Patents by Inventor Dirk Steckel

Dirk Steckel 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: 7830153
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a circuit arrangement for preventing overloading of magneto-inductive flowmeters. The disclosure can protect the amplifiers which are connected downstream thereof or the electronic evaluation system from overloading. To this end, the signal input circuit is provided with additional voltage-limiting diodes disposed downstream of the impedance converters so that eventual voltage tips are prevented during modulation in the downstream amplifiers of the evaluation electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: ABB AG
    Inventors: Thomas Blume, Dirk Steckel, Dieter Keese
  • Publication number: 20080307892
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a circuit arrangement for preventing overloading of magneto-inductive flowmeters. The disclosure can protect the amplifiers which are connected downstream thereof or the electronic evaluation system from overloading. To this end, the signal input circuit is provided with additional voltage-limiting diodes disposed downstream of the impedance converters so that eventual voltage tips are prevented during modulation in the downstream amplifiers of the evaluation electronics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: ABB AG
    Inventors: Thomas Blume, Dirk Steckel, Dieter Keese
  • Patent number: 7265544
    Abstract: A method and device for obtaining an interference free measurement from a flowmeter. The flowmeter includes a measuring tube through which a flowable medium flows through a magnetic field generated by a magnetic arrangement and at least two measuring electrodes for detecting the measurement voltage induced by the flowable medium. The medium gives rise to interference voltages. The electrodes are connected to an interference-voltage eliminating unit by which common-mode interference is first eliminated by differentiation and unequal interference voltages are subsequently eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: ABB patent GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Keese, Thomas-Fritz Blume, Dirk Steckel
  • Publication number: 20070035309
    Abstract: A method and device for detecting physical-chemical states on measuring electrodes (4a, 4b) of a flowmeter, through the measuring tube (1) of which a flowable medium (2) flows which, in doing so, passes through a magnetic field generated by a magnetic arrangement (3), wherein, for detecting the measurement voltage induced by the flowable medium (2), at least two measuring electrodes (4a, 4b), which are connected to a following interference-voltage eliminating unit (6) by which common-mode interference is first eliminated by differentiation, are arranged at the measuring tube (1), wherein unequal interference voltages are subsequently eliminated by the interference-voltage eliminating unit (6) in that, in operation, the current voltage value U+(n) and U?(n) of each individual measuring electrode (4a; 4b) is compared with the associated preceding voltage value U+(n?1) and U?(n?1), a measurement being released for further signal processing only when as a result of the comparison, an equal, essentially proportion
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Dieter Keese, Thomas-Fritz Blume, Dirk Steckel