Patents by Inventor Wilfried Smarsly

Wilfried Smarsly 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: 10590520
    Abstract: Described is a TiAl alloy which, besides titanium, comprises 42 to 48 at. % aluminum, 3 to 5 at. % niobium, 0.05 to 1 at. % molybdenum, 0.2 to 2.2 at. % silicon, 0.2 to 0.4 at. % carbon, 0.05 to 0.2 at. % boron, and optionally tungsten, zirconium and hafnium, as well as unavoidable impurities, and at room temperature has a microstructure which comprises globular colonies of lamellae of ?2-Ti3Al and ?-TiAl, as well as silicide precipitates, and essentially no ? phase. A method for producing a component made of this alloy is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Wilfried Smarsly, Martin Schloffer, Helmut Clemens, Thomas Klein
  • Patent number: 10577948
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blade for use in a turbine of an aircraft engine. The blade is made of (a) a Mo-based alloy strengthened by intermetallic silicides or (b) a Ni-based single crystal superalloy. An aircraft engine and in particular, a turbofan aircraft engine including a corresponding turbine blade is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Wilfried Smarsly, Markus Fried, Thomas Goehler
  • Patent number: 10544485
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a component from a TiAl alloy by layer-by-layer deposition of powder on a substrate and/or an already produced semifinished product. The component has a proportion of x at % of aluminum which is in the range from about 34 to about 47 at % of aluminum, the powder having a proportion of x+1 at % to x+6 at % of aluminum. Also disclosed is a component formed from a TiAl alloy which has been produced by a corresponding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Martin Schloffer, Wilfried Smarsly
  • Patent number: 10526902
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a blade for a turbomachine, in particular for an aero engine. The method comprises providing at least one blade airfoil with a first platform region and at least one blade root with a second platform region and joining the blade airfoil and the blade root at the respective platform regions by a friction welding method at a common joint region of the platform regions, the blade airfoil and the blade root being made of materials which are different from each other. Also disclosed is a blade which is and/or can be obtained by such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Martin Schloffer, Wilfried Smarsly
  • Patent number: 10465264
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a TiAl alloy for use at high temperatures which has aluminum and titanium as main constituents. The TiAl alloy has an aluminum content of greater than or equal to 50 at. % and a matrix of ?-TiAl and at least one phase of Al and Ti incorporated in the ?-TiAl matrix which is different from ?-TiAl, as well as depositions of oxides and/or carbides and/or silicides. In addition, the invention relates to a method for producing the alloy and to the use of the alloy for components of turbo-machines, in particular aircraft engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Wilfried Smarsly, Martin Schloffer, Helmut Clemens, Svea Mayer
  • Patent number: 10458001
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a component of a composite material comprising a metal matrix and incorporated intermetallic phases, which method comprises providing powders of at least one member of the group which comprises pure chemical elements, alloys, chemical compounds and material composites, the powder corresponding overall to the chemical composition which the composite material to be produced is intended to have, each individual powder being different to the chemical composition of the composite material to be produced, compacting the powders, bonding the powders to one another to form a unit and thermoplastically shaping the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Wilfried Smarsly, Markus Fried
  • Patent number: 10385434
    Abstract: An apparatus and a process for producing forged components composed of TiAl alloys, wherein a melt of a TiAl alloy is provided and is cast by horizontal centrifugal casting so as to produce at least one semifinished TiAl cast part and the semifinished TiAl cast part is converted by forging into a forged TiAl part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Martin Schloffer, Wilfried Smarsly, Marc Haltrich
  • Patent number: 10364686
    Abstract: A component for a turbomachine having at least one region made of an intermetallic material which is formed from an intermetallic compound or comprises an intermetallic phase as the largest constituent. The intermetallic material is compacted and/or modified in microstructure by microplasticization at least partially at a surface or interface in a region close to the surface or interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: André Werner, Wilfried Smarsly
  • Patent number: 10267167
    Abstract: Disclosed is a blade element of a turbomachine, in particular of a gas turbine, which comprises a fastening element (10) with which the blade element is arranged in a receptacle (11) of the turbomachine. in the region of the fastening element, the blade element has a core region (18) and an envelope region (19) which at least partially envelops the core region. The core region is formed from a blade base material which is more brittle than the envelope material of the envelope region, and the envelope region is formed by a coating. The envelope material is a blade base material which has been modified to achieve a higher ductility or is a pseudoelastic or superelastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Erich Steinhardt, Wilfried Smarsly, André Werner
  • Publication number: 20190070665
    Abstract: A method is provided, for manufacturing a component of a turbomachine, in particular a blade, in which initially a shell (6) including an interior cavity (7) corresponding to the outer contour of the component is manufactured from an intermetallic TiAl material, and subsequently a Ti alloy in powder form is filled into the cavity, and the cavity with the filled-in Ti alloy powder is tightly sealed, the tightly sealed shell (6) including the enclosed titanium alloy powder being subsequently processed into a component of the turbomachine using hot isostatic pressing. Alternatively, the invention relates to a method for generatively manufacturing a component including a shell made from a TiAl alloy and a core made from a Ti alloy. In addition, the invention relates to a correspondingly manufactured component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Martin SCHLOFFER, Wilfried SMARSLY
  • Patent number: 10107112
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a component from a TiAl alloy, wherein the component is shaped by forging, in particular isothermal forging, and is subsequently subjected to at least one heat treatment, wherein in the first heat treatment the temperature is between 1100 and 1200° C. and is maintained for 6 to 10 hours and then the component is cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventor: Wilfried Smarsly
  • Patent number: 10029309
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a component, in particular a component for a turbomachine, composed of a TiAl alloy, which comprises the following: introduction of a powder of the TiAl alloy into the capsule whose shape corresponds to the shape of the component to be produced and closing of the capsule, hot isostatic pressing of the capsule together with the powder, heat treatment of the hot isostatically pressed capsule, removal of the capsule, post-working of the contour of the component by removal of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
    Inventors: Martin Schloffer, Wilfried Smarsly
  • Patent number: 9994934
    Abstract: Disclosed is a TiAl alloy for high-temperature applications which comprises not more than 43 at. % of Al, from 3 at. % to 8 at. % of Nb, from 0.2 at. % to 3 at. % of Mo and/or Mn, from 0.05 at. % to 0.5 at. % of B, from 0.1 at. % to 0.5 at. % of C, from 0.1 at. % to 0.5 at. % of Si and Ti as balance. Also disclosed is a process for producing a component made of this TiAl alloy and the use of corresponding TiAl alloys in components of flow machines at operating temperatures up to 850° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Wilfried Smarsly, Helmut Clemens, Emanuel Schwaighofer
  • Publication number: 20180105901
    Abstract: The invention relates to method of making a molybdenum alloy which has a high titanium content and further comprises silicon and/or boron. The method comprises subjecting to pressureless sintering or sintering under pressure in an inert gas atmosphere a mixture of one or more powders (i) of an alloy of Mo and Ti and, optionally, one or more additional metals X and/or (i?) powders of Mo and of TiN, and (ii) one or more powders comprising one or more powders of silicides of Mo and/or Ti and/or (iii) one or more powders of nitrides which comprise Si3N4 powder and/or BN powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Wilfried SMARSLY, Markus FRIED
  • Publication number: 20180016668
    Abstract: Described is ?-TiAl alloy which, besides titanium, comprises 42 to 48 at. % aluminum, 3 to 5 at. % niobium, 0.05 to 1 at. % molybdenum, 0.2 to 2.2 at. % silicon, 0.2 to 0.4 at. % carbon, 0.05 to 0.2 at. % boron, and optionally tungsten, zirconium and hafnium, as well as unavoidable impurities, and at room temperature has a microstructure which comprises globular colonies of lamellae of ?2-Ti3Al and ?-TiAl, as well as silicide precipitates, and essentially no ? phase. A method for producing a component made of this alloy is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Wilfried SMARSLY, Martin SCHLOFFER, Helmut CLEMENS, Thomas KLEIN
  • Publication number: 20170335436
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a component from a TiAl alloy by layer-by-layer deposition of powder on a substrate and/or an already produced semifinished product. The component has a proportion of x at % of aluminum which is in the range from about 34 to about 47 at % of aluminum, the powder having a proportion of x+1 at % to x+6 at % of aluminum. Also disclosed is a component formed from a Tim alloy which has been produced by a corresponding process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Martin SCHLOFFER, Wilfried SMARSLY
  • Publication number: 20170314402
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a blade for a turbomachine, which method comprises: providing a blade root, having a first platform region, from a first material; providing on the first platform region at least one capsule that is filled with a metallic and/or ceramic powder that comprises at least one second material which is different from the first material, for producing a blade airfoil having a second platform region; producing and shaping a blade airfoil from the capsule that is filled with the powder by at least one thermal input method, thereby connecting the blade root to the blade airfoil in respective platform regions. Also disclosed is a blade which is obtainable and/or obtained by this method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Martin SCHLOFFER, Wilfried SMARSLY
  • Publication number: 20170314401
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a blade for a turbomachine, in particular for an aero engine. The method comprises providing at least one blade airfoil with a first platform region and at least one blade root with a second platform region and joining the blade airfoil and the blade root at the respective platform regions by a friction welding method at a common joint region of the platform regions, the blade airfoil and the blade root being made of materials which are different from each other. Also disclosed is a blade which is and/or can be obtained by such a method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Martin SCHLOFFER, Wilfried SMARSLY
  • Publication number: 20170241271
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for improving the high-temperature stability of a component, in particular a blade of a turbomachine, formed at least partially from a molybdenum alloy that, besides molybdenum, silicon, boron and titanium, comprises iron and/or yttrium. The method comprises depositing a diffusion barrier layer formed from technically pure molybdenum or tungsten or being an alloy based on molybdenum and/or tungsten at least on an outer surface, which comprises the molybdenum alloy, of the component, and depositing silicon on the diffusion barrier layer to form molybdenum silicides and/or tungsten silicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Markus FRIED, Wilfried SMARSLY, Andreas BROETZNER
  • Publication number: 20170145837
    Abstract: A method of making a bladed rotor for a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft engine, is disclosed. The method comprises the steps a) providing a rotor base of the rotor, b) providing at least one blade root, c) providing at least one blade body, d) making at least one blade by connecting the blade body to the blade root by means of a diffusion barrier layer, at least the blade body, the diffusion barrier layer and the blade root consisting of respectively different materials, and e) joining the at least one blade root to the rotor base. The invention furthermore relates to a bladed rotor and to a turbomachine having such a bladed rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Martin SCHLOFFER, Wilfried SMARSLY