Patents by Inventor Alexander Rau

Alexander Rau has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11746794
    Abstract: A method for operating a fan system as well as such a fan system. The fan system has a control device having an artificial neural network. The control device controls an electric motor of a backward curved centrifugal fan. The centrifugal fan creates a gas flow that is characterized by an actual flow value, particularly the actual value of a volume flow rate. The actual flow value is not detected by a sensor means, but determined by means of the artificial neural network depending from input variables and based thereon, the electric motor is open loop or closed loop controlled by means of the control device. The motor current and the motor voltage as well as their time-dependent behavior that can be the time derivative (e.g. gradient of first order) or that can be at least one preceding value at a preceding point in time, are provided to an input layer of the artificial neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: EBM-PAPST MULFINGEN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Walter Eberle, Alexander Rau, Ralph Wystup, Rainer Nase, Markus Humm
  • Patent number: 11525591
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for determining the positions of a number of fans (Vn,m) for generating an air flow in a preferably enclosed space, which have a speed sensor for determining their position, wherein the fans (Vn,m) are arranged in rows (R1, R2, . . . , Rn) and columns (S1, S2, . . . , Sm), wherein at least the position (i, j) of one fan (Vi,j) is known.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ralph Wystup, Markus Humm, Alexander Rau
  • Patent number: 11519619
    Abstract: A method for determining the positions of a number of fans (Vn,m) for generating an air flow in a preferably enclosed space. The fans (Vn,m) have an acceleration sensor to determine their position. The fans (Vn,m) are arranged in rows (R1, R2, . . . , Rn) and columns (S1, S2, . . . , Sm). At least the position (i, j) of one fan (Vi,j) is known.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Humm, Alexander Rau, Christian Antonius Knipp
  • Publication number: 20210372417
    Abstract: A method for operating a fan system as well as such a fan system. The fan system has a control device having an artificial neural network. The control device controls an electric motor of a backward curved centrifugal fan. The centrifugal fan creates a gas flow that is characterized by an actual flow value, particularly the actual value of a volume flow rate. The actual flow value is not detected by a sensor means, but determined by means of the artificial neural network depending from input variables and based thereon, the electric motor is open loop or closed loop controlled by means of the control device. The motor current and the motor voltage as well as their time-dependent behavior that can be the time derivative (e.g. gradient of first order) or that can be at least one preceding value at a preceding point in time, are provided to an input layer of the artificial neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Walter EBERLE, Alexander RAU, Ralph WYSTUP, Rainer NASE, Markus HUMM
  • Publication number: 20200400329
    Abstract: A method for determining the positions of a number of fans (Vn,m) for generating an air flow in a preferably enclosed space. The fans (Vn,m) have an acceleration sensor to determine their position. The fans (Vn,m) are arranged in rows (R1, R2, . . . , Rn) and columns (S1, S2, . . . , Sm). At least the position (i, j) of one fan (Vi,j) is known.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Markus HUMM, Alexander RAU, Christian Antonius KNIPP
  • Publication number: 20200300490
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for determining the positions of a number of fans (Vn,m) for generating an air flow in a preferably enclosed space, which have a speed sensor for determining their position, wherein the fans (Vn,m) are arranged in rows (R1, R2, . . . , Rn) and columns (S1, S2, . . . , Sm), wherein at least the position (i, j) of one fan (Vi,j) is known.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Ralph Wystup, Markus Humm, Alexander Rau