Patents by Inventor Franz-Arno Richter

Franz-Arno Richter 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: 8602730
    Abstract: A multistage radial compressor (1) with at least two compressor stages for compressing a fluid has a compressor housing (16) in which a flow channel (2) is formed for the fluid to be compressed; an impeller (4) with a plurality of impeller vanes (5) which are arranged in the flow channel (2) and are rotatable with the impeller (4) around a driveshaft (A), and a 3D return blading (8) with a plurality of return vanes (9) which are fixed with respect to rotation relative to the compressor housing (16). The flow channel (2) has a curved deflecting channel (7) which is arranged in front of the return vanes (9) in the flow direction. A vane base (11) and/or, axially downstream thereof, a vane head (12) of the return vanes (9) of the 3D return blading (8) have/has a curvature, and/or the return vanes (9) have a first vane angle distribution (17) at the vane base (11) and a second vane angle distribution (18) differing from this at the vane head (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: MAN Diesel & Turbo SE
    Inventors: Franz-Arno Richter, Heinrich Voss, André Hildebrandt, Christoph Jakiel
  • Publication number: 20100272564
    Abstract: A multistage radial compressor (1) with at least two compressor stages for compressing a fluid has a compressor housing (16) in which a flow channel (2) is formed for the fluid to be compressed; an impeller (4) with a plurality of impeller vanes (5) which are arranged in the flow channel (2) and are rotatable with the impeller (4) around a driveshaft (A), and a 3D return blading (8) with a plurality of return vanes (9) which are fixed with respect to rotation relative to the compressor housing (16). The flow channel (2) has a curved deflecting channel (7) which is arranged in front of the return vanes (9) in the flow direction. A vane base (11) and/or, axially downstream thereof, a vane head (12) of the return vanes (9) of the 3D return blading (8) have/has a curvature, and/or the return vanes (9) have a first vane angle distribution (17) at the vane base (11) and a second vane angle distribution (18) differing from this at the vane head (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: MAN Turbo AG
    Inventors: Franz-Arno RICHTER, Heinrich Voss, André Hildebrandt, Christoph Jakiel
  • Patent number: 5624229
    Abstract: A spiral housing with a spiral cross-section for a turbomachine, in which a disk diffuser with an upstream annular disk space is asymmetrical to the spiral cross-section. This spiral cross-section has a base circle of substantially constant diameter. The spiral cross-section also has a tongue region and a region adjacent to the tongue with circular spiral cross-sections extending to where an outside diameter of the spiral cross-section equals a specific diameter and the circular spiral cross-sections continue thereafter to increase in cross-section only axially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: MAN Gutehoffnungshutte Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim Kotzur, Franz-Arno Richter, Lubomyr Turanskyj