Patents Assigned to ABB Patent GmbH
  • Patent number: 6494080
    Abstract: A gas analyzer having an analysis or sensor unit and having an electronic processing unit, and a method for operating such a gas analyzer. In order to achieve substantially improved safety both in handling corrosive and/or combustible and/or toxic gases in a not potentially explosive atmosphere (ex-free atmosphere), and in the operation of such an analyzer in an ex-atmosphere, the analysis or sensor unit as such is of non-explosive configuration and is arranged in a gas tight chamber through which a toxic and/or corrosive and/or combustible gas flows and around which a second chamber is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Fabinski, Peter Schastok, Werner Thies
  • Patent number: 6493087
    Abstract: A method for measuring NOx having a specific discharge lamp. The method controls a photometric analysis device, in which an electrically rotatable filter wheel or shutter wheel is used to change various shutters and/or filters in a beam path with beam source, cuvette and detector. The filter and/or shutter wheel is controlled in such a way that the measurement time is greater than the transfer time. This control improves the detection limit of the NOx resonance absorption method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Fabinski, Michael Zöchbauer, Michael Moede
  • Publication number: 20020175304
    Abstract: There is described a method of operating an actuator which is used to open and close valves in pipelines. In order to avoid pressure surges and resonances during the closing operation in pipelines to be shut off, the closing operation of the valve i subdivided into two closing phases (S1 and S2). During the first closing phase (S1), the actuating element is moved at maximum actuating speed down to a predefinable position (P) of the actuating element, starting from the open state of the valve. From this position (P), the actuating speed of the actuating element is reduced continuously and steplessly with a predefinable gradient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Applicant: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Moeller, Marcel Schilg
  • Patent number: 6485329
    Abstract: A connection for two items of installation equipment lined up beside each other with their end or broad sides against each other, in particular line-protection circuit breakers, residual current circuit breakers and the like, whose housings are each formed from two shell-shaped housing parts. The connecting element has an approximately cylindrical base body with a first outer diameter onto which, on both sides, two radially springy spreading arms projecting axially in opposite directions are integrally molded. The outside diameter of the spreading arms is smaller than the outside diameter of the base body and free ends of the spreading arms have radially protruding lugs which, when assembled, latch in behind protrusions on the housings of the items of installation equipment located beside each other and to be connected by the connecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus-Peter Eppe, Volker Schmitt, Ralf Weber, Alexander Orban
  • Patent number: 6484562
    Abstract: A gas analyzer having an analysis or sensor unit and having an electronic processing unit, and a method for operating such a gas analyzer. In order to achieve substantially improved safety both in handling corrosive and/or combustible and/or toxic gases in a not potentially explosive atmosphere (ex-free atmosphere), and in the operation of such an analyzer in an exatmosphere, the analysis or sensor unit as such is of non-explosive configuration and is arranged in a gas tight chamber through which a toxic and/or corrosive and/or combustible gas flows and around which a second chamber is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Fabinski, Peter Schastok, Werner Thies
  • Publication number: 20020171558
    Abstract: In order to make it possible to go to and to find a field device in a process plant in the shortest possible time, there is provided a fixed-position device and a mobile device. The fixed-position device is associated with the field device and comprising at least one processing unit, one communication device with an antenna for wire-free communication, and a non-volatile memory. Details relating to the position of the installation location of the field device are stored in the non-volatile memory such that they can be called up. The mobile device is equipped with a processing unit, a keyboard, a display unit for visualizing the details relating to the position of the installation location of the field device and a communication device which corresponds to the communication device in the fixed-position device and has an antenna for wire-free communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Applicant: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Bartelheim, Thomas Georg Karte
  • Patent number: 6463795
    Abstract: A method for testing an internal combustion engine for assembly and manufacturing faults. In methods of this type, the torque of an electric traction motor has hitherto been determined, specific torque values being an indication of faulty engines. So that the procedure can be carried out without the complicated torque measurement, during the traction movement an air volume entering a crankcase ventilation system is measured. The measurement value is compared with desired values of a fault-free internal combustion engine and assembly and/or manufacturing faults are inferred from deviations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Kosmehl, Hans-Jürgen Kemnade
  • Patent number: 6452182
    Abstract: A photometer for measuring gas components. The photometer has an infrared radiator with radiator modulation, a measuring cell with a measurement and comparison chamber, and a detector which absorbs optopneumatically onto the gas component X, that is filled with gas component X. In order in the case of a photometer of this type to render it possible for a plurality of gas components to be measured with high accuracy and the smallest possible outlay in apparatus, at least one further detector is arranged downstream of the first detector. For the purpose of measuring the gas component Y the further detector is filled with its isotope Y*, and the first detector is optically transparent with regard to the further gas component Y* to be measured or the characteristic absorption bands thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Zochbauer, Walter Fabinski, Thomas Liedtke, Michael Moede, Siegfried Vogt
  • Patent number: 6441328
    Abstract: An electrical service switching device includes a contact point, a moveable contact piece, an auxiliary switch associated with the contact point and having a coupling element and an auxiliary switch contact point coupled to the moveable contact piece, the coupling element actuating the auxiliary switch contact point, and a T-shaped housing. The housing has a transverse web with two trailing narrow-side walls and a fastening surface perpendicular to the two trailing narrow-side walls, a longitudinal web with a leading front surface parallel to the fastening surface, leading narrow-side walls on both sides of the leading front surface, the leading narrow-side walls perpendicular to the leading front surface, and two trailing front surfaces parallel to the fastening surface. At least one of the two trailing front surfaces connects the transverse web and the longitudinal web. The auxiliary switch is releasably attachable to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Matejka, Richard Kommert
  • Patent number: 6439485
    Abstract: A rotary spray atomizer for applying electrically conductive paint, in particular water-based paint, to surfaces, includes a housing. A spray head is fitted on front of the housing for receiving a supply of paint and discharging the supply of paint in a spray mist as a result of rotation. A motor is disposed in the housing for rotary actuation of the spray head. At least two electrode holders are disposed along a concentric circle and extend towards the front parallel to a longitudinal axis of the housing. Electrodes are each accommodated in and protrude from an end of a respective one of the electrode holders. High-voltage sources constructed as a cascade are each plugged into a respective one of the electrode holders for receiving a low-voltage current, feeding one of the electrodes and causing the electrode to generate an electric field applying the spray mist discharged by the spray head to an application surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Gunter Börner
  • Patent number: 6411527
    Abstract: A high-voltage DC/DC converter is described. The high-voltage DC/DC converter contains a number of primary-side converter modules and at least one secondary-side converter module. The DC connections of the primary-side converter modules are connected in series between the connections of a high-voltage DC distribution network. The DC connections of the secondary-side converter modules are connected in parallel between the connections of a further DC network. Each of the primary-side converter modules contains a primary-side converter bridge, a primary-side capacitor, a primary-side series resonant capacitor, a transformer and a secondary-side series resonant capacitor. The secondary-side converter module contains a secondary-side converter bridge and a secondary-side capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Harry Reinold
  • Patent number: 6401768
    Abstract: A method and a configuration are provided for transporting electrically conductive paint from a point at earth potential to at least one paint application device which is at a high voltage potential. A needed quantity of paint is filled into a cartridge at a point at earth potential. The filled cartridge is conveyed by a first conveying device to a second conveying device. The cartridges are then allocated to workpieces to be painted. The filled cartridge is transported by the second conveying device to the at least one paint application device. At the paint application device, the cartridge is connected to at least one spray head. The emptied cartridge is transported by the second conveying device to a third conveying device, and the third conveying device transports the cartridge back to the loading station, while a further cartridge is filled there and conveyed by the first conveying device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Lichte, Thomas Börner
  • Publication number: 20020020211
    Abstract: Methods for testing a completely or partially assembled combustion engine have heretofore made use of orifices with preset flow cross-sections, with the result that it was not possible for pressure arising in a combustion chamber to be adapted to varying measuring cycles. In order to make an optimum air-mass flow available to a particular measuring step, the flow cross-section of the orifices is adjusted as a function of a test program. The optimum air-mass flow is also made possible by subjecting the combustion chamber to a pressure which is greater than the ambient pressure of the combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Applicant: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Lambertz, Thomas Thissen
  • Patent number: 6347497
    Abstract: Although hitherto known machine frameworks of O-form are sufficiently stable, they can only be installed subsequently in an assembly station if a conveying belt is disengaged, a belt section is removed, a framework is assembled with the removed belt section, and the two are reintroduced together into the assembly station. Although the machine framework of C-form construction can subsequently be pushed onto the transporting system formed of the conveying belts, it is necessary, for stability reasons, for them to be made of considerably thicker material than the O-frameworks. The intention is therefore to specify a process, for constructing an assembly installation, for which a machine framework of O-form is sufficient and which nevertheless contains the subsequent-fitting advantages exhibited by the C-form. For this purpose, transverse struts of the machine framework are removed. They are fastened on the underside of a conveying-belt section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Simonis
  • Patent number: 6346294
    Abstract: A process for producing a coating on components having peripheries to be placed in direct contact with vaporous media. Such peripheries are wetted over part or all of their surface with a film of liquid when the vaporous media are changed from the vapor state into the liquid state by phase transition. Such films of liquid increase the thermal resistance, for example, of the components. In order to avoid such wetting, the peripheries of each component are roughened. A coat of a non-wettable, amorphous carbon is then applied to the peripheries, at least in regions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Reiss, Manfred Wetzko
  • Patent number: 6321216
    Abstract: A method for analyzing and displaying process states of a technical plant includes enabling simultaneous, coherent assessment and display of relevant process variables of the plant by evaluating relevant process variables with regard to one another through the use of a neural analysis on the basis of self-organizing maps, by making a topology-producing projection of data of the relevant process variables onto a neural map. The current process courses are plotted as trajectories on the map. Evaluation in the sense of a diagnosis can be carried out either visually or in an automated manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Otte, Gerd Rappenecker, Karl Goser
  • Patent number: 6311475
    Abstract: A device for igniting a combustion in a combustion chamber of a gas turbine has a housing fitted with an end piece and with a head piece. Hitherto, an ignition conductor comes into contact with combustion air. Moreover, fragments of a partial ceramic insulation can lead to damage. To improve the quality of ignition, the ignition conductor and a gas conduit are disposed to run parallel to one another within a housing. The ignition conductor is surrounded by a protective sleeve, and an annular space between the ignition conductor and the protective sleeve is filled completely with a ceramic material. An annular disc serving as an ignition electrode is mounted on that end of the protective sleeve that projects into the head piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Ung-Lap Ngo-Beelman, Mark Renner, Jens Schlundt, Gerolf Heintz, Mario Leonhard, Ludwig Wahlig, Klaus Behnke, Michael Witt, Christian Bohtz, Jens Molsen, Reinhold Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6314413
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling process events of a technical plant. In order to permit a simultaneous and coherent assessment of relevant process variables of the plant, it is proposed to use a neural analysis on the basis of self-organizing neural maps to evaluate the relevant process variables in relation to one another by realizing a topology-maintaining nonlinear projection of data from the relevant process variables onto a multidimensional neural map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Otte
  • Patent number: 6308857
    Abstract: A vacuum chamber having at least one insulating cylinder whose end faces are closed with the aid of one cover each is described. The vacuum chamber has a movable contact stem and a movable contact piece that is attached thereto and opposite which there is a correspondingly constructed a fixed contact piece. Fastened in a vacuum-tight fashion between the one cover and the movable contact stem is a sealing element which permits movement of the contact stem and is constructed as a bellows. The cover is of cup-shaped construction in this case, and is fastened with its free edge end, which has a section of reduced wall thickness, on the end face of the insulating body, a support ring being provided which produces a mechanical reinforcement in the region of the connection of the free edge of the cover to the insulating body. Moreover, the bellows is also of multi-layered construction, if appropriate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Heimbach, Dietmar Gentsch
  • Patent number: 6278626
    Abstract: An ARCP converter having a series circuit formed of at least four main switches per converter phase, which are connected electrically in parallel between DC voltage rails is described. A capacitance is connected in parallel with each individual main switch. Two intermediate-circuit capacitances are disposed between the DC voltage rails. A voltage neutral point of the capacitances is available for tapping. Junction points of adjacent main switches which do not form the output are connected to one another via variable-potential intermediate-circuit capacitances for forming commutation cells in a balanced manner with regard to the DC voltage rails. Each intermediate-circuit capacitance is formed of two capacitance elements, whose junction points are available as voltage neutral points, with the output of the converter phase connected to a resonant inductance, whose further connection is connected to all the voltage neutral points via a controllable bi-directional auxiliary switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Ralph Teichmann