Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Kastner

Wolfgang Kastner 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: 8398910
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fiber-composite component with a cladding field and a primary component for reinforcing the fiber-composite component includes the steps of: applying a prepreg semifinished product to a mold to form the cladding field, where in the prepreg semifinished product fibers extend in some sections in a curved manner according to an assumed flow force path in the cladding field of the component to be manufactured; curing the prepreg semifinished product; applying layers of a semifinished textile product to the cured prepreg semifinished product to form the primary component; impregnating the semifinished textile product with matrix material; and curing the assembly comprising pre-cured prepreg semifinished product and semifinished textile product; a fiber-composite component with at least one structural component and a skin section connected to said structural component with a recess as well as a fiber-composite fuselage component of an aircraft with a shell component with at least one re
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kastner, Thomas Grauerholz
  • Publication number: 20110024562
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fibre-composite component with a cladding field and a primary component for reinforcing the fibre-composite component includes the steps of: applying a prepreg semifinished product to a mould to form the cladding field, where in the prepreg semifinished product fibres extend in some sections in a curved manner according to an assumed flow force path in the cladding field of the component to be manufactured; curing the prepreg semifinished product; applying layers of a semifinished textile product to the cured prepreg semifinished product to form the primary component; impregnating the semifinished textile product with matrix material; and curing the assembly comprising pre-cured prepreg semifinished product and semifinished textile product; a fibre-composite component with at least one structural component and a skin section connected to said structural component with a recess as well as a fibre-composite fuselage component of an aircraft with a shell component with at least one r
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kastner, Thomas Grauerholz
  • Patent number: 6302194
    Abstract: A pipe includes a pipe wall having an inner wall surface. Ribs are disposed on the inner wall surface forming a multiple thread. The ribs define a mean inside pipe diameter and the ribs have a lead which is equal to between 0.6 and 0.9 times the square root of the mean inside pipe diameter. Such pipes may be used in a fossil-fuel steam generator, a solar-heated steam generator, or a heated steam generator serving as a waste-heat steam generator, a heat exchanger or a steam generator for absorbing after-heat in a nuclear power plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kastner, Wolfgang Köhler, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 6250257
    Abstract: A once-through steam generator having a combustion chamber. A containing wall of the combustion chamber is formed from vertically disposed evaporator tubes welded to one another in a gas-tight manner. The combustion chamber is to be capable of being used safely and reliably in a pressure range of between about 200 bar and 221 bar, while, moreover, a particularly high efficiency is to be achieved. For this purpose, according to the invention, a mass flow density m of a flow medium has the following relationship m=200+8.42 ·1012·q3[d/(d−2s)]s2·Tmax−5 in the evaporator tubes. In this case, q is the heat flow density acting on the evaporator tubes, Tmax is an admissible maximum temperature characteristic of the tube material, d is the outside diameter of the evaporator tubes and s is the wall thickness of the evaporator tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kastner, Wolfgang Köhler, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 5967097
    Abstract: The combustion chamber of a once-through steam generator is formed with walls of vertical tubes through which a flow medium flows from the bottom upwards. The tubes have a surface structure on their inner wall surfaces. Particularly favorable mass flow density m is established in the tubes at the load at which critical pressure prevails in the tubes according to the formula: ##EQU1## wherein q.sub.i is a heat flow density on an inner tube wall surface, T.sub.max is a maximum permissible material temperature of the tubes, T.sub.crit is a temperature of the flow medium at the critical pressure, .DELTA.T.sub.W is a temperature difference between the outer and inner wall surfaces of the tubes, and C is a constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kastner, Wolfgang Kohler, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 5806317
    Abstract: Steam is generated by conducting a medium through a line which is exposed to solar irradiation. The line has a starting point where a medium supply line issues into the line. The heated medium is conducted away from the at least one line through a drain line. The medium, prior to feeding in at the starting point, is prepared in a power plant component and the medium is supplied at a pressure which is higher than the prevailing pressure in the at least one line, and at an enthalpy which is greater than an enthalpy of saturated water in the line. The medium is fed in as water or water and steam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kohler, Wolfgang Kastner, Konrad Kunstle
  • Patent number: 5735236
    Abstract: In once-through flow steam generators including a burner for fossil fuels and having a vertical gas flue with essentially vertically disposed tubes, inlet ends of the tubes are connected to an inlet header and outlet ends of the tubes are connected to an outlet header. According to the invention, a pressure-equalization tube branches off from each tube at the same height. The tube is connected to a pressure-equalization vessel. The height H is chosen in such a way that in the case of an individual tube being more strongly heated between the inlet header and the branching-off point of the pressure-equalization tube, the mass flow through the individual tube increases as compared to a mean value of the heating of all of the tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kastner, Wolfgang Kohler, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 5662070
    Abstract: A once-through steam generator includes tubes together forming combustion chamber walls and carrying fossil fuel burners. The tubes are frequently provided on their inner surfaces with fins forming a multiple thread and are connected parallel to one another for conducting a coolant flow. According to the invention, the internal tube diameter is a function of a quotient, and points determined by pairs of values of the internal tube diameter and of the quotient lie in a coordinate system between a curve and a straight line. A summated mass throughput of all of the tubes at 100% steam output divided by the circumference of the gas flue in a horizontal section through the combustion chamber is used to form the quotient, and four defined points then lie on the curve which has a steady ascending slope. Application of this configuration is advantageously possible even for once-through steam generators having nominal outputs down to far below 500 MW.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kastner, Wolfgang Kohler, Eberhard Wittchow