Patents by Inventor Gunter Lins
Gunter Lins 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).
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Patent number: 9126206Abstract: A separating device for separating a mixture of magnetizable and non-magnetizable particles contained in a suspension that is conducted in a separating channel is provided, the separating device including a laminated, ferromagnetic yoke arranged to one side of the separating channel, e.g., a yoke made of iron, having at least one magnetic field generating means for generating a magnetic deflecting field and a separating element arranged at the outlet of the separating channel for separating the magnetic particles, wherein the magnetic field generating means is a coil assembly including coils equidistantly arranged in grooves of the yoke along the separating channel and which can be actuated via a control device such that a temporally variable deflecting magnetic field, substantially deflecting toward the yoke, e.g., a traveling wave, is generated, having substantially field-free regions passing over the entire length of the separating channel.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Werner Hartmann, Günter Lins, Bernd Trautmann
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Patent number: 8844730Abstract: A device for the magnetic separation of a fluid including first particles to be separated of magnetic or magnetizable material and second particles of non-magnetic or non-magnetizable material may include at least two magnet arrangements for generating a magnetic induction B, which are arranged in line with one another with regard to a center axis M, wherein neighboring magnet arrangements have an opposing pole arrangement and are arranged at a distance d from each other for the generation of a cusp field. The device may also include at least one conveying line for transporting the fluid, the line having a longitudinal axis extending, at least in the region of the magnet arrangements, on a plane aligned perpendicularly in relation to the center axis M between neighboring magnet arrangements. The conveying line(s) may have at least one branch downstream of the center axis M, along the transporting direction of the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Günter Lins, Michael Römheld
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Patent number: 8524145Abstract: A device for introducing dust into a molten bath of a pyrometallurgical installation is provided. An electrodeless plasma torch includes an essentially tubular housing, wherein the housing allows a passage of a carrier gas containing dust particles, and wherein the housing is coaxially surrounded by an inductive load coil which forms a heating zone.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2011Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Werner Hartmann, Günter Lins, Thomas Matschullat
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Publication number: 20130015106Abstract: A device for the magnetic separation of a fluid including first particles to be separated of magnetic or magnetizable material and second particles of non-magnetic or non-magnetizable material may include at least two magnet arrangements for generating a magnetic induction B, which are arranged in line with one another with regard to a center axis M, wherein neighboring magnet arrangements have an opposing pole arrangement and are arranged at a distance d from each other for the generation of a cusp field. The device may also include at least one conveying line for transporting the fluid, the line having a longitudinal axis extending, at least in the region of the magnet arrangements, on a plane aligned perpendicularly in relation to the center axis M between neighboring magnet arrangements. The conveying line(s) may have at least one branch downstream of the center axis M, along the transporting direction of the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2011Publication date: January 17, 2013Inventors: Günter Lins, Michael Römheld
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Publication number: 20120325728Abstract: A separating device for separating a mixture of magnetizable and non-magnetizable particles contained in a suspension that is conducted in a separating channel is provided, the separating device including a laminated, ferromagnetic yoke arranged to one side of the separating channel, e.g., a yoke made of iron, having at least one magnetic field generating means for generating a magnetic deflecting field and a separating element arranged at the outlet of the separating channel for separating the magnetic particles, wherein the magnetic field generating means is a coil assembly including coils equidistantly arranged in grooves of the yoke along the separating channel and which can be actuated via a control device such that a temporally variable deflecting magnetic field, substantially deflecting toward the yoke, e.g., a traveling wave, is generated, having substantially field-free regions passing over the entire length of the separating channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2011Publication date: December 27, 2012Inventors: Werner Hartmann, Günter Lins, Bernd Trautmann
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Publication number: 20110291333Abstract: A device for introducing dust into a molten bath of a pyrometallurgical installation is provided. An electrodeless plasma torch includes an essentially tubular housing, wherein the housing allows a passage of a carrier gas containing dust particles, and wherein the housing is coaxially surrounded by an inductive load coil which forms a heating zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventors: Werner Hartmann, Günter Lins, Thomas Matschullat
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Patent number: 8029594Abstract: A method for introducing dust into a molten bath of a pyrometallurgical installation is described. According to the method, a carrier gas containing dust particles is guided through a heating zone of an electrode less plasma torch, the gas being converted to a plasma by inductive heating prior to being blown into a region of the installation which receives the molten bath.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2007Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Werner Hartmann, Günter Lins, Thomas Matschullat
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Publication number: 20110167959Abstract: A method for introducing dust into a molten bath of a pyrometallurgical installation is described. According to the method, a carrier gas containing dust particles is guided through a heating zone of an electrode less plasma torch, the gas being converted to a plasma by inductive heating prior to being blown into a region of the installation which receives the molten bath.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2007Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventors: Werner Hartmann, Günter Lins, Thomas Matschullat
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Patent number: 7845937Abstract: A specific electrode arrangement for a burner already exists with which the flame of the burner is influenced by using electrical fields, whereby these electrical fields pass through only areas of the flame in which a stabilizing and pollutant-reducing action occurs. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, the electrodes used to this end simultaneously serve both as probes for detecting flame properties as well as active field electrodes for influencing the flame properties. The probe signals can react to the voltage applied in an inertia-free manner to the electrodes without the involvement of mechanical elements. According to the associated device equipped with a burner and associated electrodes and with a power supply unit, the power supply unit furnishes a voltage that varies over time, and at least one measuring transducer exists that detects the current generated in the flame by the voltage between both electrodes and provides feedback to the power supply unit after amplification.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2005Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Hammer, Günter Lins, Jobst Verleger
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Publication number: 20080145802Abstract: A specific electrode arrangement for a burner already exists with which the flame of the burner is influenced by using electrical fields, whereby these electrical fields pass through only areas of the flame in which a stabilizing and pollutant-reducing action occurs. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, the electrodes used to this end simultaneously serve both as probes for detecting flame properties as well as active field electrodes for influencing the flame properties. The probe signals can react to the voltage applied in an inertia-free manner to the electrodes without the involvement of mechanical elements. According to the associated device equipped with a burner and associated electrodes and with a power supply unit, the power supply unit furnishes a voltage that varies over time, and at least one measuring transducer exists that detects the current generated in the flame by the voltage between both electrodes and provides feedback to the power supply unit after amplification.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2005Publication date: June 19, 2008Inventors: Thomas Hammer, Gunter Lins, Jobst Verleger
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Publication number: 20070283916Abstract: In order to ignite fuel/air mixtures in at least one combustion chamber of a spark ignition engine, the following steps arc carried out: an HF gas discharge as the main discharge (6) is ignited in order to produce a plasma channel (11) in the region of the border between an ignition element and the combustion chamber, and an HF gas discharge as an auxiliary discharge (5) is previously or, at the most, simultaneously ignited in order to generate a flow (12) oriented towards that of the plasma channel (11). The auxiliary discharge (5) is positioned, from the combustion chamber, behind the main discharge (6), such that the oriented flow (12) presses the plasma channel (11) of the main discharge into the combustion chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2005Publication date: December 13, 2007Inventors: Georg Bachmaier, Robert Baumgartner, Daniel Evers, Thomas Hammer, Oliver Hennig, Gunter Lins, Jobst Verleger
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Publication number: 20070026354Abstract: A method and device are for influencing combustion processes, and include an electrical device. The electrical device engages with the flame front so that the electrical field thus produced, only penetrates areas of the flame front in which a stabilizing and harmful-substance-reducing effect is produced. The electrodes of the burner are arranged outside the region of the flame in the associated device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2006Publication date: February 1, 2007Inventors: David Branston, Gunter Lins, Jobst Verleger
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Publication number: 20070020567Abstract: An electrical device is used for guiding and/or altering a flame. The flame is subjected to the action of an electric field. Further, an insulating material enclosure made of ion-conducting material prevents charge transfer between the flame and the field-generating electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2003Publication date: January 25, 2007Inventors: David Branston, Gunter Lins, Jobst Verleger
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Patent number: 7137808Abstract: A method and device are for influencing combustion processes, and include an electrical device. The electrical device engages with the flame front so that the electrical field thus produced, only penetrates areas of the flame front in which a stabilizing and harmful-substance-reducing effect is produced. The electrodes of the burner are arranged outside the region of the flame in the associated device.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2002Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: David Walter Branston, Günter Lins, Jobst Verleger
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Publication number: 20040185397Abstract: A method and device are for influencing combustion processes, and include an electrical device. The electrical device engages with the flame front so that electrical field thus produced, only penetrates areas of the flame front in which a stabilizing and harmful-substance-reducing effect is produced. The electrodes of the burner are arranged outside the region of the flame in the associated device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2004Publication date: September 23, 2004Inventors: David Walter Branston, Gunter Lins, Jobst Verleger
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Patent number: 6417604Abstract: For a low-pressure gas discharge switch, at least two main electrodes are arranged at least a distance d from each other, the electrodes in an arcing chamber forming a cathode and an anode of a discharge path for the low-pressure gas discharge. The gas discharge is triggered by increasing the electron density in a cathode cavity, at least the cathode in its disk-shaped area having at least one aperture, the cathode and anode apertures preferably being opposite and aligned with each other, for triggering the discharge. An arrangement generating a magnetic field superimposed on the discharge between the main electrodes (1, 1a, 2, 2a) are assigned to the main electrodes (1, 1a, 2, 2a), with which either a predominantly parallel magnetic field is generated or a predominantly perpendicular one, with regard to the direction of current in the discharge.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1999Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellshaftInventors: Werner Hartmann, Günter Lins, Klaus-Dieter Rohde, Jan Stroh, Jörg Kieser, Ernst-Ludwig Hoene
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Patent number: 6318187Abstract: Torque measurement is required in motors, in particular. It is already known to generate response signals in an axially offset manner at least at two points on a torque shaft by irradiating light onto the rotating torque shaft. An azimuthal offset of those signals produced by the torque over and above a rotary movement must be determined for evaluation purposes. An apparatus according to the invention for torque measurement on rotating torque shafts uses a continuous light beam to generate signals. A torsion-induced deflection of the light beam is geometrically amplified before an evaluation and an azimuthal offset is determined accurately therefrom as a time signal. The apparatus includes a device for generating optical response signals from at least two axially offset reflector systems at the torque shaft of the machine, which have individual concave mirrors in each case.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2000Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Gerd Griepentrog, Günter Lins, Reinhard Maier
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Patent number: 5746051Abstract: In automobiles, for example, the exhaust fumes must pass through a plasma reactor operating by the principle of dielectrically inhibited ("silent") discharge, consisting of an arrangement of flat plates with alternating metallic and dielectric layers, whereby a plurality of adjacent discharge paths in parallel in the flow direction are formed. According to the invention, the discharge paths border on a single metallic electrode surface or layer (62, 72) and the electric power is supplied (58, 59) from two different sides with the metallic layers (62, 72) having alternating polarities.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 1996Date of Patent: May 5, 1998Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jorg Kieser, Markus Klein, Gunter Lins, Robert Seebock, Michael Romheld