Patents by Inventor Predrag Todorovic

Predrag Todorovic 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: 20160160757
    Abstract: An intake for channeling air flowing past a propeller to an inlet of an aircraft engine driving the propeller through a drive shaft comprising: a static cowling extending about an axis and which flares from an upstream end, an intake slot formed in the flared portion which bounds a passage to the inlet of the aircraft engine, the intake slot opening over an arc that extends less than 360 degrees of the circumference of the cowling and having an axially rearward edge that blends into the cowling through a curve having a vertex, wherein the vertex is radially inside a projected extension of the flared portion from an upstream portion of the flared cowling across the intake slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Predrag TODOROVIC
  • Publication number: 20160138411
    Abstract: An air guide element of an aircraft gas turbine, including an external housing that is provided with an inflow opening, as well as with a flow channel that is arranged inside the housing, characterized in that a tubular intermediate element that is made of an elastic material is arranged inside the inflow opening, connecting the inflow opening to the flow channel in a sealing and position-adjusting manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventor: Predrag TODOROVIC
  • Publication number: 20160131079
    Abstract: An engine cowling of an aircraft gas turbine having a front cowling and a single rear cowling movable in the axial direction. By a drive device, the rear cowling is movable into different positions including a closed cruise position, a partially opened maximum thrust position and a completely opened thrust-reversing position. The drive device includes at least two actuators arranged in series relative to one another and actuated independently of one another, the actuators having power supply systems separated from one another and separately operating, where one of the actuators is designed for the maximum thrust position and the other actuator for the thrust-reversing position. The rear cowling can be locked in the maximum thrust position or the thrust-reversing position by two independent locking devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Predrag TODOROVIC
  • Patent number: 9328694
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft gas turbine thrust-reversing device with an engine having an engine cowling, the rear area of which can be displaced in the axial direction of the engine from a closed forward thrust position into a rearwardly displaced thrust reversal position, resulting in an essentially annular free space towards a forward stationary area of the engine cowling, with the rear area of the engine cowling being functionally coupled to deflecting elements arranged in the forward thrust position within the front area of the engine cowling, with the deflecting elements during displacement of the rear area of the engine cowling being moveable on a partial-circular path facing the central axis of the engine and contactable by their rear end areas with a cowling of the core engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Predrag Todorovic
  • Publication number: 20160115903
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft gas turbine thrust-reversing device with an engine having an engine cowling whose rear area can be moved in the axial direction of the engine from a closed forward-thrust position into a rearward moved thrust-reversing position in which a free, substantially annular space to a front and fixed area of the engine cowling is present, where on the engine cowling guide rails are arranged, inside which mounting elements can be moved by means of rolling or sliding elements, with which mounting elements the rear area of the engine cowling his mounted, characterized in that the guide rails have an oval and C-shaped cross-section, provided on a longitudinal side with a slot-like opening, and are mounted using mounting projections arranged centrally and opposite to one another and designed in one piece with the C-shaped cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Predrag TODOROVIC, Sergiu IRIMIE
  • Patent number: 9255523
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fastening element, in particular to its use in a de-icing device of an aircraft gas-turbine engine, for connecting two components, with the fastening element ensuring a connection of the components with a predetermined relative movability to each other, with the fastening element including two struts arranged at an angle to each other, where two first end areas, spacedly arranged to each other, can be fastened to one of the components, and the two other second end areas can be connected to each other and fastened to the other component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Predrag Todorovic, Gustavo Araujo
  • Patent number: 9194397
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft gas turbine having a fan rotatable about an engine axis in the inflow region of the aircraft gas turbine, with the fan having several fan blades, with each fan blade being moveably mounted on a hub rotatable about the engine axis by means of its blade root on an area which is at the front in the flow direction, and with each fan blade being moveably mounted on an area at the rear in the flow direction, on an adjusting disk axially displaceable relative to the engine axis and non-rotatable with the hub, with the pitch angle of the fan blades being variable by the axial movement of the adjusting disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd Co KG
    Inventor: Predrag Todorovic
  • Publication number: 20150292357
    Abstract: An aircraft gas turbine having a core engine casing for a core engine, said core engine casing including at least a compressor area, a combustion chamber area and a turbine area, wherein the core engine casing is provided on its outer wall with several cooling-air tubes which are designed in one piece with said outer wall and extend in the axial direction relative to an engine axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventor: Predrag TODOROVIC
  • Publication number: 20150285144
    Abstract: An inlet for a gas turbine engine having an inlet lip and an inlet barrel, the inlet lip having a highlight defining a boundary between inner and outer surfaces of the inlet lip. The inlet barrel has a forwardly extending flange that is joined to the inlet lip by overlapping surfaces. The flange interface surface has a conus angle that is divergent from the highlight axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Predrag TODOROVIC, Thomas KUBISCH
  • Publication number: 20150176527
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft gas turbine comprising an engine cowling that has a rear area, with respect to the direction of the flow, which has a thrust-reverser device, wherein the rear area is embodied in such a manner as to be translatable in the axial direction, characterized in that the rear area is mounted in a translatable manner at two rails that are arranged in parallel to each other, and that it comprises a gear rack that is mounted at each rail, respectively, with the gear rack being in mesh with a respective cog wheel, which is coupled to a common motor via a gear unit, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Predrag TODOROVIC, Uwe SCHUMANN, Frank MUELLER, Dirk METZLER-STOERMER
  • Publication number: 20150176529
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft gas turbine comprising a thrust-reverser device that is arranged at the rear area of an engine cowling and that has multiple cascade elements which are distributed at the circumference and which divert a stream, characterized in that the cascade elements are mounted in a displaceable manner, in that on both sides of each cascade element at least one gear rack is formed that can be displaced via a respective cog wheel which is coupled to a driving device, and in that each cascade element is connected to a rear area of the engine cowling via a coupling element for the purpose of displacing the engine cowling in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Predrag TODOROVIC, Josef BAER, Frank MUELLER, Uwe SCHUMANN
  • Publication number: 20150167498
    Abstract: A joint assembly between a first gas turbine engine casing and a second gas turbine casing, the first gas turbine engine casing having a plurality of circumferentially spaced attachment points and the second gas turbine casing having a plurality of circumferentially spaced attachment points for securing the first gas turbine casing and the second gas turbine casing together, wherein each attachment point on the first gas turbine casing is circumferentially offset from a respective attachment point on the second gas turbine casing, and connected by a flexure member that permits limited relative movement of the attachment point on the first gas turbine engine casing and its respective attachment point on the second gas turbine casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventor: Predrag TODOROVIC
  • Publication number: 20150052908
    Abstract: A bypass duct has a support unit comprising a pair of aerofoils arranged as an “A” frame. A bleed duct assembly is provided on the radially inner wall of the bypass duct annulus and the aerofoils project from the surface and extend across the annulus between the inner wall and an outer wall of the annulus. The aerofoils lean at an acute angle to the surface with the first flank facing toward the inner wall and adjoining a bleed duct opening. The bleed duct having a bleed duct passage and a submerged scoop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventor: Predrag TODOROVIC
  • Patent number: 8938944
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft gas-turbine engine with a core engine surrounded by a bypass duct, with a radially outer engine cowling enclosing the bypass duct and being provided at its rear region with a thrust-reversing device which is moveable relative to the engine cowling, with at least one cooler element extending over at least part of the circumference being arranged in the intermediate area between the engine cowling and the thrust-reversing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Predrag Todorovic
  • Patent number: 8850824
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft gas turbine with a core engine which is surrounded by a bypass duct enclosed radially outwards by a bypass wall, with a radially inner wall of the bypass duct forming with the radially outer bypass wall a bypass nozzle, and with the radially inner wall including an adjusting element extending along the circumference of the inner wall and being deformable radially outwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Predrag Todorovic, Miles Trumper
  • Patent number: 8833515
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a body provided with a honeycomb structure, which body is designed preferably axis-symmetrical, with sheet-metal parts being provided with a wave-like structuring by means of a forming process and formed to ring elements, with the sheet-metal parts being shaped and designed in a substantially identical way as regards their structuring, with adjacent sheet-metal parts being arranged offset to one another and then joined together to form the honeycomb structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Predrag Todorovic
  • Patent number: 8783412
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sound absorber, the outer wall of which is provided with a plurality of recesses, with funnel-like cone elements each being assigned to the recesses inside the sound absorber, said cone elements having a larger opening facing radially outwards and a smaller opening facing radially inwards, with adjacent cone elements each being provided on a strip-shaped first carrier band, with cup elements being provided radially on the inside relative to the cone elements, and each cup element receiving one cone element, with adjacent cup elements each being provided on a strip-shaped first carrier band, with the first carrier bands being arranged adjacently in a first direction, and the second carrier bands being arranged adjacently in a second direction, with the directions crossing each other and the carrier bands being joined to one another and to the outer wall to form a rigid body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Predrag Todorovic
  • Patent number: 8782896
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an ejector nozzle tube, includes forming an essentially rectangular plate-type blank 1 to have an undulating configuration on two opposite edge areas 2, 3, subsequently bending the blank around an axis 4, which is arranged centrically and parallel to the edge areas 2, 3, with the edge areas 2, 3 being superposed and subsequently joining the edge areas by point connections 6, providing for the formation of ejector nozzles 5 between the point connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Predrag Todorovic
  • Patent number: 8776946
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas-turbine exhaust cone having an outer wall, which is provided with a plurality of recesses, a honeycomb-structured layer, which is arranged on the inside of the outer wall and extends along the inside of the outer wall, an inner wall, which extends substantially parallel to the outer wall and is connected to the honeycomb structure, and at least one annular chamber, which adjoins the inner wall and is centered relative to a central axis, with the inner wall being provided with passage recesses connecting the area of the honeycomb structure to the annular chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Predrag Todorovic
  • Publication number: 20140140820
    Abstract: A bifurcation aerofoil having a leading edge portion and flanks where the leading edge portion is mounted to an inner wall of the bypass duct using a floating seal which permits circumferential movement of the leading edge. A cowl has a wall that provides the flanks of the aerofoil. On closing of the cowl into its flight position any contact between the flanks and the leading edge portion enables realignment of the leading edge portion to the inner wall of the bypass duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Predrag TODOROVIC