Patents Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
  • Publication number: 20240087984
    Abstract: A semiconductor module assembly includes a cooling body having a cooling body main body and a cooling body attachment with a channel structure for a heat-transporting fluid. The channel structure is hermetically sealed with a cooling body main body surface so that the cooling body attachment and the cooling body main body are in direct contact with the heat-transporting fluid. The cooling body attachment includes a central piece having essentially parallel channels of the channel structure, and end pieces arranged on both sides of the central piece. Each end piece has deflection channels of the channel structure, which are arranged to establish a fluidic connection between the essentially parallel channels of the central piece. A semiconductor module contacts the cooling body, with the hermetically sealed channel structure of the cooling body attachment and the heat-transporting fluid forming a pulsating heat pipe which is thermally conductively connected to the semiconductor module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: FLORIAN SCHWARZ
  • Publication number: 20240088763
    Abstract: In a method for encapsulating a winding overhang of a stator which includes a laminated core with windings inserted in grooves of the laminated core such that winding ends protrude from the grooves to form a winding overhang at a distance from a laminated core end and run in a region between the laminated core end and the winding overhang so as to form intermediate spaces between the winding ends, at least one of the intermediate spaces is spanned by a polymer layer such as to prevent a flow of encapsulating compound through the at least one spanned intermediate space, and the winding overhang is encapsulated with the encapsulating compound after placing the stator in a housing of an electric machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Tobias KATZENBERGER, BASTIAN PLOCHMANN
  • Publication number: 20240088110
    Abstract: A power converter includes at least two power semiconductor modules. Each of the power semiconductor modules includes at least one power semiconductor and power contacts, which are electrically conductively connected to the power semiconductors via an external circuit for the parallel connection of the power semiconductor modules. The power semiconductors are further connected to one another in parallel by way of at least one additional connection having a lower parasitic inductance and/or a lower series resistance than the external circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Felix ZEYSS, Philipp KNEISSL, Jens SCHMENGER
  • Patent number: 11927936
    Abstract: A method and an associated controller for safely operating a multi-axis kinematic system by using a safety function are disclosed. The method includes calculating compensation values at the run time of a controller of the multi-axis kinematic system, wherein the calculation is performed based on predefinable error values of respective axes, geometric parameters of the multi-axis kinematic system, and current axis values of the multi-axis kinematic system. The method further includes operating the safety function based on the calculated compensation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Maximilian Walter, Dominik Budday, Minh Le, Alexander Stein, Sören Burmeister
  • Patent number: 11928203
    Abstract: A method for operating a cooling system of a transformer, wherein the transformer is cooled via a cooling liquid that circulates in the cooling system that includes a heat-exchanger, devices for increasing heat exchange performance of the at heat-exchanger and a controller, where in a normal operating state, the controller adjusts power of the devices for increasing the heat exchange performance as a function of a measured upper temperature and where, irrespective of the measured upper temperature, the controller refrains from activating the devices and/or operates the devices at a reduced power relative to the normal operating state if the lower temperature of the cooling liquid lies below a lower threshold value during operation of the transformer to achieve improved characteristics of the cooling system during operation under low environmental temperatures of the transformer, particularly in the case of a turn-on operation following lengthy storage in a cold state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Markus Höfele, Peter Kob, Rolf Schrey, Armin Zeltner
  • Patent number: 11928689
    Abstract: Various examples of the disclosure generally pertain to storing, in a distributed ledger and in association with one or more transactions, one or more identifiers of owners of respective smart contracts. Various examples of the disclosure relate to deleting transactions associated with a given party as owner upon receiving a withdrawal request of the given party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Saurabh Narayan Singh, Nejc Zupan
  • Patent number: 11929218
    Abstract: In a rocker arm of an electric switch, the electric switch is actuated by the rocker arm for setting definable positions. The rocker arm of an embodiment includes a first part, for setting the definable positions, and a second part, movable between a first position and a second position. In the first position of the second part, the first part can be moved into the definable positions; and in the second position of the second part, the movement of the first part is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Ekkehard Plechinger
  • Patent number: 11928481
    Abstract: A system and method for determining optimal computing configuration for executing a computing operation includes defining one or more constrains of a given computing operation to be executed. The method further includes implementing a knowledge graph to determine at least one suitable combination of computing hardware and computing software based on the given computing operation and the defined one or more constrains therefor. The method further includes quantitatively estimating an energy requirement and qualitatively estimating an energy consumption pattern of the determined at least one suitable combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Chethan Ravi B R, Vidyabhushana Hande, Vinay Ramanath, Ankit Vijaysing Ghoti
  • Patent number: 11930071
    Abstract: Provided is a network adapter for unidirectional transmission of a user data stream to a bidirectional network interface, the network adapter including: a first connection unit which is physically connected to a bidirectional network interface of a first device; a second connection unit which is physically connected to a bidirectional network interface of a second device; and a terminating unit which has at least one bit transmission module and which is designed to establish a bidirectional data link to the network interface of the first device, to receive the user data stream from the first device exclusively in a unidirectional fashion via the data link, and not to send a user data stream to the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Rainer Falk, Stefan Seltzsam, Hermann Seuschek, Martin Wimmer
  • Patent number: 11927942
    Abstract: A method for implementing a digital twin for a physical component of an industrial system includes assigning a unique identifier to the physical component, associating the unique identifier with a digital twin representative of the physical component, placing the digital twin of the physical component on a distributed network. The physical component sends the unique identifier to a known resource, which retrieves the network address of the physical twin associated with the unique identifier and provides the network address to the physical component. A secure communication connection is established between the physical component and the corresponding digital twin via the distributed network. The unique identifier may be a quick read (QR) code displayed on the physical component or a bar code displayed on the physical component. Engineering and simulation software for the digital twin may be supplied on the distributed network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Georg Muenzel
  • Patent number: 11927643
    Abstract: A method for recognizing an electrical oscillation in an electrical power supply system, in which an electrical oscillation variable is determined for at least one measuring point in the power supply system. Parameters of an electrical oscillation are calculated on the basis of a time curve of the oscillation variable for the at least one measuring point, and the presence and type of an electrical oscillation is deduced using the parameters. To be able to provide correct parameters for assessing the oscillation in a timely fashion after the start of the oscillation, it is proposed that the number of those successive values of the oscillation variable from which the parameters of the electrical oscillation are calculated is adapted dynamically to the sequence of values of the oscillation variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Litzinger, Stefan Piel, Reinhold Voigt
  • Patent number: 11923976
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transmitting analysis-relevant data from a transmitter (2), in which the analysis-relevant data is present, to a receiver (4), in which data analyses can be performed. In order to improve the method for transmitting analysis-relevant data from the transmitter (2) to the receiver (4), according to the invention one selection rule (30) to be applied to the analysis-relevant data is selected for a data transmission from a plurality of predefinable selection rules (26) for the selection of data to be transmitted from the analysis-relevant data, wherein the selection of the selection rule (30) to be applied for this data transmission is dependent on a data analysis applied to the data to be transmitted and on a state of the data link (6) between the transmitter (2) and the receiver (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Michael Wieczorek, Elisabeth Heindl
  • Patent number: 11922134
    Abstract: System and method for synthesizing a controller for a dynamical system includes a feeder neural network trained to estimate an ordinary differential equation (ODE) from time series training data (X) of a trajectory having embedded angular data and configured to learn dynamics of a physical system by encoding a generalization of a Hamiltonian representation of the dynamics using a constant external control term (u). A neural ODE solver receives the estimate of the ODE from the feeder neural network and synthesizes a controller to control the system to track a reference configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Biswadip Dey, Yaofeng Zhong, Amit Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 11921005
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method for estimating remaining useful life of a bearing are provided. The method includes receiving a request for analyzing a defect in the bearing from a source. The request includes operational data associated with the bearing. An impact of the defect on the bearing is monitored over a period of time. A time period during which the impact of the defect on the bearing is higher than a threshold range is determined using a machine learning model. A severity of the impact associated with the defect is computed during the time period. A remaining useful life of the bearing is determined based on the severity and the operational data during the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Sudev Nair, Iniyan Ramasamy
  • Patent number: 11923792
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of predicting conditions of machines as well as a corresponding data processing system, computer program and computer-readable medium are disclosed. A technical specification of a machine is received. A data set including at least one current operational parameter of the machine is continuously received. A current load of the machine is continuously derived based on the provided technical specification and the received data set via a knowledge base. A current condition of the machine is continuously predicted by integrating over the derived current load and all previously derived current loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Daniel Dubber, Matthias Sandkaul
  • Patent number: 11923674
    Abstract: A method for controlling a solid state circuit breaker includes detecting a direction of a current flowing through the solid state circuit breaker, obtaining a breaking current value of the solid state circuit breaker according to the detected direction of the current, obtaining a value of a maximum threshold current to flow through the solid state circuit breaker, obtaining a predicted current value within a next sampling period of a present sampling period of the solid state circuit breaker, comparing the predicted current value with the breaking current value, and upon the predicted current value being greater than the breaking current value, delaying the solid state circuit breaker, and upon the predicted current value being greater than the maximum threshold current value, controlling the solid state circuit breaker to disconnect a circuit in which the solid state circuit breaker resides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Feng Du, Wei Gang Chen
  • Patent number: 11923163
    Abstract: A fuse element for a fuse with an integrated measurement function, includes a first receiving area in an embodiment, for receiving a melting conductor of the fuse, delimited in the length direction of the fuse by a closure element and in a direction orthogonal to the length direction by the fuse element. Further, in an embodiment, the fuse element has a second receiving area, physically separated from the first receiving area, for receiving a measuring device of the fuse. The second receiving area is designed to receive the measuring device in a wall section of the fuse element. The second receiving area formed in the fuse element protects the measuring device arranged therein against interfering environmental influences. The measuring device is used to ascertain the electric current flowing through the fuse directly on the fuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Hochmuth, Robert Huettinger, Jean-Mary Martel, Christian Rohrwild, Adolf Schmid, Volker Seefeld
  • Patent number: 11921499
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes multi-parameter dynamic sampling methods and systems. An example method includes: configuring two sampling rates for each parameter in a set of sampling parameters; selecting one of the sampling rates for each parameters to sample it; calculating a load for each parameter at the selected sampling rate, sorting the parameters according to the loads, and determining high-loaded parameters according to a sorting result; and determining whether each parameter has data loss, and if at least one of the sampling parameters has data loss, performing down-sampling on the high-loaded sampling parameters within a range of the configured at least two sampling rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Zhu Niu, Bo Wen, Shun Jie Fan
  • Patent number: 11922256
    Abstract: A method of reading a tag located on an object, wherein the tag includes tag values associated with the object, where the method includes obtaining a first sensor output, by reading the tag using a tag reader, the first sensor output being at least one of an erroneous and incomplete representation of the tag values of the tag and includes deriving at least one tag value from the first sensor output using a model, where the model is based on a first set of sensor outputs generated by the tag reader by reading a plurality of tags and tag values associated with the plurality of tags, and where the first set of sensor outputs includes a plurality of sensor outputs, where each sensor output includes at least one of an erroneous and incomplete representation of at least one tag value of the corresponding tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Felix Bär, Ralf Gross, Viadimir Lavrik
  • Patent number: 11924227
    Abstract: A system for monitoring an industrial system for cyberattacks includes an industrial control system including a plurality of actuators, a plurality of sensors each arranged to measure one of a plurality of operating parameters, and an edge device and a computer including a data storage device having stored thereon a program that includes each of a time-series database including expected operating ranges for each operating parameter, a clustering-based database that includes clusters of operating parameters having similarities, and a correlation database that includes pairs of operating parameters that show a correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Rutgers University
    Inventors: Jiaxing Pi, Dong Wei, Leandro Pfleger de Aguiar, Honggang Wang, Saman Zonouz