Patents Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
  • Patent number: 9841061
    Abstract: A torque transmission device includes an inner ring, an outer ring, and at least one pair of receiving bellows. The at least one pair of receiving bellows includes a positive receiving bellows and a negative receiving bellows. The torque transmission device also includes at least one gas pressure spring and an adjusting unit connected to the at least one gas pressure spring. The receiving bellows are arranged between the outer ring and the inner ring such that when the inner ring is rotated in the positive rotational direction, the positive receiving bellows may be compressed, and when the inner ring is rotated in the negative rotational direction, the negative receiving bellows may be compressed. In addition, the receiving bellows are connected to the at least one gas pressure spring in a fluidically conductive manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Georg Bachmaier, Marco Cyriacks, Andreas Gödecke, Wolfgang Zöls
  • Patent number: 9841473
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) local coil includes at least two parts that may be moved relative to one another. At least one part of the at least two parts has elements that, in a closed state of the MRT local coil, presses directly or via pressure elements on at least one closed volume area in another part of the at least two parts. The at least one closed volume area is displaced by this in the closed state of the local coil into a coil interior space inside the local coil until the closed volume area rests against a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Daniel Driemel
  • Patent number: 9840924
    Abstract: A gas turbine system (1) including a burner arrangement having a tubular combustion chamber (5), a turbine (6) and a transition duct (7) connecting the combustion chamber (5) and the turbine (6), wherein the transition duct (7) is provided with an axially extending cooling air channel (11). The transition duct (7) includes a plurality of axially extending cooling air channels, and wherein each cooling air channel (11) is provided with one single inlet (12) opened to the outside of the transition duct (7) and with one single outlet (12) opened to the inside of the transition duct (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Matthias Hase, Paul A. Sanders, Vaidyanathan Krishnan
  • Patent number: 9843129
    Abstract: A flushing arrangement for flushing a surface of a wet-mateable connector for subsea use is provided. The flushing arrangement has a cartridge adapted to form a chamber around the surface to be flushed prior to flushing. The cartridge has a sealing portion adapted to be sealed against a part of the connector. An inlet port for receiving a fluid from a fluid source and an outlet port for discharging a fluid are provided. Plural flow channels are formed in the cartridge, the plural flow channels comprising flow channels providing a fluid connection between the inlet port and the chamber for enabling a flow of fluid into the chamber and flow channels providing a fluid connection between the chamber and the outlet port for enabling a flow of medium out of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Christopher Burrow, Christopher Plant
  • Patent number: 9842720
    Abstract: An x-ray tube unit includes an x-ray tube unit housing, in which a vacuum housing is disposed, which includes a high-voltage component. The vacuum housing includes an insulating medium circulating in the x-ray tube unit housing flowing around it. Further, a cathode module and an anode are disposed in the vacuum housing, the cathode module lying at high voltage and including an emitter which emits electrons when heating current is fed to it. In addition, a potential difference is present between the cathode module and the anode for accelerating the emitted electrons. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention a high-voltage feed, a heating transformer and a radiation protection component are integrated into the high-voltage component, the high-voltage component being filled at least partly with an electrically-insulating encapsulation material. This produces a compact and installation-friendly x-ray tube unit which has high operational safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jan Berk, Jörg Freudenberger, Ernst Neumeier, Jana Noack, Raimund Schwarz, Lothar Werner
  • Patent number: 9843246
    Abstract: A method and device for forming corona shielding on a winding bar for high-voltage machines has end corona shielding in a first section and outer corona shielding in a second section that adjoins the first section. The method includes providing a first composition, including a carrier material and a first filler therein and a first electrical resistance; providing a second composition, including the same carrier material and a second filler therein and a second electrical resistance, wherein the first and second fillers contain an identical dopable semiconductor material, doping of which determines electrical resistance of the first and second fillers, and wherein the second resistance differs from the first resistance; applying the first composition in the first section to form the end corona shielding; and applying the second composition in the second section to form the outer corona shielding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Harald Griem, Steffen Lang, Friedhelm Pohlmann, Christian Staubach
  • Patent number: 9841476
    Abstract: To enable improved adjustment of at least one shim channel for magnetic resonance imaging of an examination region of an examination object by operation of a magnetic resonance apparatus that has a shim arrangement with a first shim channel volume having at least one first shim channel and a second shim channel volume having at least one second shim channel, the examination region is divided into multiple of sections, multiple first shim parameter sets are determined for the at least one first shim channel, with one first shim parameter set among the multiple first shim parameter sets being ascertained for each of the multiple sections, a second shim parameter set is ascertained for the at least one second shim channel, taking into account the ascertained multiple first shim parameter sets, and magnetic resonance image data of the examination region are acquired, but before this acquisition, the at least one second shim channel is adjusted using the second shim parameter set and the at least one first shim ch
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Alto Stemmer
  • Patent number: 9841474
    Abstract: A method for controlling a signal with a plurality of independent components is provided. The signal is fed as an input signal via an input path to a control path that supplies an output signal. The output signal is fed via an output path to a control apparatus controlling the input signal. A coupling signal is determined in a coupling determination apparatus. On the basis of the coupling signal, the independent components are decoupled in a decoupling apparatus, as a result of which, a decoupled output signal is generated. Components of the decoupled output signal are decoupled from the components of the input signal. The decoupled output signal is fed as a control variable to the control apparatus. The control apparatus controls each independent component separately on the basis of a desired signal with a diagonal controller and outputs the input signal as a manipulated variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Huber, Clemens Jungkunz, Sebastian Martius, Martin Nisznansky, Markus Vester
  • Patent number: 9841753
    Abstract: A monitoring system of a dynamical arrangement of pieces takes part in a process related to a manufacturing executing system is presented. At least one of the pieces is spatially movable and the arrangement is free of interfacing signals for signaling a spatial position of the pieces at a control unit of the manufacturing executing system. The monitoring system contains a camera which is spatially positionable in a free selected neighborhood closed to predefined pieces and which acquires an image of a field of interest of the dynamical arrangement, a motion detection unit at an output of the camera that provides a detection of a spatial motion of one of the pieces, and an interface at the output of the camera for transmitting the acquired image to an input of a monitoring unit to extract information on a status of the arrangement which is interpretable in the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Paolo Fontanot
  • Patent number: 9841002
    Abstract: A wind turbine rotor blade is provided, having a root end, a tip end, a leading edge section, a trailing edge section and a serrated extension, wherein the serrated extension is attached to the trailing edge section and has at least a first tooth. Furthermore, the wind turbine rotor blade has at least one patterning element for guiding a wind flow which is flowing from the leading edge section to the trailing edge section such that noise which is generated at the trailing edge section is reduced. The patterning element has the shape of a ridge. Advantageously, the ridge-shaped patterning element is located upstream, compared to the first tooth, and/or is located on a surface of the first tooth. Furthermore, a method is provided to reduce noise which is generated at a trailing edge section of a wind turbine rotor blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Stefan Oerlemans
  • Patent number: 9839371
    Abstract: In a method and an image capturing system (5) for capturing signals and image data of a volume segment of an examination object, raw data of the volume segment are captured, and image time stamps are captured at which certain of the raw data are captured. Physiological signals of the examination object are captured at the same time as capturing the raw data. Signal time stamps are captured at which certain of the physiological signals are captured. The capture of the raw data and the capture of the physiological signals is controlled by the same processor of the image capturing system, so that both the image time stamps and the signal time stamps are predetermined by the same processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Thomas Beck
  • Patent number: 9840930
    Abstract: An airfoil (10) for a gas turbine engine in which the airfoil (10) includes an internal cooling system (14) with one or more internal cavities (16) having an insert (18) contained therein that forms nearwall cooling channels (20) having enhanced flow patterns is disclosed. The flow of cooling fluids in the nearwall cooling channels (20) may be controlled via a plurality of cooling fluid flow controllers (22) extending from the outer wall (24) forming the generally hollow elongated airfoil (26). The cooling fluid flow controllers (22) may be collected into spanwise extending rows (28), and the internal cooling system (14) may include one or more bypass flow reducers (30) extending from the insert (18) toward the outer wall (24) to direct the cooling fluids through the channels (20) created by the cooling fluid flow controllers (22), thereby increasing the effectiveness of the internal cooling system (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Ching-Pang Lee, Jae Y. Um, Gerald L. Hillier, Wayne J. McDonald, Mohamed Abdullah, Eric Schroeder, Ralph W. Matthews, Zhengxiang Pu
  • Patent number: 9842304
    Abstract: A network system and a method are disclosed for accessing functionalities or medical data within the framework of a diagnostic findings process. An on-premises server farm, a data center and a plurality of mobile terminal devices are provided for that purpose. The on-premises system is connected to the data center via a local network connection. The mobile network devices are connected to the data center via a mobile communications connection. The data center is a virtualization of the local on-premises server farm. The mobile communications connection to the data exchange is activated as soon as the mobile device leaves the transmit and/or receive range of the respective hospital (off-premises).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rüdiger Bertsch, Vladyslav Ukis
  • Publication number: 20170350257
    Abstract: A film-cooled gas turbine component for a gas turbine has a surface exposed to a hot gas and a number of film-cooling openings open out, which film-cooling openings combined to form at least one row transverse to a flow direction of the hot gas. Each of the film-cooling openings has a duct section and a diffuser section having an upstream diffuser edge, two diffuser longitudinal edges and a downstream diffuser edge. At least two immediately adjacent film-cooling openings, of the respective row have their duct axes of the respective duct sections laterally inclined relative to the local flow direction of the hot gas and their diffuser sections are formed asymmetrically with respect to a projection of the duct axis, such that immediately adjacent corner regions of the respective film-cooling openings are in alignment without the respective diffuser sections making contact with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andreas Heselhaus
  • Publication number: 20170353064
    Abstract: An arrangement for cooling at least one axial end region of a stator in a rotating electrical machine, having: at least one annular chamber which is disposed on the radially outer periphery of at least one portion of the axial end region having at least one radial cooling duct, and which on the radially inner part towards the axial end portion is at least partially open and is communicatingly connected to the radial cooling duct, and which is sealed with respect to the axial end region; and at least one low-pressure line which is communicatingly connected to the annular chamber, and via which the annular chamber is communicatingly connected to a low-pressure chamber in the rotating electrical machine which, relative to a flow of cooling fluid that is created by a shaft-mounted fan on a rotor in the rotating electric machine, is upstream of the shaft-mounted fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thorsten Krol, Christoph Lehmann, Andrey Mashkin
  • Publication number: 20170350767
    Abstract: A thermocouple system, has a metal feedthrough having a cylindrical portion having an axis of symmetry and a terminal end region arranged thereon, which completely closes the cylindrical portion, and which has at least two passageways, the opening cross-section of which is smaller than the cross-sectional surface vertical to the axis of symmetry through the cylindrical portion. Through one passageway, a thermocouple is guided, and in the region of the passageway, the thermocouple is connected to the end region in a fluid-tight manner by way of a seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gilbert Braun, Andreas Böttcher, Olga Deiss, Thomas Grieb, Ljiljana Hanf, Jens Kleinfeld, Tobias Krieger, Fabian Sander
  • Publication number: 20170353016
    Abstract: An electrical apparatus containing an adsorbent, includes a housing, an adsorbent cover, an adsorbent and a locating bolt. The housing is cylindrical and has at least one locating hole. The adsorbent cover is installed in the housing, and has an annular groove in a circumferential direction, with the locating hole being opposite the groove. An outer diameter of a groove edge is the same as an inner diameter of the housing, while the diameter of a middle part of the groove is less than the inner diameter of the housing. The adsorbent is placed in the groove. The locating bolt passes through the locating hole and extends into the groove. The electrical apparatus has a simple structure. Since installation on a flange is not needed, a flange on the housing that is connected to an adsorbent container is dispensed with. The cost of the adsorbent container and housing are reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Qiang LIU, Jun WANG
  • Publication number: 20170351238
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for checking a compatibility of a functional module for an installation for process automation. An input specification is provided for an input interface of the functional module, the input specification indicating for an input signal all input values that the functional module respectively accepts as valid. An output specification is provided, the output specification indicating for an output signal of the functional module all output values that the functional module provides as intended when the input specification is fulfilled. Operation of the functional module on the installation is preceded by an analysis device checking whether the functional module produces, for each input signal produced on the input interface in accordance with the input specification, the output signal on an output interface in accordance with the output specification. When an output value of the output signal violates the output specification, a module error is signaled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: MARTIN RICHARD NEUHÄUSSER
  • Publication number: 20170350262
    Abstract: A method for mounting rotor blades on a rotor disk along a predetermined pitch circle diameter in such a way that adjacent rotor blades, when properly mounted on the rotor disk and in the cold state, are clamped against each other with a predetermined preload. A clamping device which performs such a method has a plurality of clamping elements which are arranged in a uniformly distributed manner around a central axis, the number of which corresponds to the number of rotor blades to be mounted on the rotor disk and which in each case are designed for the locating of a rotor blade, wherein the clamping elements are moveable radially, exerting a radially inwardly directed force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Daniel Hofsommer
  • Publication number: 20170350494
    Abstract: A separable housing for a transmission wherein the transmission that is to be received in the separable housing has a gear shaft and at least two pinion shafts which are engaged with a gear that is arranged on the gear shaft. The separable housing has at least one first housing element and a second housing element that is connected to the first housing element by a joint of a part. The gear shaft and the at least two pinion shafts can be received in the joint of a part in receptacles on the housing. The joint of a part has a first part-joint stepped section and a second part-joint stepped section, each stepped section forming a different horizontal level in the joint of a part and each stepped section being formed between two of the receptacles of two of the shafts, the stepped sections also being complementarily formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jan Weule