Patents by Inventor Gerhard Pröll

Gerhard Pröll 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: 20190039589
    Abstract: An air supply system to be mounted in or on a railway vehicle or commercial vehicle comprises a compressor device for producing compressed air, an air dryer device for dehumidifying the compressed air, and a housing for enclosing the compressor device and the air dryer device. Furthermore, a cooling is provided which can be operated independently of the operating mode of the compressor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FÜR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Christian BECKER, Gerhard PRÖLL, Adrian PLATAS DEL COSO
  • Patent number: 9022068
    Abstract: Compressor arrangement for generating compressed air using a motor-operator compressor unit, downstream of which at least one cooler unit is connected for cooling the generated compressed air, which enters the cooler unit via at least one inlet, flows there through a cooling structure, from a plurality of cooling passages connected in parallel and leaves the cooler unit via at least one outlet, wherein a permanently open bypass pipe is provided between the region of the inlet and the region of the outlet, the inner cross section of which bypass pipe is matched to the delivery capacity of the compressor unit and to the pressure difference between inlet and outlet such that the bypass pipe, at normal ambient temperatures, causes a higher flow resistance than the cooling structure, whereas, as freezing of the cooling structure progresses, the compressed air flows increasingly via the bypass pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fur Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Achatz, Klaus-Michael Schneider, Gerhard Pröll
  • Patent number: 8117960
    Abstract: A water-cooled piston compressor having at least one air-compressing piston, which can be driven with means for producing a linearly oscillating drive force and which is accommodated in an axially movable manner in a cylinder housing which is closed at the end face via a cylinder head and is provided with water-cooling means, wherein the water-cooling means comprise a cylinder housing which is formed with a double wall and on whose end face facing the cylinder head a plurality of cooling openings are arranged, via which coolant flowing through the double-walled cylinder housing comes into contact with the region of the cylinder head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignees: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fur Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH, Knorr-Bremse Systeme fur Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Hartl, Gerhard Pröll, Dieter Weisse