Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Sandkoetter

Wolfgang Sandkoetter 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: 9982921
    Abstract: In order to improve a cooling system, in particular for in-transit cooling, comprising a refrigeration circuit, in which a refrigerant compressor, a high-side heat exchanger, an expansion unit and a low-side heat exchanger are disposed, an electric compressor motor for driving the refrigerant compressor and a control unit for controlling a refrigerating output of the refrigeration circuit, in such a way that it operates as far as possible in an energy-saving manner, it is proposed that the cooling system has a generator for feeding electric power into an internal electrical supply system of the cooling system, from which the compressor motor is fed, and in that an internal combustion engine is provided for driving the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: BITZER Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Sandkoetter
  • Patent number: 9945597
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a refrigeration system for cooling the interior of a mobile refrigerated space, for example a refrigerated container, comprising two speed-controlled compressors, which can be operated in parallel as a single stage or one after the other as two stages by one controllable bypass line per compressor and a controllable valve device between the pressure side and the suction side of each compressor. The valve devices receive signals from a controller having algorithms, into which the usage temperature and ambient temperature are fed as a target value or measured value. The most energy-efficient operating modes and the rotational speeds of the compressors result from the requirements profile of the container refrigeration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: GEA REFRIGERATION GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Sandkoetter, Dieter Mosemann
  • Publication number: 20170136845
    Abstract: A bus air-conditioning arrangement with a compressor for compressing refrigerant, wherein the compressor has an electric motor and a compression device, which is driven by the electric motor, for compressing refrigerant, wherein the bus air-conditioning system furthermore has an electric generator which has dimensions such that said generator can be fitted in a receiving space, which is provided for a compressor and which is arranged in a driving motor of a bus or in an installation space for the driving motor of the bus, wherein the generator is driveable by the driving motor, in particular by means of a belt drive, and wherein the electric motor of the compressor is driveable by electrical power which the generator generates, and a method for producing same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventor: Wolfgang SANDKÖTTER
  • Publication number: 20160327040
    Abstract: A screw-type compressor (10) for compressing refrigerant, which comprises: an electric motor (14), which has a rotor (16) and a stator (18); a drive shaft (20); and a compressing device (22) having a compressor screw (24); wherein the compressor screw (24) and the rotor (16) of the electric motor (14) are arranged against or on the drive shaft (20), wherein the drive shaft (20) is rotatably supported by a first, a second, and a third radial bearing (27, 28, 30), wherein the first radial bearing (27) is arranged between the rotor (16) of the electric motor (14) and the compressor screw (24), wherein the second radial bearing (28) is arranged on a side of the compressor screw (24) opposite the first radial bearing (27), and wherein the third radial bearing (30) is arranged on a side of the rotor (16) of the electric motor (14) opposite the first radial bearing (27), wherein the first radial bearing and the second radial bearing are both designed as rolling-element bearings, and the third radial bearing (30) is
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Wolfgang SANDKÖTTER, Bernd KWIATKOWSKI, Dmytro ZAYTSEV
  • Publication number: 20160248287
    Abstract: A compressor (10), in particular a semi-hermetic or hermetic positive-displacement compressor for compressing NH3, said compressor having an at least partially NH3-cooled electric motor (12) comprising motor windings (24). The motor windings (24) have a conductor (26) made of copper and an ammonia-resistant coating (28). A method for producing a corresponding compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventor: Wolfgang SANDKÖTTER
  • Publication number: 20130104582
    Abstract: The invention present disclosure relates to a refrigeration system for cooling the interior of a mobile refrigerated space, for example a refrigerated container, comprising two speed-controlled compressors, which can be operated in parallel as a single stage or one after the other as two stages by means of one controllable bypass line per compressor and a controllable valve device between the pressure side and the suction side of each compressor. The valve devices receive signals from a controller having algorithms, into which the usage temperature and ambient temperature are fed as a target value or measured value. The most energy-efficient operating modes and the rotational speeds of the compressors result from the requirements profile of the container refrigeration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Wolfgang Sandkoetter, Dieter Mosemann
  • Publication number: 20080083238
    Abstract: In order to improve a cooling system, in particular for in-transit cooling, comprising a refrigeration circuit, in which a refrigerant compressor, a high-side heat exchanger, an expansion unit and a low-side heat exchanger are disposed, an electric compressor motor for driving the refrigerant compressor and a control unit for controlling a refrigerating output of the refrigeration circuit, in such a way that it operates as far as possible in an energy-saving manner, it is proposed that the cooling system has a generator for feeding electric power into an internal electrical supply system of the cooling system, from which the compressor motor is fed, and in that an internal combustion engine is provided for driving the generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Applicant: BITZER KUEHLMASCHINENBAU GMBH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Sandkoetter
  • Publication number: 20060218959
    Abstract: In order to improve a refrigerant compressor for refrigerating systems comprising at least one cylinder unit, which has a cylinder housing and a piston which can move in an oscillating manner in the cylinder housing, a cylinder head, with an inlet chamber, flowed through by an inlet flow of the at least one cylinder unit, and with an outlet chamber, passed through by an outlet flow of the at least one cylinder unit, and a switching valve for interrupting the inlet flow in such a way that it can be operated in any desired part-load range, it is proposed that a control for activating the switching valve is provided, which control, for operating the refrigerant compressor in a lower part-load range, operates the switching valve in successive switching intervals, respectively comprising an opening interval and a closing interval of the switching valve, which are shorter than a shortest time period after which a temperature of an evaporator in the operating refrigerating system has risen by approximately 10% durin
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: Bitzer Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Sandkoetter
  • Patent number: 6401472
    Abstract: In order to improve a refrigerant compressor apparatus comprising a drive motor, a compressor driven by the drive motor and having several cylinders arranged in a V shape and a compressor shaft bearing eccentrics for driving pistons operating in the respective cylinders in such a manner that as smooth a running as possible can be achieved at any desired V angle it is suggested that the cylinders be arranged at a V angle of less than 90°, that the compressor shaft be mounted with only two bearing sections thereof in corresponding compressor shaft bearings, that the eccentrics be arranged between the bearing sections and that a separate eccentric be provided for each piston and be arranged at a distance from the other, individual eccentrics for the respectively other pistons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Bitzer Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Pollrich, Guenter Dittrich, Helmut Barowsky, Wolfgang Sandkoetter
  • Patent number: 6276911
    Abstract: In order to improve a screw compressor comprising a housing with a rotor chamber, two screw rotors arranged in the rotor chamber, a slide for controlling the capacity adjoining the rotor chamber, an adjusting device comprising a cylinder and an associated control device with which an inflow and a return flow of the medium provided for actuating the cylinder is controllable in a continuous control mode, such that the control device operates reliably, it is proposed that the cylinder chamber comprise a return flow opening and an intermediate return flow opening, and that the control device activate the return flow opening in the control mode for continuous control in a partial control range between an intermediate position and a minimum position, and activate the corresponding intermediate return flow opening defining the intermediate position for continuous control of piston positions outside of the partial control range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Bitzer Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Joachim Krusche, Klaus Hossner, Wolfgang Sandkoetter
  • Publication number: 20010011463
    Abstract: In order to improve a refrigerant compressor apparatus comprising a drive motor, a compressor driven by the drive motor and having several cylinders arranged in a V shape and a compressor shaft bearing eccentrics for driving pistons operating in the respective cylinders in such a manner that as smooth a running as possible can be achieved at any desired V angle it is suggested that the cylinders be arranged at a V angle of less than 90°, that the compressor shaft be mounted with only two bearing sections thereof in corresponding compressor shaft bearings, that the eccentrics be arranged between the bearing sections and that a separate eccentric be provided for each piston and be arranged at a distance from the other, individual eccentrics for the respectively other pistons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Publication date: August 9, 2001
    Inventors: Volker Pollrich, Guenter Dittrich, Helmut Barowsky, Wolfgang Sandkoetter
  • Patent number: 5743321
    Abstract: A casting mold member is produced from a master which has a section with a spirally symmetrical outer contour such that the casting mold member surrounds the section in an azimuthally closed manner with respect to the axis of symmetry. The casting mold member is used to provide a casting mold. The casting mold member is filled by feeding a cast iron melt, and solidifying the melt by using a graphitization pressure to prevent cavities and pores in the casting and by chilling the melt to obtain shell hardening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Bitzer Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Friedrich-W. Joern, Rolf Dieterich, Wolfgang Sandkoetter