Patents by Inventor Andreas HIerl

Andreas HIerl 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).

  • Publication number: 20130206558
    Abstract: A switching unit for an electrical switching device, in particular an electrical circuit breaker, is disclosed. The switching unit includes a switching lock with a switching mechanism and a rotor housing with a contact arm disposed therein for opening and closing contacts during a rotation of the rotor housing about a rotation axis. In an embodiment, at least one lever apparatus is functionally connected at its upper end by way of the switching mechanism and at its lower end by way of a connecting pin to a face of the rotor housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas BUNK, Andreas HIERL, Bernhard MAYER, Siegfried PIRKER, Christian POHLE
  • Publication number: 20130162254
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance apparatus includes a magnet unit and a housing unit enclosing the magnet unit. A noise prevention unit is provided which is arranged between the magnet unit and the housing unit enclosing the magnet unit and which has at least one noise prevention element made of an insulating foam. The at least one noise prevention element has a D-shaped cross-sectional area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: ANDREAS HIERL, BERND MACIEJEWSKI
  • Publication number: 20120199452
    Abstract: A switching device include at least two switching poles. Each of the switching poles has one current path and one switching contact system for opening and closing the current path, wherein a movable contact arrangement of the switching contact system of the switching poles has an integral switching shaft segment, formed from insulating material, which bears a contact lever arrangement and in which the switching shaft segments of adjacent switching poles are connected by way of at least two connecting branches; so as to form the switching shaft. The connecting branches extending at a distance parallel to the axis of rotation and are formed from corresponding connecting elements. In at least one embodiment, all of the connection elements of the at least two connecting branches are formed by first sections of the integral switching shaft segments, which bear the contact lever arrangements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jörg-Uwe Dahl, Ludvik Godesa, Andreas Hierl, Siegfried Pirker, Thomas Pniok
  • Publication number: 20120199453
    Abstract: A circuit breaker is disclosed, in particular for low voltages, having a switch shaft and a contact lever rotationally mounted and extending transverse to the longitudinal axis of the switch shaft and protruding out of the switch shaft, the shaft carrying a movable contact on a side of the outer contour of the contact piece, and including a recess on the opposite side of the outer contour thereof for suspending a pin having a force applied thereto on both sides of the contact lever by way of one spring each, each applying a torque to the contact lever in the closing direction. The two springs each include a cover element extending along the spring and each disposed between the spring and the arc formed between the contact pieces when the circuit breaker is opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Hierl, Siegfried Pirker
  • Publication number: 20120186955
    Abstract: An electric switch is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the switch includes a rotor housing; at least one electric contact arm, rotatably mounted in the rotor housing and being pivotable between an on-position and an off-position as well as relative to the rotor housing; and at least one intermediate part which, in a locking position, locks the pivotable contact arm with the rotor housing and, in the event of a relative rotation between the pivotable contact arm and the rotor housing, is moved away from the predefined locking position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jürgen Birner, Walter Felden, Bernhard Hannich, Johannes Hauer, Andreas Hierl, Siegfried Pirker, Thomas Pniok, Ralf Schwager
  • Publication number: 20110117470
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel cell system comprising a housing including a chamber for accommodating a fuel cell stack. The fuel cell system has various features that can also be independently embodied, namely: a U-shaped air channel including air inlet channels and air outlet channels which include an inlet or outlet on the same side of the housing of the fuel cell system; at least two fans or compressors that are disposed downstream of each other in an air flow direction in the air inlet channel or in the air outlet channel; a housing that has two additional, separate housing sections apart from a chamber for a fuel cell stack and an air inlet channel and an air outlet channel; and an air bypass channel which is arranged between an air inlet channel for introducing ambient air into a chamber for the fuel cell stack and an air outlet channel for discharging air from the chamber for the fuel cell stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: HELIOCENTRIS ENERGIESYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Özer Aras, Christian Leu, Andreas HIerl, Patrice Herold