Patents by Inventor Klaus Kranert

Klaus Kranert 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).

  • Method and apparatus for the automatic positioning of a ship to minimize the influence of external disturbance forces
    Patent number: 4089287
    Abstract: In order to automatically position a ship which is subjected to external disturbance forces and which is provided with propulsion units arranged to orient the ship in the direction of the resultant of such disturbance forces, there is derived a representation of a control value from the sum of the representations of the actual transverse forces acting on the ship, the control value representation is compared with a representation of a given nominal value, and the control value is brought to zero on the basis of the result of such comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1978
    Assignee: Licentia Patent Verwaltungs-G.m.b.H.
    Inventors: Klaus Kranert, Konrad Wilke
  • Turbo-electric marine power plant and method of regulating the same
    Patent number: 4007407
    Abstract: In a marine power plant which has an rpm-regulatable heavy gas turbine, a propulsion generator driven by the turbine, a propulsion motor driven by the generator and a fixed propeller driven by the motor, the turbine rpm is regulated as a function of the propeller rpm to obtain a delivered turbine output which lies above the minimum output limit of the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1974
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1977
    Assignee: Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-G.m.b.H.
    Inventor: Klaus Kranert