Patents by Inventor Franz Büchi

Franz Büchi 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: 6378787
    Abstract: A novel combined pressure atomizing nozzle for gas-turbine burners is provided, with which an improved adaptation of the atomizing quality of liquids to the respective load conditions, i.e. good premixing over the entire load range, can be realized. To this end, the pressure atomizing nozzle comprises a nozzle body (1) having at least two separate feed passages (7, 12) for at least one liquid (14, 29, 31) to be atomized. The first feed passage (7) is at least partly enclosed by the second feed passage (12) and is connected downstream to an outer space (5) via a discharge orifice (11). The second feed passage (12) is likewise connected to the outer space (5), in which case the second feed passage (12) has at least two discharge orifices (13) to the outer space (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Alstom
    Inventors: Franz Büchi, Uwe Hoferer, Peter Jansohn, Christian Steinbach
  • Patent number: 6276045
    Abstract: Upper and lower mirror image die plates are resiliently supported and have predetermined displacement values for forming vortex generators and foldline crease channels without compressive deformation in a porous sintered metal fiber sheet material. Cutters and ridges coupled to the upper and lower die plates form the respective vortex generators and channels. The sheet of so formed material is then placed in an apparatus for bending the sheet at the foldline channels to corrugate the sheet without deformation of the sheet material between the corrugation bends. Fingers align with and engage the channels. The fingers are on plates that are ramped closer together simultaneously while the fingers on two mirror image coplanar sets of plates displace toward each other as the sheet material is folded. Pins on a pair of rotating levers engage each of the finger plates of the two sets for relatively horizontally displacing the plates and corresponding fingers as they are ramped together vertically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: ABB Lummus Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Franz Büchi, Ernst Vogt, Peter Dubach, Timothy Griffin, Jonathan Lloyd, Bettina Paikert