Patents by Inventor Heinz Neuhoff

Heinz Neuhoff 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: 7524168
    Abstract: An arrangement is disclosed for the admission of cooling air to the internal walls of a component rotating about a rotation axis, such as a moving blade in a rotary machine. A component root can be fastened to a rotor unit in a rotationally fixed manner and adjoining in a radially extending manner is a one piece component airfoil in which at least one radially extending cooling passage region (K1) is provided which, in the region of the component root, opens out via an opening into a cooling-air supply passage passing at least partly through the component root longitudinally relative to the rotation axis. A distribution plate forms a fluid-tight connection with an opening margin, surrounding the opening of the cooling passage region (K1), at least during the rotation of the component about the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Remigi Tschuor, Heinz Neuhoff, Iouri Strelkov
  • Patent number: 7427188
    Abstract: A turbomachine blade, in particular a turbine blade of a gas turbine includes a blade root with a cooling-fluid feed, a blade tip formed with a shroud element. At least one throughflow passage which extends in the blade longitudinal direction is arranged inside the airfoil. A shroud cooling passage is formed in the shroud element at least along a section of the latter, the shroud cooling passage being connected via an opening to the throughflow passage, and a cooling fluid flowing through this shroud cooling passage during operation of the turbomachine blade. At least one flow-guiding element for guiding at least some of the cooling-fluid flow flowing through the shroud cooling passage is arranged in the shroud cooling passage and/or in an inflow or outflow to or from the shroud cooling passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Heinz Neuhoff, Remigi Tschuor
  • Publication number: 20070154312
    Abstract: A turbomachine blade, in particular a turbine blade of a gas turbine includes a blade root with a cooling-fluid feed, a blade tip formed with a shroud element. At least one throughflow passage which extends in the blade longitudinal direction is arranged inside the airfoil. A shroud cooling passage is formed in the shroud element at least along a section of the latter, the shroud cooling passage being connected via an opening to the throughflow passage, and a cooling fluid flowing through this shroud cooling passage during operation of the turbomachine blade. At least one flow-guiding element for guiding at least some of the cooling-fluid flow flowing through the shroud cooling passage is arranged in the shroud cooling passage and/or in an inflow or outflow to or from the shroud cooling passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Heinz Neuhoff, Remigi Tschuor
  • Publication number: 20070041836
    Abstract: An arrangement is disclosed for the admission of cooling air to the internal walls of a component rotating about a rotation axis, such as a moving blade in a rotary machine. A component root can be fastened to a rotor unit in a rotationally fixed manner and adjoining in a radially extending manner is a one piece component airfoil in which at least one radially extending cooling passage region (K1) is provided which, in the region of the component root, opens out via an opening into a cooling-air supply passage passing at least partly through the component root longitudinally relative to the rotation axis. A distribution plate forms a fluid-tight connection with an opening margin, surrounding the opening of the cooling passage region (K1), at least during the rotation of the component about the rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicant: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Remigi Tschuor, Heinz Neuhoff, Iouri Strelkov
  • Patent number: 6667076
    Abstract: A process and a device for coating a temperature-stable component with a thermal protection layer (15), in which the temperature-stable component has a surface (12) which is to be coated with the thermal protection layer (15) and at which there is at least one cooling-passage opening (1) which is connected to a cooling passage running inside the component. During the coating a mass flow (10) emerges through the cooling-passage opening (1), the coating takes place by a coating mass flow (11) directed onto the surface (12) which is to be coated, and the mass flow (10) emerges through the cooling-passage opening (1) and the coating mass flow (11) include an angle &agr;≠0°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Alstom (Switzerland) Ltd.
    Inventors: Reinhard Fried, Heinz Neuhoff
  • Publication number: 20030026952
    Abstract: The invention describes a process and a device for coating a temperature-stable component with a thermal protection layer (15), in which the temperature-stable component has a surface (12) which is to be coated with the thermal protection layer (15) and at which there is at least one cooling-passage opening (1) which is connected to a cooling passage running inside the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventors: Reinhard Fried, Heinz Neuhoff