Patents by Inventor Bernhard Kusters

Bernhard Kusters 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).

  • Patent number: 8951008
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compressor blade of a compressor which, along a main axis, comprises a blade base, a platform area and an adjacent blade profile having a profile tip. The blade profile is configured by a convex wall at the suction end and a concave wall at the pressure end opposite the wall at the suction end. These surfaces extend, with respect to a flow medium, from a leading edge to a trailing edge, a profile center line extending in the center between the two. A front face is arranged on the profile tip at an angle to the main axis, a sealing lip at least partially extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge and the blade profile including the sealing lip having a blade profile height extending in the direction of the main axis. In order to allow for an inexpensive compressor blade having improved aerodynamic properties and a modified sealing lip while having the same sealing properties, the height of the sealing lip is less than 2 percent of the height of the blade profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Cornelius, Bernhard Küsters, Stephan Mais, Andreas Peters, Achim Schirrmacher, Lutz Stephan, Bernd van den Toorn
  • Patent number: 8721273
    Abstract: An arrangement with a ring diffuser for an axial turbomachine, for example for a gas turbine, is provided. The ring diffuser includes an outer wall and with an inner wall coaxial thereto, between which a diffuser duct extends in ring form along an axial extent so as to diverge from an inflow-side end to an outflow-side end, the inner wall and the outer wall in each case including a wall surface delimiting the diffuser duct. In order to specify a diffuser duct which is adapted to an inflow uneven along the circumference and by means of which a specially efficient conversion of kinetic energy into static energy is possible, the wall surface which delimits the diffuser duct on the inlet side is rotationally asymmetrical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Cornelius, Bernhard Küsters, Ulrich Waltke
  • Patent number: 8721272
    Abstract: A ring diffuser for an axial turbomachine is provided. The ring diffuser includes an outer wall and an inner wall coaxial thereto, between which a diffuser channel extends in a ring shape along an axial extension from an inflow-side end diverging to an outflow-side end, wherein the inner wall and the outer wall each include a wall surface bounding the diffuser channel. In order to specify a diffuser channel that is tailored to an inflow that is uneven along the circumference and that facilitates a particularly efficient conversion of kinetic energy into static energy, a rotationally asymmetric wall surface bounding the diffuser channel on the inlet side is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Cornelius, Bernhard Küsters, Ulrich Waltke
  • Patent number: 8622708
    Abstract: A stator blade and a stator blade arrangement for a turbomachine which is exposable to axial throughflow is provided. Each stator blade is retained via a fixed clamping in a circumferential groove. For the fixed clamping, provision is made on one side of the blade root for a shaped piece with a threaded hole into which a tensioning screw, which is supported on the bottom of the circumferential groove, may be screwed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Küsters, Marc Mittelbach, Uwe Sieber, Ulrich Waltke, Dirk Wistuba
  • Patent number: 8336315
    Abstract: A gas turbine, comprising a turbine and a compressor provided with a compressor housing, and to a method for the operation thereof. The compressor is tapped in order to cool the turbine by means of at least one tap line for removing compressed or partially compressed air. The tap line comprises a locking device, particularly a valve, in order to regulate the outflow of tapped air and thus the cooling of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Holger Bauer, Bernhard Küsters, Dieter Minninger, Marc Mittelbach, Andreas Peters, Stephan Schmidt, Steffen Skreba, Bernd Stöcker
  • Publication number: 20120121401
    Abstract: An arrangement with a ring diffuser for an axial turbomachine, for example for a gas turbine, is provided. The ring diffuser includes an outer wall and with an inner wall coaxial thereto, between which a diffuser duct extends in ring form along an axial extent so as to diverge from an inflow-side end to an outflow-side end, the inner wall and the outer wall in each case including a wall surface delimiting the diffuser duct. In order to specify a diffuser duct which is adapted to an inflow uneven along the circumference and by means of which a specially efficient conversion of kinetic energy into static energy is possible, the wall surface which delimits the diffuser duct on the inlet side is rotationally asymmetrical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Christian CORNELIUS, Bernhard KÜSTERS, Ulrich WALTKE
  • Publication number: 20110250055
    Abstract: A ring diffuser for an axial turbomachine is provided. The ring diffuser includes an outer wall and an inner wall coaxial thereto, between which a diffuser channel extends in a ring shape along an axial extension from an inflow-side end diverging to an outflow-side end, wherein the inner wall and the outer wall each include a wall surface bounding the diffuser channel. In order to specify a diffuser channel that is tailored to an inflow that is uneven along the circumference and that facilitates a particularly efficient conversion of kinetic energy into static energy, a rotationally asymmetric wall surface bounding the diffuser channel on the inlet side is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventors: Christian Cornelius, Bernhard Küsters, Ulrich Waltke
  • Publication number: 20110052397
    Abstract: A stator blade and a stator blade arrangement for a turbomachine which is exposable to axial throughflow is provided. Each stator blade is retained via a fixed clamping in a circumferential groove. For the fixed clamping, provision is made on one side of the blade root for a shaped piece with a threaded hole into which a tensioning screw, which is supported on the bottom of the circumferential groove, may be screwed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Bernhard Kusters, Marc Mittelbach, Uwe Sieber, Ulrich Waltke, Dirk Wistuba
  • Publication number: 20110044800
    Abstract: The invention relates to a compressor blade of a compressor which, along a main axis, comprises a blade base, a platform area and an adjacent blade profile having a profile tip. The blade profile is configured by a convex wall at the suction end and a concave wall at the pressure end opposite the wall at the suction end. These surfaces extend, with respect to a flow medium, from a leading edge to a trailing edge, a profile center line extending in the center between the two. A front face is arranged on the profile tip at an angle to the main axis, a sealing lip at least partially extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge and the blade profile including the sealing lip having a blade profile height extending in the direction of the main axis. In order to allow for an inexpensive compressor blade having improved aerodynamic properties and a modified sealing lip while having the same sealing properties, the height of the sealing lip is less than 2 percent of the height of the blade profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventors: Christian Cornelius, Bernhard Küsters, Stephan Mais, Andreas Peters, Achim Schirrmacher, Lutz Stephan, Bernd van den Toorn
  • Publication number: 20070289286
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gas turbine, comprising a turbine and a compressor provided with a compressor housing, and to a method for the operation thereof The compressor is tapped in order to cool the turbine by means of at least one tap line for removing compressed or partially compressed air. The tap line comprises a locking device, particularly a valve, in order to regulate the outflow of tapped air and thus the cooling of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Holger Bauer, Bernhard Kusters, Dieter Minninger, Marc Mittelbach, Andreas Peters, Stephan Schmidt, Steffen Skreba, Bernd Stocker
  • Publication number: 20020192708
    Abstract: Methods and systems of applying mass spectrometry to the analysis of peptides and amino acids, especially in the proteome setting. More particularly, the invention relates to a mass spectrometry-based method for detection of amino acid modifications, such as phosphorylation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Hanno Steen, Bernhard Kuster, Matthias Mann