Patents Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft of
  • Publication number: 20130056444
    Abstract: A circuit breaker includes a first contact and a second contact. An electric arc zone is disposed between the contacts. A feed channel opens into the electric arc zone, connecting the electric arc zone to a hot gas reservoir volume. The hot gas reservoir volume, in turn, is connected to a compression volume. An outflow opening is disposed in a wall of the compression volume. The outflow opening is permanently open, at least in a contacting state of the contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Radu-Marian Cernat
  • Publication number: 20130057280
    Abstract: In a method for rephasing a first spin system in a first slice with a first coherence curve and a second spin system of a second slice with a second coherence curve, in the generation of MR images with slice multiplexing, a first RF pulse deflects the spin system of the first slice and a second RF pulse deflects the spin system of the second slice. The beginning of the second RF pulse is time-shifted with respect to the beginning of the first RF pulse by a time period that is shorter than the duration of the first RF pulse. A rephasing correction impresses a correction phase on at least one of the spin systems, and signals of the spin systems are respectively detected. The coherence curves are rephased so detection of the signals occurs simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Thorsten Feiweier
  • Publication number: 20130056338
    Abstract: A device is disclosed including a removable cover of a housing of an electrical switch and a handle. In at least one embodiment, the handle, by way of its position, switches the electrical switch between different states. Further, the handle is connected to the housing and the handle includes a contour which is embodied, at least in one position of the handle, to interact with the cover for locking the removable cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jörg-Uwe DAHL, Katja MANTHEY
  • Publication number: 20130057282
    Abstract: In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus to image a partial region of an examination subject by means of a multislice measurement, which partial region includes at least two measurement slices, and is located at least in part at the edge of a field of view of the magnetic resonance apparatus, for each voxel to be optimized that is located at the edge of the field of view, a gradient field is configured for each measurement slice of the partial region that is to be measured and is used to acquire magnetic resonance data in the multislice measurement. The gradient field is configured so as to cause a nonlinearity of the gradient field and a B0 field inhomogeneity to cancel at each of the aforementioned voxel to be optimized at the partial region at the edge of the field of view. An image of the partial region of the examination subject is determined from the magnetic resonance data acquired in this manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jan Ole Blumhagen, Matthias Fenchel, Ralf Ladebeck
  • Publication number: 20130057307
    Abstract: A circuit breaker is disclosed. A Rogowski converter is checked for wire breakage by applying the Rogowski converter with a voltage which is output by a digital/analog converter in response to a digital signal. The digital signal is dependent on the switch rated current of the circuit breaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Andreas FISCHER
  • Publication number: 20130055827
    Abstract: A method for operating a Coriolis mass flow rate meter and a Coriolis mass flow rate meter including an evaluation device, a measuring tube having a medium flowing therethrough and which is excited so as to perform oscillations, and at least two spaced oscillation pickups spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the measuring tube to each generate an oscillation signal, wherein a first indicator variable based on the damping of the oscillations of the measuring tube is initially used to detect deposits in the measuring tube and if, based on the first indicator variable, increased damping is established, a second indicator variable is used, which is based on the manifestation of harmonics in the frequency spectrum of an oscillation signal such that reliable detection of deposits and therefore an indication of the state of meters and pipelines in a process engineering installation are advantageously possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Bierweiler, Wolfgang Ens, Felix Hammacher, Henning Lenz
  • Patent number: 8390409
    Abstract: At least one embodiment of the invention relates to a switch device particularly a low-voltage switch device, having an actuation magnet chamber by at least one spring element, having at least one displaceable switch contact and at least one stationary switch contact, wherein the at least one displaceable switch contact can be displaced by the actuation magnet, the magnet chamber comprising an assembly opening for inserting or removing a tolerance insert. At least one embodiment of the invention further relates to a method for inserting or removing a tolerance insert in a magnet chamber of such a switch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Josef Graf, Christian Sturm, Alexander Zhukowski, Norbert Zimmermann, Reinhard Zinner
  • Patent number: 8389928
    Abstract: An X-ray detector includes a directly converting semiconductor layer for converting an incident radiation into electrical signals with a band gap energy characteristic of the semiconductor layer, and at least one light source for coupling light into the semiconductor layer, wherein the generated light, for the simulation of incident X-ray quanta, has an energy above the band gap energy of the semiconductor layer. One embodiment includes at least one evaluation unit for calculating an evaluation signal from the electrical signals generated when the light is coupled into the semiconductor layer, and at least one calibration unit for calibrating at least one pulse discriminator on the basis of the evaluation signal. This provides the prerequisites for a rapidly repeatable calibration of the X-ray detector taking into account of the present polarization state without using X-ray radiation. Another embodiment additionally relates to a calibration method for such an X-ray detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Hackenschmied, Christian Schröter, Matthias Strassburg
  • Patent number: 8391385
    Abstract: OFDM symbols are generated using data from one or more users or from one or more data sources represented on a number of sub-carriers. To inhibit multiple-access interference on application of the CDMA principle, the data are transformed in a data-source specific manner and only subsequently allocated to the sub-carriers, independently of the transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Elena Costa, Dirk Galda, Harald Haas, Hermann Rohling, Egon Schulz
  • Patent number: 8387433
    Abstract: There is described a method for applying a coolant to a rolled product and/or to at least one cylinder of a roll stand provided with a rolling gap. During the method the following steps can occur: determining a total cooling rate applicable according to the effective power in the rolling gap, determining the cooling rate for several areas according to a flatness distribution determined b a flatness measuring system, wherein the difference in the cooling rate is determined by comparing the totality of the thus determined cooling rates with a predetermined total cooling rate and is used for determining the components of an additional cooling rate for the areas taking into account the top and lower limits of the cooling rate thereof. Said procedure is repeated in such a way that the coolant differences remain above a predefinable value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignees: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Berghs, Robert Simbeck
  • Patent number: 8387331
    Abstract: A wind turbine tower which includes a number of sections, connected by bolted joints is disclosed. A bolted joint includes at least one connection of the bearing type and at least one connection of the slip resistant at serviceability type. In one aspect, the bearing type connection includes at least one non prestressed bolt and/or the connection of the slip resistant at serviceability type includes at least one prestressed bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Christian Laursen
  • Patent number: 8392218
    Abstract: A process, a system and a computer program product and computer readable medium are disclosed for the sequential control and execution of a medical task. In at least one embodiment, the task is processed with the aid of a plurality of different, computer-implemented, medical-technical, stateful applications. In at least one embodiment, the invention uses a 3-layer software architecture including a data layer, a business logic layer, and presentation layer. With the aid of a central server, the option is provided of a one-time loading of the extensive datasets for a task and the applications for a task, so that the datasets and the applications are subsequently preserved for a user of the medical task. As a result, multiple waiting periods for the user are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Detlef Becker, Karlheinz Dorn, Christian Scharf
  • Patent number: 8390285
    Abstract: In a method and device for side-band suppression, a positive eddy current correction factor and negative eddy current correction factor are determined and scanning N/2 times by a positive gradient takes place, and the positive gradient scanning signal is collected during each scan. Scanning N/2 times by a negative gradient also takes place, and the negative gradient scanning signal is collected during each scan. N is an even number. An eddy current correction of the N/2 positive gradient scanning signals collected according to the positive eddy current correction factor is performed as an eddy current correction of the N/2 negative gradient scanning signals collected according to the negative eddy current correction factor. The side-band suppressed spectrum signal according to the N/2 positive gradient scanning signals that have undergone the eddy current correction is calculated, as is the N/2 negative gradient scanning signals that have undergone the eddy current correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Cai Xia Fu, Guo Bin Li
  • Patent number: 8391998
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling and/or regulating an industrial process for producing or processing products, wherein a physicomathematical model of the industrial process is formed, with which control parameters for controlling or regulating the industrial process are calculated during the production or processing of the product, a number of measurement values is detected, and the model is corrected with a number of primary correction factors, the number of primary correction factors being equal to the number of measurement values. The method is characterized in that the model is corrected with a number of secondary correction factors, such as with a correction factor reflecting the speed of the phase conversion in the rolling mill to be cooled, and in that the number of all correction factors is greater than the number of all measurement values, wherein at least the secondary correction factors are calculated numerically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Weinzierl, Klaus Franz, Stefan Schmors
  • Patent number: 8390968
    Abstract: A device (1) has a series circuit of submodules with a power semiconductor circuit and an energy accumulator connected in parallel with the power semiconductor circuit. Each submodule is associated with a short circuit device for shorting the submodule. The short circuit device is a vacuum switching tube. The device is cost-effective and at the same time enables safe bridging of a defective submodule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jörg Dorn, Werner Hartmann
  • Patent number: 8390259
    Abstract: A method for charging and/or discharging energy storage devices is performed in a multilevel converter including at least one phase module branch having a series circuit of submodules each with at least one power semiconductor circuit for connection or disconnection of an energy storage device in a circuit parallel to the power semiconductor circuit and a submodule sensor for detection of an energy storage actual value. An energy change state is obtained and a determination is made as to whether connected energy storage devices in a phase module branch can be charged or discharged. The next energy storage device to be switched in each phase module branch is selected by predetermined logic dependent on an energy change state, through which energy stored in energy storage devices is kept approximately at the same level. A high clock rate is simultaneously avoided for connection and disconnection of the selected energy storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mike Dommaschk, Jörg Dorn, Ingo Euler, Jörg Lang, Quoc-Buu Tu, Klaus Würflinger
  • Patent number: 8390290
    Abstract: A device for determining the position of at least one local coil arranged or to be arranged on a patient bed of a magnetic resonance device has at least one optical coil marker arranged on the local coil, at least one optical sensor device to detect the coil marker, the field of view of the sensor device at least partially covering the patient bed in at least a recumbent position, and a computer that determines the coil position and/or coil orientation on the patient bed from measurement data of the sensor device. The computer can form a part of a control unit of the magnetic resonance device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Johann Sukkau
  • Patent number: 8390534
    Abstract: A method and a device for determining tracking configurations for augmented reality applications are provided. A determination is automatically carried out based on a list of modules provided in a real environment and known tracking data of individual modules of the list in terms of an online operation at an operator of a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mehdi Hamadou, Dirk Jahn
  • Patent number: 8390298
    Abstract: A method for determining an adjustment value for an electrical protection device wherein, upon occurrence of a ground short circuit, first current indicator measured values and first voltage indicator measured values are captured by a first measurement device at a first end of a segment of an electrical power supply line, and second current indicator measured values and second voltage indicator measured values are captured by a second measurement device at a second end of the segment of an electrical power supply line. In order to design a method of this type such that an adjustment value for a ground impedance can be determined in a relatively simple fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Matthias Kereit, Tevfik Sezi
  • Patent number: 8390292
    Abstract: In a method and an arrangement for magnetic resonance signal transmission, a first channel of a local coil arrangement has a first individual antenna that receives a first magnetic resonance signal, and a first frequency converter connected with the first individual antenna, and the first frequency converter forms a first signal with the first magnetic resonance signal supplied thereto and a first oscillator signal supplied thereto. A second channel of the local coil arrangement has a second individual antenna that receives a second magnetic resonance signal, and a second frequency converter connected with the second individual antenna, and the second frequency converter forms a second signal from the second magnetic resonance signal supplied thereto and a second oscillator signal supplied thereto. The local coil arrangement has a signal combination device that applies the first signal and the second signal to a single transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jan Bollenbeck