Patents by Inventor Sergio Elorza Gomez

Sergio Elorza Gomez 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: 9303513
    Abstract: A turbomachine including at least one blade-row group that is arranged in the main flow path and at least two rows of blades that are adjacent to each other in the main flow direction, each row having a plurality of blades, whereby the trailing edges of the blades of the upstream row of blades and the leading edges of the blades of the downstream row of blades are arranged at an axial edge distance that decreases from the center of the main flow path in the direction of at least one main flow limiter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventors: Sergio Elorza Gomez, Tim Schneider
  • Publication number: 20150377053
    Abstract: A turbomachine, particularly an aircraft engine, having a rotor, which is mounted rotatably around its longitudinal axis in a stator, and which has at least one row of rotating blades, which is formed by a plurality of rotating blades, is disclosed, wherein the stator has at least one abradable layer, and wherein each rotating blade has a blade tip that is lowered radially inward, at least in sections, proceeding from a leading edge on the side of the rotating blades in the direction of a trailing edge on the side of the rotating blades, and with a blade tip region that extends downstream from the leading edge runs into the abradable layer during operation of the turbomachine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Axel Mattschas, Helmut Eibl, Sergio Elorza Gomez, Dirk Henrichs
  • Patent number: 9011081
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a blade of a turbomachine, in particular an adjustable guide blade or vane of a gas turbine, having at least one thickened area (18) on a pressure side (D) of the blade profile (P), wherein the thickened area (18) is disposed in a radially outer-lying, housing-side region of the blade (10), wherein the thickened area (18) is designed at a distance from a front edge (12) and a rear edge (14) of the blade (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventors: Sergio Elorza Gomez, Rudolf Selmeier, Wilfried Schutte, Peter Eibelshauser, Harald Passrucker, Manfred Dupslaff
  • Publication number: 20150016986
    Abstract: A stator vane assembly for a compressor of a gas turbine, in particular of an aircraft engine, including a plurality of stator vanes whose airfoil sections form a stagger angle with an axis of rotation of the compressor, which stagger angle varies along a duct height of the stator vane assembly. Along the duct height from the inside to the outside, the stagger angle increases to a local maximum in a second section adjoining a first, radially innermost section, and decreases to an outer local minimum in a third section adjoining this second section and, along the duct height from the inside to the outside, the stagger angle decreases from the initial value to an inner local minimum in the first, radially innermost section and/or increases from the outer local minimum to a final value in a fourth, radially outermost section adjoining the third section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Sergio Elorza GOMEZ
  • Patent number: 8753070
    Abstract: A device for redirecting a leakage current flowing between a stator and a rotor is disclosed. The device includes a sealing element for interrupting the leakage current, an outlet opening disposed on the rotor, and a guide which is configured to direct the leakage current past the sealing element to the outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventor: Sergio Elorza Gomez
  • Patent number: 8613592
    Abstract: A guide blade of a turbomachine, in particular of a compressor, a blade of the guide blade without an inner shroud having a flow inlet edge, a flow outlet edge, a suction side, and a pressure side. The blade is formed by a plurality of blade sections stacked one on top of the other in the radial direction, and the centers of gravity of the blade sections extend along a stacking axis. The blade sections are stacked one on top of the other in the radial direction in such a way that, in a radially inner section of the blade adjacent to a radially outer section of the blade, the stacking axis has its single inflection point in its radial curvature, namely, between a first, radially inner subsection of the radially inner section in which the stacking axis has a concave curvature toward the pressure side, and a second, radially outer subsection of the radially inner section in which the stacking axis has a concave curvature toward the suction side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventor: Sergio Elorza Gomez
  • Publication number: 20130028749
    Abstract: A guide blade of a turbomachine, in particular of a compressor, a blade of the guide blade without an inner shroud having a flow inlet edge, a flow outlet edge, a suction side, and a pressure side. The blade is formed by a plurality of blade sections stacked one on top of the other in the radial direction, and the centers of gravity of the blade sections extend along a stacking axis. The blade sections are stacked one on top of the other in the radial direction in such a way that, in a radially inner section of the blade adjacent to a radially outer section of the blade, the stacking axis has its single inflection point in its radial curvature, namely, between a first, radially inner subsection of the radially inner section in which the stacking axis has a concave curvature toward the pressure side, and a second, radially outer subsection of the radially inner section in which the stacking axis has a concave curvature toward the suction side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventor: Sergio Elorza Gomez
  • Publication number: 20120315148
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for wiring suctions ((i), (i+1)) of a blade (1) for a blade row of a turbomachine. According to said method, a first central component (formula (II)) of a second section ((i+1)) is selected according to at least one central component ((formula (IV)), xCG(i), rCG(i)) of a first section ((i)), especially according to a formula (I) where: (i) is a variable of the first section; (i+1) is a variable of the second section; (formula (III)) is a central component of a section in the peripheral direction, preferably in the angular or radian measure; xCG is a central component of a section in the axial direction; rCG is a central component of a section in the radial direction; ? is a graduated angle of a section; and (formula (V)) is a peripheral incline, preferably in the angular or radian measure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines Gmbh
    Inventors: Sergio Elorza Gomez, Peter Eibelshaeuser
  • Publication number: 20120128480
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a blade of a turbomachine, in particular an adjustable guide blade or vane of a gas turbine, having at least one thickened area (18) on a pressure side (D) of the blade profile (P), wherein the thickened area (18) is disposed in a radially outer-lying, housing-side region of the blade (10), wherein the thickened area (18) is designed at a distance from a front edge (12) and a rear edge (14) of the blade (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: MTU AERO ENGINES GMBH
    Inventors: Sergio Elorza Gomez, Rudolf Selmeier, Wilfried Schutte, Peter Eibelshauser, Harald Passrucker, Manfred Dupslaff
  • Publication number: 20110164967
    Abstract: An axial flow machine having an asymmetrical air inlet and, downstream therefrom, a compressor having an inlet guide baffle composed of guide vanes is characterized in that at least some of the guide vanes of the inlet guide baffle have a vane profile and/or an angle of attack that deviate(s) from the remaining guide vanes. The inlet flow angle of the first compressor stage is hereby evened out circumferentially symmetrically. This is accomplished in that the different inlet angles resulting at various circumferential positions of the inlet guide baffle due to the asymmetry of the air inlet, are influenced by selective profiling and/or by selectively modifying the angle of incidence of individual guide vanes in such a way that a circumferentially symmetrical outflow angle from the inlet vane ring results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: MTU AERO ENGINES GMBH
    Inventors: Sergio Elorza Gomez, Alexander Halcoussis
  • Publication number: 20110058933
    Abstract: A device for redirecting a leakage current flowing between a stator and a rotor is disclosed. The device includes a sealing element for interrupting the leakage current, an outlet opening disposed on the rotor, and a guide which is configured to direct the leakage current past the sealing element to the outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventor: Sergio Elorza Gomez