Patents by Inventor Christoph Adam
Christoph Adam 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).
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Publication number: 20240001773Abstract: An electric drive system for a vehicle, such as a rail vehicle, has a plurality of different drive motors. The motors include at least one permanently excited motor as a drive and at least one further motor selected from the group of asynchronous motor and reluctance motor as a drive motor. The permanently excited motor is powered by an inverter whose power semiconductor has a greater band gap than silicon, and the further motor which is selected from the group of asynchronous motor and reluctance motor is powered by an Si inverter.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Christoph Adam, Matthias Corduan, Olaf Körner
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Patent number: 11845477Abstract: A bogie of a rail vehicle has at least one wheelset with two oppositely situated wheels that are rigidly connected to one another, a wheelset bearing arrangement of the wheelset within the two wheels, a traction motor which directly drives the wheelset, and an aerodynamic paneling enclosure of the bogie. The traction motor is a permanently excited synchronous motor with liquid cooling.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignees: Siemens Mobility GmbH, Siemens Mobility Austria GmbHInventors: Christian Kueter, Andreas Schaefer-Enkeler, Martin Teichmann, Christoph Adam, Olaf Koerner, Peter Seitz
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Patent number: 11845474Abstract: An arrangement for a rail vehicle has an electric hollow-shaft motor with a hollow rotor and a wheelset shaft that runs through the hollow rotor. The rotor is separated from the wheelset shaft at least in certain sections by a radial air gap which ensures a mechanical clearance between the wheelset shaft and the rotor. A protective material is arranged in the region of the radial air gap between the rotor and the wheelset shaft. The protective material, in the event of failure of a motor fastening of the hollow-shaft motor and subsequent support of the rotor on the wheelset shaft, separates the rotor from the wheelset shaft. The protective material is softer than the material of the wheelset shaft and softer than at least one material of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbHInventors: Christoph Adam, Peter Seitz
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Publication number: 20230211812Abstract: An arrangement for a rail vehicle has an electric hollow-shaft motor with a hollow rotor and a wheelset shaft that runs through the hollow rotor. The rotor is separated from the wheelset shaft at least in certain sections by a radial air gap which ensures a mechanical clearance between the wheelset shaft and the rotor. A protective material is arranged in the region of the radial air gap between the rotor and the wheelset shaft. The protective material, in the event of failure of a motor fastening of the hollow-shaft motor and subsequent support of the rotor on the wheelset shaft, separates the rotor from the wheelset shaft. The protective material is softer than the material of the wheelset shaft and softer than at least one material of the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Christoph Adam, Peter Seitz
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Publication number: 20220239188Abstract: An electric motor for a rail vehicle has a rotational speed sensor. The rotational speed sensor is mounted to an end shield of the electric motor. A sensor wheel for the rotational speed sensor is mounted to a clutch of the electric motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Christoph Adam, Peter Seitz
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Patent number: 11245350Abstract: An electrical machine has a braking element and a release device. A rotor of the electrical machine includes the braking element and release device. The electrical machine is located, for example, in a rail vehicle. In order to brake the rotor of the electrical machine in the event of an error in the drive train, an overload torque is generated by the electrical machine. An overload clutch is triggered by the overload torque.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbHInventors: Christoph Adam, Olaf Budig, Hartmut Frank, Andre Jansen, Olaf Koerner
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Publication number: 20200398871Abstract: A bogie of a rail vehicle has at least one wheelset with two oppositely situated wheels that are rigidly connected to one another, a wheelset bearing arrangement of the wheelset within the two wheels, a traction motor which directly drives the wheelset, and an aerodynamic paneling enclosure of the bogie. The traction motor is a permanently excited synchronous motor with liquid cooling.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: CHRISTIAN KUETER, ANDREAS SCHAEFER-ENKELER, MARTIN TEICHMANN, CHRISTOPH ADAM, OLAF KOERNER, PETER SEITZ
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Patent number: 10533284Abstract: A method for operating a heating group subsystem of a machine for the production or treatment of a fibrous web. The heating group subsystem includes a first heating group and a last heating group and at least one additional heating group; in each case having at least one device that is heated with pressurized heating steam. Viewed in a direction of travel, the fibrous web is fed first through the first heating group, then through the at least one additional heating group, and thereafter through last heating group. The steam pressure of the heating steam of the at least one additional heating group is adjusted lower than the respective steam pressure of the heating steam of first heating group and of last heating group.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Martin Dauner, Thomas Mack, Christoph Adams, Frank-Udo Schönborn
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Patent number: 10454406Abstract: A dynamo-electric machine includes a laminated stator, a laminated rotor and a winding system disposed in the laminated stator and/or the laminated rotor and forming a winding overhang on end faces of the laminated stator and/or laminated rotor. The winding system includes a signaling line to detect interturn faults generated by a high heat. An insulation of signaling lines or a wire of the signaling lines is configured to be temperature-sensitive so that a melting point of the insulation or of the wire is about 30 degrees Kelvin above the temperature class of the dynamo-electric machine.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Marco Köhler, Christoph Adam, Hans Friedrich Steffani, Bernhard Volk
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Patent number: 10385530Abstract: A method for detecting and controlling compaction when compacting a soil by a depth vibrator which has a rotationally drivable imbalance (3) and at least one sensor (6, 12, 13, 14, 19), comprising the steps of: inserting the depth vibrator (2) into the soil (17) up to a desired final depth (Tm); compaction of the soil (17) during which the forward angle (?) of the imbalance (3) as well as the oscillation amplitude (A) of the depth vibrator (2) are determined; detection of a soil stiffness profile from soil stiffness values (k) determined over time (t); determination of a first soil stiffness value (k1) and a second soil stiffness value (k2) from the soil stiffness profile (k), for which it applies that a rate of increase (k?2) of the second soil stiffness value (k2) exceeds a rate of increase (k?1) of the first soil stiffness value (k1) by a defined factor; calculation of a transition soil stiffness value (k12) which is between the first soil stiffness value (k1) and the second soil stiffness value (k2); aType: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Keller Holding GmbHInventors: Peter Nagy, Dietmar Adam, Christoph Adam, Maximilian Schmitter, Fritz Kopf, Gerhard Strauch, Peter Freitag
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Publication number: 20190234035Abstract: A method for detecting and controlling compaction when compacting a soil by a depth vibrator which has a rotationally drivable imbalance (3) and at least one sensor (6, 12, 13, 14, 19), comprising the steps of: inserting the depth vibrator (2) into the soil (17) up to a desired final depth (Tm); compaction of the the soil (17) during which the forward angle (?) of the imbalance (3) as well as the oscillation amplitude (A) of the depth vibrator (2) are determined; detection of a soil stiffness profile from soil stiffness values (k) determined over time (t); determination of a first soil stiffness value (k1) and a second soil stiffness value (k2) from the soil stiffness profile (k), for which it applies that a rate of increase (k?2) of the second soil stiffness value (k2) exceeds a rate of increase (k?1) of the first soil stiffness value (k1) by a defined factor; calculation of a transition soil stiffness value (k12) which is between the first soil stiffness value (k1) and the second soil stiffness value (k2Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Peter Nagy, Dietmar Adam, Christoph Adam, Maximilian Schmitter, Fritz Kopf, Gerhard Strauch, Peter Freitag
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Publication number: 20190181790Abstract: An electrical machine has a braking element and a release device. A rotor of the electrical machine includes the braking element and release device. The electrical machine is located, for example, in a rail vehicle. In order to brake the rotor of the electrical machine in the event of an error in the drive train, an overload torque is generated by the electrical machine. An overload clutch is triggered by the overload torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: CHRISTOPH ADAM, OLAF BUDIG, HARTMUT FRANK, ANDRE JANSEN, OLAF KOERNER
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Patent number: 10242316Abstract: A computer-implemented method for automating manufacturing supply chain planning, comprising: (a) providing a computer processor for processing data; (b) providing at least one input device; (c) providing at least one output device; (d) providing a computer readable storage device; (e) providing a first ontology for defining a product in terms of the method of manufacture of said product or for defining a plurality of products in terms of the method of manufacture of said products; (f) providing a second ontology for defining the capabilities of a plurality of manufacturing facilities; and g) providing a knowledge representation and reasoning system executed on said computer processor.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Inventor: Christoph Adam Kohlhepp
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Publication number: 20190036418Abstract: A permanent-magnet synchronous machine includes a stator in which a stator winding is arranged, a rotor which can rotate about a rotation axis and in which permanent magnets are arranged, wherein the rotor is connected to a motor shaft via a connecting device which is formed such that it initially connects the rotor to the motor shaft in a rotationally fixed manner, such that a torque which is generated by the interaction of stator winding and permanent magnet is transmitted to the motor shaft, where the connecting device is further configured automatically break the rotationally fixed connection of the rotor in the event of a short circuit of the stator winding, such that a torque that acts on the motor shaft is no longer transmitted to the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2016Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Christoph ADAM, Andre JANSEN, Olaf KOERNER
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Patent number: 10152760Abstract: A computer-implemented method for operating a robotic manufacturing network, comprising: (a) providing a communications network; (b) providing a plurality of computer processor nodes for processing data wherein said computer processor nodes are participants on said communication network; (c) providing a plurality of manufacturing facilities; (d) providing a plurality of transport agents connecting said manufacturing facilities; (e) providing a plurality of actors selected from the group consisting of said manufacturing facilities and said transport agents wherein said actors are participants in said robotic manufacturing network and communicate on said communications network; (f) providing a robotic capability model as manufacturing supply chain planning service whereby autonomous manufacturing supply chain functionality is created that transforms product specifications into optimized manufacturing production plans thereby permitting products to be made by a population of networked manufacturing agents.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Inventor: Christoph Adam Kohlhepp
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Publication number: 20180262154Abstract: A dynamo-electric machine includes a laminated stator, a laminated rotor and a winding system disposed in the laminated stator and/or the laminated rotor and forming a winding overhang on end faces of the laminated stator and/or laminated rotor. The winding system includes a signaling line to detect interturn faults generated by a high heat. An insulation of signaling lines or a wire of the signaling lines is configured to be temperature-sensitive so that a melting point of the insulation or of the wire is about 30 degrees Kelvin above the temperature class of the dynamo-electric machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2015Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Marco Köhler, CHRISTOPH ADAM, HANS FRIEDRICH STEFFANI, BERNHARD VOLK
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Publication number: 20180171555Abstract: A method for operating a heating group subsystem of a machine for the production or treatment of a fibrous web. The heating group subsystem includes a first heating group and a last heating group and at least one additional heating group; in each case having at least one device that is heated with pressurized heating steam. Viewed in a direction of travel, the fibrous web is fed first through the first heating group, then through the at least one additional heating group, and thereafter through last heating group. The steam pressure of the heating steam of the at least one additional heating group is adjusted lower than the respective steam pressure of the heating steam of first heating group and of last heating group.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2017Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Martin Dauner, Thomas Mack, Christoph Adams, Frank-Udo Schönborn
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Publication number: 20170307387Abstract: A computer-implemented method for operating a robotic manufacturing network, comprising: (a) providing a communications network; (b) providing a plurality of computer processor nodes for processing data wherein said computer processor nodes are participants on said communication network; (c) providing a plurality of manufacturing facilities; (d) providing a plurality of transport agents connecting said manufacturing facilities; (e) providing a plurality of actors selected from the group consisting of said manufacturing facilities and said transport agents wherein said actors are participants in said robotic manufacturing network and communicate on said communications network; (f) providing a robotic capability model as manufacturing supply chain planning service whereby autonomous manufacturing supply chain functionality is created that transforms product specifications into optimized manufacturing production plans thereby permitting products to be made by a population of networked manufacturing agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2016Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventor: Christoph Adam Kohlhepp
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Publication number: 20170278000Abstract: A computer-implemented method for automating manufacturing supply chain planning, comprising: (a) providing a computer processor for processing data; (b) providing at least one input device; (c) providing at least one output device; (d) providing a computer readable storage device; (e) providing a first ontology for defining a product in terms of the method of manufacture of said product or for defining a plurality of products in terms of the method of manufacture of said products; (f) providing a second ontology for defining the capabilities of a plurality of manufacturing facilities; and g) providing a knowledge representation and reasoning system executed on said computer processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2016Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventor: Christoph Adam Kohlhepp
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Patent number: 8080768Abstract: An arrangement with a worktop and a cooktop with a cooking surface, a mounting frame and a decorative frame, which is arranged in a recess in the worktop, with the distance elements, embodied for relative positioning of the cooktop in relation to the recess and on which the cooktop rests, being arranged between the cooktop and the worktop.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2008Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Christoph Adam, Bernd Martin, Markus Schlegel, Thomas Stein