Patents by Inventor Thorsten Barz

Thorsten Barz 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: 10215041
    Abstract: A sealing ring segment for a stator of a turbine, the sealing ring segment has substantially the shape of a cylinder casing segment and has on its outer side a groove for fixing a plurality of guide vanes. The sealing ring segment has, for each guide vane that is fixable to the sealing ring segment, at least one pressure bolt that acts on the respective guide vane by a restoring force, the pressure bolt being able to be fixed and accordingly oriented by a corresponding opening in the sealing ring segment and being configured as a cylindrical element which can be compressed in the axial direction, and wherein the respective pressure bolt has a disk spring and the restoring force of the respective pressure bolt acts in the radial direction with respect to the rotation axis of the turbine in which the sealing ring segment is placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thorsten Barz, Roland Habel, Sebastian Stupariu-Cohan
  • Publication number: 20160208630
    Abstract: A sealing ring segment for a stator of a turbine, the sealing ring segment has substantially the shape of a cylinder casing segment and has on its outer side a groove for fixing a plurality of guide vanes. The sealing ring segment has, for each guide vane that is fixable to the sealing ring segment, at least one pressure bolt that acts on the respective guide vane by a restoring force, the pressure bolt being able to be fixed and accordingly oriented by a corresponding opening in the sealing ring segment and being configured as a cylindrical element which can be compressed in the axial direction, and wherein the respective pressure bolt has a disk spring and the restoring force of the respective pressure bolt acts in the radial direction with respect to the rotation axis of the turbine in which the sealing ring segment is placed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thorsten Barz, Roland Habel, Sebastian Stupariu-Cohan