Patents by Inventor Sebastian Maidhof

Sebastian Maidhof 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: 6360525
    Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine comprises an annular combustion chamber having radially outer and inner rows of fuel injectors disposed concentrically in the combustor head wall. Injectors in one of the rows are in angular registration with spaces between injectors in the other row. Each fuel injector produces a fuel/air mixture having a swirling motion, and has a downstream mixing duct. Each mixing duct opens into the combustion chamber through the combustor head wall and has a length sufficient to allow at least partial mixing of the fuel/air mixture before entry to the combustion chamber as a divergent swirling stream. Mixing ducts in the first and second rows of injectors have longitudinal centerlines oriented to coincide with generating rays of respective first and second imaginary conical surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Alstom Gas Turbines Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Senior, Sebastian Maidhof