Patents by Inventor Alexander Halcoussis

Alexander Halcoussis 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: 20230279777
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blisk segment for a gas turbine, comprising at least one first blade having an airfoil, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a blade root, a suction side and a pressure side, a pedestal, and a first fillet having a device for influencing crack growth. The robustness of the gas turbine is improved in accordance with the invention in that, at the leading edge of the first blade, at least on the first fillet, a first surface structure is arranged and interacts with the crack-influencing device for influencing crack growth and for flow influencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Hanschke, Alexander Halcoussis, Amadeusz Rekosiewicz, Moritz Thon, Benjamin Linke
  • Publication number: 20230265766
    Abstract: A guide vane for arrangement in a gas duct of a turbomachine, including a guide vane blade and an outer platform which, relative to a longitudinal axis of the turbomachine, is arranged radially on an outside on the guide vane blade. The outer platform delimits the gas duct with an inner wall surface radially to the outside. The inner wall surface has a curved profile with an inflection point when viewed in an axial section, the inner wall surface having a concave curvature in a first axial section which is upstream from the inflection point with respect to a flow through the gas duct, and a convex curvature in a second axial section which is arranged downstream from the inflection point with respect to the flow through the gas duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander Halcoussis, Harsimar Sahota
  • Patent number: 11085453
    Abstract: An engine, having a first, second, third and fourth quasi-stage, each with a stator and a downstream rotor, wherein a particular blade/vane solidity in the center section is in the first quasi-stage, at least 1.04 and at most 1.16 for the stator and at least 1.46 and at most 1.67 for the rotor; in the second quasi-stage, at least 1.13 and at most 1.32 for the stator and at least 1.32 and at most 1.61 for the rotor; in the third quasi-stage, at least 1.20 and at most 1.39 for the stator and at least 1.16 and at most 1.41 for the rotor; in the fourth quasi-stage, at least 1.37 and at most 1.63 for the stator and at least 1.15 and at most 1.41 for the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Harsimar Sahota, Alexander Halcoussis, Sergio Elorza Gomez
  • Patent number: 11066949
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a guide vane ring element for a turbomachine, such as a gas turbine, with at least one drilled hole for the at least partial uptake of a flange of a rotatable guide vane, wherein an edge of the drilled hole on the vane element side is designed convexly along the edge in a first circumferential portion and, in particular, has a radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Vitalis Mairhanser, Birgit Effner, Alexander Halcoussis, Hannes Wolf
  • Patent number: 10844726
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blade for a turbomachine, comprising a blade element with a suction side and a pressure side, which extend between a leading edge and a trailing edge of the blade element, as well as a blade root for connection of the blade at a main rotor body, wherein the blade comprises a crack-affecting device, which, in the radial direction, has an altered cross-sectional geometry in comparison to an aerodynamically optimized blade profile. The invention further relates to a rotor for a turbomachine having at least one such blade, a turbomachine having at least one such blade, and/or with such a rotor as well as a method for producing a blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Horn, Daniel Theurich, Martin Becker, Axel Stettner, Wilfried Schuette, Michael Junge, Hans-Peter Hackenberg, Alexander Halcoussis, Hannes Wolf
  • Patent number: 10711798
    Abstract: A variable vane cascade for a turbomachine, in particular for a compressor stage or turbine stage of a gas turbine, having at least one first vane, in particular guide vane that has a first distance from a circumferentially adjacent vane, at least one second vane, in particular guide vane that has at least one second distance from at least one circumferentially adjacent vane that is smaller than the first distance, and an actuating device, in particular for jointly and/or reversibly adjusting the first and second vane from a first position where at least one airfoil cross section of the first vane and an airfoil cross section of the second vane each have a first stagger angle, into a second position where these airfoil cross sections have second stagger angles, the second stagger angle of the first vane differing from the second stagger angle of the second vane, in particular being larger than the second stagger angle of the second vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Alexander Halcoussis
  • Patent number: 10677076
    Abstract: A guide vane ring for a turbomachine minimizes a leakage flow that passes through a recess into which a guide vane disk is inserted. It has a guide vane row having a plurality of guide vanes, each having a vane airfoil and a vane disk, as well as an inner ring having an inner ring surface facing the plurality of guide vanes. Viewed in the direction of a designated primary flow streaming through the turbomachine, the vane disks have a front and a rear surface region. In a nominal and/or a maximum open position of the guide vanes, the front and/or the rear surface region of at least one of the vane disks has an offset from the inner ring surface that is radially disposed (relative to a central axis of the inner ring).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Hannes Wolf, Alexander Halcoussis
  • Publication number: 20200024948
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a high pressure compressor for an engine, having a first, second, third and fourth quasi-stage, each with a stator and a downstream rotor, wherein a particular blade/vane solidity in the center section is in the first quasi-stage, at least 1.04 and at most 1.16 for the stator and at least 1.46 and at most 1.67 for the rotor; in the second quasi-stage, at least 1.13 and at most 1.32 for the stator and at least 1.32 and at most 1.61 for the rotor; in the third quasi-stage, at least 1.20 and at most 1.39 for the stator and at least 1.16 and at most 1.41 for the rotor; in the fourth quasi-stage, at least 1.37 and at most 1.63 for the stator and at least 1.15 and at most 1.41 for the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Harsimar SAHOTA, Alexander HALCOUSSIS, Sergio ELORZA GOMEZ
  • Publication number: 20190120061
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blade for a turbomachine, comprising a blade element with a suction side and a pressure side, which extend between a leading edge and a trailing edge of the blade element, as well as a blade root for connection of the blade at a main rotor body, wherein the blade comprises a crack-affecting device, which, in the radial direction, has an altered cross-sectional geometry in comparison to an aerodynamically optimized blade profile. The invention further relates to a rotor for a turbomachine having at least one such blade, a turbomachine having at least one such blade, and/or with such a rotor as well as a method for producing a blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Horn, Daniel Theurich, Martin Becker, Axel Stettner, Wilfried Schuette, Michael Junge, Hans-Peter Hackenberg, Alexander Halcoussis, Hannes Wolf
  • Publication number: 20180017081
    Abstract: A variable vane cascade for a turbomachine, in particular for a compressor stage or turbine stage of a gas turbine, having at least one first vane, in particular guide vane that has a first distance from a circumferentially adjacent vane, at least one second vane, in particular guide vane that has at least one second distance from at least one circumferentially adjacent vane that is smaller than the first distance, and an actuating device, in particular for jointly and/or reversibly adjusting the first and second vane from a first position where at least one airfoil cross section of the first vane and an airfoil cross section of the second vane each have a first stagger angle, into a second position where these airfoil cross sections have second stagger angles, the second stagger angle of the first vane differing from the second stagger angle of the second vane, in particular being larger than the second stagger angle of the second vane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Alexander HALCOUSSIS
  • Publication number: 20170314406
    Abstract: A guide vane ring for a turbomachine minimizes a leakage flow that passes through a recess (11) into which a guide vane disk is inserted. It has a guide vane row having a plurality of guide vanes (20), each having a vane airfoil (24) and a vane disk (21), as well as an inner ring (10) having an inner ring surface (12) facing the plurality of guide vanes. Viewed in the direction (R) of a designated primary flow streaming through the turbomachine, the vane disks (21) have a front and a rear surface region (22a, 22b). In a nominal and/or a maximum open position of the guide vanes, the front and/or the rear surface region (22a, 22b) of at least one of the vane disks has an offset (31a, 31b) from the inner ring surface (12) that is radially disposed (relative to a central axis (X) of the inner ring (10)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Hannes Wolf, Alexander Halcoussis
  • Publication number: 20170037741
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a guide vane ring element (10) for a turbomachine, such as a gas turbine, with at least one drilled hole (30) for the at least partial uptake of a flange (21) of a rotatable guide vane (20), wherein an edge of the drilled hole on the vane element side is designed convexly along the edge in a first circumferential portion (31A, 31B) and, in particular, has a radius (R).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Vitalis Mairhanser, Birgit Effner, Alexander Halcoussis, Hannes Wolf
  • Publication number: 20110164967
    Abstract: An axial flow machine having an asymmetrical air inlet and, downstream therefrom, a compressor having an inlet guide baffle composed of guide vanes is characterized in that at least some of the guide vanes of the inlet guide baffle have a vane profile and/or an angle of attack that deviate(s) from the remaining guide vanes. The inlet flow angle of the first compressor stage is hereby evened out circumferentially symmetrically. This is accomplished in that the different inlet angles resulting at various circumferential positions of the inlet guide baffle due to the asymmetry of the air inlet, are influenced by selective profiling and/or by selectively modifying the angle of incidence of individual guide vanes in such a way that a circumferentially symmetrical outflow angle from the inlet vane ring results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: MTU AERO ENGINES GMBH
    Inventors: Sergio Elorza Gomez, Alexander Halcoussis