Patents by Inventor Jürgen Ramm

Jürgen Ramm 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: 11964921
    Abstract: A method for applying a coating 1 to a surface 2 of a mullite material 3 is specified, which comprises pretreating the surface 2 of the mullite material 3 by means of a plasma-chemical process in which molecular hydrogen is excited in such a way that plasma-activated hydrogen is produced S1, and applying an aluminum oxide-containing layer 4 by means of a PVD process to the pretreated surface 2 of the mullite material 3 S2. Furthermore, a mullite material 3 with a coating and a gas turbine component with such a mullite material 3 are specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon
    Inventors: Werner Stamm, Simone Friedle, Juergen Ramm
  • Publication number: 20240026793
    Abstract: A method for coating a substrate surrounding a gas turbine blade, including the following steps: in a first step, a MCrAlY matrix is applied by means of a PVD method; in a further step, an oxide layer is applied by means of a PVD method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Bernhard KOHLHAUSER, Jürgen RAMM, Oliver HUNOLD, Edgar BALTER
  • Publication number: 20240003015
    Abstract: The invention relates to a layer system coated on a substrate, the layer system comprising a functional layer and an intermediate layer, the intermediate layer being disposed between the substrate and the functional layer, the functional layer comprising both the elements aluminum and silicon but not necessarily in elemental form, and the functional layer comprising oxygen or nitrogen or both, characterized in that the intermediate layer comprises, measured in at %, percent more silicon and/or percent more aluminum than the functional layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventor: Jürgen Ramm
  • Publication number: 20230265564
    Abstract: A surface coating for protecting substrates with Ti—Al material, preferably comprising one or more of the materials from table 1, wherein the coating comprises a layer sequence with at least one layer which forms a diffusion barrier for Ti, preferably according to one or more of the layer sequences specified in table 1 in rows, and wherein the coating comprises an oxidation barrier which is in particular adjusted to the diffusion barrier and preferably adjusted according to table 2, and in particular wherein the surface coating comprises a thermal barrier which is preferably adjusted to the oxidation barrier according to table 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Beno Widrig, Oliver Jarry, Bernhard Kohlhauser, Jürgen Ramm
  • Publication number: 20230212733
    Abstract: A method for producing an Al—Cr—O-based coating on a workpiece surface, including: a) placing a workpiece in an interior of a vacuum chamber, and b) depositing a film comprising aluminum and chromium on the workpiece surface to be coated, wherein a ratio of aluminum to chromium in the film in atomic percentage has a first value corresponding to Al/Cr?2.3, and c) forming volatile compounds of Cr—O, thereby causing at least part of the chromium contained in the film to leave the film in a form of Cr—O volatile compounds, and d) executing step c) during a period of time, within which the chromium content in the film is reduced until attaining a second value of the ratio of aluminum to chromium in the film in atomic percentage corresponding to Al/Cr?3.5, thereby the film is transformed into a film containing a reduced content of chromium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Robert RAAB, Christian Martin KOLLER, Paul Heinz MAYRHOFER, Mirjam ARNDT, Juergen RAMM
  • Patent number: 11661657
    Abstract: Coated substrate comprising a substrate (1) comprising a metal substrate surface (11) coated with a coating system (7) consisting of or comprising a functional coating film (5), said functional coating film (5) consisting of or comprising at least one MCr Al—X coating layer, whereas ° the at least one MCr Al—X coating layer is deposited directly on the metal substrate (11), or ° the at least one MCr Al—X coating layer is deposited on an intermediate coating layer (3) that is formed of at least one substrate matching layer (31), wherein the at least one substrate matching layer (31) is deposited directly on the metal substrate surface (11), wherein the layer deposited directly on the metal substrate surface (11), it means respectively the MCr Al—X coating layer if it is deposited directly on the metal substrate surface (11) or the substrate matching layer (31) if it is deposited on the metal substrate surface (11) exhibits: ° epitaxial growth in part or totally, or ° heteroepitaxial growth in part or totally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon
    Inventors: Juergen Ramm, Beno Widrig, Oliver Jarry, Oliver Hunold
  • Patent number: 11655544
    Abstract: A layered stack that can be used as an oxidation and chemical barrier with superalloy substrates, including Ni, Ni—Co, Co, and Ni-aluminide based substrates, and methods of preparing the layered stack. The layer system can be applied to a substrate in a single physical vapor deposition process with no interruption of vacuum conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon
    Inventors: Jürgen Ramm, Beno Widrig, Malko Gindrat
  • Patent number: 11584984
    Abstract: Provided is a method for arranging a protective coating for a thermally stressed structure, having at least one layer of alpha-aluminium oxide or of element-modified alpha-aluminium oxide, and wherein the protective coating is applied by reactive cathodic arc vaporization. A protective coating produced by the method and a component having a protective coating is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jürgen Ramm, Werner Stamm
  • Patent number: 11560618
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a multilayer film comprising aluminum, chromium, oxygen and nitrogen, in a vacuum coating chamber, the multilayer film comprising layers of type A and layers of type B deposited alternate one of each other, wherein during deposition of the multilayer film at least one target comprising aluminum and chromium is operated as cathode by means of a PVD technique and used in this manner as material source for supplying aluminum and chromium, and an oxygen gas flow and a nitrogen gas flow are introduced as reactive gases in the vacuum chamber for reacting with aluminum and chromium, thereby supplying oxygen and nitrogen for forming the multilayer film, characterized in that: —The A layers are deposited as oxynitride layers of Al—Cr—O—N by using nitrogen and oxygen as reactive gas at the same time, —The B layers are deposited as nitride layers of Al—Cr—N by reducing the oxygen gas flow and by increasing the nitrogen gas flow in order to use only nitrogen as reac
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon
    Inventors: Robert Raab, Christian Martin Koller, Paul Heinz Mayrhofer, Mirjam Arndt, Jürgen Ramm
  • Patent number: 11479862
    Abstract: A component of a turbine, in particular a gas turbine, wherein the component has a coating for increasing the erosion and corrosion resistance, wherein the coating is preferably applied directly to the component, wherein the coating consists of a functional layer and an intermediate layer, wherein the intermediate layer is arranged between the turbine blade substrate and the functional layer and wherein the functional layer consists of the elements Al, Cr, O and N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon
    Inventors: Juergen Ramm, Hamid Bolvardi, Oliver Jarry, Lin Shang, Beno Widrig, Carmen Jerg
  • Publication number: 20220213000
    Abstract: A method for applying a coating 1 to a surface 2 of a mullite material 3 is specified, which comprises pretreating the surface 2 of the mullite material 3 by means of a plasma-chemical process in which molecular hydrogen is excited in such a way that plasma-activated hydrogen is produced S1, and applying an aluminum oxide-containing layer 4 by means of a PVD process to the pretreated surface 2 of the mullite material 3 S2. Furthermore, a mullite material 3 with a coating and a gas turbine component with such a mullite material 3 are specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Werner STAMM, Simone FRIEDLE, Juergen RAMM
  • Publication number: 20220145446
    Abstract: Method for building up and/or finalizing a PVD target whereas the method comprises a process step where target material is added using an additive method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Arkadi ZIKIN, Beno WIDRIG, Juergen RAMM, Stefan ANDRES
  • Publication number: 20220136096
    Abstract: Coated tool comprising a coated surface, the coated surface comprising a substrate having a surface on which a coating is deposited, wherein the substrate is made of a material comprising cobalt, and wherein the coating comprises at least one boron-comprising layer, wherein the at least one boron-comprising layer comprises Al and the boron comprised in this layer is present as boride, thereby the boron-comprising layer is able to form further layers for providing a diffusion barrier layer effect, in particular for stopping diffusion of cobalt from the substrate surface to the coating, when the coated tool or the coated surface is exposed to temperatures in a range between approximately 600 and 1200° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Hamid BOLVARDI, Jürgen RAMM, Mirjam ARNDT
  • Patent number: 11293089
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a component comprising a substrate coated with a coating having a film (3,4 or 3,4,5) comprising one or more transition metals, TM, aluminium, Al, and nitrogen, N, wherein the TM and N as well as Al and N are comprised in the film forming respectively nitride compounds, wherein the transition metal nitride, TM-N, is present in the film distributed in different portions exhibiting one crystalline phase of TM-N, and the aluminium nitride, Al—N, is present in the film in different portions exhibiting one phase of Al—N, whereas the phase of the transition metal nitride is cubic, c-TMN, the phase of the aluminium nitride is wurtzite, w-AIN, and wherein the film exhibits coherent or (semi-) coherent interfaces between the c-TMN phase portions and the w-AI-N phase portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFÄFFIKON
    Inventors: Siva Phani Kumar Yalamanchili, Mirjam Arndt, Juergen Ramm, Siegfried Krassnitzer, Denis Kurapov
  • Publication number: 20220018012
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coated substrate comprising a substrate surface coated with a coating comprising at least one layer, wherein the at least one layer comprises titanium, aluminum and nitrogen, wherein—the content of aluminum in relation to the content of titanium in the at least one layer comprising titanium, aluminum and nitrogen satisfy Al/Ti>1 by considering only the respective concentrations in atomic percentage of aluminum and titanium in the at least one layer comprising titanium, aluminum and nitrogen, and—the at least one layer comprising titanium, aluminum and nitrogen exhibits wurtzite phase of aluminum nitride and rutile phase of titanium oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Lin SHANG, Juergen RAMM, Beno WIDRIG, Carmen JERG, Mirjam ARNDT
  • Publication number: 20220002880
    Abstract: An improved coating used in plastic processing applications including a first layer system that includes at least one corrosion resistant material layer; a second layer system that includes at least one abrasion resistant material layers; and a transition layer provided between the first layer and the second layer. The coating is resistant to both abrasion and corrosion, while maintaining ductility and impact resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon
    Inventors: Hamid BOLVARDI, Ali KHATIBI, Jürgen RAMM, Mirjam ARNDT, Florian NEFF
  • Publication number: 20210395897
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a layer stack and methods of preparing the same for use as an oxidation and chemical barrier with superalloy substrates, including Ni, Ni—Co, Co, and Ni-aluminide based substrates. The layer system can be applied to a substrate in a single physical vapor deposition process with no interruption of vacuum conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Jürgen Ramm, Beno Widrig, Malko Gindrat
  • Patent number: 11155914
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a component comprising a surface coated with a coating comprising a MoxCryN layer, where x and y correspond to the coefficients of Mo content and Cr content in atomic percentage, respectively, when only Mp and Cr are considered, and so x+y is considered to be 100 at %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon
    Inventors: Johann Karner, Neir Beganovic, Juergen Ramm, Beno Widrig
  • Publication number: 20210214838
    Abstract: Provided is a method for arranging a protective coating for a thermally stressed structure, having at least one layer of alpha-aluminium oxide or of element-modified alpha-aluminium oxide, and wherein the protective coating is applied by reactive cathodic arc vaporization. A protective coating produced by the method and a component having a protective coating is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Jürgen Ramm, Werner Stamm
  • Publication number: 20210123141
    Abstract: Coated substrate comprising a substrate (1) comprising a metal substrate surface (11) coated with a coating system (7) consisting of or comprising a functional coating film (5), said functional coating film (5) consisting of or comprising at least one MCr Al—X coating layer, whereas ° the at least one MCr Al—X coating layer is deposited directly on the metal substrate (11), or ° the at least one MCr Al—X coating layer is deposited on an intermediate coating layer (3) that is formed of at least one substrate matching layer (31), wherein the at least one substrate matching layer (31) is deposited directly on the metal substrate surface (11), wherein the layer deposited directly on the metal substrate surface (11), it means respectively the MCr Al—X coating layer if it is deposited directly on the metal substrate surface (11) or the substrate matching layer (31) if it is deposited on the metal substrate surface (11) exhibits: ° epitaxial growth in part or totally, or ° heteroepitaxial growth in part or totally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Juergen RAMM, Beno WIDRIG, Oliver JARRY, Oliver HUNOLD