Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Henry M. Feiereisen
  • Patent number: 7808136
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling device for an electric machine, in particular, for an electric motor comprising a stator (2) and a rotor. According to the invention, axial channeled recesses (6) are provided on the outside of the stators (2), in which a cooling tube or cooling hose may be introduced and/or which may be sealed by means of a cover (10) to give a cooling air channel, an electric motor with such a cooling device and a core sheet (4) for a lamination bundle of a stator (2), the core sheet (4) comprising amongst other things a number of stator grooves (5). The core sheet (4) comprises recesses (6) with a channel cross-section on the outer edge thereof. The invention further relates to an electric machine the stator (2) of which has a lamination bundle made up of a plurality of such core sheets (4). The invention also relates to a production method for such electric machines. The cooling tubes or cooling hoses can be simply inserted in the half-open channeled recesses from without for cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Axel Knauff
  • Patent number: 7806165
    Abstract: In a method for making hot strips, a workable lightweight construction steel is used which in particular can easily be deep-drawn cold and includes the main elements Si, Al and Mn, with high tensile strength and good TRIP and/or TWIP characteristics. The mass % are as follows for C 0.04 to <1.0, Al 0.05 to <4.0, SI 0.05 to ?6.0; Mn 9.0 to ?30.0, the remainder being iron with the common incidental steel elements. The melt is cast in a horizontal strip casting unit, close to the final dimensions at calm flow and without bending to form a pre-strip in the range between 6 and 15 mm, and subsequently is fed for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignees: Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH, Max-Planck-Institut Für Eisenforschung GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Kroos, Karl-Heinz Spitzer, Georg Frommeyer, Volker Flaxa, Udo Brüx, Klaus Brockmeier
  • Patent number: 7805774
    Abstract: A pair of pants includes two pant legs, with each pant leg having a front pant panel and a back pant panel which are interconnected by two side seams. The front and back pant panels are sized such that one of the side seams has a seam course which, at least in one section is shifted to the back toward a leg back side of a wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Inventor: Tanja Müller
  • Patent number: 7808132
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to improve the precision of measuring leakage field sensitive sensors on electric machines. According to the invention, the electric machine comprises a sensor device (4) which is sensitive to magnetic leakage fields mounted on one of the two active parts (1) or in a defined relative position in relation to the active parts. A magnetic screening device is arranged between the sensor device (4) and one of the two active parts (1). Also, the magnetic leakage fields no longer have an influence on the sensor device such that measuring precision is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Knorr, Georg Schlatterer, Dominik Schury
  • Patent number: 7803333
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for thermal processing of slurry, slurry is combined with a bio-mass to produce a mixture. The mixture is subjected in a heated mixer pump to a cracking temperature, thereby allowing the mixture to catalytically undergo a cracking reaction to produce a reaction mixture which is directly outgased in the mixer pump to produce an outgased portion and a solid portion. The outgased portion and the solid portion are separately discharged from the mixer pump; with the low boiling fraction of the outgased portion allowed to cool down for further processing, and the solid portion collected in a residual matter container for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Inventor: Jürgen Buchert
  • Patent number: 7800256
    Abstract: A linear or rotating electric synchronous machine includes a reluctance-secondary part, and a primary part, provided with a coil and permanent magnets. The primary part has teeth, with each tooth surrounded by a coil defining a coil axis. Arranged in each tooth is a permanent magnet which is surrounded by the coil and extends extending in parallel relationship to the coil axis of the coil. The secondary part is constructed for guiding a magnetic field and has teeth which define with the teeth of the primary part an air gap. The permanent magnet defines a magnetization direction in parallel to an air gap plane of the air gap, with the magnetization direction reversing from tooth to tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Zeljko Jajtic, Christian Volmert
  • Patent number: 7799960
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for thermal processing of slurry, the slurry is combined with a bio-mass to produce a mixture which is then subjected to a cracking temperature in a receiving tank, thereby liquefying and allowing the mixture to catalytically undergo a cracking reaction. The cracking reaction which the liquefied mixture undergoes is continued in a mixer pump to thereby produce a reaction mixture. The reaction mixture is outgased in an intermediate tank to separate an outgased fraction from a non-outgased fraction. Subsequently, the outgased fraction is allowed to cool down, thereby producing fuel, while the non-outgased fraction is returned to the receiving tank and subjected again to the cracking temperature. Residual matter of the non-outgased fraction settles in the intermediate tank and is periodically removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Inventor: Jürgen Buchert
  • Patent number: 7800334
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drive system comprising a control unit (1), which is connected to drive units (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e, 3f, 3g) via a data bus (2) for the exchange of data. According to the invention, one drive unit (3a, 3b) is connected to the drive motor (7a, 7b) in order to control the latter (7a, 7b) and an additional drive unit (3c, 3d, 3e, 3f, 3g) is connected to a magnetic bearing (11c, 11d, 11e, 11f, 11g) of a magnetic spindle bearing arrangement (23) in order to control said bearing (11c, 11d, 11e, 11f, 11g). The invention thus provides a drive system, in which a magnetic spindle bearing arrangement (23) is integrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jens Hamann, Uwe Ladra, Dietmar Stoiber, Bernd Wedel
  • Patent number: 7800489
    Abstract: An automation appliance and a method for operating an automation appliance are disclosed. Media data, particularly audio and/or video data, are used to display data relating to the status and/or to the configuration of the automation appliance. The disclosed method for operating an automation appliance significantly improves user guidance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Richard Brune
  • Patent number: 7793558
    Abstract: The driving force produced by the linear drive on a motor with a rotational drive and with a linear drive can be registered in a quantified fashion by virtue of the fact that deformation of a motor element (top disc 22) which connects a rotor (30) of the linear drive to an output shaft (24) is measured. A corresponding signal can then be assigned to a measured value for the axial force, either on the basis of a known linear relationship or on the basis of standardization. Strain measuring gauges (DMS1 to DMS4) are used to measure the deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Thomas Budde
  • Patent number: 7795764
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine with an uncooled rotor, which is mounted such that it is capable of rotating about an axis of rotation and which has cutouts or flattened portions on its outside. At least one rotor winding, which is accommodated in a cryostat with a cryostat wall and is to be cooled to low temperature, should be arranged in the cross-sectional area region of these flattened portions. A holding and/or support device is used for transmitting forces acting on the rotor winding beyond the cryostat wall to the rotor body. In order to reduce losses in the cooling system which occur as a result of thermal conduction, the holding and/or support device should contain at least one support element, which is equipped with means for reducing the thermal conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Frank, Peter Van Hasselt
  • Patent number: 7791239
    Abstract: Manufacturing costs of releasable permanent magnet rotors or asynchronous squirrel cages should be reduced. Accordingly, a rotor is proposed which includes at least one ring-shaped fastening device (23) secured in fixed rotative engagement to one of the end faces of a magnet device (21, 22) and for form-fitting or force-locking connection to a shaft (25). This makes it possible to eliminate the need for a special bearing sleeve, and the laminated armature core (21) can be provided with a larger axial hole diameter. As a result, the minimum joint pressure can be reduced so that deformations of the spindle and complicated refinishing processes can be avoided. In addition, less stringent manufacturing tolerances of the spindle (25) can be selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jürgen Martin, Helmut Sopp
  • Patent number: 7787983
    Abstract: In a method for sequentially programming an injection molding cycle of an injection molding machine comprising one or several injection molds, the injection molding cycle is started manually step by step. The parts of the injection molding machine and/or the parts of the injection mold(s) are manually displaced into the positions or states required for the injection molding cycle in the order required for the injection molding cycle. The movement sequence (the actions and the obtained states) of the machine parts and/or the mold parts is stored in a controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Günther Grimm, Markus Betsche, Dietrich Hunold
  • Patent number: 7786643
    Abstract: The electrical machine (1) has a stator (2) and a rotor (5), wherein the stator (2) has stator slots (8), in which a stator winding (4) with redundant and at least three-phase winding systems (U1, V1, W1; U2, V2, W2) is laid. According to the invention, the electrical machine (1) has a large number of poles with a pole number (PZ) of at least four, a number (NZ) of stator slots (8) which corresponds to the product of a phase number and the square of the pole number (PZ) of the electrical machine (1) or an integral multiple thereof, and a number of winding systems (U1, V1, W1; . . . ; U4, V4, W4) which corresponds to the pole number (PZ). In each case a number of in-phase winding sections (U1-U4, V1-V4, W1-W4) which corresponds to the pole number (PZ) are combined to form a group of phase winding sections (PU, PV, PW). The phase winding section groups (PU, PV, PW) are laid, phase-cyclically and pole-for-pole, in the stator slots (8) of the stator (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Maria Bade, Axel Möhle
  • Patent number: 7779693
    Abstract: A method for nondestructive testing of the pipes for detecting surface flaws is disclosed. With of the method, flaws can be detected and analyzed in near-real-time while the pipe is produced. The data obtained by ultrasound sensors are digitized in a time window following a trigger pulse, and the digitized data are processed in a digital processor, for example a DSP, using wavelet transforms. The evaluated quantity is compared with a reference value, wherein a determined flaw-based signal can be uniquely associated with the flaw located on the pipe surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: V & M Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Orth, Stefan Nitsche, Till Schmitte
  • Patent number: 7783432
    Abstract: A method for nondestructive testing of the pipes for detecting surface flaws using magnetic leakage flux is disclosed. With of the method, flaws can be detected and analyzed in near-real-time while the pipe is produced. The data obtained with inductive coils, Hall sensors or GMR sensors are digitized, the digital data are buffered in a first memory, and a subset of the digital data are copied into a second memory. The copied data are transformed with a wavelet transformation and the resulting wavelet coefficients are filtered and/or modified. In an alternative embodiment, the digital data can be continuously supplied to a routine for wavelet transformation, which is performed using cascaded digital signal processing routines. The evaluated variable is compared with a reference value, wherein a determined flaw-based signal can be unambiguously associated with the position of the flaw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: V & M Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Orth, Stefan Nitsche, Till Schmitte
  • Patent number: 7783915
    Abstract: Disclosed is an automation system (1) for executing safety-relevant automation functions. Said automation system (1) comprises one or several control componentries (10) and one or several input/output componentries (30, 30?,50) that are connected thereto. The control componentry (10) is provided with standard program parts (11, 12) and fail-safe program parts (13, 14) to communicate with the connected input/output componentries (30, 30?,50) via corresponding standard bus protocols (S) and fail-safe bus protocols (F). At least one of the input-output componentries (30) is controlled by both the standard program parts (11, 12) via the communicated standard bus protocol (S) and the fail-safe program parts (13, 14) via the communicated fail-safe bus protocol (F), said fail-safe bus protocol (F) having greater priority for said input/output componentry (30) than the standard bus protocol (S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Ronald Hauf
  • Patent number: 7780108
    Abstract: In a method for winding an electrical machine, a winding auxiliary body is placed on at least one of the end faces of a base body such as to cover at least one of the slot end openings within a circumferential bridging area. Electrical conductors of a winding system are inserted in at least one of the slots whose slot end opening is on one side of the bridging area and passed through an uncovered slot end opening. Subsequently, the electrical conductors are deflected by the winding auxiliary body and guided to a further uncovered one of the slot end openings on another side of the bridging area. After placement of an end plate having an axially projecting separating element and plugging an axial attachment cutout of the winding auxiliary body onto the separating element, the winding auxiliary body is removed, thereby producing a winding element of the winding system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eduard Lyschick, Fridolin Mahlmeister, Michael Menz, Norbert Wöhner
  • Patent number: 7778814
    Abstract: A method and a device for simulating an automation system are disclosed. The aim of the invention is to allow an automation system to be simulated in such a way that simulation components operating at very different computing speeds can be combined into an overall simulation. Said aim is achieved by a method comprising a control component that can be clocked using an external timing source and at least one simulation component which can be clocked using an external timing source. A coordinated clock system is provided for the control component and the at least one simulation component by means of a control component-independent timing coordinator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Matthias Ehrmann, Holger Grzonka, Michael Schlereth
  • Patent number: 7777374
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric appliance (1) which comprises a machine module (2) provided with an electric machine (3) comprising a stator (4) and a rotor. A machine housing (7) of the machine module (2) receives the electric machine (3). A cooling module (19) comprises a cooling housing (21), which is fluidically connected to the machine housing (7) by means of a first cooling fluid connection area (20) in a housing wall (17) of the machine housing (7) and to at least one second cooling fluid connection area (23) in the housing wall (17) of the machine housing (7). The inside of the machine housing (7) can be fluidically connected to the inside of the cooling housing (21) in one section of the housing wall (17), which is oriented towards the cooling housing (21), by means of at least one third cooling fluid connection area (25) comprising at least one cooling fluid through-opening (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Ekkehard Ressel