Patents by Inventor Jörg KRÜCKELS

Jörg KRÜCKELS 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).

  • Publication number: 20140060766
    Abstract: A blade for a gas turbine has a leading edge and a trailing edge, and an interior cavity, which is delimited by internal surfaces, for guiding cooling air therethrough. A multiplicity of turbulators or pins, which are formed on the wall, are arranged in a distributed manner in the region of the trailing edge and project from the internal surfaces into the cavity, to improve the transfer of heat between the wall of the blade and the cooling air. An improvement of the internal cooling is achieved by the turbulators or pins extending into the cavity in a direction which can be freely selected within an angular range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Jose Anguisola MCFEAT, Jörg KRÜCKELS, Roland DÜCKERSHOFF, Brian Kenneth WARDLE
  • Publication number: 20120020787
    Abstract: A cooled blade for a gas turbine includes a blade airfoil extending between leading and trailing edges in a flow direction and on suction and pressure sides is delimited by a wall, which include an interior space in which cooling air flows towards the trailing edge in the flow direction and discharges to the outside in the region of the trailing edge. The pressure-side wall terminates at a distance in front of the trailing edge in the flow direction, forming a pressure-side lip, such that the cooling air discharges from the interior space on the pressure side. Multiple ribs subdivides the interior space, parallel to the flow direction, into a plurality of parallel cooling passages which create a high pressure drop and in which turbulators are arranged for increasing cooling. Before the outlet, multiple flow barriers are provided in the cooling air flow path, distributed transversely to the flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Jörg KRÜCKELS, Thomas HEINZ-SCHWARZMAIER, Brian Kenneth WARDLE
  • Publication number: 20110236222
    Abstract: A blade for a gas turbine has a leading edge and a trailing edge, and an interior cavity, which is delimited by internal surfaces, for guiding cooling air therethrough. A multiplicity of turbulators or pins, which are formed on the wall, are arranged in a distributed manner in the region of the trailing edge and project from the internal surfaces into the cavity, to improve the transfer of heat between the wall of the blade and the cooling air. An improvement of the internal cooling is achieved by the turbulators or pins extending into the cavity in a direction which can be freely selected within an angular range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Jose Anguisola MCFEAT, Jörg KRÜCKELS, Roland DÜCKERSHOFF, Brian Kenneth WARDLE
  • Publication number: 20110058940
    Abstract: A gas turbine is provided including a compressor, a combustion chamber, a guide vane row and a rotor airfoil row. The guide vane row includes a plurality of guide vane airfoils having a blade and an inner platform. The ratio between the pitch and the leading edge diameter of the guide vane airfoils is between 6.3-7.6 and the ratio between the platform length and the leading edge diameter of the guide vane airfoils is between 4.0-5.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Bruno STEPHAN, Jörg KRÜCKELS, Thomas SOMMER