Patents Assigned to MTU
  • Patent number: 11612977
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for smoothing a surface of a component, in which a component is placed in a liquid-solids mixture; a relative movement is produced between the liquid-solids mixture and the component; thus there is a flow of the liquid-solids mixture along the surface; wherein there is provided in the liquid-solids mixture a guide surface, along which the liquid-solids mixture flows, wherein a directional component toward the surface is imposed on the flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Martin Fessler-Knobel, Joerg Windprechtinger, Georg Asti
  • Publication number: 20230077444
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an adjustment assembly for the adjustment of adjustable blades or vanes of a turbomachine, having an adjustment ring for coupling to the adjustable blades or vanes of a blade or vane ring and having an adjusting mechanism, which has a coupling rod for coupling to a further blade or vane ring as well as a lever and a push rod, wherein the lever is rotatably mounted at a pivot and has a load arm as well as a force arm, wherein the load arm of the lever is coupled to the push rod and its force arm is coupled to the coupling rod, on different sides of the lever, so that an offset of the coupling rod via the lever and the push rod is converted to a rotation of the adjustment ring around the ring axis thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Oskar Ostermeir
  • Publication number: 20230070018
    Abstract: The invention relates to an airfoil for a compressor of a turbomachine, which extends starting from a blade root between a leading edge and a trailing edge to a blade tip, wherein the leading edge has a leading-edge thickness and the airfoil has a maximum profile thickness, the ratio of which to each other represents a relative leading-edge thickness, and the airfoil has a leading-edge wedge angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Hanschke, Michael Junge, Astrid Kraus, Francesca Storti
  • Publication number: 20230068226
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a method comprising the steps: carrying out multiple measurements on a mechanical object, the measurements each differing by one or more parameters influencing the measurement; determining a spectrogram on the basis of the measurement data of the measurements and depending on a predefined parameter of the mechanical object; determining one or more excitations of the mechanical object; reproducing the excitations in the spectrogram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Daniel Theurich, Michael Junge
  • Publication number: 20230064929
    Abstract: The invention relates to a manufacturing device for the electrochemical machining of a component, in particular a turbine component, wherein the manufacturing device comprises at least one machining device, which is set up to remove material of the component in accordance with a predetermined electrochemical machining method. It is provided that the manufacturing device comprises at least one cleaning device, which is set up to spray jets of the electrolyte solution onto the component in accordance with a predetermined jet-spraying method in order to remove a residue layer formed on the component during the predetermined electrochemical machining method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Kilian Bayer, Benjamin Steininger, Gazmen Dzemajili
  • Publication number: 20230055362
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machining apparatus for electrochemically removing component layers of a component, having at least one electrode, which is mounted so as to be movable along at least one infeed axis, and having at least one auxiliary electrode, which is mounted so as to be movable along an auxiliary infeed axis, wherein a gap for arranging the component for electrochemically removing the component layers extends between the at least one electrode and the at least one auxiliary electrode. At least the infeed axis and a longitudinal extension direction of the gap enclose an acute angle with each other. The machining apparatus comprises at least one oscillation device (40), which is set up at least to move the at least one electrode in an oscillating manner along the infeed axis and relative to the at least one auxiliary electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Roland Huttner, Christian Doll, Matthias Hillmann
  • Patent number: 11585242
    Abstract: A gas turbine component, in particular a stator vane cluster (10), having at least one radial flange (12, 13) with a radial slot (20) for spoke-type centering of a gas turbine element, in particular an inner ring (100), the radial slot (20) having a first slot flank (21), a slot base (23) adjoining the same, and a second slot flank (22) adjoining the same, the slot base (23) being asymmetric with respect to a mid-plane (M) which extends radially and perpendicularly to the circumferential direction and centrally between the two slot flanks (21, 22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Ertl, Hans-Peter Hackenberg, Alexander Buck, Oskar Ostermeir
  • Patent number: 11585223
    Abstract: A curved contour of the lateral surface of a blade arrangement includes in at least one meridian section on mutually opposite sides of a blade airfoil an intersection point that is closer to the blade airfoil front edge, and an intersection point that is closer to the blade airfoil rear edge, and a best-fit line of least square distances from the curved contour. The curved contour includes first and/or the second contour section which meet specified conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Wilfried Schuette, Axel Stettner, Michael Junge
  • Patent number: 11585225
    Abstract: The invention refers to a blade for a turbomachine comprising a shroud which is positioned on a tip side of the blade having an outer surface having at least one circumferential web arranged thereon, at least one pocket recessed in the outer surface and a hardfacing provided on at least one edge of the shroud wherein a pocket recessed in the outer surface is arranged adjacent to the hardfacing and a side face of the pocket joins the supporting wall with a radius corresponding at least to the length of the shorter extension of the supporting wall and at most to 1.5 times the length of the larger extension of the supporting wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Krzysztof Skura, Christian Eichler, Lutz Friedrich
  • 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: 11566524
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for repairing a damaged blade tip of a turbine blade which is armor-plated and provided with a blade coating, of a thermal gas turbine. The method according to the invention comprises the steps of removing a blade tip armor plating of the turbine blade at least in the region of the damaged blade tip and producing a repair surface (12), removing only a part of the blade coating of the turbine blade in the region of the repair surface while preserving a part of the blade coating separated from the repair surface (14), restoring the blade tip reinforcement (20), and restoring the blade coating in the region of the repaired blade tip (22). The invention furthermore relates to a device for carrying out such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Frank Seidel, Nils Weidlich
  • Publication number: 20230026899
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a blade for a gas turbine, in particular of an aircraft engine, having a blade airfoil, which has a blade-root-side first profile section and a blade-tip-side second profile section, which is spaced apart from the first profile section in a radial direction, from the first profile section to the second profile section, by a blade airfoil height, wherein a stagger angle of the blade airfoil changes with a height in the radial direction over the first profile section at least over certain portions, wherein, in a first region between a first height and a second, greater height, the change in the stagger angle over the height does not decrease with increasing height at least over certain portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Sergio Elorza Gomez, Tobias Froebel, Nina Wolfrum, Sebastian Mann
  • Publication number: 20230020552
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotating blade for a turbomachine, having a blade element and a shroud, wherein the shroud is profiled at a peripheral side, i.e., when observed in a tangential section, has a contact flank that is oriented axially, at least proportionally, and has a free flank that is also oriented axially, at least proportionally, and is in fact opposite the contact flank, wherein, when observed in the tangential section, an intermediate segment between the contact flank and the free flank has a first curvature in a first transition segment to the contact flank and has a second curvature in a second transition segment to the free flank, wherein the first curvature is greater than the second curvature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Manfred Dopfer, Salome Gassmann, Johannes Linhard
  • Patent number: 11555417
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a housing arrangement for a turbomachine, comprising a support element, which is configured to bear a shaft, and a housing, which is centered at the support element. The housing is composed of an inner housing and an outer housing fastened at the support element, the housings being connected to each other by at least one connecting strut. A press fit is provided between the support element and the inner housing, in order to center the inner housing at the support element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Georg Kempinger, Johann Berger, René Grahnert, Johannes Dieker, Tanya Mulorz, Laura Martinez-Lozano
  • Patent number: 11555500
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a guide vane, in particular an outlet guide vane and/or a guide vane for a compressor stage of a gas turbine, wherein the vane has a vane blade with a first vane blade portion and a second vane blade portion, and the first vane blade portion can be reversibly rotated in relation to the second vane blade portion about an axis of rotation from a first position to a second position, wherein, in at least one profile portion of the vane blade, the axis of rotation is arranged outside of a profile of the first vane blade portion, and/or a profile of the first vane blade portion has a suction side with a first contour portion and a second contour portion, which, in particular, is adjoined thereto, and a profile of the second vane blade portion has a pressure-side contour portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Sergio Elorza Gomez
  • Publication number: 20230008848
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for determining a scaling factor for a strain measurement in a machine element, comprising steps for measuring a strain in a measurement surface portion by means of a strain measuring device; for measuring a displacement of a detection surface portion of the machine element by an optical scanning; for determining a displacement field on a surface of the machine element on the basis of a model of the machine element and the measured displacement of the at least one detection surface portion; for determining a strain field on the surface of the machine element on the basis of the determined displacement field and the model of the machine element; and for determining a scaling factor of the strain measuring device on the basis of the determined strain field and the measured strain in the measurement surface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: David Rittinger, Ulrich Retze, Joerg Reschke, Wilhelm Meir, Michael Junge, Stefan Schwarz
  • Patent number: 11542582
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a component of a ?-TiAl alloy, in which, in a first step, a forging blank made of a ?-TiAl alloy is built up from a powder material by an additive method, and subsequently, in a second step, the forging blank is reshaped into a semi-finished product, wherein the degree of reshaping over the entire forging blank is high enough that, in a third step, the structure is recrystallized during a heat treatment. In addition, the invention relates to a component produced therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Martin Schloffer
  • Publication number: 20220410297
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for electrochemically treating a component, comprising at least one electrode which has at least one working surface with an outer contour that is shaped so as complement the surface of the component to be produced, thereby forming a gap, and comprising at least one contour surface which adjoins said working surface and in which at least one cleaning opening is arranged, a cleaning fluid flowing through said cleaning opening. According to the method, at least one component is provided, a voltage is applied between the component and the at least one electrode during the electrochemical treatment, and the electrode is moved relative to the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Nicole Feiling, Markus Zeis, Roland Huttner, Christian Doll
  • Patent number: 11525369
    Abstract: A vane assembly for a turbomachine includes a variable vane (10-15), the vane having at least one first, in particular plane or curved, engagement surface (11; 11?) for clamping, in particular without play, an actuator (20) of the vane assembly for adjustment of the vane, this first engagement surface not being inclined toward a longitudinal axis (L) of the vane or being inclined toward it by no more than 15°, and/or the vane assembly including a clamp (30; 31) for clamping the actuator against the first engagement surface by at least partially elastically compressing the clamp transversely to the longitudinal axis of the vane and/or by advancing the clamp in a clamp direction (S) that forms an angle of at least 45° with the longitudinal axis of the vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Vitalis Mairhanser, Manuel Hein, Axel Stettner
  • Patent number: 11519296
    Abstract: A bearing chamber housing for supporting a shaft of a turbomachine is provided, the bearing chamber housing including an additively built-up housing wall which bounds an oil chamber of the bearing chamber housing radially outwardly relative to an axis of rotation of the shaft, the housing wall being built up with an oil duct which has an inlet opening toward the oil chamber for admission of oil from the oil chamber into the oil duct, and which has an outlet opening for discharging the oil from the oil duct, the outlet opening being located at a different axial position and at a different circumferential position than the inlet opening, considered relative to the axis of rotation of the shaft, and the oil duct having an extent with both an axial component and a circumferential component, at least over a portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Frank Stiehler, Georg Kempinger, Juergen Kraus, Steffen Schlothauer, Christian Liebl, Alois Eichinger, Thomas Koebke