Patents by Inventor Heinz Gerber

Heinz Gerber 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: 10132243
    Abstract: A mounting and dismounting device for a liner of a gas turbine includes two inner rails attached at the turbine housing and each one having a first straight portion, two straight outer rails releasably attached at the turbine housing, wherein the adjacent free ends of the inner and outer rails can be positioned in full alignment one to the other. The rails are adapted to support the liner to be moveable in its axial direction. The inner rails include a second straight portion connected to the first straight portion through a curved portion wherein the axis of the second straight portion is parallel to the axis of the combustion gas passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Stephen Wilder Jorgensen, Joshua R. McNally, Heinz Gerber, Davide Aratori, Douglas Anthony Pennel, Daniel Seng
  • Patent number: 10071450
    Abstract: A turbine part replacing apparatus for moving a combustor of an industrial gas turbine from and to a mounting port of the gas turbine is disclosed, the apparatus including a mobile frame with a moving mechanism for substantially horizontal translation motion on the ground, a vertically extendable arm attached to and extending from said mobile frame, and a carriage attached to the extendable arm such that the carriage may be moved vertically with respect to the mobile frame. Moreover, the turbine part replacing apparatus is adapted for receiving the combustor in the carriage and for vertically moving the received combustor by the extendable arm from and to the mounting port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Heinz Gerber, Davide Aratori, Daniel Seng, Valentin Stenz
  • Patent number: 9780539
    Abstract: The invention relates to a removable stabilizer for a spacer casing (24a-24f) of an electrical installation of the GIS type (20), the spacer casing (24a-24f) comprising a first opening (33) as well as a conductor (30b) provided with a bore (34), the removable stabilizer (29) comprising a plug (29a) configured to be introduced via the first opening (33) into the spacer casing (24a-24f), the plug being designed to penetrate into the bore (34) of the conductor (30b) so as to block said conductor (30b) against moving in translation after said spacer casing (24a-24f) has been put to atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Heinz Gerber, Robert Lüscher
  • Publication number: 20160265440
    Abstract: A mounting and dismounting device for a liner of a gas turbine includes two inner rails attached at the turbine housing and each one having a first straight portion, two straight outer rails releasably attached at the turbine housing, wherein the adjacent free ends of the inner and outer rails can be positioned in full alignment one to the other. The rails are adapted to support the liner to be moveable in its axial direction. The inner rails include a second straight portion connected to the first straight portion through a curved portion wherein the axis of the second straight portion is parallel to the axis of the combustion gas passageway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Stephen Wilder Jorgensen, Joshua R. McNally, Heinz Gerber, Davide Aratori, Douglas Anthony Pennel, Daniel Seng
  • Publication number: 20160263715
    Abstract: A turbine part replacing apparatus for moving a combustor of an industrial gas turbine from and to a mounting port of the gas turbine is disclosed, the apparatus including a mobile frame with a moving mechanism for substantially horizontal translation motion on the ground, a vertically extendable arm attached to and extending from said mobile frame, and a carriage attached to the extendable arm such that the carriage may be moved vertically with respect to the mobile frame. Moreover, the turbine part replacing apparatus is adapted for receiving the combustor in the carriage and for vertically moving the received combustor by the extendable arm from and to the mounting port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Heinz Gerber, Davide Aratori, Daniel Seng, Valentin Stenz
  • Publication number: 20160020587
    Abstract: The invention relates to a removable stabilizer for a spacer casing (24a-24f) of an electrical installation of the GIS type (20), the spacer casing (24a-24f) comprising a first opening (33) as well as a conductor (30b) provided with a bore (34), the removable stabilizer (29) comprising a plug (29a) configured to be introduced via the first opening (33) into the spacer casing (24a-24f), the plug being designed to penetrate into the bore (34) of the conductor (30b) so as to block said conductor (30b) against moving in translation after said spacer casing (24a-24f) has been put to atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Heinz Gerber, Robert Lüscher
  • Patent number: 4499750
    Abstract: In a drawing device for presses with a mechanically driven drawing ram (24) and with a sheet metal holder (5) exerting its holding force, acting on the metal sheet (27) and counteracting the drawing direction, by way of a pressure plate (7) by means of a die cushion piston (10), supporting the pressure plate and being under the effect of a pressure medium, in a fixed die cushion cylinder (12), the objective consists in avoiding, or at least reducing, the noise-generating impact shock upon impingement of the drawing ram (24) on the sheet metal holder (5) with the metal sheet (27) lying thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1985
    Assignee: L. Schuler GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Gerber, Klaus Adam, Heinz Horn
  • Patent number: 4362961
    Abstract: The invention relates to an encapsulated piezoelectric resonator device comprising an oscillating member having a quartz member and a frame integral with and surrounding the quartz member, the frame having two connecting faces, electrodes on the quartz member, and two cover members, each having a central depression defining a frame provided with a connecting face, each connecting face of the oscillating member being bonded with the connecting face of the cover member for sandwiching the oscillating member between the cover members.The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such an encapsulated piezoelectric resonator device comprising the steps of machining a quartz plate by photolithography for making at least one oscillating member, forming electrodes on the quartz member, making at least two cover members having central depressions defining their peripheral frames and bonding the oscillating member with two cover members by their frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1982
    Assignee: Ebauches, S.A.
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Gerber
  • Patent number: D245408
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1977
    Assignee: Interhydro AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Baumann, Heinz Gerber