Patents Assigned to Schenck Process GmbH
  • Patent number: 9687879
    Abstract: A screen lining having an adapter strip for fastening a screen mat or two screen mats arranged adjacent to each other to a supporting substructure in such a way that the screen mat or screen mats can be replaced. The adapter strip has projections on the side of the adapter strip facing away from the screen mats, which projections are integrally formed on the adapter strip in order to be inserted into openings on the substructure and have a bearing region on the side of the projections facing the screen mats, in which bearing region at least one hollow for the form-fitting fastening of the screen mats is arranged. The adapter strip has integrated deflecting blades, the top sides of which are angled downward with respect to a plane defined by the screen mats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventor: Patrick Schneeberger
  • Patent number: 9683883
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a weighing module for measuring wheel contact forces of rail-bound vehicles, comprising a measuring rail and a number of strain gauges, wherein the strain gauges are applied directly on the measuring rail. The measuring rail comprises a load introduction region, made of at least one load introduction part, and at least two deformation bodies, which are connected fixedly in each case to a load output plate and, via a hinge, to the load introduction region. The strain gauges are arranged on the deformation bodies and capture the shear strain acting between the hinges and load output plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Rettig, Walter Matich
  • Publication number: 20160341629
    Abstract: A vibrating machine is provided that includes a condition-monitoring device that has a first vibrating body supported flexibly in relation to a second vibrating body or a base, a first exciter that produces a targeted vibration behavior of the vibrating machine or the vibrating body. The condition-monitoring device has at least one first micro-electro-mechanical device in the form of an inertial sensor with at least three acceleration sensors and at least three yaw-rate sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventor: Jan SCHAEFER
  • Publication number: 20160256895
    Abstract: A screening device including elastic screen lining elements that are attached to first and second cross-bars, the first and second cross-bars being alternately arranged in a vibrationally driven frame of the screening device. The first cross-bars are rigidly connected to the frame, and the second cross-bars are mounted in the frame by means of spring elements. The frame has openings for accommodating the spring elements, the openings being located in a region of end faces of the second cross-bars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventors: Horst BIRNBAUM, Jan EHRENFELS
  • Publication number: 20160176662
    Abstract: A metering device having a storage container and a discharge device. The storage container has an inlet opening, a perpendicular central axis, and an outlet opening. The discharge device is arranged so as to be rotatable about an outlet axis of the outlet opening of the storage container, said outlet axis running at a distance to the central axis of the storage container, and the outlet opening of the storage container corresponds to the loading point of the discharge device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventor: Peter SCHWEIZER
  • Publication number: 20160096199
    Abstract: A screen lining having an adapter strip for fastening a screen mat or two screen mats arranged adjacent to each other to a supporting substructure in such a way that the screen mat or screen mats can be replaced. The adapter strip has projections on the side of the adapter strip facing away from the screen mats, which projections are integrally formed on the adapter strip in order to be inserted into openings on the substructure and have a bearing region on the side of the projections facing the screen mats, in which bearing region at least one hollow for the form-fitting fastening of the screen mats is arranged. The adapter strip has integrated deflecting blades, the top sides of which are angled downward with respect to a plane defined by the screen mats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventor: Patrick SCHNEEBERGER
  • Patent number: 9291489
    Abstract: A method for the gravimetric mass metering of bulk solids via a container with the bulk solid to be metered and a volumetric conveying device, via which the bulk solid coming from the container with a mass flow, which chronologically follows a target value for a target feed rate, is conveyed, and a differential metering scale suitable for such purpose. The bulk solid, after leaving the conveying device can pass through a mass flow measuring device and the mass flow measuring device calculates a second signal representing the mass flow, and based on the second signal representing the mass flow and the first control signal, a second control device calculates a second signal and delivers the signal to a drive of the conveying device for controlling the conveying device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventor: Bernd Allenberg
  • Patent number: 9234786
    Abstract: The object to create a system and a method which allows better running gear diagnosis of rail vehicles is achieved by the present invention by arranging a number of force measurement devices on the rail measurement zone to detect the forces and/or torques acting on the rail measurement zone, such that the system also comprises a number of sonic measurement devices for detecting the sound waves which occur when the rail vehicle travels over the rail measurement zone. The present invention thus offers a diagnostic system for analysis of the condition of wheel bearings and wheel geometries in particular in which the forces and sound waves occurring when the rail vehicle travels over the rail can be detected and analyzed, so that more reliable inferences about the condition of the running gear of the rail vehicle can be drawn from them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Groll, Ralph Mueller
  • Patent number: 9096394
    Abstract: A dosing device for bulk material having a dosing scale fastened to an outlet opening of a bulk material container. The dosing device comprises a motor-driven conveyor, extending substantially horizontally, which is designed to convey the bulk material from an entry region to an exit region. The entry region is arranged under the bulk material container. The exit region is supported on at least one first measurement device which is arranged and designed to determine the weight load of the conveyor by the bulk material. The conveyor is attached in a free floating manner to the bulk material container at the entry region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventors: Michal Mikulec, Robert Weinand
  • Patent number: 8827174
    Abstract: A sleeper for supporting rails within a section of track for rail vehicles is provided, wherein the sleeper has elongated reinforcing elements extending along a longitudinal axis of the sleeper and is produced as a solid material sleeper having a cavity which extends between the reinforcing elements and from at least one outer face of the sleeper into the interior of the sleeper, and wherein the sleeper is designed for use with at least two different measurement value pick-up systems, wherein one of the measurement value pick-up systems is a temperature measurement value pick-up system having an infrared sensor which is accommodated by insertion into the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Groll, Ralph Mueller, Martin Stillger
  • Publication number: 20140166438
    Abstract: A dosing device for bulk material having a dosing scale fastened to an outlet opening of a bulk material container. The dosing device comprises a motor-driven conveyor, extending substantially horizontally, which is designed to convey the bulk material from an entry region to an exit region. The entry region is arranged under the bulk material container. The exit region is supported on at least one first measurement device which is arranged and designed to determine the weight load of the conveyor by the bulk material. The conveyor is attached in a free floating manner to the bulk material container at the entry region thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventors: Michal MIKULEC, Robert WEINAND
  • Patent number: 8677833
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for measuring a mass flow of flowable bulk materials according to the Coriolis principle of measurement. The apparatus comprises a vane wheel by which a mass flow that is supplied in axial direction can be radially redirected and by which it is possible to detect the drive torque that that necessary to achieve the redirection. A drive shaft that is routed through the top side of the housing is configured as a hollow shaft through which the bulk material can be fed to the vane wheel in vertical direction toward the center of its axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventor: Jens Kahle
  • Publication number: 20130220710
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a weighing module for measuring wheel contact forces of rail-bound vehicles, comprising a measuring rail and a number of strain gauges, wherein the strain gauges are applied directly on the measuring rail. The measuring rail comprises a load introduction region, made of at least one load introduction part, and at least two deformation bodies, which are connected fixedly in each case to a load output plate and, via a hinge, to the load introduction region. The strain gauges are arranged on the deformation bodies and capture the shear strain acting between the hinges and load output plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventor: Schenck Process GmbH
  • Patent number: 8359934
    Abstract: The object to configure a system for measuring loads during the wheel/rail contact of rail vehicles in such a manner that the occurring forces and/or torques can be measured in a reliable and realistic manner is solved by the present invention. Between the rail foot and the measuring device, at least one elastic element is arranged which has an elasticity which simulates the elasticity of a ballast bed. By means of the measuring system according to the invention, on the one hand, realistic conditions of a track system can be simulated and, on the other, a high metrological reproducibility of a load situation can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventors: Fritz Ehmke, Peter Groll, Ralph Mueller
  • Publication number: 20120103110
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for measuring a mass flow of flowable bulk materials according to the Coriolis principle of measurement. The apparatus comprises a vane wheel by which a mass flow that is supplied in axial direction can be radially redirected and by which it is possible to detect the drive torque that that necessary to achieve the redirection. A drive shaft that is routed through the top side of the housing is configured as a hollow shaft through which the bulk material can be fed to the vane wheel in vertical direction toward the center of its axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: SCHENCK PROCESS GMBH
    Inventor: Jens Kahle
  • Patent number: 8047409
    Abstract: An apparatus for the metered removal of bulk material from a bin, the apparatus having a top bulk-material-filling opening, bottom bulk-material-removal opening, and a rotor that is connected in a driven manner to at least one sweeping arm disposed inside the bin near the bin's rotationally symmetrical floor and directed towards the removal opening. In order to create an apparatus for the removal of bulk material from a bin in which the mass of the removed bulk material not only can be metered very precisely, but which is also of simple design and easy to maintain, provision is made whereby the sweeping arm is attached on the bottom side of a separating element connected in a driven manner to the rotor, and whereby a settling zone is provided below the separating element in front of the sweeping arm, this zone only being open on one side to the bulk material through a feed opening, and on the other side to the removal opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Schweizer, Stefan Breunig
  • Publication number: 20110224863
    Abstract: The object to create a system and a method which allows better running gear diagnosis of rail vehicles is achieved by the present invention by arranging a number of force measurement devices on the rail measurement zone to detect the forces and/or torques acting on the rail measurement zone, such that the system also comprises a number of sonic measurement devices for detecting the sound waves which occur when the rail vehicle travels over the rail measurement zone. The present invention thus offers a diagnostic system for analysis of the condition of wheel bearings and wheel geometries in particular in which the forces and sound waves occurring when the rail vehicle travels over the rail can be detected and analyzed, so that more reliable inferences about the condition of the running gear of the rail vehicle can be drawn from them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: SCHENCK PROCESS GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Groll, Ralph Mueller
  • Publication number: 20110088487
    Abstract: The object to configure a system for measuring loads during the wheel/rail contact of rail vehicles in such a manner that the occurring forces and/or torques can be measured in a reliable and realistic manner is solved by the present invention. Between the rail foot and the measuring device, at least one elastic element is arranged which has an elasticity which simulates the elasticity of a ballast bed. By means of the measuring system according to the invention, on the one hand, realistic conditions of a track system can be simulated and, on the other, a high metrological reproducibility of a load situation can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: SCHENCK PROCESS GMBH
    Inventors: Fritz Ehmke, Peter Groll, Ralph Mueller
  • Patent number: 7882992
    Abstract: A cellular wheel sluice embodied as a blow-through sluice is suitable for dosing secondary fuel, for example. The blow-through sluice includes a supply chute (2) in the top area and a cylindrical housing (1) which is disposed below the supply chute (2) and in which a cellular wheel (4) is arranged. The cellular wheel (4) includes radial webs (3), in the rotational area of which a blow-in hole (10) and an opposite blow-out hole (11) are provided on the side faces (26) of the housing. An injector nozzle (15) which blows the transport air into the rotating dosing chambers (5) so as to empty the same, is integrated into the housing in the area, of the blow-in hole (10). Thereby pressure differences result in the dosing chamber (5) that is to be emptied such that only small pressure loads act upon the metallically hard gap seals, which have a long useful life and allow only small quantities of leakage air, and which are arranged on the radial end areas of the cellular wheel webs (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Faber, Klaus Kohlmueller, Robert Weinand
  • Patent number: 7712381
    Abstract: An antenna arrangement for coupling high frequency electromagnetic waves into or out of a pipe-shaped hollow body includes two patch antenna elements that are located opposite one another and integrated in the pipe inner wall (5) of the hollow body (1), and have curved surfaces fitted to the curved longitudinal pipe inner wall of the hollow body (1). An apparatus for mass flow measurement includes at least two of such antenna arrangements axially spaced apart from one another in a conveyor pipe section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Schenck Process GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Allenberg, Andreas Penirschke, Rolf Jakoby