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: 20120093654
    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: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Günther Walz
  • Publication number: 20120070310
    Abstract: An axial turbomachine rotor is provided. The rotor includes a rotor disk and a rotor blade ring, which includes a plurality of rotor blades, each of which include a blade root, with which the rotor blade is fixed radially outward on the rotor disk, wherein the blade root is engaged with the rotor disk at the outer edge of the rotor disk in a form-closed manner in such a way that during operation of the rotor, a gap is formed between the rotor blade and the rotor disk at a predetermined surface area of the rotor disk, in which area, a plurality of impingement cooling openings is arranged, through which a cooling medium may flow from the interior of the rotor disk into the gap whereby the rotor blade is cooled using the cooling medium by means of impingement cooling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventor: Fathi Ahmad
  • Publication number: 20120039716
    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: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Giuseppe Gaio, Holger Grote, Christian Lerner, Mirko Milazar, Matthias Stutt, Thomas-Dieter Tenrahm, Bernd Vonnemann
  • Publication number: 20120039718
    Abstract: A casting apparatus for producing a turbine rotor blade of a gas turbine, and to a turbine rotor blade produced therewith is provided. The casting apparatus includes a hollow ceramic shell mold, of which the pouring gate and cores arranged therein are oriented with respect to each other such that a hot casting material flowing into a cavity of the ceramic shell mold does not come in direct contact with the cores. Thus, so-called hot spots on cores are avoided, which until now have had negative effects on the solidification of the casting material. Especially in the region of the blade root of the turbine rotor blade to be produced improved solidification of the casting material may thus be obtained, reducing any disturbance in the structure of the solidified casting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Uwe Paul
  • Publication number: 20120031579
    Abstract: A method for producing a negative mold for casting a turbine blade with a blade platform and at least one fastening element for fastening the turbine blade to a blade fixture is provided. The surface of the fastening element of a platform surface is located at a distance opposite of the blade platform. A wax model of the turbine blade to be produced is produced, a negative model of the turbine blade is created based on the wax model after the wax model has hardened and the wax model is melted out after completion of the negative mold. During hardening and/or during storage and/or during transport of the wax model at least one spacer is arranged between the platform surface of the blade platform and the opposite surface of the fastening element of the wax model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Winfried Esser
  • Patent number: 8109712
    Abstract: Disclosed is a turbine or compressor component with an integrated cooling channel, in particular a turbine blade, and a method for producing the same. The cooling channel of the component is subjected to internal pressure during a pressure impingement phase, the internal pressure being at a level sufficiently high that it causes the at least semiplastic deformation of the wall regions delimiting the cooling channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Michael Dankert
  • Patent number: 8075279
    Abstract: The invention refers to a coated turbine blade for a gas turbine, having blade walls divided into sections with locally adapted material temperatures. The cooler material temperatures of the blade walls are at the points where the support ribs merge into the blade walls. The regions with higher material temperatures of the blade walls are at the positions where cavities are arranged inside the blade walls. This is achieved via a ceramic thermal barrier coating having different layer thicknesses that allow different material temperatures. The region of the surface of the blade wall which faces the working medium and lies opposite an internal rib has a thicker thermal barrier coating than a region of the surface of the blade wall which is cooled via a cooling medium that flows in the cavities. This results in homogenization of the material temperature in the connecting regions, which results in prolonged blade life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Michael Dankert
  • Publication number: 20110255956
    Abstract: A gas turbine including a plurality of rotor blades assembled into rotor blade rows and arranged on a turbine shaft and including a plurality of guide vanes assembled into guide van rows and mounted on a turbine housing by means of a guide van carrier is provided. The guide vane carrier includes a plurality of cooling air holes, and has a particularly high efficiency, while maintaining maximum operating reliability. Therefore, a cooling insert is introduced into a cooling air hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Christian Lerner
  • Publication number: 20110176930
    Abstract: A turbine vane or blade including an interior structure is provided. In addition, turbulence elements connected directly upstream of openings disposed at the rear edge of the blade of the turbine vane or blade are also provided. These are disposed in a sequence, each having a flow side against which a coolant flows and which is at least partially arched in a concave manner. Preferably, the turbulence elements are configured in a crescent-shaped manner. This makes it possible to enlarge the openings without resulting in an increased consumption of coolant. A casting core is also provided. The openings required in the casting core for the production of the webs of a turbine vane or blade may now be placed at further distances than before.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Hans-Thomas Bolms, Christian Lerner
  • Publication number: 20110033305
    Abstract: A turbine vane for a stationary gas turbine is provided. The turbine vane includes a hollow vane blade, wherein a rib is provided inside the vane blade to allow a pressure side wall and a suction side wall to support one another. The rib has an opening penetrating the rib near a wall at a height of an external fillet between a side wall, and a platform surface for extending a life of the turbine vane. By the opening, material accumulations in a transition region are avoided or the accumulation is reduced, whereby increases in stiffness and higher temperature gradients associated therewith are avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Michael Dankert, Günther Walz
  • Patent number: 7845905
    Abstract: A hollow turbine blade is provided including an airfoil profile which is formed by a suction-side profile wall and a pressure-side profile wall and around which a hot gas can flow and which has a profile height, directed along a blade axis, from a platform up to a profile tip, having at least one supporting rib which is provided in the interior of the turbine blade and connects the pressure-side profile wall to the suction-side profile wall in a respective connecting region, and having at least one slot provided in the profile wall on the hot-gas side and extending along the blade axis. The slot of the turbine blade, on the hot-gas side in the profile wall, is opposite the connecting region formed by the supporting rib and the profile wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Michael Dankert
  • Publication number: 20100129554
    Abstract: A method for producing a coated turbine blade, with which the frequency property thereof can be particularly easily adjusted to the required boundary conditions is provided. Recesses are introduced into a blade tip of the blade leaf of the turbine blade after coating of turbine blade. In one aspect a plurality of bores are made which are distributed along the blade leaf center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventor: Fathi Ahmad
  • Publication number: 20100068069
    Abstract: A turbine blade, having a plurality of auxiliary cooling channels which branch off from a main cooling channel, formed within a blade body, is provided. The plurality of auxiliary cooling channels open into outlet openings in the leading edge region of the blade body. A heat shield element is attached to the blade body in the leading edge region at a predefined spacing, wherein the heat shield element has a number of outlet channels which are arranged behind one another in the longitudinal direction and extend from the main cooling channel to the outer wall face of the heat shield element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventor: Fathi Ahmad
  • Publication number: 20090324421
    Abstract: A turbine blade is provided. The turbine blade includes a support structure and a shell which surrounds the support structure and which is connected to and at a distance from the support structure by at least one spacing element. For example the spacing element can be a solder globule in order to form a space through which a cooling medium can flow between the support structure and the shell. A method for the production of a turbine blade having a support structure and a shell which surrounds the support structure and which is connected to and at a distance from the support structure is also provided. The shell is soldered to the support structure in at least at one place of the support structure in order to connect the shell to and at a distance from the support structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Scarlett Fajardo-Reina, Markus Gill, Stefan Werner Kiliani, Silvio-Ulrich Martin, Ralf Müsgen, Oliver Schneider
  • Publication number: 20090280291
    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: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Stefan Krause, Oliver Lüsebrink
  • Publication number: 20090252612
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbomachine, in particular to a gas turbine and to a method for accelerating a temperature modification of a rotor shaft rotationally mounted in said turbomachine. The aim of said invention is to develop a device and a method for the turbomachine making it possible to reduce the size of a radial split of the turbomachine in order to obtain greater degree of efficiency. The inventive turbomachine comprises a rotor rotationally mounted in the case of the turbomachine, a feeding channel embodied in the rotor for introducing a fluid and an outlet channel embodied in the rotor for removing said fluid. An inlet orifice of the feeding channel is disposed further inside than the outlet orifice of the outlet channel, and means influencing a liquid flow is formed of an actuating device dependent on centrifugal force. Methods for cooling the rotor only by decelerating the gas turbine and for heating the turbomachine rotor by heating fluid flowing therethrough are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Tobias Buchal, Michael Dankert, Gernot Lang, Michael Scheurlen
  • Publication number: 20090229101
    Abstract: A method for the crack repair of a component having a crack on a surface, including excavating a hollow around the crack, wherein the hollow has two recesses and the recesses are arranged at the height of the surface and are open at the height of the surface, and wherein the recesses are arranged around the circumference of the hollow and further including filling the hollow with a braze. A component having a crack on a surface is also provided with a hollow which is excavated around the crack, the hollow has two recesses and the recesses are arranged at the height of the surface and are open at the height of the surface, and the recesses are arranged around the circumference of the hollow, wherein the hollow is filled with the braze.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Michael Dankert
  • Publication number: 20090185913
    Abstract: Disclosed is a turbine or compressor component with an integrated cooling channel, in particular a turbine blade, and a method for producing the same. The aim of the invention is to ensure an improved estimation of the service life of the component and furthermore, if possible, also increased safety during operation and increased service life, even in the presence of constantly variable thermal and mechanical stress. To achieve this, the cooling channel of the component is subjected to internal pressure during a pressure impingement phase, said internal pressure being at a level sufficiently high that it causes the at least semiplastic deformation of the wall regions delimiting the cooling channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: SIEMENS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Michael Dankert
  • Publication number: 20090074572
    Abstract: Described is a cooled gas turbine guide blade for a gas turbine, with a hollow blade profile which comprises an onflow edge onto which a working medium is capable of flowing, and with, for guiding a cooling medium, an onflow edge duct running inside the blade profile along the onflow edge. Furthermore, to the use of such a gas turbine guide blade and to a method for operating a gas turbine with an abovementioned gas turbine guide blade. In order to provide a gas turbine guide blade with an increased lifetime by means of the invention, it is proposed that, in the onflow edge duct, an electrical heating element be provided, which extends approximately completely over the entire length of the onflow edge duct and through which a heating current flows, before the operation of the gas turbine, for the preheating of the gas turbine guide blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventor: FATHI AHMAD
  • Publication number: 20090035128
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention is a turbine blade for a gas turbine, comprising a blade root, adjoining which one after the other are a platform region having a transversely running platform and then a blade profile curved in the longitudinal direction, comprising at least one cavity which is open on the root side and through which a coolant can flow and which extends through the blade root and the platform region into the blade profile. The cavity is surrounded by an inner wall, on the surface of which structural elements influencing the coolant are provided. In order to prolong the service life of such a turbine blade, the invention proposes that a section, lying at least in the blade profile and adjoining the platform region, of the surface of the inner wall be free of structural elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventor: Fathi Ahmad