Patents Assigned to BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
  • Patent number: 10649037
    Abstract: The invention relates to insulation fault location systems and methods for insulation fault location for an ungrounded DC power supply system, which is redundantly fed from a first direct voltage supply source coupled to diodes and a second direct voltage supply source coupled to diodes and to which a consumer is redundantly coupled. Due to the diode coupling and the asymmetric current splitting of the load current associated therewith, non-compensational partial currents arise in the supply lines in such a power supply system and consequently differential current portions, which can be captured by measuring current transformers and which can interfere with a valid test current during an insulation fault location. In order to eliminate the interfering differential current portions, compensating measures on the primary side are proposed in the measuring current transformers and indirect compensating measures on the secondary side are proposed in an insulation fault location apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Hackl, Carsten Hartmann
  • Patent number: 10622884
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric circuit arrangement for the input protection circuit of a switching power supply, having a surge protection circuit, which is contacted with a supply voltage on an input side and to which a current-compensated choke is connected as a suppression component, said current-compensated choke being connected to a rectifier circuit comprising an energy storage means on an output side. Via modifications to the circuit technology, such as using two varistors as surge protections, and by using suitable switching elements, such as silicon diodes as rectifier elements and ceramic capacitors as an energy storage means, the input protection circuit is designed such that the requirements, which an expanded input voltage range demands of a surge circuit, are fulfilled. Furthermore, the invention relates to a switching power supply having an electric circuit arrangement according to the invention for the input protection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Oliver Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10605853
    Abstract: A method for insulation fault location in a branched, ungrounded power supply system includes determining an insulation fault position being carried out in combination with evaluating information for identifying a faulty cable outlet according to the method of time-domain reflectometry. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for insulation fault identification in a branched power supply system and for status monitoring of the branched power supply system, an image of all reflection positions on the power supply system being carried out based on a method of time-domain reflectometry. Moreover, the invention relates to a device for insulation fault location in a branched, ungrounded power supply system having the function units insulation fault test apparatus and insulation fault evaluation device having a measuring current transformer, the device comprising a time-domain reflectometer having a controller so as to implement the method according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Winfried Moell, Eckhard Broeckmann, Oliver Schaefer, Torsten Mager
  • Patent number: 10606063
    Abstract: A reversing system for telescopic sights has a guide sleeve, an outer sleeve and a mount with an optical element, the outer sleeve being axially fixed and rotatable on the guide sleeve, and an inner cam slot in the guide sleeve, and an outer cam slot in the outer sleeve. The mount is axially displaceable in the guide sleeve and has a guide pin that projects into the inner cam slot and the outer cam slot, the guide pin having a carrier shaft with a first pivot bearing and a second pivot bearing seated thereon. The first pivot bearing is guided within the outer cam slot, and the second pivot bearing is guided within the inner cam slot. The first pivot bearing and/or the second pivot bearing have an inner ring that sits on the carrier shaft and an outer ring that is rotatably supported on the inner ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Schmidt & Bender GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Lothar Fuhrmann, Jonas Joachim Höller, Hartmut Deusing
  • Patent number: 10605886
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for testing the function of a standard insulation monitoring device, installed in an ungrounded power supply system, during operation. The basic concept of the invention rests upon adding a testing apparatus to the ungrounded power supply system, which is being monitored using an insulation monitoring device according to regulations, between the active conductors of an ungrounded power supply system and ground, said testing apparatus systematically changing an insulation resistance of the ungrounded power supply system and observing the reaction of the insulation monitoring device in a fully automated manner in perpetually repetitive testing cycles. The power supply system is monitored perpetually during its operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Dieter Hackl
  • Patent number: 10598716
    Abstract: Methods and locating systems are for determining an insulation fault location on an electric conductor of a subsea supply line. By applying electric voltage on the electric conductor, an electrochemical reaction takes place at an insulation fault location between the metallic conductor material and the seawater, the electrochemical reaction forming gas, which in turn is connected to developing noise. Sonic sensors capture the sonic waves produced inside and outside the subsea supply line and evaluate the measuring signals in order to determine the insulation fault location. Alternatively or additionally to capturing noise, the gas-bubble image patterns occurring at the insulation fault location are optically captured and consulted in order to determine the insulation fault location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Dieter Hackl
  • Patent number: 10598720
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for insulation fault location as well as to an insulation fault location system for an ungrounded power supply system. The main idea of the present invention rests upon the idea that while preserving a predetermined maximally admissible test current amplitude, a test current pulse duration of a test current is adaptively set such that all interfering values are eliminated in a captured differential current, in particular the leakage currents arising in consequence of large supply leakage capacitances. Should a test of the value of the final value of the differential current reveal that a test current threshold value has been exceeded, this exceedance can be seen as an indicator that the respective conductor section is therefore in the fault circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Schaefer, Helmut Becker, Carsten Hartmann
  • Patent number: 10598718
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for insulation fault location in an IT power supply system, comprising the process steps: feeding of a test current, detecting of a test current portion in a branch of the IT power supply system and evaluating the detected test current portion. Furthermore, the invention relates to an insulation fault location for an IT power supply system having a test current generator for supplying a test current, having a test current sensor for detecting a test current portion in a branch of an IT power supply system and having an analyzing device for evaluating the detected test current portion. According to the invention, the insulation fault location system comprises a computing unit for adaptively determining a test current parameter of the test current depending on an electric system parameter of the IT power supply system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Hackl, Oliver Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10571525
    Abstract: Insulation fault location systems and methods are for insulation fault location for an ungrounded DC power supply system, which is redundantly fed from a first direct voltage supply source coupled to diodes and a second direct voltage supply source coupled to diodes and to which a consumer is redundantly coupled. Due to the diode coupling and the asymmetric current splitting of the load current associated therewith, non-compensational partial currents arise in the supply lines in such a power supply system and consequently differential current portions, which can be captured by measuring current transformers and which can interfere with a valid test current during an insulation fault location. In order to eliminate the interfering differential current portions, compensating measures on the primary side are proposed in the measuring current transformers and indirect compensating measures on the secondary side are proposed in an insulation fault location apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Hackl, Carsten Hartmann
  • Patent number: 10564189
    Abstract: A method and a device for a galvanically isolated AC/DC-sensitive measurement of a residual current (?I), includes a component sensitive to magnetic fields which switches between at least two states in the course of oscillation. A magnetic field is formed in a sphere of action of the component sensitive to magnetic fields due to the residual current (?I) and an oscillator signal that switches between a state 1 and a state 2. As a function of the residual current-driven magnetic field, times of stay of the oscillator signal occurring in states 1 and 2 are determined and an output signal proportional to the residual current is obtained from the ratio of the times of stay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Hackl, Michael Kammer
  • Patent number: 10530149
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting an interruption of an active conductor in an ungrounded direct-voltage power supply system. Five alternative methods are introduced, which are based on determining a current load current, a current total insulation resistance, a current displacement voltage, a current total capacitance or a current total impedance. Each of these methods minimizes the hazard related to accidental touching of two active conductors in an ungrounded direct-voltage power supply system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Hackl, Burkhard Macht
  • Patent number: 10396545
    Abstract: The invention relates to an insulation monitoring device and to a method for conforming-to-standards monitoring of an insulation resistance of an ungrounded single-phase or multi-phase power supply system having at least two active conductors. According to the invention, the insulation monitoring device comprises a voltage monitoring circuit for permanently registering the conductor voltage to ground potential for at least one active conductor. If an excess voltage is detected on an active conductor, the voltage monitoring circuit generates a shut-down signal so as to shut down the power supply system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dirk Pieler, Oliver Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10340680
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a device for shutting down an installation part provided with connected equipment in an ungrounded power supply system in case of an insulation fault in a direct-current circuit connected to the installation part to be shut down. The invention is based on first determining the insulation resistance of the IT power supply system and measuring the displacement direct voltage present in the IT power supply system and then determining by combined evaluation of the measured results if there is a risk of an disruptive influence on the operating behavior of the connected equipment due to the displacement direct voltage occurring during the duration of a predeterminable time interval. If a disruptive influence is to be expected, the installation part exhibiting the insulation fault is immediately shut down together with the direct-current circuit and the equipment connected thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO KG
    Inventors: Dieter Hackl, Oliver Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10330438
    Abstract: The invention concerns a rifle scope (1) with a housing (10), in which optical lenses (20, 21, 22, 23) are arranged along an optical path (OP), and with an adjusting wheel (11) for adjusting a function, wherein the adjusting wheel (11) is mounted so as to turn relative to the housing (10) about an axis of rotation (A), and wherein the adjusting wheel (11) has a first coupling means (13), on which an adjusting aid (30) which projects relative to the axis of rotation (A) radially about the outer circumference (12) of the adjusting wheel (11) is releasably secured to a second coupling means (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Schmidt & Bender GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Manuel Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10288664
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to an electrical protection device for detecting a disconnection of a protective conductor connection with a subsystem in ungrounded and grounded power supply systems and in a grounded power supply system comprising a converter system. The invention is based on the idea that the disconnection of the protective conductor connection with a subsystem will reduce the sum of the network leakage capacitances of the power supply system by the value of the network leakage capacitance of the subsystem. The necessary distinction between a subsystem in operation having a disconnected protective conductor connection and a shut-off subsystem is made by evaluating the current total power consumed via the power supply system. In the case of a converter system connected to the subsystem, the protective conductor disconnection is detected by examining the leakage current spectra that are characteristic of the converter system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Hackl, Harald Sellner
  • Patent number: 10151790
    Abstract: An insulation fault locating system using branch-selective feeding and a selective insulation monitoring system for a branched IT system is composed of multiple subsystems. For insulation fault location, a differential current measuring device, a test signal generator and a blocking device are arranged in each subsystem. The insulation monitoring device additionally includes a selective decoupling device arranged in each subsystem. Furthermore, a method determines a cross impedance between two subsystems on the basis of the insulation monitoring system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Dieter Hackl
  • Patent number: 10126345
    Abstract: A device and method is for insulation monitoring in a power supply system composed of a main system including a neutral point that is high-resistance grounded via a neutral-point resistance and, optionally, of at least one subsystem, wherein the main system and the subsystem each have a differential current measuring device for registering a differential current. The invention is based on feeding a measuring signal into the optionally branched HRG system via an active measuring method and registering the fault current driven by the measuring signal in the outgoing power feeds to be monitored by means of a differential current measurement and using the registered fault current in an evaluating device to determine the total insulation resistance of the power supply system and to determine the partial insulation resistances of the main system and potentially present subsystems. Furthermore, the insulation monitoring device can be employed for insulation fault location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Hackl, Eckhard Broeckmann, Burkhard Macht
  • Patent number: 10067517
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to devices for extended insulation-fault search in an IT power supply system using a multifunctional test current, wherein, selectively and depending on the application, the test current functions as a voltage compensation current so as to compensate a voltage increase in an active conductor of the IT power supply system, as a tripping current so as to trip a residual current protection device arranged in a subsystem of the IT power supply system and/or as a leakage-capacitance compensation current so as to compensate a capacitive leakage current. The test current can fulfil more than one of the cited functions simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Hackl, Oliver Schaefer
  • Patent number: 9971141
    Abstract: Regarding a sighting telescope comprising an objective and a reversing system, a first and second image planes respectively being configured between the objective and the reversing system and on a reversing system's side facing away from the objective, where an intermediate image projected by the objective into to the first image plane is reproduced into the second image plane, the invention stipulates an optical unit situated on the reversing system's side away from the objective to make visible the intermediate image in the second image plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Schmidt & Bender GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Helke Karen Hesse
  • Patent number: 9958235
    Abstract: An adjusting apparatus for setting a rifle scope has a manually actuable adjusting element which is mounted such that it can be rotated about a rotational axis relative to a base. A latching device is arranged between the base and the adjusting element and has latching depressions which are distributed about the rotational axis over the circumference. A first latching element lies opposite one of the latching depressions and is dependent on the rotary position of the adjusting element relative to the base. A locking device has a manually actuable locking element which can be moved from a released position into a locked position, the locking element being coupled to the first latching element via an actuating drive. The first latching element is fixed in the latching depression which lies opposite in each case in the locked position by means of the actuating drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Schmidt & Bender GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Raphael Lassak, Werner Schmidt