Patents by Inventor Timo Merenda

Timo Merenda 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: 10253633
    Abstract: A rotor of an exhaust-gas turbocharger includes a rotor hub and rotor blades disposed on the rotor hub. The rotor blades have a blade thickness distribution selected in such a way that the rotor blades have along their extent from a fluid inlet or leading edge to a fluid outlet or trailing edge at least one transition between a stiffness or rigidity-oriented blade thickness distribution and an inertia and stress-oriented blade thickness distribution over the height of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Klaus, Timo Merenda, Bernhard Lehmayr, Meinhard Paffrath, Ivo Sandor, Endre Barti, Utz Wever
  • Publication number: 20150204195
    Abstract: A rotor of an exhaust-gas turbocharger includes a rotor hub and rotor blades disposed on the rotor hub. The rotor blades have a blade thickness distribution selected in such a way that the rotor blades have along their extent from a fluid inlet or leading edge to a fluid outlet or trailing edge at least one transition between a stiffness or rigidity-oriented blade thickness distribution and an inertia and stress-oriented blade thickness distribution over the height of the blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Klaus, Timo Merenda, Bernhard Lehmayr, Meinhard Paffrath, Ivo Sandor, Endre Barti, Utz Wever
  • Publication number: 20150104318
    Abstract: A turbine rotor as a turbine impeller made of a high-temperature-resistant metal alloy and a rotor shaft made of steel. The impeller hub and the rotor shaft end are connected together in a metallurgically bonded manner by way of a brazed connection. Between the end faces of the impeller hub and of the rotor shaft end, a brazing gap filled with brazing alloy is arranged concentrically with the rotation axis of the turbine rotor. A width of the soldering gap is previously determined by circularly peripheral removal of material on the end face of the impeller hub or the end face of the rotor shaft end, and the brazing connection is produced by an electron beam soldering process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Achim Koch, Timo Merenda, Philipp Mehne, Martin Thomas, Guenter Muench