Patents by Inventor Werner Humhauser
Werner Humhauser 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).
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Publication number: 20240011434Abstract: The invention is directed to an engine that has a fan, a compressor with a high-pressure compressor, and a combustion chamber. The high-pressure compressor of the engine has a mean stage pressure ratio and an overall pressure ratio formed between the fan and the combustion chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Sergio Elorza Gomez, Werner Humhauser, Roland Matzgeller
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Publication number: 20240003353Abstract: The invention relates to a compressor for an engine, wherein the compressor has compressor stages arranged in succession in a flow direction of the compressor and each compressor stage has a rotating blade cascade and a guide vane cascade arranged downstream of the rotating blade cascade and the rotating blade cascade and the guide vane cascade each have an aspect ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Sergio Elorza Gomez, Werner Humhauser, Roland Matzgeller
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Publication number: 20230099406Abstract: The invention relates to a guide vane ring for a turbomachine comprising at least one guide vane, at least one bearing body, and at least two inner ring segments. The guide vane has a bearing journal that is arranged in a in form-fitting manner in a bearing bush of the at least one bearing body. The at least two inner ring segments have on their respective outer radial faces a guide channel running along a circumferential direction of the guide vane ring for receiving the bearing body, into which project at least two opposite-lying guide projections of the inner ring segments, said projections running along the circumferential direction of the guide vane ring. The bearing bodyis arranged in the guide channel of the inner ring segments, and the at least two guide projections of the inner ring segments engage in at least two guide grooves of the bearing body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AGInventor: Werner Humhauser
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Publication number: 20230043732Abstract: The invention relates to a connecting device for an adjustable blade or vane of a gas turbine, comprising a journal element connected to a respective blade or vane and a lever element connected to the journal element, wherein the lever element and the journal element are jointly movable about a journal axis of rotation. A clamping element is provided, being situated between the lever element and the journal element, such that a force-locking connection is or can be produced between the journal element, the clamping element, and the lever element. The lever element, the clamping element, and the journal element are aligned relative to each other by means of a positioning element, the positioning element being received in a first seat of the journal element and a corresponding second seat of the lever element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Axel Stettner, Christian Roth, Werner Humhauser
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Patent number: 11125115Abstract: Described is a connecting device (50) for a variable vane (51) of a gas turbine (10), in particular of an aircraft gas turbine, the connecting device including a trunnion element (52) connected to a respective vane (51); a lever element (54) connected to the trunnion element (52), the lever element (54) and the trunnion element (52) being movable together about a trunnion axis of rotation (ZD). It is provided that the lever element (54) and the trunnion element (52) be aligned with each other by a positioning element (68), the positioning element (68) being received in a trunnion receptacle (60) and a lever receptacle (66, 66a, 66b).Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventor: Werner Humhauser
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Patent number: 10982558Abstract: Disclosed is a lever linkage for the rotationally fixed connection of a guide vane to a lever of a guide vane adjusting device of a turbomachine, wherein the guide vane has a vane shaft, which extends along a vertical axis. In accordance with the invention, the lever is formed in one piece at a radially outer end of an essentially hollow cylindrical clamping sleeve, which coaxially surrounds the vane shaft in sections, and the vane shaft and the clamping sleeve are coupled by way of a longitudinal side form-fitting connection or a front-end form-fitting connection, and the vane shaft can be tensioned with the clamping sleeve along the vertical axis by means of a fastening element, in particular a threaded nut. In consequence thereof, a separation of two different force flows that act on the guide vanes is obtained, as a result of which local load peaks are reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AGInventors: Vitalis Mairhanser, Stephen Royston Williams, Werner Humhauser
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Patent number: 10876425Abstract: Disclosed is a lever connection for a guide vane adjustment for connecting a guide vane of a turbomachine to an adjusting ring of an actuator, which is arranged in such a way that an adjusting lever of the lever connection is pushed radially from a first mounting direction, in relation to a machine longitudinal axis of the turbomachine, onto a vane shaft of the guide vane, and is locked with the vane shaft in a form-fitting and, in particular, rotationally rigid manner by a movement in a second mounting direction; a mounting method; and a turbomachine.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventor: Werner Humhauser
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Patent number: 10830084Abstract: The present invention relates to a housing for a gas turbine compressor, having an operating duct for taking up several rows of rotating blades arranged one behind the other axially, wherein a wall of the operating duct has a first air bleed, wherein the housing has a cooling passage for cooling said operating duct wall by conveying air from the first air bleed to a first outlet passage for supplying at least one first bleed air consumer, wherein the first outlet passage is arranged downstream of the first air bleed, and wherein the operating duct wall has a second air bleed downstream of the first air bleed, and the housing has a discharge passage from said second air bleed to a second outlet passage for supplying at least one bleed air consumer.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventor: Werner Humhauser
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Patent number: 10711626Abstract: The invention is directed to a guide vane ring for a turbomachine, in which a vane bearing is produced in the inner ring via platform plates of the vanes and reliability against disintegration is produced via journals that extend radially inward from the platform plates, as well as a turbomachine.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Werner Humhauser, Hermann Klingels
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Patent number: 10502084Abstract: The invention relates to a module for a gas turbine comprising a rotationally symmetrical outer casing of a first material having a first linear thermal expansion coefficient, a rotationally symmetrical component for guiding hot gas of a second material having a linear thermal expansion coefficient which is lower than the first coefficient, at least one annular structure arranged radially within the component, and at least three struts having a radially inner end secured on the outer casing and a radially outer end secured on the annular structure. The component also comprises at least one first fixing which is free in radial direction and fixed in axial direction and arranged between the component and the outer casing and/or the annular structure, as well as at least three second fixings having an elastic effect in radial, axial and/or circumferential direction and being arranged between the component and the strut and/or the annular structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AGInventors: Werner Humhauser, Hermann Klingels, Rudolf Stanka, Alois Eichinger
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Patent number: 10494942Abstract: The invention relates to an inner ring system for an inlet guide vane cascade of a turbomachine. The inner ring system comprises an intermediate casing for accommodating structural loads and an inner ring, which is divided axially into a first ring segment and a second ring segment, which together form recesses for bearing radially inner end portions of guide vanes of the inlet guide vane cascade, wherein at least the second ring segment is fixed in place on the intermediate casing by screw connection. The invention further relates to an inner ring and to an intermediate casing for such an inner ring system, as well as a turbomachine that has such an inner ring system.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Lothar Albers, Georg Zotz, Vitalis Mairhanser, Werner Humhauser
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Patent number: 10494944Abstract: A guide vane assembly according to the invention comprises an inner ring, on whose radially outer surface an uptake channel runs in the peripheral direction; a plurality of bearing members, which are arranged in the uptake channel of the inner ring; a plurality of guide vanes, each of which is inserted by its radially inner end into one of the bearing members; and at least one sealing element for sealing at least one gap between the inner ring and at least one of the bearing members and/or between two bearing members. A turbomachine according to the invention comprises a guide vane assembly according to the invention. A method according to the invention serves for the installation of a guide vane assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventor: Werner Humhauser
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Patent number: 10436054Abstract: A blade outer air seal (BOAS) for a gas turbine engine includes, among other things, a seal body having a radially inner face and a radially outer face that axially extend between a leading edge portion and a trailing edge portion. The BOAS includes a trough disposed on the radially inner face and an abradable seal received within the trough. The trough is open to expose a leading edge of the abradable seal to a core flow path of the gas turbine engine.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignees: United Technologies Corporation, MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Nicholas R. Leslie, Fadi S. Maalouf, Georg Zotz, Werner Humhauser
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Publication number: 20190249562Abstract: Disclosed is a lever connection for a guide vane adjustment for connecting a guide vane of a turbomachine to an adjusting ring of an actuator, which is arranged in such a way that an adjusting lever of the lever connection is pushed radially from a first mounting direction, in relation to a machine longitudinal axis of the turbomachine, onto a vane shaft of the guide vane, and is locked with the vane shaft in a form-fitting and, in particular, rotationally rigid manner by means of a movement in a second mounting direction; a mounting method; and a turbomachine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AGInventor: Werner Humhauser
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Publication number: 20190249572Abstract: Described is a connecting device (50) for a variable vane (51) of a gas turbine (10), in particular of an aircraft gas turbine, the connecting device including a trunnion element (52) connected to a respective vane (51); a lever element (54) connected to the trunnion element (52), the lever element (54) and the trunnion element (52) being movable together about a trunnion axis of rotation (ZD). It is provided that the lever element (54) and the trunnion element (52) be aligned with each other by a positioning element (68), the positioning element (68) being received in a trunnion receptacle (60) and a lever receptacle (66, 66a, 66b).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventor: Werner HUMHAUSER
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Patent number: 10364827Abstract: An adjustable guide vane ring of a turbomachine having an inner ring, the guide vanes of which each have a radially inner vane disk with disk thickness increasing in the direction of flow and acting as a bearing pin; a guide vane, as well as an inner ring for such a guide vane ring, as well as a turbomachine are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Werner Humhauser, Hermann Klingels
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Publication number: 20190226342Abstract: A rotor is provided, in particular a blisk of a gas turbine, including a rotor disk or a rotor ring and rotor blades disposed on a periphery of the rotor disk or rotor ring. At least one radial slot is provided in a peripheral surface of the rotor disk or rotor ring between two rotor blades, which radial slot opens into a rounded opening extending between axial end faces of the rotor disk or rotor ring. A method for manufacturing the rotor is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Werner HUMHAUSER, Hermann KLINGELS
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Patent number: 10352178Abstract: A locking element for a row of blades of a turbomachine includes a number of blades that are inserted by their roots in an anchoring groove on the rotor side and are thereby held in the radial direction in form-fitting manner in the anchoring groove. The locking element has a basic body that has a front bearing surface and a back bearing surface for form-fitting with opposite-lying groove surfaces, a front lock projection and a back lock projection for engaging in opposite-lying recesses of the anchoring groove, and a threaded region for interacting with a tightening element. Access to the threaded region for the tightening element is blocked on one side.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Werner Humhauser, Hermann Klingels
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Publication number: 20190178096Abstract: Disclosed is a lever linkage for the rotationally fixed connection of a guide vane to a lever of a guide vane adjusting device of a turbomachine, wherein the guide vane has a vane shaft, which extends along a vertical axis. In accordance with the invention, the lever is formed in one piece at a radially outer end of an essentially hollow cylindrical clamping sleeve, which coaxially surrounds the vane shaft in sections, and the vane shaft and the clamping sleeve are coupled by way of a longitudinal side form-fitting connection or a front-end form-fitting connection, and the vane shaft can be tensioned with the clamping sleeve along the vertical axis by means of a fastening element, in particular a threaded nut. In consequence thereof, a separation of two different force flows that act on the guide vanes is obtained, as a result of which local load peaks are reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Vitalis Mairhanser, Stephen Royston Williams, Werner Humhauser
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Patent number: 10294963Abstract: An axially split inner ring for a fluid flow machine is disclosed. The inner ring is constructed for connecting to guide vanes and includes at least a first ring segment arranged upstream and a second ring segment arranged downstream. The second ring segment has a first sealing segment, where at least one section of the second ring segment is arranged in a radially inward manner relative to the first ring segment. A guide vane ring of a fluid flow machine and an aircraft engine are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Werner Humhauser, Hermann Klingels