Patents by Inventor Fathi Ahmad

Fathi Ahmad 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: 20160201495
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a turbine having a rotor blade row and a ring that is arranged around the rotor blade row and is made up of multiple ring segments. An insert element covers a recess of a ring segment body of the turbine. The ring segment body has a recess on a hot-gas side. The insert element has a concavely shaped front face and a rear face with a rear face profile, and the rear face profile corresponds to a negative shape of a profile of the recess. A mounting method includes an insert element fixed to a recess of a ring segment body of a turbine of a gas turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Michael Händler, Kevin Kampka, Christian Kowalski, Christian Kowalzik, Nihal Kurt, Stefan Schmitt, Peter Schröder
  • Publication number: 20160201496
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes an insert element for fastening to a ring segment body of a turbine of the gas turbine. The ring segment body has a recess on a hot gas side. The insert element is designed to cover the recess. The insert element includes a cover plate, which has a concavely shaped front side and a back side, and at least one foot arranged on the back side for positioning on the ring segment body. A mounting method includes mounting the insert element where the insert element is fixed to a recess of a ring segment body of a turbine of a gas turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Michael Händler, Kevin Kampka, Christian Kowalski, Christian Kowalzik, Nihal Kurt, Stefan Schmitt, Peter Schröder
  • Publication number: 20160201497
    Abstract: An insert element fastens to an annular segment body of a turbine of a gas turbine. The annular segment body has a recess on a hot-gas side. The insert element is designed to cover the recess and has a concave front side and a rear side having at least one shaped portion for positioning on the annular segment body. An annular segment has the insert element, a gas turbine has the insert element, and a mounting method mounts the insert element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Michael Händler, Kevin Kampka, Christian Kowalski, Christian Kowalzik, Nihal Kurt, Stefan Schmitt, Peter Schröder
  • Publication number: 20160177739
    Abstract: A turbine blade has a pressure side, a suction side, and a cooling air channel, which is arranged between the pressure side and the suction side and which is bounded by inner surfaces of the pressure side and of the suction side. A cylindrical heat sink having a base surface, which has the shape of an aerofoil profile and has a profile top side and a profile bottom side, is arranged in the cooling air channel, which heat sink extends from the pressure side to the suction side. Turbulators are arranged on the inner surface of the pressure side and/or of the suction side in a region adjacent to the heat sink. The turbulators are arranged in such a way that lower air turbulence is produced in a region adjacent to the profile top side than in a region adjacent to the profile bottom side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Fathi Ahmad
  • Publication number: 20160153285
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes a first cooling air duct and a second cooling air duct which is separated from the first cooling air duct by a wall and which has a main direction, wherein the first and the second cooling-air duct are connected to one another by a first opening in the wall, wherein the wall has a second opening, to permit an improved cooling air action and thus higher operating temperatures and higher efficiency of the turbine. The second opening is adjoined by a diverting duct, the main direction of which, in the region in which the diverting duct issues into the second cooling air duct, is oriented substantially parallel to the main direction of the second cooling air duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Andreas Heselhaus
  • Publication number: 20160146042
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a number of annular rotor blade rows coaxially mounted in a heating gas channel and a number of annular stator blade rows mounted between the rotor blade rows, wherein at least between two immediately adjacent stator blade rows a heat shield is positioned, which circumferentially surrounds the rotor blade row positioned between the two adjacent stator blade rows, and which has multiple ring segments, wherein at least one of the ring segments has an abrasion coating and at least one of the ring segments has no abrasion coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Ursula Pickert
  • Publication number: 20160146031
    Abstract: A turbine blade, including: an airfoil and a platform, which has an upper face on which the airfoil is arranged; and at least one lateral face, the lateral face including a slot for insertion of a sealing strip. The transition between the upper face of the platform and the at least one lateral face includes a stepped portion and a beveled portion is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: FATHI AHMAD, NIHAL KURT, RALF MÜSGEN, ECKART SCHUMANN
  • Patent number: 9238976
    Abstract: A turbine guide vane system, in particular for a gas turbine is provided. The turbine guide vane system includes a number of guide vane rows and a guide vane carrier, to enable particularly simple replacement of guide vanes, while maintaining a particularly high degree of efficiency, and thus designed for particularly short repair durations. For this purpose, the guide vane carrier has a number of segments, wherein a segment extends over the entire radial extension of the guide vane carrier and the connection of the remaining segments may be detached, and wherein the turbine guide vane carrier includes at least two sections along the axial extension thereof that are connected to one another and have a different number of segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Giuseppe Gaio, Holger Grote, Christian Lerner, Mirko Milazar, Mathias Stutt, Thomas-Dieter Tenrahm, Bernd Vonnemann
  • Patent number: 9188015
    Abstract: A component, designed so that the longitudinal grain which experiences the greatest stress has a larger grain width than the other grains, is provided. This longitudinal grain is usually on the edge of the component. The component includes longitudinal grains that are directionally solidified in a rod-crystalline form along the longitudinal axis of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Stefan Krause, Oliver Lüsebrink
  • Publication number: 20150283604
    Abstract: A casting mold for producing a hollow component having apertures and inner walls is provided, in which the casting mold has at least one inner wall element having apertures, into which liquid metal can also propagate, wherein at least one inner wall element has an end face in the region of the aperture, which end face is beveled and which runs at an angle differing from 90° to a propagation direction of the liquid metal or of side surfaces of the inner wall elements in the casting mold. Accordingly, the propagation front of liquid material in the casting mould is influenced by a specific modification of the end faces of inner wall elements and influences or the formation of oxide layers are displaced to less critical regions of the casting portal to be produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Uwe Paul
  • Publication number: 20150167476
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade for a gas turbine, including a blade root and an adjoining aerodynamically curved airfoil which has a suction-side lateral wall and a pressure-side lateral wall is provided herein. These lateral walls extend in the chord direction from a common leading edge to a trailing edge and in a span direction having a total span from a blade root end to a blade tip end, a coolant duct for guiding a coolant being provided in the airfoil. In order to provide a sufficiently coolable turbine rotor blade of a comparatively small profile thickness, the airfoil, starting from its blade root end, is devoid of cooling ducts as of a span of 75% of the total span, preferably 60% of the total span.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Nihal Kurt
  • Publication number: 20150110601
    Abstract: A coolant bridging line for a gas turbine having inner and outer sides which are separated by a wall, wherein the coolant bridging line extends from a first component of the gas turbine to a second component of the gas turbine is provided herein. The coolant bridging line for a gas turbine provides a further increase in the service life of the components of the gas turbine possible with a degree of efficiency which is nevertheless as high as possible. To this end, the coolant bridging line has means which change the heat transfer between and/or the flow conditions on the inner and outer sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Fathi Ahmad
  • Publication number: 20150086361
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade is provided with a blade root, platform adjoining it, and turbine blade on that side of the platform which faces away from the blade root, with at least one opening for feeding coolant into the turbine rotor blade interior on an underside of the blade root, which opening merges into a coolant duct. An axial rotor section for a rotor is provided, having an outer circumferential surface adjoining two end-side first side surfaces with rotor blade holding grooves distributed over the circumference and extending along an axial direction, wherein a turbine rotor blade is arranged in every holding groove, wherein a multiplicity of sealing elements are at the side of a side surface of the rotor section, and lie opposite the end sides of blade roots to form a gap. Multiple outlet holes for impingement cooling of the sealing elements are provided in the end surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Nihal Kurt
  • Publication number: 20150071783
    Abstract: A turbine blade is provided having a blade and a modular platform which follow one another along a longitudinal axis of the turbine blade. In order to provide a modular turbine blade that has an especially plain and simple design and that ensures an especially reliable, long-lasting, durable connection of the individual components among each other, the blade has an extension and the platform has an outer platform part and an at least two-part inner platform part which is radial in relation to the longitudinal axis and which lie laterally against the extension of the blade, and the outer platform part is designed as an endless platform frame that surrounds the outer edge of the inner platform part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Hans-Thomas Bolms, Nihal Kurt
  • Publication number: 20150064018
    Abstract: A turbine blade is provided, having a fastening section, a platform, and a blade, which follow one another along a longitudinal axis of the turbine blade, wherein the platform, in radial relation to the longitudinal axis, has an inner platform part and an outer platform part, wherein the outer platform part is designed as a closed platform frame that encloses the outer edge of the inner platform part. An associated method for producing a turbine blade is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Hans-Thomas Bolms, Nihal Kurt
  • Patent number: 8956116
    Abstract: A gas turbine component for example a turbine blade or a rotor disk is provided. In order to extend the service life of the corresponding component by reducing the thermally or mechanically induced stress concentration in the direct surroundings of a duct opening onto a surface, at least one groove-like recess is provided near the effective zone of the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Harald Hoell, Karsten Kolk, Harald Nimptsch, Werner Setz
  • Patent number: 8951016
    Abstract: A rotor blade for an axial flow turbomachine, preferably a turbine, and to a mounting for such a rotor blade is provided. In the rotor blade, the two opposing lateral walls of the blade base are continuously curved along their extension between platform and bottom side of the blade base in order to reduce the mechanical load in the blade base and that of the walls supporting the blade base of a rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Günther Walz
  • Publication number: 20150017014
    Abstract: A core (10) for casting a hollow component of a turbomachine. The core includes a first portion (12) for providing a shape to the component and a second portion (14) located outside of the component. The second portion (14) comprises a plurality of indentations (16) for preventing a breakage of the core (10) at a region proximal to the first portion (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Uwe Paul
  • Publication number: 20140377058
    Abstract: A turbine guide vane having an aerodynamically bent vane airfoil with a channel system equipped with a throttle element is provided herein. The channel system includes channel sections for the guidance of coolant. In order to provide an alternative turbine guide vane by means of which both a partial coolant flow flowing in the interior and a partial coolant flow guided out of the turbine guide vane are adjustable; therefore, in an embodiment, the throttle element is designed for the removal of coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Nihal Kurt, Mario Nitsche, Marco Schuler, Andreas Varnholt
  • Patent number: 8865255
    Abstract: A process for setting the average flow rate within a hollow component is provided. The process includes setting a relatively small wall thickness in a first region with a relatively large flow cross section using a first diffusion coating process and setting a relatively large wall thickness by a second different diffusion process in a second region with a relatively small flow cross section. The use of different diffusion coatings in a component allows the flow of coolant through a component to be set in a controlled manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Knut Halberstadt, Christian Lerner