Patents by Inventor Thomas Kutz
Thomas Kutz 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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Publication number: 20230360823Abstract: Apparatus for transmitting electrical energy with a superconducting current carrier, in which the superconducting current carrier to be cooled is accommodated in a first cooling channel, which first cooling channel is connected by way of a coolant feed line to a supply device for a first cooling medium and is surrounded by at least one second cooling channel, for conducting through a second cooling medium, which is flow-connected to a coolant-discharge line for heated second cooling medium, wherein a supercooled, liquefied gas is used as the first cooling medium, is characterized according to the invention in that a liquefied gas is used as the second cooling medium and the second cooling channel is equipped with means for removing a gas phase occurring due to evaporation of the second cooling medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicants: Messer SE & Co. KGaA, Vision Electric Super Conductors GmbHInventors: Friedhelm Herzog, Thomas Kutz, Wolfgang Reiser, Stefan Huwer
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Patent number: 11362503Abstract: For the transmission of electrical current, determined superconducting current carriers are accommodated in a cryostat, in which they are cooled with an undercooled cryogenic cooling medium, e.g. liquid nitrogen. The current carrier is electrically connected at the ends thereof to two normally conducting current supply means. The cooling medium is undercooled from a storage container to a temperature below its boiling temperature and supplied to the cryostat via a cooling medium inlet, brought into thermal contact with the superconducting current carrier, and subsequently discharged via a cooling medium outlet of the cryostat. According to the invention, the cooling medium from the cryostat is to be used for cooling at least one of the normally conducting current supply means.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignees: Messer SE & Co. KGaA, Messer Industriegase GmbHInventors: Friedhelm Herzog, Thomas Kutz
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Publication number: 20210044099Abstract: For the transmission of electrical current, determined superconducting current carriers are accommodated in a cryostat, in which they are cooled with an undercooled cryogenic cooling medium, e.g. liquid nitrogen. The current carrier is electrically connected at the ends thereof to two normally conducting current supply means. The cooling medium is undercooled from a storage container to a temperature below its boiling temperature and supplied to the cryostat via a cooling medium inlet, brought into thermal contact with the superconducting current carrier, and subsequently discharged via a cooling medium outlet of the cryostat. According to the invention, the cooling medium from the cryostat is to be used for cooling at least one of the normally conducting current supply means.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicants: MESSER GROUP GMBH, MESSER INDUSTRIEGASE GMBHInventors: Friedhelm Herzog, Thomas Kutz
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Patent number: 10563644Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for improving a vacuum in the housing of a machine, in particular a centrifugal-mass energy store, comprising a rotor, for example a shaft having a centrifugal mass arranged thereon, which rotor is supported on at least one superconducting bearing in a contactless manner and is arranged in a vacuum container. In order to maintain the operating state of the superconducting bearing, the superconducting bearing is thermally connected to a cold source cooled by a cryogenic medium. According to the invention, the vacuum in the vacuum container is improved by means of an adsorber thermally connected to a cooling apparatus. The cooling of the adsorber occurs preferably by means of evaporated cooling medium from the superconducting bearing.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignees: Messer Industriegase GmbH, Messer Group GmbHInventors: Thomas Kutz, Friedhelm Herzog
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Patent number: 10422554Abstract: A super-cooled liquid medium, preferably super-cooled liquid nitrogen, is pumped through a sub-cooler and cooled by the same medium that evaporates in the vacuum. This super-cooled nitrogen is used as coolant for a consumer. If a small amount of heat is emitted by the consumer to the nitrogen, the liquid medium can be guided in the circuit wherein the sub-cooler is arranged. For compensating volume fluctuations, such a circuit requires a compensation vessel, which is very expensive and can only be operated in the presence of a super-cooled medium when either a part of the medium is heated using external energy, or an inert gas which boils at very low temperatures is used as a pressure compensation medium. According to the disclosure, when a supply container for the liquid medium is integrated into the cooling circuit and used as a compensation vessel, a separate compensation vessel is not required.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: MESSER GROUP GMBHInventors: Friedhelm Herzog, Thomas Kutz
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Publication number: 20170306940Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for improving a vacuum in the housing of a machine, in particular a centrifugal-mass energy store, comprising a rotor, for example a shaft having a centrifugal mass arranged thereon, which rotor is supported on at least one superconducting bearing in a contactless manner and is arranged in a vacuum container. In order to maintain the operating state of the superconducting bearing, the superconducting bearing is thermally connected to a cold source cooled by a cryogenic medium. According to the invention, the vacuum in the vacuum container is improved by means of an adsorber thermally connected to a cooling apparatus. The cooling of the adsorber occurs preferably by means of evaporated cooling medium from the superconducting bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicants: Messer Industriegase GmbH, MESSER Group GmbHInventors: Thomas Kutz, Friedhelm Herzog
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Publication number: 20160370036Abstract: A super-cooled liquid medium, preferably super-cooled liquid nitrogen, is pumped through a sub-cooler and cooled by the same medium that evaporates in the vacuum. This super-cooled nitrogen is used as coolant for a consumer. If a small amount of heat is emitted by the consumer to the nitrogen, the liquid medium can be guided in the circuit wherein the sub-cooler is arranged. For compensating volume fluctuations, such a circuit requires a compensation vessel, which is very expensive and can only be operated in the presence of a super-cooled medium when either a part of the medium is heated using external energy, or an inert gas which boils at very low temperatures is used as a pressure compensation medium. According to the disclosure, when a supply container for the liquid medium is integrated into the cooling circuit and used as a compensation vessel, a separate compensation vessel is not required.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2014Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: MESSER GROUP GMBHInventors: Friedhelm HERZOG, Thomas KUTZ
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Patent number: 9089808Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a method for purifying a foreign-substance-laden gas flow of the foreign substance, with the gas flow being conducted through a heat exchanger and being placed in thermal contact with a cooling medium in order to freeze and/or condense the foreign substance out, wherein the purification takes place in only one tube heat exchanger, through the interior space of which the gas flow is conducted from a first end region to a second end region, and here, is cooled by means of contact with a first group of tubes which are traversed by the coolant, and in that the gas flow, in the second end region, is directly deflected again and is conducted back through the interior space of the heat exchanger to the first end region through a second group of tubes while undergoing an exchange of heat with the gas flow flowing into the interior space.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2007Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: L'Air Liquide Société Anonyme Pour L'Étude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges ClaudeInventors: Manfred Stahl, Thomas Kutz
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Publication number: 20110030421Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a method for purifying a foreign-substance-laden gas flow of the foreign substance, with the gas flow being conducted through a heat exchanger and being placed in thermal contact with a cooling medium in order to freeze and/or condense the foreign substance out, wherein the purification takes place in only one tube heat exchanger, through the interior space of which the gas flow is conducted from a first end region to a second end region, and here, is cooled by means of contact with a first group of tubes which are traversed by the coolant, and in that the gas flow, in the second end region, is directly deflected again and is conducted back through the interior space of the heat exchanger to the first end region through a second group of tubes while undergoing an exchange of heat with the gas flow flowing into the interior space.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2007Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges ClaudeInventors: Manfred Stahl, Thomas Kutz
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Publication number: 20100071387Abstract: The method for cooling a liquid (2) in which a coolant comprising a refrigeration-liquefied gas is introduced into the liquid (2) and the corresponding device (1) make possible, in an advantageously simple manner, the production of cooled liquids (2), which, for example, can be used as process water in the production of freshly mixed concrete. In this case the enthalpy content of the coolant, preferably of liquid nitrogen, is utilized in a good manner, by firstly using the vaporization enthalpy, and secondly the heating of the nitrogen after vaporization up to ice temperature, for cooling the liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges ClaudeInventors: Gerhard Gross, Johannes Beuse, Thomas Kutz, Friedel Theissen, Marc Sporing
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Publication number: 20040011061Abstract: In order to avoid evaporation of the propellant gas during the pressure-free filling of an aerosol formulation provided with a readily volatile propellant gas, the product to be filled is cooled prior to being fed into a metering means. In this context, fluoro-chlorinated hydrocarbons such as, for instance, R11 have been used up until now as the coolant, but their use is no longer permitted in Germany and in other nations.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2002Publication date: January 22, 2004Inventors: Andre Bitz, Detlef Jankowski, Thomas Kraft, Thomas Kutz
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Patent number: 5307638Abstract: The recovery of solvents from waste gases takes place according to the state of the art by condensation, freezing out or desublimation of the solvent in recuperative cold reservoirs which can be switched over. In order to reduce the amount of equipment and the cold losses, the condensation and freezing-out operations are run continuously in a shaped-object reservoir through which cooled shaped objects move in a countercurrent to the waste gas.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1992Date of Patent: May 3, 1994Assignee: Messer Griesheim, GmbHInventors: Friedhelm Herzog, Thomas Kutz, Franz R. Schlomer, Heinz J. Schmidt, Martin Schulte-Rewinkel
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Patent number: 4077605Abstract: This invention relates to the sealed faucet valve assembly which is particularly designed to repair corroded or damaged valve stem mechanisms without replacement of the entire faucet. Included is a novel faucet washer assembly which provides a sealed chamber to protect the securing screw from contact with corrosive liquids.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1975Date of Patent: March 7, 1978Inventors: Hugo Joseph Kutz, deceased, by Thomas A. Kutz, executor