Patents by Inventor Thomas Grieb

Thomas Grieb 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: 20210094886
    Abstract: A ceramic absorber for damping, in particular absorbing, vibrations, in particular combustion vibrations, preferably in gas turbines, which has a foam structure. For the ceramic absorber, the sound absorption capacity is set in a defined way and the efficiency is improved. The foam structure is based on a ceramic powder which contains either a component from the class of silicates or a component from the class of oxides, or a combination of a component from the class of silicates and a component from the class of oxides, and the foam structure has a homogeneous pore distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Eigenbrod, Daniel Malangré, Hans-Christoph Ries, Thomas Grieb, Holger Grote, Stefan Werner Kiliani, Claus Krusch, Friederike Lange, Christian Nikasch
  • Patent number: 10578305
    Abstract: A burner assembly with a combustion chamber, a plurality of mixing ducts leading into the combustion chamber, where combustion air and introduced fuel are mixed. The mixing ducts are formed by mixing tubes extending axially through an annular space between a tubular outer wall, a tubular inner wall arranged radially at a distance from the outer wall, a ring-shaped end plate arranged upstream and a ring-shaped end plate arranged downstream. The end plates have through-openings, which accommodate and/or extend the mixing tubes, and the end plates have, both radially inside and outside, a circumferential edge extending in the direction of the annular space, with axial bores in the edge of the ring-shaped end plate arranged downstream. The axial bores extend from the annual space into the end plate, and at least one opening is for removing cooling air, the opening branching from the axial bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Patrick Lapp, Jens Kleinfeld, Matthias Chlebowski, Fabian Sander, Christian Beck, Andreas Böttcher, Patrick Ronald Flohr, Thomas Hauser, Simon Purschke, Günther Walz
  • Patent number: 10132429
    Abstract: A connecting clip for connecting two pipelines, having a first clip arm, which is designed to extend at least partially around a circumference of a first pipeline, and a second clip arm, which is designed to extend at least partially around a circumference of a second pipeline. The first and the second clip arm are connected to one another in a damping manner, and at least one metal mat is provided as damping element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Grieb, Bernd Prade
  • Patent number: 10088163
    Abstract: A jet burner has a hot-gas side, which faces toward a combustion chamber during operation, and a cold-gas side, which faces away from a combustion chamber, including a base plate on which there are arranged multiple jet nozzles, wherein the base plate has at least one cooling duct, wherein the at least one cooling duct issues into a burner stage which comprises a pilot burner arranged on the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Beck, Simon Bez, Bjorn Buchholz, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Werner Krebs, Berthold Kostlin, Stefan Reich, Marc Tertilt, Jan Wilkes
  • Publication number: 20180187799
    Abstract: A connecting clip for connecting two pipelines, having a first clip arm, which is designed to extend at least partially around a circumference of a first pipeline, and a second clip arm, which is designed to extend at least partially around a circumference of a second pipeline. The first and the second clip arm are connected to one another in a damping manner, and at least one metal mat is provided as damping element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Grieb, Bernd Prade
  • Publication number: 20170350767
    Abstract: A thermocouple system, has a metal feedthrough having a cylindrical portion having an axis of symmetry and a terminal end region arranged thereon, which completely closes the cylindrical portion, and which has at least two passageways, the opening cross-section of which is smaller than the cross-sectional surface vertical to the axis of symmetry through the cylindrical portion. Through one passageway, a thermocouple is guided, and in the region of the passageway, the thermocouple is connected to the end region in a fluid-tight manner by way of a seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gilbert Braun, Andreas Böttcher, Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Ljiljana Hanf, Jens Kleinfeld, Tobias Krieger, Fabian Sander
  • Publication number: 20170254541
    Abstract: A burner having a pre-mixing passage delimited radially outwardly by a wall, a burner lance and a plurality of fuel injectors arranged in the pre-mixing passage, the injectors extending from the burner lance in the direction of the wall and having fuel nozzles. The fuel supply arrangement has at least one fluidic oscillator that has an interaction chamber, an inlet to the interaction chamber connected to a fuel channel of the fuel supply arrangement, a first outlet channel of the interaction chamber extending at least to a first fuel nozzle and a second outlet channel extending at least to a second fuel nozzle, the fluidic oscillator has one feedback line for each outlet channel, one end of the feedback line terminating into the respective outlet channel downstream of the at least one fuel nozzle, and the other end thereof terminating into an inlet region of the interaction chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Werner Krebs, Patrick Lapp, Sebastian Pfadler, Daniel Vogtmann
  • Publication number: 20170227223
    Abstract: A burner assembly with a combustion chamber, a plurality of mixing ducts leading into the combustion chamber, where combustion air and introduced fuel are mixed. The mixing ducts are formed by mixing tubes extending axially through an annular space between a tubular outer wall, a tubular inner wall arranged radially at a distance from the outer wall, a ring-shaped end plate arranged upstream and a ring-shaped end plate arranged downstream. The end plates have through-openings, which accommodate and/or extend the mixing tubes, and the end plates have, both radially inside and outside, a circumferential edge extending in the direction of the annular space, with axial bores in the edge of the ring-shaped end plate arranged downstream. The axial bores extend from the annual space into the end plate, and at least one opening is for removing cooling air, the opening branching from the axial bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Patrick Lapp, Jens Kleinfeld, Matthias Chlebowski, Fabian Sander, Christian Beck, Andreas Böttcher, Patrick Ronald Flohr, Thomas Hauser, Simon Purschke, Günther Walz
  • Patent number: 9488105
    Abstract: An assembly for a gas turbine is presented. The assembly includes a gas supply pipe passing through a bore in a flange of the gas turbine for supplying gas to a combustion chamber of the gas turbine and a sleeve surrounding the gas supply pipe, having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is sealingly coupled to the gas supply pipe, and wherein the sleeve is adapted to be sealingly coupled to the flange at the second end such that the sleeve extends along a thickness of the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Timothy A. Fox, Daniel W. Garan, Thomas Grieb, Jens Kleinfeld, Tobias Krieger, Stephen A. Ramier, David M. Ritland, Marcus Zurhorst
  • Publication number: 20160018109
    Abstract: A jet burner has a hot-gas side, which faces toward a combustion chamber during operation, and a cold-gas side, which faces away from a combustion chamber, including a base plate on which there are arranged multiple jet nozzles, wherein the base plate has at least one cooling duct, wherein the at least one cooling duct issues into a burner stage which comprises a pilot burner arranged on the base plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Beck, Simon Bez, Bjorn Buchholz, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Werner Krebs, Berthold Kostlin, Stefan Reich, Marc Tertilt, Jan Wilkes
  • Patent number: 9157370
    Abstract: A burner assembly is provided. The burner assembly includes a support housing with a supply manifold, the supply manifold includes a fuel passage system, and fuel nozzles extending from the supply manifold and being supplied with fuel through the fuel passage system of the supply manifold. The supply manifold is sandwiched using at least two subparts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Timothy A. Fox, Thomas Grieb, Birgit Grüger, Tobias Krieger, Stephen A. Ramier, Christin Schlensog, Holger Streb
  • Patent number: 9127842
    Abstract: A burner incorporating a pilot cone and a mounting insert is provided. The pilot cone is constructed as a pilot cone assembly which is decoupled from the mounting insert. Further, an operating method for increasing the service life of a burner which incorporates a pilot cone assembly and a mounting insert is provided. The pilot cone assembly has a cone side and incorporates at least one further side where the further side is arranged to be essentially parallel to one of the sides of the mounting insert and spaced apart from it, so that between the further side and the side of the mounting insert there is a defined gap. In an operation of the burner, the gap is significantly reduced by the thermal expansion in at least at one point of contact between the further side and the side of the mounting insert. Finally, an assembly method is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Peter Kaufmann, Werner Krebs, Tobias Krieger, Patrick Lapp, Mark F. Rubio, Udo Schmitz, Daniel Vogtmann, Ulrich Wörz
  • Publication number: 20150167978
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustion chamber (8) surrounded by an inner wall (2) having cooling air bores (17) and an outer wall (9) that is spaced from the inner wall (2). The outer wall (9) likewise has cooling air bores (16) and is formed of a plurality of wall elements (11) that are arranged in the circumferential direction of the gas turbine combustion chamber (8) essentially next to each other. The outer wall elements are arranged on the inner wall (2) by means of a fixed bearing (24) on one narrow side (21) of a wall element and by means of a floating bearing (25) on an opposite narrow side (21) of the element, configured to define a hollow space (10) is formed between the two walls (2, 9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Jens Kleinfeld, Bernd Prade
  • Patent number: 8955328
    Abstract: A burner arrangement is provided. The burner arrangement includes a support and at least two fuel nozzles attached to the support in the direction of flow, with each fuel nozzle including a support-side section which includes a contact surface on the support side with which it rests on a supporting surface of the support, with at least two fuel nozzle tips embodied in one piece extending out from the support-side section in the direction of flow and the support-side contact surface including at least two extension parts projecting in the direction of the support, with the extension parts each embodying a channel through which fuel is fed in each case to the fuel nozzle tips through passages which are arranged in the support-side contact surface of the support-side section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Timothy A. Fox, Thomas Grieb, Tobias Krieger, Stephen A. Ramier
  • Publication number: 20150027128
    Abstract: A heat-shield element (14), for lining a combustion-chamber wall (13), the chamber wall has a first wall (17) with a hot side (18) which can be loaded with a hot medium, a cold side (19) which lies opposite the hot side (18), and a circumferential edge (24) which extends on a first (20), a second (21) and a third narrow side (22) of the first wall (17) to a first height (25) beyond the cold side (19), the circumferential edge (24) extends on a fourth narrow side (23) to a second shorter height (26), substantially at the second height (26), a second wall (27) lies opposite the cold side (19) and extends over the width of the fourth narrow side (23) from the fourth narrow side (23) and over a part of the length of the narrow sides (20, 22), which adjoin the fourth narrow side; (23), the second wall (27) has an edge (29) at the end (28) thereof which faces away from the fourth narrow side (23), which edge (29) extends to the first height (25). Furthermore, a combustion chamber and a gas turbine are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Francois Benkler, Thomas Brandenburg, Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Marco Link, Nicolas Savilius, Daniel Vogtmann, Jan Wilkes
  • Publication number: 20150007573
    Abstract: An annular combustion chamber (1) for a gas turbine, the chamber having an outer shell (12) which has at least one inlet opening (4) for a burner (3) and an outlet (7) which opens into a turbine chamber (8), wherein ducts (14) which can be closed, which are oriented substantially parallel to the symmetry axis (2) of the annular combustion chamber (1), and through which final compressor air is guided into the annular combustion chamber (1) are provided in the outer shell (12) in the region of the outlet (7). Ring segments around the outer shell have projections selectively movable to at least partially block and open the ducts. A gas turbine is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Francois Benkler, Thomas Brandenburg, Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Marco Link, Nicolas Savilius, Daniel Vogtmann, Jan Wilkes
  • Patent number: 8869534
    Abstract: A burner for a gas turbine including a main burner and a pilot burner is provided. The main burner has a supporting structure, a heat shield and a holder for the heat shield, and wherein the holder is at least partially located within the supporting structure and the heat shield is at least partially located within the holder. The heat shield is fastened to the holder by a force-fit and/or a frictional connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Thomas Grieb, Jens Kleinfeld, Tobias Krieger, Sabine Tüschen, Ulrich Wörz
  • Publication number: 20140130502
    Abstract: An assembly for a gas turbine is presented. The assembly includes a gas supply pipe passing through a bore in a flange of the gas turbine for supplying gas to a combustion chamber of the gas turbine and a sleeve surrounding the gas supply pipe, having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is sealingly coupled to the gas supply pipe, and wherein the sleeve is adapted to be sealingly coupled to the flange at the second end such that the sleeve extends along a thickness of the flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Timothy A. Fox, Daniel W. Garan, Thomas Grieb, Jens Kleinfeld, Tobias Krieger, Stephen A. Ramier, David M. Ritland, Marcus Zurhorst
  • Publication number: 20130104554
    Abstract: A burner assembly for a gas turbine is provided. The burner assembly has a combustor, a centrally arranged pilot burner and plurality of main burners surrounding the pilot burner. Each main burner has a cylindrical housing having a lance which is centrally arranged therein and has a fuel channel for liquid fuel. The lance is supported on the housing by swirl blades and an attachment is arranged on the lance in the direction of the combustor. The liquid fuel nozzle is arranged in the attachment downstream of the swirl blades and connected to the fuel channel. For the improved mixing of the fuel with the air, the liquid fuel nozzle is designed as a full jet nozzle and the full jet nozzle has a length and a diameter, the ratio of the length to the diameter is at least 1.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Siegfried Bode, Timothy A. Fox, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Jürgen Meisl, Sebastian Pfadler
  • Publication number: 20120137691
    Abstract: An assembly for a gas turbine is presented. The assembly includes a gas supply pipe passing through a bore in a flange of the gas turbine for supplying gas to a combustion chamber of the gas turbine and a sleeve surrounding the gas supply pipe, having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is sealingly coupled to the gas supply pipe, and wherein the sleeve is adapted to be sealingly coupled to the flange at the second end such that the sleeve extends along a thickness of the flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Andreas Bõttcher, Timothy A. Fox, Daniel W. Garan, Thomas Grieb, Jens Kleinfeld, Tobias Krieger, Stephen A. Ramier, David M. Ritland, Marcus Zurhorst