Patents by Inventor Frank Reichert

Frank Reichert 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: 20240055161
    Abstract: An assembly contains a disconnecting device for a surge-arresting device. A first contact and a second contact of the disconnecting device are connected by a first path having a switching element which can be thermally tripped. A second path is disposed electrically in parallel with the first path. An impedance element is disposed in the second path. A spark gap is disposed in the first path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Bernd Kruska, Bi Xue Liu, Arkadz Petchanka, Frank Reichert, Ralf Rössler
  • Patent number: 11862420
    Abstract: An interrupter unit for a circuit breaker includes a gas-insulated housing, which is fillable with a quenching gas, and a gas-guiding structure, which is disposed in the housing and has a guide tube and at least one diverting element. The guide tube extends in tubular manner about a longitudinal axis of the interrupter unit in order to guide hot gas, which is created in an electric arc region of the interrupter unit by the heating of quenching gas by an electric arc, away from the electric arc region. The at least one diverting element is configured to set hot gas exiting from the guide tube in a circular flow running around the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Claudia Wiesinger, Frank Reichert
  • Patent number: 11587748
    Abstract: A high-voltage power switch, preferably with a dead tank design, contains: a switching unit that has a switching device and an actuation element that is axially movable in relation to a longitudinal axis of the switching device to actuate the switching device and a closing resistor unit that has a closing resistor arrangement and an adjusting element that is axially movable in relation to a longitudinal axis of this closing resistor arrangement to actuate the closing resistor arrangement. The actuation element is coupled to the adjusting element in order to move the latter. Accordingly, the longitudinal axis of the switching unit and the longitudinal axis of the closing resistor unit are spaced apart, and the actuation and adjusting elements are coupled by a coupling device of the high-voltage power switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Radu-Marian Cernat, Armin Grund, Johannes Kern, Friedrich Loebner, Andrzej Nowakowski, Frank Reichert, Jens Schimmelpfennig, Andre Singer, Wolfgang Soerries, Stefan Wilke
  • Publication number: 20220293366
    Abstract: A separating wall for dividing a heating volume of a power circuit into a first sub-volume and a second sub-volume. The separating wall is formed with at least one wall opening which allows a flow of gas between the sub-volumes. The wall opening has an aerodynamically active opening surface based on a pressure difference between a pressure in the first sub-volume and a pressure in the second sub-volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Radu-Marian Cernat, Thomas Chyla, Frank Reichert, Joerg Teichmann
  • Publication number: 20210383992
    Abstract: An interrupter unit for a circuit breaker includes a gas-insulated housing, which is fillable with a quenching gas, and a gas-guiding structure, which is disposed in the housing and has a guide tube and at least one diverting element. The guide tube extends in tubular manner about a longitudinal axis of the interrupter unit in order to guide hot gas, which is created in an electric arc region of the interrupter unit by the heating of quenching gas by an electric arc, away from the electric arc region. The at least one diverting element is configured to set hot gas exiting from the guide tube in a circular flow running around the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Claudia Wiesinger, Frank Reichert
  • Publication number: 20210183598
    Abstract: A high-voltage power switch, preferably with a dead tank design, contains: a switching unit that has a switching device and an actuation element that is axially movable in relation to a longitudinal axis of the switching device to actuate the switching device and a closing resistor unit that has a closing resistor arrangement and an adjusting element that is axially movable in relation to a longitudinal axis of this closing resistor arrangement to actuate the closing resistor arrangement. The actuation element is coupled to the adjusting element in order to move the latter. Accordingly, the longitudinal axis of the switching unit and the longitudinal axis of the closing resistor unit are spaced apart, and the actuation and adjusting elements are coupled by a coupling device of the high-voltage power switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Radu-Marian Cernat, Armin Grund, Johannes Kern, Friedrich Loebner, Andrzej Nowakowski, Frank Reichert, Jens Schimmelpfennig, Andre Singer, Wolfgang Soerries, Stefan Wilke
  • Patent number: 10685798
    Abstract: An interrupter unit for a circuit breaker has two electrically conductive arcing contact pieces, which can be moved relative to one another along a switching path. An insulating nozzle has a nozzle channel through which the switching path runs. A heating volume is connected to the nozzle channel. A separating housing divides the heating volume into a cold gas region and a hot gas region. A cold gas duct runs through a nozzle channel end section of the nozzle channel and is connected to the cold gas region. A hot gas duct runs through the nozzle channel end section and is connected to the hot gas region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Radu-Marian Cernat, Volker Lehmann, Andrzej Nowakowski, Frank Reichert
  • Publication number: 20190180963
    Abstract: An interrupter unit for a circuit breaker has two electrically conductive arcing contact pieces, which can be moved relative to one another along a switching path. An insulating nozzle has a nozzle channel through which the switching path runs. A heating volume is connected to the nozzle channel. A separating housing divides the heating volume into a cold gas region and a hot gas region. A cold gas duct runs through a nozzle channel end section of the nozzle channel and is connected to the cold gas region. A hot gas duct runs through the nozzle channel end section and is connected to the hot gas region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: RADU-MARIAN CERNAT, VOLKER LEHMANN, ANDRZEJ NOWAKOWSKI, FRANK REICHERT
  • Publication number: 20110182205
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for conducting remote discovery of services across different local networks. A service discovery gateway in one local network issues a request for discovery information on the services in the opposite local network, embedded in a presence subscribe message over an IMS network. Discovery information is then received in a generic format embedded in a presence notify message over the IMS network. The received discovery information has been collected by a service discovery gateway in the first local network using a local service discovery protocol in the first local network. The received discovery information is announced to devices in the second local network, using a local service discovery protocol valid within the second local network. Thereby, local services can be provided and utilized across different local networks, even when different device-specific service discovery protocols are used within the local networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2007
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Martin Gerdes, Andreas Fasbender, Andreas Häber, Frank Reichert
  • Patent number: 6122263
    Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for use with a mobile radio network, which receives and analyzes packets from a packet-switched fixed network, such as the Internet, and depending on the type of information received (e.g., speech, low speed data, or high speed WWW data), routes the information over an appropriate radio air interface to a mobile radio terminal. The speech information can be routed to mobile radio terminals over a conventional circuit-switched mobile radio link (e.g., a GSM traffic channel), the low speed data can be routed over a packet-switched mobile radio link (e.g., a GPRS traffic data channel), and the high speed data can be routed over a wideband broadcast radio link (e.g., a DAB network radio link). As a result, mobile radio terminals can advantageously enjoy full access to the Internet and thereby communicate effectively over the Internet with other mobile and wire-bound terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
    Inventors: Steinar Dahlin, Frank Reichert, Ina Widegren