Patents by Inventor Peter Schroder

Peter Schroder 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: 20160222805
    Abstract: A turbine blade with a turbine blade airfoil and a turbine blade base for securing the turbine blade in a turbine shaft groove of a turbine shaft, wherein the turbine blade base includes a retaining device that retains securing device that secures a flat covering element arranged at the top of the turbine blade base. The retaining device is arranged on the outside of the turbine blade base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Peter Schroder
  • Publication number: 20160222799
    Abstract: An arrangement for securing a functional position of a shroud plate of a rotor of a gas turbine, which shroud plate is arranged on an outer circumference of a rotor disc of the rotor, relative to a moving blade of the rotor arranged on the outer circumference of the rotor disc, wherein a channel portion of an annular cooling channel of the rotor is formed between the shroud plate located in its functional position and a side, facing the shroud plate, of a blade root of the moving blade. A rotor assembly for a rotor of a gas turbine, having a rotor disc, a moving blade ring arranged on the outer circumference of the rotor disc and a shroud plate ring arranged on the outer circumference of the rotor disc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sascha Dungs, Karsten Kolk, Peter Schroder
  • Publication number: 20160201495
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a turbine having a rotor blade row and a ring that is arranged around the rotor blade row and is made up of multiple ring segments. An insert element covers a recess of a ring segment body of the turbine. The ring segment body has a recess on a hot-gas side. The insert element has a concavely shaped front face and a rear face with a rear face profile, and the rear face profile corresponds to a negative shape of a profile of the recess. A mounting method includes an insert element fixed to a recess of a ring segment body of a turbine of a gas turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Michael Händler, Kevin Kampka, Christian Kowalski, Christian Kowalzik, Nihal Kurt, Stefan Schmitt, Peter Schröder
  • Publication number: 20160201496
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes an insert element for fastening to a ring segment body of a turbine of the gas turbine. The ring segment body has a recess on a hot gas side. The insert element is designed to cover the recess. The insert element includes a cover plate, which has a concavely shaped front side and a back side, and at least one foot arranged on the back side for positioning on the ring segment body. A mounting method includes mounting the insert element where the insert element is fixed to a recess of a ring segment body of a turbine of a gas turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Michael Händler, Kevin Kampka, Christian Kowalski, Christian Kowalzik, Nihal Kurt, Stefan Schmitt, Peter Schröder
  • Publication number: 20160201497
    Abstract: An insert element fastens to an annular segment body of a turbine of a gas turbine. The annular segment body has a recess on a hot-gas side. The insert element is designed to cover the recess and has a concave front side and a rear side having at least one shaped portion for positioning on the annular segment body. An annular segment has the insert element, a gas turbine has the insert element, and a mounting method mounts the insert element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Michael Händler, Kevin Kampka, Christian Kowalski, Christian Kowalzik, Nihal Kurt, Stefan Schmitt, Peter Schröder
  • Publication number: 20160194963
    Abstract: A rotor for a thermal turbomachine, in particular a gas turbine, is designed to conduct a medium, such as compressor air, in the interior of the gas turbine. In order to conduct the medium in the interior with low flow losses and at the same time to specify a rotor that can be produced comparatively simply and economically, a separately produced blade wheel is arranged between the mutually adjacent hub regions of the two rotor discs. The first side of said blade wheel lies against the hub region of the second rotor disc and the second side opposite the first side has a number of ribs, which extend from radially outside to radially inside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karsten Kolk, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
  • Publication number: 20160195110
    Abstract: A rotor for a thermal turbomachine, in particular a gas turbine, designed to conduct a medium, such as compressor air, in the interior of the rotor. In order to conduct the medium in the interior with low flow losses and at the same time to specify a rotor that can be produced comparatively simply and economically, a separately produced blade wheel is arranged between the mutually adjacent hub regions of the two rotor disks, and a sleeve is provided for fastening the blade wheel to one of the two rotor disks, which sleeve extends through the central opening of the one rotor disk and includes a collar serving as a stop at a first end of the sleeve and includes a second end opposite the first end, on which second end the blade wheel is fastened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karsten Kolk, Peter Schröder, Dirk Springborn, Vyacheslav VEITSMAN
  • Publication number: 20160130948
    Abstract: A rotor for a turbine has a plurality of rotor components lined up in the axial direction and connected by a connecting rod, wherein a groove which extends in the circumferential direction and is open in the axial direction is disposed on one of the rotor components, wherein a coupling element running around the connecting rod in order to support the connecting rod is disposed in the groove. The rotor is adapted to enable particularly stable support of the connecting rod in order to prevent vibrations. The coupling element is disposed on a retaining element connected to the connecting rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karin Costamagna, Sascha Dungs, Harald Hoell, Kevin Kampka, Karsten Kolk, Ulf Laudage, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
  • Patent number: 9243499
    Abstract: A gas turbine rotor for a gas turbine is provided. The gas turbine rotor includes a compressor rotor shaft, a turbine rotor shaft and a coupling device frictionally connecting the two rotor shafts, wherein the coupling device is designed in such a way that the friction connection also exists when the two rotor shafts are displaced relative to one another. In this case, the turbine rotor shaft is lengthened at the end facing the compressor rotor shaft in such a way that the turbine rotor shaft overlaps with the compressor rotor shaft in the axial direction and the coupling device connects this lengthened end of the turbine shaft to the compressor rotor shaft in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stefan Braun, Christopher Butzeck, Jürgen Hahn, Peter Schröder, Hubertus Michael Wigger
  • Publication number: 20150260044
    Abstract: A rotor for an axial flow turbomachine is provided, having a number of a plurality of disc-shaped or drum-shaped rotor components and at least one pin-shaped tie-rod extending through the rotor components, wherein a counter-bearing is screwed onto each of the projecting ends of the tie-rod for axially bracing the rotor components arranged therebetween. The tie-rod has at least two axially adjacent tie-rod elements which are each connected to one another in a detachable manner by connector. Elastic stretching characteristics of the two tie-rod elements are matched to each other such that, with the rotor components being clamped between the two counter-bearings, a clamping of the counter-bearing and the connection element and the rotor components arranged therebetween is at least partially released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Karin Costamagna, Sascha Dungs, Harald Hoell, Henrik Hull, Karsten Kolk, Ulf Laudage, Harald Nimptsch, Peter Schroder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
  • Publication number: 20150247406
    Abstract: A method for assembling and disassembling a rotor having a number of rotor components of an axial flow turbomachine and such a rotor is provided. The rotor has a number of a plurality of disc-shaped or drum-shaped rotor components and at least one pin-shaped tie-rod extending through the rotor components, wherein a counter-bearing is screwed onto each of the projecting ends of said tie-rod for axially bracing the rotor components arranged therebetween. In order to achieve shorter service intervals, a connector is screwed onto the tie-rod between both counter-bearings, wherein, after the release of one of the two counter-bearings, the rotor components arranged between the connector and the other of the two counter-bearings are braced with each other by the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karin Costamagna, Sascha Dungs, Harald Hoell, Henrik Hull, Karsten Kolk, Ulf Laudage, Harald Nimptsch, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
  • Patent number: 9074490
    Abstract: A gas turbine including a plurality of hook elements disposed one inside the other and designed substantially in the form of hollow cones or hollow cylinders, and including a stator blade support, is intended to enable an especially high efficiency while maintaining the greatest possible operating safety and operating life. To this end, at least one of the hook elements or the stator blade support has a substantially elliptical cross-sectional contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Francois Benkler, Tobias Buchal, Andreas Böttcher, Martin Hartmann, Patricia Hülsmeier, Uwe Kahlstorf, Ekkehard Maldfeld, Dieter Minninger, Michael Neubauer, Peter Schröder, Rostislav Teteruk, Vyacheslav Veitsman
  • Patent number: 9057281
    Abstract: An axial turbomachine including a rotor-blade cascade is provided. The turbomachine includes a casing in which the cascade is installed and a guide-blade carrier which encloses the cascade and is integrated into the inner side of the housing. The guide-blade carrier is arranged immediately adjacently to the blade tips faulting a radial gap, wherein the guide-blade carrier is mounted in the housing, such that it may be displaced parallel to the axis of the axial turbomachine, and includes an adjusting ring which is supported on contact surfaces on the housing and guide-blade carrier and may be rotated about the axis, wherein the contact surfaces of the adjusting ring and of the housing and/or of the guide-blade carrier are set with respect to a plane perpendicular to the axis, so that, when the adjusting ring is rotated about the axis, the guide-blade carrier is displaced axially by the adjusting ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Francois Benkler, Andreas Böttcher, Uwe Kahlstorf, Torsten Matthias, Dieter Minninger, Oliver Schneider, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
  • Patent number: 8920121
    Abstract: An axial turbomachine rotor is provided. The turbomachine includes a rotor body designed in a rotation symmetrical manner around the rotor axis, a rotor blade ring including rotor blades that are each fixed to the rotor body by the blade foot thereof and a sealing disc designed in a rotation symmetrical manner around the rotor axis that is arranged having the outer edge thereof radially inside, neighboring an axially extending protrusion of the blade foot, so that a hollow space is formed between the blade foot and the sealing disc, wherein a groove exists on the outer edge leading radially to the outside, wherein a sealing ring is mounted that may slide radially to the outside in the groove during operation of the rotor by centrifugal force until the sealing ring radially contacts the inside of the protrusion and thus seals the hollow space on the blade foot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sascha Dungs, Peter Schröder
  • Patent number: 8894371
    Abstract: A rotor section for a rotor of a gas turbine, a rotor blade, and a blocking element are provided. The rotor section includes a rotor disk including rotor blades that are inserted thereon in holding grooves and that are secured against sliding along the holding grooves by means of a sealing element arranged at the end face. In order to specify a reliable, simple, and easy-to-design construction for the circumferential fixing of the sealing elements, it is proposed that each sealing element be secured by one blocking element, which engages in a hole arranged at the end face in the rotor blade root.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Guido Ahaus, Axel Buschmann, Sascha Dungs, Harald Hoell, Karsten Kolk, Mirko Milazar, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
  • Patent number: 8888460
    Abstract: A rotor section for a rotor of a gas turbine is provided. The rotor section includes a rotor disk with rotor blades inserted in retaining grooves thereupon, the rotor blades being secured against displacement along the retaining grooves by means of a sealing element which is arranged on the end face. In order to disclose a reliable construction which can be designed in a straightforward and simple manner for the circumferential fixing of the sealing element, each sealing element is secured by means of a blocking element in each case which in this case engages in a hole which is arranged in the rotor blade root on the end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Guido Ahaus, Axel Buschmann, Sascha Dungs, Harald Hoell, Karsten Kolk, Mirko Milazar, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
  • Patent number: 8830235
    Abstract: An irregular connectivity mesh representative of a surface having an arbitrary topology is processed using a non-uniform relaxation procedure. The non-uniform relaxation procedure minimizes differences between vectors normal to faces of pairs of triangles having a common edge and located within a designated neighborhood of a given vertex. The relaxation procedure may be used to construct subdivision and pyramid algorithms for performing processing operations such as upsampling, downsampling and filtering on irregular connectivity meshes. The signal processing algorithms may be utilized in applications such as smoothing, enhancement, editing, texture mapping and compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignees: Alcatel Lucent, California Institute of Technology, Trustees of Princeton University
    Inventors: Igor V. Guskov, Peter Schröder, Wim Sweldens
  • Patent number: 8657577
    Abstract: A turbine rotor is provided. The turbine rotor has a plurality of blades assembled into blade rows and arranged on a turbine disk. Each blade has a blade root arranged in a blade retaining slot of the turbine disk extending in an axial direction. A locking plate is arranged between the respective blade root and a base of the blade retaining slot, for securing blades against a displacement along the blade retaining slot. The locking plate is fixed to the turbine disk by folds. The locking plate comprises a plurality of cooling air holes for the passage of cooling medium from a cooling air feed passage. The respective blade root comprises two grooves extending substantially azimuthally in relation to a turbine axis, and the respective locking plate comprises two tongues which are arranged such that they are connected to the two grooves of the blade root for sealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Nicholas F. Martin, Christoph Schiefer, Peter Schröder, Bernd Van Den Toorn
  • Patent number: 8641365
    Abstract: A rotor of a thermal turbomachine, particularly a gas turbine, is provided. The rotor includes a plurality of individual rotor components that are held together by a tie-bold and combined into a unit. The tie-bolt is supported by the assembly of the surrounding rotor components including the tie-bolt and the rotor disks. A hollow shaft which is made up of two tubular sections and a support wheel further support the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Guido Ahaus, Francois Benkler, Ulrich Ehehalt, Harald Hoell, Karsten Kolk, Walter Loch, Harald Nimptsch, Oliver Schneider, Peter-Andreas Schneider, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
  • Patent number: 8573943
    Abstract: A turbine rotor having a plurality of rotor blades assembled into rotor blade rows and arranged on a turbine disk is provided. The respective turbine disc on the side surfaces thereof includes a plurality of sealing plates having edges that are arranged radially towards the inside, enables a simplified design and assembly, while maintaining maximum operational reliability and maximum efficiency of a turbine equipped therewith. Therefore, between the edge of the respective sealing plate and a side wall of the turbine disc groove, a closure member is provided, wherein the edge extends over the entire azimuthal length of the sealing plate and the closure members abut each other in the azimuthal direction for sealing purposes. The closure members may be inserted into the turbine disc groove via a recess interrupting the respective edge and extending substantially azimuthally on the side facing the turbine axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Björn Bilstein, Peter Schröder