Patents by Inventor Gunter Kirschey

Gunter Kirschey 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: 4204404
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for gas turbine engines, particularly aircraft turbojet engines, which is constituted of an outer casing, at least one flame tube inserted therein, and incorporating at least one ignition device for the produced, respectively, supplied fuel-air mixture. The ignition device comprises two high-capacity ignition or spark plugs which are presently arranged in series in a single axial plane in the flame tube, and further including an ignition fuel nozzle, whose fuel injection spray cone will simultaneously encompass the ignition spark zones of both high-capacity spark plugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1980
    Assignee: Motoren- und Turbinen-Union Munchen GmbH
    Inventors: Adolf Fehler, Gunter Kirschey, Gunter Kappler, Gerhard Kirchdorffer
  • Patent number: 4133633
    Abstract: A combustion chamber including an outer casing having a flame tube within it defining an annular space between them which receives air from the engine compressor. The flame tube has diametrically opposed pairs of air inlet ports through which air from the annular space flows substantially radially into the flame tube. A flow guide on the exterior of the flame tube is associated with each air inlet port. The upstream end of each flow guide is open to air from the compressor and the downstream end extends inwardly and downstream and partitions the upstream portion of its respective air inlet port from the annular space. A fuel tube extends into each flow guide. A curved baffle may extend radially inwardly at each air inlet port and define an arcuate louver between the baffle and the downstream edge of its respective air inlet port. Each air inlet port may have a square upstream portion merging into a circular downstream portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Assignee: Motoren-und Turbinen-Union Munchen GmbH
    Inventors: Adolf Fehler, Gunter Kappler, Gunter Kirschey, Jost Schmidt
  • Patent number: 4062182
    Abstract: A combustion engine for gas turbine engines, constituted of an outer housing and having at least one flame tube inserted therein which is suppliable with secondary or mixing air through the intermediary of an annular passageway formed between the outer housing and the flame tube while, on the other side, the primary zone within the flame tube has fuel-enriched combustion air conveyable thereto, and wherein there are provided at least two fuel atomizer nozzles which are controllable independently of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1977
    Assignee: MTU Motoren-und Turbinen-Union GmbH
    Inventors: Adolf Fehler, Gunter Kirschey
  • Patent number: 4036582
    Abstract: A combustion chamber for gas turbine engines or power plants having devices for the gaseous processing of the fuel which is introduced therein, characterized by the combination of the following features:A. The fuel ejection cone of at least one fuel nozzle arranged upstream of the flame tube back wall of the combustion chamber extends exteriorly along the flame tube backwall, the latter of which is conically shaped in conformance with the ejection cone;B. The combustion chamber has an air infeed hood essentially encompassing at least partially the flame tube backwall as well as the fuel nozzle, forming an annular or ring channel narrowing in the direction of the downstream end of the flame tube backwall and which, by means of plurality of apertures located immediately behind the flame tube backwall in the side walls of the flame tube, is in communication with the interior of the flame tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1977
    Assignee: Motoren- und Turbinen-Union Munchen GmbH
    Inventors: Adolf Fehler, Gunter Kirschey