Patents by Inventor Herbert Brandl
Herbert Brandl 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).
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Patent number: 11668195Abstract: The present technique presents a gas turbine blade for re-using cooling air, a turbomachine assembly having the blade, and a gas turbine having the turbomachine assembly. The blade includes a platform and an airfoil extending from the platform. The airfoil includes a pressure surface, a suction surface, a leading edge and a trailing edge. The platform includes a pressure side, a suction side, a leading-edge side and a trailing-edge side, disposed towards the pressure surface, the suction surface, the leading edge and the trailing edge of the airfoil, respectively. The suction side of the platform includes a part of the upper surface and a suction-side lateral surface of the platform. At least a part of an edge between the suction-side lateral surface and the upper surface of the platform comprises a chamfer part.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.Inventors: Herbert Brandl, Willy H. Hofmann, Joerg Krueckels, Ulrich Rathmann, Seok Beom Kim
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Patent number: 11643934Abstract: A turbine blade is provided. The turbine blade may include an airfoil having an airfoil tip, a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a pressure side and a suction side extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge and defining an airfoil cavity, a squealer tip arranged at the airfoil tip part and comprising a trailing edge tip portion disposed at the trailing edge of the airfoil and a pressure side rail and a suction side rail meeting at the trailing edge tip portion and defining a squealer tip pocket at the airfoil tip, and at least one tip cooling hole disposed at the squealer tip pocket to provide cooling air from the airfoil cavity to the squealer tip pocket, wherein the trailing edge tip portion of the squealer tip includes a chamfer disposed towards the pressure side of the airfoil and a groove extending from the squealer tip pocket to the chamfer to provide cooling air from the squealer tip pocket to the chamfer.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBNLITY CO., LTD.Inventors: Joerg Krueckels, Herbert Brandl, Ulrich Rathmann, Willy H Hofmann
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Patent number: 11572792Abstract: The present invention provides an airfoil 110 with the squealer tip cooling system 50 for a turbine blade 100 at the blade tip 113, wherein the squealer tip cooling system 50 comprises a cooling passage 170 arranged within a squealer tip 117, wherein the cooling passage 170 at least partly extends toward a terminal end 74 of the squealer tip 117, and a pocket 172 at a lateral surface 75, 76 of the squealer tip 117, open externally and extending inwardly at least partly across the cooling passage 170. The pocket 172 intersects the cooling passage 170 and the pocket 172 comprises an impingement surface 70 facing the cooling passage 170, on which a cooling medium expelled through the cooling passage 170 impinges before being discharged externally through the pocket 172.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.Inventors: Herbert Brandl, Joerg Krueckels, Ulrich Rathmann, Willy H Hofmann
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Patent number: 11555411Abstract: The present technique presents a blade 1 for a gas turbine 10. The blade 1 includes an airfoil 100 having an airfoil tip part 100a and a pressure side 102 and a suction side 104 meeting at a leading edge 106 and a trailing edge 108 and defining an internal space 100s of the airfoil 100. A squealer tip 80, 90 is arranged at the airfoil tip part 100a. The squealer tip 80, 90 comprises a suction side rail 90. The suction side rail 90 comprises a chamfer part 90x and at least one squealer tip cooling hole 99. The chamfer part 90x comprises a chamfer surface 9. An outlet 99a of the at least one squealer tip cooling hole 99 is disposed at the chamfer surface 9.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.Inventors: Herbert Brandl, Joerg Krueckels, Ulrich Rathmann, Willy Heinz Hofmann
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Patent number: 11506062Abstract: A turbine blade that allows an improvement in torque and power, and a turbine and gas turbine including the same are provided. The turbine blade includes an airfoil having a suction side and a pressure side, a platform coupled to a bottom of the airfoil, and a root protruding downward from the platform and coupled to a rotor disk, wherein the airfoil includes a cooling passage formed therein and a discharge hole connected to an upper portion of the cooling passage to discharge cooling air, and the discharge hole is inclined toward a tip of the turbine blade while extending from an inside to an outside thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Inventors: Kwang Il Kim, Jin Woo Song, Willy Heinz Hofmann, Herbert Brandl
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Publication number: 20220243597Abstract: The present invention provides an airfoil 110 with the squealer tip cooling system 50 for a turbine blade 100 at the blade tip 113, wherein the squealer tip cooling system 50 comprises a cooling passage 170 arranged within a squealer tip 117, wherein the cooling passage 170 at least partly extends toward a terminal end 74 of the squealer tip 117, and a pocket 172 at a lateral surface 75, 76 of the squealer tip 117, open externally and extending inwardly at least partly across the cooling passage 170. The pocket 172 intersects the cooling passage 170 and the pocket 172 comprises an impingement surface 70 facing the cooling passage 170, on which a cooling medium expelled through the cooling passage 170 impinges before being discharged externally through the pocket 172.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2021Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Herbert BRANDL, Joerg KRUECKELS, Ulrich RATHMANN, Willy H HOFMANN
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Publication number: 20220170374Abstract: A turbine blade is provided. The turbine blade may include an airfoil having an airfoil tip, a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a pressure side and a suction side extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge and defining an airfoil cavity, a squealer tip arranged at the airfoil tip part and comprising a trailing edge tip portion disposed at the trailing edge of the airfoil and a pressure side rail and a suction side rail meeting at the trailing edge tip portion and defining a squealer tip pocket at the airfoil tip, and at least one tip cooling hole disposed at the squealer tip pocket to provide cooling air from the airfoil cavity to the squealer tip pocket, wherein the trailing edge tip portion of the squealer tip includes a chamfer disposed towards the pressure side of the airfoil and a groove extending from the squealer tip pocket to the chamfer to provide cooling air from the squealer tip pocket to the chamfer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Joerg Kruechels, Herbert Brandl, Ulrich Rathmann, Willy H Hofmann
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Publication number: 20220098986Abstract: A turbine blade that allows an improvement in torque and power, and a turbine and gas turbine including the same are provided. The turbine blade includes an airfoil having a suction side and a pressure side, a platform coupled to a bottom of the airfoil, and a root protruding downward from the platform and coupled to a rotor disk, wherein the airfoil includes a cooling passage formed therein and a discharge hole connected to an upper portion of the cooling passage to discharge cooling air, and the discharge hole is inclined toward a tip of the turbine blade while extending from an inside to an outside thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Kwang Il KIM, Jin Woo SONG, Willy Heinz HOFMANN, Herbert BRANDL
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Publication number: 20220090511Abstract: The present technique presents a blade 1 for a gas turbine 10. The blade 1 includes an airfoil 100 having an airfoil tip part 100a and a pressure side 102 and a suction side 104 meeting at a leading edge 106 and a trailing edge 108 and defining an internal space 100s of the airfoil 100. A squealer tip 80, 90 is arranged at the airfoil tip part 100a. The squealer tip 80, 90 comprises a suction side rail 90. The suction side rail 90 comprises a chamfer part 90x and at least one squealer tip cooling hole 99. The chamfer part 90x comprises a chamfer surface 9. An outlet 99a of the at least one squealer tip cooling hole 99 is disposed at the chamfer surface 9.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Herbert BRANDL, Joerg Krueckels, Ulrich Rathmann, Willy Heinz Hofmann
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Publication number: 20210277781Abstract: The present technique presents a gas turbine blade for re-using cooling air, a turbomachine assembly having the blade, and a gas turbine having the turbomachine assembly. The blade includes a platform and an airfoil extending from the platform. The airfoil includes a pressure surface, a suction surface, a leading edge and a trailing edge. The platform includes a pressure side, a suction side, a leading-edge side and a trailing-edge side, disposed towards the pressure surface, the suction surface, the leading edge and the trailing edge of the airfoil, respectively. The suction side of the platform includes a part of the upper surface and a suction-side lateral surface of the platform. At least a part of an edge between the suction-side lateral surface and the upper surface of the platform comprises a chamfer part.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Herbert BRANDL, Willy H. Hofmann, Joerg Krueckels, Ulrich Rathmann, Seok Beom Kim
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Patent number: 10801352Abstract: The invention concerns a turbine for a gas turbine comprising a blade, a vane and an abradable lip attached to the blade or to the vane, wherein the blade and the vane are separated by a gap and the abradable lip extends part of the distance across the gap. Embodiments include the addition of an abrasive layer attached on the other side of the gap from the abradable lip. A method of manufacturing is also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2016Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Guillaume Wagner, Herbert Brandl, Emanuele Facchinetti, Matthias Hoebel, Carlos Simon-Delgado
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Patent number: 10731490Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a guide vane for a gas turbine, and provides for example an innovative guide vane with improved flexibility leading to a reduction of stresses at the interface between the vane platform and the vane carrier. Exemplary embodiments provide only circumferential line contact or point contact between the guide vane and the guide vane carrier.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Marc Widmer, Herbert Brandl
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Patent number: 10655474Abstract: Disclosed is a turbo-engine component comprising a wall, the wall comprising a hot gas side surface and a coolant side surface. At least one coolant discharge duct is provided in said wall and opening out onto the hot gas side surface at a coolant discharge opening. A coolant flow direction is defined from the interior of the coolant discharge duct towards the discharge opening, the coolant discharge duct further being delimited by a delimiting surface thereof provided inside the wall. The coolant discharge duct has a first cross sectional direction and a second cross sectional direction. The coolant discharge duct is a blind cavity and is closed towards the coolant side surface, and further a dimension of the coolant discharge duct measured in the first cross sectional direction decreases in the coolant flow direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: General Electric Technology GmbHInventors: Joerg Krückels, Herbert Brandl
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Patent number: 10337337Abstract: A blading member for fluid flow machines, for example, gas turbine engines. The blading member includes a platform member, at least one airfoil member, and at least one interlock member.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventor: Herbert Brandl
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Patent number: 10221709Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a vane for a gas turbine, and more in particular it provides an innovative vane with improved flexibility leading to a reduction of stresses at the transition from the vane trailing edge to the vane platform, without interfering into the cooling scheme of such component. The present invention can increase flexibility of the vane platform by introducing on the vane platform a material cutback confined in the proximity of the trailing edge portion of the vane airfoil.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Herbert Brandl, Marc Widmer
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Patent number: 10087778Abstract: A wall for a hot gas channel in a gas turbine is described, the wall having a back side and a front side and an impingement sheet having impingement cooling holes, the wall being for exposure to a hot fluid at the front side, and the wall having an array of pins attached to the back side and extending between the back side and the impingement sheet, the wall additionally having a plurality of ribs attached to the back side, each rib extending between two pins to delineate an array of cells on the back side, and/or at least one compartment wall attached to the back side to delineate compartments on the back side. Embodiments include an impingement sheet with impingement cooling holes and cooling exit holes. A gas turbine including the wall is also described.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Christoph Didion, Herbert Brandl, Magali Cochet, Rene Koehnke
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Patent number: 10041359Abstract: The invention concerns a turbine blade comprising a surface, a recess within the surface, and a damping inlay within the recess. The damping inlay comprises a chamber with a damping material, for example particles. The damping inlay should substantially maintain the aerodynamic profile of the blade to enable normal operation. A further embodiment of the invention describes the method of manufacture of a turbine blade with a damping inlay. The method comprises the steps of manufacturing a turbine blade having a surface and a recess in the surface, and providing one or more damping inlays within the recess such that the damping inlay substantially maintains the aerodynamic profile of the blade, the damping inlay comprising a chamber and a damping material disposed within the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Herbert Brandl, Arrigo Beretta-Müller
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Publication number: 20180187556Abstract: A turboengine blading member having a platform and an airfoil. The airfoil includes a pressure side, a suction side, a leading edge and a trailing edge. An upstream region of the airfoil extends from the leading edge in a direction towards the trailing edge and a downstream region of the airfoil extends from the trailing edge in a direction towards the leading edge. The airfoil is connected to the platform in the upstream region, and is disconnected from the platform in the downstream region, such that the downstream region cantilevers from the upstream region, whereby a gap is formed between a cross sectional face of the airfoil in the downstream region and an opposed surface of the platform facing the cross sectional face. A sealing member is provided inside airfoil and platform pockets and bridges the gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2017Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: ANSALDO ENERGIA IP UK LIMITEDInventors: Herbert Brandl, Jiwen Tao, Philip Corser, Arthur Mateusz Faflik-Brooks, Andrew Wilson
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Patent number: 9920636Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine blade, including a blade having a front edge and a rear edge, which blade transitions by means of a shaft into a blade root designed for fastening the turbine blade, and including a platform, which is arranged at the lower end of the blade in order to bound a flow channel. The platform is designed as a separate component and can be connected to the blade in a form-fit manner. Flexible application is achieved in that the platform is composed of several individual platform elements, which enclose the blade in the assembled state.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA IP UK LIMITEDInventor: Herbert Brandl
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Patent number: 9915155Abstract: A rotor blade arrangement (20), especially for a gas turbine, which can be fastened on a blade carrier (19) and includes in each case a blade aerofoil element (10) and a platform element (14), wherein the platform elements (14) of a blade row form a continuous inner shroud. With such a blade arrangement, a mechanical decoupling, which extends the service life, is achieved by the blade aerofoil element (10) and the platform element (14) being formed as separate elements and by being able to be fastened in each case separately on the blade carrier (19).Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA IP UK LIMITEDInventors: Herbert Brandl, Hans-Peter Bossmann, Philipp Indlekofer