Patents Assigned to Roll-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
  • Publication number: 20130025962
    Abstract: A gas-turbine exhaust cone has an outer wall with a plurality of recesses, a honeycomb-structured layer arranged at the inside of the outer wall and extending along said inside of the outer wall, an inner wall connected to the honeycomb structure and extending essentially parallel to the outer wall, and at least one annular chamber centered on a central axis and adjoining the inner wall. The inner wall has passage recesses connecting the area of the honeycomb structure to the annular chamber, with the annular chamber being subdivided in the circumferential direction by at least one partition wall into several chambers. The partition wall is made from a sheetmetal-like material and has a plurality of raised and/or recessed areas in a uniform arrangement formed by shaping of the sheetmetal-like material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Predrag TODOROVIC
  • Patent number: 8353105
    Abstract: With rotor wheel drums with integrally formed-on and/or separately attached blading (3, 8) blade tip machining is performed for the completely mounted drum assembly (1, 5) connected to a driven auxiliary turbomachine shaft acting as workpiece carrier (13) in a single apparatus by dry machining the separably assembled blades (8) and by wet machining the integrally formed-on blades (3), with the rotational speed of the workpiece carrier being lower in the wet machining process than in the dry machining process. The area for dry machining is protected by a shield (19) adjustable in the respective separating position against the matter generated in wet machining. Notwithstanding the fact that drums with integrally formed-on blades can be machined without being damaged, optimum gap conditions and correspondingly higher efficiency can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Arno Secherling
  • Publication number: 20130011246
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas-turbine aircraft engine with a core engine surrounded by a bypass duct, with a substantially annular cooling element being provided in the area of a radially inner wall of the bypass duct downstream of stator vanes of the bypass duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Predrag TODOROVIC
  • Publication number: 20130008147
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft gas turbine with a core engine 10 which is surrounded by a bypass duct 29 enclosed radially outwards by a bypass wall 30, with a radially inner wall 31 of the bypass duct 29 forming with the radially outer bypass wall 30 a bypass nozzle 32, and with the radially inner wall 31 including an adjusting element 33 extending along the circumference of the inner wall 31 and being deformable radially outwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Predrag TODOROVIC, Miles TRUMPER
  • Publication number: 20120325354
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for the creation of an impingement jet (P) generating annular swirls (7). The apparatus includes at least one fluidic switching element (1, 1?) having an inlet branch (2) with an inlet opening (21) via which cooling gas (G) can be supplied to the fluidic switching element (1), at least two outlet branches (31, 32) provided downstream of the inlet branch (2) and ending each in an outlet opening (8), a branching point (4) at which the inlet branch (2) splits into the at least two outlet branches (31, 32), and control means (31, 32, S) for controlling the cooling gas (G) flowing in the inlet branch (2) such that the cooling gas (G) is routed alternatingly into the one or the other of the outlet branches (31, 32), with an impingement jet (P) pulsating at a frequency (f) being generated in each outlet branch (31, 32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Timm JANETZKE
  • Patent number: 8336288
    Abstract: On a gas-turbine engine, in particular an aircraft engine, with a fan, a fan casing and a fan duct as well as with high-pressure and low-pressure turbines arranged behind each other in flow direction in the casing of the engine, the auxiliaries connected are to be operated with only a small increase in engine power. For this purpose in the flow direction of the airflow (20) exiting from the high-pressure turbine (15) a bleeding mechanism is provided for bleeding radially into the fan duct (4) at least part of the airflow (20) leaving the high-pressure turbine (15) on the upstream side of the low-pressure turbine (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Gideon Venter
  • Publication number: 20120321477
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a rotor device for a jet engine with a disk wheel and several rotor blades connected to said disk wheel, with the rotor blades being arranged in each case via a blade root substantially in the axial direction inside recesses of the disk wheel. Several locking segments are provided in the recesses of the disk wheel for axially locking the rotor blades, said locking segments interacting on the one hand with grooves of the rotor blades and on the other hand with at least one groove of the disk wheel. In the area of the groove of at least one of the rotor blades between the groove of the rotor blade and a locking segment there is a positive fit preventing a relative movement between the rotor blades and the locking segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Ulf GERSTBERGER
  • Publication number: 20120304658
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a segment component in high-temperature casting material for an annular combustion chamber of an aircraft engine, characterized by a combustion-chamber wall which in operation shields a fuel flame extending along a burner axis from the environment, with the combustion-chamber wall having a bulge which points in a direction facing away from the burner axis. The invention furthermore relates to an annular combustion chamber, an aircraft engine with an annular combustion chamber as well as a method for the manufacture of an annular combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Karl SCHREIBER, Miklos GERENDAS
  • Publication number: 20120298802
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a de-icing device of an aircraft gas-turbine engine with an engine cowling enclosing at least one inflow region, with the engine cowling having a double-walled design and including at least one annular tube element extending in the circumferential direction and being provided with outlet openings for passing hot air to an inflow region, in order to de-ice it, with the tube element in the circumferential direction including multiple individual tube segments which can be attached relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Predrag TODOROVIC
  • Publication number: 20120285138
    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: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Predrag TODOROVIC
  • Publication number: 20120288359
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas-turbine engine with at least one compressor and at least one bleed-air tapping device, which includes an annular duct in a radially outer wall of a flow duct, and with an annular closing element, which is arranged in the region of the annular duct and can be moved in a substantially axial direction from a closed position to an open position, with the closing element having an annular flow divider projection which in the open position projects in the flow duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Sacha PICHEL
  • Patent number: 8307945
    Abstract: A gas-turbine exhaust cone includes a cone shaped outside cone 1 closed in a flow direction, an inside cone 2 arranged in the outside cone 1 over at least part of the length of the exhaust cone, with the inside cone 2 being connected to the outside cone 1 via at least one helical partition wall 3, thereby forming an interspace 4 between the outside cone 1 and the inside cone 2. The interspace 4 is connected to inlet openings 5 at its inflow side and opens at an exit side 6 towards an interior 7 of the outside cone 1. A dampening element 8 is arranged in the outside cone 1 adjacent to the exit side 6 of the interspace 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Predrag Todorovic
  • Patent number: 8307659
    Abstract: A nozzle includes first guiding elements (10) circumferentially arranged at a nozzle rim (9). To reduce sound emission while keeping flow losses low, second guiding elements (20) are also circumferentially arranged at the nozzle rim (9), with one of the first and second guiding elements (10, 20) being diffuser-type and the other of the first and second guiding elements (10, 20) being nozzle-type and with both types of guiding elements circumferentially alternating with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Marco Rose, Rene Spieweg
  • Publication number: 20120282082
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas-turbine balancing device with at least one annular groove provided on the outer circumference of at least one intermediate or high-pressure rotor of an intermediate or high-pressure compressor, with at least one balancing element being arranged in the annular groove, and with the balancing element being moveable in the circumferential direction along the annular groove and provided with a fixing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Sacha PICHEL
  • Publication number: 20120269619
    Abstract: A fluid-flow machine includes at least one rotor having a rotary element with a plurality of rotor blades arranged on the rotary element, and a circumferential casing having a central axis and surrounding the rotor. The circumferential casing or a part connected thereto has an annular space surface on the inside, which delimits a flow duct of the fluid-flow machine radially outwards. The annular space surface has a structuring at least in one area adjoining a rotor on the circumferential side. At least one structuring of the annular space surface has, relative to the central axis of the circumferential casing, a circumferentially asymmetrical design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Erik JOHANN
  • Publication number: 20120266426
    Abstract: The present invention describes a method and an apparatus (12) for surface strengthening and/or smoothing of an integrally bladed rotor area (9) of a jet engine. The rotor area (9) can be connected to a device (13) and held by the latter inside the container (14) in a position equivalent to an at least approximately horizontal orientation of a rotary axis (15) of the rotor area (9). A space delimited by the container (14) and the rotor area (9) between a surface (17) of the rotor area (9) and that surface (18) of the container (14) facing the rotor area (9) is filled at least partially with strengthening and/or smoothing elements (19). A relative movement is generated between the surface (17) of the rotor area (9) and the strengthening and/or smoothing elements (19). The surface region (17) of the rotor area (9) to be strengthened and/or smoothed is at a distance from the surface (18) of the container (14) facing the rotor area (9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Goetz G. FELDMANN, Oleksandr KYRYLOV
  • Patent number: 8286435
    Abstract: A jet engine (1) includes at least one emergency drive unit (10), with the jet engine (1) having at least one engine shaft (2a) coupled via at least one gear train (4) with at least one auxiliary gearbox (7), which is connected to at least one auxiliary equipment (8), especially an electric generator. The emergency drive unit (10) includes at least one rotatable component. In order to provide a jet engine with an emergency drive unit in a simple configuration, the rotatable component of the emergency drive unit (10) is attached to the gear train (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Detlef Rensch
  • Patent number: 8281563
    Abstract: A gas-turbine bearing oil system with an oil supply arrangement includes at least one oil pump 5 supplying oil from an oil tank 1 to the bearing chambers 2, 3, 4 and at least one scavenge pump unit 6 returning oil from the bearing chambers 2, 3, 4 to the oil tank 1 At least one additional electric scavenge pump 7 is used to return oil from at least one bearing chamber 2, 3, 4 to the oil tank 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Arnaud Pisseloup
  • Publication number: 20120247110
    Abstract: A device for mixing fuel and air of a jet engine includes at least one air-carrying duct and at least one further fuel-carrying duct. Guide elements extending over the duct height and distributed over the circumference of the duct are provided at least in the air-carrying duct, in the area of which guide elements a twist can be imparted to the air flowing in the air-carrying duct in order to improve mixing between the air and the fuel downstream of the ducts. The guide elements are provided at a trailing edge with at least one downstream extending projection and/or upstream extending recess designed at least approximately or at least in some areas with a sharp edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Carsten CLEMEN
  • Publication number: 20120251312
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stator of an axial compressor stage of a turbomachine featuring a radially outer blade ring forming an outer ring surface, a radially inner blade ring forming an inner ring surface, and several stator blades connected to the blade rings. It is provided that the outer ring surface and/or the inner ring surface has at least in a partial area a changing radius relative to a central axis of the stator both in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Erik JOHANN, Frank HEINICHEN