Patents by Inventor Uffe Eriksen

Uffe Eriksen 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: 8299663
    Abstract: An arrangement for cooling an electrical machine is provided. The electrical machine includes a rotor and a stator, an air-gap being between the rotor and the stator. The stator includes a plurality of stacked laminate-plates. The laminate-plates include on a first side, which is facing the air-gap, a plurality of slots containing metal-windings of a stator-coil. The laminate-plates are positioned and fixed by a structural support and by end-plates in relation to a central-part of the stator. A joint cavity is formed by the end-plates, the central-part of the stator and an internal surface of the laminate-plates. The internal surface is defined by a second side of the laminate-plates, the second side being opposite to the first side. The cavity is coupled with an air-cooling-arrangement, which is arranged and used to circulate a cooling gaseous medium from the cavity to the air-gap and the laminate-plates back into the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Uffe Eriksen, Soeren Gundtoft
  • Publication number: 20120217752
    Abstract: A wind turbine with a generator includes a rotor with permanent magnets and a stator with stator coils mounted on a stator support structure. The stator support structure includes a base structure on which circular connection structures are mounted with their inner perimeter, whereby a stator base structure is connected to the outer perimeter of the circular connection structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Inventors: James Kenneth BOOTH, Uffe ERIKSEN, Jacob Blach NIELSEN, Henrik STIESDAL
  • Patent number: 8242644
    Abstract: In one aspect, an arrangement for cooling of an electrical machine is provided. The arrangement includes a rotor and a stator of the electrical machine, while an air-gap is between the rotor and the stator. The electrical machine includes an air-cooling-arrangement, which circulates air inside the electrical machine. The electrical machine includes a liquid-cooling-arrangement, which circulates cooling-liquid inside the electrical machine. The air-cooling arrangement and the liquid-cooling-arrangement are connected by an air-to-liquid heat-exchanger, which is applied to transport heat out from the electrical machine by the cooling-liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: James Kenneth Booth, Uffe Eriksen, Soeren Gundtoft, Jacob Blach Nielsen
  • Patent number: 8198764
    Abstract: An air-gap is between a rotor and a stator. The stator comprises a number of stacked laminate-plates. The laminate-plates are positioned and fixed by a structural support and by end-plates in relation to a central-part of the stator to achieve the air-gap. A cavity is formed by the end-plates, the central-part of the stator, the air-gap and an internal surface of the rotor. An air-cooling arrangement is arranged and used to circulate a gaseous medium for cooling purposes inside the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: James Kenneth Booth, Uffe Eriksen, Soeren Gundtoft, Jacob Blach Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20120080969
    Abstract: A rotor for a generator of e.g. a wind turbine is disclosed. The rotor includes an axis of rotation, a circular rotor body and a circular stabilization structure. The circular stabilization structure is arranged at a face side of the circular rotor body. The stabilization structure includes a brake disc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: Uffe Eriksen, Henrik Stiesdal
  • Patent number: 8129877
    Abstract: In one aspect, an arrangement for cooling of an electrical machine is provided. A rotor and a stator include an air-gap arranged between the rotor and the stator. The rotor and the stator include a circulation arrangement to allow the circulation of air for cooling-purposes of the rotor and of the stator. The rotor and the stator are encapsulated by a shell which is formed to allow the flow of hot air from the rotor and the stator to a heat-exchanger. The shell is formed to allow the flow of cool air from the heat-exchanger back to the rotor and the stator for cooling-purposes. The shell includes a number of corners, while each corner is used to gather the hot air before it is guided to the heat-exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: James Kenneth Booth, Uffe Eriksen
  • Publication number: 20110243741
    Abstract: A lubrication system is provided for a bearing with a stationary inner ring and a rotating outer ring. The lubrication system includes a distribution ring attached to the outer ring for distributing a lubricant in the bearing. The distribution ring includes transport openings directed towards the bearing for transportation of the lubricant from a lower position of the outer ring to an upper position of the outer ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Uffe ERIKSEN, Jens Anton Agerskov VENG
  • Publication number: 20110211955
    Abstract: A wind turbine having a nacelle being rotatably disposed on a tower is proposed. The nacelle has a first cavity, a generator housing portion disposed upstream to the nacelle having a second cavity, a hub disposed upstream to the generator housing portion with attached rotor blades at it having a third cavity. The first, second and third cavities communicates with one another. A rail-system has at least one rail-element having a device for lifting and/or transporting. The device for lifting and/or transporting is movable along the rail-system. The rail-system at least partially extends through at least two adjacent cavities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventors: Uffe Eriksen, Thorkil Munk-Hansen
  • Publication number: 20110123339
    Abstract: A brake system for a wind turbine with integrated rotor lock, generator and wind turbine are disclosed. The brake system includes a rotor lock system which is integrated in the brake system. One embodiment includes an actuator such as a hydraulic cylinder. Another embodiment includes a rotor assembly with a brake disc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Uffe Eriksen, Jens Anton Agerskov Veng
  • Publication number: 20110121579
    Abstract: A brake system, especially for a generator, including a rotor assembly, a stator assembly and a rotation axis is disclosed. The rotor assembly includes an outer portion which is located radially outward of the stator assembly. The outer portion includes a brake disc, and the stator assembly comprises at least one frictional member operatively configured for frictionally engaging at least a portion of the brake disc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Uffe Eriksen, Jens Anton Agerskov Veng
  • Publication number: 20100102655
    Abstract: An arrangement for cooling an electrical machine is provided. The electrical machine includes a rotor and a stator, an air-gap being between the rotor and the stator. The stator includes a plurality of stacked laminate-plates. The laminate-plates include on a first side, which is facing the air-gap, a plurality of slots containing metal-windings of a stator-coil. The laminate-plates are positioned and fixed by a structural support and by end-plates in relation to a central-part of the stator. A joint cavity is formed by the end-plates, the central-part of the stator and an internal surface of the laminate-plates. The internal surface is defined by a second side of the laminate-plates, the second side being opposite to the first side. The cavity is coupled with an air-cooling-arrangement, which is arranged and used to circulate a cooling gaseous medium from the cavity to the air-gap and the laminate-plates back into the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Uffe Eriksen, Soeren Gundtoft
  • Publication number: 20100102657
    Abstract: In one aspect, an arrangement for cooling of an electrical machine is provided. A rotor and a stator include an air-gap arranged between the rotor and the stator. The rotor and the stator include a circulation arrangement to allow the circulation of air for cooling-purposes of the rotor and of the stator. The rotor and the stator are encapsulated by a shell which is formed to allow the flow of hot air from the rotor and the stator to a heat-exchanger. The shell is formed to allow the flow of cool air from the heat-exchanger back to the rotor and the stator for cooling-purposes. The shell includes a number of corners, while each corner is used to gather the hot air before it is guided to the heat-exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: James Kenneth Booth, Uffe Eriksen
  • Publication number: 20100102652
    Abstract: In one aspect, an arrangement for cooling of an electrical machine is provided. The arrangement includes a rotor and a stator of the electrical machine, while an air-gap is between the rotor and the stator. The electrical machine includes an air-cooling-arrangement, which circulates air inside the electrical machine. The electrical machine includes a liquid-cooling-arrangement, which circulates cooling-liquid inside the electrical machine. The air-cooling arrangement and the liquid-cooling-arrangement are connected by an air-to-liquid heat-exchanger, which is applied to transport heat out from the electrical machine by the cooling-liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: James Kenneth Booth, Uffe Eriksen, Soeren Gundtoft, Jacob Blach Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20100102650
    Abstract: In one aspect, an arrangement is provided. An electrical machine includes elements generating heat while the electrical machine is at work. The elements include at least one fixing-arrangement to support an element-structure. The fixing-arrangement is hollow to carry a cooling fluid which allows a transfer of the heat away from the elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Uffe Eriksen, Henrik Stiesdal
  • Publication number: 20100102656
    Abstract: An air-gap is between a rotor and a stator. The stator comprises a number of stacked laminate-plates. The laminate-plates are positioned and fixed by a structural support and by end-plates in relation to a central-part of the stator to achieve the air-gap. A cavity is formed by the end-plates, the central-part of the stator, the air-gap and an internal surface of the rotor. An air-cooling arrangement is arranged and used to circulate a gaseous medium for cooling purposes inside the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: James Kenneth Booth, Uffe Eriksen, Soeren Gundtoft, Jacob Blach Nielson