Patents by Inventor KARL ENGEL

KARL ENGEL 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: 11913579
    Abstract: A conveying device for use in the field of plastics has a frame and a weighing cell connected to the frame. A separating unit is suspended from the weighing cell. A first coupling is connected to the frame and connects a vacuum source to the separating unit. A second coupling is connected to the frame and connects a conveying line for goods to be conveyed to the separating unit. At least one of the first coupling and the second coupling has a first coupling part connected to the separating unit and a second coupling part connected to the frame, wherein the first and the second coupling parts do not contact each other in a region of no contact. At least one sealing element is provided to seal the region of no contact between the first and the second coupling parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Motan Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Martin Wolfgang, Tobias Engel
  • Patent number: 10334897
    Abstract: A formulation for coating surfaces, for example gloves, with a tacky film comprises a hydrophobically modified biopolymer, where the hydrophobic modifications of the biopolymer correspond to between 1 and 90% of available functional groups, a plasticizer, and a volatile solvent. The formulation quickly dries into a tacky film that provides an enhanced friction of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: University of Maryland, College Park
    Inventors: Kevin Diehn, Chandamany Arya, Karl Engel, Matthew Furstenburg, Srinivasa R. Raghavan
  • Patent number: 10041353
    Abstract: A blade cascade of a turbomachine whose at least one side wall is configured to be circumferentially undulated and which has at least two elevations and at least one depression or at least two depressions having at least one elevation, as well as a turbomachine having a blade cascade of this kind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Jochen Gier, Yavuz Guendogdu, Karl Engel
  • Patent number: 9863251
    Abstract: A turbomachine stage includes guide vanes and an airfoil platform forming a guide vane cascade, and rotor blades and an airfoil platform forming a rotor blade cascade. Airfoil platforms have cascade regions extending between circumferentially adjacent airfoils, and gap regions which radially and/or axially bound an axial gap extending axially between the guide vane cascade and the rotor blade cascade. A contour of at least one of these gap regions varies in the radial and/or axial direction around the circumference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventors: Inga Mahle, Jochen Gier, Kai Koerber, Karl Engel
  • Patent number: 9745850
    Abstract: A blade cascade of a continuous-flow machine is disclosed. The blade cascade has at least one side wall that is constructed in a wave-like manner in the peripheral direction and has at least one elevation and at least one depression. At least a profile-like rib is integrated in or combined with the side wall, which has a blade profile with a pressure side and with an opposite suction side. A continuous-flow machine with such a blade cascade is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Yavuz Guendogdu, Jochen Gier, Karl Engel
  • Patent number: 9453415
    Abstract: A blade cascade for a continuous-flow machine having a non-axisymmetrical side wall contour, whereby the side wall contour has at least one suction-side depression that, in the circumferential direction, is at a distance from a suction-side wall, and having a section located upstream from the leading edges and a section located downstream from the leading edges, it has a pressure-side elevation that makes a transition to a pressure-side wall and that is located in a front blade area, and it has a pressure-side depression that is located upstream from the pressure-side elevation, and also discloses a continuous-flow machine having such a blade cascade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Engel
  • Publication number: 20150147468
    Abstract: A formulation for coating surfaces, for example gloves, with a tacky film comprises a hydrophobically modified biopolymer, where the hydrophobic modifications of the biopolymer correspond to between 1 and 90% of available functional groups, a plasticizer, and a volatile solvent. The formulation quickly dries into a tacky film that provides an enhanced friction of the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Kevin Diehn, Chandamany Arya, Karl Engel, Matthew Furstenburg, Srinivasa R. Raghavan
  • Publication number: 20150044038
    Abstract: A blade cascade of a turbomachine whose at least one side wall is configured to be circumferentially undulated and which has at least two elevations and at least one depression or at least two depressions having at least one elevation, as well as a turbomachine having a blade cascade of this kind.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Jochen Gier, Yavuz Guendogdu, Karl Engel
  • Publication number: 20140348660
    Abstract: A blade cascade of a continuous-flow machine is disclosed. The blade cascade has at least one side wall that is constructed in a wave-like manner in the peripheral direction and has at least one elevation and at least one depression. At least a profile-like rib is integrated in or combined with the side wall, which has a blade profile with a pressure side and with an opposite suction side. A continuous-flow machine with such a blade cascade is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Yavuz GUENDOGDU, Jochen Gier, Karl Engel
  • Publication number: 20140348661
    Abstract: A blade row for a turbomachine is disclosed. The blade row has an inner lateral wall and an outer lateral wall for bordering a hot gas channel in the turbomachine through which hot gas passes. At least one of the lateral walls has a rounded lateral wall front edge, which is provided with a circumferentially asymmetrical edge contouring that is elliptical or is comprised of one or more segments of a circle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Inga MAHLE, Martin Pernleitner, Karl Engel
  • Publication number: 20140037453
    Abstract: A blade cascade for a continuous-flow machine having a non-axisymmetrical side wall contour, whereby the side wall contour has at least one suction-side depression that, in the circumferential direction, is at a distance from a suction-side wall, and having a section located upstream from the leading edges and a section located downstream from the leading edges, it has a pressure-side elevation that makes a transition to a pressure-side wall and that is located in a front blade area, and it has a pressure-side depression that is located upstream from the pressure-side elevation, and also discloses a continuous-flow machine having such a blade cascade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventor: Karl Engel
  • Publication number: 20130330180
    Abstract: A transition duct for a turbomachine, in particular an aircraft engine, for forming a flow channel between an upstream flow cross section and a downstream flow cross section, including supporting ribs which extend between a radially inner duct wall and a radially outer duct wall and each of which has a profile for deflecting a flow from an inlet area to an outlet area of the transition duct, the supporting ribs each having a profile variation in the area of their trailing edge and/or at least one blow-out opening for blowing out a fluid; also disclosed is a turbomachine having a transition duct of this type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Yavuz Guendogdu, Karl Engel
  • Publication number: 20130051996
    Abstract: A transition channel for a turbine unit with at least two components is configured as a flow channel from one component of a first pressure to a component of a second pressure. The transition channel has support ribs, extending between envelope surfaces of the transition channel and having a profile that is configured for the deflecting of a flow from an inlet cross section to an outlet cross section of the transition channel. Flow splitter blades are arranged between the support ribs, having a smaller relative profile thickness than the support ribs and/or a shorter axial design depth or profile chord length than the support ribs. Thanks to the integration of the slim and/or short flow splitter blades (tandem blades), it is possible to largely dissipate parasite secondary flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: MTU AERO ENGINES GMBH
    Inventors: MARTIN HOEGER, KAI KOERBER, KARL ENGEL