Patents by Inventor Christian Hecker

Christian Hecker 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: 20210044235
    Abstract: A method for determining an angular position of a rotor of a synchronous motor, having a stator winding fed by a three-phase voltage set by an inverter, includes: supplying a control signal to the inverter to set the three-phase voltage fed to the motor as a stator voltage to control a motor current, acquired by a current-acquisition device, to a setpoint stator current; determining a stator flux from a time characteristic of the stator voltage and an acquired value of the stator current; and determining the angular position of the rotor from the stator flux and a flux-value dependence as a function of the stator current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Christian HECKER, Thomas SCHUSTER
  • Patent number: 10819263
    Abstract: In a method for determining the angular position of the rotor of a synchronous motor fed by an inverter, the inverter is actuated by a signal electronics including a control unit, in particular having a processing unit and a memory, the stator current in particular is acquired with the aid of at least one current-acquisition device, the synchronous motor having a stator winding, which is fed by a three-phase voltage, i.e. stator voltage, which is set by the inverter such that the acquired stator current is controlled to a predefined setpoint stator current by the control unit, a setpoint stator current with a first actuation angle relative to the stator winding is predefined, in particular in the d-direction, the stator flux is determined from the time characteristic of the stator voltage and the acquired values of the stator current, and an angle value, in particular the angular position, is determined from the determined stator flux and a flux-value dependence as a function of a stator current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Christian Hecker, Thomas Schuster
  • Patent number: 10450031
    Abstract: A gearshift for a bicycle having an electric auxiliary drive including a stepped gear system which is embodied as a hub gear system or derailleur system, and an electromechanical actuator for triggering a gear change of the gear system. The electromechanical actuator has a shift control unit which can be or is connected via a data line to a drive control unit of the auxiliary electric drive, which shift control unit is designed to activate the actuator as a function of at least one state parameter transmitted to the shift control unit by the drive control unit, or as a function of an item of information derived from said state parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO., KG
    Inventors: Boris Djakovic, Vincent Pommel, Dagmar Munch, Matthias Herbrich, Dietmar Rudy, Christian Hecker
  • Publication number: 20190319564
    Abstract: In a method for determining the angular position of the rotor of a synchronous motor fed by an inverter, the inverter is actuated by a signal electronics including a control unit, in particular having a processing unit and a memory, the stator current in particular is acquired with the aid of at least one current-acquisition device, the synchronous motor having a stator winding, which is fed by a three-phase voltage, i.e. stator voltage, which is set by the inverter such that the acquired stator current is controlled to a predefined setpoint stator current by the control unit, a setpoint stator current with a first actuation angle relative to the stator winding is predefined, in particular in the d-direction, the stator flux is determined from the time characteristic of the stator voltage and the acquired values of the stator current, and an angle value, in particular the angular position, is determined from the determined stator flux and a flux-value dependence as a function of a stator current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Christian HECKER, Thomas SCHUSTER
  • Patent number: 9683277
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing a ferric nitrate (Fe(NO3)3) reagent, capable of serving as a solvent and copper species oxidizing agent in the ore curing, heap leaching, and/or run of mine (ROM) leaching of a copper ore hydrometallurgical process located at a brown field or green field, from an aqueous copper raffinate solution from the copper ore hydrometallurgical process of copper ore containing iron (II) (Fe2+), and the reagent prepared pursuant to this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Likivia Process Metalúrgicos SPA
    Inventors: Alejandro Cartagena Fagerstrom, Ernesto Beas Bustos, Manuel Cartagena Fagerstrom, Christian Hecker Cartes
  • Publication number: 20170073040
    Abstract: A gearshift for a bicycle having an electric auxiliary drive including a stepped gear system which is embodied as a hub gear system or derailleur system, and an electromechanical actuator for triggering a gear change of the gear system. The electromechanical actuator has a shift control unit which can be or is connected via a data line to a drive control unit of the auxiliary electric drive, which shift control unit is designed to activate the actuator as a function of at least one state parameter transmitted to the shift control unit by the drive control unit, or as a function of an item of information derived from said state parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Boris Djakovic, Vincent Pommel, Dagmar Munch, Matthias Herbrich, Dietmar Rudy, Christian Hecker
  • Publication number: 20150082943
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing a ferric nitrate (Fe(NO3)3) reagent, capable of serving as a solvent and copper species oxidizing agent in the ore curing, heap leaching, and/or run of mine (ROM) leaching of a copper ore hydrometallurgical process located at a brown field or green field, from an aqueous copper raffinate solution from the copper ore hydrometallurgical process of copper ore containing iron (II) (Fe2+), and the reagent prepared pursuant to this process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Alejandro CARTAGENA FAGERSTROM, Ernesto Beas Bustos, Manuel Cartagena Fagerstrom, Christian Hecker Cartes
  • Publication number: 20130238307
    Abstract: A method and computer program product are disclosed for determining at least one optimization potential of a direct current motor. In order to determine optimization potentials in a simple manner based on a rewinding of a direct current motor, an improvement in the energy efficiency of the motor due to a rewinding of the armature is assumed as a basis for the at least one optimization potential, and a thermal model of the rotor is created at least from design data of the motor, wherein at least one temperature curve is modeled by at least one load profile, and wherein the at least one optimization potential is determined from said temperature profile and from motor data from before and after the rewinding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Inventors: Christian Hecker, Christian Andreas Wolf Pozzo
  • Patent number: 8057103
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roller bearing of a wheel hub of a motor vehicle comprising a tire pressure control system. Said roller bearing comprises an air guiding channel that extends radially through an external ring and an air guiding channel that extends radially through an internal ring that leads into an intermediate chamber that is arranged between the rows of the bearing bodies and is sealed in relation to said bearing bodies. In order to seal the intermediate chamber in a more simple and effective manner, said intermediate chamber comprises a flow channel that is embodied as a Venturi nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Raphael Fischer, Christian Hecker, Peter Niebling
  • Publication number: 20100156061
    Abstract: The invention relates to a connection of a suspension strut to a wheel carrier of a motor vehicle, wherein the wheel carrier is provided with a fixture for the releasable connection of a lower end of the suspension strut, and wherein the lower end of the suspension strut is mounted coaxially in the fixture. In order to improve this suspension strut connection, it is provided that the wheel carrier is a sheet-metal formed part on which the fixture of the suspension strut is integrally formed as a single piece, wherein retaining means which can be connected releasably to retaining means of the suspension strut are integrally formed on the fixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Raphael Fischer, Peter Niebling, Christian Hecker, Darius Dlugai
  • Publication number: 20100067839
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roller bearing of a wheel hub of a motor vehicle comprising a tire pressure control system. Said roller bearing comprises an air guiding channel that extends radially through an external ring and an air guiding channel that extends radially through an internal ring that leads into an intermediate chamber that is arranged between the rows of the bearing bodies and is sealed in relation to said bearing bodies. In order to seal the intermediate chamber in a more simple and effective manner, said intermediate chamber comprises a flow channel that is embodied as a Venturi nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2007
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Raphael Fischer, Christian Hecker, Peter Niebling
  • Publication number: 20100014798
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly on a motor vehicle for connecting an outer bearing ring of a rolling bearing and a wheel support which is formed by two cup-shaped molded sheet metal parts that can be fixedly connected so as to form a hollow profiled element. Each of the molded sheet metal parts is provided with a circular hole that is coaxial with the axis of rotation of the rolling bearing, said holes being spaced apart from one another. The space between the holes is occupied by a spacing ring which is axially supported on the inner edges of the molded sheet metal parts, said edges defining the two circular holes, in such a way that a tubular bearing receptacle for the outer bearing ring of the rolling bearing is formed and the molded sheet metal parts are fixedly connected to the spacing ring and the outer bearing ring of the rolling bearing in a positive and frictionally engaged manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Raphael Fischer, Peter Niebling, Christian Hecker, Darius Dlugai, Ralf Hund
  • Publication number: 20070125659
    Abstract: This invention discloses a process of the electro-winning of metals, in particular copper, is done in a strongly acidic aqueous solution (˜180 gpl H2SO4), with permanent cathodes of stainless steel or Cu starting sheets, and Pb—Ca—Sn anodes, in tradition electrolysis cells to obtain copper cathodes wherein in the electrolytic cells, a sinusoidal current is super-imposed over the continuous current in order to produce high-purity electrolytic copper. This invention also discloses the electro-refining process of metals, in particular copper, is done in a strongly acidic aqueous solution (˜180 gpl H2SO4), with permanent cathodes of stainless steel or Cu starting sheets, and anodes of impure copper from founding, in traditional electrolysis cells in order to obtain copper cathodes wherein in the electrolytic cells, a sinusoidal current is super-imposed over the continuous current in order to produce high-purity electrolytic copper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventor: Christian Hecker Cartes