Patents Assigned to Voith Patent GmbH
  • Patent number: 10533679
    Abstract: An electromagnetic drive for implementing a linear motion includes an electromagnet having a coil, a core and an armature able to move linearly along a symmetrical axis of the core, wherein an air gap is formed between the core and the armature. With the objective of providing for simple, compact, cost-effective and flexible use of the electromagnetic drive in high-pressure systems as well as a concurrent exact positioning of the piston at any given position at optimized extension speed, it is provided for the air gap to exhibit a base and two limbs running symmetrically to the symmetrical axis as well as an essentially frustoconical cross-section in longitudinal section and for the limbs to be arranged relative to the symmetrical axis of the core so as to form an angle ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Armin Goll, Stefan Lehmann, Steffen Lindörfer
  • Patent number: 10533284
    Abstract: A method for operating a heating group subsystem of a machine for the production or treatment of a fibrous web. The heating group subsystem includes a first heating group and a last heating group and at least one additional heating group; in each case having at least one device that is heated with pressurized heating steam. Viewed in a direction of travel, the fibrous web is fed first through the first heating group, then through the at least one additional heating group, and thereafter through last heating group. The steam pressure of the heating steam of the at least one additional heating group is adjusted lower than the respective steam pressure of the heating steam of first heating group and of last heating group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Dauner, Thomas Mack, Christoph Adams, Frank-Udo Schönborn
  • Patent number: 10533602
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic plain bearing includes a bearing shell having an inner surface which forms a bearing surface for a rotating shaft or the like. The bearing surface has a plurality of surface segments separated from each other and disposed successively in the circumferential direction of the bearing shell. At least the bearing surface or the entire bearing shell is made from CuCr1Zr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Fuchs
  • Publication number: 20200001844
    Abstract: A method for controlling a separating clutch in a power train of a vehicle having a drive motor and a retarder. The clutch is arranged such that a rotor of the retarder is switched into a drive connection with the motor and/or power train via the clutch and a working chamber of the retarder can be filled with an operating medium to build up a braking power such that braking torque is exerted by the retarder onto the power train and/or motor. A control system switches the clutch into a closed or an open position. The switching of the clutch into the closed position occurs depending on an input signal to the controller, and the clutch is switched back into the open position depending on essentially no medium being present in the working chamber of the retarder and that predetermined limits of an operating and/or environmental parameter are not exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Adams, Achim Menne, Philipp Müller
  • Patent number: 10523076
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a dynamoelectric machine utilizing multi-turn coils includes manufacturing a multi-turn coil having turn and ground insulation and installation of the coil into the stator core of the machine. The loop regions of the coil have no ground insulation during installation and the ground insulation at the loop regions is completed after installation of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Inna Kremza, Jeff Fenwick
  • Patent number: 10520010
    Abstract: A joint shaft, in particular a universal joint shaft, has first and second axial connection ends and a central part that connects the two connection ends to one another in a torsionally rigid and pivotable manner. At least one intermediate sleeve is provided between a first and a second shaft element with internal gearing having inner teeth, which are distributed over the circumference and extend in the direction of the longitudinal axis, and external gearing with outer teeth, which are distributed over the circumference and extend in the direction of the longitudinal axis. The sleeve is longitudinally displaceable relative to the first shaft element and to the second shaft element and is attached directly or indirectly in a torsionally rigid manner to the first shaft element by way of the intermediate sleeve external gearing and to the second shaft element by way of the intermediate sleeve internal gearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Grawenhof, Erich Haluk, Roger Clement
  • Patent number: 10507850
    Abstract: A device for connecting a coupling shaft to a car body of a track-guided vehicle, wherein the device includes a linkage connected to the coupling shaft and a bearing block connectable to the car body to which the linkage is articulated by means of at least one pivot pin so as to be pivotable in a horizontal plane. At least one pivot pin is designed as a shock protector and thereto comprises a bearing disc having a concentrically arranged recess and a shearing element having a breaking or separating region. A bearing block-side region of the shearing element is accommodated in the recess of the bearing disc and a linkage-side region of the shearing element is accommodated in a pin seat of the linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Arthur Kontetzki, Eckart Jäde
  • Patent number: 10502309
    Abstract: A spur gear transmission has at least two toothed spur gears, the toothings of which are in meshing engagement with one another and which are each rotatable about an axis of rotation. An enveloping wall encloses the two spur gears in a circumferential direction and in the direction of the axes of rotation. The enveloping wall has an inner contour which is adapted to the outer diameters of the spur gears such that ring-shaped gaps that merge into one another are formed between the enveloping wall and the spur gears. Each ring-shaped gap is arranged at least substantially concentrically with respect to a respective axis of rotation. The enveloping wall is formed by a multi-part housing which is closed along a parting joint. The parting joint extends partially or entirely substantially within a plane in which one of the two axes of rotation or both axes of rotation run.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Kaemmerer, Ralph Rudolph, Matthias Rauch, Marco Schneider
  • Patent number: 10501889
    Abstract: A clothing for a machine producing and/or processing a fibrous web extending in longitudinal and widthwise directions, includes a basic structure providing dimensional stability in longitudinal and/or widthwise directions. The structure includes a band-shaped, one-piece grid having widthwise-adjacent first material strands and polymer material having lengths in a longitudinal direction, and adjacent second interconnected material strands and/or droplets and polymer material, contacting the first strands at contact points forming the grid. The strands and/or droplets are deposited by extrusion of the polymer materials in liquid or pasty state onto a depositing surface forming a portion or all of the grid in liquid or pasty state, the polymer materials are solidified, converting the portion or the grid from liquid or pasty to solidified, stable, self-supporting state producing bonding at the contact points, and removing the portion or the grid from the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Abraham, Antony Morton
  • Patent number: 10495195
    Abstract: A method of operating a chain drive that includes sprockets. Tensile chain moments on the sprockets are determined and a specification value for operating the chain drive is determined therefrom in an automated manner. A corresponding assembly has a chain drive with sprockets and with a control device at least partly associated with the chain drive. The control device is configured for carrying out the method and a specification value for load distribution among the two drives for operating the chain drive is determined therefrom in an automated manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Ziegler
  • Patent number: 10487793
    Abstract: A method of mounting a guide apparatus of a large hydraulic machine with a vertical axis of rotation and wherein the axes of the guide blades extend vertically as well. The method includes the following steps: assembling an assembly with at least the upper guide wheel ring or the turbine cover and all the guide blades of the guide apparatus. This assembly does not take place in the machine shaft and the guide blades are mounted in a suspended manner, lowering the guide blades to mutually different height levels within the assembly such that the lowered guide blades can be displaced upwardly, installing the lower guide wheel ring in the machine shaft, and installing the assembly in the machine shaft by continuous lowering, wherein the guide blades present in the assembly are successively inserted into the openings provided in the lower guide wheel ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Gebhard Salcher
  • Patent number: 10480346
    Abstract: A hydraulic control device for an emergency stop valve of a steam turbine has a module for reducing a hydraulic pressure by rapid opening of an outflow valve and/or unloading or loading an actuator for actuating the emergency stop valve. In an operating medium supply and/or conducting system a control valve arrangement with at least three safety valves is provided, which are hydraulically interconnected such that they open the outflow valve or unload or load the actuator only when a safety circuit by way of at least two safety valves of the control valve arrangement has assumed an emergency stop position. A precontrol valve that is independent from the remaining safety valves is hydraulically connected upstream of each safety valve. A safety valve that is connected downstream of a respective precontrol valve can be hydraulically decoupled from the same during the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Leykauf
  • Publication number: 20190345827
    Abstract: A runner for a hydraulic turbine or pump, including a plurality of plurality of blades, each blade being defined by a pressure surface, an oppositely facing suction surface, a leading edge and a spaced apart trailing edge, at least one of the plurality of blades having a gas inlet aperture and a gas passage for supplying a flow of oxygen containing gas to the trailing edge of the same blade. The same blade also includes a continuous opening in the trailing edge to admit gas out of the gas passage to the passing fluid during operation of the runner. The continuous opening extends over at least 15% of the developed length of the trailing edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Kenneth Dunbar, Daniel Mc Ginnis, John Seifarth, Benjamin Kotzman
  • Publication number: 20190345953
    Abstract: A runner of the Francis type including a crown, a plurality of blades, each blade being defined by a pressure surface, a suction surface, an edge adjoining the high pressure side and a spaced apart edge adjoining the low pressure side. The crown includes a seal to seal the space above the crown against water from the high pressure side. The further runner includes at least one passage being capable to drain high pressure leakage water to the low pressure side. The passage includes an inlet aperture located in a portion of the crown which is exposed to high pressure leakage water. The passage is located within a blade and leads from the inlet aperture to the edge of the same blade adjoining to the low pressure side. The passage is shaped to form a continuous opening in the same edge adjoining to the low pressure side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Stuart Coulson, Kenneth Dunbar, Benjamin Kotzman, John Seifarth, Daniel Mc Ginnis
  • Publication number: 20190344400
    Abstract: A grinding robot for grinding an electrically conducting workpiece. The grinding robot includes a grinding wheel, an actuation device for actuating grinding wheel, and a control system. The grinding wheel including an undulated tool receptacle which defines an axis of rotation about which the grinding wheel can rotate during grinding, and a head which is rotationally symmetrical with respect to the axis of rotation, and which contains abrasive material and has a grinding surface which is in contact with workpiece during grinding. The grinding wheel also includes a measuring and transmission unit and at least one conductor strand pair with two conductor strands which are electrically insulated from one another. The conductor strands are embedded in the rotationally symmetrical head and extend from the grinding surface of the head into the interior of the head and are electrically connected with measuring and transmission unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Rohrer, Florian Weigl, Stefan Karner
  • Publication number: 20190345952
    Abstract: A hydraulic machine including a runner of Francis type, a head cover and a lower cover, the runner includes a low and a high pressure side, a crown, a band, and a plurality of blades, the crown having a sealing element to seal the space between the crown and head cover against water from the high-pressure side, whereas the runner has at least one passage to drain high-pressure leakage water passing the sealing element to the low-pressure side, and the passage has an inlet aperture located in a portion of the crown which during operation is exposed to high-pressure leakage water, the passage being located within one of the blades and leads from the inlet aperture to the band, where the passage forms an opening leading to the space between the band and the lower cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Stuart Coulson
  • Publication number: 20190345654
    Abstract: A plant and a method for connecting a web of fibrous material to a nonwoven or consolidating it therewith includes a first circulating belt on which the web of fibrous material is laid, a device for introducing a nonwoven into the plant, and a further successive circulating belt on which the nonwoven is to be connected to or consolidated with the web of fibrous material. The web of fibrous material from the first circulating belt is first laid on the nonwoven and subsequently the fibrous material is transferred onto the successive belt together with the nonwoven for connection or consolidation by use of water jets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicants: Truetzschler GmbH & Co. KG., Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas WEIGERT, Steffen PETERS, Dominic PRÖMPLER
  • Patent number: 10473128
    Abstract: An actuating drive for a control valve contains a working cylinder which has a piston and a piston rod and forms an actuator for the control valve. The piston bounds a first pressure space and a second pressure space to displace the piston counter to the force of a spring by applying pressure to the first pressure space via a working medium. A working medium circuit is connected to the working cylinder at first and second pressure connections to introduce and evacuate the working medium into/from the first and second pressure spaces. The working medium circuit has a working medium pump connected to convey the working fluid, at a pressure side, to the first pressure connection, and at a suction side, to the second pressure connection. The first pressure space is permanently connected, so as to convey working fluid, to the second pressure space via a bypass line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Hubert Schaber
  • Patent number: 10465769
    Abstract: An integral transmission for a transmission turbomachine has two gearwheels which are in mesh with a large wheel and which are each connected to a shaft that can be connected to an input and/or output unit. A housing, in which the gearwheels or the shafts connected thereto are supported and at least two partial housing units which can be connected by a main joint that extends through the support region of at least one gearwheel in mesh at least indirectly with the large wheel or of the shaft connected to the gearwheel. Accordingly, one of the two partial housing units is formed from at least three housing parts including a central housing part, which is assigned to the large wheel, and two side housing parts. The central housing part can be connected to an individual side housing part by a joint aligned at an angle to the main joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Arne Zimmermann, Joachim Rasch, Sabine Germann
  • Patent number: 10456949
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing fibrous board has a board carrier and a plurality of at least four cutting tools for separating a fibrous material, in particular strand-shaped or tape-shaped fibrous material into portions, and for depositing the portions. The board carrier is displaceable below the depositing cutting tools here through in at least one movement direction. The depositing cutting tools are substantially stationary and are disposed beside one another in such a manner that the portions of these depositing cutting tools may be simultaneously deposited beside one another on the board carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Jaromir Ufer