Patents by Inventor Gerhard Lobert

Gerhard Lobert 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).

  • Transport plane with stub tail
    Patent number: 5480110
    Abstract: A transport plane with stub tail, which is preferably propelled by two jet engines. The intake air is fed to the engines directly integrated in the fuselage tail via a diffusor, the diffusor is a short diffusor. The air obtained by boundary layer suction via a suction slot with a combination of ejectors and diffusors is fed into the rest of the intake air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1996
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG
    Inventor: Gerhard Lobert
  • Device for reducing the frictional drag of moving bodies
    Patent number: 4750693
    Abstract: A device for reducing the frictional drag inherent in flow mechanics in airborne, waterborne and space vehicles in which the surface of a body in a flowing medium is provided with an asymmetrical microstructure in the form of grooved profiles whose dimensions do not essentially exceed the average free travel length of the molecules of the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1988
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Lobert, Oskar Bschorr, Hans Spies