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Granted Patent B2
US 10,982,562 · App. 16/270,390 · Granted Apr 20, 2021

Bearing chamber housing for a turbomachine

Inventors: Frank Stiehler (Bad Liebenwerda, DE); Georg Kempinger (Eching, DE); Juergen Kraus (Dachau, DE); Steffen Schlothauer (Erdweg, DE); Christian Liebl (Bockhorn, DE); Thomas Koebke (Eichenau, DE); Alois Eichinger (Pfaffenhofen, DE)
Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
F01D25/162B33Y10/00B33Y80/00F01D25/18F01D25/183F02C7/06F05D2230/31F05D2240/54
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Patent No.
US 10,982,562
App. No.
16/270,390
Granted
Apr 20, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a bearing chamber housing for bearing a shaft of a turbomachine, comprising an additively built-up housing section and a cover, which, in each case referred to an axis of rotation of the shaft, connects axially to the housing section and has a radially extending collar, which collar axially bounds an oil space of the bearing chamber housing, wherein the cover is assembled with the housing section and is connected therewith via a weld.

Claims (9)

1. A method for manufacturing a bearing chamber housing, comprising the steps of:

additively building-up a housing section;

providing a cover that connects axially, with respect to an axis of rotation of a shaft, to the housing section and has a radially extending collar which collar axially bounds an oil space of the bearing chamber housing; wherein the cover is assembled with the housing section and is joined therewith via a material-bonded joint via a weld;

assembling the cover with the housing section and is welded therewith,

wherein the housing section and the cover are each additively built up layer by layer in a powder bed process, wherein the material-bonded joint and therefore a separating surface lie in the bearing chamber housing between the housing section and the cover such that the separating surface extends exclusively in exactly one of the layers.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the cover is built up with a build-up direction, which, when referred to an orientation of the housing section and of the cover relative to one another in the assembled state, lies opposite to a build-up direction by which the housing section is additively built up.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the housing section and/or the cover are built up additively layer by layer in a powder bed process, wherein, if an overhang arises in the additive build-up, the overhang encloses with the layers an angle of at most 60°.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the housing section and/or the cover is mechanically post-processed before the cover is welded to the housing section.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the cover is welded to the housing section by electron beam welding.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 26, 2019
From: STIEHLER, FRANK; KEMPINGER, GEORG; KRAUS, JUERGEN; SCHLOTHAUER, STEFFEN; LIEBL, CHRISTIAN; KOEBKE, THOMAS; EICHINGER, ALOIS
To: MTU AERO ENGINES AG
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Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2018 202 083.3 · Feb 9, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190249569A1 · Aug 15, 2019
Cited By (1)
US 12,392,376