Patents by Inventor Dirk Wistuba

Dirk Wistuba 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: 9708919
    Abstract: A blade arrangement is provided having a blade carrier and a retaining groove arranged therein, which retaining groove has projections extending along side walls thereof forming undercuts and into which a number of blades are inserted forming a blade ring of a turbomachine. Each blade has a blade root which engages into the undercuts, and each blade is pressed against the projections by an element arranged between a blade root underside and a groove base of the retaining groove. It is further provided that each element is of plate-like form and has, in the projection of the blade airfoil in the direction of the groove base, at least one bead, arranged beneath the blade airfoil, for imparting a pressing action, and in the longitudinal direction of the retaining groove, only part of the blade root which the element presses against is covered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Sascha Dungs, Elliot Griffin, Markus Paus, Stefan Reichling, Uwe Sieber, Hubertus Michael Wigger, Dirk Wistuba
  • Publication number: 20140234111
    Abstract: A blade arrangement is provided having a blade carrier and a retaining groove arranged therein, which retaining groove has projections extending along side walls thereof forming undercuts and into which a number of blades are inserted forming a blade ring of a turbomachine. Each blade has a blade root which engages into the undercuts, and each blade is pressed against the projections by an element arranged between a blade root underside and a groove base of the retaining groove. It is further provided that each element is of plate-like form and has, in the projection of the blade airfoil in the direction of the groove base, at least one bead, arranged beneath the blade airfoil, for imparting a pressing action, and in the longitudinal direction of the retaining groove, only part of the blade root which the element presses against is covered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Sascha Dungs, Elliot Griffin, Markus Paus, Stefan Reichling, Uwe Sieber, Hubertus Michael Wigger, Dirk Wistuba
  • 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: 8512001
    Abstract: A turbomachine rotor, a rotor blade and a method for assembling a turbomachine rotor are provided. The turbomachine rotor includes a rotor blade with a blade root, a wheel disk with a groove in which the blade root engages such that the rotor blade is maintained in the groove in a positive fit in a radial direction. Further, a pretensioning device is provided, which is supported on the wheel disk as well as on the blade root and which exerts a pretensioning force on the blade root in the radial direction. The pretensioning device is designed such that the pretensioning force can be adjusted when assembling the turbomachine rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Francois Benkler, Jörn Bettentrup, Frank Deister, Rudolf Küperkoch, Nicolas Savilius, Oliver Schneider, Dirk Wistuba
  • Publication number: 20110171031
    Abstract: A turbomachine rotor, a rotor blade and a method for assembling a turbomachine rotor are provided. The turbomachine rotor includes a rotor blade with a blade root, a wheel disk with a groove in which the blade root engages such that the rotor blade is maintained in the groove in a positive fit in a radial direction. Further, a pretensioning device is provided, which is supported on the wheel disk as well as on the blade root and which exerts a pretensioning force on the blade root in the radial direction. The pretensioning device is designed such that the pretensioning force can be adjusted when assembling the turbomachine rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Francois Benkler, Jorn Bettentrup, Frank Deister, Rudolf Küperkoch, Nicolas Savilius, Oliver Schneider, Dirk Wistuba
  • 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