Patents by Inventor Wilfried Weidmann

Wilfried Weidmann 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: 9540953
    Abstract: A housing-side structure of a turbomachine, in particular of a gas turbine, including an in particular segmented jacket ring (16), which carries an abradable lining for radially outer ends of rotor-side moving blades of a moving blade ring, wherein the jacket ring (16) carrying the abradable lining is connected by means of at least one constriction (18) to a stator-side housing part (19), which is radially adjacent to the jacket ring (16) on the outside and the jacket ring is thermally decoupled from said stator-side housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventor: Wilfried Weidmann
  • Publication number: 20130183149
    Abstract: A housing-side structure of a turbomachine, in particular of a gas turbine, including an in particular segmented jacket ring (16), which carries an abradable lining for radially outer ends of rotor-side moving blades of a moving blade ring, wherein the jacket ring (16) carrying the abradable lining is connected by means of at least one constriction (18) to a stator-side housing part (19), which is radially adjacent to the jacket ring (16) on the outside and the jacket ring is thermally decoupled from said stator-side housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: MTU AERO ENGINES GMBH
    Inventor: Wilfried Weidmann
  • Patent number: 8388303
    Abstract: A gas turbine having a rotor which includes a turbine rotor, a shaft and a compressor rotor, the turbine rotor having at least one rotor disk and a rotor cone leading from the or a rotor disk to the shaft, the downstream end of the shaft being rotatably supported in a bearing having a bearing chamber, the interior space of the shaft being designed as a flow channel for bearing-chamber sealing air, and the space surrounding the rotor cone upstream of the same being designed as a flow space for cooling air is disclosed. In the region of the rotor connection, the shaft exhibits an expanded portion, at whose upstream end, openings are provided to allow cooling air to enter, and, at whose downstream end, openings are provided to allow cooling air to exit into the space between the bearing chamber and the rotor cone, a wall separating the streams of the cooling air and of the sealing air in the shaft interior from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventors: Wilfried Weidmann, Moritz Wirth
  • Publication number: 20120141253
    Abstract: A turbomachine is disclosed. The turbomachine includes a housing and a guide blade ring. An outer shroud of the guide blade ring is divided into segments by joints, where the outer shroud is fastened to the housing by a first fastening element for absorbing axial force and a second fastening element independent of the first fastening element for absorbing circumferential force. The first fastening element and the second fastening elements enable play in a radial direction for the segments of the outer shroud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: MTU AERO ENGINES GMBH
    Inventor: Wilfried Weidmann
  • Publication number: 20100202872
    Abstract: A shielding (6) of a turbine housing (3) of an aircraft engine against radial escape of blade fragments, especially for a high-speed low-pressure turbine, is characterized in that the shielding (6) is embodied as a rigid ring-shaped component of several layers (8). Through the decoupling of the containment function from the design of the turbine exhaust gas channel, which is fabricated as a cast part, the disadvantages of the prior art are avoided. Particularly, the design of the turbine exhaust gas channel can be carried out in a cost- and weight-optimized manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventor: Wilfried Weidmann
  • Publication number: 20100104418
    Abstract: A gas turbine having a rotor which includes a turbine rotor, a shaft and a compressor rotor, the turbine rotor having at least one rotor disk and a rotor cone leading from the or a rotor disk to the shaft, the downstream end of the shaft being rotatably supported in a bearing having a bearing chamber, the interior space of the shaft being designed as a flow channel for bearing-chamber sealing air, and the space surrounding the rotor cone upstream of the same being designed as a flow space for cooling air is disclosed. In the region of the rotor connection, the shaft exhibits an expanded portion, at whose upstream end, openings are provided to allow cooling air to enter, and, at whose downstream end, openings are provided to allow cooling air to exit into the space between the bearing chamber and the rotor cone, a wall separating the streams of the cooling air and of the sealing air in the shaft interior from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventors: Wilfried Weidmann, Moritz Wirth
  • Publication number: 20090028712
    Abstract: A rotor of a turbine machine having several rotor blade rings positioned in succession in the axial direction, is disclosed. Each rotor blade ring has a rotor base body with several rotor blades anchored by blade footings in axial grooves of the rotor base body that extend essentially in the axial direction and, in their anchored position in the rotor base body, are secured against displacement in the axial direction. The rotor blades of at least one rotor blade ring have hook-like securing elements, which, in the anchored position on a low-pressure side of the rotor blade ring, abut the rotor base body. The hook-like securing elements, between the rotor base body and a sealing element, which extends between the rotor base body and a rotor base body of a rotor blade ring that connects on the low-pressure side, are fixed in the axial direction on both sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventors: Wilfried Weidmann, Moritz Wirth
  • Patent number: 7267527
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for a turbomachine, in particular a low-pressure turbine rotor for a gas turbine, having at least one stage, each stage comprising a rotor disk having rotor blades attached to the rotor disk, and the rotor disk of each stage being removably connected either to oppositely situated rotor disks of adjoining stages or to a rotor connection of a rotor shaft by at least one respective attachments. According to the invention, the, or each of the, attachment means extends through the rotor disk of at least one stage, whereby the, or each of the, attachment means is guided with radial play into at least one borehole passing through the respective rotor disk, so that an interior borehole surface is not subjected to load or force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Fischer, Wilfried Weidmann, Eberhard Knodel
  • Publication number: 20050226730
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for a turbomachine, in particular a low-pressure turbine rotor for a gas turbine, having at least one stage, each stage comprising a rotor disk having rotor blades attached to the rotor disk, and the rotor disk of each stage being removably connected either to oppositely situated rotor disks of adjoining stages or to a rotor connection of a rotor shaft by at least one respective attachments. According to the invention, the, or each of the, attachment means extends through the rotor disk of at least one stage, whereby the, or each of the, attachment means is guided with radial play into at least one borehole passing through the respective rotor disk, so that an interior borehole surface is not subjected to load or force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Applicant: MTU Aero Engines GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Fischer, Wilfried Weidmann, Eberhard Knodel
  • Patent number: 4398730
    Abstract: A rotary ring seal with gas-dynamic lubrication for high-speed turbomachines, particularly gas turbine engines, in which one of two complementary rings is radially perforated with apertures which extend in parallel with the ring sealing face and which are supplied with a cooling liquid. In order to achieve a durable seal, particularly with regard to high temperatures and speeds, a circumferentially periodically uniformly increasing and decreasing number of holes extending through the mating ring provide for the generation of a periodically alternating temperature and, consequently, an axial-expansion zone of the ring so as to produce a periodically uniformly undulated sliding surface on the mating ring which corresponds to the lubricant wedge profile of a gas-dynamic thrust bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: MTU Motoren-und Turbinen-Union Munchen GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Rucker, Wilfried Weidmann, Karl-Ullrich Reisenweber