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).

  • 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