Patents by Inventor Gottfried Schütz

Gottfried Schütz 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: 10760433
    Abstract: A method for inspecting a rotor blade unit of a gas turbine, the rotor blade unit including a radially outwardly disposed outer shroud connected by a material-to-material bond to a radially inwardly adjoining rotor blade. The method includes: providing a rotor blade unit; processing the outer shroud at its axially forward or axially aft side, the side selected to be processed being the one that has a greater distance from the adjacent axial leading edge or axial trailing edge of the rotor blade, a contact surface being formed by processing the selected side; providing the rotor blade unit having the contact surface in a measuring device, in particular a measuring device for determining the torsion or twist of the rotor blade unit about an axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Manfred Dopfer, Martin Pernleitner, Gottfried Schuetz
  • Publication number: 20170159458
    Abstract: A method for inspecting a rotor blade unit of a gas turbine, the rotor blade unit including a radially outwardly disposed outer shroud connected by a material-to-material bond to a radially inwardly adjoining rotor blade, the rotor blade having an airfoil including a pressure side and a suction side, as well as an axial leading edge and an axial trailing edge which interconnect the pressure side and the suction side. The method includes: providing a rotor blade unit; processing the outer shroud at its axially forward or axially aft side, the side selected to be processed being the one that has a greater distance from the adjacent axial leading edge or axial trailing edge of the rotor blade, a contact surface being formed by processing the selected side; providing the rotor blade unit having the contact surface in a measuring device, in particular a measuring device for determining the torsion or twist of the rotor blade unit about an axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Manfred Dopfer, Martin Pernleitner, Gottfried Schuetz
  • Patent number: 9617863
    Abstract: A gas turbine stage including a rotor blade array having a plurality of rotor blades and an adjacent stator vane array having a plurality of stator vanes which have leading edges facing the rotor blade array. In a first radial position of a rear face of the rotor blade array, a minimum axial gap is formed between this rear face and an opposite first contact region a stator vane leading edges, and in a second radial position of the rear face different from the first position, the minimum axial gap is formed between the rear face and an opposite second contact region. Between the first and second contact regions, this stator vane leading edge has an axial offset of no more than 0.6% of a radial height of the stator vane leading edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Inga Mahle, Norbert Huebner, Rudolf Stanka, Gottfried Schuetz, Norman Cleesattel
  • Patent number: 9175690
    Abstract: A compressor is disclosed, which has an inflow channel for guiding a compression medium into a compressor housing, a pressure chamber formed within the compressor housing, and a liner segment with nozzles that transport the compression medium from the pressure chamber to a rotor. The nozzles are formed in the liner segment as a plurality of nozzles arranged in a group in fan-like manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES GmbH
    Inventors: Gottfried Schütz, Sven-J. Hiller, Yves Burgold
  • Publication number: 20150016985
    Abstract: A gas turbine stage including a rotor blade array having a plurality of rotor blades and an adjacent stator vane array having a plurality of stator vanes which have leading edges facing the rotor blade array. In a first radial position of a rear face of the rotor blade array, a minimum axial gap is formed between this rear face and an opposite first contact region a stator vane leading edges, and in a second radial position of the rear face different from the first position, the minimum axial gap is formed between the rear face and an opposite second contact region. Between the first and second contact regions, this stator vane leading edge has an axial offset of no more than 0.6% of a radial height of the stator vane leading edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Inga Mahle, Norbert Huebner, Rudolf Stanka, Gottfried Schuetz, Norman Cleesattel
  • Patent number: 8662827
    Abstract: The invention at hand relates to a housing for a compressor of a gas turbine, in particular of an aircraft gas turbine, with an external housing with at least one air supply opening and an interior housing formed by at least two housing segments, with the housing segments having at least one injection nozzle to inject air suctioned in via the air supply openings into a flow channel in the area of blade tips of blades of a rotor of the compressor. In this case, the housing segment has at least one air flow channel, with the air flow channel being designed in such a way that a direct air supply to the at least one injection nozzle occurs via at least one air supply element arranged in the air supply opening of the exterior housing. The invention relates moreover to a compressor of a gas turbine as well as to a method for the manufacture of a housing segment of a compressor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Gottfried Schütz
  • Publication number: 20110200470
    Abstract: A compressor is disclosed, which has an inflow channel for guiding a compression medium into a compressor housing, a pressure chamber formed within the compressor housing, and a liner segment with nozzles that transport the compression medium from the pressure chamber to a rotor. The nozzles are formed in the liner segment as a plurality of nozzles arranged in a group in fan-like manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: MTU AERO ENGINES GMBH
    Inventors: Gottfried Schütz, Sven-J. Hiller, Yves Burgold
  • Publication number: 20110085900
    Abstract: The invention at hand relates to a housing for a compressor of a gas turbine, in particular of an aircraft gas turbine, with an external housing with at least one air supply opening and an interior housing formed by at least two housing segments, with the housing segments having at least one injection nozzle to inject air suctioned in via the air supply openings into a flow channel in the area of blade tips of blades of a rotor of the compressor. In this case, the housing segment has at least one air flow channel, with the air flow channel being designed in such a way that a direct air supply to the at least one injection nozzle occurs via at least one air supply element arranged in the air supply opening of the exterior housing. The invention relates moreover to a compressor of a gas turbine as well as to a method for the manufacture of a housing segment of a compressor housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: MTU AERO ENGINES GMBH
    Inventor: Gottfried Schütz