Patents by Inventor Susanne SCHRÜFER

Susanne SCHRÜFER 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).

  • Publication number: 20230160316
    Abstract: The invention relates to an abrasive material including a nickel aluminide intermetallic phase, in particular a beta nickel aluminide (?-NiAl) intermetallic phase with a Laves phase, as a matrix for abrasive particles. It also relates to a method manufacturing an abrasive material and a blade in a turbomachinery with an abrasive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Susanne SCHRÜFER, Matthew HANCOCK, Kevin LONG
  • Patent number: 11073029
    Abstract: A construction element, particularly adapted and configured for use in a turbo engine, in particular an aircraft engine, wherein a bond coat having a bond structure and thereabove a ceramic coat are disposed on a base. The lateral faces of the bond structure in the cross section are configured so as to be free of undercuts, wherein peak structures and/or trough structures are present, and the peak of the cross section of a peak structure has a mean peak angle (?) of less than or equal to 90°, most particularly less than 45°, and/or the trough structure has a valley angle in the range 90°??<170°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG, Forschungszentrum Juelich GMBH
    Inventors: Susanne Schrüfer, Robert Vassen, Daniel E. Mack, Martin Tandler, Frank Kurze
  • Patent number: 10605254
    Abstract: A bearing element for at least one adjustable guide vane of a turbomachine, in particular an aircraft engine, is provided. The bearing element comprising a porous matrix made of carbon and/or graphite and at least one metallic phase or a metal salt that is at least partially arranged inside the pores of the matrix, so that what results is a metal-infiltrated or a metal-salt-infiltrated material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Bjorn Ulrichsohn, Susanne Schruefer, Karl Schreiber
  • Publication number: 20200049018
    Abstract: A construction element, particularly adapted and configured for use in a turbo engine, in particular an aircraft engine, wherein a bond coat having a bond structure and thereabove a ceramic coat are disposed on a base. The lateral faces of the bond structure in the cross section are configured so as to be free of undercuts, wherein peak structures and/or trough structures are present, and the peak of the cross section of a peak structure has a mean peak angle (?) of less than or equal to 90°, most particularly less than 45°, and/or the trough structure has a valley angle in the range 90°??<170°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Susanne SCHRÜFER, Robert VASSEN, Daniel E. MACK, Martin TANDLER, Frank KURZE
  • Publication number: 20190360107
    Abstract: A method for coating a substrate having a cavity structure, in particular a cooling structure, inside the substrate, wherein the cavity structure includes openings in the surface of the substrate. At least one bonding layer, in particular a diffusion layer, or at least one metallic layer is applied onto the substrate, in particular onto the surface of the substrate, and subsequently at least one thermal protection layer is applied onto the at least one diffusion layer by using a plasma spray physical vapour deposition (PS-PVD) method, a hollow cathode sputtering method or a suspension plasma spray (SPS) method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Susanne SCHRUEFER, Tanja WOBST, Robert VASSEN, Georg MAUER, Ralf LAUFS, Karl-Heinz RAUWALD
  • Publication number: 20170363100
    Abstract: A bearing element for at least one adjustable guide vane of a turbomachine, in particular an aircraft engine, is provided. The bearing element comprising a porous matrix made of carbon and/or graphite and at least one metallic phase or a metal salt that is at least partially arranged inside the pores of the matrix, so that what results is a metal-infiltrated or a metal-salt-infiltrated material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Bjorn ULRICHSOHN, Susanne SCHRUEFER, Karl SCHREIBER
  • Publication number: 20170129053
    Abstract: A holding device for a substrate during the performance of a generative laser method for applying a coating that comprises hard substance particles to a top surface of the substrate is provided. The wall of the substrate is completely surrounded by a thermoconductive wall of the holding device at least in the area of the top side. The wall of the holding device protrudes beyond the top side with a projection that is at least in the size range of the thickness of the coating and the wall of the holding device is arranged perpendicular to the top side, so that a laser-induced molten coating bath can be supported by means of the wall of the holding device, and the coating has the shape of the substrate in the horizontal cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Susanne SCHRUEFER, Frank BRUECKNER, Mirko RIEDE
  • Patent number: 9587317
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a thermally deformable component for high thermal loads, includes: providing a first area of the component with a first metallic material by a generative laser process, or making the first area of the first metallic material; providing a second area of the component with a second metallic material by a generative laser process, or making the second area of the second metallic material; where at least one of the metallic materials is deposited by the generative laser process, and a ratio of a linear expansion coefficient ?1 of the first metallic material and of a linear expansion coefficient ?2 of the second metallic material is as: ? 2 ? ( T 2 ) ? 1 ? ( T 1 ) = x ? ? T 1 - T 0 ? ? T 2 - T 0 ? , where x=0.5 to 1; T1=mean operating temperature on a hot side; T0=reference temperature; T2=mean operating temperature on a cold side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Thomas Wunderlich, Dan Roth-Fagaraseanu, Susanne Schruefer