inward final region and/or a radially outward final region of the vane. The thickening is cut in the area of a forward edge of the vane so as to form a mirror surface or a basal plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: MTU AERO ENGINES GMBH
    Inventor: Martin Hoeger
  • Publication number: 20060051200
    Abstract: A flow structure is for a gas turbine, e.g., for an aircraft engine, in a transition channel between two compressors or in a transition channel between two turbines or in a transition channel of a turbine outlet housing downstream from a low-pressure turbine, having support ribs positioned in the transition channel spaced apart from one another around the circumference of the transition channel. A channel wall which delimits the transition channel radially on the inside and/or a channel wall which delimits the transition channel radially on the outside may be drawn inwardly into the transition channel in the area of the outflow edges of the support ribs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventor: Martin Hoeger
  • Publication number: 20060024158
    Abstract: A flow structure of a gas turbine, in particular for an aircraft engine, in a transitional channel between two compressors or in a transitional channel between two turbines or in a transitional channel of a turbine outlet housing downstream from a low-pressure turbine is disclosed. Supporting ribs are positioned in the transitional channel and spaced a distance apart in the circumferential direction of the transitional channel. At least one guide vane and/or guide rib is positioned between two supporting ribs spaced a distance apart from one another. The flow outlet edge of the guide rib or each guide rib runs upstream from the flow outlet edges of the supporting ribs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Martin Hoeger, Franz Malzacher
  • Patent number: 6017186
    Abstract: A rotary turbomachine, and particularly a turbojet engine, has a compressor stage that is especially adapted for operation in the transonic region. The compressor stage includes a rotor (1) having a hub (2) and a plurality of compressor blades (3) extending radially therefrom, and a stator having a plurality of compressor blades extending radially between a stator hub and a housing. The hub (2) of the rotor (1), and/or the hub of the stator, and/or the housing of the stator, have a circumferential surface contour that is not continuously rotationally symmetrical. Namely, a concave contour (K) is provided in the circumferential surface of the hub near the base of each blade (3) on the pressure side (PS) thereof, while the circumferential surface on the suction side (SS) of the base of each blade has a contour that is linear, slightly convex, convex/concave, or slightly concave to a lesser degree than the concave contour (K) on the pressure side of each blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: MTU-Motoren-und Turbinen-Union Muenchen GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Hoeger, Uwe Schmidt-Eisenlohr