Patents by Inventor Marco Schüler

Marco Schüler 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: 11326458
    Abstract: An aerofoil for a turbine blade, having a leading edge onto which a hot gas can flow and from which a suction-side wall and a pressure-side wall extend to a trailing edge of the aerofoil, the aerofoil extending in a direction transverse thereto from a root-side end having an aerofoil height of 0% to a tip-side end having an aerofoil height of 100%, and having at least two rows of cooling holes arranged along the leading edge, which cooling holes are at a mutual spacing which can be measured perpendicularly to the leading edge. In order to provide a turbine blade which can be used, with reduced cooling complexity, for additional reliable cooling of the leading edge in various operating conditions, the at least two rows of cooling holes are arranged at least in part in a wavy line along the leading edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Daniela Koch, Marco Schüler
  • Publication number: 20210156263
    Abstract: An aerofoil for a turbine blade, having a leading edge onto which a hot gas can flow and from which a suction-side wall and a pressure-side wall extend to a trailing edge of the aerofoil, the aerofoil extending in a direction transverse thereto from a root-side end having an aerofoil height of 0% to a tip-side end having an aerofoil height of 100%, and having at least two rows of cooling holes arranged along the leading edge, which cooling holes are at a mutual spacing which can be measured perpendicularly to the leading edge. In order to provide a turbine blade which can be used, with reduced cooling complexity, for additional reliable cooling of the leading edge in various operating conditions, the at least two rows of cooling holes are arranged at least in part in a wavy line along the leading edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Daniela Koch, Marco Schüler
  • Patent number: 10301944
    Abstract: A cast turbine blade having a platform and hollow blade airfoil arranged thereon, wherein the blade airfoil has a pressure-side blade wall and a suction-side blade wall that extend, along a centrally arranged curved profile centerline, from a common leading edge to a common trailing edge, and having a transition, with an outer contour profile, between the blade airfoil and the platform. The blade walls each have a locally determined blade wall thickness, wherein the turbine blade has, internally, a contour profile that partially matches the outer contour profile of the transition such that the region of the transition has an essentially constant blade wall thickness. In the transition, the contour profile at a surface section of the blade airfoil facing the leading edge is such that the blade wall thickness is increased there in comparison to the blade wall thickness of the transition away from the leading edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Björn Buchholz, Ralph Gossilin, Daniela Koch, Marco Schüler
  • Publication number: 20180187551
    Abstract: A cast turbine blade having a platform and hollow blade airfoil arranged thereon, wherein the blade airfoil has a pressure-side blade wall and a suction-side blade wall that extend, along a centrally arranged curved profile centerline, from a common leading edge to a common trailing edge, and having a transition, with an outer contour profile, between the blade airfoil and the platform. The blade walls each have a locally determined blade wall thickness, wherein the turbine blade has, internally, a contour profile that partially matches the outer contour profile of the transition such that the region of the transition has an essentially constant blade wall thickness. In the transition, the contour profile at a surface section of the blade airfoil facing the leading edge is such that the blade wall thickness is increased there in comparison to the blade wall thickness of the transition away from the leading edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Björn Buchholz, Ralph Gossilin, Daniela Koch, Marco Schüler
  • Publication number: 20170314400
    Abstract: A hollow blade body for a hollow blade, has a blade wall which has a pressure side which has at least one first blade connection element on the inner side thereof, and a suction side which has at least one second blade connection element diametrically opposite to the first blade connection element on the inner side thereof, wherein the first blade connection element can be engaged with at least one first rib connection element which is arranged on a first longitudinal end of an insertion rib, and the second blade connection element can be engaged with at least one second rib connection element which is arranged on a second longitudinal end of the insertion rib facing away from the first longitudinal end in such a way that the insertion rib is fixed on the hollow blade body and effects a stiffening of the hollow blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Björn Buchholz, Ralph Gossilin, Daniela Koch, Thorsten Mattheis, Radan Radulovic, Marco Schüler
  • Publication number: 20160362996
    Abstract: A component which can be subjected to hot gas for a gas turbine, the component having at least one wall, which includes a first surface as far as an edge, the first surface for delimiting a hot gas flow path of the gas turbine, and which includes a second surface, which adjoins the edge and is arranged transversely to the first surface. A groove for receiving a sealing element is arranged in the second surface and extends at least partially along the edge at a distance from the edge. The groove includes a groove base lying opposite the groove opening and two mutually facing side walls which adjoin the groove base and extend along the edge. At least one of the side walls has at least one groove-shaped recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Ralf Müsgen, Radan Radulovic, Marco Schüler