Patents by Inventor Gerhard S. Kobus

Gerhard S. Kobus 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).

  • Apparatus for embossing superconducting tape for use in a superconducting magnet
    Patent number: 5379019
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing embossed foil for use in controlling the flow of the molten metal tin plating provided in forming laminated tape for use in superconducting magnets utilizing meshing knurling rollers with truncated paramydical elements arranged to provide and embossed pattern for uniform and controlled flow of the tin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Neil G. Fiddes, Christopher G. King, Gerhard S. Kobus, Anthony Mantone, Frank D. Shaffer
  • Method and apparatus for laminating foils into a superconducting tape for use in a superconducting magnet
    Patent number: 5299728
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for forming long lengths of laminated superconducting tape by passing three foils over idler pulleys, through a solder bath and between pinch rollers having a portion which extend above the solder bath to enable cleaning of the pinch rollers during the formation of the superconducting tape with means to adjust the pressure applied by the pinch rollers, and to adjust the laminated tape takeup tension independently from the foil process tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher G. King, Gerhard S. Kobus, Anthony Mantone, Malvin L. Dennis, Frank D. Shaffer, Richard A. Stephens, Neil G. Fiddes
  • Coil leap lap joint for superconducting magnet
    Patent number: 5255837
    Abstract: A method of forming a long 100-inch low resistance lap joint suitable for joining magnet coils in a superconducting magnet assembly on the magnet drum, which is accomplished by forming a flat solder sandwich within a groove on the drum and moving a heat source along the lap joint with controlled temperature, pressure and rotational speed of the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Bu X. Xu, Granville G. Ward, Winfield S. DeWitt, III, Gerhard S. Kobus, Craig C. Duer, Jimmy L. Turner
  • Document registration apparatus and method
    Patent number: 4322160
    Abstract: Positive registration of an original document to the edge of a copier platen (12, 108, 208) together with unidirectional feeding across the platen is provided by intermittently pivoting the platen. Document sheets transported by document transport belts (36, 101, 202) in a movement path over the transparent copying window (12, 108, 208) of a copier and over a fixed edge member (30, 112, 220), are registered and then fed by intermittently slightly lifting with a non-imagable electrical drive (18, 102, 212) one end (20, 106, 216) of the transparent window adjacent the fixed edge member. This interposes and intermittently removes a document sheet obstructing registration surface (66, 114, 218) in the movement path of the document. The fixed edge member (30, 112) can provide manual document registration on the platen without requiring retraction for automatic document feeding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1982
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Gerhard S. Kobus