Patents by Inventor Karl-Heinz Gilfert

Karl-Heinz Gilfert 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: 6488488
    Abstract: The drive gear 19, 21 and the synchronizing gear 25, 27 for the two rotors 9,11 of a screw compressor are both located at the pressurized end of the rotor housing 3. At the suction end of the rotor housing 3 is only the bearing 53 for the suction side shaft journal 55, 57 that is free of oil lubrication. Inlet openings 13 in a suction side inlet housing are located in such a way that the intake air cools the oil-free shaft bearing 53. Each shaft journal has a tool interface 63 accessible through the inlet housing on which to attach a rotating tool. The inlet housing 4 can be removed from the shaft journal 55, 57 together with the bearing 53 and seal 87, for example to exchange the bearing, without having to remove the rotors 9, 11 or without throwing off their adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: GHH-Rand Schraubenkompressoren GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Achtelik, Karl-Heinz Gilfert, Arno Heinz, Walter Murmann
  • Patent number: 6416302
    Abstract: A screw compressor has a gear housing (1) from one side of which the rotor housing (3) containing the two screw rotors freely projecting outward. An oil supply container (7) is also located freely projecting out from the gear housing (1) approximately parallel to the rotor housing (3) and thermally separated from the rotor housing by means of an air gap. A ventilation channel (109) in the rotor housing (3) to vent the rotor shaft seals opens up to one point in the rotor housing that is protected against direct access by the oil supply container (7) mounted in front of it as well as by additional shoulders (111).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: GHH-Rand Schraubenkompressoren GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Achtelik, Karl-Heinz Gilfert, Arno Heinz, Walter Murmann
  • Publication number: 20020048521
    Abstract: The drive gear 19, 21 and the synchronizing gear 25, 27 for the two rotors 9,11 of a screw compressor are both located at the pressurized end of the rotor housing 3. At the suction end of the rotor housing 3 is only the bearing 53 for the suction side shaft journal 55, 57 that is free of oil lubrication. Inlet openings 13 in a suction side inlet housing are located in such a way that the intake air cools the oil-free shaft bearing 55, 57. Each shaft journal has a tool interface 63 accessible through the inlet housing on which to attach a rotating tool. The inlet housing 4 can be removed from the shaft journal 55, 57 together with the bearing 53 and seal 87, for example to exchange the bearing, without having to remove the rotors 9, 11 or without throwing off their adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Applicant: GHH-Rand Schraubenkompressoren GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Achtelik, Karl-Heinz Gilfert, Arno Heinz, Walter Murmann
  • Publication number: 20020048523
    Abstract: A screw compressor has a gear housing 1 from one side of which the rotor housing (3) containing the two screw rotors freely projecting outward. An oil supply container 7 is also located freely projecting out from the gear housing 1 approximately parallel to the rotor housing 3 and thermally separated from the rotor housing by means of an air gap. A ventilation channel 109 in the rotor housing 3 to vent the rotor shaft seals opens up to one point in the rotor housing that is protected against direct access by the oil supply container 7 mounted in front of it as well as by additional shoulders 111.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Applicant: GHH-Rand Schraubenkompressoren GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Achtelik, Karl-Heinz Gilfert, Arno Heinz, Walter Murmann
  • Patent number: 6287100
    Abstract: A sealing arrangement on a rotor shaft peg of a dry-running rotation screw compressor for establishing a seal between the rotor (1) and the oil-lubricating bearing (7) of the shaft peg (3) has a labyrinth slit seal (11), located closer to the rotor, and a lip seal ring (13), located closer to the bearing, and in between an annular space (27) with ventilation opening (29) towards the bottom. The shaft peg bears a bearing race (25) made of a hardened material, which acts in cooperation with the lip sealing ring (13), and which can also extend above the area of the labyrinth slit seal (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: GHH-Rand Schraubenkompressoren GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Achtelik, Karl-Heinz Gilfert, Arno Heinz, Walter Murmann