Patents by Inventor Roland Liebe

Roland Liebe 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: 8695989
    Abstract: An inventive hot gas seal for sealing an opening, e.g. a gap or hole, in a heat shield element or between heat shield elements of a heat shield or a liner comprises at least one resilient portion for providing a force which is designed such that the hot gas seal can be held in said opening by said force and/or that the sealing efficiency of the hot gas seal is increased by said force. Thus, further means for holding the seal in place and/or for increasing the sealing efficiency are not necessary. The invention is particularly useful if the design of said resilient portion is such that the force provides a holding action and increases the sealing efficiency, at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Dahlke, Jesse Eng, John Carl Glessner, Daniel Hofmann, Roland Liebe, Kenneth Michael Tamaddoni-Jahromi
  • Patent number: 8590285
    Abstract: A burner having two ignition electrodes and a bracket is provided. The bracket is arranged on the outer surface of the burner and the ignition electrodes are held, at in each case three points of their periphery, in a fixed position using the bracket. A gas turbine with the burner is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Hohmann, Andre Kluge, Roland Liebe, Elmar Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 8522557
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling channel for a component conveying hot gas for the purposes of conveying a coolant along a direction of flow with a downstream and an upstream side, with a plurality of inlet apertures for a coolant, with a number of inlet apertures that vary their configuration at least partly among themselves is arranged at least in one section of the cooling channel. As a result, the heat-transfer coefficient is substantially increased at points particularly requiring cooling and therefore the cooling is substantially improved. The cooling channel is characterized by a particularly low pressure loss. Furthermore, a combustion chamber with a cooling channel of this type is specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Robert W. Dawson, Roland Liebe
  • Publication number: 20100281848
    Abstract: A burner having two ignition electrodes and a bracket is provided. The bracket is arranged on the outer surface of the burner and the ignition electrodes are held, at in each case three points of their periphery, in a fixed position using the bracket. A gas turbine with the burner is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventors: Dr. Christian Hohmann, Andre Kluge, Dr. Roland Liebe, Elmar Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20090272124
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling channel for a component conveying hot gas for the purposes of conveying a coolant along a direction of flow with a dowrnstream and an upstream side, with a plurality of inlet apertures for a coolant, with a number of inlet apertures that vary their configuration at least partly among themselves is arranged at least in one section of the cooling channel. As a result, the heat-transfer coefficient is substantially increased at points particularly requiring cooling and therefore the cooling is substantially improved. The cooling channel is characterized by a particularly low pressure loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: Robert W. Dawson, Roland Liebe
  • Patent number: 7431244
    Abstract: According to the invention, a device for the generation of eddies creates or destroys eddies in a flowing medium in a particularly simple manner, with particularly low energy requirement with the lowest possible pressure drop, whereby the device comprises one or more profiles, for the flowing medium to flow around, which are provided with an external drive for a periodic movement relative to the flowing medium with an angular frequency ?. The profiles are thus periodically displaced with an angular frequency ? by an external drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Roland Liebe, Wolfgang Liebe
  • Publication number: 20070245742
    Abstract: There is described a method for cooling and sealing of a heat shield element, comprising a main wall with an inner side, which is restricted by side walls or rims, and an outer side, which can be exposed to a hot fluid, and wherein a coolant is introduced into an impingement region of that heat shield element and an impingement flow of said coolant is directed on a surface area of that inner side through a plurality of impingement holes, effecting an impingement pressure drop. In the method discharge flow is metered through a number of discharge holes through said side wall or rims from the inner side to the outer side of the main wall, generating a discharge pressure drop in series with the impingement pressure drop. The impingement pressure drop and the discharge pressure drop are matched to one another so that a required coolant flow is generated which yields a required predetermined heat-transfer coefficient of the main wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Inventors: Stefan Dahlke, Uwe Gruschka, Andreas Heilos, Roland Liebe
  • Publication number: 20060102799
    Abstract: According to the invention, a device for the generation of eddies creates or destroys eddies in a flowing medium in a particularly simple manner, with particularly low energy requirement with the lowest possible pressure drop, whereby the device comprises one or more profiles, for the flowing medium to flow around, which are provided with an external drive for a periodic movement relative to the flowing medium with an angular frequency ?. The profiles are thus periodically displaced with an angular frequency ? by an external drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2003
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Roland Liebe, Wolfgang Liebe
  • Publication number: 20050242526
    Abstract: An inventive hot gas seal comprises a sealing body and means for allowing a cooling fluid, preferably cooling air, to flow through the interior of the sealing body. Such a hot gas seal can be effectively cooled by guiding a cooling fluid through the interior of the sealing body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Inventors: Stefan Dahlke, Jesse Eng, John Glessner, Daniel Hofmann, Roland Liebe, Kenneth Tamaddoni-Jahromi
  • Publication number: 20050242525
    Abstract: An inventive hot gas seal for sealing an opening, e.g. a gap or hole, in a heat shield element or between heat shield elements of a heat shield or a liner comprises at least one resilient portion for providing a force which is designed such that the hot gas seal can be held in said opening by said force and/or that the sealing efficiency of the hot gas seal is increased by said force. Thus, further means for holding the seal in place and/or for increasing the sealing efficiency are not necessary. The invention is particularly useful if the design of said resilient portion is such that the force provides a holding action and increases the sealing efficiency, at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Inventors: Stefan Dahlke, Jesse Eng, John Glessner, Daniel Hofmann, Roland Liebe, Kenneth Tamaddoni-Jahromi
  • Publication number: 20040250549
    Abstract: An annular combustion chamber for a gas turbine is disclosed, which permits a sealed air cooling, such that high powers and efficiencies can be achieved with low NOx emissions. The two-piece annular combustion chamber housing surrounds a thin-walled sealed liner, which guides the hot gas escaping from the burners to the turbine inlet in a gas-tight manner. A variable annular chamber is located between the liner and the annular combustion chamber housing, in which the cooling air is collected as a counter-current to the hot gas and fed to the burners (closed air cooling). The surfaces of the liner are variably cooled with efficient baffle cooling devices and drilled patterns in. The thermally-elastic liner constructed from submerged arc-welded rings is axially fixed at the flange only and for the remainder provided with reinforcing circumferential beading. The freely expanding liner is otherwise concentrically fixed to the cold annular combustion chamber housing by means of elastic tensioning elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventor: Roland Liebe
  • Patent number: 6341485
    Abstract: A combustion chamber has an outer wall for mechanically supporting the combustion chamber and an inner wall forming an internal space through which combustion gases flow from a chamber inlet to a chamber outlet. An envelope is defined between the inner and outer walls and an intermediate wall divides the envelope into inner and outer cooling spaces. The cooling steam enters the outer space and exits the inner space, and the intermediate wall has a plurality of orifices through which cooling steam passes for impact cooling the inside of the inner wall. The inner wall is imperforate so that the cooling steam does not enter the internal combustion chamber space. The cooling steam flow in accordance with the invention increases cooling efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Roland Liebe