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).
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Publication number: 20210094886Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2019Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christian Eigenbrod, Daniel Malangré, Hans-Christoph Ries, Thomas Grieb, Holger Grote, Stefan Werner Kiliani, Claus Krusch, Friederike Lange, Christian Nikasch
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Patent number: 10578305Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: 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
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Patent number: 10132429Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Grieb, Bernd Prade
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Patent number: 10088163Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 7, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christian Beck, Simon Bez, Bjorn Buchholz, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Werner Krebs, Berthold Kostlin, Stefan Reich, Marc Tertilt, Jan Wilkes
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Publication number: 20180187799Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Grieb, Bernd Prade
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Publication number: 20170350767Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2015Publication date: December 7, 2017Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Gilbert Braun, Andreas Böttcher, Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Ljiljana Hanf, Jens Kleinfeld, Tobias Krieger, Fabian Sander
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Publication number: 20170254541Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2015Publication date: September 7, 2017Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Andreas Böttcher, Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Werner Krebs, Patrick Lapp, Sebastian Pfadler, Daniel Vogtmann
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Publication number: 20170227223Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2015Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: 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
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Patent number: 9488105Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 30, 2011Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Andreas Böttcher, Timothy A. Fox, Daniel W. Garan, Thomas Grieb, Jens Kleinfeld, Tobias Krieger, Stephen A. Ramier, David M. Ritland, Marcus Zurhorst
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Publication number: 20160018109Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2014Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christian Beck, Simon Bez, Bjorn Buchholz, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Werner Krebs, Berthold Kostlin, Stefan Reich, Marc Tertilt, Jan Wilkes
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Patent number: 9157370Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Andreas Böttcher, Timothy A. Fox, Thomas Grieb, Birgit Grüger, Tobias Krieger, Stephen A. Ramier, Christin Schlensog, Holger Streb
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Patent number: 9127842Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 27, 2009Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Andreas Böttcher, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Peter Kaufmann, Werner Krebs, Tobias Krieger, Patrick Lapp, Mark F. Rubio, Udo Schmitz, Daniel Vogtmann, Ulrich Wörz
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Publication number: 20150167978Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventors: Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Jens Kleinfeld, Bernd Prade
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Patent number: 8955328Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Andreas Böttcher, Timothy A. Fox, Thomas Grieb, Tobias Krieger, Stephen A. Ramier
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Publication number: 20150027128Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Francois Benkler, Thomas Brandenburg, Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Marco Link, Nicolas Savilius, Daniel Vogtmann, Jan Wilkes
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Publication number: 20150007573Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Francois Benkler, Thomas Brandenburg, Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Marco Link, Nicolas Savilius, Daniel Vogtmann, Jan Wilkes
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Patent number: 8869534Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Andreas Böttcher, Thomas Grieb, Jens Kleinfeld, Tobias Krieger, Sabine Tüschen, Ulrich Wörz
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Publication number: 20140130502Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2011Publication date: May 15, 2014Inventors: Andreas Böttcher, Timothy A. Fox, Daniel W. Garan, Thomas Grieb, Jens Kleinfeld, Tobias Krieger, Stephen A. Ramier, David M. Ritland, Marcus Zurhorst
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Publication number: 20130104554Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2011Publication date: May 2, 2013Inventors: Siegfried Bode, Timothy A. Fox, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Jürgen Meisl, Sebastian Pfadler
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Publication number: 20120137691Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2010Publication date: June 7, 2012Inventors: Andreas Bõttcher, Timothy A. Fox, Daniel W. Garan, Thomas Grieb, Jens Kleinfeld, Tobias Krieger, Stephen A. Ramier, David M. Ritland, Marcus Zurhorst