Patents by Inventor Knut ROSENAU

Knut ROSENAU 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: 11187243
    Abstract: A diffuser for a radial compressor of a turbomachine is provided. The diffuser has a plurality of diffuser channels, wherein the diffuser channels extend across a radial area of the diffuser across a bent area into an axial area of the diffuser, wherein, in the radial area of the diffuser, the diffuser channels have diffuser walls in particular at v-shaped blades that are bent in the movement direction of the radial compressor or are straight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Simon Schuldt, Knut Rosenau
  • Patent number: 10465705
    Abstract: A device for adjusting a gap between the housing of an impeller and the impeller in a radial compressor of a turbomachine is provided. The device comprises at least one mechanical setting device by means of which the housing of the impeller can be axially adjusted in a targeted manner for the purpose of adjusting the gap, wherein the at least one setting device can be actuated via an adjusting ring, and a transmission of a force and/or a torsional moment from the adjusting ring can be effected via at least one adjustment lever device, in particular a thread lever, or a tilting lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Simon Schuldt, Knut Rosenau
  • Patent number: 10125616
    Abstract: A fan blade for an aircraft engine, including a leading edge, a trailing edge, a suction side, a pressure side and a blade tip, is provided. The fan blade has a large-area elastomer layer which takes up at least 20% of the surface of the suction side of the fan blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventor: Knut Rosenau
  • Publication number: 20180094605
    Abstract: A turbofan engine for a civil supersonic aircraft, including: an engine intake; a multi-stage fan that is arranged behind the engine intake; a core engine that comprises a compressor, a combustion chamber and a turbine; a primary flow channel that leads through the core engine; a secondary flow channel that leads past the core engine; an adjustable converging-diverging thrust nozzle that forms a nozzle throat area and a nozzle outlet area, wherein at least the nozzle throat area is adjustable; and a thrust reverser that is integrated in the adjustable converging-diverging thrust nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Knut ROSENAU, James Robert MCLEAVY HILL
  • Publication number: 20180094582
    Abstract: A turbofan engine for a civil supersonic aircraft, including: a multi-stage fan, wherein each stage of the multi-stage fan has a fan rotor with rotor blades and a fan stator with stator blades; an inlet flow channel that leads through the fan rotor of the first stage of the multi-stage fan; a primary flow channel that leads through a core engine of the turbofan engine; and a secondary flow channel that leads past the core engine. The inlet flow channel divides into the primary flow channel and the secondary flow channel. It is provided that the fan rotors of all stages of the fan are arranged in the inlet flow channel before it is divided into the primary flow channel and the secondary flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Knut ROSENAU, James Robert MCLEAVY HILL, Marco ROSE
  • Patent number: 9909433
    Abstract: An aircraft gas turbine has a core engine and a bypass duct surrounding the latter, where the core engine includes in its inflow zone a booster, in the area of which at least one booster bleed duct is provided for supplying an airflow from the booster into the bypass duct, and a stator vane row arranged in the bypass duct downstream of a fan. A vane root of the stator vane is designed as a structural element mounting the core engine, and the booster bleed duct is provided inside the vane root and issues downstream of the stator vane into the bypass duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Knut Rosenau, Lars Pettersson, Lutz Bilger, Andrew Cox
  • Publication number: 20170108004
    Abstract: A device for adjusting a gap between the housing of an impeller and the impeller in a radial compressor of a turbomachine is provided. The device comprises at least one mechanical setting device by means of which the housing of the impeller can be axially adjusted in a targeted manner for the purpose of adjusting the gap, wherein the at least one setting device can be actuated via an adjusting ring, and a transmission of a force and/or a torsional moment from the adjusting ring can be effected via at least one adjustment lever device, in particular a thread lever, or a tilting lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Simon SCHULDT, Knut ROSENAU
  • Publication number: 20170102005
    Abstract: A diffuser for a radial compressor of a turbomachine is provided. The diffuser has a plurality of diffuser channels, wherein the diffuser channels extend across a radial area of the diffuser across a bent area into an axial area of the diffuser, wherein, in the radial area of the diffuser, the diffuser channels have diffuser walls in particular at v-shaped blades that are bent in the movement direction of the radial compressor or are straight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Simon SCHULDT, Knut ROSENAU
  • Publication number: 20160258303
    Abstract: A fan blade for an aircraft engine, including a leading edge, a trailing edge, a suction side, a pressure side and a blade tip, is provided. The fan blade has a large-area elastomer layer which takes up at least 20% of the surface of the suction side of the fan blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventor: Knut ROSENAU
  • Publication number: 20160097301
    Abstract: An aircraft gas-turbine engine having a fan mounted on a fan shaft and including several fan blades, where the fan shaft is mounted on an engine structure by means of an upstream fan bearing, when seen in the flow direction, and a downstream bearing, where at least one predetermined breaking point is provided in the area of the fan bearing, characterized in that at least one shock-absorbing element designed as metal fabric damper is arranged at a radial gap to have a parallel effect relative to the predetermined breaking point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Knut ROSENAU, Kai Navtej SINGH
  • Patent number: 9279326
    Abstract: A method for balancing and assembling a turbine rotor 2 including at least one turbine disk 3 and a compressor rotor 15 of a gas turbine. A front cover disk 6 is fastened by connections 10 to the turbine disk 3, and the turbine disk 3 is balanced together with the cover disk 6. The turbine disk 3 and the cover disk 6 are braced by a clamping device 19, 20. The bolted connections 10 are then removed and the turbine disk 3 and the cover disk 6 are connected to the compressor rotor 15 by bolted connections 10. The clamping device 19, 20 is then removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Knut Rosenau, Reinhold Hecken
  • Publication number: 20150123680
    Abstract: An inductive sensor and to a method for manufacturing an inductive sensor is provided. The inductive sensor comprises a winding body, an induction coil made of a high-temperature resistant metal alloy and wound onto the winding body, and a metal casing at least partially surrounding the induction coil. Here, the induction coil is compressed with metal oxide powder inside the metal casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventor: Knut ROSENAU
  • Publication number: 20150047191
    Abstract: A method for balancing and assembling a turbine rotor 2 including at least one turbine disk 3 and a compressor rotor 15 of a gas turbine. A front cover disk 6 is fastened by connections 10 to the turbine disk 3, and the turbine disk 3 is balanced together with the cover disk 6. The turbine disk 3 and the cover disk 6 are braced by a clamping device 19, 20. The bolted connections 10 are then removed and the turbine disk 3 and the cover disk 6 are connected to the compressor rotor 15 by bolted connections 10. The clamping device 19, 20 is then removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Knut ROSENAU, Reinhold HECKEN
  • Publication number: 20130276453
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft gas turbine having a core engine and a bypass duct surrounding the latter, where the core engine includes in its inflow zone a booster, in the area of which at least on booster bleed duct is provided for supplying an airflow from the booster into the bypass duct, and a stator vane row arranged n the bypass duct downstream of a fan, characterized in that a vane root of the stator vane is designed as a structural element mounting the core engine, and that the booster bleed duct is provided inside the vane root and issues downstream of the stator vane into the bypass duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Knut ROSENAU, Lars PETTERSSON, Lutz BILGER, Andrew COX