Patents by Inventor Heribert Kurten

Heribert Kurten 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: 5706207
    Abstract: A control equipment for automatically controlling power units in an electrical power supply system includes a control unit being connected through a data transmission element to each power unit to be controlled, for receiving power-unit-specific measured variables and for emitting power-unit-specific reference variables. The control unit evaluates the measured variables cyclically by taking account of stored values and defining a control instruction for one or each power unit. Particularly effective control of the power units is possible through the use of such a control equipment, with both a predetermined reliability level of the power supply or electricity supply being maintained and an unnecessarily high power reserve being avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heribert Kurten, Herbert Wagner, Wolfgang Bayer
  • Patent number: 5699666
    Abstract: A steam generating power plant includes a generator connected to a network, a steam turbine driving the generator, a steam bleeder line being connected to the steam turbine and having a load-dependently adjustable valve, a system having a superconducting magnetic energy accumulator and being connected electrically parallel to the generator, and a control unit. The control unit furnishes electrical power directly from the superconducting energy accumulator to level a power deficit lasting on the order of several seconds in the network and the control unit at the same time adjusts the valve to increase steam available to the steam turbine. A process for operating a steam generating power plant, an interlocking electrical network in combination with a number of steam generating power plants, and a process for operating the interlinking network in combination with the steam generating power plants, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heribert Kurten, Uwe Radtke, Wolfgang Taube, Horst Vollmar
  • Patent number: 5507145
    Abstract: A steam generating power plant includes a generator connected to a network, a steam turbine driving the generator, a steam bleeder line being connected to the steam turbine and having a load-dependently adjustable valve, a system having a superconducting magnetic energy accumulator and being connected electrically parallel to the generator, and a control unit. The control unit furnishes electrical power directly from the superconducting energy accumulator to level a power deficit lasting on the order of several seconds in the network and the control unit at the same time adjusts the valve to increase steam available to the steam turbine. A process for operating a steam generating power plant, an interlocking electrical network in combination with a number of steam generating power plants, and a process for operating the interlinking network in combination with the steam generating power plants, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heribert Kurten, Uwe Radtke, Wolfgang Taube, Horst Vollmar