Patents by Inventor Patrick Lapp

Patrick Lapp 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: 10989412
    Abstract: A heat shield assembly of a combustion chamber has a supporting structure and heat shield elements arranged on the supporting structure. For fastening, the supporting structure has spring devices fastened therein, into each of which a fastening bolt can be screwed. In order to realize the pre-installation and the later removal of the spring elements contained in the spring device, at a holding sleeve, a contact plate is removably fastened in the holding sleeve on the side facing the heat shield element and a stationary securing plate is arranged on the opposite side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christoph Buse, Andreas Böttcher, Manfred Hartmann, Jens Kleinfeld, Andre Kluge, Patrick Lapp, Thomas-Dieter Tenrahm
  • Patent number: 10591165
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle body having a rearward end and a front end with an outer tube which extends from the rearward end to the front end and has radial openings for a first fuel in the region of the front end, and an inner tube which is arranged concentrically to the outer tube and which opens in the region of the front end into a nozzle head, which has additional openings for a second fuel, wherein, in the region of the front end, the inner tube is guided in the outer tube by two fits which are arranged axially between the radial openings and the additional openings, and wherein the first fit closest to the radial openings is configured as a circumferential web around the inner tube, and wherein the second fit is configured with at least one interruption on the perimeter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Beck, Andreas Böttcher, Christopher Grandt, Thomas Hauser, Patrick Lapp, Stefan Reich
  • Patent number: 10578305
    Abstract: A burner assembly with a combustion chamber, a plurality of mixing ducts leading into the combustion chamber, where combustion air and introduced fuel are mixed. The mixing ducts are formed by mixing tubes extending axially through an annular space between a tubular outer wall, a tubular inner wall arranged radially at a distance from the outer wall, a ring-shaped end plate arranged upstream and a ring-shaped end plate arranged downstream. The end plates have through-openings, which accommodate and/or extend the mixing tubes, and the end plates have, both radially inside and outside, a circumferential edge extending in the direction of the annular space, with axial bores in the edge of the ring-shaped end plate arranged downstream. The axial bores extend from the annual space into the end plate, and at least one opening is for removing cooling air, the opening branching from the axial bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Patrick Lapp, Jens Kleinfeld, Matthias Chlebowski, Fabian Sander, Christian Beck, Andreas Böttcher, Patrick Ronald Flohr, Thomas Hauser, Simon Purschke, Günther Walz
  • Patent number: 10514116
    Abstract: A pipe connection for conducting a fluid that is under pressure is provided, having two tubular connection parts for a conical clamping connection, which are screwed together by a union nut while one is inserted in the other, wherein each connection part has a conical sealing surface that contacts the other in a sealing manner and wherein an annular groove is provided in one of the sealing surfaces. In order to enable the pipe connection also to conduct a fluid having cycling or varying temperature, the inner of the two connection parts has thermal insulation on the inside of the pipe at least in the axial segment of the sealing surface of the connection part, wherein the thermal insulation tube has a cam or a collar on the outer surface, which engages in a recess, which is axially bounded by the two connection parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Bottcher, Hartwig Dumler, Werner Hesse, Boris Ferdinand Kock, Patrick Lapp, Lars Otte, Falk Seidel, Philipp Stapper, Sascha Staring, Gerd Weber
  • Patent number: 10330318
    Abstract: A heat shield with support structure and a number of heat shield blocks secured thereto, having a cold side facing the support structure and a hot side opposite the cold side. At least one recess is arranged in at least one heat shield block circumferential face, connecting the cold to hot side. An opening connecting the recess to the cold side runs in the circumferential face perpendicularly to the cold side. A securing bolt inserted into the opening secures the heat shield block to the support structure. A bolt head protrudes at least partly into the recess. The securing bolt passes through an angled plate having first limb extending substantially parallel to the circumferential face and second limb extending into the recess. The angled plate has a reinforcing device extending beyond the pure angular shape to increase a resistance of the angled plate against bending due to the securing bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniel Vogtmann, Sabine Grendel, Claus Krusch, Andre Kluge, Hartwig Dümler, Christopher Grandt, Andreas Bottcher, Tobias Krieger, Patrick Lapp
  • Patent number: 10281068
    Abstract: A pipe connection arrangement in a high-pressure fluid line system of a dual fuel engine, having first pipe element with outer sealing cone and conical shoulder adjoining the cone, having further pipe element with inner sealing cone and external thread, having a screw nut element with clamping sleeve region having inner clamping cone and threaded sleeve region having internal thread. The outer sealing cone of the first pipe element is arranged in the inner sealing cone of the further pipe element and the internal thread of the screw nut element is screwed on the external thread of the further pipe element. The inner clamping cone of the screw nut element is pulled against the conical shoulder of the first pipe element such that the outer and inner sealing cones are clamped with one another in a sealing manner, wherein the threaded sleeve region of the screw nut element is conical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Hartwig Dümler, Werner Hesse, Patrick Lapp, Joachim-Rene Nuding, Josef Rosenkranz, Sascha Staring, Changsheng Xu
  • Publication number: 20190107286
    Abstract: A heat shield assembly of a combustion chamber has a supporting structure and heat shield elements arranged on the supporting structure. For fastening, the supporting structure has spring devices fastened therein, into each of which a fastening bolt can be screwed. In order to realize the pre-installation and the later removal of the spring elements contained in the spring device, at a holding sleeve, a contact plate is removably fastened in the holding sleeve on the side facing the heat shield element and a stationary securing plate is arranged on the opposite side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christoph Buse, Andreas Böttcher, Manfred Hartmann, Jens Kleinfeld, Andre Kluge, Patrick Lapp, Thomas-Dieter Tenrahm
  • Patent number: 9903514
    Abstract: A pipe connection that includes two tubular connection pieces for a conical clamping connection, the connection pieces being screwed together by a union nut while one connection piece is plugged inside the other. Each connection piece has a conical sealing surface which sealingly rests against the other, and an annular groove is provided in one of the sealing surfaces. The union nut is slit on the collar side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Tobias Krieger, Patrick Lapp
  • Publication number: 20170276370
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle body having a rearward end and a front end with an outer tube which extends from the rearward end to the front end and has radial openings for a first fuel in the region of the front end, and an inner tube which is arranged concentrically to the outer tube and which opens in the region of the front end into a nozzle head, which has additional openings for a second fuel, wherein, in the region of the front end, the inner tube is guided in the outer tube by two fits which are arranged axially between the radial openings and the additional openings, and wherein the first fit closest to the radial openings is configured as a circumferential web around the inner tube, and wherein the second fit is configured with at least one interruption on the perimeter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Beck, Andreas Böttcher, Christopher Grandt, Thomas Hauser, Patrick Lapp, Stefan Reich
  • Publication number: 20170254541
    Abstract: A burner having a pre-mixing passage delimited radially outwardly by a wall, a burner lance and a plurality of fuel injectors arranged in the pre-mixing passage, the injectors extending from the burner lance in the direction of the wall and having fuel nozzles. The fuel supply arrangement has at least one fluidic oscillator that has an interaction chamber, an inlet to the interaction chamber connected to a fuel channel of the fuel supply arrangement, a first outlet channel of the interaction chamber extending at least to a first fuel nozzle and a second outlet channel extending at least to a second fuel nozzle, the fluidic oscillator has one feedback line for each outlet channel, one end of the feedback line terminating into the respective outlet channel downstream of the at least one fuel nozzle, and the other end thereof terminating into an inlet region of the interaction chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Werner Krebs, Patrick Lapp, Sebastian Pfadler, Daniel Vogtmann
  • Publication number: 20170227223
    Abstract: A burner assembly with a combustion chamber, a plurality of mixing ducts leading into the combustion chamber, where combustion air and introduced fuel are mixed. The mixing ducts are formed by mixing tubes extending axially through an annular space between a tubular outer wall, a tubular inner wall arranged radially at a distance from the outer wall, a ring-shaped end plate arranged upstream and a ring-shaped end plate arranged downstream. The end plates have through-openings, which accommodate and/or extend the mixing tubes, and the end plates have, both radially inside and outside, a circumferential edge extending in the direction of the annular space, with axial bores in the edge of the ring-shaped end plate arranged downstream. The axial bores extend from the annual space into the end plate, and at least one opening is for removing cooling air, the opening branching from the axial bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Patrick Lapp, Jens Kleinfeld, Matthias Chlebowski, Fabian Sander, Christian Beck, Andreas Böttcher, Patrick Ronald Flohr, Thomas Hauser, Simon Purschke, Günther Walz
  • Publication number: 20160252254
    Abstract: A burner arrangement for a combustion chamber for combustion of fluid fuels has a main burner and pilot burner arranged centrally within the main burner for the ignition and/or stabilization of the combustion of the main burner. The main burner has central fuel feed arrangement arranged around the pilot burner, an annular air duct surrounding the central fuel feed arrangement for the supply of combustion air, first fuel nozzles for injection of substantially gaseous fuel into the annular air duct. The first fuel nozzles are fed from a first fuel distributor in the central fuel feed arrangement, and second fuel nozzles for the injection of a substantially liquid fuel into the annular air duct are fed from a second fuel distributor in the central fuel feed arrangement. Ducts are provided which branch off from at least one of the fuel distributors and issue into the pilot burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Tobias Krieger, Patrick Lapp, Andreas Mann, Stefan Reich, Kai-Uwe Schildmacher, Sascha Staring, Daniel Vogtmann
  • Publication number: 20160245513
    Abstract: A heat-protective insert for a fuel line, has a first portion in the form of a tube with a cross-section, and a second portion that is connected to the first portion, and extends across the cross-section, and has openings to achieve a sieve effect. A fuel line has such a heat-protective insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jürgen Buchheim, Andreas Böttcher, Thomas Hauser, Patrick Lapp
  • Publication number: 20160223106
    Abstract: A pipe connection arrangement in a high-pressure fluid line system of a dual fuel engine, having first pipe element with outer sealing cone and conical shoulder adjoining the cone, having further pipe element with inner sealing cone and external thread, having a screw nut element with clamping sleeve region having inner clamping cone and threaded sleeve region having internal thread. The outer sealing cone of the first pipe element is arranged in the inner sealing cone of the further pipe element and the internal thread of the screw nut element is screwed on the external thread of the further pipe element. The inner clamping cone of the screw nut element is pulled against the conical shoulder of the first pipe element such that the outer and inner sealing cones are clamped with one another in a sealing manner, wherein the threaded sleeve region of the screw nut element is conical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Hartwig Dümler, Werner Hesse, Patrick Lapp, Joachim-Rene Nuding, Josef Rosenkranz, Sascha Staring, Changsheng Xu
  • Publication number: 20160208628
    Abstract: An inner housing hub is arranged in a gas turbine about a gas turbine shaft and is formed as a component of an inner housing used to deflect hot gases exiting combustion chambers towards a turbine inlet region arranged in the direction of the gas turbine shaft. The inner housing hub includes at least one substantially cylinder casing-shaped securing portion having a cylinder casing-shaped main part, which has a hot side facing a hot gas path and a cold side facing away from the hot gas path. At least one web-shaped protrusion extends along the cold side and is arranged on the cold side on the main part in order to secure the inner housing hub. The web-shaped protrusion is made of a first material and the main part is made of a second material, the first material having a greater thermal expansion coefficient than the second material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Torsten Jokisch, Tobias Krieger, Patrick Lapp, Dirk Mertens, Julia Mühl, Michael Neubauer, Alexander Nordalm, Vasileios Papadopoulos, Michael Winterstein
  • Publication number: 20160169424
    Abstract: A pipe connection for conducting a pressurized fluid, includes two tubular connection pieces for a conical clamping connection, the connection pieces being screwed together by a union nut while one connection piece is plugged inside the other. Each connection piece has a conical sealing surface which sealingly rests against the other, and an annular groove is provided in one of the sealing surfaces. The union nut is slit on the collar side in order to enable the pipe connection to also conduct a fluid with an alternating or varying temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Tobias Krieger, Patrick Lapp
  • Publication number: 20160131362
    Abstract: A heat shield with support structure and a number of heat shield blocks secured thereto, having a cold side facing the support structure and a hot side opposite the cold side. At least one recess is arranged in at least one heat shield block circumferential face, connecting the cold to hot side. An opening connecting the recess to the cold side runs in the circumferential face perpendicularly to the cold side. A securing bolt inserted into the opening secures the heat shield block to the support structure. A bolt head protrudes at least partly into the recess. The securing bolt passes through an angled plate having first limb extending substantially parallel to the circumferential face and second limb extending into the recess. The angled plate has a reinforcing device extending beyond the pure angular shape to increase a resistance of the angled plate against bending due to the securing bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniel Vogtmann, Sabine Grendel, Claus Krusch, Andre Kluge, Hartwig Dümler, Christopher Grandt, Andreas Bottcher, Tobias Krieger, Patrick Lapp
  • Publication number: 20150292654
    Abstract: A pipe connection for conducting a fluid that is under pressure is provided, having two tubular connection parts for a conical clamping connection, which are screwed together by a union nut while one is inserted in the other, wherein each connection part has a conical sealing surface that contacts the other in a sealing manner and wherein an annular groove is provided in one of the sealing surfaces. In order to enable the pipe connection also to conduct a fluid having cycling or varying temperature, the inner of the two connection parts has thermal insulation on the inside of the pipe at least in the axial segment of the sealing surface of the connection part, wherein the thermal insulation tube has a cam or a collar on the outer surface, which engages in a recess, which is axially bounded by the two connection parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Bottcher, Hartwig Dumler, Werner Hesse, Boris Ferdinand Kock, Patrick Lapp, Lars Otte, Falk Seidel, Philipp Stapper, Sascha Staring, Gerd Weber
  • Patent number: 9127842
    Abstract: A burner incorporating a pilot cone and a mounting insert is provided. The pilot cone is constructed as a pilot cone assembly which is decoupled from the mounting insert. Further, an operating method for increasing the service life of a burner which incorporates a pilot cone assembly and a mounting insert is provided. The pilot cone assembly has a cone side and incorporates at least one further side where the further side is arranged to be essentially parallel to one of the sides of the mounting insert and spaced apart from it, so that between the further side and the side of the mounting insert there is a defined gap. In an operation of the burner, the gap is significantly reduced by the thermal expansion in at least at one point of contact between the further side and the side of the mounting insert. Finally, an assembly method is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Peter Kaufmann, Werner Krebs, Tobias Krieger, Patrick Lapp, Mark F. Rubio, Udo Schmitz, Daniel Vogtmann, Ulrich Wörz
  • Publication number: 20100300104
    Abstract: A burner incorporating a pilot cone and a mounting insert is provided. The pilot cone is constructed as a pilot cone assembly which is decoupled from the mounting insert. Further, an operating method for increasing the service life of a burner which incorporates a pilot cone assembly and a mounting insert is provided. The pilot cone assembly has a cone side and incorporates at least one further side where the further side is arranged to be essentially parallel to one of the sides of the mounting insert and spaced apart from it, so that between the further side and the side of the mounting insert there is a defined gap. In an operation of the burner, the gap is significantly reduced by the thermal expansion in at least at one point of contact between the further side and the side of the mounting insert. Finally, an assembly method is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Peter Kaufmann, Werner Krebs, Tobias Krieger, Patrick Lapp, Mark F. Rubio, Udo Schmitz, Daniel Vogtmann, Ulrich Wörz