Patents by Inventor Heiner Kösters

Heiner Kösters 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).

  • Publication number: 20140322039
    Abstract: A liquid-ring vacuum pump comprises a pump casing and a shaft eccentrically mounted in the pump casing. An impeller and a rotor of a drive motor are connected to the shaft. A disk cam is arranged parallel to the impeller. A first main bearing for the shaft is arranged between the impeller and the rotor of the drive motor, on the plane of the disk cam. The impeller is arranged between the first main bearing and a second main bearing. The arrangement of the bearings prevents the shaft from bending, thus allowing the leakage gap between the impeller and the disk cam to be kept small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Heiner Kösters, Matthias Tamm, Daniel Schütze
  • Publication number: 20140286797
    Abstract: A liquid-ring vacuum pump comprises a pump casing and an impeller that is eccentrically mounted in the pump casing. The impeller is made of a material having a modulus of elasticity of less than 4000 N/mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Matthias Tamm, Heiner Kösters, Daniel Schütze
  • Patent number: 8290723
    Abstract: The apparatus for monitoring appliances and machines having rotating components, particularly for monitoring compressors, vacuum pumps and other pumps, has a sensor, an evaluation electronics unit and an interface for the output of signals. The evaluation electronics unit has a microprocessor having three inputs for performing measurements in three different frequency ranges at different frequency resolutions, with the respective vibration intensities being averaged at a plurality of frequencies in line with the third-octave spectrum. The interface is a two-wire interface which is used to report different operating states using different DC values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Sterling Industry Consult GmbH
    Inventors: Jörg Kortstock, Heiner Kösters
  • Publication number: 20100023281
    Abstract: The apparatus for monitoring appliances and machines having rotating components, particularly for monitoring compressors, vacuum pumps and other pumps, has a sensor, an evaluation electronics unit and an interface for the output of signals. The evaluation electronics unit has a microprocessor having three inputs for performing measurements in three different frequency ranges at different frequency resolutions, with the respective vibration intensities being averaged at a plurality of frequencies in line with the third-octave spectrum. The interface is a two-wire interface which is used to report different operating states using different DC values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Jörg Kortstock, Heiner Kösters
  • Patent number: 6485274
    Abstract: A displacement machine for compressible media includes at least two shafts. Each of the shafts has a rotor which is configured as a profiled body with the profiles of the rotors engaging one another in the manner of gearwheels during rotation and running without contact relative to one another. Each of the shafts is driven by an electric motor. The angular positions of each shaft is determined by an associated synchro resolver. Each of the synchro resolvers has a rotor and emits an electronic signal to the electric motor of the shaft such that the motors are electronically synchronized. Each of the shafts further has a gearwheel, with the gearwheels engaging one another and having an angular clearance which is smaller than that of the profiled bodies. At least one of the gearwheels is directly connected to the rotor of the synchro resolver associated with its shaft and both gearwheels together are releasably connected as a unit to the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Sterling Fluid Systems (Germany) GmbH
    Inventor: Heiner Kösters
  • Patent number: 6359411
    Abstract: A displacement machine for compressible media has at least two shafts with rotors which are designed as helical profile bodies. During rotation, the profiles intermesh like gears and run free of contact relative to one another. The lead of the helical profile bodies decreases from the inlet end to the outlet end and have a double-start design, with the leads at the inlet end and outlet end of the helical profile bodies being constant, and the intermediate lead decreasing continuously from the larger lead at the inlet end to the smaller lead at the outlet end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Sterling Fluid Systems and GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Kösters, Guido Keller
  • Patent number: 6328540
    Abstract: The rotary piston machine with an axial direction of delivery from the top downwards, in particular of screw spindle-type construction, with cooling ducts (12) for the motors (8), bearings (7) and sensors (9), through which ducts a cooling fluid flows, and with a cooling device for the pump space (3) is characterized in that the casing (2) of the pump space (3) has a closed annular space (15) which is partially filled with a liquid, which is cooled by the cooling fluid via heat exchanger surfaces (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Sterling Fluid Systems (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Kösters, Guido Keller
  • Patent number: 6273696
    Abstract: Screw-spindle vacuum pump with at least three closed-off feed chambers located one behind the other along each rotor and method for operating this compressor. The chamber which is last on the delivery side is brought virtually to the compression limit pressure by means of pre-admission, shortly before it opens towards the delivery side, by supplying a pre-admission stream which is at least five times as great as the intake mass stream. A precondition, in this case, is a minimum ratio of external compression to internal compression of five.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Sterling Fluid Systems (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Heiner Kösters, Christian Dahmlos