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).

  • Publication number: 20240001773
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Christoph Adam, Matthias Corduan, Olaf Körner
  • Patent number: 11845477
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: Siemens Mobility GmbH, Siemens Mobility Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Kueter, Andreas Schaefer-Enkeler, Martin Teichmann, Christoph Adam, Olaf Koerner, Peter Seitz
  • Patent number: 11845474
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Adam, Peter Seitz
  • Publication number: 20230211812
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Christoph Adam, Peter Seitz
  • Publication number: 20220239188
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Christoph Adam, Peter Seitz
  • Patent number: 11245350
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Adam, Olaf Budig, Hartmut Frank, Andre Jansen, Olaf Koerner
  • Publication number: 20200398871
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: CHRISTIAN KUETER, ANDREAS SCHAEFER-ENKELER, MARTIN TEICHMANN, CHRISTOPH ADAM, OLAF KOERNER, PETER SEITZ
  • Patent number: 10533284
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Dauner, Thomas Mack, Christoph Adams, Frank-Udo Schönborn
  • Patent number: 10454406
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Marco Köhler, Christoph Adam, Hans Friedrich Steffani, Bernhard Volk
  • Patent number: 10385530
    Abstract: 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); a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Keller Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Nagy, Dietmar Adam, Christoph Adam, Maximilian Schmitter, Fritz Kopf, Gerhard Strauch, Peter Freitag
  • Publication number: 20190234035
    Abstract: 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 (k2
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Peter Nagy, Dietmar Adam, Christoph Adam, Maximilian Schmitter, Fritz Kopf, Gerhard Strauch, Peter Freitag
  • Publication number: 20190181790
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: CHRISTOPH ADAM, OLAF BUDIG, HARTMUT FRANK, ANDRE JANSEN, OLAF KOERNER
  • Patent number: 10242316
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Inventor: Christoph Adam Kohlhepp
  • Publication number: 20190036418
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Christoph ADAM, Andre JANSEN, Olaf KOERNER
  • Patent number: 10152760
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Inventor: Christoph Adam Kohlhepp
  • Publication number: 20180262154
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Marco Köhler, CHRISTOPH ADAM, HANS FRIEDRICH STEFFANI, BERNHARD VOLK
  • Publication number: 20180171555
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Dauner, Thomas Mack, Christoph Adams, Frank-Udo Schönborn
  • Publication number: 20170307387
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventor: Christoph Adam Kohlhepp
  • Publication number: 20170278000
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventor: Christoph Adam Kohlhepp
  • Patent number: 8080768
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Adam, Bernd Martin, Markus Schlegel, Thomas Stein