Patents by Inventor Georg Ziegler

Georg Ziegler 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: 20090313775
    Abstract: The invention relates to a grains-removing device for a lauter tun on which at least one grains-removing member is provided which can be adjusted between a raised neutral position and a lowered grains-removing position, wherein the spent grains can be conveyed out of the lauter tun by rotationally driving the grains-removing member arranged in the grains-removing position, and wherein on the grains-removing device, at least one position sensor (01) is provided, by means of which the position of the grains-removing member can be detected in at least one position, wherein the position sensor (01) interacts with a transmitter unit, wherein the sensor data of the position sensor (01) for the description of the position of the grains-removing member can be transmitted in a wireless manner from the transmitter unit to a stationary mounted receiver unit and transferred from the receiver unit to a control unit, and wherein for the supply of electrical energy to the transmitter unit, an electro-mechanical generator un
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: GEA Brewery Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Scheller, Patrick Bahns, Josef Makowski, Georg Ziegler, Stephan Bauer
  • Patent number: 6621271
    Abstract: A device for controlling the operation of a vehicle battery exhibits two current paths for connecting the battery to the vehicle electrical system. Here, the first current path allows current to flow in both directions and the second current path only allows a charging current to flow from the vehicle electrical system to the battery. In addition, the first current path contains a switch which is only closed when the voltage at the generator connection is less than a predetermined value. Apart from this, a measuring device which measures a change in the state of charge of the battery, a storage device which stores the instantaneous state of charge of the battery, and a checking device which checks a predetermined electrical criterion for the maximum attainable state of charge of the battery, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Inventor: Georg Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20030016022
    Abstract: A device for controlling the operation of a vehicle battery exhibits two current paths for connecting the battery to the vehicle electrical system. Here, the first current path allows current to flow in both directions and the second current path only allows a charging current to flow from the vehicle electrical system to the battery. In addition, the first current path contains a switch which is only closed when the voltage at the generator connection is less than a predetermined value. Apart from this, a measuring device which measures a change in the state of charge of the battery, a storage device which stores the instantaneous state of charge of the battery, and a checking device which checks a predetermined electrical criterion for the maximum attainable state of charge of the battery, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventor: Georg Ziegler
  • Patent number: 6311647
    Abstract: After the economizer, an injection water pipe branches off the connecting pipe between economizer and evaporator in order to control the steam temperature. The injection water pipe is provided with a control device for controlling the injection water flow. The injection water flowing through the injection water pipe is injected into the steam coming from the evaporator at a mixing point located before the superheater. In order to control the position of the control device in the injection water pipe, the enthalpy at the superheater outlet is calculated from the parameters pressure and temperature and is compared with a desired enthalpy resulting from the desired parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Alstom (Switzerland) Ltd
    Inventors: Erhard Liebig, Rudolf Herzog, Hamid Olia, Wolf-Stephan Wilke, Georg Ziegler
  • Patent number: 6269754
    Abstract: The invention relates to a steam generator (1) for superheated steam for incineration plants with corrosive flue gases, essentially comprising a radiation section (2) and a convection section (5), having at least one superheater (8) and having plates (10) arranged on the inside of at least one wall (9) of the radiation section (2), a space (12) being provided between the plates (10) and the wall (9) of the radiation section (2), and at least part of the superheater (8) being arranged as a wall superheater (15) in the space (12) in the radiation section (2). The steam generator is distinguished by the fact that the space (12) contains a noncorrosive gaseous atmosphere which is at a higher pressure than the pressure of the gases in the combustion chamber (3). In this way, it is possible to reach a high superheater temperature without corrosion to the final superheater, so that the superheater can be made from inexpensive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventors: Hans Rüegg, Georg Ziegler
  • Patent number: 5983840
    Abstract: The invention relates to a steam generator, which consists of a combustion chamber (1), a radiation part (2) and a convection part (3) and which has at least two vertical gas passes (4, 5) following the combustion chamber (1), in each case with a 180.degree. deflection of the flue gas (12), the combustion chamber (1) and the gas pass (4) being separated from one another by means of a first partition (14) and the two gas passes (4, 5) being separated from one another by means of a second partition (6). It is defined in that the second partition (6) is designed, at its lower end, in such a way that the passage area for the flue gas (12) from the vertical pass (4) with downward flow to the vertical pass (5) with upward flow has a variable value over the width, the passage area being smaller in the middle than on the outside. The secondary flow occurring during deflection is thereby reinforced, in the wall region the vortices of said secondary flow rotating opposite to the direction of the main flow deflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventors: Oliver Riccius, Georg Ziegler
  • Patent number: 5775266
    Abstract: In a steam generator (1) having, downstream of the fire-box (7), a radiant part and, subsequent thereto, a convective part, the latter essentially comprising, connected in series on the flue-gas side, contact heat exchanger (18), superheater (9) and economizer (2), the steam generator (1) being used in a circuit for the direct selective catalytic reduction (SCR process) of the nitrogen oxides in the flue gas (19), the economizer (2) consists of two parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventor: Georg Ziegler
  • Patent number: 5568793
    Abstract: In a steam generator having a convective part arranged downstream of the furnace chamber and essentially consisting of final superheater (1), pre-superheater, evaporator and economizer connected in series on the flue-gas side, a further contact heat exchanger (5) having a plurality of tube banks (10) is arranged upstream of the final superheater (1). This contact heat exchanger (5) is connected to the steam drum (6) in such a way that it can be operated as both an evaporator and a superheater. The working medium to be heated flows in parallel from the bottom to the top through the tube banks (10), as a rule arranged vertically or inclined, of the contact heat exchanger in the evaporator circuit and flows in series through said tube banks (10) of the heat exchanger in the superheater circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: ABB Management AG
    Inventor: Georg Ziegler
  • Patent number: 4959078
    Abstract: The hot-gas cooling plant has a gas outlet line releasably connected between the radiant cooler and the convection cooler. The gas outlet line is curved to extend from an upper region of the radiant cooler to the top end of the convection cooler. Flange connections are used to connect the gas outlet line to the pressure vessels of the coolers. Cooling tubes are also provided within the gas outlet line for cooling the flow of gas therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: Sulzer Brothers Limited
    Inventor: Georg Ziegler
  • Patent number: 4768470
    Abstract: The gas cooler has a pair of coaxial flues for the cooling of a synthesis gas wherein the flues are resiliently mounted independently of each other. The gas flow connection at the top of the pressure vessel is sized to permit the inner flue to be lifted out of the vessel for cleaning and repair purposes. In addition, the outer flue can be constructed of interconnected wall elements which may also be disconnected for discrete removal through the top of the vessel for cleaning and repair purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: Sulzer Brothers Limited
    Inventor: Georg Ziegler
  • Patent number: 4765394
    Abstract: Each heat-exchanger surface is comprised of parallel coolant-carrying tubes and at least one soot-blowing tube which can be supplied with a soot-blowing medium and which has at least one nozzle for the egress of the soot-blowing medium. A protective tube connected to the heat-exchanger surface is disposed before and parallel to the soot-blowing tube on the heat-receiving side of the wall and is flowed through by the same coolant as flows through the heat-exchanger surface. The nozzle extend between the protective tube and the wall. The soot-blowing tube has satisfactory heating protection and the coolant in the protective tube has the same exit temperature as the other tubes of the heat-exchanger heating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Sulzer Brothers Limited
    Inventor: Georg Ziegler
  • Patent number: 4535727
    Abstract: The synthesis gas cooler is provided with a movable platform in the space between the inner and outer flue. The platform may be constructed in segments with separate cable and winch means provided for raising and lowering of the platform segments via suspension structures. The suspension structures may also be secured in a raised position by bars which pass through fittings at the upper end of the suspension structures and which are supported in a partition above the movable platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1985
    Assignee: Sulzer Brothers Limited
    Inventor: Georg Ziegler
  • Patent number: 4527484
    Abstract: The invention relates to a conveyor apparatus, particularly for intra-plant and plant-to-plant suspension conveyance, comprising a conveyor rail system for the conveyance therealong of bridge-type carriers suspended at both ends from the conveyor rails by means of rollers connected to said carriers by brackets, and container means for the goods to be conveyed, said container means being suspended from said carrier by means of a carrier head releasably engaging said carrier from above.In order to enable said container means to be suspended from said rail system for conveyance or to be released therefrom, respectively, with a minimum of structural and labor expenditure, the carrier head is adapted to be released from the carrier by being lifted relative thereto and withdrawn in the longitudinal direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1985
    Assignee: Veit GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Gustav G. Veith, Rolf Schonenberger, Udo Thumser, Georg Ziegler
  • Patent number: 4487611
    Abstract: The gas cooler has a downcomer bounded by radiant cooling walls and a waterbath at the end of the downcomer. The depth of the waterbath is several times its horizontal extent and the waterbath is flowed through downwardly by water. The bath is connected by way of a pump, heat exchanger and a feed line to a water circuit. Means are provided to control the water temperature at its entry into the waterbath so that the entry temperature is maintained at a value somewhere between the dew point of the synthesis gas and the evaporation point of water at the working pressure of the synthesis gas.The result is substantial obviation of evaporation of water from the waterbath and the associated heat losses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1984
    Assignee: Sulzer Brothers Limited
    Inventor: Georg Ziegler
  • Patent number: 4474141
    Abstract: The heat exchanger includes a cylindrical pressure vessel in which a faller column having heat exchange surfaces and at least one riser column having further heat exchange surfaces are mounted. The riser column walls extend around the walls of the faller column. The top part of the pressure vessel is connected to a bottom part in a dis-connectable manner with the riser column walls being suspended in the bottom part. The walls of the faller column with all the heating surfaces disposed therein can be withdrawn from the space around which the riser column walls extend for servicing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1984
    Assignee: Sulzer Brothers Ltd.
    Inventor: Georg Ziegler
  • Patent number: 4385501
    Abstract: The hot gas cooler has a cooling insert of tubes in the pressure vessel. At the hot gas entry end, the cooling insert is connected, to a hot gas source. The insert interior communicates with the gap between the insert and the pressure vessel for pressure compensation. The pressure-compensating communication is disposed near the hot gas entry and extends by way of an additional cooling path. In the event of a gas-side leakage of the cooling insert, hot gas cannot flow into the gap between the insert and the pressure vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1983
    Assignee: Sulzer Brothers Limited
    Inventor: Georg Ziegler