Patents by Inventor Carsten Fräger

Carsten Fräger 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: 8952645
    Abstract: In the case of speed-regulated high-power drives and with simultaneously high demands on accuracy or dynamics, the object of the invention is to reduce a very high level of complexity of the power electronics (high clock frequency), the motor (high precision) and mechanical transmission (low-play transmission elements). For this purpose, the invention proposes a drive device for rotational and/or t translational movements. The drive has a plurality of drives for the joint, mechanically coupled driving of a working machine or for moving a mass. It also has a control device. At least one drive is intended to provide the power (as a power drive). At least one further drive is provided and mechanically coupled as a servo-drive for controlling or regulating the accuracy and/or dynamics of the overall drive. The control device controls and regulates the at least two mechanically coupled drives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Lenze Automation GmbH
    Inventor: Carsten Fraeger
  • Patent number: 8421389
    Abstract: The invention relates to converters (inverters, pulse or frequency converters) and to driving “magnetically active” operating means. According to one embodiment, a circuit arrangement for feeding the operating means in at least one first winding phase (S1), comprises a first branch (Z1) of a frequency converter (WR1) adapted for and operable at a switching frequency of not higher than 5 kHz for outputting a main alternating current generated at said switching frequency and having a substantially lower operating frequency (f1) to a winding (L1). A second branch (z1) of another frequency converter (WR2) is adapted for and operable at a second switching frequency of more than 5 kHz for outputting a supplementary alternating current generated at said switching frequency to the same winding (L1). In the at least one winding (L1), the two alternating currents (iA(t); iB(t)) of the two branches (Z1, z1) are superimposed to form a sum current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Lenze Drives GmbH
    Inventor: Carsten Fraeger
  • Publication number: 20100188028
    Abstract: In the case of speed-regulated high-power drives and with simultaneously high demands on accuracy or dynamics, the object of the invention is to reduce a very high level of complexity of the power electronics (high clock frequency), the motor (high precision) and mechanical transmission (low-play transmission elements). For this purpose, the invention proposes a drive device for rotational and/or t translational movements. The drive has a plurality of drives for the joint, mechanically coupled driving of a working machine or for moving a mass. It also has a control device. At least one drive is intended to provide the power (as a power drive). At least one further drive is provided and mechanically coupled as a servo-drive for controlling or regulating the accuracy and/or dynamics of the overall drive. The control device controls and regulates the at least two mechanically coupled drives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: LENZE AUTOMATION GMBH
    Inventor: Carsten Fraeger
  • Publication number: 20100141190
    Abstract: The invention relates to converters (inverters, pulse or frequency converters) and to the driving of “magnetically active” operating means. An effective switching frequency of the converter is not to be reduced, but nevertheless a reduction in cooling requirements is to be achieved A noise level produced in the operating means is to be kept low as well. The invention proposes, for this purpose, a circuit arrangement for feeding the operating means (electrically operated machine (M)) having at least one winding (L1, L2, L3), which circuit arrangement, in at least one first winding phase (S1), comprises a first branch (Z1) of a frequency converter (WR1) adapted for and operable at a switching frequency of not higher than 5 kHz for outputting a main alternating current generated at said switching frequency and having a substantially lower operating frequency (f1) to a winding (L1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: Lenze Drives GmbH
    Inventor: Carsten Fraeger
  • Patent number: 7045925
    Abstract: A stator for an electric rotating-field induction generator that is much simpler to produce, especially regarding its windings, includes main and auxiliary poles projecting inward pressed or otherwise disposed radially onto the inner side of a yoke and positioned alternately about the circumference, of which the auxiliary poles are not wound, and the main poles are each surrounded by a coil. Each of the wound poles has a groove in the direction of the longitudinal side parallel to the axis along its longitudinal sides to accept coil sections, and these grooves include a trapezoidal cross-section and are enclosed by the non-wound auxiliary poles at the longitudinal-side groove opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Lenze Drive Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Fräger, Sven Hilfert, Matthias Müller, Edmund Neumann