Patents by Inventor Alexander Böck

Alexander Böck 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: 20230311631
    Abstract: An energy storage floor assembly for a motor vehicle having an electric drive includes an electrical energy storage device accommodated in a storage housing and arranged on the bottom side of a vehicle floor. At least one longitudinal beam is arranged within the storage housing. The front end of the longitudinal beam, viewed in the vehicle direction, is connected at least indirectly to a crossbeam component which is arranged in the region of a front-end structure and to which a front axle carrier is also attached. A load transfer element is installed between a rearward region of the front axle carrier and the front end of the longitudinal beam, which load transfer element has a front support region on the front end thereof and a rear support region on the rear end thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander BOECK, Nermin KECALEVIC
  • Publication number: 20230312018
    Abstract: A body structure for a motor vehicle includes two inner sills having an undulating cross section, a floor panel arranged in the transverse direction of the vehicle between the inner sills, and two funnel-shaped force-introducing elements which are connected in respective front sill regions to the inner sills and widen in a funnel-shaped manner transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and, behind respective front wheelhouse regions, are supported on the rear side by their respective widened end region on a bulkhead of the body structure. A motor vehicle includes a body structure of this kind.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Riad ATHMANI, Alexander BOECK, Michael HAINZINGER, Johannes HASSELBACH, Nermin KECALEVIC, Juergen LESCHHORN, Jyrki MAJAMAEKI
  • Publication number: 20230286588
    Abstract: A method for producing a body for a motor vehicle, includes providing body components at least of a front structure of a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle which are useable in the manufacturing of a front structure of a passenger compartment of a first variant of the body, to produce the front structure of the passenger compartment of a second variant of the body. The first variant of the body is smaller and more lightweight than the second variant of the body. A corner region of the front structure of the second variant, in which a front wall of the front structure adjoins a front-side end region, belonging to the front structure, of a side sill of the passenger compartment, is designed to absorb a larger force impact than a corresponding corner region of the front structure of the first variant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander BOECK, Michael HAINZINGER, Johannes HASSELBACH, Nermin KECALEVIC, Juergen LESCHHORN
  • Publication number: 20230249750
    Abstract: A front pillar structure for a motor vehicle is manufactured in a shell type of construction, with a supporting carrier which reaches from a wheelhouse of the motor vehicle as far as a side sill of the front pillar structure, and with an outer shell which is connected to an outer side of the supporting carrier. The side sill includes a profile part which has a load-absorbing region formed in the transverse direction of the front pillar structure. The outer shell overlaps the load-absorbing region in the vertical direction of the front pillar structure and is connected to the profile part below an apex of the load-absorbing region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Bartlomiej ALBINSKI, Alexander BOECK, Nermin KECALEVIC, Juergen LESCHHORN, Marco REISBOECK
  • Patent number: 11280200
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a blade for a gas turbine, in particular of an aircraft engine, which is produced at least in part from ceramic matrix composite with a plurality of superimposed fabric layers, wherein at least one pair of superimposed fabric layers comprises a first fabric layer that has at least one first point of interruption between two mutually facing first edges of this fabric layer, and a second fabric layer that has at least one second point of interruption adjacent to the first point of interruption between two mutually facing second edges of the second fabric layer, this second point being displaced from the first point of interruption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Alexander Boeck
  • Patent number: 11156127
    Abstract: The invention relates to a positioning element for a guide vane arrangement of a guide vane stage of a gas turbine, with at least one base section curved in the peripheral direction; a plurality of uptake openings arranged next to each other in the peripheral direction on the base section, whose aperture axis runs substantially in the radial direction and which are designed to take up a respective radially inner guide vane section; a coupling section provided on the base section, which is or can be coupled to a seal carrier of a seal arrangement. According to the invention, it is proposed that at least one recess is provided in the base section, which is arranged between two neighboring uptake openings and runs from inside to outside at least in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Lothar Albers, Alexander Boeck
  • Patent number: 10837319
    Abstract: A turbine center frame for a gas turbine having a plurality of first components and a plurality of second components alternately mutually adjacently disposed in circumferential direction and bounding a hot gas-conducting flow channel in radial direction, the first components each having two first overlapping portions, and the second components each having two second overlapping portions. In a transition from a first component to a second component, one of the first overlapping portions and one of the second overlapping portions overlap. A centering element, against which, the first components and the second components are braced along the circumferential direction and in the radial direction, centers the first components and the second components relative to a central axis of the turbine center frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Alexander Boeck
  • Patent number: 10774686
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine center frame for an aircraft gas turbine, with a plurality of first components and a plurality of second components, which, in the peripheral direction, are arranged alternately next to one another and, in a radial direction, bound a flow duct conveying hot gas, wherein the first components each have two first overlapping segments and the second components each have two second overlapping segments with a respective region of the transitioning from a first component to a second component or vice versa, a first overlapping segment and a second overlapping segment are arranged overlapping, and with at least one centering element, at which the first components and the second components are supported along the peripheral direction and in a radial direction with the first components and the second components essentially centered with respect to a central axis of the turbine center frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Alexander Boeck
  • Patent number: 10738656
    Abstract: A sealing assembly for a gas turbine is provided, especially an aircraft gas turbine, including: a first component having a first flange portion and a second component having a second flange portion; in the area of the first flange portion and the second flange portion, the first component and the second component being detachably intercoupled by a bolt connection; between the first component, especially a rounded portion, and the second component, especially the second flange portion, a variable interspace being provided that is at least partially sealed by at least one sealing element. The sealing element has a first sealing portion that rests against the first component, especially against the rounded portion, and a second sealing portion that rests against the second component, especially against the second flange portion; the first sealing portion and the second sealing portion being interconnected and extending obliquely relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Alexander Boeck
  • Patent number: 10655490
    Abstract: A seal arrangement comprising a first and second components made of a ceramic fiber composite material and comprising first and second bounding sections with first and second overlapping sections and first and second securing sections which are connected to and projects from the first and second bounding sections. The first and second overlapping sections are arranged at least partially overlapping such that the first and second bounding sections form an essentially continuous bounding surface. A separation between the first and second securing sections is at least partially sealed by a seal element which comprises at least one first sheet-metal element arranged along the first securing section and at least partially bridging the separation between the first and second securing sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventor: Alexander Boeck
  • Patent number: 10550707
    Abstract: A seal system for a turbomachine, in particular a gas turbine, which includes a first component (10A, 10B), a second component (20), a flap (30) for sealing a gap between the first and second components, and a leaf spring, which includes a first leg (41) and a second leg (42), in a mounting state in which the flap and the second component do not contact each other, a projection of an abutment area (11) of the first component (10A, 10B), against which the first leg (41) is supported via the flap (30), is situated perpendicularly to a contact line (K) through at least two contact points of the first leg (41) with the flap (30), at least partially within a bearing surface (A) of the first component (10A, 10B), against which the second leg (42) of the pretensioned leaf spring is supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Alexander Boeck
  • Publication number: 20200018241
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an adjusting device for adjusting guide vanes of a guide vane cascade of a turbomachine, in particular of a turbine stage or a compressor stage of a gas turbine, wherein the adjusting device comprises a coupling ring for coupling the guide vanes and at least two actuators for rotating the coupling ring, said actuators being connected to the coupling ring, wherein at least one of these actuators has a disconnection coupling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Alexander Boeck
  • Publication number: 20200011184
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a blade for a gas turbine, in particular of an aircraft engine, which is produced at least in part from ceramic matrix composite with a plurality of superimposed fabric layers, wherein at least one pair of superimposed fabric layers comprises a first fabric layer that has at least one first point of interruption between two mutually facing first edges of this fabric layer, and a second fabric layer that has at least one second point of interruption adjacent to the first point of interruption between two mutually facing second edges of the second fabric layer, this second point being displaced from the first point of interruption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Alexander BOECK
  • Patent number: 10450877
    Abstract: The invention relates to a guide means (10) for a gas turbine, in particular for an aircraft engine, having at least one casing element (12); having at least one first duct segment (14), which is arranged in the radial direction on the inside of the casing element (12), by means of which at least one duct (16), through which gas can flow, is at least partially delimited outward in the radial direction; having at least one second duct segment (26), which is arranged in the radial direction on the inside of the first duct segment (14), by means of which the duct (26) is at least partially delimited inward in the radial direction; and having at least one guide vane (28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Alexander Boeck
  • Patent number: 10415430
    Abstract: A coupling assembly, including a first component and a second component overlapping in a join region; a joining device allowing the first and second components to rest against each other clampingly and region; the joining device including a clamp resting on the first component and the second component and having a bolt connection adapted for securing the clamp to the first and second component. The first and second components are manufactured from a ceramic matrix composite; the first component having a holding portion including a front side facing the clamp, a rear side facing away from the clamp, and a receiving opening; and the bolt connection having a bolt portion that extends through the receiving opening and, at the end thereof facing away from the clamp, having a bracing portion angled relative to the longitudinal axis of the bolt portion and that rests against the rear side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Alexander Boeck
  • Publication number: 20190184648
    Abstract: A fiber composite component assembly (100) includes a fiber composite component (3) including a base material and a fiber material, and a tolerance compensation layer (5) for joining the fiber composite component (3) to a further component (1), the tolerance compensation layer (5) including a fiber composite portion (17) and/or a further layer portion (7). A fiber composite component system (200) including a fiber composite component assembly (100) and a further component (1) joined to the fiber composite component assembly (100), as well as a method for producing a fiber composite component system (200), is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventor: Alexander BOECK
  • Patent number: 10221697
    Abstract: A turbine blade (100) having an airfoil (1). In its radially outer region, the turbine blade (100) has at least one shroud (200) or at least one shroud segment, as well as at least one cutting tooth (300) which is intended to engage at least once into portions of a turbine casing during use of the turbine blade (100). The cutting tooth (300) is connected to the shroud (200) or the shroud segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Alexander Boeck, Manfred Feldmann, Stephen Royston Williams
  • Patent number: 10151209
    Abstract: A sealing system including a first component at least partially manufactured from ceramic fiber composite materials, a second component at least partially manufactured from ceramic fiber composite materials, and a sealing element accommodated between the first component and the second component. The sealing element is designed as a sealing strip. It is provided that at least one recess accommodating the sealing element is formed on the first component and/or on the second component, the recess having a cross-sectional profile including an inner section which is concave toward the sealing element, the radius of curvature of the inner section being selected in such a way that it may be formed with the aid of continuous, curved fibers of the ceramic fiber composite material, the fibers being oriented in such a way that they lie essentially in parallel to the cross-sectional plane of the cross-sectional profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Alexander Boeck
  • Publication number: 20180347402
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine center frame for an aircraft gas turbine, with a plurality of first components and a plurality of second components, which, in the peripheral direction, are arranged alternately next to one another and, in a radial direction, bound a flow duct conveying hot gas, wherein the first components each have two first overlapping segments and the second components each have two second overlapping segments with a respective region of the transitioning from a first component to a second component or vice versa, a first overlapping segment and a second overlapping segment are arranged overlapping, and with at least one centering element, at which the first components and the second components are supported along the peripheral direction and in a radial direction with the first components and the second components essentially centered with respect to a central axis of the turbine center frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Alexander Boeck
  • Publication number: 20180347404
    Abstract: A turbine center frame for a gas turbine having a plurality of first components and a plurality of second components alternately mutually adjacently disposed in circumferential direction and bounding a hot gas-conducting flow channel in radial direction, the first components each having two first overlapping portions, and the second components each having two second overlapping portions. In a transition from a first component to a second component, one of the first overlapping portions and one of the second overlapping portions overlap. A centering element, against which, the first components and the second components are braced along the circumferential direction and in the radial direction, centers the first components and the second components relative to a central axis of the turbine center frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Alexander Boeck