Patents Assigned to Danfoss A/S
  • Patent number: 6676441
    Abstract: In order, in a simple and reliable manner, to effect a seal in the region of the lead feedthroughs in a housing for an electrical device, in particular a measuring transducer, through the wall (2of which housing at least one electrical lead (3) is introduced into the housing (1) and is sealed against the wall (2) by a sealant, tar (6) is used as the sealant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Ole Friis Knudsen
  • Patent number: 6666669
    Abstract: The invention concerns a scroll compressor with at least one fixed displacement element, at least one movable displacement element, which is guided in relation to the fixed displacement element with an orbiting movement, and a gear arrangement, which ensures a non-rotational movement of the movable displacement element and comprises an axial bearing, via which the movable displacement element is supported in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Jürgen Süss
  • Patent number: 6666231
    Abstract: The invention relates to a solenoid valve with an inlet connection and an outlet connection, having between them a blocking device with a valve seat, a closure member and an armature, which influences a position of the closure member in relation to the valve seat. It is endeavoured to make a valve with a simple embodiment and little wear. For this purpose, it is ensured that the armature is arranged in a housing, dividing it into two chambers, and that the armature has a movement stroke with several sections, one first section being in the form of an idle stroke, during which a connection between the two chambers is open and the position of the closure member in relation to the valve seat does not change, and a second section being in the form of an effective stroke, during which the connection between the two chambers is closed and the armature causes or permits a movement of the closure member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Richard Thomas Entwistle
  • Patent number: 6658877
    Abstract: In a valve arrangement for closing off a working line in a refrigeration system, the working line includes a high and a low-pressure section. An expansion valve is coupled to the working line and has a working pressure chamber forming part of the valve. A control line system that includes a control device is coupled to the expansion valve and defines a connection that is in full communication with the high and low pressure sections of the working line. A closure element forming part of the control device is positioned in the connection line and arranged in the pressure equalizing configuration that couples the working pressure chamber of the expansion valve to the low-pressure section of the working line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Lars Bo Kjøng-Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20030221549
    Abstract: The invention concerns a water-hydraulic machine with at least two mutually movable parts, of which one has a surface of a plastic material with friction-reducing properties. In such a machine it is desired to enable the use of demineralised water. For this purpose, it is ensured that a layer of a carbon-containing material is arranged between the plastics material and the other part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Applicant: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Ove Thorbol Hansen, Palle Olsen, Lars Martensen, Erik Haugaard
  • Patent number: 6648617
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for compressing a compressible medium, in which at least two displacement elements, each having at least one limiting face extending helically in the cross section, are orbited in relation to each other under formation of at least one chamber, the volume of the chamber being changed by the orbiting movement, performing a cycle with a suction phase, a compression phase and a discharge phase, the chamber being opened and forming a suction chamber during the suction phase. It is endeavoured to improve the thermodynamic conditions during compression of a compressible medium. For this purpose, for the duration of the suction phase, the suction chamber is reduced by a volume limiting element in such a way that at the end of the suction phase the chamber has a volume of at least 90% of a maximum volume appearing during the suction phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Jürgen Süss, Leonid Paramonov
  • Patent number: 6644127
    Abstract: An electromagnetic flowmeter arrangement is disclosed, having a measuring tube (2), a coil arrangement (3, 4) for generating a magnetic field substantially perpendicular to the direction of flow through the measuring tube (2), an electrode arrangement (5, 6) substantially perpendicular to the direction of flow and to the magnetic field, an evaluating device and a testing device. In this connection, it is desirable to be able to carry out testing in a simple manner. For that purpose, the testing device comprises a elements (10-13) for applying voltage to the coil arrangement (3, 4) without generating a magnetic field, and an element for determining an ohmic and/or inductive and/or capacitive coupling between the coil arrangement (3, 4) and the coil evaluating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Steen M. Matzen
  • Publication number: 20030189139
    Abstract: A clamp for connecting a cylindrical temperature sensor axis-parallel with a tube has a bendable metallic tension band which tension band on its one end portion has a first jaw and at its other end section is shapewise connectable with a second jaw, and which clamp also has a tension screw. The tension screw is inserted through a bore in the first jaw and is threaded through a threaded bore in the second jaw. To be able to connect the sensor and tube rigidly with little heat transfer resistance the second jaw has a bent plate with two legs. The first leg is provided with the threaded bore and the second leg with a slot through which the other end section can be passed. The tension band length is so chosen that the other end section after the wrapping of the tension band around the temperature sensor and the tube as well as its being passed through the slot is bendable down onto the second leg. The tension screw length is so chosen that after its tightening it lies on the bent down end section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Applicant: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Jens Erik Rasmussen, Borge Skov Hansen
  • Publication number: 20030168107
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a flow cell having an endless loop manifold. The flow cell includes at least two inlet channels. The inlet channels are each connectable with a reservoir and controllable by means of valves. The inlet channels end in an inlet chamber. Each of two ends of the inlet chamber is connected with a discharge channel by means of outlet channels. Old fluid remaining in the inlet chamber is displaced into the discharge channel by newly supplied fluid. Dead time waiting until the old fluid has been displaced by the pure new fluid is minimal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2003
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Applicant: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Jens Krog
  • Publication number: 20030159522
    Abstract: An insert for a measuring tube of an inductive flowmeter is disclosed, having a middle section and two end sections, in which at least one end section is of resilient construction and the middle section is of rigid construction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Applicant: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Edward Grant Needham, Soren Nielsen
  • Patent number: 6606572
    Abstract: In a circuit arrangement for deriving the measured variable from the signals (S1 to S2) of at least two sensors (23, 24) of a flow meter, which flow meter comprises one or several parallel fluid lines (20, 21) and means (22) for exciting oscillations of a predetermined fundamental frequency (&ohgr;) in the fluid line(s), the sensors (23, 24) detect the oscillations and the sensor signals (S1 to S2) are supplied by way of a respective A-D converter (36; 37) to a digital processing unit (P) having a computation circuit (46), in which their phase difference (&PHgr;) is determined as a measure of the flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Henning Max Hansen, Frands Wulff Voss, Niels Per Mondrup, Karsten Westermann, Hans Jørgen Moos, James D. Collier, Roger F. Sewell, Richard-Jan E. Jansen
  • Patent number: 6594993
    Abstract: Hydraulic driving device with a hydraulic motor and a bearing arrangement in which the output shaft of the hydraulic motor is supported. Typically, the bearing arrangement is axially supported on the output shaft between a shoulder of the output shaft and a nut screwed onto the output shaft. To reduce overall length, the invention provides that the shoulder is located on the side of the bearing arrangement opposite from the end of the output side of the output shaft, and a friction-disc pack directly bears on the bearing arrangement. The motor has a braking device, including the friction-disc pack and at least one braking cylinder with a spring chamber and a release chamber. A braking valve in the braking position supplies the spring chamber with the load pressure and the release chamber with the tank pressure, and in the release position supplies the spring chamber with the tank pressure and the release chamber with the load pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Welm Friedrichsen, Uffe Lykke Eriksen
  • Publication number: 20030132409
    Abstract: A valve arrangement for use in vacuum systems has a housing (1) with an input opening (3) and output opening (5), between which is arranged a main valve (7) with a closure member (9) biased by a first spring (11) and an auxiliary valve (15) acutable by a electromagnet (18) and having a smaller nominal width than that of the main valve (7). To simplify the valve arrangement and to be able to actuate with less energy, the closure member (9) of the main valve (7) is biased in the opening direction by a first spring (11) and the force of the first spring (11) is larger than a predetermined closing force exerted on the closure member (9) of the main valve (7) by the pressure difference between the input and output openings (3, 5) when the auxiliary valve (15) is open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Applicant: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Michael Birkelund
  • Patent number: 6584861
    Abstract: Transmitting and receiving circuit for an ultrasonic flowmeter, comprising at least two ultrasonic transducers arranged for the transmission and receipt of ultrasonic signals in opposite directions across a measuring distance, a signal source for controlled production of electrical signals for transmission to the ultrasonic transducers and detection means for deriving transmission time measurements, used to calculate the flow, measuring of which is desired. The transmitting and receiving circuit includes an amplifier with a first inverting input terminal for connection to an ultrasonic transducer, a second non-inverting input terminal for connection to the signal source, an output terminal for connection with the detection means, and a feedback connection between the output terminal and the first input terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Lars Jespersen
  • Patent number: 6557582
    Abstract: A flow cell having at least two inlet channels, each connectable with a reservoir and controllable via valves and ending in an inlet chamber is disclosed herein. Each of two ends of the inlet chamber is connected with a discharge channel through at least two outlet channels. Previously supplied fluid remaining in the inlet chamber is displaced into the discharge channel by newly supplied fluid. The at least two outlet channels establish fluid purity in the chamber via rapid fluid transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Jens Peter Krog
  • Patent number: 6533186
    Abstract: A method for controlling a floor heating system, in which a heating circuit in a room is supplied with a heat carrying fluid within a cycle for a supply period, with the supply period being chosen in dependence of the room temperature. To operate the floor heating more favorably with regard to the energy consumption, at least one additional parameter is registered next to the room temperature. The cycle duration and the duration of the supply period are chosen in dependence of the room temperature and the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Christian Neve, Jørgen Seerup, Eva Kühne
  • Publication number: 20030033888
    Abstract: A mass flow measuring apparatus (1) is described, having tube (2), which at a first position (P1) is coupled as regards oscillation to a first energy converter (4) and at a second position (P2) is coupled as regards oscillation to a second energy converter (5), and having an evaluating device, the first and the second position (P1, P2) being spaced (L) from one another , the energy converters (4, 5) each being operable as oscillation generator and oscillation detector and the energy converters (4, 5) working alternately as oscillation generators. A method can therefore be carried out in which the tube (2) is caused to oscillate alternately at the first position (P1) and at the second position (P2), signals being measured at the second and the first position (P2, P2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Applicant: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Henning Max Hansen
  • Patent number: 6499517
    Abstract: A system for dispensing batches of fluid comprising a flowmeter (5), a pump or valve (6) for starting and stopping the flow and a controller (9) for controlling the pump or the valve. In order to reach a target batch size, the settling time at start of the flowmeter is compensated for as well as for the time it takes to stop the flow by generating a stop signal before the target batch size is reached. Further, to compensate for variations in the actual flow caused by variations in the feed pressure and the like, the compensation is made a function of the actually measured flow. A controller or a batch flow meter for use in dispensing batches is equipped with an interface for setting a compensating time constant and a correction unit for compensation of changes in the flow. The correction unit can consist of a differentiator an a summation circuit. Using digital techniques, the correction unit can be made as a lead filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventor: Henning Max Hansen
  • Patent number: 6478116
    Abstract: A lubricating oil supplying arrangement for an apparatus having a rotating apparatus shaft with an oil pump is arranged at one end of the apparatus shaft (23) and is driven by this apparatus shaft (23). A pump housing (2) has a pocket (3) in the form of a chamber open on one side, in which two co-operating displacement elements (4,5) are so arranged that the pump housing (2) covers the displacement elements (4,5) axially on both sides at least in an operative region and in the circumferential direction over a maximum of 180°. The displacement elements (4,5) are held in position by a pump shaft (13). This pump shaft (13) is connected via coupling elements to the apparatus shaft (23) so that they rotate together. This permits a construction having narrow tolerances that is easy to assemble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Jørn Holger Klausen, Peter Frøslev
  • Patent number: 6461730
    Abstract: A lubricant for a wire which is first insulated by means, of a lacquer coating, the wire being used for forming the stator windings of an electrical refrigerating compressor. The lubricant consists of one or more compounds of the formula CH3—Xn—R, wherein X is a linear or branched hydrocarbon group with n carbon atoms, wherein n is up to 22, and R may be hydrogen or a plurality of different radicals, either in a pure form or dissolved in a solvent. The lubricant is applied to the wire to reduce its coefficient of friction, and it is remarkable for its compatibility with the environmentally unharmful refrigerants, such as R134a (1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Danfoss A/S
    Inventors: Jürgen Bachmann, Lars L. Finsen, Poul Erik Hansen