Patents by Inventor Martin SCHLOFFER

Martin SCHLOFFER 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).

  • Publication number: 20230211418
    Abstract: A method for producing an impact-resistant component, in particular a component of a turbomachine, such as an aircraft engine, and a corresponding component. The component is produced at least partially by an additive manufacturing method from a powder material in such a way that the component is formed at least in a first region from a material with a first toughness and at least in a second region from a material with a second toughness, the second toughness being greater than the first toughness, and wherein the second region is formed, at least in a part of the component, as a continuous or interrupted layer, preferably parallel to the surface of the component, at a distance from the surface of the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventor: Martin SCHLOFFER
  • Patent number: 11542582
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a component of a ?-TiAl alloy, in which, in a first step, a forging blank made of a ?-TiAl alloy is built up from a powder material by an additive method, and subsequently, in a second step, the forging blank is reshaped into a semi-finished product, wherein the degree of reshaping over the entire forging blank is high enough that, in a third step, the structure is recrystallized during a heat treatment. In addition, the invention relates to a component produced therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Martin Schloffer
  • Patent number: 10590520
    Abstract: Described is a TiAl alloy which, besides titanium, comprises 42 to 48 at. % aluminum, 3 to 5 at. % niobium, 0.05 to 1 at. % molybdenum, 0.2 to 2.2 at. % silicon, 0.2 to 0.4 at. % carbon, 0.05 to 0.2 at. % boron, and optionally tungsten, zirconium and hafnium, as well as unavoidable impurities, and at room temperature has a microstructure which comprises globular colonies of lamellae of ?2-Ti3Al and ?-TiAl, as well as silicide precipitates, and essentially no ? phase. A method for producing a component made of this alloy is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Wilfried Smarsly, Martin Schloffer, Helmut Clemens, Thomas Klein
  • Patent number: 10590527
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for coating a component of a TiAl alloy in order to improve the high-temperature resistance of the component. The process comprises depositing a Pt- and Cr-free protective layer alloy comprising Ti, Al, Nb, Mo and B and optionally one or more of W, Si, C, Zr, Y, Hf, Er and Gd on the component by physical vapor deposition at a temperature of less than or equal to 600° C. The protective layer alloy has a higher Al content than the TiAl alloy of the component. A coated component made by this process is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Martin Schloffer, Heiko Warnecke
  • Patent number: 10544485
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a component from a TiAl alloy by layer-by-layer deposition of powder on a substrate and/or an already produced semifinished product. The component has a proportion of x at % of aluminum which is in the range from about 34 to about 47 at % of aluminum, the powder having a proportion of x+1 at % to x+6 at % of aluminum. Also disclosed is a component formed from a TiAl alloy which has been produced by a corresponding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Martin Schloffer, Wilfried Smarsly
  • Patent number: 10526902
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a blade for a turbomachine, in particular for an aero engine. The method comprises providing at least one blade airfoil with a first platform region and at least one blade root with a second platform region and joining the blade airfoil and the blade root at the respective platform regions by a friction welding method at a common joint region of the platform regions, the blade airfoil and the blade root being made of materials which are different from each other. Also disclosed is a blade which is and/or can be obtained by such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Martin Schloffer, Wilfried Smarsly
  • Publication number: 20190381559
    Abstract: A process for producing a component from a TiAl alloy by two-stage isothermal forging and to a component produced thereby. The process comprises a first isothermal forging of a component precursor at a temperature of at least about 1180° C., an intermediate annealing of the forged precursor at a temperature ranging from about 1130° C. to 1170° C. for about 1 to 8 hours and a subsequent second isothermal forging at a temperature of at least about 1180° C. with a degree of forming which is lower than the degree of forming in the first isothermal forging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventor: Martin SCHLOFFER
  • Publication number: 20190376170
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a component of a ?-TiAl alloy, in which, in a first step, a forging blank made of a ?-TiAl alloy is built up from a powder material by an additive method, and subsequently, in a second step, the forging blank is reshaped into a semi-finished product, wherein the degree of reshaping over the entire forging blank is high enough that, in a third step, the structure is recrystallized during a heat treatment. In addition, the invention relates to a component produced therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Martin Schloffer
  • Patent number: 10465264
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a TiAl alloy for use at high temperatures which has aluminum and titanium as main constituents. The TiAl alloy has an aluminum content of greater than or equal to 50 at. % and a matrix of ?-TiAl and at least one phase of Al and Ti incorporated in the ?-TiAl matrix which is different from ?-TiAl, as well as depositions of oxides and/or carbides and/or silicides. In addition, the invention relates to a method for producing the alloy and to the use of the alloy for components of turbo-machines, in particular aircraft engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Wilfried Smarsly, Martin Schloffer, Helmut Clemens, Svea Mayer
  • Publication number: 20190299288
    Abstract: A method for producing a component from a TiAl alloy and a correspondingly produced component includes defining at least one first component region with a first property profile, and at least one second component region with a second property profile, which is different from the first property profile; providing a powder made of the TiAl alloy; additively manufacturing the component from the powder composed of the TiAl alloy, wherein the powder made of the TiAl alloy is melted for the cohesive binding of the powder particles to one another and to the substrate or to an already produced part of the component, and wherein the powder particles are melted for the formation of the first component region, and the powder particles for the formation of the second component region are melted under different conditions, so different chemical compositions of the deposited material are produced in both component regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Martin Schloffer
  • Patent number: 10385434
    Abstract: An apparatus and a process for producing forged components composed of TiAl alloys, wherein a melt of a TiAl alloy is provided and is cast by horizontal centrifugal casting so as to produce at least one semifinished TiAl cast part and the semifinished TiAl cast part is converted by forging into a forged TiAl part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Martin Schloffer, Wilfried Smarsly, Marc Haltrich
  • Publication number: 20190070665
    Abstract: A method is provided, for manufacturing a component of a turbomachine, in particular a blade, in which initially a shell (6) including an interior cavity (7) corresponding to the outer contour of the component is manufactured from an intermetallic TiAl material, and subsequently a Ti alloy in powder form is filled into the cavity, and the cavity with the filled-in Ti alloy powder is tightly sealed, the tightly sealed shell (6) including the enclosed titanium alloy powder being subsequently processed into a component of the turbomachine using hot isostatic pressing. Alternatively, the invention relates to a method for generatively manufacturing a component including a shell made from a TiAl alloy and a core made from a Ti alloy. In addition, the invention relates to a correspondingly manufactured component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Martin SCHLOFFER, Wilfried SMARSLY
  • Publication number: 20190017158
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for forging a component, in particular a component made of a TiAl material, in which the die for forging is heated to a specified first temperature prior to the forging, and in which a preform of the component to be forged is preheated to a specified second temperature, wherein the first temperature is lower than the second temperature, and first and second temperatures are selected so that during the forging, the surface temperature of the preform does not fall below a minimum forging temperature, and the temperature of the die does not increase above a maximum die temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventor: Martin Schloffer
  • Patent number: 10060012
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a TiAl alloy for use at high temperatures having the main constituents titanium and aluminum and having a proportion of aluminum of greater than or equal to 30 at. % and a matrix composed of ? phase and precipitates of ? phase embedded in the matrix, with the ? phase and the ? phase together making up at least 55% by volume of the microstructure, and also a process for the production thereof and the use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventor: Martin Schloffer
  • Patent number: 10029309
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a component, in particular a component for a turbomachine, composed of a TiAl alloy, which comprises the following: introduction of a powder of the TiAl alloy into the capsule whose shape corresponds to the shape of the component to be produced and closing of the capsule, hot isostatic pressing of the capsule together with the powder, heat treatment of the hot isostatically pressed capsule, removal of the capsule, post-working of the contour of the component by removal of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Martin Schloffer, Wilfried Smarsly
  • Publication number: 20180163291
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for coating a component of a TiAl alloy in order to improve the high-temperature resistance of the component. The process comprises depositing a Pt- and Cr-free protective layer alloy comprising Ti, Al, Nb, Mo and B and optionally one or more of W, Si, C, Zr, Y, Hf, Er and Gd on the component by physical vapor deposition at a temperature of less than or equal to 600° C. The protective layer alloy has a higher Al content than the TiAl alloy of the component. A coated component made by this process is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Martin SCHLOFFER, Heiko WARNECKE
  • Publication number: 20180016668
    Abstract: Described is ?-TiAl alloy which, besides titanium, comprises 42 to 48 at. % aluminum, 3 to 5 at. % niobium, 0.05 to 1 at. % molybdenum, 0.2 to 2.2 at. % silicon, 0.2 to 0.4 at. % carbon, 0.05 to 0.2 at. % boron, and optionally tungsten, zirconium and hafnium, as well as unavoidable impurities, and at room temperature has a microstructure which comprises globular colonies of lamellae of ?2-Ti3Al and ?-TiAl, as well as silicide precipitates, and essentially no ? phase. A method for producing a component made of this alloy is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Wilfried SMARSLY, Martin SCHLOFFER, Helmut CLEMENS, Thomas KLEIN
  • Publication number: 20170335436
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a component from a TiAl alloy by layer-by-layer deposition of powder on a substrate and/or an already produced semifinished product. The component has a proportion of x at % of aluminum which is in the range from about 34 to about 47 at % of aluminum, the powder having a proportion of x+1 at % to x+6 at % of aluminum. Also disclosed is a component formed from a Tim alloy which has been produced by a corresponding process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Martin SCHLOFFER, Wilfried SMARSLY
  • Publication number: 20170314402
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a blade for a turbomachine, which method comprises: providing a blade root, having a first platform region, from a first material; providing on the first platform region at least one capsule that is filled with a metallic and/or ceramic powder that comprises at least one second material which is different from the first material, for producing a blade airfoil having a second platform region; producing and shaping a blade airfoil from the capsule that is filled with the powder by at least one thermal input method, thereby connecting the blade root to the blade airfoil in respective platform regions. Also disclosed is a blade which is obtainable and/or obtained by this method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Martin SCHLOFFER, Wilfried SMARSLY
  • Publication number: 20170314401
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a blade for a turbomachine, in particular for an aero engine. The method comprises providing at least one blade airfoil with a first platform region and at least one blade root with a second platform region and joining the blade airfoil and the blade root at the respective platform regions by a friction welding method at a common joint region of the platform regions, the blade airfoil and the blade root being made of materials which are different from each other. Also disclosed is a blade which is and/or can be obtained by such a method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Martin SCHLOFFER, Wilfried SMARSLY