Patents by Inventor Benjamin Wuthrich

Benjamin Wuthrich 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).

  • Circuit breaker
    Patent number: 9431199
    Abstract: A circuit breaker including two contacts, a pressurization chamber, a nozzle arrangement designed to blow an arc in a quenching region, with a narrowest passage of a pressurization chamber outflow channel to be passed by outflowing quenching gas defining a pressurization chamber outflow limiting area, a narrowest passage of a nozzle channel to be passed by outflowing quenching gas defining a nozzle outflow limiting area, the smaller area of which defining an absolute outflow limiting area, with quenching gas having a global warming potential lower than the one of SF6 over an interval of 100 years; wherein a ratio of the pressurization chamber outflow limiting area to the nozzle outflow limiting area is less than 1.1:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: Patrick Stoller, Martin Seeger, Arthouros Iordanidis, Benjamin Wuthrich
  • Circuit Breaker
    Publication number: 20150021297
    Abstract: A circuit breaker including two contacts, a pressurization chamber, a nozzle arrangement designed to blow an arc in a quenching region, with a narrowest passage of a pressurization chamber outflow channel to be passed by outflowing quenching gas defining a pressurization chamber outflow limiting area, a narrowest passage of a nozzle channel to be passed by outflowing quenching gas defining a nozzle outflow limiting area, the smaller area of which defining an absolute outflow limiting area, with quenching gas having a global warming potential lower than the one of SF6 over an interval of 100 years; wherein a ratio of the pressurization chamber outflow limiting area to the nozzle outflow limiting area is less than 1.1:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Patrick Stoller, Martin Seeger, Arthouros Iordanidis, Benjamin Wuthrich