Patents by Inventor Harald Vetter
Harald Vetter 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).
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Patent number: 9627140Abstract: The invention relates to a capacitor component having a first integrated capacitor (C1) and an integrated Y capacitor, wherein the Y capacitor has a second capacitor (C2) and a third capacitor (C3), and the second and third capacitor (C2, C3) are connected in series with one another and in parallel with the first capacitor (C1). The invention further relates to a method for producing such a capacitor component.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: EPCOS AGInventors: Harald Vetter, Wilhelm Grimm
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Publication number: 20140301016Abstract: The invention relates to a capacitor component having a first integrated capacitor (C1) and an integrated Y capacitor, wherein the Y capacitor has a second capacitor (C2) and a third capacitor (C3), and the second and third capacitor (C2, C3) are connected in series with one another and in parallel with the first capacitor (C1). The invention further relates to a method for producing such a capacitor component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2012Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: EPCOS AGInventors: Harald Vetter, Wilhelm Grimm
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Patent number: 8416556Abstract: A power electronics module includes a capacitor having a trough-shaped housing and at least one capacitor winding. An electronic unit includes a base on which the capacitor is mounted. A cooling plate in thermal contact with a cooling surface of the capacitor is formed by a bus bar. The cooling plate is on the base of the electronic unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2006Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignees: Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbH, EPCOS AGInventors: Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Hübscher, Harald Vetter, Gerhard Hiemer, Edmund Schirmer, Hermann Kilian, Hermann Bäumel, George Dietrich
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Patent number: 8339767Abstract: A power capacitor is described herein. The power capacitor includes a housing and at least one capacitor winding. The power capacitor also includes at least one mechanical spring element between the housing and the at least one capacitor winding.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2006Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: EPCOS AGInventors: Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Hübscher, Harald Vetter
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Publication number: 20090195957Abstract: A power capacitor is described herein. The power capacitor includes a housing and at least one capacitor winding. The power capacitor also includes at least one mechanical spring clement between the housing and the at least one capacitor winding.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2006Publication date: August 6, 2009Inventors: Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Hübscher, Harald Vetter
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Publication number: 20090059467Abstract: A power electronics module includes a capacitor having a trough-shaped housing and at least one capacitor winding. An electronic unit includes a base on which the capacitor is mounted. A cooling plate in thermal contact with a cooling surface of the capacitor is formed by a bus bar. The cooling plate is on the base of the electronic unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2006Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventors: Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Hubscher, Harald Vetter, Gerhard Hiemer, Edmund Schirmer, Hermann Kilian, Hermann Baumel, George Dietrich
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Publication number: 20090040685Abstract: The present invention relates to a power capacitor (1) for the installation in a motor vehicle, comprising a capacitor unit (2) with at least one first and at least one second capacitor element (3, 4) whereby each capacitor element comprises at least two rolled-up plastic films that are provided with metal layers and are provided with metal-free edge strips on mutually opposite lying longitudinal sides, a circuit connection unit (5) and a housing (12), whereby the capacitor elements (3, 4) are circuit-connected in parallel by means of the circuit connection unit (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2006Publication date: February 12, 2009Inventors: Gerhard Hiemer, Edmund Schirmer, Hermann Kilian, Hermann Baeumel, Dietrich George, Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Huebscher, Harald Vetter
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Publication number: 20080100993Abstract: A module connects a network having a power mains to a housing. The module includes a platform for holding electrical components. The platform includes a body made of a fiber-composite material and reinforcing glass fibers, a busbar in the body, and a contact element associated with the busbar for making contact with the busbar. A hood is connected to the body. A functional unit is in the hood. The functional unit includes at least one capacitor per current phase of the power mains.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2005Publication date: May 1, 2008Inventors: Rudolf Muller, Harald Vetter
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Publication number: 20070274027Abstract: A housing can be used for high-power components, especially high-power capacitors. A housing has a carrier platform made from a suitable electrically insulating material and a preferably metallic cover, wherein the thermal expansion coefficients of the platform and of the cover are matched to each other. This matching is achieved according to the invention by adjusting the glass-fiber coefficient of a fiber-composite material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2005Publication date: November 29, 2007Applicant: EPCOS AGInventors: Harald Vetter, Ludwig Berg, Wilhelm Huebscher
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Patent number: 6771487Abstract: A power electronics component having a housing a cover plate and an electrically active region. The electrically active region is disposed in the housing in such manner that a gap exists between the electrically active region and the inner wall of the housing. The gap is filled with a moisture absorbent bulk granular material.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2002Date of Patent: August 3, 2004Assignee: EPCOS AGInventor: Harald Vetter
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Patent number: 6409545Abstract: The invention relates to a power capacitor for use in capacitor banks, which is build into a housing and interconnected by ribbon cables.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2000Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: Siemens Matsushita Components GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Harald Vetter, Ludwig Berg
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Patent number: 6370008Abstract: The invention relates to a metallization for a film capacitor, wherein a dielectric capacitor film provided with a metallic coating is wound into a capacitor element in the running direction of the capacitor film, whereby the coating is provided with a segmentation.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: EPCOS AGInventor: Harald Vetter
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Publication number: 20020004974Abstract: In a method for producing an electric capacitor, installed in a housing, of low self-inductance, Litz wires (2) interconnect the capacitor connection elements (1) and bushings (6). Use is made of Litz wires (2) with an essentially circular cross-section, and before being inserted into the bushings (6) the Litz wires (2) are centrally compacted at least at an end (7) arranged in the bushings (6).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 1999Publication date: January 17, 2002Inventors: HARALD VETTER, LUDWIG BERG
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Patent number: 6222721Abstract: A regenerable electric capacitor having wound-on layers of plastic foils provided with metal layers of the coatings. The metal layers consist of an alloy and include a variable thickness perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the foils. As such, the thickness of the metal layers is smallest in the regions bordering metal-free edge strips and it increases towards the opposite side of the foil. In addition, the metal layers have an alloy composition that is different dependent transverse to the direction of run of the foils.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1999Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Siemens Matsushita Components GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Harald Vetter
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Patent number: 5808858Abstract: A gas-tight and/or oil-tight bushing is provided for attachment to a capacitor housing and for providing a connection to a capacitor. The bushings are composed of metal pins electrically insulated from the housing as well as insulators for increasing the leakage distance. The insulators have sections that extend into the inside of the housing to which a cooperating member that connects the bushing to the housing by clamping is secured. An O-ring is arranged between the insulator and the metal pin for sealing. The O-ring is preferably surrounded by a plastic sleeve that prestresses the O-ring for an improved sealing function.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1997Date of Patent: September 15, 1998Assignee: Siemens Matsushita Comp. GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Harald Vetter
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Patent number: 5034849Abstract: An axially-wound electrical capacitor is composed of at least one capacitor winding arranged on a core tube. A respective metallic lead-through contact element is arranged at each of the two opposite end faces and is connected to a respective schoopage layer carried on the respective end face, the contact element being centered in the core tube. A plastic envelope covers the capacitor up to the lead-through regions for the external connections.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1990Date of Patent: July 23, 1991Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Harald Vetter
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Patent number: 4672507Abstract: An electrical wound capacitor has a winding positioned on a core tube positioned in a housing. Outer terminals are connected to electrodes of the capacitor winding via terminal elements in an interior of the housing. The terminal elements are radially-symmetrically disposed and substantially congruent above one another, are symmetrical relative to one another, and are electrically insulated from one another.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1985Date of Patent: June 9, 1987Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Harald Vetter, Friedewald Schreiber
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Patent number: 4504884Abstract: An electric roll-type capacitor with contacts at the ends thereof, includes a dielectric formed of plastic foils wound together with a mutual offset, and an electrode in the form of regenerable thin metal layers disposed on part of at least one of the plastic foils defining an edge of the at least one plastic foil free of the metal layers, the metal free edge of the at least one plastic foil having a cut formed therein, and the offset being at most 0.2 mm wide, and a method for manufacturing the same.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1983Date of Patent: March 12, 1985Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Harald Vetter
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Patent number: 4495542Abstract: An electric roller-type capacitor formed with a capacitor winding built into a housing and having end-face contact layers, includes a wrapping consolidating the capacitor winding, the wrapper being formed of a fiberglass-reinforced synthetic resin composite, and method and device for producing the capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1983Date of Patent: January 22, 1985Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Rudolf Kros, Harald Vetter
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Patent number: 4463338Abstract: An electrical network containing at least one electric resistor, includes a support foil and at least one resistance layer coating the support foil forming the at least one electric resistor. The support foil and resistance layer are folded along a zig-zag line forming two outer surfaces of the resistance layer. Contact layers are each disposed on a different one of the outer surfaces of the resistance layer, a plastic layer is applied on the contact layers, and outer contact layers each make contact with a different one of the contact layers. A method is also provided for producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1981Date of Patent: July 31, 1984Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ferdinand Utner, Harald Vetter