Patents by Inventor Lutz Aurahs

Lutz Aurahs 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: 10975727
    Abstract: A bearing bush of a turbocharger for radially mounting a shaft of the turbocharger. The bearing bush on an inner surface facing the shaft to be mounted, which forms a running surface of the bearing bush, has a microstructuring of multiple cup-shaped recesses at least in sections. The recesses have a maximum depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Sven Brandt, Jan-Christoph Haag, Lutz Aurahs, Christoph Heinz, Hannes Benetschik
  • Publication number: 20200300115
    Abstract: A turbocharger includes a turbine and a compressor, each of which includes a rotor and a stator. At least one of the respective rotors and/or stators includes at least one interior flow passage at least partly or completely surrounded by a wall that provides cooling. The respective rotor and/or stator having the at least one flow passage is at least partly produced by additive manufacturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Lutz Aurahs, Stefan Weihard, Christoph Leitenmeier, Claudius Wurm, Stefan Rost
  • Publication number: 20200191162
    Abstract: An auxetic material or auxetic structures in an exhaust gas turbocharger having a shaft and at least one compressor wheel arranged on the shaft, a turbine wheel and a housing in which the shaft, the compressor wheel, and the turbine wheel are arranged. At least one part of the housing includes an auxetic material with a negative Poisson's ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Stefan WEIHARD, Sebastian SPENGLER, Boris THASER, Lutz AURAHS
  • Publication number: 20200173361
    Abstract: A turbocharger, includes a turbine for expanding a first medium, a compressor for compressing a second medium utilising energy extracted in the turbine during the expansion of the first medium. The turbine housing and a compressor housing are each connected to a bearing housing arranged between the same. The turbine housing, and/or the compressor housing and/or the bearing housing form/s a stator-side assembly and/or receive/s a stator-side assembly, which serves for the lubrication, and/or heat conduction, and/or sealing. The respective stator-side assembly which serves for the lubrication, and/or heat conduction, and/or sealing, is produced by a generative manufacturing method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Sven BRANDT, Stefan STÖHR, Lutz AURAHS, Stefan ROST, Stefan WEIHARD, Santiago UHLENBROCK, Sebastian SPENGLER
  • Publication number: 20200025075
    Abstract: A turbocharger, with a turbine for expanding a first medium having a turbine housing and a turbine rotor, a compressor for compressing a second medium utilising energy extracted in the turbine during expansion of the first medium having a compressor housing and a compressor rotor. A temperature of the first medium that is to be expanded or is expanded is lower than a temperature of the second medium that is to be compressed or is compressed. The turbine rotor and the compressor rotor are directly connected to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Jan-Christoph HAAG, Lutz Aurahs, Christoph Heinz, Klaus Bartholomä
  • Publication number: 20190363381
    Abstract: A device for the air supply of a fuel cell via two compressor stages, designed with a first compressor of a turbocharger that is drive-effectively connected to a turbine of the turbocharger that can be driven by an exhaust gas flow of the fuel cell, and a supply air supply of the first compressor is connected to the second compressor via an air passage for supplying air compressed by the second compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Jan-Christoph HAAG, Lutz Aurahs, Christoph Heinz, Klaus Bartholomä
  • Publication number: 20190363380
    Abstract: A device for the air supply of a fuel cell operated with hydrogen, via a compressor of an exhaust gas turbocharger. The compressor is drive-effectively connected to a turbine of the turbocharger that can be driven by exhaust gas flow of the fuel cell via a shaft and also drive-effectively connected to a motor via a shaft. The compressor is connected to the fuel cell via an air supply duct for supplying compressed air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Jan-Christoph Haag, Lutz Aurahs, Christoph Heinz, Klaus Bartholomä
  • Publication number: 20190360522
    Abstract: A device for air supply of a fuel cell operated with hydrogen, via a compressor of an exhaust gas turbocharger. The compressor is drive-effectively connected to a turbine of the turbocharger that can be driven by an exhaust gas flow of the fuel cell via a shaft and the turbocharger, is drive-effectively connected to a motor via the shaft. The mounting of the shaft of the turbocharger is formed by a gas or air-lubricated mounting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Jan-Christoph HAAG, Lutz AURAHS, Christoph HEINZ, Klaus BARTHOLOMÄ
  • Publication number: 20190316514
    Abstract: A supercharging device for an internal combustion engine having a compressor that is driven by an electric motor for supercharging the internal combustion engine with air via an air feed passage, and an electric energy accumulator, which is fed with electric energy via a first power generator that is driven by the internal combustion engine. The energy supply the electric motor is connected to electric energy stored in the energy accumulator to drive the compressor independently of a current operating point on a power curve of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Jan-Christoph HAAG, Lutz AURAHS, Klaus BARTHOLOMÄ
  • Publication number: 20190128139
    Abstract: A bearing bush of a turbocharger for radially mounting a shaft of the turbocharger. The bearing bush on an inner surface facing the shaft to be mounted, which forms a running surface of the bearing bush, has a microstructuring of multiple cup-shaped recesses at least in sections. The recesses have a maximum depth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Sven BRANDT, Jan-Christoph Haag, Lutz Aurahs, Christoph Heinz, Hannes Benetschik