Patents by Inventor Sascha Dungs
Sascha Dungs 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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Patent number: 10174618Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karin Costamagna, Sascha Dungs, Harald Hoell, Kevin Kampka, Karsten Kolk, Ulf Laudage, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
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Patent number: 10132173Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 4, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sascha Dungs, Karsten Kolk, Peter Schröder
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Patent number: 10087769Abstract: A sealing system includes a bolt and a cover plate for sealing a joint between a rotor disk and a blade root of a rotor blade, the blade root being disposed in a blade root slot in the rotor disk. The sealing arrangement is used in particular in a gas turbine.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sascha Dungs, Karsten Kolk, Peter Schröder
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Patent number: 9708919Abstract: A blade arrangement is provided having a blade carrier and a retaining groove arranged therein, which retaining groove has projections extending along side walls thereof forming undercuts and into which a number of blades are inserted forming a blade ring of a turbomachine. Each blade has a blade root which engages into the undercuts, and each blade is pressed against the projections by an element arranged between a blade root underside and a groove base of the retaining groove. It is further provided that each element is of plate-like form and has, in the projection of the blade airfoil in the direction of the groove base, at least one bead, arranged beneath the blade airfoil, for imparting a pressing action, and in the longitudinal direction of the retaining groove, only part of the blade root which the element presses against is covered.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2012Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Sascha Dungs, Elliot Griffin, Markus Paus, Stefan Reichling, Uwe Sieber, Hubertus Michael Wigger, Dirk Wistuba
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Publication number: 20170191371Abstract: A wheel disc with at least one sealing metal sheet, which is fixed to the wheel disc in a movable manner in the circumferential direction of the wheel disc, and with at least one securing device, which is designed to secure the at least one sealing metal sheet against a displacement in the circumferential direction of the wheel disc in the correctly assembled state. The securing device has a screw, which is screwed to the sealing metal sheet and which extends through the sealing metal sheet, and a depression, which is provided on the wheel disc and which receives the free end of the screw in the correctly assembled state and the wall of which restricts a movement of the screw in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: July 6, 2017Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sascha Dungs, Harald Hoell, Kevin Kampka, Karsten Kolk, Marc Lange, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
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Publication number: 20170037736Abstract: A wheel disk assembly, having a wheel disk, a plurality of blade devices, which are fastened along the outer circumference of the wheel disk, and a plurality of sealing plates, which are retained in two annular grooves radially spaced apart from each other, the first annular groove in the wheel disk and bounded axially outward by an annular projection, and the second annular groove defined by a plurality of annular-groove segments arranged adjacently, which are in the individual blade devices. At least one opening extends axially through the annular projection, the minimum width of which opening in the circumferential direction is greater than the width of the sealing plates at the inside diameter such that a sealing plate is axially insertable between the annular grooves through the opening and moveable in the circumferential direction while guided by the annular grooves. A method assembles such a wheel disk assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sascha Dungs, Harald Hoell, Kevin Kampka, Karsten Kolk, Marc Lange, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
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Publication number: 20160265378Abstract: A sealing system includes a bolt and a cover plate for sealing a joint between a rotor disk and a blade root of a rotor blade, the blade root being disposed in a blade root slot in the rotor disk. The sealing arrangement is used in particular in a gas turbine.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sascha Dungs, Karsten Kolk, Peter Schröder
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Publication number: 20160245107Abstract: A turbine blade with a turbine blade aerofoil, a turbine blade root and a turbine blade platform located between the turbine blade aerofoil and the turbine blade root and having, in its underside, an insertion groove for the insertion of a sealing plate; the sealing plate can be secured by a securing element supported on the turbine blade platform, and the turbine blade platform has a material cut-out with two support edges located opposite each other in such a way that the securing element can be secured on both sides to the turbine blade across the axial extension of the turbine blade root.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2014Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sascha Dungs, Karsten Kolk, Peter Schröder
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Patent number: 9416661Abstract: An axial compressor for compressing a flow medium is provided and includes compressor stator blades, which fastened on a stator blade carrier, and compressor rotor blades, which are fastened on a compressor disk of a compressor shaft, wherein two consecutive compressor disks enclose a hollow space lying between them, and wherein the last compressor disk, as seen in the flow direction of the flow medium, delimits a rear hollow space. A cooling medium feed duct leads through a stator blade carrier and a compressor stator blade, and is arranged upstream of the last compressor disk, which cooling medium feed duct, at the tip end of the compressor stator blade facing the compressor shaft, via a discharge opening arranged there, opens into the hollow space, wherein this hollow space, via a cooling medium transfer passage which is led through the subsequent compressor disks, is connected to the rear hollow space.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Francois Benkler, Sascha Dungs, Harald Hoell
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Publication number: 20160222799Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2014Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sascha Dungs, Karsten Kolk, Peter Schroder
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Publication number: 20160130948Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2014Publication date: May 12, 2016Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karin Costamagna, Sascha Dungs, Harald Hoell, Kevin Kampka, Karsten Kolk, Ulf Laudage, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
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Publication number: 20150260044Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Karin Costamagna, Sascha Dungs, Harald Hoell, Henrik Hull, Karsten Kolk, Ulf Laudage, Harald Nimptsch, Peter Schroder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
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Publication number: 20150247406Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: September 3, 2015Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karin Costamagna, Sascha Dungs, Harald Hoell, Henrik Hull, Karsten Kolk, Ulf Laudage, Harald Nimptsch, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
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Patent number: 8920121Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 26, 2010Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sascha Dungs, Peter Schröder
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Patent number: 8894371Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 27, 2010Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Guido Ahaus, Axel Buschmann, Sascha Dungs, Harald Hoell, Karsten Kolk, Mirko Milazar, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
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Patent number: 8888460Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 30, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Guido Ahaus, Axel Buschmann, Sascha Dungs, Harald Hoell, Karsten Kolk, Mirko Milazar, Peter Schröder, Vyacheslav Veitsman
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Patent number: 8870526Abstract: A stator blade carrier for a gas turbine is provided. The stator blade carrier includes a plurality of axial segments. At least one axial segment is designed as a tubular lattice structure. This allows a simpler design technically and a more flexible adaptation to the temperature profile present on the stator blade carrier to maintain operational safety.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2009Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Roderich Bryk, Sascha Dungs, Martin Hartmann, Uwe Kahlstorf, Karl Klein, Oliver Lüsebrink, Mirko Milazar, Nicolas Savilius, Oliver Schneider, Shilun Sheng, Vadim Shevchenko, Gerhard Simon, Norbert Thamm
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Publication number: 20140234111Abstract: A blade arrangement is provided having a blade carrier and a retaining groove arranged therein, which retaining groove has projections extending along side walls thereof forming undercuts and into which a number of blades are inserted forming a blade ring of a turbomachine. Each blade has a blade root which engages into the undercuts, and each blade is pressed against the projections by an element arranged between a blade root underside and a groove base of the retaining groove. It is further provided that each element is of plate-like form and has, in the projection of the blade airfoil in the direction of the groove base, at least one bead, arranged beneath the blade airfoil, for imparting a pressing action, and in the longitudinal direction of the retaining groove, only part of the blade root which the element presses against is covered.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Sascha Dungs, Elliot Griffin, Markus Paus, Stefan Reichling, Uwe Sieber, Hubertus Michael Wigger, Dirk Wistuba
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Publication number: 20120128504Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2012Publication date: May 24, 2012Inventors: Guido AHAUS, Axel BUSCHMANN, Sascha DUNGS, Harald HOELL, Karsten KOLK, Mirko MILAZAR, Peter SCHRÖDER, Vyacheslav VEITSMAN
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Publication number: 20120114459Abstract: An axial compressor for compressing a flow medium is provided and includes compressor stator blades, which fastened on a stator blade carrier, and compressor rotor blades, which are fastened on a compressor disk of a compressor shaft, wherein two consecutive compressor disks enclose a hollow space lying between them, and wherein the last compressor disk, as seen in the flow direction of the flow medium, delimits a rear hollow space. A cooling medium feed duct leads through a stator blade carrier and a compressor stator blade, and is arranged upstream of the last compressor disk, which cooling medium feed duct, at the tip end of the compressor stator blade facing the compressor shaft, via a discharge opening arranged there, opens into the hollow space, wherein this hollow space, via a cooling medium transfer passage which is led through the subsequent compressor disks, is connected to the rear hollow space.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2011Publication date: May 10, 2012Inventors: Francois Benkler, Sascha Dungs, Harald Hoell