Patents by Inventor Manuel HERM

Manuel HERM 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: 10641107
    Abstract: A turbine blade has a root portion, a platform and an aerofoil, the aerofoil is mounted on the platform and is formed by a pressure side wall and a suction side wall and has an outer surface, the pressure side wall and the suction side wall meet at a leading edge and a trailing edge, the aerofoil has an axial chord length, the suction side wall defines part of the radially outward surface of the aerofoil, the suction side wall defines an overhang, the overhang has a maximum overhang length that is between 5% and 20% of the axial chord length of the blade and is located between 5% and 50% of the suction surface length from the leading edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignees: ROLLS-ROYCE plc, ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: John David Coull, Nicholas Robert Atkins, Howard Peter Hodson, Adrian James White, Knut Lehmann, Manuel Herm
  • Patent number: 9593584
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbine rotor blade of a gas turbine with a blade tip, said blade tip having at least on its suction side, extending from a stagnation point on the blade leading edge to an intersection point of the suction-side profile line of the blade with a trailing-edge circle, an overhang which is substantially zero at the stagnation point and at the intersection point and which has a maximum value at around 40% of the running length of the suction-side overhang.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce plc, Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Knut Lehmann, Manuel Herm
  • Publication number: 20140119942
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbine rotor blade of a gas turbine with a blade tip, said blade tip having at least on its suction side, extending from a stagnation point on the blade leading edge to an intersection point of the suction-side profile line of the blade with a trailing-edge circle, an overhang which is substantially zero at the stagnation point and at the intersection point and which has a maximum value at around 40% of the running length of the suction-side overhang.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicants: Rolls-Royce plc, Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Knut LEHMANN, Manuel HERM