Patents by Inventor Hans-Gunter Heitmann

Hans-Gunter Heitmann 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: 4594160
    Abstract: Magnetic separator for the purification of liquids with a tube which conducts the latter, contains balls or wire screens as magnetizable bodies and is surrounded by a coil for magnetizing the bodies. The tube contains, in the flow direction of the liquids over the major part of its length, balls and subsequently wire screens. A common coil is associated with the balls and the wire screens for magnetizing. The balls and the wire screens are connected to a common flushing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1986
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Gunter Heitmann, Gunter Rupp
  • Patent number: 4216057
    Abstract: A purification system for water to be vaporized in a steam generator of a nuclear reactor having a feedwater circulatory loop includes an electromagnetic filter having an inlet and an outlet connected in the feedwater circulatory loop, a line branching from the feedwater circulatory loop downstream of the electromagnetic filter in direction of feedwater flow therethrough, an ion exchange filter connected in the line, means for reducing pressure and temperature connected in the line upstream of the ion exchange filter in feedwater flow direction through the line, a shut-off valve connected in the feedwater circulatory loop upstream of the electromagnetic filter in the feedwater flow direction through the loop, and a connecting line extending from the feedwater tank to a location of the feedwater circulatory loop between the shut-off valve and the inlet of the electromagnetic filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1980
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Hans-Gunter Heitmann
  • Patent number: 3979288
    Abstract: Electromagnetic filter apparatus and method for impure water including an elongated substantially vertically disposed vessel traversible by impure water that is to be purified, a charge of magnetizable ball-like pellets received in the vessel, electric coil means coaxially surrounding the vessel, the coil means being electrically energizable to produce a magnetic field, rinsing water supply means connected to the substantially vertically disposed vessel at the lower end thereof, rinsing water discharge means connected to the vessel at the upper end thereof, passage means having a multiplicity of openings distributed over the cross section of the vessel in a plane disposed transversely to the axis of the vessel at substantially the middle of the charge of ball-like pellets, a pair of water connector means, respectively, for supplying water to and discharging water from the vessel, means connecting the openings of the passage means to one of the water connector means, and respective lines extending from the end
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1976
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Gunter Heitmann, Manfred Schott
  • Patent number: 3972772
    Abstract: In a nuclear power station having a pressurized water reactor, blowdown water which is produced in the steam generators due to an accumulation of existing impurities, is not discarded but is returned to the circulation system through an electromagnetic filter, in combination with a mixed bed filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1976
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Hans-Gunter Heitmann