Patents by Inventor Juergen BEIER

Juergen BEIER 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: 10895201
    Abstract: A turbofan engine that comprises a primary flow channel inside of which a primary flow flows through a gas generator during operation, a secondary flow channel inside of which a secondary flow is guided past the gas generator during operation, and an oil separator of a lube oil system that has a pipeline for exhausting breather air, wherein the pipeline forms a pipeline end. It is provided that the pipeline end is arranged inside the secondary flow channel, and is provided and configured for the purpose of discharging breather air directly from the pipeline end into the secondary flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Juergen Beier, Markus Blumrich
  • Patent number: 10646805
    Abstract: A device of a turbomachine for separating oil from an air-oil volume flow, with a first separation appliance and a second separation appliance, wherein an air-oil volume flow from an oil-loaded area of the turbomachine can be supplied to the first separation appliance, and wherein the air-oil volume flow, the oil loading of which can be reduced in the area of the first separation appliance, can be supplied to the second separation appliance downstream of the first separation appliance by means of a conduit. An appliance for cooling the air-oil volume flow conducted inside the conduit is provided, being arranged downstream of the first separation appliance and upstream of the second separation appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND & CO KG
    Inventors: Juergen Beier, Markus Blumrich
  • Patent number: 10570791
    Abstract: The present invention describes a device of a jet engine with at least one component arranged in a casing and designed rotatable relative to said casing. At least one air-oil volume flow can be passed out of an area of the jet engine into the casing. In accordance with the invention the air-oil volume flow can be introduced into the casing via an introducing facility at least approximately tangentially to an area of the rotatable component close to at least an outer circumferential area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Juergen Beier
  • Patent number: 10393313
    Abstract: An oil circuit of an aircraft engine, includes a tank, a lubricant pump and a recirculation pump. The lubricant pump supplies oil via a supply line from the tank to a load of the engine and to an accessory gearbox. Oil is resupplied via a recirculation conduit to the tank by the recirculation pump. The recirculation conduit is connected to the accessory gearbox via a further recirculation conduit. A valve is provided that can be switched between an open switching state and a closed state. In the open switching state of the valve, oil is supplied to the tank via the recirculation conduit. In the closed state of the valve device, an oil feed to the tank via the recirculation conduit is blocked, and oil from the recirculation conduit is supplied to the accessory gearbox via the further recirculation conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Juergen Beier, Markus Blumrich
  • Publication number: 20190226358
    Abstract: An oil circuit of an aircraft engine, includes a tank, a lubricant pump and a recirculation pump. The lubricant pump supplies oil via a supply line from the tank to a load of the engine and to an accessory gearbox. Oil is resupplied via a recirculation conduit to the tank by the recirculation pump. The recirculation conduit is connected to the accessory gearbox via a further recirculation conduit. A valve is provided that can be switched between an open switching state and a closed state. In the open switching state of the valve, oil is supplied to the tank via the recirculation conduit. In the closed state of the valve device, an oil feed to the tank via the recirculation conduit is blocked, and oil from the recirculation conduit is supplied to the accessory gearbox via the further recirculation conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Juergen BEIER, Markus BLUMRICH
  • Patent number: 10041410
    Abstract: An aero engine with a bearing chamber, which is confined by a first wall area and a second wall area which is embodied so as to be rotatable with respect to the first wall area and in which at least one bearing appliance as well as at least one appliance for introducing oil are arranged. Oil can be introduced into the bearing chamber via at least one appliance for introducing oil substantially against a rotational direction of the first wall area and/or of the second wall area and substantially tangentially to at least one surface of at least one wall area that is facing the bearing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Juergen Beier
  • Patent number: 9988938
    Abstract: The present invention describes a jet engine with a device for spraying oil into an air-oil volume flow guided inside a flow cross-section limited by a wall area. The air-oil volume flow is guidable through an oil separator in order to separate the oil. In accordance with the invention, the oil can be sprayed into the air-oil volume flow in the area of the device via an outlet area rigidly connected to the wall area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Juergen Beier, Gideon Venter
  • Patent number: 9957838
    Abstract: A tank device of an aero engine, which has an inlet appliance for the supply of an air-oil volume flow into a tank space of the tank device, a separation appliance for the separation of oil from the air-oil volume flow that is supplied to the tank space, a conduit area which is confined by at least one wall and in which an air-oil volume flow can be guided in the area of the tank space at least in certain areas, and an outlet appliance, in the area of which a volume flow can be discharged via a valve appliance from the tank space of the tank device. At least one appliance for introducing oil is provided, by means of which oil can be supplied into the area of the conduit area substantially against a flow direction of the air-oil volume flow which is forming during operation in the conduit area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Juergen Beier, Gideon Venter
  • Patent number: 9914081
    Abstract: An aircraft engine having a device for separating oil from an air-oil volume flow, where a fluid volume flow with a lower oil load than the air-oil volume flow supplied to the device can be discharged from the device via a line area. The fluid volume flow can be supplied via the line area to a unit by means of which a pressure in the line area downstream of the unit can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Juergen Beier, Gideon Venter
  • Publication number: 20180036664
    Abstract: A device of a turbomachine for separating oil from an air-oil volume flow, with a first separation appliance and a second separation appliance, wherein an air-oil volume flow from an oil-loaded area of the turbomachine can be supplied to the first separation appliance, and wherein the air-oil volume flow, the oil loading of which can be reduced in the area of the first separation appliance, can be supplied to the second separation appliance downstream of the first separation appliance by means of a conduit. An appliance for cooling the air-oil volume flow conducted inside the conduit is provided, being arranged downstream of the first separation appliance and upstream of the second separation appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Juergen BEIER, Markus BLUMRICH
  • Publication number: 20170370255
    Abstract: A tank device of an oil circuit of an aircraft engine for stocking oil inside an interior space that is delimited by a wall, having at least one appliance for introducing oil into the interior space. By means of the appliance for introducing oil, the area of the wall that is arranged above a minimal filling level, as it occurs during operation of an aircraft engine, can be impinged with oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: Juergen BEIER
  • Patent number: 9829087
    Abstract: The present invention describes an accessory gearbox with a shaft incorporated into a casing and connectable at least in one lateral end area to an accessory unit, with the shaft at least in the lateral end area being designed as a hollow shaft having an inner toothing. To lubricate the inner toothing in the area of the casing at least one baffle device is provided which is designed for guiding hydraulic fluid present in the area of the casing, under the effect of gravity, in the direction of at least one opening provided in the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Juergen Beier
  • Publication number: 20170314470
    Abstract: A turbofan engine that comprises a primary flow channel inside of which a primary flow flows through a gas generator during operation, a secondary flow channel inside of which a secondary flow is guided past the gas generator during operation, and an oil separator of a lube oil system that has a pipeline for exhausting breather air, wherein the pipeline forms a pipeline end. It is provided that the pipeline end is arranged inside the secondary flow channel, and is provided and configured for the purpose of discharging breather air directly from the pipeline end into the secondary flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Juergen BEIER, Markus BLUMRICH
  • Patent number: 9795914
    Abstract: A device of an aircraft engine for separating oil from an air-oil volume flow and an apparatus for introducing oil into the air-oil volume flow. An outlet area of the apparatus for introducing oil is provided in a closed line section, into which the air-oil volume flow can be introduced via an inlet area. In accordance with the invention, a flow cross-section of the line section downstream of the outlet area of the apparatus tapers at least partially like a nozzle and at least in some sections inside a confusor area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Juergen Beier, Gideon Venter
  • Publication number: 20170267411
    Abstract: An oil tank includes an outer wall with a side limitation and an interior enclosed by the outer wall. A view passage extending from the side limitation into the interior of the tank allows external visual reading of the oil fill level of the tank at or close to the tank center, where changes in the oil fill level caused by inclined positions of the tank are minimal. The view passage includes a beginning of the passage formed in the area of the side limitation that includes a first optically transparent window. An end of the passage includes a second optically transparent window. A passage wall extending between the beginning and end of the passage delimits the view passage against the interior of the tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Juergen BEIER, Andrew PATERSON
  • Publication number: 20170211422
    Abstract: A turbomachine having a wall that extends circumferentially to a central axis of the turbomachine at least in certain areas, and having at least one insert device that can be connected in a releasable manner to a wall in the area of a recess which is arranged inside the wall. The insert device has a connection device by means of which the insert device can be brought into operative connection with a connection device of the wall. The connection device of the insert device has a projection that extends in the radial direction of the turbomachine at least in certain areas in the mounted state of the insert device, and that in the mounted state of the insert device meshes in a groove of the connection device of the wall. The connection device of the wall has a projection that extends in the radial direction of the turbomachine at least in certain areas in the mounted state of the insert device, and that, in the mounted state of the insert device, meshes in a groove of the connection device of the insert device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Juergen BEIER, Patrick RUSS, Predrag TODOROVIC, Thomas KUBISCH, Michael SCHACHT
  • Patent number: 9677422
    Abstract: The present invention describes a jet engine with a device for spraying oil into an air-oil volume flow guided inside a flow cross-section limited by a wall area. The air-oil volume flow is guidable through an oil separator in order to separate the oil. In accordance with the invention, the oil can be sprayed into the air-oil volume flow in the area of the device via an outlet area designed movable relative to the wall area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Juergen Beier, Gideon Venter
  • Patent number: 9587560
    Abstract: A jet engine includes at least one oil separator, through which an air-oil volume flow can be guided out of several areas supplied with oil for separating the oil, where a device for spraying oil into the air-oil volume flow is provided. Oil can be sprayed in using the device in the area of each connection between an area supplied with oil and the oil separator and/or downstream of a combining area between at least two air-oil volume flows from two or more areas supplied with oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Juergen Beier, Gideon Venter
  • Publication number: 20170029132
    Abstract: An aircraft engine with a fuel supply appliance and with at least one hydraulic fluid circuit that includes a hydraulic fluid reservoir, and with a heat exchanger. In the area of the heat exchanger, thermal energy can be exchanged between the hydraulic fluid conducted inside the hydraulic fluid circuit and the fuel of the fuel supply appliance. The pressure inside the hydraulic fluid circuit is higher in the area of the heat exchanger than the pressure in the fuel supply appliance. The heat exchanger is connected to the hydraulic fluid reservoir. Outer walls of the heat exchanger and outer walls of the hydraulic fluid reservoir at least partially shield an overlap area between the heat exchanger and the hydraulic fluid reservoir against an environment of the heat exchanger and of the hydraulic fluid reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Juergen BEIER, Michael SCHACHT
  • Patent number: 9370739
    Abstract: The present invention describes a jet engine with at least one oil separator, through which an air-oil volume flow can be guided out of at least one area supplied with oil for separating the oil. In accordance with the invention the air-oil volume flow from the area supplied with oil can be introduced into the oil separator via an interior of an accessory gearbox casing. The air can be discharged from the oil separator via an air outlet and the oil via an oil outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Juergen Beier, Gideon Venter