Patents by Inventor Stefan Sasse

Stefan Sasse 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: 10371054
    Abstract: A cooling-air supply device for a gas turbine, in particular an aircraft gas turbine, including a cooling air chamber, that is disposed about a turbine shaft of the gas turbine, at least one cooling-air inlet opening, and at least one cooling-air outlet orifice; the cooling-air supply device having a first and a second axial bounding wall, and a peripheral wall that joins the two axial bounding walls, which, together, form the cooling air chamber; in at least one of the axial bounding walls, a plurality of cooling-air outlet orifices being provided, which are circumferentially distributed about the turbine shaft and are adapted to allow the cooling air to essentially be discharged from the individual cooling-air outlet orifices in the direction of rotation of the gas turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Stefan Sasse, Erwin Bayer
  • Patent number: 10215050
    Abstract: An apparatus for absorption of an impact energy from at least one blade fragment is disclosed. The impact energy acts on an element that is inserted into an opening in a turbo-machine. The opening passes radially through a housing section in a region of a row of rotating blades. The apparatus has a holder for holding the element in an ideal position and releasing the element beyond a preset maximum load and has a cage at a rear to secure the element in a radially outward-directed displacement. A turbo-machine having such an apparatus, as well as a method for multistage energy absorption, is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Stefan Sasse, Norbert Schinko
  • Patent number: 9726042
    Abstract: A gas turbine duct casing, in particular for an aircraft engine, is disclosed. The duct casing has a first wall segment and a second wall segment which is connected to the first wall segment by a clamp arrangement. The clamp arrangement has at least one clamp and one bolt which passes through a hole in the clamp and is screwed to a nut on a side of the clamp facing away from the wall segments. The nut braces at least one first leg of the clamp against the first wall segment, in particular by an intermediate element, and braces at least one second leg of the clamp against the second wall segment. The bolt has a head which is guided in a form-fitting manner in a groove on the outside of the first wall segment facing away from the gas duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Stefan Sasse, Martin Metscher, Jan Haegert
  • Publication number: 20160177831
    Abstract: A cooling-air supply device for a gas turbine, in particular an aircraft gas turbine, including a cooling air chamber, that is disposed about a turbine shaft of the gas turbine, at least one cooling-air inlet opening, and at least one cooling-air outlet orifice; the cooling-air supply device having a first and a second axial bounding wall, and a peripheral wall that joins the two axial bounding walls, which, together, form the cooling air chamber; in at least one of the axial bounding walls, a plurality of cooling-air outlet orifices being provided, which are circumferentially distributed about the turbine shaft and are adapted to allow the cooling air to essentially be discharged from the individual cooling-air outlet orifices in the direction of rotation of the gas turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Stefan Sasse, Erwin Bayer
  • Publication number: 20160032777
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a component arrangement of a gas turbine, this arrangement having a first gas turbine component, in particular a first wall segment (10) of a gas turbine duct casing; a second gas turbine component that can be joined thereto, in particular a second wall segment (20) of a gas turbine duct casing, with a flange (21), which is particularly bent; and an eccentric clamping element (30), which is mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation (A) on the first gas turbine component and has an eccentric contour portion (31), whose radial distance (r) to the axis of rotation varies by an angle (?) about the axis of rotation, in order to press the flange (21) of the second gas turbine component (20) against the first gas turbine component, in particular to clamp it between the first gas turbine component and the eccentric contour portion (31).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventor: Stefan Sasse
  • Publication number: 20150377068
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a component arrangement for a gas turbine, having a first component of a gas turbine duct casing; a second component, connected to it, of a gas turbine duct casing with a flange; a rocker with an articulated section, which is rotatably mounted in a groove on the first component, which, in a cross section perpendicular to the groove longitudinal direction, has two groove flanks that lie opposite each other in the groove width direction, a groove base connecting these groove flanks, and a groove edge that lies opposite the groove base in a groove depth direction; and a setting screw. The flange of the second component is clamped between the first component and an arm of the rocker, which is tightened against the flange by the setting screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Alois Eichinger, Stefan Sasse, Mark Fritz
  • Publication number: 20150252691
    Abstract: A gas turbine duct casing, in particular for an aircraft engine, is disclosed. The duct casing has a first wall segment and a second wall segment which is connected to the first wall segment by a clamp arrangement. The clamp arrangement has at least one clamp and one bolt which passes through a hole in the clamp and is screwed to a nut on a side of the clamp facing away from the wall segments. The nut braces at least one first leg of the clamp against the first wall segment, in particular by an intermediate element, and braces at least one second leg of the clamp against the second wall segment. The bolt has a head which is guided in a form-fitting manner in a groove on the outside of the first wall segment facing away from the gas duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Stefan SASSE, Martin Metscher, Jan Haegert
  • Publication number: 20150063986
    Abstract: An apparatus for absorption of an impact energy from at least one blade fragment is disclosed. The impact energy acts on an element that is inserted into an opening in a turbo-machine. The opening passes radially through a housing section in a region of a row of rotating blades. The apparatus has a holder for holding the element in an ideal position and releasing the element beyond a preset maximum load and has a cage at a rear to secure the element in a radially outward-directed displacement. A turbo-machine having such an apparatus, as well as a method for multistage energy absorption, is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Stefan SASSE, Norbert Schinko
  • Publication number: 20140363270
    Abstract: A turbine casing (100) for a gas turbine, having a casing section (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e), the casing section (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e) having a containment section (16) for containing blade fragments expelled radially outward. The casing section (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e) has a first reinforcing element (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e) which is joined in face-to-face contact with the radially inner and/or outer surface of the casing section (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Manfred FELDMANN, Stefan Sasse
  • Patent number: 6695575
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine (1) having a rotor (2), which has a bladed area (3) for rotor blades (4) and a thrust compensation piston (5). The thrust compensation piston (5) has a hot side (6), which faces the bladed area (3), and a cold side (7), which is remote from the bladed area (3). On one side, a feed (14) for sealing fluid (15), which is assigned to the cold side (7), and a leakage fluid feed (12), which is flow-connected to the bladed area (3), open out into a mixing area (13), and on the other side a discharge line (16) branches off from the mixing area. The invention also relates to a method for discharging hot leakage fluid (17). In a turbine (1), the leakage fluid (17) passes through a radial gap (12) between a thrust compensation piston (5) of a rotor (2) and a stationary turbine part (11) and is mixed with a cooler sealing fluid (15) and discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Sasse, Rainer Tamme
  • Patent number: 6227799
    Abstract: A turbine shaft for a steam turbine, in particular having a high-pressure and an intermediate-pressure turbine section. The turbine shaft has in its interior a cooling line for passing cooling steam. The cooling line is connected, on the one hand, to an outflow line and, on the other hand, to an inflow line. In this way, steam cooling of the turbine shaft can be achieved by feeding steam from the high-pressure turbine section via the inflow line to the intermediate-pressure turbine section through the outflow line. The invention also relates to a method of cooling a turbine shaft of a steam turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Kuhn, Stefan Sasse, Andreas Ulma, Andreas Feldmüller