Patents by Inventor Josef Ballmann

Josef Ballmann 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: 9377029
    Abstract: A blade of a turbomachine or a flying machine includes a blade airfoil extending in a radial direction from a blade root to a blade tip. The blade airfoil has an inflow-side leading edge, an outflow-side trailing edge, a pressure side and a suction side. A surface of each of the pressure side and the suction side extends between the inflow-side leading edge and the outflow-side trailing edge. The blade tip has an end face with a camber line that extends from the inflow-side leading edge to the outflow-side trailing edge. At least one tip-side recess forms a depression from the end face into the blade airfoil, the depression extending continuously from the pressure side to the suction side and having a partial length of the camber line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Willy Heinz Hofmann, Josef Ballmann
  • Publication number: 20120328447
    Abstract: A blade of a turbomachine or a flying machine includes a blade airfoil extending in a radial direction from a blade root to a blade tip. The blade airfoil has an inflow-side leading edge, an outflow-side trailing edge, a pressure side and a suction side. A surface of each of the pressure side and the suction side extends between the inflow-side leading edge and the outflow-side trailing edge. The blade tip has an end face with a camber line that extends from the inflow-side leading edge to the outflow-side trailing edge. At least one tip-side recess forms a depression from the end face into the blade airfoil, the depression extending continuously from the pressure side to the suction side and having a partial length of the camber line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Willy Heinz Hofmann, Josef Ballmann
  • Patent number: 5591904
    Abstract: For the purpose of diminishing intake vortexes at jet engines with turbo-compressors of aircrafts, in particular during test runs, an apparatus is provided, which consists of a grating disposed near the ground below and directly in front of the engine inlet, which grating comprises short, approximately vertically extending wind tunnels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Rheinhold & Mahla AG
    Inventors: Horst Schafhaupt, Josef Ballmann
  • Patent number: 4296893
    Abstract: A projectile for shooting from a gun barrel in response to the force of a propellant gas emanating from the aperture of a propellant container, comprising a projectile body having a plurality of spin-producing propellant gas flow passages associated therewith, said passages annularly surrounding, and having their respective axes extending obliquely to, the longitudinal axis of the projectile body, wherein each passage has an inlet portion converging to an adjoining constricted portion, and a diverging portion extending downstream from the constricted portion, the axis of each passage being curved over the entire length of its converging inlet portion and substantially rectilinear over its diverging portion, and the walls of the diverging portion of each passage having a substantially rectilinear form, as viewed in the direction of propellant gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1981
    Inventor: Josef Ballmann
  • Patent number: 4249465
    Abstract: In a projectile comprising a projectile body which is surrounded by separable guide means for said body in a barrel and/or has a separable propulsion member disposed between it and a propellant container, spin-producing passages adapted to be penetrated by propellant gas are provided in said guide means and/or said propulsion member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1981
    Inventor: Josef Ballmann