Patents by Inventor Jens NIPKAU

Jens NIPKAU 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: 20240263942
    Abstract: A method for determining a shape of a mistuned blade of an impeller includes: providing a nominal blade with radially threaded-on profile elements; providing an initially mistuned blade with profile elements, the mistuned blade having a reduced or increased thickness at at least one of the profile elements compared with the nominal blade; determining the shape of the nominal blade in a hot state; determining the shape of the mistuned blade in the hot state; comparing the two shapes and determining a parameter of the mistuned blade which differs from the corresponding parameter for the nominal blade in the hot state; and changing the value of this parameter for the mistuned blade in the cold state such that the difference between the parameter for the mistuned blade and the nominal blade in the hot state no longer exists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Felix FIGASCHEWSKY, Thomas GIERSCH, Moritz WIRTH, Jens NIPKAU, Christopher HEMERLY
  • Patent number: 11391169
    Abstract: A blade wheel of a turbomachine, which blade wheel has a multiplicity of blades which are suitable and provided for extending radially in a flow path of the turbomachine, wherein the blades form a blade entry angle and a blade exit angle. Provision is made whereby the blade wheel forms N blocks of blades, where N?2, wherein the blades of a block have in each case the same blade entry angle and the same blade exit angle, and the blades of at least two mutually adjacent blocks have a different blade entry angle and/or a different blade exit angle. According to a further aspect of the invention, partial gaps that the blades form in relation to an adjacent flow path boundary are varied in mutually adjacent blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG, ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventors: Sven Schrape, Bernhard Mück, Jens Nipkau, Thomas Giersch, Frank Heinichen, John Dodds
  • Publication number: 20210340875
    Abstract: A blade wheel of a turbomachine, which blade wheel has a multiplicity of blades which are suitable and provided for extending radially in a flow path of the turbomachine, wherein the blades form a blade entry angle and a blade exit angle. Provision is made whereby the blade wheel forms N blocks of blades, where N?2, wherein the blades of a block have in each case the same blade entry angle and the same blade exit angle, and the blades of at least two mutually adjacent blocks have a different blade entry angle and/or a different blade exit angle. According to a further aspect of the invention, partial gaps that the blades form in relation to an adjacent flow path boundary are varied in mutually adjacent blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Sven SCHRAPE, Bernhard MÜCK, Jens NIPKAU, Thomas GIERSCH, Frank HEINICHEN, John DODDS
  • Patent number: 11105207
    Abstract: A blade wheel of a turbomachine, which blade wheel has a multiplicity of blades which are suitable and provided for extending radially in a flow path of the turbomachine, wherein the blades form a blade entry angle and a blade exit angle. Provision is made whereby the blade wheel forms N blocks of blades, where N?2, wherein the blades of a block have in each case the same blade entry angle and the same blade exit angle, and the blades of at least two mutually adjacent blocks have a different blade entry angle and/or a different blade exit angle. According to a further aspect of the invention, partial gaps that the blades form in relation to an adjacent flow path boundary are varied in mutually adjacent blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG, Rolls-Royce
    Inventors: Sven Schrape, Bernhard Mück, Jens Nipkau, Thomas Giersch, Frank Heinichen, John Dodds
  • Publication number: 20200056486
    Abstract: A blade wheel of a turbomachine, which blade wheel has a multiplicity of blades which are suitable and provided for extending radially in a flow path of the turbomachine, wherein the blades form a blade entry angle and a blade exit angle. Provision is made whereby the blade wheel forms N blocks of blades, where N?2, wherein the blades of a block have in each case the same blade entry angle and the same blade exit angle, and the blades of at least two mutually adjacent blocks have a different blade entry angle and/or a different blade exit angle. According to a further aspect of the invention, partial gaps that the blades form in relation to an adjacent flow path boundary are varied in mutually adjacent blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Sven SCHRAPE, Bernhard MÜCK, Jens NIPKAU, Thomas GIERSCH, Frank HEINICHEN, John DODDS
  • Publication number: 20180372119
    Abstract: A method for selecting a mistuning pattern of a turbomachine rotor disk includes providing information items relative to boundary conditions of a rotor disk excitation by forced vibrations; providing a reduced-order model of the rotor disk; producing a multiplicity of mistuning patterns of the rotor disk by entering the information items and the reduced-order model into a multi-objective optimizer and producing the mistuning patterns by the multi-objective optimizer while optimizing stability of the system in relation to self-excited vibrations while simultaneously optimizing stability of the system relative to forced vibrations. For each mistuning pattern produced, the reduced-order model is applied to a rotor disk, which implements the produced mistuning pattern, and the properties of this rotor disk are determined in view of self-excited vibrations and in view of forced vibrations. One of the mistuning patterns is selected for implementation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Felix FIGASCHEWSKY, Jens NIPKAU, Thomas KLAUKE, Arnold KUEHHORN, Bernd BEIROW