Patents by Inventor Gunter Steinmuller

Gunter Steinmuller 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: 5177433
    Abstract: The current transformer of an electronic house-service meter has a ferromagnetic core which, except for an air gap, is closed. A measuring coil is inserted in the air gap and is fastened, and dimensioned so that it lies within the cross sectional area of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Schwendtner, Gunter Steinmuller, Wolfgang Dohmstreich
  • Patent number: 4454471
    Abstract: An electronic arrangement for determination of reactive power, including two transducers delivering at their outputs measuring voltages proportional to supply current and supply voltage. An additional phase shift of 90.degree. between the two measuring voltages is produced by phase-shifting elements. A signal proportional to reactive power is produced in a following multiplier element. To preclude as far as possible variation of amplitude and phase shift occurring on frequency fluctuation in a frequency range close to rated frequency of the power supply, an all-pass is connected as a phase-shifting element ahead of each of the two respective inputs of the multiplier element whereby one all-pass is designed to produce a phase shift of +45.degree. and the other all-pass is designed to produce a phase shift of -45.degree. at the rated frequency of the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1984
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Schwendtner, Gunter Steinmuller
  • Patent number: 4378524
    Abstract: An electronic multiphase watt-hour metering system containing time-division multiplying circuitry. A duty cycle modulator and a switching device are provided for each phase of interest, the output signals of which are combined and conducted to a current-to-frequency converter. The output frequency of the current-to-frequency converter is responsive to the rate of electrical power consumption from a multiphase transmission system. In one embodiment, the current-to-frequency converter is coupled at its output to an accumulating counting system for recording the total energy supplied to a load. There may further be provided an indicator responsive to the frequency of the current-to-frequency converter for providing a visual indication of the instantaneous rate of power usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1983
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Gunter Steinmuller
  • Patent number: 4254376
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the electric power or energy in an a-c network is disclosed wherein a multiplying device operating according to the principle of pulse duration-pulse height modulation is used and the variables proportional to the load current and the load voltage are taken directly from the load current and the load voltage respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1981
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Gunter Steinmuller
  • Patent number: 4215413
    Abstract: In a measuring device for integral values formed over a time span which is constantly up-dated, the system being one in which pulses represent a fixed quantity of the value being measured, the pulses are stored in a random access memory of a microcomputer with the central processing unit of the microcomputer sequentially addressing individual memory cells, in a repetitive manner after each sweep of the time span.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1980
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reinhard Stark, Gunter Steinmuller
  • Patent number: 3953795
    Abstract: This invention is an electronic kilowatthour meter with a time-division multiplier, wherein a proportional first current is derived from the load voltage without a voltage transformer and a proportional second current is derived by means of an inverting amplifier, with a polarity opposite to that of the first current and instantaneous values halved as compared to the first current, and that the first current is added to the second current in one of two switching conditions by means of a switch which is operated by a pulse width-frequency modulator controlled by the load current, so that the average value of the sum current is proportional to the product of the load current and the load voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1976
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Julius Brunner, Manfred Schwendtner, Gunter Steinmuller