Patents by Inventor Reinhold Meier
Reinhold Meier 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: 9333589Abstract: A component, in particular a component of a gas turbine, is described composed of at least two metallic structural elements, the first structural element having a first joining surface, and the second structural element having a second joining surface, and the structural elements being joined via their joining surfaces by an inductive high-frequency pressure welding. One of the joining surfaces is shaped to widen peripherally in comparison to the other joining surface, and an upsetting deformation produced in a join region in response to the joining of the structural elements rests virtually entirely within and, in particular, on a peripheral collar formed by the peripheral widening of the one joining surface. A method is described for joining metallic structural elements, in particular structural elements of a gas turbine, an inductive high-frequency pressure welding being used to join corresponding joining surfaces of the structural elements.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2007Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventors: Herbert Hanrieder, Alexander Gindorf, Reinhold Meier
-
Patent number: 8501297Abstract: Disclosed is a honeycomb structure for non-hermetic rotor-stator and rotor-rotor seals in turbo machines. Said honeycomb structure comprises a plurality of at least predominantly radially oriented honeycomb cells which are separated by cell walls, are open on one side, cooperate with at least one sharp sealing edge that rotates relative to the honeycomb structure, and can yield relative to the sharp sealing edge by being deformed and/or material being removed therefrom when being touched. The walls of the honeycomb cells have holes according to a defined perforation pattern.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2008Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventor: Reinhold Meier
-
Publication number: 20130187066Abstract: A single-ended infrared emitter may be provided, having at least one glass tube, in which a heating element is accommodated, wherein at least one insulated current return line is arranged spaced apart from the glass tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2011Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: OSRAM AGInventors: Hans-Willi Heller, Reinhold Meier, Markus Roth
-
Patent number: 8434663Abstract: A process for manufacturing a honeycomb seal is disclosed. The process includes the following steps: a) the honeycomb structure is brought to the desired three-dimensional form and is fixed in this form; b) then the honeycomb structure is filled with a filler material; c) then the honeycomb structure filled with the filler material is machined on a side on which a carrier element is arranged, such that this side has the desired contour and that the end edges of the honeycomb structure are sealed flushly with the filler compound; d) then the side contoured in this way is coated with a coating; e) next the carrier element is applied to the coating, preferably by laser powder build-up welding.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventor: Reinhold Meier
-
Patent number: 8158903Abstract: In a method of repairing a structural component, especially a stator-side structural component such as a housing or a guide vane ring of a gas turbine, a damaged section is separated-out along a separating line and removed from the structural component, and a new section that replaces the removed damaged section is connected with the structural component by welding along the separating line to produce a weld seam. The damaged section is separated-out from the structural component so as to minimize the length of the separating line and thus the weld seam. Depending on the material thickness distribution of the component along the separating line, material is removed from the structural component to provide the most uniform possible material thickness along the weld seam. After connecting the new section with the structural component by welding, at least the removed material is renewed by laser powder deposit welding.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2005Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventor: Reinhold Meier
-
Patent number: 7950147Abstract: A method for producing gas turbine components, in particular blades, blade sections or rotors with integral blades for a jet engine is provided. The method comprises at least the following steps: preparation of at least one metallic powder and at least one expanding agent; mixing of the metallic powder or each metallic powder with the expanding agent or each expanding agent; compression of the resultant mixture to form at least one semi-finished product; expansion of the semi-finished product or each semi-finished product by heating to achieve a defined degree of expansion; termination of the expansion process by cooling, once the defined degree of expansion has been reached.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2004Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventors: Reinhold Meier, Erich Steinhardt
-
Patent number: 7841084Abstract: The present technology relates to the problem that during diverse machining steps of application to the production or reconditioning of internally cooled gas turbine blades, an undesired effect may be had on sections of the gas turbine blades and proposes, as an improvement, to inject the cavity of the gas turbine blades before the machining steps with a plastic material which can be removed without trace, such as polystyrene, which can be subsequently removed again, in particular by heat.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2008Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventor: Reinhold Meier
-
Publication number: 20100283211Abstract: Disclosed is a honeycomb structure for non-hermetic rotor-stator and rotor-rotor seals in turbo machines. Said honeycomb structure comprises a plurality of at least predominantly radially oriented honeycomb cells which are separated by cell walls, are open on one side, cooperate with at least one sharp sealing edge that rotates relative to the honeycomb structure, and can yield relative to the sharp sealing edge by being deformed and/or material being removed therefrom when being touched. The walls of the honeycomb cells have holes according to a defined perforation pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: MTU AERO ENGINES, GMBHInventor: Reinhold Meier
-
Patent number: 7775766Abstract: A static gas turbine component, especially for an aircraft engine, is formed at least partially region-wise of metal foam. An abradable shroud lining of metal foam and a carrier allow a radial through-flow of gas.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2004Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventors: Reinhold Meier, Erich Steinhardt
-
Publication number: 20100158691Abstract: A component, in particular a component of a gas turbine, is described composed of at least two metallic structural elements, the first structural element having a first joining surface, and the second structural element having a second joining surface, and the structural elements being joined via their joining surfaces by an inductive high-frequency pressure welding. One of the joining surfaces is shaped to widen peripherally in comparison to the other joining surface, and an upsetting deformation produced in a join region in response to the joining of the structural elements rests virtually entirely within and, in particular, on a peripheral collar formed by the peripheral widening of the one joining surface. A method is described for joining metallic structural elements, in particular structural elements of a gas turbine, an inductive high-frequency pressure welding being used to join corresponding joining surfaces of the structural elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2007Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventors: Herbert Hanrieder, Alexander Gindorf, Reinhold Meier
-
Publication number: 20090317548Abstract: A gas turbine component of an aircraft engine having a base body, which comprises at least a first material, and a thermal barrier coating that is applied to the base body and consists of or includes an oxide ceramic, is disclosed. Micro-defects and/or nano-defects are included in the oxide ceramic in order to reduce the thermal conductivity of the thermal barrier coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2007Publication date: December 24, 2009Inventor: Reinhold Meier
-
Patent number: 7634854Abstract: A method is provided for joining blades to blade roots or rotor disks when manufacturing and/or repairing gas turbine blades or integrally bladed gas turbine rotors. A blade and a blade root or rotor disk that is to be joined to the blade are supplied, and provided with a thickening in sections that are to be joined together. The sections of the blade and the blade root or rotor disk that are to be joined together are machined so as to form recesses and; c) are then aligned relative to each other, opposite recesses defining at least one groove-shaped seam preparation. The blade and the blade root or rotor disk are joined in the area of the or each seam preparation by means of laser power build-up welding and the joined blade and blade root or rotor disk are machined so as to provide a gas turbine blade or an integrally bladed gas turbine rotor having a predefined geometrical profile.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: December 22, 2009Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventor: Reinhold Meier
-
Publication number: 20090304515Abstract: A method and a device for joining at least one rotor blade or at least one part of a rotor blade with a rotor support of a gas turbine, in particular a rotor blade connection of the rotor support, is disclosed. Corresponding connecting surfaces of the rotor blade, the rotor blade part, the rotor support or the rotor blade connection of the rotor support are joined by inductive high-frequency pressure welding. In this case, at least one rotor blade or rotor blade part is automatically supplied from at least one rotor blade reservoir and/or rotor blade part reservoir and, in addition, the rotor support is automatically positioned in such a way that the connecting surfaces to be joined are positioned precisely with respect to one another for the joining process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2007Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventors: Herbert Hanrieder, Alexander Gindorf, Reinhold Meier
-
Publication number: 20090304497Abstract: A guide blade segment of a gas turbine, having at least one guide blade and having an inner cover band assigned to the radially inner end of the or each guide blade, is disclosed. An integral constituent part of the inner cover band of the guide blade segment is a sealing element, which serves to seal a radially inner gap between the guide blade segment and a gas turbine rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2007Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventors: Reinhold Meier, Claus Mueller, Karl-Heinz Dusel, Roland Huttner
-
Publication number: 20090274550Abstract: The present technology relates to the problem that during diverse machining steps of application to the production or reconditioning of internally cooled gas turbine blades, an undesired effect may be had on sections of the gas turbine blades and proposes, as an improvement, to inject the cavity of the gas turbine blades before the machining steps with a plastic material which can be removed without trace, such as polystyrene, which can be subsequently removed again, in particular by heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2008Publication date: November 5, 2009Inventor: Reinhold Meier
-
Patent number: 7559728Abstract: A milling tool which is used to mill recesses, in particular, circular-shaped grooves, in a workpiece is provided. The milling tool (10) is disposed on a disk-shaped or plate-shaped base body (14) and on at least one cutting body (15) arranged on the outer periphery of the base body (14). The cutting body or each cutting body (15) is inclined in relation to the disk-shaped base body or the plate-shaped base body (14).Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2004Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventors: Reinhold Meier, Georg Moosrainer, Wilfried Schuette
-
Publication number: 20090101634Abstract: A joining method, in particular for gas turbine components, is provided wherein applying inductive heating, using at least one inductor, to a joining zone of a first component section and a second component section; following and/or during the step of applying inductive heating, exerting a press force on the first component second and the second component section to weld the first and second component section together, additionally heating by a capacitor discharge of the joining zone of the first and second component sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2007Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventor: Reinhold Meier
-
Publication number: 20090096138Abstract: A method for manufacturing a honeycomb seal by powder-metallurgical injection molding is described wherein, during the powder-metallurgical injection molding; mixing a metal powder and/or a ceramic powder with at least one binding agent to produce a homogeneous mass; subsequently fabricating a molded article for the honeycomb seal having honeycomb-structured cells from the homogeneous mass by injection molding; subsequently performing a debindering process on the molded article; and, subsequently thereto, compacting the molded article via a sintering process to form the honeycomb seal having the desired geometric properties. Prior to the sintering process, partially filling at least some of the cells of the molded article in each case with at least one hollow body, subsequently sintering the molded article together with the hollow bodies that have been introduced into the cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2007Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventor: Reinhold Meier
-
Publication number: 20090041610Abstract: A honeycomb seal which is manufactured by powder metallurgical injection molding is disclosed. The honeycomb seal is composed preferably of several segments. Each segment is embodied as a single piece and has a base element as well as honeycomb elements that are embodied as a single piece with the base element.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventor: Reinhold Meier
-
Publication number: 20090041607Abstract: A method is provided for producing a sealing segment for use in compressor and turbine components, by powder injection molding, the method comprising the following steps: a) preparing a first homogeneous mixture of a metal powder or a mixture of metal powders or a ceramic powder or a mixture of ceramic powders and at least one binding agent; b) producing a first molded article by injection molding the first mixture; c) preparing a second homogeneous mixture of a metal powder or a mixture of metal powders or a ceramic powder or a mixture of ceramic powders and at least one binding agent, the second mixture being selected to exhibit a lower abrasion resistance than the first mixture following a subsequent joint sintering process; d) producing a second molded article as a rub strip by injection molding the second mixture; and e) joining the first and second molded articles to produce the sealing segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2007Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: MTU Aero Engines GmbHInventors: Reinhold Meier, Claus Mueller, Franz Prieschl, Siegfried Sikorski