Patents Assigned to Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
  • Patent number: 11311935
    Abstract: A method for the thermal treatment of a component, in particular a metal powder injection molded component (MIM component) including a nickel base alloy, wherein, after sintering, in particular immediately after sintering, in the injection molding process, the component is exposed for a predetermined holding time to at least one treatment temperature below the sintering temperature. A component, in particular an MIM component, and to an aircraft engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Naicheng Sheng, Andreas Meyer, Katharina Horke, Robert Singer
  • Patent number: 11280493
    Abstract: A fuel spray nozzle including a primary atomizer to discharge a flow of swirled atomised fuel along and around a fuel spray nozzle axis. The primary atomiser includes outer air swirler disposed radially outwardly of a fuel pre-filmer channel. A secondary atomiser disposed around the primary atomiser includes secondary inner air swirler to swirl flow along an inner air channel. The secondary inner air swirler disposed radially inwardly of a secondary fuel pre-filmer channel of the secondary atomiser. A primary outer air channel defined between the primary outer swirler and the secondary inner swirler. The secondary inner air swirler include splitter wall to separate swirling flow in the secondary inner channel from the primary flow of atomised fuel. The secondary inner air swirler includes primary cap wall integral with and extending radially inwardly from the splitter wall to direct flow from the primary outer channel inwardly towards the fuel spray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignees: ROLLS-ROYCE plc, ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Luca Tentorio, Juan Carlos Roman Casado, Giacomo Di Chiaro, Jonathan Knapton, Filippo Zambon, Radu Irimia, Imon-Kalyan Bagchi, James Robins, Tomasz Stankowski
  • Patent number: 11278992
    Abstract: Methods for manufacturing a tandem guide vane segment that includes an outer platform, a front guide vane, and a rear guide vane, wherein the front guide vane and the rear guide vane are arranged in a firmly fixated manner with respect to one another. One method includes manufacturing an integral front segment section that includes the front guide vane and a front section of the outer platform, manufacturing an integral rear segment section that includes the rear guide vane and a rear section of the outer platform, and connecting the two segment sections to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Oliver Koehne, Felix Goeppinger
  • Patent number: 11271455
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor with an integrated cooling device, which uses in particular bleed air as the primary coolant for cooling components of the stator and/or the rotor. Ambient air accelerated by the propulsion means, for example by a propeller, that is driven by the electric motor is used here as the bleed air. A channel system is integrated within the stator housing that has one or more channels for the targeted feed of the primary coolant to the component to be cooled. In the case of cooling the stator, a heat exchanger is also integrated within the stator housing, for example an annular heat exchanger that is arranged coaxially with respect to the stator and to which the primary coolant is fed. For cooling the rotor, a coolant passage is provided that also includes the air gap of the electric machine, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Gabriele Teofili
  • Patent number: 11264885
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a rotor for an electric machine comprising: an electric coil arrangement; and a winding carrier mechanically carrying the coil arrangement and at least partially enclosing the coil arrangement on a radially outer side of the coil arrangement. The rotor includes an inner cavity for circulating a fluid coolant such that the coil arrangement comes into contact with the liquid coolant on its radially inner side as the rotor rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Michael Frank, Peter van Haßelt, Johannes Richter, Christian Weidermann
  • Patent number: 11248695
    Abstract: A planetary gearbox includes a planet carrier, with a planetary gear rotatably disposed on the planet carrier, and a gear that meshes with the planetary gear, as well as a gas turbine engine having such a planetary gearbox. The planet carrier has an oil supply installation including a supply line for oil to an opening. The oil is directed out of the opening in the direction of the planetary gear and/or the gear. The oil supply installation in relation to a primary rotating direction of the planetary gear and/or the gear in front of the opening includes a shielding region which protrudes from an external side of the oil supply installation and which by way of the external side of the oil supply installation on a side that faces the primary rotating direction of the planetary gear and/or the gear, delimits an oil collection groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Franz Meyer, Jens Klostermann
  • Patent number: 11248561
    Abstract: An exhaust nozzle of a gas turbine engine includes an outer nozzle wall, a centerbody arranged in a flow channel, and two struts connecting the centerbody to the wall. A first strut is connected to the wall by a first connection allowing movement of the strut relative to the nozzle wall in the axial direction. Another strut is connected to the wall by a second connection allowing movement of the strut relative to the wall in the radial and axial directions. The second connection is formed by a sliding element and a receiving slot, wherein the sliding element includes an interaction zone interacting with an actuator for axial movement. The interaction zone has a radial length such that the interaction between the actuator and the interaction zone is maintained when the sliding element is moved in the radial direction by radial thermal expansion of the strut and/or the centerbody.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Predrag Todorovic
  • Patent number: 11236671
    Abstract: An air supply system for a gas turbine engine including a first duct which is connected or capable of being connected to a first compressor bleed air supply of a gas turbine engine; a second duct which downstream of the first compressor bleed air supply is connected or capable of being connected to a second compressor bleed air supply of the gas turbine engine; a nozzle by way of which air from the second duct is capable of being blown into the first duct; and an exhaust air duct having an opening which downstream of the nozzle is disposed in the first duct in such a manner that air blown by way of the nozzle into the first duct can flow out of the first duct through the opening into the exhaust air duct. A gas turbine engine and an aircraft are furthermore provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Stefan Fechner
  • Patent number: 11225882
    Abstract: A method for determining a measured variable comprises the following steps: a) providing a data record comprising values of a plurality of input variables and values of the measured variable; b) ascertaining correlations between the values of the input variables and the values of the measured variable; c) creating a sensor model on the basis of the ascertained correlations; d) acquiring at least one further value of at least one of the input variables; and e) determining a value of the measured variable on the basis of the at least one further value of at least one of the input variables and the sensor model wherein the values of at least one of the input variables in steps a) and/or e) have been determined, in turn, according to steps a) to e). Further, a sensor system and a gas turbine engine are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Heiko Mikat, Nikhil Reddy Podduturi, Juan Carlos Cabrejas
  • Patent number: 11228267
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electrical drive device having: an inverter including an inverter unit for each phase; a control unit configured to control the inverter units by application of vector control; and a rotating electrical machine having a stator that includes a plurality of phase windings connected to the inverter units. Each of the phase windings includes a first part-winding and an electrically isolated second part-winding. The inverter units include a first phase module and a second phase module. The phase modules deliver the electrical phase assigned to the respective inverter unit in a separate and a mutually electrically isolated manner. The first part-winding is electrically connected to the first phase module and the second part-winding is electrically connected to the second phase module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Swen Ruppert
  • Patent number: 11215078
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine for an aircraft including a unit supplied with oil from a first oil circuit and a second oil circuit. The first oil circuit and the second oil circuit each are fluidly coupled with at least one inlet and with at least one outlet of the unit and with at least one inlet and with at least one outlet of an oil tank. The first oil circuit and the second oil circuit are configured to receive oil from the oil tank and to direct the received oil to the unit. The oil tank is incorporating offset outlets to each of the oil circuits. The offset outlet of the second oil circuit is positioned higher in the oil tank than the offset outlet of the first oil circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co. KG, Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventors: Stefan Menczykalski, Stephan Uhkoetter, John R. Mason, David A. Edwards, Neil Davies, Lynn Hammond, David Williams
  • Patent number: 11215140
    Abstract: An exhaust nozzle of a gas turbine engine which includes a nozzle wall, the nozzle wall including an upstream, fixed structure and a downstream, translatable structure that is translatable relative to the fixed structure, a flow channel which is limited radially outwards by the nozzle wall, a centerbody arranged in the flow channel, at least one strut connecting the centerbody to the nozzle wall, a thrust reverser unit that comprises blocking doors, a first actuation system for deployment of the blocking doors into a deployed position for thrust reversal, and a second actuation system for translating the translatable structure between a stowed, upstream position and a fully deployed, downstream position. It is provided that the at least one strut is connected to the fixed structure, that the blocking doors are connected to the translatable structure, and that the first actuation system and the second actuation system are independent actuation systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO. KG
    Inventor: Predrag Todorovic
  • Patent number: 11215076
    Abstract: A bearing assembly for a gas turbine engine comprises a bearing; a bearing bracket, which holds the bearing and is secured by a predetermined breaking device on a connecting element, which can be connected or is connected to a support structure of the gas turbine engine; and a clutch for transmitting a torque from a first clutch element connected in a fixed manner to the rotor of the bearing to a second clutch element supported on the bearing bracket, wherein the clutch elements are spaced apart when the predetermined breaking device is intact and can be brought into contact with one another by destruction of the predetermined breaking device. A gas turbine engine and a method are furthermore provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin Boehme, Timo Schatke
  • Patent number: 11187411
    Abstract: A combustion chamber assembly for an engine with at least one tile component, on the cold side of which facing away from a combustion space, a positioning aid with at least two positioning elements, wherein a defined position relative to the combustion chamber component is predefined for the tile component via the contact of the at least two positioning elements on at least one contact face of the combustion chamber component in two spatial axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Michael Ebel, Kay Heinze
  • Patent number: 11187186
    Abstract: An exhaust nozzle of a gas turbine engine which includes an outer nozzle wall, a flow channel which is limited radially outwards by the nozzle wall, a centerbody arranged in the flow channel, and exactly one strut connecting the centerbody to the nozzle wall. The strut is connected to the nozzle wall by means of a connecting structure that is displaceable in the axial direction of the outer nozzle wall. At least one actuator is provided interacting with the connecting structure or the outer nozzle wall for displacing the strut in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Predrag Todorovic, Thomas Schillinger
  • Patent number: 11187243
    Abstract: A diffuser for a radial compressor of a turbomachine is provided. The diffuser has a plurality of diffuser channels, wherein the diffuser channels extend across a radial area of the diffuser across a bent area into an axial area of the diffuser, wherein, in the radial area of the diffuser, the diffuser channels have diffuser walls in particular at v-shaped blades that are bent in the movement direction of the radial compressor or are straight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Simon Schuldt, Knut Rosenau
  • Patent number: 11187158
    Abstract: A gearbox assembly for a gas turbine engine comprises a planetary gearbox having at least one ring gear and at least one planet gear, which exerts a force on the ring gear in the direction of a force vector as it rolls on said ring gear; and a holding device for fastening the at least one ring gear on another structure, having a first section, which extends in the axial direction on one side of the force vector and/or of a straight-line extension thereof, and having a second section, which extends in the axial direction on the other side of the force vector and/or of the straight-line extension thereof. A gas turbine engine and a method for producing a gearbox assembly are furthermore made available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Jonas Schwengler, David Krueger, Michael Nique
  • Patent number: 11187108
    Abstract: The proposed solution relates to a stator vane assembly for an engine, having at least one stator vane of a stator vane row and a casing for the at least one stator vane row, wherein the at least one stator vane is mounted adjustably on the casing by means of a bearing journal, which is rotatably mounted in a bearing opening in the casing and passes through this bearing opening along a longitudinal axis. A section of a sealing element, on which at least one sealing ridge extending radially in relation to the longitudinal axis is formed and/or which has a nonlinear slot passing longitudinally through the section, is provided within the bearing opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Robert Koletzki, Thomas Klauke, Pablo Iribarren
  • Patent number: 11174756
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine for an aircraft includes an engine core, a fan and a gearbox which receives an input from a turbine shaft and which outputs drive for the fan for driving the fan at a lower rotational speed than the turbine shaft. The gearbox has a sun gear which is driven by the turbine shaft. The turbine shaft and the sun gear form a spline connection which is lubricated with oil. The turbine shaft has, on its radially inner side, at least one indentation which is suitable for receiving oil, and the turbine shaft has at least one bore which extends from the indentation to the radially outer side of the turbine shaft and which is suitable for transporting oil from the at least one indentation to the radially outer side of the turbine shaft as the turbine shaft rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Gideon Daniel Venter, Christos Kallianteris
  • Patent number: 11162458
    Abstract: A ventilation device for controlling an air flow through at least one air inlet into an interior space of a gas turbine engine, comprises: at least one actuable closure device for the at least one air inlet, which has an open position for exposing the air inlet and can be transferred by actuation into a closed position for closing the air inlet; and a fire extinguishing device having an extinguishing agent arranged in a reservoir, wherein the fire extinguishing device is connected or can be connected to the interior space and the closure device in such a way that activation of the fire extinguishing device both leads to admission of extinguishing agent from the reservoir into the interior space and brings about actuation of the closure device to transfer the closure device into the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Michael Schacht