Patents by Inventor Volker Guether

Volker Guether 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: 20230046116
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the heat treatment of at least one bar made from titanium aluminide alloy for manufacturing at least one low-pressure turbine blade for a turbomachine, comprising hot isostatic pressing of the bar, characterised in that the hot isostatic pressing (121) is followed, after a temperature transition phase, by a step of heat treatment (122) of the bar at a temperature in the immediate vicinity of the eutectoid temperature of the alloy, the temperature being suitable for the formation of an alloy microstructure with a volume fraction of at least 90% single-phase grains ? and a volume fraction of at most 10% of lamellar grains ?+?, the step being followed by a controlled cooling step (123).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Safran Aircraft Engines
    Inventors: Damien PONSEN, Guillaume Paul MARTIN, Volker GÜTHER
  • Publication number: 20220339701
    Abstract: A device for atomizing a metallic, intermetallic or ceramic melt stream by means of a gas to form a spherical powder, comprising a melt chamber, a powder chamber, an induction coil in the melt chamber, a melt material, preferably melt rod in the induction coil and an atomizer nozzle interconnecting the melt and powder chambers and being arranged in a nozzle plate, for the melt stream melted off from the melt material by the induction coil, wherein the atomizer nozzle has an exclusively convergent nozzle profile having nozzle flanks which have a circular-arc-shaped cross-section, and therefore both the atomizing gas and the melt stream and the droplets generated therefrom reach a velocity which is at most equal to, preferably below the acoustic velocity of the atomizing gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Volker GÜTHER, Karin RATSCHBACHER, Melissa ALLEN, Sergejs SPITANS, Henrik FRANZ
  • Patent number: 8888461
    Abstract: A material for a gas turbine component, to be specific a titanium-aluminum-based alloy material, including at least titanium and aluminum. The material has a) in the range of room temperature, the ?/B2-Ti phase, the ?2-Ti3Al phase and the ?-TiAl phase with a proportion of the ?/B2-Ti phase of at most 5% by volume, and b) in the range of the eutectoid temperature, the ?/B2-Ti phase, the ?2-Ti3Al phase and the ?-TiAl phase, with a proportion of the ?/B2-Ti phase of at least 10% by volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignees: MTU Aero Engines GmbH, Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Boehler Schmiedetechnik GmbH & Co. KG, GFE Metalle Unf Materialien GmbH
    Inventors: Wilfried Smarsly, Helmut Clemens, Volker Guether, Sascha Kremmer, Andreas Otto, Harald Chladil
  • Patent number: 8668760
    Abstract: A method for the production of a ?-TiAl base alloy by vacuum arc remelting, which ?-TiAl base alloy solidifies via the ?-phase (?-?-TiAl base alloy), includes the following method steps of forming a basic melting electrode by melting, in at least one vacuum arc remelting step, of a conventional ?-TiAl primary alloy containing a lack of titanium and/or of at least one ?-stabilizing element compared to the ?-?-TiAl base alloy to be produced; allocating an amount of titanium and/or ?-stabilizing element to the basic melting electrode, which amount corresponds to the reduced amount of titanium and/or ?-stabilizing element, in an even distribution across the length and periphery of the basic melting electrode; and adding the allocated amount of titanium and/or ?-stabilizing element to the basic melting electrode so as to form the homogeneous ?-?-TiAl base alloy in a final vacuum arc remelting step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignees: GfE Metalle und Materialien GmbH, TiTAL GmbH
    Inventors: Dipl.-Ing Matthias Achtermann, Willy Fürwitt, Volker Güther, Dipl.-Mineraloge Hans-Peter Nicolai
  • Publication number: 20110219912
    Abstract: A method for the production of a ?-TiAl base alloy by vacuum arc remelting, which ?-TiAl base alloy solidifies via the (?-phase (?-?-TiAl base alloy), comprises the following method steps: forming a basic melting electrode by melting, in at least one vacuum arc remelting step, of a conventional ?-TiAl primary alloy containing a lack of titanium and/or of at least one (?-stabilising element compared to the (?-?-TiAl base alloy to be produced; allocating an amount of titanium and/or (?-stabilising element to the basic melting electrode, which amount corresponds to the reduced amount of titanium and/or (?-stabilising element, in an even distribution across the length and periphery of the basic melting electrode; adding the allocated amount of titanium and/or (?-stabilising element to the basic melting electrode so as to form the homogeneous (?-?-TiAl base alloy in a final vacuum arc remelting step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Dipl-Ing Matthias Achtermann, Willy Fürwitt, Volker Güther, Dipl-Mineraloge Hans-Peter Nicolai
  • Publication number: 20110189026
    Abstract: A material for a gas turbine component, to be specific a titanium-aluminum-based alloy material, including at least titanium and aluminum. The material has a) in the range of room temperature, the ?/B2-Ti phase, the ?2-Ti3Al phase and the ?-TiAl phase with a proportion of the ?/B2-Ti phase of at most 5% by volume, and b) in the range of the eutectoid temperature, the ?/B2-Ti phase, the ?2-Ti3Al phase and the ?-TiAl phase, with a proportion of the ?/B2-Ti phase of at least 10% by volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2008
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventors: Wilfried Smarsly, Helmut Clemens, Volker Guether, Sascha Kremmer, Andreas Otto, Harald Chladil
  • Patent number: 6770377
    Abstract: The active brazing solder for brazing ceramic parts of alumina, particularly of high-purity alumina, contains a maximum of 12 wt. % Ti, a maximum of 8 wt. % Be, and less than 16.5 wt. % Fe, the remainder being Zr and any impurities that may be present. The active brazing solder has the following behaviour/features: Brazing temperature: lower than 1,000° C.; the brazed joint is high-vacuum-tight over a long period of time; the coefficient of thermal expansion of the active brazing alloy is substantially identical to that of the alumina ceramic in the entire temperature range covered during the brazing process; the strength of the brazed joint between the two ceramic parts is so high that under tensile loading, fracture will result not at the joint, but in the adjacent ceramic; the pressure resistance of the active brazing solder is greater than 2 GPa; the active brazing solder is very good processable into powders having particle sizes on the order of 10 &mgr;m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser GmbH + Co.
    Inventors: Frank Hegner, Elke Maria Schmidt, Volker Güther, Anobecs Allo, Jürgen Breme, Heinz Müller, Jürgen Peter Turnsek
  • Patent number: 6752881
    Abstract: In a metalliferous storage material for hydrogen a metal oxide is provided in or on the surface of the metalliferous materialas a catalyst for the hydrogenation or dehydrogenation of the metalliferous storage material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Klassen, Rüdiger Bormann, Wolfgang Oelerich, Volker Güther, Andreas Otto
  • Patent number: 6427900
    Abstract: The active brazing solder for brazing ceramic parts of alumina, particularly of high-purity alumina, contains a maximum of 12 wt. % Ti, a maximum of 8 wt. % Be, and less than 16.5 wt. % Fe, the remainder being Zr and any impurities that may be present. The active brazing solder has the following behaviour/features: Brazing temperature: lower than 1,000° C.; the brazed joint is high-vacuum-tight over a long period of time; the coefficient of thermal expansion of the active brazing alloy is substantially identical to that of the alumina ceramic in the entire temperature range covered during the brazing process; the strength of the brazed joint between the two ceramic parts is so high that under tensile loading, fracture will result not at the joint, but in the adjacent ceramic; the pressure resistance of the active brazing solder is greater than 2 GPa; the active brazing solder is very good processable into powders having particle sizes on the order of 10 &mgr;m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser GmbH + Co.
    Inventors: Frank Hegner, Elke Maria Schmidt, Volker Güther, Andreas Otto, Jürgen Breme, Heinz Müller, Jürgen Peter Turnsek
  • Patent number: 6387152
    Abstract: In a process of producing nanocrystalline metal hydrides, an elemental metal hydride of a first kind is subjected to a mechanical milling process with at least one elemental metal or at least one additional metal hydride to produce an alloy hydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Klassen, Wolfgang Oelerich, Rüdiger Bormann, Volker Güther
  • Patent number: 6057031
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composite composed of a plastic substrate and a thin, continuous metal-containing layer, characterised in that the metal-containing layer is ductile, adheres firmly to the plastic substrate, has a thickness of <2 .mu.m and is composed of a compound corresponding to the formulaM.sub.a O.sub.b C.sub.x N.sub.y B.sub.zwherein:M means one or more metals from the group comprising Ti, Ta, Nb, Zr and Hf,a=0.025 to 0.9b=0.025 to 0.7x=0.2 to 0.9y=0 to 0.7z=0 to 0.7a+b+x+y+z=1provided that the value of a, starting from the substrate surface, increases from a value approximating zero towards to the layer surface, and at least 50% of the carbon atoms at the base of the layer are bound to other carbon atoms by C--C bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: GfE Metalle und Materialien GmbH.
    Inventors: Frank Breme, Volker Guether, Karl-Uwe van Osten