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).

  • Publication number: 20240011434
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Sergio Elorza Gomez, Werner Humhauser, Roland Matzgeller
  • Publication number: 20240003353
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Sergio Elorza Gomez, Werner Humhauser, Roland Matzgeller
  • Publication number: 20230099406
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Werner Humhauser
  • Publication number: 20230043732
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Axel Stettner, Christian Roth, Werner Humhauser
  • Patent number: 11125115
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Werner Humhauser
  • Patent number: 10982558
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Vitalis Mairhanser, Stephen Royston Williams, Werner Humhauser
  • Patent number: 10876425
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Werner Humhauser
  • Patent number: 10830084
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Werner Humhauser
  • Patent number: 10711626
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Werner Humhauser, Hermann Klingels
  • Patent number: 10502084
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Werner Humhauser, Hermann Klingels, Rudolf Stanka, Alois Eichinger
  • Patent number: 10494942
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Lothar Albers, Georg Zotz, Vitalis Mairhanser, Werner Humhauser
  • Patent number: 10494944
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Werner Humhauser
  • Patent number: 10436054
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignees: United Technologies Corporation, MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Nicholas R. Leslie, Fadi S. Maalouf, Georg Zotz, Werner Humhauser
  • Publication number: 20190249562
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Werner Humhauser
  • Publication number: 20190249572
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventor: Werner HUMHAUSER
  • Patent number: 10364827
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Werner Humhauser, Hermann Klingels
  • Publication number: 20190226342
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Werner HUMHAUSER, Hermann KLINGELS
  • Patent number: 10352178
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Werner Humhauser, Hermann Klingels
  • Publication number: 20190178096
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Vitalis Mairhanser, Stephen Royston Williams, Werner Humhauser
  • Patent number: 10294963
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Werner Humhauser, Hermann Klingels