Patents by Inventor Rudolf Stanka
Rudolf Stanka 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).
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Publication number: 20240102398Abstract: A module for a turbomachine, including a guide blade arrangement, a seal carrier that is situated radially within an inner platform of the guide blade arrangement, seal carrier walls, namely, a first seal carrier wall and a second seal carrier wall, and a sliding body as well as a connecting element. The seal carrier walls have a multipart design with respect to one another, and the second seal carrier wall is fastened to the first seal carrier wall and to the seal carrier via the connecting element. The sliding body holds the seal carrier walls at a distance from one another in such a way that they mutually axially delimit a clearance in which the guide blade arrangement engages via a radially inwardly extending guide pin. A radially inner section of the second seal carrier wall has frictional contact relative to the seal carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Manfred FELDMANN, Bernd KISLINGER, Christoph NITSCH, Markus SCHLEMMER, Rudolf STANKA
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Publication number: 20230258097Abstract: A rotor blade for a gas turbine, in particular an aircraft gas turbine, including a blade root, a blade neck that adjoins the blade root in the radial direction, an airfoil that adjoins the blade neck in the radial direction, a radially outer partition wall that forms a radially inner delimiting section of an annular space of a gas turbine, an axially front partition wall and an axially rear partition wall that are connected to the radially outer partition wall so that the partition walls surround the blade neck on three sides, the partition walls protruding beyond the blade neck in the circumferential direction. For placement in a blade root receptacle of a rotor disk, the rotor blade is provided with a blade root protective plate that is situated between the blade root and the rotor disk.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Manfred FELDMANN, Rudolf STANKA
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Patent number: 11268398Abstract: A gas turbine includes a housing and an outer sealing ring. In an assembled state of the housing and the outer sealing ring, a first planar structure of the outer sealing ring is axially moveable with respect to a second planar structure of the housing against a direction of flow through the gas turbine.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Walter Gieg, Petra Kufner, Rudolf Stanka
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Patent number: 11125088Abstract: A rotor blade for a gas turbine, in particular an aircraft gas turbine, having a blade root element and a stream deflection portion adjoining the blade root element (12) in the longitudinal direction of the blade (RR); respective centroids (24) of blade cross-sectional areas of the stream deflection portion residing on a common stacking axis (26). It is provided that, starting from a first centroid (24) of a first blade cross-sectional area adjoining the blade root element (12), the stacking axis (26) extend within a cone (28) whose apex resides within the first centroid (24), and whose cone height (KH) extends orthogonally to the plane of the blade cross-sectional area; the angle (?) of the cone (28) being greater than 0° and smaller than or equal to 4°; preferably greater than or equal to 0.5° and smaller than or equal to 2°.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Carsten Schoenhoff, Martin Pernleitner, Klaus Wittig, Manfred Dopfer, Marcus Woehler, Wilfrid Schuette, Christoph Bichlmaier, Rudolf Stanka, Norman Cleesattel
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Patent number: 11092012Abstract: A rotor, for a turbomachine, in particular a gas turbine, having a first flange and a second flange with recesses that are distributed in a direction of distribution, in particular in the peripheral direction, wherein the second flange is fastened to the first flange, in particular detachably, by at least one fastener, which engage in the first of these recesses of the first and second flanges, wherein second ones of these recesses of the first flange, which are free of a fastener, are covered by the second flange.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Rudolf Stanka, Martin Fischer, Hans Zimmermann, Martin Becker, Luitpold Frey
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Patent number: 10914181Abstract: The present invention relates to a blade or vane for a turbomachine, particularly for an aircraft engine, with a blade element for interacting with the flow medium, wherein the blade has different diffusion protective coatings in various regions on its surface for protection against corrosion and/or oxidation, wherein the diffusion protective coatings are produced by chromizing and/or aluminizing, wherein the blade element is divided into two regions along the longitudinal axis of the blade element, wherein the first region extends over 80 to 95% of the length of the blade element, and the second region extends over the remainder of the length of the blade element, and wherein in both regions, an AlCr diffusion protective coating is applied, and wherein in one of the regions, the AlCr diffusion protective coating has a higher Cr content.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Rudolf Stanka, Manfred Dopfer
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Patent number: 10895162Abstract: The invention relates to a guide vane segment for an aircraft engine, having at least one guide vane element, having at least one flange formed in a radial extension direction (R) of the guide vane element and at least one positioning member projecting from the flange in the radial extension direction (R), and at least one seal carrier, which is arranged at the flange and is aligned relative to the guide vane element by way of the positioning member, wherein the flange has a supporting surface on which the seal carrier is supported, wherein a partial surface of the positioning member is adjacent to the flange at a transition from the flange to the positioning member, and respective surface normal lines of the supporting surface and of the partial surface enclose between them an angle (?) that is different from a zero angle.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Markus Schlemmer, Manfred Feldmann, Rudolf Stanka, Oliver Thiele
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Patent number: 10876418Abstract: Described is a turbine center frame for a gas turbine, in particular an aircraft gas turbine, the turbine center frame having a radially inner wall and a radially outer wall bounding an annular space through which hot gas flows and each having a contour facing the annular space, the contours describing an inner annular space curve along the inner wall and an outer annular space curve along the outer wall. At least one vane element extends in the radial direction through the annular space and has an axial leading edge and an axial trailing edge, the vane element having an outer axial width.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Markus Brettschneider, Christoph Lauer, Rudolf Stanka
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Patent number: 10808561Abstract: The invention relates to a seal arrangement for a turbomachine, especially for an aircraft engine, for sealing a radial gap between a rotor and a stator, comprising at least one seal carrier for the supporting and/or fastening of at least one seal element, wherein the seal carrier comprises a radial crosspiece extending in a radial direction of extension and an axial crosspiece, formed as a single piece with the latter and extending in an axial direction of extension, wherein the seal element is arranged at a radially inner-lying bearing surface of the axial crosspiece, and a front ring or a front ring segment, viewed in the flow direction, and/or a rear ring or a rear ring segment, each with a radially running crosspiece.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Markus Schlemmer, Klaus Pirker, Lukasz Sosnowka, Bernd Kislinger, Rudolf Stanka, Marcin Regulski
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Patent number: 10753213Abstract: The invention relates to a wear-resistant shield for a rotating blade root of a rotating blade of a gas turbine, especially an aircraft gas turbine, having a base and two side walls connected to the base, wherein the side walls lie opposite each other and are shaped so as to be substantially complementary to an outer contour of a particular rotating blade root, and wherein the wear-resistant shield for this purpose is set up in such a way that, in an installed state, it is to be taken up between the respective rotating blade root and a rotating blade root mount of a rotor, especially between the respective rotating blade root and an axial securing element arranged in the rotating blade root mount.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Martin Pernleitner, Rudolf Stanka, Manfred Dopfer
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Patent number: 10502084Abstract: The invention relates to a module for a gas turbine comprising a rotationally symmetrical outer casing of a first material having a first linear thermal expansion coefficient, a rotationally symmetrical component for guiding hot gas of a second material having a linear thermal expansion coefficient which is lower than the first coefficient, at least one annular structure arranged radially within the component, and at least three struts having a radially inner end secured on the outer casing and a radially outer end secured on the annular structure. The component also comprises at least one first fixing which is free in radial direction and fixed in axial direction and arranged between the component and the outer casing and/or the annular structure, as well as at least three second fixings having an elastic effect in radial, axial and/or circumferential direction and being arranged between the component and the strut and/or the annular structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AGInventors: Werner Humhauser, Hermann Klingels, Rudolf Stanka, Alois Eichinger
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Publication number: 20190360347Abstract: Described is a turbine center frame for a gas turbine, in particular an aircraft gas turbine, the turbine center frame having a radially inner wall and a radially outer wall bounding an annular space through which hot gas flows and each having a contour facing the annular space, the contours describing an inner annular space curve along the inner wall and an outer annular space curve along the outer wall. At least one vane element extends in the radial direction through the annular space and has an axial leading edge and an axial trailing edge, the vane element having an outer axial width.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Markus BRETTSCHNEIDER, Christoph LAUER, Rudolf STANKA
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Patent number: 10480341Abstract: The invention relates to a run-in coating (10) for an outer air seal of a turbomachine, especially of an aero engine, comprising a substrate (12) of segmented form which carries a honeycomb structure (14) with an run-in surface (15) to face rotor blades of a rotor of the turbomachine, wherein a radial thickness of the honeycomb structure (14) varies in the circumferential direction. The invention furthermore relates to an outer air seal for a turbomachine and also to a turbomachine with an outer air seal.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AGInventors: Petra Kufner, Walter Gieg, Rudolf Stanka, René Schneider, Norman Cleesattel, Joachim Lorenz
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Patent number: 10370989Abstract: The invention relates to a guide vane segment for a gas turbine comprising at least one radially outer shroud and one radially inner shroud, which extend along a respective arc and together form an annular segment, wherein, in the radial direction between the outer shroud and the inner shroud, a plurality of guide vanes are arranged adjacent to one another in the peripheral direction and are joined to the inner shroud and to the outer shroud in a material-bonded manner and, in particular, are joined in a one-piece manner, wherein, in an axial lengthwise direction, the outer shroud comprises an axially front end wall element and an axially rear end wall element in such a way that the outer shroud and the two end walls form a tub-like profile in lengthwise section.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Markus Schlemmer, Manfred Feldmann, Rudolf Stanka, Oliver Thiele, Bernd Kislinger, Manuel Hein
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Publication number: 20190040750Abstract: The present invention relates to a blade or vane for a turbomachine, particularly for an aircraft engine, with a blade element for interacting with the flow medium, wherein the blade has different diffusion protective coatings in various regions on its surface for protection against corrosion and/or oxidation, wherein the diffusion protective coatings are produced by chromizing and/or aluminizing, wherein the blade element is divided into two regions along the longitudinal axis of the blade element, wherein the first region extends over 80 to 95% of the length of the blade element, and the second region extends over the remainder of the length of the blade element, and wherein in both regions, an AlCr diffusion protective coating is applied, and wherein in one of the regions, the AlCr diffusion protective coating has a higher Cr content.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Rudolf Stanka, Manfred Dopfer
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Patent number: 10151208Abstract: A guide vane arrangement for a turbomachine, particularly a gas turbine, is disclosed. The guide vane arrangement includes an external shroud band, on which at least two guide vanes protrude radially inward. A pair of axial ribs spaced apart from each other in the peripheral direction and disposed between two adjoining guide vanes in the peripheral direction protrude radially outward from a circumferential surface of the external shroud band and/or axially from a radial flange of the external shroud band.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Manuel Hein, Markus Uecker, Rudolf Stanka
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Publication number: 20180347384Abstract: A sealing system (100) for a turbomachine is provided which includes a support (10) designed as a ring part, and a ring-like sealing plate (20, 30) that protrudes from the support in the axial direction (X). The support includes a fastening section (11) for fastening the sealing system to a stator part (200), and a retaining area (12), situated radially within the fastening section, for retaining a radial gap seal (40). The sealing plate (20, 30) is welded to the support (10) radially outside the retaining area (12). Also provided are a turbomachine that includes a sealing system (100), a support (10) for a sealing system, and a method for manufacturing a sealing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Bernd KISLINGER, Rudolf STANKA, Manfred SCHILL, Manfred FELDMANN
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Publication number: 20180347388Abstract: A method for assembly of a rotor of a gas turbine with a housing and a channel which diverges in a direction of flow includes axially displacing the rotor in the direction of flow. Then, an outer sealing ring whose minimum inside diameter is smaller than the maximum outside diameter of the rotor is axially displaced in the direction of flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Walter GIEG, Petra KUFNER, Rudolf STANKA
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Publication number: 20180340435Abstract: The invention relates to a seal arrangement for a turbomachine, especially for an aircraft engine, for sealing a radial gap between a rotor and a stator, comprising at least one seal carrier for the supporting and/or fastening of at least one seal element, wherein the seal carrier comprises a radial crosspiece extending in a radial direction of extension and an axial crosspiece, formed as a single piece with the latter and extending in an axial direction of extension, wherein the seal element is arranged at a radially inner-lying bearing surface of the axial crosspiece, and a front ring or a front ring segment, viewed in the flow direction, and/or a rear ring or a rear ring segment, each with a radially running crosspiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Markus Schlemmer, Klaus Pirker, Lukasz Sosnowka, Bernd Kislinger, Rudolf Stanka, Marcin Regulski
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Patent number: RE48320Abstract: The aircraft-engine gas turbine includes an outer sealing ring for sealing an array of rotor blades that can be attached to a housing by a clamping mechanism (80) in a friction fit, and a plurality of ring segments (20i, 201+1), wherein a free axial path length (af) of a sealing ring segment counter to the direction of through-flow is at least as large as an axial engagement (a1) of a rotation locking member (10) of the outer sealing ring (af?a1), which is free of form fit counter to the direction of through-flow, and/or an axial overhang (a2) of a radial mounting rail (23) of the outer sealing ring (af?a2), and/or an axial offset (a3, a4) of a sealing fin (31, 41); and/or a quotient of a specific clearance sum of the outer sealing ring attached to the housing in a friction fit and pi is at least as large as a difference between a maximum outer diameter of the outer sealing ring and a minimum inner diameter of the flow channel inlet of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Walter Gieg, Petra Kufner, Rudolf Stanka